What's the most important thing for a person to know?
The most important thing is to be able to communicate with people.
How do you communicate with people?
What's the most important thing for a person to know?
We're gonna start with Mike, because he plays solo, dolo, and you're probably the first to play the vape.
What's the most important thing for a person to know?
I've watched Aliens
Aliens with the s baby
Is it the classic-
Because when I think of aliens, I don't know if I ever watched the first alien.
Is that the one that it's like the, is that the first time we see the dude, the alien pop out of the guy's stomach?
We do see that, but I don't know if it's the first time.
It's in the first one.
I watched the first one recently.
Okay, and that is in there?
Yeah.
This one has a little girl though.
Oh.
You have to talk to me.
They have that dog, like, who's in the aliens.
And that's the, like, the dude there versus the alien.
Where everything else, the face huggers, the exploded jets, I don't have one.
Right.
So when you say the dog thing, what do you mean by that?
It looks like an alien dog.
I believe that's the second one.
No.
No, that's the third one then.
That's the third one.
Oh, okay.
They all are pretty much the same.
But yeah, they're all, yeah, there's not a lot of, except for two I think has a lot of
differences because of the rescue story involved with the little girl.
So also that there's multiple, many aliens now.
And there's many aliens and there's also many, like there's the group of Marines that she's
going back to the planet with.
So it opens, them finding her 57 years later.
Okay.
So she's, is she asleep?
She's in cryo sleep.
And they find her and they take her back and she's like, fuck you, I'm not going back.
When they, when they tell her that the planet's being, well, they don't know that it's being
overrun at the time.
We've lost contact with the moon base that she was on before.
And she's like, fuck you, no, I'm not going, we want you to go back as an observer.
She's like, no, fuck you, I'm not going back.
Which to me is the natural reaction to that.
They want to go back to the planet that they initially.
So in the first alien movie then is it that Ellen Ripley and crew go to a planet to investigate
it for some reason or go check it out or whatever.
And then they bring aboard an alien.
Yeah.
Unbeknownst to them and everything gets fucked up.
And so she, I guess maybe defeats the alien, puts herself in cryo sleep just to see what's
up and then they find her ship, find her cryo sleep.
Right.
That's how.
And then I think alien three or resurrection, isn't it like a Ellen Ripley clone that comes
into play at some point?
I think that is resurrection.
That's resurrection.
Okay.
So that throws me off.
Is it the, is, is, is, is she waking up from cryo sleep or is she a clone is always what
I'm thinking in my head when I'm thinking about this one.
This one, she's just woke up from cryo sleep.
She's kind of upset because then she finds, you know, she, she was trying to get back
to see her daughter originally, if you remember, it would have been 11, but there's other daughter
died when she was like 72 or something.
And she, Ellen would be like 85 right now in real 88 or something in real life.
But she, the cryo sleep makes her not.
But the daughter died when the daughter was old age.
Yes.
So the daughter lived to old age hood and died.
Without mom because mom was on the ship somewhere.
So it was a real interstellar kind of vibe.
Yeah.
Cause that's, I mean, I've always thought that is the only way that I will accept time
travel as a premise is if we ever get cryo freezing as a, as a, and we can only try
and travel forward.
That's the only way that time travel exists is traveling forward.
You can't go back in time, but you can absolutely time travel forward with your present physical
body, if we ever perfected cryogenic freezing to the point where we could slow someone
down in cryo stasis, like they do for ships like that.
Cause if you could keep someone asleep for 100 years and bring their body back to boom,
they, they did.
I know that's what people want, but like, yeah, that's time travel.
Yeah.
It's crazy.
Now, and watching this made me wish that we had some video that we can actually show,
if that makes sense, because this is a fantastic movie.
Okay, when I get to my room and tell you how fantastic is, but watching it from a critical
standpoint, holy crap, there's some bad stuff.
There is like, there are space shots that I wish I could show right now.
There are shots of outer space stuff that are worse than star Trek from the sixties,
like obvious models in front of the green screens.
Really, really bad space trucker wires.
Yeah, like that bad as bad as space truckers, the space shots are.
However, the interior shots are beautiful.
Perfect.
Everything's great.
The attention to details amazing on all the interior stuff, but it's like they went in
later.
They have HR Geiger do like all the interior stuff is amazing.
But the, I mean, it's so amazing.
Like the eggs is one of the eggs in the Smithsonian from, so it's, it's amazing.
Anyway, the, the story is basically they, they go back.
It's all abandoned.
All these Marines get killed.
Obviously that go back with her.
It's pretty much standard alien fare from then on standard alien procedure, standard
alien procedure, alien fucks everybody up, but Ripley and the little girl and one guy.
It's amazing.
That's the one where she fights them, fights the alien in the suit, right?
She gets this.
Okay.
That's what I wrote in there.
She's got a good job on something.
The mech suit thing and the mech suit they bring in in the beginning of the movie show
that she knows how to do it while they're like getting ready and stuff.
Future forklift.
And then it gets futuristic forklift is what it is.
It's so cool.
It's, it's the, it's, and she fucks that alien up with it.
It's the grandfather of whatever the general uses in Avatar.
The first Avatar movie.
It's like the prototype of what that thing became.
Yeah.
Back to the space stuff, there's the space shots are so bad.
There's one where there's like, they're flying into a planet and there's clouds and you literally
see the ship and you can see the it's like, it's so bad.
They drop, they drop the big drop ship out and, and it drops so fast.
Like there's gravity in space.
It's there's just the out, all the outside spaceship is horrible.
Every interior shot is one of the most beautiful shots ever.
Cause the interior is so weird.
I'll say they fixed that for ours because ours was shot in 2017.
So the outside space shots are fucking awesome.
Yeah.
I mean, what can you do in 1980?
