Speaker 1: And we are back. So as usual, to close off
a retrospective, we do some rankings. So we're gonna be
ranking each and every single Alien film. We're gonna be
ranking characters five or ten, uh, not together he's out here, uh.
And then we're gonna.
Speaker 2: Be got the book, he's got the ABC's.
Speaker 1: Oh does he? And then five best scenes. So let's
let's go with films as usual first, because I feel like,
you know, if you listen to retrospective, you've probably got
an idea of our rankings, but maybe there's a slight
here and there. So Dylan, hit me with your your
film rankings of the Alien franchise.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go from bottom to top here, from bottoms
to top, and at number ten, I'll explain why I
have ten.
Speaker 2: At number ten, I have Alien Covenant. Uh, it's the
bottom of my thing.
Speaker 3: It's just it's it might not be worse than the
next two, maybe above it, but it's just such a
huge disappointment for me from what Promethea sets up that
that's why it drops to it sinks to the bottom.
Here number nine, I have a VP two because.
Speaker 2: That movie is just it's just dogshit. Let's just call
it what it is.
Speaker 3: Number eight is where I have Resurrection, which you know
we reviewed it and watched it recently. I don't I
barely remember anything in my movie already. That's that's not
depend on long. That just goes to show number seven.
This is gonna be very controversial, but this is where
I have Aliens the second one. So I feel like
most people have that like second in their alien ranking,
but I really not a fan. Number six, I have
a VP, So yeah, that's right. Aliens is below a VP,
the original one because that movie had a lot of
fun stuff in it, even if there's many things about
it that are worse. I had a more enjoyable time
watching a VP the first one than I did Aliens.
Number five, I have Alien three because there was actually
some things I did enjoy in that one more than
these other these other ones. And then at number four,
this is why I have ten, is because I put
Alien Isolation in here. You know, me and Taylor we
did the retrospective on that episode, and so in my
Alien ranking, my ranking of alien things, I put Alien
Isolation at number four because I enjoyed it, but also
I have a lot of issues with it. You can
go check out that episode if you want those details.
Number three Alien Romulus, the newest one to come out,
makes it in the top three for me. I really
really enjoy that movie, and I'm very excited to rewatch
it when it hits Disney Plus here at some point.
And the number two is where I have Prometheus. I
really enjoy that movie. It's even since we've done the
retro and since Ramas has come out, and like Alien
is still hot on the mind, I just want to
watch Prometheus again. So I'm probably gonna do that soon.
It's it's the one I want to go back to
right away for some reason. So just to Prometheus and
then the original Alien not even a debate. It's just
such an iconic movie. Even if there's a couple of
things that didn't hold up for me visually, it's still
just such a such a great movie it.
Speaker 2: Started at all. So yeah, I'm pretty pretty happy with
my ranking, pretty.
Speaker 1: Confident with it, pretty compident. All right with your pats
are mister me.
Speaker 4: It's funny, I was like panicking on which tenth movie
I was just missing on my rankings there, So thanks
for that. Joe. Okay, started at the bottom a number nine.
I have Alien Resurrection. I truly did not like that movie.
It was abysmal.
Speaker 1: So and then here going on already, I can see it,
I can feel it.
Speaker 4: It's nice. I like it. After that, I have another
truly awful movie in my opinion that I really hated.
I had Alien three. I really did not like that
movie at all.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't blame you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Number seven, I have a VP two. It's funny
my bottom three were all the Alien movies I hadn't seen. Actually,
my bottom four because after a VP requiem, I have
Alien Covenant, which I hadn't seen that one before, So
it's telling how that worked out. Yeah. Number five, I
have Aliens. Yeah, I thought it was gonna be higher
on my list, but just heard what happened. Number four,
I have Prometheus. This is the one that I definitely
thought was gonna be below Aliens. It's interesting because every
time I rewatch Prometheus.
Speaker 1: I just know what you have above Prometheus.
Speaker 4: And oh yeah you get ready, get ready, sir h.
Every time I rewatch Prometheus, I just I'm so just
fascinated by the world building and like the adventure that
they take us on, and like when we arrive to
the location like I just it's like I'm arriving to
Pandora for the first time, Like I am just ready
for this fantastical CGI adventure. Uh No, but I I
just find that movie tapers off really hard for me
at the end, Like I just lose multiple points of
just enjoyment, like as the movie goes on. But for
the for the first good chunk of that movie, I
think it's just stellar ten out of ten. So yeah,
entering my top three here, number three, Like Dylan Muss,
I have alien Romulus in this.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, it was around his head.
Speaker 4: Actually, that face hugger was all around his head. So
I love this movie. I feel like the more I
think about it, I like it more. So I am
really excited to rewatch it. And yeah, I think it
was just a fantastic showing for I'll call them our
two leads, the characters of Rain and Andy. I just
thought they were fantastic in it. And yeah, it was
really really great adventure. Number two, I have a VP
the original. I warned y'all when we did that episode.
This movie is just so good in my mind. And again,
nostalgia is like the heavy hitter on that one. I
can definitely pick it apart critically and make fun of
the dialogue or certain characters or whatnot. But I just
love this movie, Like it is just such a feel
good one for me. It's when I can put on whenever.
It's my national treasure, you know, in a different genre.
Any day I can throw on that movie and just
have a good time, and yeah, I love it. So
there you go. That's my number two favorite Alien movie.
And of course at number one, pretty much in a
completely different category from all these movies is the First Alien.
Like when I was really thinking about even just other categories,
I'm like, Alien one is just significantly better than all
these other movies in my mind, Like even coming off
of Romulus, it's just like Man in my mind. And
like if I hadn't seen the First Alien, I probably
wouldn't feel that way, just because all of these movies
really try and recapture a lot of elements from that
first movie. And yeah, it's just it's stellar. It's easily
in my top five favorite movies of all time. Could
even be higher, like if I really sit down and
try and sculpt that list, but yeah, first Alien, it's
a masterpiece.
