Episode 604 - "Aliens" (1986)

NARRATOR: “Welcome back to Reign of Terror 2019! 31 straight days of horror movie reviews and interviews. Today’s episode will guest star Greg and Mike of Top 5 for Fighting podcast, who will be reviewing the 1986 James Cameron power sequel, ‘Aliens’. A promo will run before the review.”

NARRATOR: “But for now, let’s turn our attention back to the fate of our host, Joseph, in Part Four of “COSMIC FARM HOUSE”.”

SCENE: Space station.

NARRATOR: “We last left Joseph running down a space station hallway, with the sounds of... oh, what did they sound like again?” 

NARRATOR: “Oh, that’s right. Like that.”

JOSEPH: “Don’t remind me.” 

NARRATOR: “The sounds were getting closer and closer, but they were no longer the only sounds.”

JOSEPH: “Other people!”

NARRATOR: “Joseph ran towards the voices, coming from an open door up ahead. The sounds behind him, of course, were getting even closer.”

NARRATOR: “He ducked into the room, slapping a button to close the door behind him, and ducking under a table. The other voices went quiet, and the sounds passed them in the hallway.”

JOSEPH: “What the hell is that?” 

GREG: “You don’t even want to know.” 

MIKE: “He clearly wants to know.” 

GREG: “But he doesn’t need to know, does he?” 

MIKE: “I think we all need to know, don’t we?”

NARRATOR: “They looked over at Joseph, who was noticing them for the first time, sitting next to a pile of futuristic looking weapons, freshly oiled and sitting next to a pile of ammunition.”

JOSEPH: “I just want to get off this stupid rocket.” 

GREG: “Rocket?”

MIKE: “We’re not on a rocket?”

JOSEPH: “But, the science officer...” 

GREG: “That guy sucks.” 

MIKE: “It’s one of the few things we agree on.”

JOSEPH: “Well, then where are we?”

GREG: “We’re on a mining colony across the galaxy.”

MIKE: “We’re in an underground maze somewhere on Earth.”

GREG: “That sounds ridiculous.”

MIKE: “Okay, Rocketman.”

JOSEPH: “I saw the rocket, though.” 

GREG: “Yeah, we all saw the rocket. Everyone sees the rocket.” 

MIKE: “But there can’t be that many rockets, right? So, instead of believing thousands of rockets have taken off, I’m thinking underground maze.” 

JOSEPH: “Thousands?” 

GREG: “He’s full of crap. Thousands? Maybe ten.”

MIKE: “Fine, but even ten rockets would be noticed.” 

JOSEPH: “Ten?”

GREG: “Yeah, we’ve met ten other people since we’ve been here.” 

MIKE: “Nine other people. We knew each other beforehand.”

GREG: “Whatever. Anyway, we’re staying put with the weapons. Figure it’s the safest place to be.”

MIKE: “It’d be safe off the ship.”

JOSEPH: “Will you two quit fighting?!”

GREG: “He started it.”

NARRATOR: “Joseph turned away from the two of them, and weighed his options. He could stay here, figure out how to use the weapons, and try to find safety in numbers. But he knew their constant bickering would eventually kill him. But he also knew they couldn’t be in space, unless they had invented artificial gravity as well. So, there had to be a way out.” 

JOSEPH: “All right, guys. I’m looking for the exit.”

MIKE: “Your funeral.” 

GREG: “Probably ours as well.” 

JOSEPH: “You mind if I take one of these guns?” 

MIKE: “Help yourself.”

NARRATOR: “Joseph picked one up, which felt almost weightless in his hand. He had never seen an alloy like this one before, although he was no metallurgist. He was just glad to have something to fight back with.” 

JOSEPH: “Good luck, guys!”

GREG: “Enjoy your death!”

MIKE: “Try not to make too much of a mess!”

NARRATOR: “Joseph left, sneaking down the hallway, padding quiet...”

JOSEPH: “Softly.”

NARRATOR: “Padding softly down the hallway, leaving the two men arguing with one another.”

GREG: “I bet he dies right away.”

MIKE: “I bet he dies before us.”

GREG: “I bet we’re wrong.” 

MIKE: “Game over, man!” 

GREG: “For once, we agree.”