Exactly.
It's just the time.
That's it was 70s or 80s.
It's definitely 86 86.
So what was the first one that 80 probably like 82, some more in there.
I'm guessing.
Yeah.
But anyway, it's just the space shots are just horrible.
Other than that, great movie ends up.
She saves a little girl, of course.
Everything happens like it's supposed to.
I don't want to go the whole thing away.
Just watch it.
It's where it's, it's the best aliens movie there is and probably the best, I would say
space monsters movie.
Is there an Android?
Yes.
Is it the ninth game?
The hand?
That's from this one.
Yeah.
Is this game over?
Game over.
Okay.
So then this one, this one I've seen then as a kid and maybe as a teen, but watching
again, it's really good.
A couple of things.
It's like I said about the drop two, it's all space.
I have no complaints about this movie other than the outer space shots.
Everything else is amazing.
It's a little slow building.
I would say that we don't get our first alien till one hour in.
It's one hour in and before that's a lot of space shots.
I think that's the, with alien, with this franchise in particular, I think you have
to follow the rule of Jaws where it's you have to wait, you have to set up the creepy
stuff.
You have to like give it time to breathe because when you finally show the alien, even though
the design of the alien is terrifying, if you saw one in real life, it would scare the
shit out of you and they've added it to Dead by Daylight, they added the xenomorph, which
is what they're called, right?
They, turns out that's what they call them in rare spots on here, but not because that's
what they're called.
We do not know the name of the alien species.
Well, xenomorph is a term for any space alien.
You don't know what it is.
Yes, except we, as the, as in like the, the humans call that particular species, like
because we don't know what it's called, they're called just xenomorphs.
We don't, sorry, we, sorry, we the viewers call them xenomorphs.
That's the name of the alien from, in canon for our perspective.
Just like Predator, the particular clan that we follow, I think is the Yatcha.
I don't know if the entire species is called the Yatcha or if that's just his particular
clan, but they're not called predators on the planet, right?
If a movie came out, if another movie, another series came out with an unnamed alien, it
would also be a xenomorph.
That's my whole, that's all I'm saying.
It's not, they're not xenomorphs.
A xenomorph is a specific name given to anything without a name.
Sure.
I, I mean, I, I, I get what you're saying.
Yeah.
It's just like we would call, uh, uh, it's just the only word we have to use for, because
they didn't give us one.
Yeah.
Uh, and then that's why people can be xenophobic and stuff.
Right.
Like afraid of, uh, aliens, whatever, uh, or afraid of, I think other things do, maybe
just outside cultures, to be honest.
Yeah.
A couple of things about attention to detail.
One thing Ripley cannot drive worth a damn.
Let's start with that.
Women, am I right?
Women drivers, right?
Um, there I'll say it.
Uh, space gravity I talked about, uh, oh, I love the Batmobile looking troop transport
they have.
It's so cool.
It looks like the, well here I have a, I don't, which, I don't really know.
It just reminds me of Batmobile.
The Tumbler.
Yeah, from the Dark Knight series.
And the other thing we were watching, and also the, the place they go on the planet,
that, that, uh, terraformer place that's all mostly underground, it looks like, um, reminded
me a lot of, uh, other movies, but I don't know what it was.
You mean other movies reminded you of aliens?
Well, yeah, at that point.
Because that's probably what it was.
Yes.
It looked like Raccoon City.
Okay.
Yeah.
Interesting.
No, no.
I'm talking about the actual underground thing that they're in most of the movie.
Are you thinking of Raccoon City or are you thinking of the, um, like Alice's, like the
under, are you talking about the, um, Umbrella Corp?
Yes.
The Umbrella Corp Science Lab is what you're talking about.
Yeah, that's underground in Raccoon City.
Yeah.
Because the games are so expansive.
When you say Raccoon City, I'm thinking of the streets of Raccoon City.
Oh, I'm not talking about the movies.
I'm not talking about in the movies.
And it might be the same place, honestly, that they use.
Because when you said the streets of Raccoon City.
Because it's someplace in London, I guess.
Where they film?
Yeah, where they filmed is in London somewhere.
So it could just be the same place.
So it's got very much Umbrella Corp vibe.
Yeah, as far as when they're fighting.
Which is Wayland Corp, which is the, right?
Wayland Corp is the people that made it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Because it is Corp.
You're right, because you don't really think about that.
But in the future, like the way they have it set up, it's mostly corporate.
It's like Elon Musk's deal or whatever.
It's like a corporation, not so much.
In our movie, which is a sequel to the prequel Prometheus, where we, in Prometheus, you
find out how the aliens got out here and shit.
This follows up on that, which I did, the one that we watched.
But Guy Pearce plays Wayland.
And Wayland is the guy that set off all these, he owns the corporate, he's the super rich
guy that does all the shit.
Who created the androids and stuff.
So he's playing Elon Musk.
He's Wayland.
Wayland.
Yeah, he's Elon Musk.
Yeah, Wayland Musk.
Yeah, perfect.
The only other thing I'll say, attention to detail, great.
I mean, little things.
My wife actually pointed this one out, which this is a little thing that, I don't even
know if I want to say what it is, but I guess I have to.
When Ripley wakes up from her crowd sleep, both times, there's twice she wakes up, she's
wearing the same gray tank top and panties or whatever.
Both times she wakes up from crowd sleep, gigantic bush that they make sure to ship.
It's that kind of attention to detail is what my wife said.
My wife's like, what the fuck, they never do that.
They made it obvious, the men weren't shady.
You could tell the, you know what I'm saying, all the things that would happen to you in
crowd sleep.
One dude had blood coming out of his head.
It was just interesting how attention to detail, things like that were juxtaposed to the horrible
space shot, but that's just technology at that time.