Speaker 1: Is it on your layer box? Four favorites because that
it's not higher maybe not.
Speaker 4: Actually, how many movies can you have in the letterboxes?
It four?
Speaker 1: Well, your four favorites, so it be my fifth.
Speaker 2: Letter box.
Speaker 4: Oh I got a good four already. What do I cut?
Don't know.
Speaker 2: I've been logged down a letterbox because it's been so.
Speaker 1: What do you what's your four?
Speaker 4: You got Kirklam, I have Spider Man, into the Spider Verse,
the Dark Knight, Cecario and House Moon Castle.
Speaker 1: Okay, I thought you was. You had Spider Man and
also Spider Verse. Was like, wow, you got the Spider
Boy things going on. Yeah, and then you had Spider
Verse and I was like, wow, that's that's a lot.
Speaker 4: Full title full like Horizons.
Speaker 1: I had that for a while. I had The Dark
Knight and The Batman. I was like, oh this is
and I bumped the Batman because I'm like, I'm gonna
give it more time before I put it there. I
still sometimes feel away, but right now I got Dark Knight, Fellowship,
The Ring Fight Club and Paul Fiction. Yeah, fellowships gotta
be there for me.
Speaker 4: I gotta be good pick all right.
Speaker 1: Time for me to go, because that whole time during
the last half. He's just I won't say it's at
the bottom, but it's not too far away because the
only thing keeping it from the bottom is a v
P two. Av B two is easily nine, and then
ev A v P one is easily eight. Not much more.
Need to say that I gave those movies a combination
score of I think one point five. So that has
everything you need to know about it. There awful, awful,
just things that cinema saninemen subjected to. But I digress
Alien Resurrection because I just well, no, I'm still happy
like Alien three, which is next at six, it has
a bigger sin with I hate that opening. I hate
them killing off Newton Hicks, and I hate them just
being like hey, I remember that, and Alien two while
we're done with that. But the Resurrection, I just find that,
other than you know, some of the weird stuff at
the end, there's nothing I really think about and be like,
oh man, that was great a potentially great, Like I
don't know, I really found this go around like Rider
just kind of disappointing as the as the synthetics, so
there's just not much there for me, and and also
just feels like when we did the Trivia to it
just feels like it's such a big paycheck with singoring,
it feels like she's just kind of at times sleep
walking through that thing. So got Resurrection at seven, Alien
three at six, and then I got Covenant above those
ones because like I said, I like to Covenant a
little bit more of this go around, and I have
at least more moments that I really really enjoying Covenant,
where Alien three in Resurrection, I don't really have that
number four me to continue the trend of it being
I guess it's going up by one each time. But
I'm at Alien so not my top three. As I've
said before, I really like it. I get why some
people have that as one. I get why there's a
certain type of movie that I think it fits. But
it's not exactly my type of genre of alien that
I like. But it's a well made version of that.
Think Cameron is. You know that it's fucking James Cameron.
He can direct great action stuff. That third sequence which
we'll talk about, like third end act sequence I might
bring up again, like they it has the juice in
certain moment. So three I got Romulus as of right now,
I need a rewatch I really like the horror aspects,
so it might eventually put over my second pick, which
is Prometheus, and then number one is Alien. So I
got the exact same top three as Dylan. So with Romulus,
I went back and forth. I think setting in the
review it might be ranked number two. For now I'm
gonna put it as three, and I want to do
a rewatch because there are some things more in the
back half again where I go, oh, how do I
feel about that? But overall I still like it. But
Prometheus is at times such a special movie, and it's
in a world we know, but it's giving us entirely
different things, So I love that. And then yeah, Alien one,
it's just just alien like. There's there's not much more
that could be said that we didn't say tonight or
in the first retro. Just one of, if not the
greatest sci fi movies. I don't know what I put it.
This great sci fi that's a whole another bread and
butter movie. I'd have to think about it. I guess, yeah,
it's up there. It's it's up there. You got your
Star Wars, you got Blade Runner, you got two thousand
and one, So there's there's a couple there, but it's
it's in the discussion for best, not even talk ten,
just best overall.
Speaker 4: So that's don't don't go to the future or something
because it's Taylor.
Speaker 1: Oh Dalton, that's a Freddian slip. If you are thinking,
I'm Taylor, because remember on the nine Year you gave
a ship from mess up your name, you messed up
my whole identity, Dalton, what's going on? Does he doesn't?
He's seen ahead, Yeah, but yeah, the page approved of it.
You can do that, all right, Taylor, have at it.
Speaker 5: Last place Alien Covenant.
Speaker 2: Where it should be, where it sucking should be.
Speaker 5: My man up from their Alien Resurrection.
Speaker 3: About the flute scene, you know Dolton's texting and driving.
Speaker 2: What's going on?
Speaker 1: Don't do that on the road.
Speaker 4: That's a Taylor move. Actually he's very aligned with that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, scene, Taylor, how can you put that last? I'll
hold it while you blow from the movie.
Speaker 3: I know you love capes, but when he's looking like
Aragon running through the.
Speaker 1: Woods is great fo me.
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 5: Yes, Alien three is after Alien Resurrection. Those Alien three
just bad taste my mouth after after what they did
to those characters.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 5: Following that is Prometheus.
Speaker 2: That's beautiful movie.
Speaker 5: But for me, it's just not my kind of Zeno story.
I know where I have my interests amongst all these movies,
and we're moving into them with Alien Isolation next to
my list.
Speaker 2: Really like this story.
Speaker 5: It's a good time, so it's kind of right in
the middle between everything nice and sandwiched above that Alien
versus Pread, this movie fucking rocks. God, it's a good time.