NARRATOR: “Joseph continued running down the hallway, but now he was looking for the way out. And looking down at his dead cell phone, was also looking for a charger of some sort. Join us tomorrow for part five of “COSMIC FARM HOUSE”, when we’re joined by Dave Horrocks and Chris Phelps from the Comics in Motion Podcast for a review of the obligatory crossover film, ‘Alien vs. Predator’. And let’s see if Joseph can survive when we add another extra-terrestrial to the mix.” 

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GREG: “Today’s movie review is ‘Aliens’ (1986), directed by James Cameron and written by Cameron with David Giler and Walter Hill. 57 years after the events of 1979’s ‘Alien’, Lt. Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) is found by deep space salvage team. During a debriefing, Ripley learns that the moon that her ship the Nostromo visited by turned into a terraforming colony financed by the Weyland-Yutani Corporation, but contact has been lost. Ripley, along with a squad of battle-hardened space marines, and a Weyland-Yutani executive Carter Burke (Paul Reiser) and an android named Bishop (Lance Hendriksen) visit the colony to investigate. What they find is a lone human survivor, a nine-year-old girl named Newt (Carrie Henn). Should Ripley be concerned about discovering aliens or Burke’s ulterior motives for the mission?

Spoiler alert: it’s both!”

MIKE: “So, here’s gonna be our review of the movie ‘Aliens’, which we both recently watched to get to rewatch again. And let’s be honest, this movie that has rewatchability written all over it. Super fun movie. I think it does an exceptional job of building suspense with little to no music, basically in this movie, which just adds up to spookiness of waiting to see what’s going to happen or what’s making that noise in the dark hallway.”

GREG: “Typically, that noise in the dark hallway is significantly less scary than these aliens. Creature effects are outstanding. You will not find a better sequel to the original movie with the exception of maybe ‘The Empire Strikes Back’. It’s an age old story that the second one is never as good. That’s completely wrong in this situation. This movie is perfection from top to bottom. There’s very little character development, but you don’t need it. You’re given what they want you to deal with in the beginning of the movie. The acting, the dialogue, comic relief, provided by Bill Paxton, who plays Corporal Hudson. ‘You know what I think we should do. I think we should put her in charge, man.’” 

MIKE: “Yes, agreed.”

MIKE: “This movie does such a good job of building on what it basically gives you up in the beginning. And like you had just said, it doesn’t take itself too serious, or try to be anything that it’s not. It gives you the characters at the beginning, it lays out the summary of what needs to be done, what’s happened, why they’re going to investigate it, and like you had brought up, the effects in this movie, the alien itself, it’s not corny in any way. This is a scary movie monster, probably the scariest and best done. James Cameron is a legend when it comes to making movies, and this was earlier in his career, but this movie is... it’s so hard to find scary movies these days.”

GREG: “Yeah.”

MIKE: “I wouldn’t even say this is scary. This is tense. This is suspense, I think at its best.” 

GREG: “Yeah. I wouldn’t call it a horror movie, either. I would call it a science fiction movie.” 

MIKE: “I agree.”

GREG: “There’s very little blood. There’s not a lot of gore, other than alien blood. Paul Reiser steps out of his wheelhouse and plays a brilliant, smarmy corporate executive who...”

MIKE: “Villain. You call him a villain.”

GREG: “A villain that goes so far as to try and impregnate Ripley or Newt with one of the facehuggers so he could sneak them back through quarantine, because he wants an alien weapon that he can use for that.” 

GREG: “The characters in this movie have the perfect amount of action, the perfect amount of wit and quip, except for Henriksen, who plays the android Bishop to perfection. Perfection.”

MIKE: “Playing an android for Henriksen is right in his wheelhouse. He plays that so well. And what I like about this movie is the villain Paul Reiser, Burke. You really root for them. You root for the good guys, which is Ripley and Hicks and you just want to see Paul Reiser bite it, because he does such a good job of playing that, like you said, the scummy government worker, that just wants to weaponize it, which is a time old story in movies, but it’s very effective in the movie itself. It’s incredibly well done, and I highly recommend watching the director’s cut, because it gives you even more of the back story with Newt and her family, are in the director’s cut, which really adds a lot to story of why they find Newt alone.”

Rotten Tomatoes: 99% (CERTIFIED FRESH)

Metacritic: 84 (METACRITIC MUST SEE)

One Movie Punch: 10/10

MIKE: “’Aliens’ is available for streaming on Amazon Prime, iTunes, Google Play, YouTube, VUDU, and FandangoNow. It’s also available on DVD and Blu-Ray at amazon.com.”