Because they could do all this interior stuff so well, it stands out as better than other
movies as far as those things go.
How did the alien look?
Amazing.
No, amazing.
It was amazing.
Do you think they spent all the money on adding Bush?
I don't know.
I do not know.
She refused to grow Bush herself.
I'm assuming she, yeah, I don't think that's what happened.
I'm sure she did herself.
No, actually, that's an interesting question.
It is a good question, but I wouldn't want to ask you.
Do you think she grew the Bush herself?
I do, just because I think that's the kind of actress she was in.
Well, did they show her with no Bush before she went into cryo?
That's what the people want to see.
Ripley, stick this in your pants.
But they were, no, we're talking coming out the sides.
We're talking like it was like out the side.
So the panty was on.
Yeah, panty was on.
And they just showed full Bush just escaping the panty.
Escaping the sides, yeah.
Yeah, they, the budget, they.
First of all, they weren't going for an X-ray or an NC-17.
Miss Weaver, we're going to need you to go back to the X.
Just really go all natural for the next year.
And she's like, what do you mean by that?
I can't do that.
All right.
And then he pulls the sleeve off the boom mic and here, shove that in there.
But that's the kind of attention to detail that went to everything in this movie.
You could tell everything in this movie was that kind of attention to detail.
I gave it a rating of.
Stop thinking about her Bush mic.
I'm sorry.
Can we, can we get that on screen, please?
Rating of five acid drooling space nightmares.
Acid drooling space nightmares.
All right.
Five of them.
It's probably the.
You said five out of five.
Five out of five.
All right.
Fuck yeah.
Austin, do you, oh wait, you also watch this Brennan C.
I didn't finish it though.
I've seen all of them and I love all of them.
And it's funny.
What's the one where she goes on the prison plan?
Is that Resurrection or three?
Three.
Three, Resurrection, which is also, which was another one I was debating on.
I was debating on two, three, and then Alien Covenant.
And the one I, was it four?
Oh, okay.
Which one's three?
Wait, three is.
That's the prison planet, right?
Okay.
That was three.
So it was two, three, and then of course Covenant.
Covenant was great.
But I got about 20 minutes into Aliens and my five year old woke up and.
Well, I started at two, you know, I was like, hey, come sit down and watch this movie with
me.
And he started crying.
It was too scary and stuff.
So I had to turn it off.
No, but reality, I turned it off as soon as he got up.
Just so people don't think I'm a bad parent.
But no, Aliens is, it's great.
It's the only one out of the franchise that I would say feels more like an action movie.
And it's a lot of fun.
It's Space Marines, you know, it's kind of what you kind of get playing Halo.
I am trying to find the push.
Is it this scene?
Just Google the image.
It's out there.
Just why are you looking up on YouTube like a prude?
All right, I'll just Google it.
Okay, I'm so sorry.
Continue.
But no, there we go.
Yeah, get the guy out of the way.
Is this it?
Yeah.
Although I think that just might have been just her.
It's like it was the 80s.
So what are we doing?
I don't feel comfortable.
I mean, it's the 80s, but they weren't quite there yet where they started, you know, trimming
things up.
It was a fun bit while it lasted.
It was fun.
Yeah.
Okay, so continue.
Yeah, I loved the movie.
I would give it a five out of five as well.
That one and Covenant are probably my two favorite out of the whole Aliens.
Which one did you choose?
Covenant?
Aliens.
Yeah.
Oh, you said Covenant is your other favorite?
Yeah.
Well, guess what, Brendan?
That's what you guys watched.
The movie that Austin and I picked over here was Alien Covenant.
So we picked the best movie guy.
The best Alien movie.
Prometheus was probably my favorite one.
And I didn't know Covenant was a sequel to that.
I just found that out like a week ago.
And then we did this episode.
So I'm like, fuck yeah.
And yeah, it ends.
You can't describe Covenant without explaining Prometheus.
And it's just, okay, the ship with the crew shows up to a planet and then an alien movie
happens.
And then it ends with our main character with David, the Synthetic's head.
And they get into the alien spaceship and they take off.
It's like, oh, wow, that's so cool.
I hope everything winds up okay.
You know, a couple of things you need to know.
First off, the Synthetic is, because he's really, really blowing past some things.
David is played by Michael Fassbender, Magneto from The Noob.
The crew is amazing.
He's so good at it.
And David is British, which is important.
He keeps his natural British accent, Michael Fassbender.
He was created by Weyland specifically as his, like you see in the sequel.
Weyland-Elon, right?
Yeah, Weyland.
Weyland most.
So Weyland, but the editor, Weyland Corp.
He's created by that guy, Guy Pearce.
Not in his image because they're different guys, but he creates them to be like the perfect
android.
And this is, but you got to think about this.
This is a prequel to your movie.
So the androids that you deal with are better androids.
Now that I think about it, I think they talk about a previous version that fucked something
up.
But it might not be this...
Because, well, he's, he, Guy, or Michael Fassbender is kind of playing more like the android from
the first Alien.
Kind of, you know, slightly malfunctioned in a way.
Yeah, he's a, yeah.
So in Prometheus, you find out that there was a planet, there was an alien group called
the Engineers, and they're the ones that initially encountered the Xenomorphs, as we know them.
And they, it wiped them out.
And so they fucking bounced and found a new planet to land on and to settle.
And that's where the crew from Prometheus are, like them, they crash on that planet where
the Engineers had found new life.
But the Engineers were gone and wiped out.
And instead, there's a bunch of eggs and shit from Xenomorphs.
And then David gets a wild idea, like, I'm gonna, you know, build Cosby, this person,
and let's see what happens.
Yeah, he gets, yeah, he thinks creation, because, because Waylon really puts into his mind how
important creation is.
And so he, it's almost like he's creating life by letting these Xenomorphs live.
