The engineer story doesnt hold up against the mystery & the enormity of time this original stuff evokes. This stuff is stunning

@astro-blaster4190

Жыл бұрын

I wish I never saw anything after Aliens. Ruined the strangeness and claustrophobic aspics of the original.

@alexbaum2204

Жыл бұрын

I like how you phrased that. It is enormous in its scope. And the engineer thing just completely ruins it.

@callimero2010

Жыл бұрын

@@astro-blaster4190 The strange forms and patterns of this alien spaceship are still fascinating.

@astro-blaster4190

Жыл бұрын

@@callimero2010 so much could have been done with this storyline and it was not up to par what Alien gave us. Not addressing the space jockey at all would have been better and your imagination could do the rest.

@crispybits3765

Жыл бұрын

Completely agree. The Space Jockey scene has always blown me away due to its mystery and implications. An ancient and advanced alien race, fay beyond our own understanding of technology, that has been dead for so long that it is now a fossil. It really brings home the Lovecraftian ideas of the vastness and infinite horrors of space. It is humbling and terrifying in equal measure. Then they go and ruin it by putting a bloke in a suit. Idiots.

I always found the space jockey and the derelict setting much scarier than the xenomorph itself.

@tB3o3tR9o9

2 жыл бұрын

the space jockey wears a nice Helmet

@harley8728

Жыл бұрын

Its my favorite part of the film

@georgepoutine6843

Жыл бұрын

Indeed, letting your imagination carry the heavy load. Love it

@Wayner71

6 ай бұрын

Same here. Cheers.

Still one of the greatest movies ever made! Even after over 40 years this film still holds up.

@nepntzerZer

2 жыл бұрын

So does the sequel! But the rest not so much. I even forget there was a 4th one made..

@tomsdottir

Жыл бұрын

You know a movie is great when you still remember all the details of the first time you saw it, more than a quarter century later.

Back in 1979, when I saw this at the cinema, the Space Jockey was the most frightening thing I had ever seen. Terrifyingly different.

I always liked the idea of the Space Jockey as the product of some insanely advanced alien race coming from a very distant corner of the universe, a race so different from the human race to result almost unconceivable for us. I thought about the Jockey as some kind of cyborg: half organic, half machine, and (as Giger himself said) totally integrated into the function he performs. The ship itself looks organic and "skeletonized" by the centuries (or even millenia) of abandonment and decay. You can clearly see ribs or something similar on the walls of the corridors. Even on the outside the ship looks covered with irregular "veins". It's definitely created by an incredibly advanced ancient (and probably extinct) alien race, a race who bred their technological products as living organic beings. That's the reason why i TOTALLY reject Prometheus and its sequel. The Space Jockey has absolutely nothing to do with the Engineers. He's much bigger and his body is a biomechanic skeleton, not a space suit. Scott totally ruined it for me with his lousy creationist theories.

@sqTake2

3 жыл бұрын

Right on Man: There’s ALIEN, and then there’s the rest of the franchise. The minute Ripley said the cat could stay at home it screwed everything up. Many thanks for your thoughts!! 👍🏼

@Romano2018

3 жыл бұрын

I always thought the xenomorph having a connection with the space jockey. Maybe they were theirs pets or bio weapons used to conquest planets, anything is better than prometheus. The Black goo is BULLSHIT trying to give much more meaning to the space Jockey than he should have.

@Andrew-el8xi

2 жыл бұрын

Totally agree ..It was massive and Totally alien ...not a stupid space suite and a removable helmet ...,!! The helmet was it's head...

@TylerDurden-id6yp

2 жыл бұрын

Every fan of the first movie says the same. The alien creatures in this movie and its world are just that: alien. Strange, unknown, mysterious and unfathomable. Reducing all this into another stupid creationist/religious soap opera is the worst thing they could have done. I hate all this void and fake depth.

@jamesmcbeth4463

2 жыл бұрын

My biggest disappointment not seeing a living space jockey. What a rip off

This is amazing. Even the deleted footage is more compelling than some of the claptrap that poses as science fiction these days.

I wouldn't care if it was 4 or 5 hours long, but I would love to see everything that was cut out put back in, in sequential order, to make one giant movie! How cool would that be? These deleted scenes are always so fascinating.

@Valkonnen

3 жыл бұрын

But you can see why these shots were cut out. It showed too much and took away the mystery. The shots when they were leaving their ship looked like it was on a stage, and not on a planet. This is why when you watch the film , it's so good and what editing is for. Ridley Scott not only directed the film, but operated the camera for every shot in the film and edited it to exactly what was needed for the suspense and realism that he wanted.

@monsmartyrium

2 жыл бұрын

@@Valkonnen I agree... but the derelict scenes would have fit, I've always thought it's too short that part of the movie.

@xxxautopsy99xxx

2 жыл бұрын

Totally !!

@aquariandawn4750

2 жыл бұрын

I WISH tons of producers would make five hour movies.