NARRATOR: “Welcome back to Reign of Terror 2019! 31 straight days of horror movie reviews and interviews. Today’s episode will guest star Greg and Mike of Top 5 for Fighting podcast, who will be reviewing the 1986 James Cameron power sequel, ‘Aliens’. A promo will run before the review.”

NARRATOR: “But for now, let’s turn our attention back to the fate of our host, Joseph, in Part Four of “COSMIC FARM HOUSE”.”

SCENE: Space station.

NARRATOR: “We last left Joseph running down a space station hallway, with the sounds of... oh, what did they sound like again?” 

NARRATOR: “Oh, that’s right. Like that.”

JOSEPH: “Don’t remind me.” 

NARRATOR: “The sounds were getting closer and closer, but they were no longer the only sounds.”

JOSEPH: “Other people!”

NARRATOR: “Joseph ran towards the voices, coming from an open door up ahead. The sounds behind him, of course, were getting even closer.”

NARRATOR: “He ducked into the room, slapping a button to close the door behind him, and ducking under a table. The other voices went quiet, and the sounds passed them in the hallway.”

JOSEPH: “What the hell is that?” 

GREG: “You don’t even want to know.” 

MIKE: “He clearly wants to know.” 

GREG: “But he doesn’t need to know, does he?” 

MIKE: “I think we all need to know, don’t we?”

NARRATOR: “They looked over at Joseph, who was noticing them for the first time, sitting next to a pile of futuristic looking weapons, freshly oiled and sitting next to a pile of ammunition.”

JOSEPH: “I just want to get off this stupid rocket.” 

GREG: “Rocket?”

MIKE: “We’re not on a rocket?”

JOSEPH: “But, the science officer...” 

GREG: “That guy sucks.” 

MIKE: “It’s one of the few things we agree on.”

JOSEPH: “Well, then where are we?”

GREG: “We’re on a mining colony across the galaxy.”

MIKE: “We’re in an underground maze somewhere on Earth.”

GREG: “That sounds ridiculous.”

MIKE: “Okay, Rocketman.”

JOSEPH: “I saw the rocket, though.” 

GREG: “Yeah, we all saw the rocket. Everyone sees the rocket.” 

MIKE: “But there can’t be that many rockets, right? So, instead of believing thousands of rockets have taken off, I’m thinking underground maze.” 

JOSEPH: “Thousands?” 

GREG: “He’s full of crap. Thousands? Maybe ten.”

MIKE: “Fine, but even ten rockets would be noticed.” 

JOSEPH: “Ten?”

GREG: “Yeah, we’ve met ten other people since we’ve been here.” 

MIKE: “Nine other people. We knew each other beforehand.”

GREG: “Whatever. Anyway, we’re staying put with the weapons. Figure it’s the safest place to be.”

MIKE: “It’d be safe off the ship.”

JOSEPH: “Will you two quit fighting?!”

GREG: “He started it.”

NARRATOR: “Joseph turned away from the two of them, and weighed his options. He could stay here, figure out how to use the weapons, and try to find safety in numbers. But he knew their constant bickering would eventually kill him. But he also knew they couldn’t be in space, unless they had invented artificial gravity as well. So, there had to be a way out.” 

JOSEPH: “All right, guys. I’m looking for the exit.”

MIKE: “Your funeral.” 

GREG: “Probably ours as well.” 

JOSEPH: “You mind if I take one of these guns?” 

MIKE: “Help yourself.”

NARRATOR: “Joseph picked one up, which felt almost weightless in his hand. He had never seen an alloy like this one before, although he was no metallurgist. He was just glad to have something to fight back with.” 

JOSEPH: “Good luck, guys!”

GREG: “Enjoy your death!”

MIKE: “Try not to make too much of a mess!”

NARRATOR: “Joseph left, sneaking down the hallway, padding quiet...”

JOSEPH: “Softly.”

NARRATOR: “Padding softly down the hallway, leaving the two men arguing with one another.”

GREG: “I bet he dies right away.”

MIKE: “I bet he dies before us.”

GREG: “I bet we’re wrong.” 

MIKE: “Game over, man!” 

GREG: “For once, we agree.”

