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Ya he had some really great comedic timing. Managed to pull "scared and demoralized" while dealing out some great lines. A truly great supporting performance.

Bill Paxton was in The Terminator, Near Dark, Titanic, True Lies, Weird Science, and Aliens, Boxing Helena, Commando, Apollo 13, Twister, Big Love, Those were his best movies. RIP Bill Paxton.

Easily one of the most quotable movie characters of all time.

@@Choices2aa How many *degrees of separation from Kevin Bacon?*

@Cory S. - Agreed.

@EramSemperRecta Meanwhile in Alien Isolation: I am sound

It's readin' right, man, LOOK!

@@Nickel_The_Wise well your not reading it right!

"Five meters, man! FOUR! What the hell...?"

HIgh level characters.

And rumor is from one of the documentaries on this movie SHE got more fan mail than weaver did cus she was portraying a WOMAN in the military in a Combat situation, which, given the time this movie was made was a MAJOR issue with women in the military and not being allowed to serve in combat yet.

@@MWM1978 wouldn’t surprise me.

Cameron loved his strong women charecters.

@@demonofelru3214 - Obviously. Vasquez gained 20 levels just from the atmosphere processor stage.

What got me was that alien's claws gripping Hudson's face.

I had no idea that was improvised, now that makes that scene even more awesome, but Hudson went down like a trooper, fully of f yous and everything, I love both Hudson and Hicks, specially Hicks who was just like the grunt but yet grew to be the big brother to the group, taking the lead, this film will always be a legend to me and everyone :)

Amen!

Oh shut up.

another thing I noticed was that right after that, when hicks looks back towards where hudsen "Died" after he killed that alien he was totally going to jump in after him and try and get him back. You can see it in his body language, In that milisecond before Vasquez pushes him towards medical.

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Defenstrator Exactly. At the start, he was all cocky and arrogant. But during this scene, he went from a scaredy-cat to full blown death dealer and began mowing down Xenomorphs with pit bull style intensity.

The best soldier

He is the ultimate badass of the badass nation.

I knew guys like that in the army. Everyone can’t be iceman, some guys get shell shocked when something goes wrong, others just get the jitters waiting for the shit to start. Once things go live, the training takes over and you’re a killing machine.

Right? Hicks goes to take a peek real slow, turns and sees the xenos are RIGHT THERE, god my heart hit me in the brain and kinda hid there, 'cuz the action kicked right off. Plus, I saw this when I was 6.

Best feminism & best movie sequel

@@Nickel_The_Wise i reread your comment. I was 6 or so in 1992, i saw thia movie with my parents & sisters. Seeing the Aliens in the ceiling made my balls & heart jump up in my mouth.

This is one of the best scenes in any movie ever, simply for the instant terror it induced on you when Ripley looks at the ceiling and in that one moment you realize both the explanation for their confusion a moment ago and exactly how fucked they all are. lol, I love it!!

@@Nickel_The_Wise Same, saw when I was 7. This movie still hasn't been topped.

cracks me up everytime he was just a lowly Private...should have been much higher for his skills..all of them should have been, except Gorman being the low level officer still in charge BS

@@sfcd4757 Gorman was cadet dumbass, and Vasquez exposed him on the drop. They might of actually survived if he wasn’t there and Ripley and Apone were in charge LOL

@@thenationalradar8355 Was Gorman a cadet? I always thought he was just like a freshly graduated officer who had little to no experience.

@@MichaelCasanovaMusic 1 mission to his name prior to the movie

@@thenationalradar8355 And then you have Captain Bracket in Aliens River of Pain who is a total badass, listen to the audible drama it is epic. It is about what happened to the colony

Being a true hero is being scared but going in despite it

I agree.

We should all be so lucky to be killed painfully and violently by aliens? Nah I’ll take dying in my sleep at 90, bro.

100% he turned from frightened to combat ready in an instant

Fight or Flight kicked in, but seeing as these things could still be killed probably eased A LOT of that worry-probably helped that it was loud enough that he was only focused on what was in front of him.

Love that part too! The scriptwriters nailed it. As you mention, he's been in a state of terror for this whole second act but as soon as the fight starts here he's relishing for a scrap.

Kinda like “Well if I’m gonna die I’m not gonna make it easy for them”

Yea I wish he made it throughout the whole movie

For a lot of people, the anticipation and stress of something "about to happen" is worse than the actual thing, once we are in the moment it's different because there's no more "when's the bullshit gonna come" feeling.

the pump of adrenaline

Meko5 She was hardcore for sure!