@JanKowalski-bh6gf

2 жыл бұрын

INDEED...

Beats all of nowadays CGI crappy SF movies, will never replace the real effects from back in the time. Looks so much real. Really amazing footage, thanks a lot.

@micheladerry5681

2 жыл бұрын

ure right: really cappy movies not only SF

@jari2018

2 жыл бұрын

cgi are artist thoughts or reality when actors in fake enviroments does so much better but the filmstudios dont get and dont want to change since they invested money in a " future" tech

@DrFrankensteam

Жыл бұрын

I agree! That’s why I never bought into the Star Wars prequels! I was in 3rd grade when Star Wars came out. It was mind blowing!

@itseveryday8600

Жыл бұрын

CGI has no texture that old special effects had. CGI is practically anime.

Ridley Scott was so far ahead of his time. In the late 70's Star Trek was fumbling & stumbling to find it's footing in the feature film world. Lucas of course had Star Wars - which was clearly bringing new meaning to the term 'blockbuster' - but lets face it - next to Ridley Scott's masterpiece - Star Wars was practically Disney-like cartoon characters in a deep space setting.

@AngelEarth2011

2 жыл бұрын

Interestingly, Star Trek: The Motion Picture was co-written by Alan Dean Foster (who wrote the novelization of Alien) and the music was composed by Jerry Goldsmith (who composed the music for Alien).

@johnbaxter3676

2 жыл бұрын

@@AngelEarth2011 Yeah, that's because in those days Alan Dean Foster wrote pretty much every novelization and Jerry Goldsmith wrote pretty much every score.

@johnbaxter3676

2 жыл бұрын

@john smith Come on--this movie was Scott's baby from beginning to end, and it was Scott who was originally drawn to the "Chariots of The Gods" concept. Look, all great directors reach a point in their careers where they seem to have lost their touch--Hitchcock, for example--and Scott is no exception (and he's no Hitchcock, that's for damn sure). Plus Scott hired the shit writers who were credited with the screenplay, so again, it's on him.

@berendharmsen

2 жыл бұрын

@@johnbaxter3676 It was Dan O'Bannon's baby, but it was raised by Scott. All the conceptual stuff came from a script that was done long before Scott got involved. He was - clearly - the best gun for hire to visualise the story. But his terrible attempt at reasserting his claim on the franchise later clearly shows that without a great script, all you're left with is pretty pictures. That is the main reason why great directors start to flaunder as they become really famous. They start to believe that everything of their past masterpieces was their own doing and they become too powerful to be corrected. Scott is brilliant at visualising other people's ideas, but he sucks at coming up with good story concepts. That is why Alien feels deep and Prometheus is shallow, von Däniken 'gods were astronauts' schlock; the lamest, most predictable and boring direction he could have taken the story in. It is George Lucas all over again. His Star Wars movies started to go downhill rapidly after the second movie, because he became the unidsputed king of the franchise who had no equals besides him anymore who could call him out on stupid ideas.

@johnbaxter3676

2 жыл бұрын

@@berendharmsen I know O'Bannon was the co-creator of the original script--I was referring to the "Prometheus" script. As for great directors, I think it's more about aging in some cases, as with Hitchcock, who continued to make great films long after he had been anointed a film genius. And Scott was never a truly great director; he was more of a glorified cinematographer. I loved "Blade Runner" for its visuals and saw it twice in the first week of its release (it was out of theaters by week three), but it's not an all-around brilliant film. Same goes for "Alien," which I loved but also realized from the beginning was irretrievably flawed as a movie (for all the brilliant atmosphere, it's really just a slasher film set it space).

(7:38) I always found the slow close-up and then darkening of the space jockey's face was the most chilling thing I have ever seen in a movie without any exposition. It's like it's trying to warn them, but fails. Almost like a silent scream into the depths of the subconscious telling you that there is something terribly horribly wrong. Oh, and I'm sorry Ridley Scott, but that is most definitely _not_ a tall guy in a biomechanical spacesuit. I was so disappointed by Prometheus. 😕

@martinharris5017

2 жыл бұрын

i agree, that shot is masterful. That fade to darkness and slow zoom into the face is like placing someone alone in a haunted house and switching out the lights. While I did enjoy Prometheus and appreciated the thought went into articulating the pilot's chair, I too felt disappointed when the Jockey was revealed to be a humanoid in a suit. My final verdict on Prometheus is that I loved the use of deleted elements from O'Bannon's screenplay (the temple, the chamber with the wall-frieze and spore capsules) and the use of the leviathan spaceship bridge by Ron Cobb utilised for the Prometheus bridge. I didn't like the acting or the plot that much.

@CybershamanX

2 жыл бұрын

@@martinharris5017 I'll give Ridley this: he knows how to make a beautiful film. Plot/script? Not so much. I get sick of hearing how he takes credit for the original story and listening to him bloviate about it's "meaning". He never acknowledges the fact that most of the story was written by two other people. He just tweaked it here and there and mostly for the look of the film (Alien). Anyway, don't get me started! 😉🤪

@martinharris5017

2 жыл бұрын

@@CybershamanX I agree! Thanks for the comment.