NARRATOR: “Joseph continued running down the hallway, but now he was looking for the way out. And looking down at his dead cell phone, was also looking for a charger of some sort. Join us tomorrow for part five of “COSMIC FARM HOUSE”, when we’re joined by Dave Horrocks and Chris Phelps from the Comics in Motion Podcast for a review of the obligatory crossover film, ‘Alien vs. Predator’. And let’s see if Joseph can survive when we add another extra-terrestrial to the mix.” 

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GREG: “Today’s movie review is ‘Aliens’ (1986), directed by James Cameron and written by Cameron with David Giler and Walter Hill. 57 years after the events of 1979’s ‘Alien’, Lt. Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) is found by deep space salvage team. During a debriefing, Ripley learns that the moon that her ship the Nostromo visited by turned into a terraforming colony financed by the Weyland-Yutani Corporation, but contact has been lost. Ripley, along with a squad of battle-hardened space marines, and a Weyland-Yutani executive Carter Burke (Paul Reiser) and an android named Bishop (Lance Hendriksen) visit the colony to investigate. What they find is a lone human survivor, a nine-year-old girl named Newt (Carrie Henn). Should Ripley be concerned about discovering aliens or Burke’s ulterior motives for the mission?

Spoiler alert: it’s both!”

MIKE: “So, here’s gonna be our review of the movie ‘Aliens’, which we both recently watched to get to rewatch again. And let’s be honest, this movie that has rewatchability written all over it. Super fun movie. I think it does an exceptional job of building suspense with little to no music, basically in this movie, which just adds up to spookiness of waiting to see what’s going to happen or what’s making that noise in the dark hallway.”

GREG: “Typically, that noise in the dark hallway is significantly less scary than these aliens. Creature effects are outstanding. You will not find a better sequel to the original movie with the exception of maybe ‘The Empire Strikes Back’. It’s an age old story that the second one is never as good. That’s completely wrong in this situation. This movie is perfection from top to bottom. There’s very little character development, but you don’t need it. You’re given what they want you to deal with in the beginning of the movie. The acting, the dialogue, comic relief, provided by Bill Paxton, who plays Corporal Hudson. ‘You know what I think we should do. I think we should put her in charge, man.’” 

MIKE: “Yes, agreed.”

MIKE: “This movie does such a good job of building on what it basically gives you up in the beginning. And like you had just said, it doesn’t take itself too serious, or try to be anything that it’s not. It gives you the characters at the beginning, it lays out the summary of what needs to be done, what’s happened, why they’re going to investigate it, and like you had brought up, the effects in this movie, the alien itself, it’s not corny in any way. This is a scary movie monster, probably the scariest and best done. James Cameron is a legend when it comes to making movies, and this was earlier in his career, but this movie is... it’s so hard to find scary movies these days.”

GREG: “Yeah.”

MIKE: “I wouldn’t even say this is scary. This is tense. This is suspense, I think at its best.” 

GREG: “Yeah. I wouldn’t call it a horror movie, either. I would call it a science fiction movie.” 

MIKE: “I agree.”

GREG: “There’s very little blood. There’s not a lot of gore, other than alien blood. Paul Reiser steps out of his wheelhouse and plays a brilliant, smarmy corporate executive who...”

MIKE: “Villain. You call him a villain.” GREG: “A villain that goes so far as to try and impregnate Ripley or Newt with one of the facehuggers so he could sneak them back through quarantine, because he wants an alien weapon that he can use for that.” 

GREG: “The characters in this movie have the perfect amount of action, the perfect amount of wit and quip, except for Henriksen, who plays the android Bishop to perfection. Perfection.”

MIKE: “Playing an android for Henriksen is right in his wheelhouse. He plays that so well. And what I like about this movie is the villain Paul Reiser, Burke. You really root for them. You root for the good guys, which is Ripley and Hicks and you just want to see Paul Reiser bite it, because he does such a good job of playing that, like you said, the scummy government worker, that just wants to weaponize it, which is a time old story in movies, but it’s very effective in the movie itself. It’s incredibly well done, and I highly recommend watching the director’s cut, because it gives you even more of the back story with Newt and her family, are in the director’s cut, which really adds a lot to story of why they find Newt alone.”

Rotten Tomatoes: 99% (CERTIFIED FRESH)

Metacritic: 84 (METACRITIC MUST SEE)

One Movie Punch: 10/10

MIKE: “’Aliens’ is available for streaming on Amazon Prime, iTunes, Google Play, YouTube, VUDU, and FandangoNow. It’s also available on DVD and Blu-Ray at amazon.com.”