It's great as a little kid. I'm extremely biased with
how much love I have for this movie. Above that
at number four is Alien Romulus. I've thought more about this,
and I think I need to rewatch this movie again
so I can see if it nudges up higher into
my top three. But for now, I've just put too
much thought into it and asked having I.
Speaker 1: Have more questions, too much, too much.
Speaker 5: I have more questions on the story and certain things
that don't really make sense to me.
Speaker 1: Can I do a victory lap too?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 1: Does it all make sense? You about those cousins fucking?
Because I called that, I was like, there's something up
with it, and then you got there other cousin. I guess,
I guess they're not fucking, But yeah, that.
Speaker 3: Too, Like some people just call like a friend cousin,
you know, yes, so maybe it's not an actual like there,
Like I.
Speaker 1: Didn't call any people as fucking cousins, but I'm sure
there's there's people out there, you know.
Speaker 2: My cousins.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there we go confirmed.
Speaker 5: The confirm Uh number three versus Predier Requiem I fucking love.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah.
Speaker 5: The getting them to not even getting the the hybrid
alien that's Predator and Zeno that is also like alien aliens,
and just getting the shot of Preader home World get al,
getting uh getting Wolf in here too, just the the
I just I think this movie's got it's it's just
a it's a fun thrill ride, and I I don't
need to have anything more than what it is, just
aliens popping off in a regular Joe blow town with
a Preader going in to take down the situation. It's
just it's fucking awesome. I love it, and it's just it's.
Speaker 4: An overall good time.
Speaker 5: So I'm gonna shut it out and stand by it
because it's a dark movie and dark times and needs
some light and that's me.
Speaker 6: Uh number two Alien.
Speaker 5: This movie is great, fucking fantastic, but at the ultimate
decision here. I know that my heart loves Aliens.
Speaker 2: More I you James Cameron, one of those guys came over.
Speaker 7: Man.
Speaker 5: I just love the crew that you get in Aliens,
and obviously you have you have both of them be
tackling very different things, with Alien being just the suspense
that horror, and then Aliens just being the action and
the craziness and whatnot. And so for me, what I
love my Aliens, my Zinos is that action.
Speaker 4: Over the horror.
Speaker 5: But that being said, it's great as a horror flick too,
and so I love that you can have this icon
and deliver it in two different lights like this, and
so they're very close, they're very very close. But for me, yeah,
Bill Paxton and Sigourney Weaver and just the whole crew
there with Bishop, I've really loved the story we got
in in Aliens, and so I will stand by that
being my number one because out of all these films,
that is the one I go back to the most
for rewatchability consistently. It's just such a fucking good movie.
Speaker 1: Yeah, some most people say that, Travis, Yeah, yeah, I
definitely yeah. He doesn't gonna be associated with that that,
you know, the aliens pick. Yeah, well, I can say
it's probably one of our most different retros for lists.
I feel like a lot of ranking films can be
born because we got pretty similar than Taylor. But we're
all over the map there, So Taylor, you can start
us off with characters. Do you got five or ten?
Speaker 4: I got five?
Speaker 5: Okay, on line with five the bottom list. I got Bishop,
great synthetic, just an overall fantastic character.
Speaker 1: Yeah, top five, top five?
Speaker 3: Yeah, but Requiem at number one? Why are you surprised
about that? That seems actually like a pretty.
Speaker 1: Tame good Like, I'm not gonna lie I got Bishop
in my top ten because I may have talked him
a top five. There is very easily so many.
Speaker 2: Two alien movies. He justifies his like he's.
Speaker 1: In one alien movie. He doesn't count to be in
the other one.
Speaker 5: Really three if you count Alien Versus Predator, So I
mean I'm not counting number four. I got Wolf, he's
my fucking favorite versus Predator. Oh yeah, my god, did
you slide in there?
Speaker 2: Wait?
Speaker 1: Yes, is that a predator? Yeah?
Speaker 5: From Alien Versus?
Speaker 1: This is bullshit list. This is the worst list ever.
Speaker 2: James Cameron has like number one, Yeah, number two.
Speaker 5: No, my number three is Hudson. I fucking love Hudson.
He's great, he has he's game over MANI packs he's
cemented herself as just this iconic delivered so many of
these iconic lines. Yeah, game over man.
Speaker 1: Give me all the other iconic lines. Yeah.
Speaker 4: In the stream to that's the.
Speaker 2: Five fingerpul a. Number two.
Speaker 5: Ellen Ripley fantastic again. She's she is the be all
end all here she Yeah, she's fucking fantastic. I can't
say anything else. That's so fantastic with his character.
Speaker 4: I feel like you could if she was number one.
Speaker 2: I Couldash was number one.
Speaker 5: But my number one is Corporal Hicks. I fucking love Hicks.
He's he is my favorite alien character of all time.
Speaker 2: I really love him.
Speaker 1: I love how he's just why people like him.
Speaker 5: He's just he's calm, he's he's pensive and when you
just when he comes to to party, he fucking comes
to party.
Speaker 2: And I just really like when he comes to.
Speaker 1: The party, he sounds like the guy'd be like right,
like that, that's not He's not the come to party guys.
Speaker 2: He's just a.
Speaker 5: Fucking awesome character, and I love how he just takes
charge in that movie, and he's just he's got Ellen
Ripley's back, and that's why the two of them is
a duet top two there, and they're just fucking fantastic.
Speaker 1: I can't believe is not number one. That's that's something
that's crazy. Uh Kirkland, Yeah, my characters.
Speaker 4: I did ten for bonus points. Uh, we'll see how
you feel after Wolf in there. I got Wolf number one, yeah.
Speaker 6: Alien his top five predators and then the female lead
from Predator ABP that one.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Oh, I thinked about the one that gets fucking shanked
in second a VP, you know, the.
Speaker 1: One who's like put the blood on her face, like
she becomes a fucking you know. The top ten.
Speaker 4: No, I was thinking about playing Wolf, but I felt
weird about putting a predator on.