@CybershamanX

2 жыл бұрын

@@martinharris5017 You're welcome, Martin. 😀 The thing with angsty comments is they're like fast food: so good when you partake, yet afterwards you feel kind of bad. 😉 I've been a fan since before Aliens, as a kid. It's been quite the bumpy road. 😜 Lately I've been getting into the Alien RPG by Free League Publishing and dove into the recent Titan books. While some leave something to be desired, for the most part I've been eating them up like candy. Quick reads and usually good ol' fashioned Alien fun. Anyway, take care! Don't let the xenomorphs bite! 😉😎🤘

@martinharris5017

2 жыл бұрын

@@CybershamanX Cheers. I have three young "Xenomorphs" here and they only bite if they're not fed😆

Lambert: "Let's get the hell outa here." They shoulda listened.

Nobody even noticed how truly massive the Space Jockey here is compared to the much smaller Juggernaut Pilot in Prometheus. Especially how the Space Jockey is more organic, mummified and fossilized instead of being a suit as shown in Prometheus. You can see an open mouth with teeth and a mummified tongue. Basically, think of it as a human crossed with a cicada crossed with an elephant which is a truly alien organism unlike the albino, bald wrestlers we see in Prometheus. Hopefully Alien Awakening brings THIS Space Jockey back alongside the Engineers. Note: I'm the 666th person to like the video.

@sqTake2

2 жыл бұрын

I will confess to have never seen Prometheus and thusly thank you for adding this appraisal to the comments here 👍🏼 The mystery of Alien remains intact within in spite of the franchise’s best efforts to esplain it all away.

@kaijuar2003

2 жыл бұрын

@Cat Lover The Space Jockey was originally supposed to be 18 feet. They were gonna make it 18 feet. The prop they made had the Space Jockey far larger than the Engineers in Prometheus. Even in one of the books by Alan Dean Foster(published years before Prometheus), the Space Jockeys were very tall.

@CMDR_Verm

2 жыл бұрын

I've always expressed my disappointment with the way the Engineers were depicted in Prometheus, as if any one of those could be the template for the original Space Jockey when they were so much smaller and were far less frightening. I've read where when Ridley Scott was making Alien, he wanted to avoid the cliche of a man in a rubber suit. Well I'll give him that, he succeeded. But then when he returned to the Space Jockey in Prometheus he threw that noble thought away. It was a damn shame in my opinion.

@kaijuar2003

2 жыл бұрын

@@CMDR_Verm I agree, even H.R. Giger imagined the Space Jockey as a biomechanical organism like the Xenomorphs. In Alan Dean Foster's book the Space Jockeys were very different from the Engineers. In the comics Aliens Apocalypse The Destroying Angels the Space Jockeys are very organic and look like a fleshed out version of the fossilized individual seen in the first Alien film which was captivating. Hopefully in Alien Awakening, Ridley brings back the Space Jockeys. I don't mind the Engineers, but I want to see the REAL Space Jockey and not just an Engineer in the suit.

@kaijuar2003

2 жыл бұрын

@john smith They ARE making another Alien film. Alien Awakening.

At 7:04 you can see the faces of the kids in the suits used for the wide shots of this scene. That way they only had to built the ‘space jockey’ at 3/5 scale (and it was director Ridley Scott’s 3 kids in the suits!)

@campbellmaclure7386

2 жыл бұрын

Never new that cheers 👍

@MargauxHemingway

2 жыл бұрын

They move like Kids too! The one who fell is funny 6:59

@germanicelt

Жыл бұрын

@@MargauxHemingway We'll call that one Lambert.

A detail that i haven't really seen many people discuss but always admired is that when kane got the facehugger in his head all the crue members immediately decided to go back to the ship and leave the planet despite anything that they had discovered, to me it's pretty solid and subtle way to make the characters more likeable and feel sad when they die because their priority is to keep their team Safe.

My friend provided the laser used in the eggsilo. He was the tour manager of The Who who used the same technology in their shows.

@sqTake2

3 жыл бұрын

Awesome!! I must have sampled some of the early test shots? Many thanks for watching!

@RagedContinuum

2 жыл бұрын

they had laseers in the 70s?

@robertkahn9151

2 жыл бұрын

@@RagedContinuum invented in 1960

Always preferred practical effects over cgi.

It's kinda odd when I watch this and the first thing that pops into my mind is how difficult it will be for our future explorers when examining alien cultures and topography. This cut sequence really shows how arduous it will be. Ridley really was ahead of his time then.

@germanicelt

Жыл бұрын

Many moons to explore of the outer planets.

It's too bad Niel Blomkamp's vision for "Alien 5" was never filmed. It would have been interesting for Newt to return as an adult to see that ship again.

....after all of those years....this movie is scary like hell...What a masterpiece !