And so he does that.
You get an aliens movie at that point, and then she leaves, she fucks off with his head.
Yep.
And it's all happy, like, wow, look at them, they're gonna go explore, and it's left to
your own interpretation, I'm sure it's all gonna turn out great.
And nope.
And that's it.
And then we never get another movie, except we get the, the sequel, which is what we're
talking about today.
So the sequel to Prometheus is now we have a new ship, the Covenant.
And the Covenant is a giant generational colony ship.
There's thousands, there's 2,000 colonists in cryosleep, and then there's a bunch of
embryos that they're bringing, okay?
It's piloted by Danny McBride.
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
He plays a, he, yeah, and as soon as I saw that in the credits, I was like, Danny McBride,
let's go!
Yeah.
So our, we won't break it down beat by beat, but the opening is important because it's
Waylon and David, so he creates this android, and he wakes him up for the first time, and
the guy's like, oh, hello, and it's like, so, what are you?
He's like, I'm a sophisticated android.
It's like, cool, stand up, walk around.
Gets up, does that, he's like, cool, this is going great.
And he goes, what's your name?
So Guy Pearce asks the android, what's your name?
And the android walks up to a giant statue of David that's in the middle of this guy's
head, and he looks at it, and he goes, David.
And so he calls himself David.
So like, I don't know if he actually named himself David, or if Waylon actually put
it in his programming to name himself David, but like, that's just an interesting part
of it, I think.
Well, he's made with like, the ability to create, he had a lot more free will.
Yeah, and you see that later on when we find out.
So what happened was, she, after they, so, when they left after Prometheus, her and
the head.
Clown?
No.
No, it's not Clown.
This is, again, no, no, no, no Ripley.
This is a prequel.
This is like a hundred years, maybe 50 years before, who knows.
So this is, Ripley hasn't done anything yet.
She's still a baby, probably.
Not even born yet.
So this, I don't know what the timeline is.
Maybe she's 20.
This is 2104, I think, is when Covenant was.
So I don't know when Aliens takes place, but if, so there's math you could do.
Maybe it's 10 years later, I don't know.
But when she, the main character from Prometheus, which is Prometheus Girl, when her and the
head, David, leave the planet and that ship, just the head, they find another suitable,
like habitable planet and they land there with the Prometheus ship, with the one that
they stole, not stole, but used from the engineers, like a giant ship, right?
And they crash land on this planet.
We don't see this in the movie.
We now are just watching the Covenant crew as they're heading to another planet that
they had scouted out before.
They're there with a bunch of generational stuff, everything's gone fine, except when
David, sorry, they have, they have, what's his name?
They have Walter.
And Walter is Michael Fassbender as another android with an American accent and he's a
little bit taller than Michael, than the other, than David is.
And they took away his creativity too.
And they took away his creativity.
He's a great android.
He's more what you get in your movies, where it's emotionless, no like, but in the first
Alien movie, it's right, like he's malfunctioned a little bit, right?
So a little bit of parallel.
So yeah, they, so he's just running the ship while they're all in cryo sleep and he sets
out these really cool like solar flares or solar sails.
Like I think it's one of the cooler, like visually one of the cooler things.
It's like these big golden sails that like it gets put up to like take the, to recharge
the ship or whatever, but they get hit by unexpected blast of like radiation or whatever
the fuck it wakes everybody up.
One dude dies in maybe the most horrific way I've seen in a movie so far.
Yeah, this is the second worst cryogenic death.
You think the second worst, I know you're talking about Pandora.
Pandora, the guy just wakes up and just getting eaten, stabbed in the top of the head.
This dude, at least it looks like he slept through it, but like, no, he's freaking out
in there getting cremated.
Yeah.
So right after he woke up, it just starts super heating the inside of the, the inside
there and then just lights on fire and just pre-mates those damn Tesla batteries.
Wives watching them the whole time.
Those waylon, waylon x Tesla batteries.
And the wife's just smashing like on top of the world.
No, no, like, like watching him die.
Fuck it.
Brutal.
Like, spouses just be dying in this movie, dude.
Like a lot.
It's a point too, because like later on when one of the chicks dies and then like the pilot,
what's the name again?
Tennessee.
Yeah, Tennessee.
What's his name?
Danny McBride.
Oh, but Tennessee in the movie.
So Tennessee, yeah, he has to learn that his wife died.
Like the captain, he loses his wife.
It's fucked up that they make a point of showing all of these couples.
But I think that's the point, because it's a generational colony ship.
That's what I was going to say is it's actually a smart way to do space travel.
You think about as couples because the time frames involved, you can't leave your wife
back at home.
Well, yeah, you'd have to.
Yeah.
And also you want to go there with the intention of breeding.
So like having more kids or whatever.
But I think actually the best way to do that would be like sort of a, not like an origin.
I don't want to like that concept, but more of like an open and open to just mix everybody's
call it swingers and swingers.
Yeah, let's just do swingers in space.
We saw it was called space truckers.
It's where it's where BAFTA award winning actor Charles Dance had to rev up his fucking
gas powered dick to rape a woman that looks a lot like the chick for waterboy.
That's been in your head since Monday.
That's been in my head since we reviewed that movie.
But specifically when we were because here's the thing, Austin.
Here's the thing, Austin.
The rehash that I'm doing with Brandon is Game of Thrones.
And who's one of the main, main, main antagonists in Game of Thrones?
It's BAFTA award winning Charles Dance, who at one point used a gas powered dick to try
to rape Vicky Valentine for waterboy.
So that comes up a lot, doesn't it?
He's butchering a boar, but I can't stop thinking about it.
It's just robot dick.
Oh, Jesus Christ.
Can we get him on the show, please?
I would love to.
Can we get an email or a letter?