Speaker 1: So that's like fucking your cousin or something like that.
That's that's some alien Ramua stuff, you know.
Speaker 4: Somewhere between at least. So yeah, number ten I have.
I have Lambert is number ten because of a that's
the chick that's freaking out in the events, just because
the meme she she grew from my oh yeah, oh
yeah right. Top ten.
Speaker 2: I was about to flip the top.
Speaker 4: No, she would not go any wrong way. I love
her e motion in that movie, like which is just
freaking out and off the rails the whole time. It's
fun to have a ratic character like that. Number nine,
I have Hicks, So there you go, Taylor. I really
love him in Aliens and that's all he's in, So that's.
Speaker 7: That's where it kind of he could have been more.
Speaker 4: But left after that. Number eight I have Dallas, our
original captain of the nostrama. I I just really love charisma. Yeah,
on the other end of the Lambert experience. No, I
I just love him as a leader. I feel like
he's a good captain for you know, before things go terrible.
So maybe he's a bad captain in that sense.
Speaker 1: But let the people in the air lock when Ripley is.
Speaker 4: Like to actually do this, So yeah, you know, exactly
pulled rank at a bad time. But I at least
like that performance for the character and just I don't know,
he just has like a dad vibe to him. Maybe
it's the scar Man, I don't know what it is. Yeah,
he is fucking awesome. Number seven I have Parker. Really
like his experience. He's the gentleman with the bandana. It's
always criticized, you know, the leadership. He's just like, he's
buddies with Brett. I think that's his name, Brett or Brent,
but no, it's definitely Brett.
Speaker 2: But he he's.
Speaker 4: Just got a lot more layers I think to him
than what Brett has. But it's just kind of dirty
in my mind. But Parker is a lot more chewing
up the scenery and just he's just loud and charismatic.
So I like him a lot.
Speaker 2: When he comes to party. He comes to party.
Speaker 7: Dana and all, Yeah, true true number.
Speaker 1: The true True. You're dropping some Claude Atlas line. I
tell you the true True. See, it's stuck with you
talk it stuck with them in a couple of months.
Speaker 2: You know what boys.
Speaker 1: Cloud he was he said, roll true twice, roll the
back did not invent true. He hit us with the true.
It's the true chew you see, he hit us with it.
Speaker 7: I'm telling you, it's grown on you on the nine
hours for that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's.
Speaker 4: Where am I even at Oh, I just realized I
had eleven on this. I guess, I guess, I guess
Lambert's bumped out.
Speaker 7: Okay, honorable for a Lambert.
Speaker 1: Fitting.
Speaker 4: So after Parker, I have I have Rain from Yeah,
Romulus I I. I just thought it was great. I
feel like it's the type of role that the performance
actually elevated the character more. But I don't know. I
still think she's really fantastic, and I'm excited to follow
Kaye Spainey's career with great interests.
Speaker 1: So they got two movies from the past.
Speaker 7: I know they're loaded up in ch Priscilla's loaded up
as well.
Speaker 4: On this monitor right now, I'm be watching this whole time.
Speaker 2: That's true. I like that.
Speaker 7: We're bringing it back.
Speaker 2: He's gonna know what you're talking about.
Speaker 1: My cloud, Alisa's my cloud on votes in the in
the vote, they got all our vote, they got our armies,
you know.
Speaker 4: So I think I'm at six now I have Elizabeth
Shaw or Protagonists from Prometheus. She's fantastic. After that number
five top five here, I got Andy or Android from Rodulous,
really really really interesting Android. And I'm looking at my
list now I have a lot of Androids in my
top five. It's kind of funny how that happened. But
after him, I have Bishop. I'm with Taylor Man. I
really like the character of Bishop. I think he's especially
coming from Alien where even from Ripley's perspective, like we
just hate androids from no one, like they are the enemy,
they are evil, and then to go into Aliens and
Bishop's like a total flip where he is with us
the entire time and like being a true hero and
and doing the right thing, which is very basically opposite
of what the whalen utahny like code writing is for
these Android it seems so Yeah, I really really like Bishops.
So after that, I have David as my second favorite Android,
and then I have mister Ash as our favorite in
a surprise appearance for Romulus, I I just might be
showing my cards a little bit here, but that's right. Sorry, sorry,
keep it true, true, Let's keep it true. True. Might
be showing my cards for a specific scene. But I
just feel like the reveal that Ash is like basically
a bad Android, the one that's been going against like
our surviving crewmates, like he's going against just what they're
playing is And it's just it's such a big moment
of that movie, bigger so than the Xenomorphone. It's like
it's just such a massive mind twist moment, and to
have that character especially like just just just like performance
of being on our team side and then just like
totally opposite by the end. I just love the layers
that Ash has. And then of course number one is
Ellen Ripley, big SIGs, herself, Bush and all.
Speaker 1: So yeah, again confirmed that was not a true story.
Speaker 2: I did know.
Speaker 4: It's just confirmed at this point.
Speaker 1: I saw someone else fall for it today like this
is true, and only I've been there before, you know.
Speaker 3: In the circles, Uh yeah, I did I get ten here,
But I'm gonna be honest, my eight, nine, ten, these
are just I was scraping the bottom of that very number.
I do have some unique picks here. None of you
guys picked any of these people. So I'm gonna get
Janet at number ten. That's Idris Elba's.
Speaker 1: Character from from Oh Okay. Yeah, I respect him.
Speaker 3: And then I have the great Winona Riders call at
number nine, and then eight I have Clemens, who I
did enjoy and wanted more of in Alien three there
but shows Clemens moving up to number seven.
Speaker 2: I have Ash because he's I much like Kirklan.
Speaker 3: A lot of androids coming up here, such as number six,
where I have Bishop.
Speaker 2: I also am a Bishop.