This is amazing , really wish there was the full director cut , everything , love this exploration of hell.

Those two 11 year olds are damn lucky to star in the best sci-fi horror movie ever made.

Great video, always find the original Alien fascinating, almost like their is a real alien world to discover behind its mystery. Alien 1979 is a masterpiece.

@sqTake2

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Sir (or Madam) and for watching; I feel the same way and regard the other films as franchise efforts. French Fries from McDonald's always taste the same. This one is special and I regard it as one of the pinnacle achievements in visual arts by the human species.

I love the first 45 mins of Alien. Lv426, the Derelict and of course the Space Jockey (don't care about that Engineer crap) are stunning creations.

@sqTake2

2 жыл бұрын

🖖🏻😎👍🏼

@quantum864

2 жыл бұрын

You should .

That was amazing! Thank you for the time you put into this and I am glad you are over the pneumonia!

Fantastic job putting all this together. The re-used audio came out great.

@sqTake2

7 жыл бұрын

Hey thanks man!

I feel like even Cameron's interpretation of the derelict isn't up to snuff, and always skip the entire first LV426 scene when watching Aliens. So imagine how I feel about Prometheus...

Thanks for your work on this. Your work definitely adds perspective.

Thanks for posting this Steve!!!!!

@sqTake2

10 ай бұрын

rockin Bones! 👍🏼

This is cool. I thought they did a great job with what they had to work with in 1979.

@sqTake2

7 жыл бұрын

Right on Will! Nothing else like it before or since my man. Many thanks for watching.

@Hashpotato

3 жыл бұрын

Lol great job is an understatement really

@Valkonnen

3 жыл бұрын

The same identical techniques to build the space jockey were used in 1979 as was done for both "Prometheus" and "Alien Covenant" . Clay sculpture cast in fiberglass and built as a practical set piece. What do you think is lacking from what you see here?

@mastertek383

3 жыл бұрын

@@Valkonnen I don't recall saying it was lacking anyting.

@Valkonnen

3 жыл бұрын

@@mastertek383 Then what were you referring to by "What they had to work with"?

this is so well made that it stands the test of time.

Alien and Bladerunner are my favorite sci-fi films 🎥 of all time. Scott is brilliant.

Thanks for posting!

Derek vanlint, the cinematographer, did such a wonderful job lighting this movie. The man was a genius and he also filmed dragonslayer after this movie.

Well done Steve!

@sqTake2

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Sir!! I’m stoked 20th is allowing it to be seen.

Very nice it's like watching a new movie with the cutscenes

@sqTake2

7 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I had a LOT of fun making it. Pretending to collab with Ridley Scott = winning

I was 25 years old and was absolutely not prepared for what I was about to experience over the next 2 hrs. Once you finally got a glimpse of the Alien, everything in that ship looked like it might be it getting ready to pounce on it's next victim. That was without a doubt the scariest 2 hrs of my life. There is no way that I could ever dream up something as horrifying as that creature in my worst nightmares. I still will watch this movie whenever I get a chance. And the first sequel was just as good, if not better. I can see Ridley Scott's mark on every movie that I have seen by him now. And I have never been disappointed.

Thanks for this.

Great video, interesting to see what was cut . I do understand why those derelict shots @3:18 was removed....Kind of gives away the scale of the model

@sqTake2

2 жыл бұрын

Right on. Some of the clips used were lighting test shots etc not meant to be included at all. The 1979 “Book of Alien” implies that the earliest assemblies spent an hour on the planetoid, how much of that would have been inside the derelict unknown to me. The planetwalk is also intercut with scenes on the Nostromo which may also be figured into that total. I am confident that more footage of their traverse was shot & discarded for pacing and runtime concerns, which in light of the film’s succeess was the right decision 👍🏼 Still, always looking for more! if anyone knows sources with additional material.

The surreal bizzare spaceship, the ambient lighting&music, the realistic space suits(unlike the superhero spandex in Prometheus) makes this seem SO real. What I like about Alien is how authentic everything feels, the alien spaceship feels lived in and not plastic CGI crap in Prometheus. Alien is just PERFECTION visually, it's a crime that Prometheus&Covenant exists, they garbage all over Alien's original lore,mood&concept. Alien's motif was simple yet Genius, a realistic space crew that stumbles upon aliens and a truly ALIEN(incomprehensible) world associated with it. The intrigue&mystery surrounding the ship&the planet is something I have NEVER seen in any other movie even come close to replicating and THIS is why i'm DISGUSTED to find out that all of this was thrown under the bus for a dumb alien human creation theory. It IS THE VERY ANTITHESIS OF "ALIEN", the mysterious creature is now just a 100% DNA match for humans!? Please just no, the whole point of Space Jockey was to covey the VASTNESS of Space with Species&Civilizations beyond our comprehension, it was a small glimpse into the fascinating wonders that lurk within our Galaxy. We are a species isolated in a Star System, such stories make no sense and feels like a religious guy's Alien fanfiction who thinks Humans are the most important species in the universe.