"Come on Hicks, GO!!"

@Demon of Elru Exactly- she literally pushes him towards safety so she can put herself between them and the Aliens. This moment solidifies her as being the baddest marine of the bunch. And both Hudson and Gorman redeem themselves and go out like champs.

I agree. She is badass!

she's a true shield maiden

Agree. I've seen this movie numerous numerous times and I'm still scared. Imagine just Imagine if the Queen Xeno and her workers or followers aliens were real . In a far galaxy ✨️

The 80's was a time to be alive. Best movies, best music.

The scenes, characters, props, soundtrack and simply everything. It may be an old movie, but I'd take it over any new movies.

What's the name of this film?

@@dontrah1838 You serious?

That primal screeching coming from Hudson is terrible it sounds like he’s being ripped in half trying to get out

I had always wished that Hicks would’ve taken a few shots to Hudson’s head to gift him a quick death instead of facing what the xenomorphs had in store for him. 😢

@Stefano Pavone oh, ok. So, then James Cameron was either sloppy with that detail or he’s just a sadistic fuck. 🤷‍♂️

For me it's how the xenomorph grabs and completely covers his face. An extra level of terror.

I wonder if the game Colonial Marines showed what happened to Hudson?

Don't forget the music too! The suspense when Hicks discovers the Aliens in the ceiling and throughout the whole scene.

PrometheuzReturns agree, but today they made remake movies 😤

This movie is certainly one of the greatest sequels of all-time.

The suspense of the radar device beeping, and the tone going up and getting more urgent as the scene's tension builds was fucking amazing.

Will the franchise went down hill after alien 3 however if u seen dark horse alien 3 screenplay adoption its way better then film itself

Hudson? No. BILL. FUCKIN. PAXTON.

He panic and got his ass killed.

Vasquez had the biggest balls

@@danielwong5378 NO ... HE DID ALOT

@@Ax3lN3ri Yes... He did panic alot.

4 real!

I was 6 days old when this movie came out. The first alien movie I watched when I was little I was so scared. On the second came out bill patson was my hero for killing the aliens. I remember making a pulse rifle out of my Legos. I always fell asleep with my Lego pulse rifle.

Don't forget the jungle shootout scene in "Predator" using the Minigun and the ending of "Rambo" with the M2 .50 caliber machine gun.

Nah the best action sequences is from Terminator 2 not this crap

Totally agree 💯😎 legend comment

Definitely a cinema movie.

You were blessed to have been able to see this in theatre!

@@FPSHaxArchive 4x

It's a near perfect film

My favorite movie of all time for many reasons. Would have loved to see it in theaters, but I also would have been about five at the time it came out.

The best weapon Sound in movie History. Top one of my list.

Isn't it apparently a tommy gun played in reverse? I think there a retrospective where they talk about making the iconic sound where I heard that from.

Are you relating dead space here?

Yes that sound is legendary

Yep when I'm firing my pulse rifle it smells like victory, it smells like acid blood in the morning as long as it's not on me LOL lol

Like the actress, Vasquez' has roots in east Los Angeles. So yes... she can hold her own. :)

Don't forget the initial hive battle, when her and Drake start slinging rounds, and she yells "LETS ROCK".

@@joerhodes213 how could I forget! 🤣🤣🤣

Game over! Game over man!

He was very good actor he will be missed...

I just keep imagining that he’s my friend Red at that part being pulled down

When shit got real, so did he

Hudson,sir....He's Hicks

Well they did get the screen time and dialogue, the others...ehhh, not so much

@@thejanusproject32 Ripley, Bishop, Gorman, Dietrich, Spunkmaeyer, Ferro, Frost, Crowe, Wiersbowski, Drake, even Burke and Newt. Pretty much *every* character is memorable in this film.......

@@Debbiebabe69 holy $#!+ spot on, you obviously did your homework

Best part? SGT Johnson from HALO was based off of Apone. Apparently

I wish Apone would have lasted longer. As a former Army NCO he was one of my favorite characters.

Cut content shows him captured and cocooned. Ripley actually takes pity on him, and gives him a grenade to kill himself, which he does.

Best part is with him caught and impregnated and Ripley gives him a bomb which he later detonates

Apparently Paul Reiser's parents cheered when they saw their son getting what he deserved when attending the premiere.