Speaker 3: Fan, even though I'm Aliens hater, I do like Bishop
as a character. Into the top five, we go with
Elizabeth Shaw. She's got to be in there for sure.
And then up at number four is where I have Andy,
so I have a nice and high up there, really
big fan of Andy. Number three I've rain might be
recency biased, but honestly, I don't think there's a ton
of great characters like across the board in these things.
I think it's pretty easy for me to slot these
two in the top five, even though Romas is pretty fresh.
My top two is very easy though. Number two is
definitely David, even if I hate Covenant as a movie,
like in that review, like there are good things still, but.
Speaker 2: It's really there.
Speaker 3: He's really there for Prometheus, and like what a well
written character, well acted, so interesting in so many layers
to him.
Speaker 2: So justin David. And then I got Replay is number one.
No surprise there, so you go very nice.
Speaker 1: Okay, So at number ten, I do have Ash, like
Ash enough, but I gotta put him down there. Number
nine I got, I got Newt. I still like Nude
a lot. I like what she represents. I like the
little subplot they give her in there about her losing
the crew, and I think the child actress is doing
the best they can in the eighties, but like you know,
for back then, better than a lot of other ones.
So and I think it's the with the helpless singleorny
weaver that sells the connection. So I am someone that
does enjoy nude. I do like Bishop. I have Bishop
at eight. It was just a little high when I
heard where Taylor had him, but I do enjoy and
as hendricks anythink he does a great job. I think
unfortunately I wish he was used better in following movies,
but you know, nonetheless great here uh Seven I got
Hudson because yeah, Bill Paxson is just given. He's given
her man, he talked, he's the real comes the party
wants to play. That's that's Bill Paxson right there, and
then he busted the knife game. Not too great. Number
six I got Rain. I thought it was a top fiver,
but I have a maybe controversial pick in the second slot,
but I don't care because my list. But Rain great,
Kaylee Spainey. She would have been five if it wasn't
for Andy because David Johnson out of nowhere, like a
buzz saw just coming in. And these I think Rain
and Any could go up maybe by one, but that's
about it. The top three is solidified. Number four, I
got Shaw, another person. I wish we had more. I
wish it was like Ripley, where we had even at
least one more, because I would have loved to see
what she would do returning as that character. We were
robbed there, you know. Number two, this is where it's
my cheap. I don't really care. I'm putting the xenomorphin.
I'm putting and i'd say specifically it is a cheap,
but it's still a character, you know, specific one because
I think that one has the best. Yeah. Yeah, And
again that's just my fair because even Romulus, which I
love at times, still veers in two. Well, there's six
of them, and we've got a gun. We're taking them down.
I like that this isn't indestructible, but it takes a
lot to kill the ore around it, some of the thought,
and I just love the pacing of it. So that's
why specifically I always love the first alien big Chapches,
because I think it's more imposing, where as the franchise grew,
unfortunately they had to bring the Alien down a couple notches.
But yeah, I know it's a bit cheap, but I
just I love that character. I love anytime it's on screen.
I love the intentions, the design, everything, and then yes,
number one, Ripley even in some of the lower movies,
S and Gourney still brings it home, but specifically of
course Aliens and Alien one, especially Alien. She's great in that. Obviously,
start making performance, so right correctly, I want to give
us our best. Oh no he's not there, so no,
I'll take the best scenes because I'm talking right now.
This was actually tough because I had I probably could
have a top ten because I had lots I had
to cut, and there's ones that I would have done double.
I think the I only have one double. But this
was was a This was a tough one for me.
But so I have David's speech number five, that's when
he's talking with Holloway and it starts from him poisoning him.
They're talking about crazy and everything.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was an honorable mention for me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I just love that because like I love the
David character. I think I just said Dave was at three.
David to me is like the best, Like I'm fucking
dropping everything over here. David is like the best robot,
droid synthetic replication, like in any genre of that. To me,
David is the top. And I didn't even know in
this same scene I saw a screenshot of it. Did
you know on his finger? You can see the Whylan
Eutoni logo on David's finger. I never knew that. That's
very cool when I watch Prometheus, the movie that still
gives me stuff years later. But I just love because
that's why I love Promemetheus. It's this whole idea and
I'm somebody that loves that. I'm not religious pert, I
love the idea of what it means to people and
how can dictate things. And for me with this, and
I really like that conversation, and I just wanted something
David related. I don't have the C section scene. I
would have wanted it, but it's just because I love
Dave in that movie so much that to me was
the best representation of him. And Number four I got
the alien ending. I love the high intensity, I love
the space suit, everything like that. Number this one, Yeah,
I'm gonna do a last minute swap. I'm gonna go
Aliens finale in the third spot because I again I'm Aliens,
as I said, and on my top three. So I
don't absolutely love it. I more appreciate it. But the
whole you know, get away from her bitch, and you
have the suit and you have Ripley going to town
the alien and the fucking alien gets sucked up. But
it's still holding on like it's a good, good third
act finale. It's like, okay, if it is the action
oriented one, I don't lean to those, but it feels like, Okay,
I got my money's worth her, even though you know,
I've never paid for this movie because Disney Plus and
seen on TV. But it feels like, Okay, this is
a big, big set piece and this is where the
flip and I don't know why. I guess this is
my gut. I'm gonna put the Ramos acid gravity scene
at number two. I absolutely love that ending in Romulus
of Okay, they're coming hit the anti gravity, shoot all
them and the acids are okay. Now we got to
get across that. Really like cinematography. I love that everything
looks really good when obviously a lot of it is Cgi,
So yeah, that would be number two, and then number one.
I'm just going with the chess Burster because like it
kind of started all But I do love the build
up to that scene. I love that he's not okay
and then he's fine having dinner. I love the acting,
I love the score. It's a lot of the build
up with that, but it is just such a tone
setter for the rest of the movie. So Dave's speech,
Alien ending, ramost Or Sorry, Aliens finale, Battle Ramos, Acid Gravity,
and the chess Burster very nice.
