Hello, and action, and action.

Hello, dear listeners, and welcome back to another episode of What Went Wrong,

your favorite podcast, Full Stop, that just so happens to be about movies,

and how it is nearly impossible to make them, let alone a good one,

let alone one of the greatest sequels ever made from one of the greatest sequel directors of all time, the man who's never

wrong, who sees the future, and who is headlining this December for us. As always, I am Chris Winterbauer

joined by my fearless co-host, Lizzie Bassett. Lizzie, how you doing this morning?

Game over, man. Game over.

I don't know if you've been keeping up with current events. We just got our asses kick back there.

I'm doing great. I am so excited to kick off our James Cameron Christmas season with aliens.

And what a treat this one was, man, it's a lot. I don't know if there's ever

going to be a James Cameron movie that's not just like an absolute disaster behind the scenes.

And you know what? Every time I cover him, I love him a little bit more. And I think we're going to

learn a lot about the man, the myth, the grumpy legend today. Chris, obviously, I know you've seen aliens before,

but what was your relationship to this movie and what was your experience upon rewatching it

for the podcast? So I actually saw aliens before I saw alien. Oh, wow. When I was about,

I don't know, 11 is my guess, maybe 11 or 12, my dad started on the rated R. Gauntlet of action movies that he loved

from the 1980s in particular. And I think that he felt that because aliens is a war movie

hidden inside of a science fiction alien movie, right? It's an action movie for sure. Because of that,

I think he felt more comfortable showing it to me than the first one,

which is so scary, terrifying because it's a slasher, effectively. So I saw aliens first. I loved it from a young age, and one scene in particular gave me so many nightmares. And that is, of course,

when Ripley, spoilers, Ripley and Newt wake up in the med bay.

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