Burke redeemed himself. Went out like a badass.

@@TrueLegateDamar Holy crap

Same and he was in one of my favorite Takes from the crypt episodes

Legit! He was so much fun to watch in everything he was in. Absolute legend.

Weird Science. The asshole brother chet. The best!

His Character in True Lies is one of my all time favorite. Such a sleazeball

@@coryboy345 oh man he was hilarious on that movie

Maybe more

I counted 15 to 17 if u listen to the alien screams of death total

Must have*

LinkMarioSamus lol

I'm confused here! Did she survive the Titanic and finally died in this movie or is it the other way around?

@@GladRags it's the other way around

Hudson was killed by an alien, Predator, and a Terminator, yet still tormented his little brother in Weird Science...

@@jamesfrank3213 Don't forget he was also killed by a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent

And then you have Hudson, with the complete opposite reaction- running his mouth about what a badass he is, bitching when things don’t go according to plan, but when the chips are down and shit is the most dire it’s been, he’s got his sectors locked down…and he’s still running his mouth, only it’s no longer boasting. He’s actively taunting and goading the enemy, defiant to the very last “Fuck you”. Absolutely superb writing and excellent characterization from the actors who were given these roles.

hicks had a freak out right after Apone bit it too before rallying..

The shot of the Aliens crawling towards him is perfect horror moment

And the motion tracker "screaming" in the background too. Great touch

SO many great little touches in the film, like Hicks lifting Newt on to the table so she can see and keeping his arm around her. Films used to be so much better.

To add to the Burke arc: he was always shown to be sympathetic to Ripley and had her back through the first portion of the film, especially with the edgier Marines. Then he's shown to be the culprit and sinister bastard that he is, and it's the tough as nails Marines who come to prove they're the ones with the heart to help Ripley and be there for her and newt. God they dont make good films like this anymore

@@mynameisinigomontoya8179 Also Bishop leaving a bad impression, just by proxy, because of what happened to Ripley earlier, comes out as a reliable and trustworthy synth at the end whom she salvages and stabilizes when they get to the pod. Man this might be one of the strongest character writings in pre 21st century cinema

@@kophullloh516 I absolutely agree, not even joking in the slightest lol. One of the best and highest quality produced films of all time. Masterful writing, pacing, story progression, character development, set pieces and locations, costumes, makeup....and what breaks my heart, something like this will never truly be replicated.

i think he was just still jacked up from that bullshit with Burke.

Not steel. Titanium

@@penoyer79Yeah, that irritation that Burke wanted to get a living specimen of creatures that killed people he knew made him angry enough to get him through it. He probably thought, “Oh that Rat Sonuvabitch wants one captured alive? Yeah, we’ll see about THAT.”

@@a.h.1358 not to mention going as far as to sacrifice Ripley and a 9 year old girl to do it.

Oh yeah. Right at the get go, he knew it was put up or shut up. "There they go right over there, GET EM!"

I think they would've ruined it. Take a look at the documentary about how this awesome movie was filmed, step by step. Most scenes in it were extremely complex and the actors as well as the background crew had to put so much effort night in and night out to fit all the pieces into the whole and get the action rolling. I think that's what made this film such a masterpiece, something a sophisticated computer animation of today cannot replicate.

Unfortunately, Ridley's newfound utter arrogance at the age of 90 will prevent this. And we all have to sit back and deal with his pseudo-quasi philosophy bullshit about androids and what is "real" life. Fuck sake.

So true

PEPE THE MAGIC FROG so true, he should of just done another blade runner instead of ruining another franchise where that philosophy doesn't belong

To be fair, no film in the entirety of the Aliens Franchise has actually been a bonified hit since the second one. Subsequently, Colonial Marines have been completely out of the picture since the 80's. Coicindence? I think not. I wish they went with the District 9 director, or just dumped a truck load of money at James Cameron's house. Either one would better than Scott. I like Ridely Scott but he has got such a hit or miss ressume at this point. Also Prometheus and Covanent are both psuedo-intelectual, self-aggrandizing dog shit films. They ask a bunch of questions EVERYONE has already asked before and don't actually contribute anything new to the themes or discussion. In short you can pretty much go to a reddit shit posting blog and get the same experiance as watching Prometheus or Covanant. I think Niel Blomkamp would be the best man to handle this franchise.