If he'll do space truckers, I'm sure he'll do it's like his space truckers.
Game of Thrones.
He's sitting in a giant room.
He's sitting in a giant room alone.
There's a fireplace.
All his BAFTA awards are up there.
Picture him being knighted and shit.
And then like still space truckers.
And then a guy comes in with like a silver platter and he lifts the cover up and it's
a letter.
No, no, no.
Oh, they want me to be in a movie called Space Truckers.
You are going to crank your robot dick and try to rape it.
Okay, yes.
So why not?
Sounds like a challenging role.
How does this sound?
He quit Game of Thrones so he can do space truckers.
He's in the middle of it's season.
It's season seven of Game of Thrones, right?
When still everything's good and right before it gets bad.
And then Charles Dance is just like, you know what?
They just announced Space Truckers 2 and 3.
We're going to make it a space truckers trilogy.
Space Truckers 2, the raping.
I get 90% more rape time on screen.
But you know what?
To be, I was going to say, is it rape if she offered, but it was a coerced offer.
So it is a rape.
Yeah, probably.
I'm just going to go ahead and say yeah and not get myself canceled.
Yeah, sure.
I'm just going to say yeah, anytime there's a robot dick involved, it's rape.
If you have the question if it's rape, it's rape.
It's rape, yeah.
You know what I'm glad?
I think it's even rape if you say, I'll give you a million dollars if we fuck and then
you totally don't give her a million dollars power move, but also rape.
Yeah, who do you even call customer service wise for that?
Hey.
And that was our is it rape?
That's our is it rape?
Or is it prostitution?
Is it prostitution?
So we, okay, so the graphics of this are amazing.
I also, here's a gripe, okay?
In the alien, aliens, aliens three resurrection, all that stuff is very, very clear representation
of retrofuturism.
The specific retrofuturism.
I didn't get a lot of that.
I know.
Is analog retrofuturism.
So they in this one have big clunky cassettes that they have to put into stuff.
They have to close it down.
It's green DOS screens with clunky keys.
And that's a very specific analog aesthetic because this was made in the 80s and they
weren't thinking about streaming.
They weren't thinking about touch screens as much.
So they did it to the best of their ability, what they thought 21 whatever would be.
So in our movie, which is a prequel, God knows how long the technology is way better.
So like the cryogen, for instance, it's like he literally just puts his handprint on and
you see full touch screen capability as it's like reading and you see the LED, like the
screen effects that we get, you know, now in every movie, like it looked like avatar
as opposed to a prequel to aliens.
So like, we all look, it sounds like someone was coming in.
I was like, we're not expecting anybody.
So that's that's a gripe I have because I've always thought that the retrofuturism of aliens
has always been awesome.
I like that.
I like the beeps and the in the clunks.
It's very Star Trek where it's it's like you don't know what anything does, but you know
that there's buttons that do certain shit.
You know that like you have to physically move a thing down if you want to like restart
the electricity.
That's actually a good example of what it feels like is Star Trek.
If you go watch the Star Trek movies, the Star Trek with the Shatner movies, Aliens
feels a lot like those.
Yeah, because it's the same.
So it's it's practical space ships.
So we have practical effects versus VFX.
So it's practical space travel versus VFX space travel.
The only thing they really did predict accurately was basically AI because they're like mother,
you know, you do the same thing like, hey, Google.
And then, you know, I did write down that Waylon or Waylon is better at controlling
his AI than I am.
And I was trying to learn tips.
But you know, the cool thing is those those Amazon, those pucks, whatever the dialects
is, is you can you can change its name to whatever you want.
So if you really like alien, like you could have it, you could call it mother if you wanted
to mother, you know, play play.
You can do all sorts of mother initiate power sequence and then just have it turn on all
your lights and your TV and shit.
Oh, I had my my old apartment was just completely smart home now.
Every bulb, everything had a smart plug.
Every bulb was like a multicolor changing thing.
So I would see I'd be like Google intruder alert and then all the lights would turn
red and it would play black metal.
Someone's breaking into my apartment.
That's dope.
So Bert, Fastbender is very good in his role.
He like and you see it especially when they when they crash on it when they so they they
hear a distress call and it's a girl singing.
It's the main character from the Prometheus movie.
We don't know this at the time, but it's statically they pick up a call and she's singing Country
Road, Take Me Home and they pick it up and what's his name?
Tennessee.
I like it.
Just call him Red.
Fuck.
That's how you.
Yeah.
So Red or Tennessee.
He also James Franco's in this movie.
Yes.
Now.
OK.
One minute.
They he's the one that burned a lot.
Oh, was that him?
Yeah.
Oh, OK.
Yeah.
So I thought she I thought when she looked at the little tablet, it's like a message
from back home or something.
I'm like, I guess they cry out.
No, no, no, because he was the captain.
So James Franco was the captain.
He died.
So the co-captain, the religious guy becomes the captain.
That's the whole point of like in the beginning where it's like you're captain now, buddy.
Is that right?
The prime of him getting canceled is that they're like, oh, fuck, James Franco did a bad thing.
We got to burn him up in his cry.
Yeah.
No, but it's actually really weird because then at the end or like towards the end, you
see a picture of the whole crew before all the shit goes down.
And James Franco's right in the middle as the captain.
And he has a blanket over him.
And everyone's just kind of like it's supposed to look like relaxed or whatever.
Like that's one of those weird things that actors do that I've never been a fan of.
I've been around actors, not like Hollywood actors or whatever, but like in the theater
department.
So it's like just one of those things where they just put like a little blanket around
themselves and like get a cup of coffee and they'll make themselves comfy or whatever.
But like anywhere it's like there's a there's a time and a fucking place to get comfy with
a blanket and a coffee and like all that.
It's not like I've seen on set shots like that.
