That Space Jockey model should be in a museum somewhere.

I have to think that someone watching Alien for the first time back in the day, before the xeno became a pop culture icon, they probably saw the derelict ship in the fog and thought that was the “alien”, then they saw the space jockey and thought that was the alien. Then they saw the eggs and thought those were the alien. Then the facehugger. Then the chest burster. And then, finally… Unfortunately many of us were robbed of that experience because we watched the film already knowing what to look for. This, by the way, is pretty much the progression I went through watching the original Jeepers Creepers where he goes from being a man in a hat and trench coat to… the Creeper.

@mikes5637

3 ай бұрын

I came so close in 1979 but stupidly read the novelisation by Alan Dean Foster before seeing the film. Why??!!

@Blobby192

3 ай бұрын

i was around in 79 and was obsessed with this film you are correct the whole look of the film was incredible at that time and because the trailers showed you nothing you didnt know what the alien even looked like even the space jockey could have been the alien and it wouldnt have been disappointing

@fvckingtest

3 ай бұрын

I watched the movie with a friend when I was 10. I had the same ideas. First the ship was obviously an "ALIEN" ship. Then the navigator...Would he come to life and eat the crew!? Then the pit with the eggs! Would the eggs all hatch simultaneously? Then the egg hatched! Holy crap! Then the facehugger! Oh man, that little guy is going to be hard to catch! Then the full reveal! That movie made me scared of the dark for years.

@matthewlynch903

3 ай бұрын

Saw it in high school, scared the poop outta me.😅

@steven7936

3 ай бұрын

my first time watching alien was the 3rd movie, which scared the hell out of me, so yeah, I was also kinda robbed too.

Thank you for this video, I was fascinated by the concept of the Red City, as mentioned in Rinzler’s Alien tome - this concept would have been intriguing to see on the big screen as I did in that glorious summer of 1979. Again, thank you for the continuing excursions in my favorite franchise.

The "Von Daniken crap" quote and line of though behind it is literally what i said while watching "Prometheus" for the first time. Haha. Very interesting stuff in the video. You do amazing work on AvP Galaxy. Thanks!

@inabsentia439

3 ай бұрын

Weirdo

First. big alien Franchise fan never hesrd of red city

Great video! Seems like lots of ideas here were repurposed for Prometheus and Covenant.

@kyuss89

3 ай бұрын

And that rip off creature lol

@brandonlordbaltimore5182

3 ай бұрын

Doesn't it though. Ohhhh Ridley 😔.

@sonofeyeabovealleffoff5462

3 ай бұрын

To hell with Prometheus and Covenant.

@philliplinton6846

3 ай бұрын

I think there was also some alien versus predator stuff mixed in there

I wish someone in Prometheus had used the phrase "Von Danikin crap" 😂

Tantalizing to speculate on how much of this Ridley was aware of and potentially drew upon when creating Covenant, given how much of the description you outline here could apply equally well to the ruined Engineer citadel we see there. We know for a fact how much of Giger's designs for the pyramid (and even the Harkonnen stronghold for Dune) were used in Prometheus.

Would have loved to have seen the Giger Pyramid in all it's biomechanical glory, but understand the budget restrains. In my mind the Derelict attempted to land on top of a subterranean Engineer structure, possibly after the evacuation of LV223, as seen partially in Prometheus, only for the landing to be ruined by the Pilot's birthing of a Xeno. This caused a malfunction of the landing sequence causing the Derelict to crush the landing port atop of the structure. The Xeno was damaged during it's birth leading to it's blood to burn through the Derelict and into the egg chamber below. In the movie the Egg Chamber is far too vast to be within the Derelict and one would have thought that Ridley would have used this as a way of bridging Alien with Prometheus. Oh well, that ship has long sailed. Great post btw.

@dradra2day

3 ай бұрын

The ship will never be sailed. Fans just need patience.

Quality as always and sooo much food for thought I love it. Thank you for bringing it to light 🙏

Don’t know how I’m just now finding your channel, but if you’re covering anything Alien related, I’m in. Yautjas included.