I agree going out like a hero holding the line that is my way of going out

@@ryancramp7720 Better than what Burke did - flee like a coward...only to run smack dab into an Alien and become Chestburster chow.

Same here, it reminds me of zergs from StarCraft game.

They don’t make them like they used to anymore.

They made the Nostromo so creepy, that ship didn't even need the Alien to make it scary. Imagine being alone in one of the lower decks or that basement area where Ripley finds Dallas and Brett and all you hear are the hanging chains gently swaying. No alien needed for the Nostromo.

I mean there are still amazing science fiction films being made pretty regularly. The void, blade runner 2049, her, everything done by neill blomkamp (he pretty much uses exactly this of this kind of gritty cinematography), arrival, fury road, edge of tomorrow, high life, ex machina, annihilation.... but however good these are you'd definitely be hard pressed to find environment and creature design as insane as those of alien. Part of this is that these qualities were actually incredible for the time and still look amazing today, and also the designs of giger themselves which is difficult to reference/homage without seeming derivative. It's a pretty specific horror he was going for with all the sexual imagery with the eggs, chestbursters, engineer architecture design etc. Don't know what you're getting at with the ulterior woke motive stuff though, even these 80s movies had a LOT of stuff to say politically, especially robocop lol. Not so much with predator but it's pretty obvious that terminator, aliens, and robocop criticize aspects of reagan's neoliberal capitalism by taking it to its logical endpoint with various sci fi twists. Surveillance states and unsafe mechanized soldiers/police that are created to increase an uber rich company's profit margin? That's terminator and robocop for ya. Robocop's even got some pro union/strike commentary in there which would've been subversive given the anti-union rhetoric of the reagan admin. Alien and aliens deal more with worker expendability/exploitation, as we have a blue collar starship being used as a testing ground for weyland-yutani's alien studies, something they saw as highly profitable. Sure, politics aren't necessary for a good film, but it sure makes them interesting and relevant, given the whole history repeating itself thing

Agree, just cgi and one-liners. Matrix 1 was probably the last classic

@@mr.b89 robocop was satirical, not pandering. Verhoeven’s criticism was primarily of the military industrial complex amongst others. Also don’t remember any forced diversity, inclusion quotas or gender politics in any of those movies. Any ‘wokeness’ was organic, already written into the characters and script and wasn’t decided by some activist later on to try to appeal to more people. Which of course is what the OP was clearly alluding to.

Exactly, the coolest "scifi" gun! they sound SEX man.

Minty Roller it really bugged me that they didn’t have the same sound in alien 3

its a burst from the thompson submachine gun reversed and edited (like for real)

Okammm For the concept design ok but not for the sound. Are you sure?

Plus the flashes it makes in that dark room.

Ya, intersperse a few scenes of the aliens getting ripped to pieces, and you can really conserve that budget! they also made the scene feel really claustrophobic with close-up shots and stuff.

When you do see the aliens hit...you can tell how much power the explosive tip ammo has.

I have also thought about this a lot. When they film just enough to show you what is going on but leave the rest to your imagination it is that much more frightening and interesting. This is one of the reasons why I keep coming back to this movie. This is also one of the rare movies where the sequel is better than the original.

If I was Gorman I'd be like okay and shoot him leave him and let the aliens get him

he's way more of an asshole in the novel, he get's what he deserves as well

@@stanislavpetrov5955 Gorman was incompetent, but I wouldn't say he was a slimeball in comparison or even on the same level as Burke

And was just another punk who the Terminator killed

Hell the man who played Bishop was killed by Arnold Schwarzenegger in Terminator and killed by the Predator in AVP

@Stefano Pavone I never watched that film so I wouldn't know mate

I personally don't like how it looks (Why I have no idea), but it would be one hell of a real life gun. An automatic rifle with rounds encased with C4 and an underslung grenade launcher that can hold up to three grenades? I hope it never gets invented because whoever gets their hands on that is unstoppable.

imagine the guns from deep rising going up against the xenomorphs

@@JohnPerry27 We''re sort of getting close to that. Incendiary ammunition exists.

@@IHateUKpostsHandlesVeryMuch Then to quote Negan on this one: "We're f***ing f***ed!"

@@JohnPerry27 Taliban's probably got a few Chinese copies ... haven't figured out to fire 'em yet..

its said that the shooting was very painful and hard for the actors

I mean he did make Terminator 2 not too long after this.....