@joeill620

6 жыл бұрын

விஷ்ணு கார்த்திக் I agree with you man

@dysamoria

4 жыл бұрын

Fully agreed. Why do some films have to be retroactively destroyed by the people who originally made them...???

@TheNovelty8theory

3 жыл бұрын

This is exactly how I feel. After the first 2 movies I pretend the others don't exist. The Alien saga ended with Aliens 1986. The rest of the saga is dead to me. The first movie has a mythical yet real quality to it which is unmatched.

@thorthegodofthunder9150

3 жыл бұрын

You can't just leave a mystery as a mystery. People would demand answers. You can't sprinkle a bunch of unexplained stuff all over the movie and just leave it like that. And many people are actually interested in the engineer story, including myself.

@விஷ்ணு_கார்த்திக்

2 жыл бұрын

​@@thorthegodofthunder9150 A Generic Human Creation story(Engineers making Humans with their DNA) isn't interesting, its just the Book of Genesis with Aliens dude lol I've looked at Giger's artwork, he had concepts of planets that were silicon/metallic creatures fused to bizarre industrial contraptions. Too much importance put on Humans makes the universe feel extremely small, as if the Engineers are just our next door neighbors rather than alien creatures from distant star systems. I still like the idea that the entire ship was a living creature itself(as stated by giger himself) and the Space Jockey was probably its Brain, it was never supposed to move. It was a creature cultivated to be the brain of the ship.

This artistic crew was originally slated to work on Dune. Could you imagine ...

I just love the hydraulics on the landing struts. Can you imagine the balances and counterbalances used to life those babies?

@oldbeardedguy

2 жыл бұрын

Freaking finally! I've been thinking the same thing...for a looong time. Been working with hydraulics for most of my professional life, and I thought I was a real strange dude, to wonder about / noticing the mechanics and the hydraulics, powering it :) Thanks man!!

@luthermcgee3767

2 жыл бұрын

@@oldbeardedguy , no problem.It only shows that you have a 3 dimensional mind when it comes to certain things. In this case hydraulics. I became fascinated with them when I was around 350 ton presses.and other hydraulic systems.

New Soft Landing the Nostromo short kzread.info/dash/bejne/noKZz8NqctOeZcY.html

i'm late but i love it. great work man

@sqTake2

6 жыл бұрын

Right on.

A masterpiece.

That was awesome! Thank you for that! Greatest horror movie of all time! 👍

@sqTake2

3 жыл бұрын

Many thanks for watching Mr. Wizard! 👍🏼

Gripping , stunning , captivating and absolutely terrifying .. The music deserves a nod . I would love to see a remake of this classic .

Very nice. Great footage, i wondered where my fave lambert line went, but you put it in just at the end 😀

@sqTake2

6 жыл бұрын

wouldn't have missed it! and cheers bra, hope to try another edit with the V-wkprint this winter

@2degucitas

4 жыл бұрын

What did Lambert say? I can't make it out.

@alancjones64

4 жыл бұрын

@@2degucitas I like griping. In the theatrical release, Lambert is complaining and whining all the way from the Nostromo to the alien ship. At some stage, kane tells her to "quit griping " to which Lambert replies "I like griping ". Our friend Steve Nyland adds this iconic line at the end to please the "Alien " fanbase.

Seems when it comes to movies. A question is always more interesting than an answer

@sqTake2

2 жыл бұрын

I like that!! Cheers 👍🏼

I love the fact that it's Kane's overexuberance that ends up killing all of them except Ripley.

@sqTake2

3 жыл бұрын

I read someone’s dissertation on Alien which painted Kane as a metaphor for the adventuresome male who engages in risky behavior. Ridley Scott feminizes Kane’s persona including presenting him in an untied bustier/girdle upon coming to in sickbay. Ash hovers like a midwife who doesn’t let Kane out of his sight until helping to deliver his hybrid son by keeping the others away at the only time it was vulnerable.

I have got a love-hate relationship with Alien movies. On the one hand, I am really fascinated by the backstory, mystery and possible explanations for the Aliens origin. On the other hand, the pacing and gore have never been my cup of tea.

@dan_hitchman007

2 жыл бұрын

The first two films have very little gore at all. There is basically one graphic chest burster scene in each of the two classics (Alien and Aliens) and the rest is mostly quick cut aways.

Happy Alien Day 2021 to everyone!!!! :D Love this video!!!! :D

@sqTake2

3 жыл бұрын

Awesome! I sure felt 12 again when making it & always do when watching. Many thanks for the propz! 🖖🏻👨🏼‍🚀👍🏼

I found this really good, kind of trippy with the strange music and sound effects. it had a different feel to the released film.

@sqTake2

2 жыл бұрын

Awesome! I re-edited almost all of the audio thru filtering, slowing or speeding up clips etc. Nothing is as it was on the released prints

Howcome no one ever mentions how much bigger this "chest busted extraterrestrial biological entity" is compared to who we saw in hypersleep in Promethazine the movie?