Speaker 2: All go next here? Number five.
Speaker 3: That's where I have the original chess Burster sequence. I
don't know where I start and finish it, but I
think just for like the dinner scene, going into.
Speaker 2: Everything going on there, that's probably where I would would
Class five. That's just it's a classic. It's still very intense.
Number four.
Speaker 3: This is gonna be maybe controversial, and even this for
me because I hate Covenant so much, but I talked
about how I really liked the first sequence of that movie,
So I'm gonna go with that's the kind of like
the med based sequence when the guys locked up in
there and we're talking about the door and stuff, And
I know you guys didn't like the sequence, but even
just the stuff leading to that and all the miscommunication
that's happening between everyone, I just love the chaos and
the insanity of that sequence and it really stands up
for me.
Speaker 2: So that one.
Speaker 3: Number three another controversial one based on what's been talked
about in the last couple of weeks here, but I'm
going with the for me, my romulus scene that I'm
picking is, uh, it's just kind of like the baby
what do.
Speaker 1: We calling the baby offspring?
Speaker 3: That's the offspring ing the offspring sequence, like just when
you first see them, and like, I don't know how
Once again, it's kind of an extended sequence, but I
just love that whole situation of like the the ship
slowly tumbling down into the asteroid ring there, like all
of it's so intense. Yeah, it's goddamn that offspring is terrifying.
So that's my number three. Number two is where I
have the Prometheus C section sequence which got robbed in
the Golden Geeks there I'm not over it. And then
my last one here, once again a very extended sequence,
but I needed to represent it in some way, and
that is just the first time exploring LV four four seven,
when we go down into that beautiful alien establishment, like
it's just visually like the set that they designed for
it is unreal and it's.
Speaker 1: Just the ore going on and the school. Yeah, I almost.
Speaker 4: Put it into so.
Speaker 2: Intent. You don't. You don't know what's gonna happen next.
It's it's really beautiful and great. So there you go.
Speaker 4: I will take it. I will take the ring tip.
I forgot the line for a second, the rink to mortar.
Speaker 2: There you go.
Speaker 4: It's late night. Might be controversial, might not be.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I kind of hinted it earlier. All my top five
favorite scenes are from the first Elaien movie. They it
is just such a fire lad and every other movie
in my mind.
Speaker 2: I know, it's.
Speaker 3: Considering that all your characters were from the first. It's
not shocking.
Speaker 1: It's fine, but still so.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, I just thinking of some of these like
I was. I was really trying to dig between certain
moments of and like you know, if I really spent
hours comparing, I feel.
Speaker 2: Like you didn't spend hours comparing.
Speaker 4: I did not.
Speaker 1: I apologize, Well, you can wait on your list, and
you were going to do this a couple of weeks,
re record to Taylor.
Speaker 4: And then come back to me. I'll have to figure
out No. So number five I have I wrote Ripley's
last ditch effort, basically when she thinks she's gone, and
then uh, you know, we get the famous bush sequence.
There we go, thank you all. We get the famous
bush sequence, and like, I feel like the reason why
the scene is so important is because like how many
times in alien movies have we thought our characters out
and then an alien is on there and it's like,
how we're gonna get rid of it? Shoot off to space?
Like there's only like for me, there's only a reason
where the first one hits as good as it does.
It's because the first time it happens and you're just
really not expecting it on your first feeling, and like
I still remember that thought of just like shocked that
it's still on there, and it like instantly just got
the like speedy chess heart, like just the the weird
way to say that, just the adrenaline pumping from like
a like a scary moment, and yeah, it's just iconic
for me. Number four I have Brett's death. This is
where Yeah, Parker's buddy Brett dies and the only person
to witness it is actually Jonesy, And I just think
that's such a great decision because we still don't know
what the alien looks like up until this point, at
least like full detail, and it's just like even more
terrifying the idea of not knowing what it looks like
and just just horrendously ripped apart, especially since the last
time that we saw the alien, you know, it was
just like the size of a little gatorade bottle. So
uh yeah, no, I think it's a really really powerful sequence.
Number three, I have the chess burgser sequence. I don't
have to ritterate everything you guys said, but it's just
just a visual of like the like the face crawler,
and then we have him after the fact, just oh
he's fine, like he's out, but it's really not a
long time before he's really not. So uh yeah, I
love it. Number two kind of a meme pick, but
the more I thought about it, it's not even really
I have Dallas and the events.
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 4: Comedically for just Lambert freaking out you're going the road
not that way, and just like just how much she's
freaking out. But it's also like the first time we
actually see the alien, and I just think the actual
tension like take comedy out of it. It's not even
a comedic sequence. We just kind of made it by
by talking about it as at least for me. So
I just love the the tension of it's it's somewhere
there for our for our character, and we don't even
really know what it looks like until it's it's too
late and it just takes Dallas. So yeah, I love
that moment. And then my favorite alien movie moment of
all time sequence is the ash reveal when he starts
glitching out, and I love that it's not right away
like it's super obvious that he is an android. He's
like bleeding white blood, but like you don't really have
time to process what's going on because there's just a
lot of dialogue and intensity going on, and then he
just has like the superhuman strength and you're still like
a little puzzled until she just fucking knocks off his
head and it's just like really, this whole time, like
he was an android, and it's it's like the like
the Ripley's last ditch effort one that I wrote down
where it's just because it's the first time it's happened
in the series, it just hits so much harder, And
it's just one of the best moments because it's it's
a reveal that happens way later on every other Alien movie,
or yeah, every other Alien movie that's had androids. I
feel they make it super clear early on that the
android is an android. And it's a smart idea because
I don't think you could ever do it as well
as what the ash reveal was. So yeah, I think
that's the best moment in the Alien franchise. And stand by,
stand by my top five Alien moments. What's Dylan, what's
going on?