He has many, many big name hits to his name. There's shades of this in Avatar, but it's very difficult to reproduce one films success the same way. And why would you want to? They got Aliens right the first time, and trying to duplicate it would be derivative

@@Heretic1981 Not just that. He's changed. He even said himself when he was making these movies that he was a "testosterone poisoned young man" and that these older movies of his were poisoned by it. I doubt we'll be seeing more gems like these from him in the future.

Yeah Cameron's last good movie imo was True Lies.

@@Heretic1981Avatar 2009 was badly executed in the writing.

Hicks : Stay frosty !😉👍

It's the most stressful game I've played in years - they nailed it. I've seen others make the statement that Aliens: Dark Descent is to Aliens as Alien: Isolation was to Alien. I wholeheartedly agree.

I loved this movie as a kid since I grew up on alien and monster movies. also: FIYAAAAAAAAH!!

It's such a bold move isn't it? To change the genre entirely? It had so much risk of becoming one of the greatest box-office bombs of all time. But instead we got one of the best sci-fi action films ever made.

​@@johnlime1469 I wouldn't say it's a completely different genre. It's still a horror like the first, just with lots more action. Action-horror-thriller is the only way to categorise it imo.

Alien³: Studio-Interfered Mess

Imagine the reverse done for Predator franchise. Predator 1: Sci-fi War film, Predator 2: Sci-fi horror film. Like set it up as a lionsgate slasher, and the Pred is the Jason, the Michael Myers. I'd give it a watch.

@@dnasty312 🤫You know the rule. And rule #1 is don’t talk about Alien 3.

Darragh Hynes this one is scarier in the sense that these guys are armed to the teeth and are trained for these things, and they still lose. The first one it was a case of wrong place, wrong time, but this one has everyone watching a war, and the marines losing badly

Same

Same here, but then again I was 6 when i fist saw Aliens, so idk.

Isaac Zelinski I was 9 when I wmsaw Aliens for fist time and I shit on my pants.

still have dreams of those fuckers roaming around xD scary

I like Aliens, but I think Alien was better. It has more of those creepy sexual overtones, which really help to make it stand out. Not to mention that Kane’s Son is an unkillable space demon, while the Acheron hive is a bunch of space bugs.

For a follow-up, it was still extremely respectable sci-fi.

Fuck yeah. Alien is extremely good but Aliens is better

Yes it was way better .

It's debatable, that's for sure. But, nonetheless, Aliens is one of the greatest sequels of all-time, probably. Alien and Aliens are somewhat similar in some essences, on the one hand; but, on the other hand, they are also surprisingly fairly different (Aliens is much more so a sci-fi action movie with elements of horror [and terror] in it; whereas Alien is purely a sci-fi and horror movie, basically combined).

Agree. Another 30 seconds of the pitched battle in MedLab would be great. But, they tell you to "keep things moving."

'it's readin' right man look!'

Can't be that's inside the room!

NoGood007 Really? What “data” does Alex “The Lying Ass Clown” Jones have?

then you're readin it wrong!

5 meters man, 4...what the hell?

Because he portrays the character like the audience would, a normal civilian would in that situation, hence he was a private.

@@thejanusproject32 you forgot add "be" in that situation.

I played that before died a couple of times but kept going

Great stuff. Too bad the Aliens: Colonial Marines sucked so fucking much. This movie deserves better.

I remember the old terminator games, I'd drop quarters in both slots and dual wield 😂 incredibly inefficient at 10 years old

@@LukeLovesRose well now there bringing out a new one called aliens fireteam elite check it out it might interest you

Well, Hudson was taken (as was Newt), so technically he could have survived. You never really know, because I refuse to accept Hudson's "fate" in the *ALIENS: Colonial Marines* game. That's why Bill Paxton said he'd love if there was a way for him to return in the now-cancelled Alien 5 film that was gonna treat *Alien 3* and *Resurrection* as hyper-sleep dreams. A shame. It could've been a great film from the concept art I saw with Hicks returning and Ripley being fused with Alien DNA (not like in *Resurrection*) to become a bioweapon. The Company actually succeeded in weaponizing the Alien without issues in the story here. I think Ripley was used in a way to control them or something, can't remember.

@@Dreamzkape I remember some concept art for Aliens: CM where they show a bearded Hudson that apparently survived.

@@galatian5 But alas, Hudson can't be replaced i feel with Bill Paxton gone...RIP

Same