@LSB44446

6 жыл бұрын

It's actually one of the most commonly mentioned plotholes. But holy shit the plot holes in Prometheus don't compare when it comes to Alien Covenant

@joeylittle3535

6 жыл бұрын

Thelondonbadger its not the black goo the engineer drinks at the start of prometheus

@ryebread7224

4 жыл бұрын

Funny, I was literally just thinking that while watching this.

Beautiful

Cheers for all the great discussion here 👍🏼 and to YT & Fox for allowing it for so long. Great arrangement and I love having it on the channel. I do have the original work files + project archive and wish I could recompile and re-up using current system, which has 8x the RAM and processor speed for smoother transitions and sharper plugin effect results. May do so as an “unlisted” upload and link from description, the local file I keep flows much smoother during playback. Very proud of the results anyway, can edit video in my sleep and love creating little movies as much as painting or drawing. Cheers!! 🍻

4:46 This view of an almost lunar-like surface to the planetoid was imitated quite well in that 1989 movie MOONTRAP

Alien and Aliens rock after that it's not even close

Informative. Useful. Calming. Inspiring. Life-changing. Enjoyable. Heart-warming. Other.

@sqTake2

2 жыл бұрын

made it while sick with pneumonia & snowed in by a massive CNY blizzard. working on it had exactly those effects, and by the time it was done i’d recovered 👍🏼

i’ll never understand why they took the alien in the ship and turned him or it into an engineer with a spacesuit in the prometheus reboot. that alien in the chair is more fascinating than the alien lead creature. that thing is haunting even now. we need a new director and producer to recreate this entire back story. focus on that space jockey for the story. it is growing out of the chair.

@anoobis745

2 жыл бұрын

Promethius wasn’t a reboot.

Loving it!

@sqTake2

7 жыл бұрын

Thank you!!!

The sounds, the....Everything...Its bone chilling and still scary! And might I recommend "Tentacles (1977)" for the 18 No'pers?? It's a movie, devoted for common sense as well as..a lot of other things, so i'll guess it would fit the 18's well!

@sqTake2

2 жыл бұрын

Cheers! many thanks for watching 👍🏼

The colossal vessel so far into the future it’s become frozen in time, a spacecraft who’s walls once lived but have become entombed within themselves inside of a boundless void. Its labyrinthine hull expands into great caverns holding dark secrets & containing collections of the universe’s most remote reaches & profound potentials contained within

Very Awesome!

It just occurred to me that a movie pairing Rippley vs David and his little playthings would be EPIC. I know there are continuity issues, but we've been all over the place already, a bit of tweaking and they could do it, and David surely must still be operational out there somewhere.

The actual score used was masterful but the one you can hear in the egg section sounds like an extract from the first series of Space 1999

Probably my favourite Sci-Fi movie of all time. Very dark, claustrophobic & menacing, unlike anything since.

While making this I realized that if you look at 5:33 you'll notice a budget-inflicted continuity error. The model (and Giger's planning drawing: Google it) clearly shows three entry portals. The soundstage footage however shows that only two portals were constructed, something I never noted before -- Check the wide angle shot of the matte overlay test footage at 3:29, which is the only shot I know which shows the other "arm" of the Derelict from ground level. This also explains why they only used model shots of the Derelict from the front with dense heavy fog obscuring everything: The shooting model of the Derelict was directly based on Giger's drawing and made with the 3 portals (see the Making Of video on my channel). So most shots depicting the Derelict were angled so the entryways were not visible, and if not the busted out the Fog Machine. And as an Easter Egg, if you have really sharp eyes in one or two shots (likely test footage) you can see some of the scaffold supporting the fullsized entryway in the right hand portal.

@loopymind

6 жыл бұрын

they only build two portals because the shot didn't need the third one, seeming to be off screen to the left.

@RoaryUK

3 жыл бұрын

It's not an error at all, they only built 2 entry points to the derelict to save time and production costs, the matt painting was done because the 3rd entry point is mainly out of shot and not needed.

@jeffturnbull9661

2 жыл бұрын

I've never really considered this before, but they know nothing about this craft, although it wouldn't have served the story at all, they could just as easily, just as plausibly been entering some kind of engine exhaust ports

@mrorangepeel659

2 жыл бұрын

Geek overload 🥸

@BigfatKev7

2 жыл бұрын

Worth adding that Alan Dean Foster's novel talks of three portals in the walk up to the derelict, unknown as to why there's only two in the movie, budget restrictions presumably.

this movie is just mind blowing ...

Magnificent

Future space travel for humans is going to be a very scary thing. No joke. Too much to be done before and after. God speed to all involved !!!

Great. If you never saw Alien, but you've seen Giger's art and other R.Scott's movies. imagining what their collaboration would look like. This is 100% it.