There's a backroom sitting in the corner just like in a corner, like with a blanket around
them and a cup of coffee or is it a method thing?
Is it a?
Yeah, that's like I want to be calm.
So I can remember their lines.
Maybe I don't know.
I could step step right into this character.
I'm OK with I'm OK.
No, but I guess what I'm really cold on set.
No, look, those are all valid points.
Maybe it's a method acting thing.
Maybe it's a meditation thing.
Maybe it's just really cool on set.
I believe all that, but I'm talking specifically about like what James Franco is doing in this
in this shot.
It's a temperature controlled ship.
Everyone there is at the is at optimum temperature.
What?
He's just a little bit colder than everybody.
So he's the captain.
He puts on a little blankie and then everybody comes in for the shot and he doesn't even
want to take his blankie off for the shot.
Like that is the actor douchebag James Franco not knowing when to take a blanket off for
a picture.
It's not the captain of the generational ship.
The fucking covenant is what I'm saying.
OK, that's all you're like.
Shatner would never.
Well, Shatner would have fucked everyone on that ship starting one pod working its way
down.
That's why they put him in the faulty pod that would put him in.
This guy's too much competition.
It needs to be warmer.
He's hogging the one blanket we have on ship.
Oh, hey, the weirdness, the weirdness passed.
They got him warmer.
That's true.
The weirdness passed, can we bring back Sigourney Weaver's Bush?
Yeah, can we bring that back on screen again?
There wasn't any Bush in this, but we did get it at one hour and 44 minutes, Mike.
Titties.
So.
So the main guys religious, they kind of play on that a little bit.
They sort of talk about it and then later on they're like, oh, man, you're religious.
That's not going to do well for us.
And then later on we got to have your faith, brother.
And so whatever.
So they look for the signal.
They find this planet.
And the captain goes, that's a human signal.
Way the fuck out here.
We have to look into it.
And they look at the statistics and they find out that the planet is habitable, just as
habitable, maybe more habitable than the planet that they were originally going to
go to, which is going to take seven years to get to versus this one will take two weeks
to get to.
So he's like he talks to his co-captain and he makes the decision.
She says no.
She's like, that's a bad idea.
Let's just keep going.
And he's like, well, I'm the captain.
We're going to do this.
And she makes an official complaint.
She's like, well, make it official then.
And I don't agree with you.
And so he's like, OK.
And what comes of that, Michael, is absolutely fucking dick all.
Nothing.
Because everyone dies.
So I'm really glad we have all this fucking shit in the beginning.
So they land on the planet.
Well, actually, they hover above the planet with their big ship and they send a little
ship with like a bunch of like Marines, dudes, and they're like, oh, we're going to
do this.
And they're like, OK.
So they land on the planet.
And they're like, OK.
So they land on the planet.
And they're like, OK.
So they land on the planet.
And they're like, OK.
So they land on the planet.
And they're like, OK.
So they land on the planet.
Well, actually, they hover above the planet with their big ship and they send a little
ship with like a bunch of like Marines, dudes, and the captain guy.
They all have guns.
They're all like their suits.
They all have GoPro cameras sticking off out of their backpacks.
And like, which again, you know how much GoPro footage we got to see in that?
Nothing, Mike.
Why would they go to the effort of everyone's suit having these stupid little arms sticking?
They're the most obvious looking things in the world.
It's not like they're it's not like they think they did it and like, oh, is there a camera
there?
No, it's a little arm that sticks out of the backpack up, curves up, and it's just hovering
over their shoulders the whole time.
Yeah, we had those, too.
But they did show they they used it in the movie.
They didn't use it at all in your movie because what happened in our movie, they they showed
the people who were standing behind in the ship, saw them going and fighting.
There was somebody telling them where to go and all that stuff.
And I would have loved maybe like one shot where the guys like walk around with his camera
and you get to see some alien shit.
I think that's the whole point of those fucking cameras.
There's two xenomorphs in this entire movie and that this movie is barely an alien movie.
If you made those creatures anything else that you could make, you can name it whatever
you want.
And it's not alien anymore.
Yeah, there's not a lot of xenomorph action.
I'll tell you that.
But they are bulletproof, though, in this one.
Some of them.
Some of them are.
Some of them you can shoot several hundred times in the runaway.
And then I guess one of them you shoot maybe five times and it goes down permanently.
But this one, there's one of them was surrounded by armed guards who had an open line of shot
and lit it up with bullets.
And then it fucked up and came back later.
And that same one that came back later, a guy just pop, pop, pop and it landed on the
ground.
It was dead forever.
So the rules of this make no sense.
The new thing they added was there's this weird floating powder.
Like, I don't know if you guys saw the new The Day the Earth Stood Still with the one
with Keanu Reeves in it.
And it's got that that flying dust that just annihilates everything.
It's just like a little wisp of that.
And it flies into a guy's ear.
They put the camera goes inside of his ear and like CGI, you see it go in inside of
him and another guy goes up his nose and they get all the one guy gets sick, goes back to
the ship.
He's there with one other person.
He starts freaking out.
It's gross as shit.
He's like shivering, shaking violently.
The one on the ship.
Yeah.
And then he flies back and the alien comes out of his mouth.
The way he falls back.
It's hard to explain, but it's like if this was the table and he's like, it's just his
whole body just fucking flips backwards over the fucking table.
I would say I confuse certain scenes from Prometheus and Covenant is Covenant, the one
with the crab folded guy walking back to the ship.
No, that's Prometheus.
No, there wasn't a crab folded guy.
But what's happening now is aliens.
I remember that guy.
That was funny.
Aliens pop out of two of their dudes.
The two guys, the nose guy and the ear guy.
Now aliens exist.
Meanwhile, Walter's kind of putting together that like something's weird.