Speaker 3: Taylor's wakefulness statuses? Almost he almost dipped off the screen.
Speaker 4: There's chest Furst looking at look at that two and
a half hour mark.
Speaker 2: Oh no, long I'll be waiting for this.
Speaker 5: My five scenes, number five, Alien versus Predator Requiem, the
sewer scene when the Zenos are skulking through the ceiling
and they're just moving around and he wolves like Wolf's
moving through and you can hear the hisses and stuff,
and then just that whole scene when he roars and
the Aliens just start jumping through the halls and like
he's picking them both up. Oh it's fucking great that.
But on a more serious note, Number four, Alien Investigating
the DIRELCT.
Speaker 2: I really love this ship.
Speaker 5: Scene because it's just so it's so unexpected, Like you
don't know what you're getting in when you're watching this
movie and you don't know what's gonna pop up or
you gonna see something just attack them. You see a
fossilized alien humanoid, it's like, okay, that's one thing, but no,
then all of a sudden you see thousands of these
eggs and you get the face hugger attack scene. It's
just such a creepy setup with.
Speaker 2: A lot of tension, a lot of build ups.
Speaker 5: I really like that Alien Romulus the face hugger hallway scene,
when they were sneaking through and just the face huggers
are just sitting there. It's very uneasy knowing that one
and second these things could just jump on your face
and im pregnant. You just felt really really unsettling. I
really like that scene. It's kind of like a more
of an honorable mention because I wasn't sure if I
wanted to do that one or the other one when
they first broke out and they were running away from
the face huggers and you see the door trying to
shut but you see all the face hugger fingers like
through the door like and they break through. That was
just really uh that's aworable mention, but not as not
as close, but just not there with the face of
a Hallways scene. Another alien romulus though. Number two, the
Hallways scene with the zero gravity you mentioned this Travis,
with just the blood acid popping and just the sound
effects of that pulse rifle just beaming off sounded so good. Yeah,
It's just such a really really cool sequence with the
aliens just like charging her and she was executing them.
And my number one, this scene just it sticks with me.
I really fucking love it. It's from Aliens, and it's when
Nude is calling out to Ripley and she's in the
water and for that time, like I don't it just
blows my mind the way that alien just comes out
of the water and the score kicks in. Man, it's
fucking terrifying. It's so good.
Speaker 2: That just will always of all.
Speaker 5: The scenes I've seen, that one just always sticks in
the back of my mind. It's such a good scene.
Speaker 2: Nice.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, no, that's a good one. Let's go and
shut out. Well we've done it. We will in only
one day again talk about Alien at some point, whether
it's predator Alien, but we have finally done it, Romless.
You can check out that review we reviewed to Alien,
another retrospective and rankings in the books. Thank you everyone
that listened this episode, ever on that listened.
Speaker 5: Speaking of books, I got something here that Dylan shout
it out.
Speaker 1: This man's complaining two and a half hours and all right,
there you go.
Speaker 2: I have not read this book, so I don't know.
Speaker 5: Again, there's there's us in thirty alphabetical letters, so this
won't be too long. But A is for Alien. This
is an ABC children's book. Yet I haven't open Charvis.
They got Plant of the Apes, the original there too, I.
Speaker 1: Know I got I don't got apes. That's actually cool.
One we have something I can remember something.
Speaker 2: Let's do it. Let's speed run it. Oh I forgot
what do you?
Speaker 5: What do you guys think?
Speaker 2: A is for what's going to be Alien?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 2: You got it?
Speaker 7: It's for Alien has been for Zeno mooreph if A
is xenomore?
Speaker 2: Wow?
Speaker 4: Okay, so what do you think B is Bishop?
Speaker 2: My guess is Bishop Button? What come on kid's book?
Speaker 1: Kids, It's gonna be a lot of that. Yeah, it's for.
Speaker 2: Telling me is not chess Burster? Then considering no, but
I like that? Uh see Cat? Yeah good?
Speaker 3: I think j will be Cat the cat's name crew crew,
part of the ship. Okay, this is not expected book
to be like, but what do you got for d
I mean I was thinking, like David, I don't know
if there's Prometheus stuff in here, but now I'm thinking not.
Now that I've seen what these b's and c's are,
it's gonna be like drive or something.
Speaker 2: H D is Dallas. Actually, Okay, so we are we're
going back.
Speaker 4: Okay, we're doing that, not David. Uh what is E?
Speaker 2: Gotta be eggs? Right and egg?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I would go egg.
Speaker 1: It's egg?
Speaker 2: Hell? Yeah?
Speaker 5: What's f You might on the other page?
Speaker 1: I did not.
Speaker 7: There's just two people together fire face Hugger friends.
Speaker 5: You got it, Dylan, it is face Hugger.
Speaker 3: Okay, so they have some scary things in here, but
it's not it's not a scary version.
Speaker 2: I guess, uh G, what's I have no idea?
Speaker 3: What is going to be, uh, because it wouldn't be
like gun or something.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know. I'll do Dalton's pick, g is
for get away from her, you bitch, g is.
Speaker 2: Throw grow Okay, that's good, that's good.
Speaker 4: What's h.
Speaker 2: Help? It's always good to ask for help.
Speaker 4: I'll go Dylan's pick he's on a wrong.
Speaker 5: You got it? That's help?
Speaker 2: Really? Oh? Very good? Pick?
Speaker 4: That is that Brett they're showing bread just get sucked
up holding like some spilled.
Speaker 2: More than.
Speaker 1: Sorry. I didn't know anyone else.
Speaker 4: Also, this is where I come.
Speaker 5: How about I?
Speaker 2: You guys got I would love if it's isolation, but
it's probably not that mm hmm.
Speaker 1: Incubator.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's good.
Speaker 4: That's a good.
Speaker 5: Ah investigate all right?