The part where they are at one of the entrances Imagine if was real got to have some balls to venture into a alien ship

@alexprost7505

Жыл бұрын

Конечно, иначе пришлось бы желеть всю жизнь, да и он явно старый был

👍👍🚀🚀Very fun. Thanks. Great job.

MASTERPIECE !!!🚀🎥🎞🎬👍👍🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁

Using children to scale up the Nostromo. Great idea, same with Space Jockey..

It's okay, Lambert. We all like griping. Just read any comments on Alien vs Prometheus/Covenant.

I always felt the scenes on the surface on the planet should be more within the brownish or even yellowish range - as seen from space / orbit before. It was always a continuity error for me before - from entry in the atmosphere on. Its nice to see some of those scenes more in the right color range finally. If i can i will make an edit one day + including some deleted scenes. :)

Love Kane pushing Lambert toward the portal. He really wants to get in there.

Lambert.. ‘let’s get the hell out of here’.. most sensible observation in the whole film. Kane.. ‘we must go on, we have to go on’.. the gung-ho idiot who gets everyone killed. 🤨

Kinda makes you wonder how arduous it must've been carrying the victimized John Hurt character back to their ship.

@sqTake2

2 жыл бұрын

infected, to violate quarantine ultimately at the price of their own lives. gotta love the human spirit 🖖🏻

Fantastic

@sqTake2

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I am delighted that Fox has allowed the compilation to be public again & that fellow devotees can see my results.

@BenjaminBartle-li3pc

3 жыл бұрын

Keep it up steve, all my life ive loved this film and to see your deleted/extended scenes just made my heart beat with joy almost like alien was brand new all over again. Godbless you mate thank you so so much

The original screening was over four hours long, imagine that!

The original, and only the original, is an all-time classic horror. The hi-light is the alien craft, both inside and out, which looks like it has grown and developed as living tissue rather than being manufactured from inert material. I wonder if that was the intention. I got the whole package of Blu Rays but was so perplexed by all the different versions of each movie and not knowing really which version to watch I sold the whole package unseen!

@chadcastagana9181

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, it is one of the greatest HORROR movies ever made. But as Science-Fiction, it is not so great - more of a slasher film in space

@germanicelt

Жыл бұрын

I think of this as more of a thriller than a horror movie.

Wonderful work! What did you use, After Effects for the compositing? Interesting to note that the "Engineer" -Space Jockey in this film was much larger than the one in Prometheus....

@sqTake2

2 жыл бұрын

it’s pretty much all iMovie c.2017 and i thank you for watching!

Can understand why most of this great footage was cut, it makes the pacing of the second half too slow - IMHO this movie broke the mould in Sci-fi as most, if not all movies at that time shied away from horror in the genre and focused on the sterile, fantasy aspect, Alien however, put “everyday” blue collar workers in dreary jobs but in outer space which the audience could relate to - The film comes in three acts and by the end of third act, BOY! We felt like we we’re right beside Ripley edging her on to self detonate the Nostromo and get in that escape ship!

When I was 14 years old I thought this is one of the scariest movies ever made

They built all these sets, just for a short section of the opening of the film. And the movie still cost only $11 million in 1979.... about $47 million today. If the movie was made today, it'd cost $100 million or more, be outrageously stuffed with CGI, filled with characters who acted like blithering idiots the entire time... and be utterly unmemorable. Oh wait, we DID get that. It was called "Alien: Covenant".

Sweet.

THE ORIGINAL SPACEJOCKEY WAS ALOT BIGGER THEN THE ENGINEERS!!!!!

Some deleted scene are for budget cuts etc and some expose truths that are never meant to be seen yet alone spoken! You decide food for thought freshmen class.

If only kane hadn't gone down that FUCKING hole

at least the crew was smart using protection all the time. The new alien movie is so stupid

@jing713

7 жыл бұрын

Lucas Manhaes they learnt their mistakes in Prometheus and Covenant, which is why they now wear helmets :)

@mlee7290

6 жыл бұрын

well it may be you who is stupid because they dont wear helmets because their scanners tell them there is breathable air for the most part in prometheus and covenant. The pathogen in covenant is only residual in mould like spores rather than completely contaminating the entire atmosphere because they didnt all instantly get infected,

@valken666

6 жыл бұрын

All human diseases are caused by microscopic pathogens. The crew is just dumb.

@JohnSmith-eo5sp

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah, so smart that guy sticks his head down into the 'alien' egg when it opens up instead of getting the heck outta there - - what was he thinking? A question I have pondered on for years. Then I wrote a short story based on ALIEN that rewrites this scene making his action almost plausible

@calebhorton4701

6 жыл бұрын

Lucas Manhaes Everything in Alien Covenant is stupid, so the crew being morons is par for the course.

NO HR GIGER, NO ALIEN CREATURE !!!

How could a planetoid of 1200km diameter has such a thick atmosphere ??

WOW! Why I see this first time?