And David there is going he's he's like trying to get Walter to be like his disciple.
He teaches him how to play the flute.
He brings him into his room of art.
He shows him like all the all the shit that he's been doing.
He's like, yeah, I love to create.
And then Walter's like, I'm a different version.
I just want to do my job.
It's dude.
You know, like he's real American about it.
But the other guy's like, well, you know, well, I like to create.
It's like there's all this stuff.
And then when I was really in for a second there, then you find out that David.
You get a cool flashback of David taking the Prometheus ships.
And then we find out what happened to the chick and him.
When they left with the Prometheus ship.
Dude, it is so shocking.
It is so shocking.
So you don't think he's a bad guy?
Well, in the first Prometheus.
Like Prometheus, she gets away and everything.
This one you see half of the bottom half of her head cut off and like a bunch of alien
stuff shoved up there.
And this is a woman you followed as a protagonist the whole first movie.
She got fucking murdered by this.
You're just like, holy shit.
And then he used her for experimentation.
He started breeding aliens or whatever with their body.
But they as they're flying the Prometheus ship over.
So they find this planet where the engineers have still are still living.
OK, so we in the Prometheus, we think engineers died off hundreds of years ago, maybe a thousand
years ago.
We don't know.
She leaves and they found a planet with the with the engineers.
But by this point, David had taken over, he had engineered the alien into that, like into
the flying nanobot dust that you would get in like a modern movie like the nanobot stuff.
And he just releases so much of it over the crowd of engineers.
It's one of the most gnarly scenes because it's just you see the black clouds just going
down and fucking killing every one of them, turning them into aliens like instantly.
So by the time Prometheus lands, by the time the covenant people land, they there's no
birds, insects, there's like nothing.
So the aliens have killed everybody in that short than that 10 year span since David landed
with the chick.
They've killed every living being on that planet.
And so now we get these dudes have landed.
They find the Prometheus ship, they run into David.
He's like, like, yeah, I'll help you out or whatever.
Meanwhile, he's they're all fucking dying and shit.
He's helping by throwing facehuggers like he tells the captain he's like, yeah, come
down here.
I want to show you something.
And he has one of the eggs.
He's like, I've been working on this like botany project or whatever.
And the egg kind of opens.
He goes, yeah, look inside.
And the guy looks inside and a fucking facehugger gets him.
Stupid fuck.
Also, this one chick goes to like clean herself and like, you know, tend to some of her wounds.
And then also these aliens are albino aliens.
They're not the classic black alien.
We get black ones late.
And she's she's like clean yourself off.
An alien shows up, bites her head off.
And it's just like an eerie shot of just her head kind of slowly rotating in a puddle
of a fountain.
It's floating.
But here's here's the one thing I had to critique on that is if I'm if right now, let's just
say monsters are fucking shit up.
OK.
And we the five of us, six of us, five of us.
If we had to stay in here to be safe and someone had to pee.
And let's just say the bathroom is out of order.
I don't care if we end up shitting in one corner, pissing in one corner.
You don't leave.
It's a life or death situation.
You're running out the clock.
You'll be fine later on.
Just shit next to your friends.
I'm sorry.
But like at one point, she's with all of us.
She's like, I need to go pee and like freshen up or whatever.
Yeah, about a mile and a half away.
Stay close.
She walks down a hallway, finds a secluded little bathroom area and then like, no, bitch,
there's aliens currently killing every motherfucker you know.
You're everyone.
So it sounds like long story short, yours is more horror or ours is more sci fi action.
Well, I mean, those kind of are more like slash, at least alien one and three.
They're more of a slasher.
Aliens is not really slasher at all.
It's it's that one's because there's multiple slaps.
There's one alien in one in one and three.
So it does make it kind of a slasher.
But sci fi action slasher or something.
This one's more like just sci fi horror.
There's some suspense.
But then comparing Covenant to Prometheus, I would say that Prometheus is just sci fi
horror.
So this is sci fi, so that, yeah, because it's I guess the first Prometheus is more
like, whoa, like this is the origin story of aliens.
Let's learn about what they are.
And then this one is like, OK, now we're following up on a very it's like someone saw a horror
movie where it was you show up to a creepy old house or amusement park and like there's
someone there's some bad people there.
How about landing on a whole plane where everyone is dead and now you're trapped on this planet
with the ship can't get down.
The big one.
They eventually Tennessee comes down with a different kind of like an engine, like a
crane ship that they have, which isn't really meant for this kind of stuff.
But he comes down, he picks them up.
They fight the last kind of alien.
So they think on on that thing and they get back up onto the ship with David.
Sorry, with sorry, with Walter.
So Walter and David have a fight when Walter figures out like, oh, you're like, this is
your fault.
And David's like, David's like, I want to create and the best way to create with aliens,
blah, blah, blah, you know, whatever you paraphrase.
And they fight.
And there's a moment where Walter is just is about to win as David's reaching for a knife
and he touches the knife and then it cuts away.
So we don't know who won the fight.
There's a really cool effect that they do where they he gets stabbed.
One of them gets stabbed underneath the chin and it starts to bleed out.
But then the blood turns into a 3D printer material like leak, you know, like it was
leaking down because like that's like so it didn't like it bled.
And then like the strand of it just sort of froze.
So it was like that.
These synthetics are powered by cum.
We've established that first movie.
But I think the cool thing was like when David stabs Walter in the neck and he just got in
like crab walks like the guy from the media immediately.
And then he walks out.
But then Walter just walks out after him and he's like, you're supposed to be dead.
And he's like, well, there's been a few upgrades and then they might.
Yeah, that's pretty cool.
Try to shut him down.
And he does for a second and then gets back up.
So that there's that last scene.
We don't know who wins.
Now we're leaving.
We have Walter.