Speaker 2: Yeah Jones Jones cat not correct? That counts you guys
got it? That's yeah, Jones?
Speaker 4: Nice?
Speaker 1: Uh what do we got?
Speaker 6: We got?
Speaker 2: K okay for Caine?
Speaker 4: Another character Caine? Good pick the original chests isn't that one?
Speaker 2: It's Caane?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Nice?
Speaker 5: They combined it so I won't show the page yet.
And what about l.
Speaker 4: L L the planet LV laboratory.
Speaker 2: That's a good one too. They don't really even lab
on board though, do they. I guess they kind of do.
Theyve a med base.
Speaker 5: It could be l is for Lambert Oh, top ten character, yeah,
top eleven character.
Speaker 2: How about m oh mother? Yeah, movie Alien is a movie.
I don't know mother, that's mother. Nice. How about n.
Speaker 1: It's going to be no right engineer with an ND
cat nice?
Speaker 4: Nice? Beautiful name about open?
Speaker 1: How about no Oh, I'm gonna go.
Speaker 2: Open, I'm gonna go cat threw me off? Okay, uh p.
We're doing characters A getting Parker could be Parker? Yeah?
Or planet maybe park Parker.
Speaker 4: It's got its band and everything.
Speaker 2: Nice.
Speaker 1: How about q.
Speaker 3: Cue because there's no queen in the first Alien and
this is like only first aliens.
Speaker 1: Yeah, try to think of a science thing that start
with a que quarter. I'm gonna say quarters. It's gonna
be like their quarters chambers.
Speaker 4: That's a good guess.
Speaker 2: Quarters.
Speaker 4: I like quarters.
Speaker 2: I think it's quiet, a quiet place they want, Yeah Jones.
Speaker 1: How about R rippling?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: What have you got to be the rippler?
Speaker 1: Rip rippler?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Bush and all.
Speaker 7: The cartoons in the cartoon.
Speaker 4: Like bake for like a kid's for like you like yeah.
Speaker 1: Snap scratch and sniff yez don't do that on that alright,
keep going.
Speaker 8: How about s scream.
Speaker 2: Stream?
Speaker 4: Maybe just space?
Speaker 1: It could be just space? Yeah, space.
Speaker 5: S is for secret ash the science offer knows one
or two?
Speaker 4: How about tea.
Speaker 1: And it's a picture of Tom Hanks from Claude Alice
saying it give us the Cloude Alice book.
Speaker 2: Or like maybe like a.
Speaker 1: Trap's good trap, or even terror because there's been like
secrets would be like Terror's gonna show care to be like, yeah,
transit with terror.
Speaker 2: That's a tricky one. Toilet, yeah, toilet.
Speaker 4: I like that.
Speaker 2: It is tracker. Okay, that's good. That's a good one.
Speaker 1: I like those ones.
Speaker 2: How about you?
Speaker 1: No, you tell us I don't want to play it you.
We tried that with space and we didn't get that.
So I wonder if they're going outside the ship.
Speaker 4: But what else could be? A you?
Speaker 7: You you utilities U V ray.
Speaker 4: That's good, you and me you debris?
Speaker 1: Okay, what is it we're looking at?
Speaker 5: Uh uh oh it's coming this way.
Speaker 4: Oh that's not the dictionary.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I better it was in the dictionary.
Speaker 4: Do you think so? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I think so.
Speaker 4: Yeah it is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's been around for quite a while.
Speaker 4: Ups alarm, dismay or realization of a difficulty return this book.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to return this book just I don't
like the U word. Can I get a book with
a different you word?
Speaker 3: Uh V?
Speaker 1: What do you guys got for V?
Speaker 2: Not a clue.
Speaker 7: V at this point?
Speaker 4: Vacuum.
Speaker 1: Vacuum is a good one.
Speaker 4: Okay, we'll go with that one.
Speaker 8: Then from close enough these last letters him.
Speaker 4: Yeah, sleeping?
Speaker 2: How about w whaling? When gotta be whalen.
Speaker 1: Watch out.
Speaker 2: This book in the second half.
Speaker 1: Yeah, return this and ask for double the money bag.
Speaker 3: I think, don't suggestion of Vendetta, just teaching kids about
Vendetta that be in there.
Speaker 5: How about x x more good folks smell You're right,
it'll be like zoy.
Speaker 1: The sounds Scooby Doo makes when he sees no more?
How about why is that just Youani?
Speaker 2: Deep cut?
Speaker 5: I think I don't think was mentioned at all in this.
Speaker 1: Okay, it's gonna be like.
Speaker 2: Uh ows, Yeah, I'll go with the houser as well.
You yay? The alien is gone?
Speaker 1: Okay, alright, alright, that's you.
Speaker 5: Remember you got to think like the story plot? This
book has been like hitting all like the story narrative.
Speaker 2: So what's he's going to be sleep. She goes to sleep.
Zz's easy.
Speaker 4: Fuck. You might be right, and I don't like that,
but Taylor my home, so I think I'm wrong. He's
got a face or he fell asleep.
Speaker 2: When it's getting more zoom, camera shows zooms away one
of those two.
Speaker 1: Oh that's a good one. Yeah zooms yeah.
Speaker 2: Final answers, Well, my final answer.
Speaker 6: Is easy's easy.
Speaker 2: I'm going to zoom.
Speaker 4: I will go zoinks ss uh.
Speaker 2: The answer is zzz.
Speaker 1: Oh my god.
Speaker 5: It's a good book, you know.
Speaker 2: I paid seven ninety nine.
Speaker 3: Seventy words, just a bunch of names and sounds.
Speaker 4: The future is fucked. That's the that's they're teaching people.
Speaker 1: Well, there you goes here, Joan, we've done it. That
is episode six point thirty one in the books. Thank
you very much for tuning in. We'll hear from you
next time. And that's the true, true, and at people
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