@sqTake2

2 жыл бұрын

20th Century Fox unblocked it, monetized the upload and it’s making them money. Been on here for four years! mostly unseen until now. Stoked I didn’t delete it.

Alien proves curiosity kills the cat. Kane died because of his own curiosity and killed the rest of the crew as well (including Ripley,many decades later). So everything that happened is Kane's fault.

@sqTake2

6 жыл бұрын

Excellent! Absolutely correct. Not only that but Dallas proves himself to be woefully inept and unable to handle both his crew and the Alien once it reaches mature form. Anyone who was dumb enough to carry that climbing rig in his hands all the way to the Derelict deserved to be Captain of the Nostromo What, no shoulder strap? And he happily carries it anyway then lets Kane bully him into entering the Derelict even though there was no real reason to suspect there were any survivors -- You can even hear Dallas say "No signs of light or life" which should have been the segue into "This isn't work we're trained for, let's go call it in and get the fuck out of here" and then Kane starts in about how they must go on. Poor Lambert. I'd even hazard to guess that Dallas' ship was specifically chosen for the "mission" after he'd proven inept previously. Perfect man for the job.

@LUCKO2022

6 жыл бұрын

Dallas ship was chosen because Dallas is obviously a shitty Captain. Instead of taking command, he just does what the company tells him to do regardless of the repercussions. I bet when he was hanging on that wall he was thinking, boy I sure did fuck up. If Dallas was any kind of leader he would have just called the ship in like you said, or once he found the dead Space Jockey they would have left saying there was nothing there. Thus no Kane getting infected and thus no Nostromo go boom getting everyone killed. So Dallas and Kane are responsible for everyone else's death including Ripley,

@hendrsb33

6 жыл бұрын

That's why I find it hard to watch movies nowadays. Part of the fun of the moviegoing experience (at least for me, anyway) is to put oneself in the place of the characters and imagine what you'd do in their place. If I had been one of the ALIEN characters, common sense would tell me "not to go inside there". Of course, there would be no movie if that happened... ;-) By that token, PROMETHEUS was hell for me to watch. I am no scientist by any stretch of the imagination but the "scientists" in that movie were doing things that even I, as a regular bloke, would know NOT to do. That's why it was so hard for me to take that movie seriously. Same with ALIEN: COVENANT.

@Fan_Made_Videos

4 жыл бұрын

I disagree. The prime directive from Weyland-Yutani Corporation was that as officers of the Nostromo any alien life form detected MUST BE INVESTIGATED UNDER PENALTY OF FORFEITURE OF ALL EARNINGS OF EACH OFFICER WHO DOESN'T COMPLY. Kane got infected, yes but it could have played out in any different variations with Dallas or Lambert getting infected themselves if Kane wasn't the one to lead the way.

@alancjones64

4 жыл бұрын

Technically, curiosity killed everyone BUT the cat.....look. somebody had to say it. But very good point.

Exellent work ! But where can you find all of these shots ? Because since a long time I try to make a pefect Alien film with every shots lile these ! And of course, all others Alien film. Because I heard that the first cut of Alien was three hours long, and the first cut of Aliens was 4 hours long ! So I want everything but I can't find anything...

@sqTake2

7 жыл бұрын

SOURCES: 1) Giger’s Alien (1979, 20th Century Fox Japan VHS) 2) The Alien Legacy (1999, 20th Century Fox Alien Quadrilogy Collection) 3) The Beast Within: The Making of Alien (2003, 20th Century Fox SE DVD) 3) Bonus Content “Cutscene” from the 2003 SE DVD 4) About twenty seconds taken from the Theatrical Print found on the 2003 SE DVD, specifically Kane climbing up the Jockey platform wall & Ripley being blown off during the closing airlock scene. 5) Audio sampled from the Theatrical Print from that same source. 6) Scanned production stills from my collection of Alien-related media forms including some of the marvelous Alien trading card series by Topps.

@yvanfoubert6419

7 жыл бұрын

Steve Nyland Oh yes thank you, I'm sorry I didn't see it at the beginning of the video, sorry and thank you 😉

Que peliculón!!!!!inmortal

Wow!

In the space jockey scene I remember the crew found a metal cylinder going back and forth on a short horizontal metal bar. One of them stops the cylinder sliding, and says I think we've found the alarm. Or did I just imagine this. 🤔

@sqTake2

2 ай бұрын

Excellent! You saw that in the Heavy Metal graphic novel and Alan Dean Foster novelization, both of which used a pre-shooting screenplay draft. The scene was omitted from the screenplay as filmed. I guess they reasoned it didn't add anything & the budget better applied elsewhere. Another scene Heavy Metal visualized was the Alien folding itself into a box for Ripley to encounter on her way to the shuttle. Now that would have been freaky cool but from what I've read they could not figure out how to stage it in a convincing manner. Many thanks for watching!! 👍🏼

@simonscott1000

2 ай бұрын

@@sqTake2 Thanks for that, I've been mulling it for years.