Walter has killed David.
He's now on the on the ship with them to get up into the in the main part.
An alien ends up bursting out of somebody's chest or something like I know we get a we
get another alien gets up on board and they have to fight that thing on their ship.
And eventually everyone dies.
And it's just Walter left.
Except it's not Walter.
We find out the very end.
It was David that one, the bad one.
And he ends up he goes, hello, mother, David override, you know, blah, blah, blah, blah,
blah.
Let's start.
You know, let's go somewhere or whatever.
And then he goes up to the embryo station and he like and he pops out a little face hugger
embryo and then another one and he puts it next to all the other embryos on the little
shelf and he closes it for safekeeping and then fucks off into the in the space.
That's how it ends.
Yeah, he puts the chick to sleep, too.
Oh, that's the main the main girl is like, oh, God, we made it.
And then he starts talking to her in a British accent.
She's like, David, no, no, that's not what happened.
Not the British accent.
No, no, no.
What happens is the whole movie she's talking to him about.
She's talking to Walter about her and her husband.
We're going to build a cabin on the New World.
And so as she's falling asleep, she's like, hey, Walter, you're going to help me build
a cabin.
You're going to help when we get there.
And he looks at her like, yeah, I'll help you build a cabin.
And she and she's like and her eyes wide.
She goes, wait, David.
And he just he goes, oh, yeah, sorry.
And then he puts her to sleep.
And and that's it, man.
It's fucking awesome, dude.
I literally put David wins.
Hell, yeah, I put David fucks everyone.
David fucks everyone.
So titties at 144.
And I put literally put crew picture James Franco on a blanket because I really wanted
to talk about that because I fucking was so mad.
That's what made me I am glad the alien killed all of James Franco's friends.
I wish he was alive to have seen it happen first instead of burning alive.
But I rate this movie four and a half severed Elizabeth Shaw hits.
OK, I give this I liked it.
It wasn't one of my favorites.
The acting was great.
I'll probably do like a solid three point nine.
Do a three point nine on insufferable James Franco blankets out of five.
Cool.
So I guess we'll end it there with our aliens episode of Halloween.
So Halloween, 17 nights of Halloween.
Join us tomorrow.
I wish I could do the predator noise.
I can't.
It's so hard.
Like that.
We're doing predators.
Do you just do Arnold?
Come with me.
If you get to the chopper, is it get to the chopper?
Is that predator?
Is that that's command?
I think that's I know that's the one with Jimmy Lee.
Curse.
Oh shit.
That's true lies.
It's true lies.
Yeah.
Get to the chopper.
Yes.
Get to the chopper and true lies.
The first get to the chopper or is that a reference to reference?
It could be a reference because he has said I'll be back in seven.
Yeah.
Oh, it's known to do a thing.
You know, he's known to do his thing every now and then.
You know, it's funny.
I was I'm a twin from twins.
Jesse, the body venture of better.
He's better than Arnold.
Yeah.
Well, nobody beats Carl Weathers because Carl Weathers was able to beat the shit out of
Predator Predator too.
Yeah.
With a fist with his fists.
But Arnold couldn't.
Arnold had to blow up a forest.
The girl in Prey was pretty awesome.
Yeah.
See, shit.
That's the one I know.
Everyone's going to fucking pick Prey.
So I can't.
Anyway, we'll talk about this next week.
That's the Predator tomorrow.
Join us tomorrow.
One more thing, though.
Did you know that when you if you watch any alien movie, you know that Arnold Schwarzenegger
exists in that universe?
It does.
Yeah, because he's because Ali's V Predator brings it.
So does Jesse the body.
I can't do it like as good as Ryan.
So if you technically if you go off of the well, OK, you're you're using the movies
as as canon reference points, right?
Like you're saying, because the Predator movie exists, Alien versus Alien versus Predator
movie exists, then they both and then they exist together.
Arnie's but do we are we including then other material like like graphic novels or books?
Just the movies.
I will know because the graphic novels and books matter, because if you're doing that,
there is an Aliens versus Predators versus Batman versus Superman.
And Batman, it's Batman V Superman versus A.B.P. and they it's well, it's really Batman
and Superman versus Aliens with and Predator, but sometimes with the help of Predator, I
think.
So it's like it's a weird thing and they have to settle their Batman Superman differences.
So by that understanding, every Arnold Schwarzenegger or sorry, every time you see a Justice League,
Superman flash anything, you've got to think that Arnold Schwarzenegger is in that universe
and the Batman V Superman thing.
That's all settled.
We all know.
It's Martha.
No, you're thinking of Batman versus Superman, the movie, which is I'm talking about Batman.
But if you're tying it all together, it's all tied together.
Well, join us tomorrow for like DC has multiple universes.
Yeah, that.
Yeah, the multi elseworlds is what they do.
What do we do tomorrow?
Join us for Predator, where one of us is undoubtedly going to watch prey.
And I'm assuming the other.
Well, I'm not going to tell you guys what I'm going to watch, because hopefully I'll
be the only one.
Join us then.
I'm your host, Andy Rice.
But with me as always has been Austin.
He yeah, yeah, there we go.
Get to the chopper.
I don't think we're there yet.
I don't think that's even that's going to go on later.
That's an Easter egg that'll help you.
That was last week.
Yeah.
With us as always, it sort of was Zachary improv quality.
With us as always is Michael.
With us as always is Brennan.
Please wake up before your cryo chamber catches on fire, Andy.
Oh, shit.
This is like that blanket off.
That's not a bad point, because here's the thing.
If you were to ever need to be put into a simulation, it would be a cryogenic sleep
sort of situation.
We're because it's like, yeah, we'll plug you in.
You're now I'm in your head.
You live the red free bread.
Have a good night, everybody.
I'm your host, Andy Rice.
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