Great video as usual

Sep-ool-cur

Anyone still play AvP classic? )1999? I launch an MP game every friday at 8pm UK time but yet to see another player!

@MikeB-us5cg

3 ай бұрын

Most people are on AvP 2 and, to a lesser extent, Primal Hunt. AvP '10 is dead, too. Also, if people still play AvP 1, they might be on one of the newer releases?

Keeping stuff behind closed doors sours me, refusing to let art be seen

0:29 "No, Lambert, you can't look in my journal!"

My idea for an alien tv-series is as follows: It takes place just before the events in the first alien movie and happens on a planet near where the nostromo spaceship is shipping ore. Weyland-Yutani is on the planet and have terraformed it for years,when they discovers a cave with lots of xenomorph eggs. One of them get's infected and a xenomorph is born. It turns out to be a queen,and a lot of the Weyland-Yutani humans are infected and then a war breaks out. All the humans on the planet are wiped out and only a few manage to escape in a spaceship.Then they nuke the planet from orbit. Then Weyland-Yutani regrets the decision and a hunt for the xenomorph begins.They get a tip that there's a crashed spaceship on lv426 and sends the robot Ash on the Nostromo spaceship. But they are informed that the mission has failed and that Nostromo has gone missing.Then Weyland-Yutani get's a tip about an xenomorph on Fiorina161 and sends a team of researchers there.They finds a surviving prisoner that is impreagnated and a queen is born. Weyland-Yutani then wants to use the xenomorphs on the planets where the engineers are located because they want the technology to seed planets with life. They also want the elixir that provides humans with prolongued life.After they have managed to give birth to a flock of xenomorphs,they drops them on an engineer planet and causes everyone of them to die. Then they get hold of the blue elixir that gives prolongued life.But several ships with engineers that where away from their planet when Weyland-Yutani wiped the population out,pursue them and manages to get the elixir back,but gets trapped on the planet where both parties crash.Then a battle takes place and the crew from Weyland-Yutani gets the elixir that gives them prolongued life for thousands of years,but they are now trapped on the planet,with no means to get anywhere.But then they see a light aproaching,but is the spaceship friends or foes ? It turns out it is the engineers and after a battle they gets hold off the blue elixir once again,and that gives the cliffhanger for a second season that we must wait several years to see???

@kyliefan7

3 ай бұрын

Great ideas!! It sounds really interesting to me!!

@user-sc9li1qt1e

3 ай бұрын

@@kyliefan7 Maybe they should have included the ancient city in the movie ? Including the cocoon-scene ? Maybe the movie would have been even better ? Did you know that both Helen Mirren and Meryl Streep auditioned for the Ripley part ? I just found out reading about the movie.....

Great video...👍

Been looking at your site since the first ALIEN vs PREDATOR film

Great job.🕡👽🛸

its for the best they didnt go this direction. But, they sort of did something similar with the prequels (although, unfortunately not fully realized).

Never heard of it, but I love it

We need Giger Landscapes

Thank you.

Lol sooooo subscribed 😎

Where can I find this music??

I remember some alien structure under the Space Jockey's ship, but seems it was called a pyramid instead of a city. They must have originally envisioned a city which became a pyramid which became just the SJ's ship.

@AlienvsPredatorGalaxy

3 ай бұрын

It was a pyramid, then this city, then a cylinder, then eventually just the SJ ship.

@briankriens5645

3 ай бұрын

@@AlienvsPredatorGalaxy Cool. Thanks for the clarification :) Sound like it would have been great on screen. Shame the budget got in the way.

Is the Red City NOT where we meet back up with David on Alien Covenant?

yoru mic is very low in the last part

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The Leviathan sleeping chamber concept art looks like The Gravatron.

Very Cthulu mythos, like the Mountains of Madness 🤔

555 likes - I can't F with that.

I really wish I could be part of a Union of Progressive Peoples series.

Gotta fill these 11 minutes yo! Waste of time this video is