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The Incomparable Mothership

539: There Will Never Be Another Alien Movie

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8694 Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2020

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Summary

Game over, man, game over! We return to the world of xenomorphs and Weyland-Yutani Corp. as we discuss 1986’s “Aliens,” James Cameron’s fascinating follow-up to the Ridley Scott original. We discuss space marines, alien-friendly elevators, white milky blood, and subsequent Alien movies that are very much uncanonical....

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0:00.0

The Incomparable, number 539, November 2020.

0:10.3

Welcome back everybody to The Incomparable.

0:12.1

I'm your host, Jason Snell.

0:13.1

This episode is about a movie that is not quite old enough to be an old movie from Old

0:17.8

Movie Club, but is still kind of an old movie.

0:20.8

It's 34 years old now. Oh, boy.

0:23.3

We recently did an episode about Terminator 2, and we're revisiting other second movies directed by James Cameron.

0:30.3

It's aliens, the 1986 sequel to Ridley Scott's classic movie Alien, which we talked about on a previous episode.

0:38.3

Now we, uh, we pluralized it. And, uh, boy, is this movie, the plural of that movie in so many ways.

0:46.1

Uh, here to talk about it, a fine group of people that we've assembled. Uh, we're going to start with the

0:51.4

UK contingent, Anthony Johnston is here.

0:54.7

I wouldn't have done this episode without him because I know how much he looks alien.

0:58.4

Hi, Anthony.

0:59.8

Hello, Jason.

1:00.5

It's just another glorious day on the incomparable.

1:04.8

James Thompson also joins us from the United Kingdom.

1:07.3

Hi, James.

1:08.4

They ain't paying us enough for this man.

1:11.9

Kelly Gamont is here from the USA. Hi, James. They ain't paying us enough for this man. Kelly Gamont is here from the USA. Hi, Kelly. Okay, sweetheart, let's do this. Monti Ashley also here

1:19.7

from the Pacific Northwest, no less. Hi, Monty. Yeah, man, but it's a dry heat. Wait, that doesn't

1:26.3

go. And first time on the incomparable, although not on the network,

1:32.7

it's Sandra Wong from Canada.

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