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Reel Talk: A Movie Podcast

Episode 31: You Have My Sympathies - Alien

Reel Talk: A Movie Podcast

Wes Jones

Arts

5.0539 Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2021

⏱️ 113 minutes

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Summary

The Reel Talk Crew is proud to present Episode 31, You Have My Sympathies! We're kicking Year 2 off with a full episode dedicated to one of the all time greatest films, 1979's Alien. Plus, we're joined by special guest host Writer/Director Kevin Kangas. In This Episode We Cover: IntroductionCatching up w/ Kevin KangasBest Creature Feature/Monster Movie - 16:00Initial Thoughts on Alien - 25:55Blue Collar Film - 32:56Male Rape Film - 40:58History & Impact of the film - 47:00Rid...

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The

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The The Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Real Talk, a movie podcast.

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We are your go-to source for ratings and recommendations of past and present films.

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I am your host, West Jones, podcasting from Bowling Green, Kentucky.

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Hey, this is Tommy, podcasting straight from Nashville, Tennessee.

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The Movie Buddy Conway, podcasting from Bowling Green, Kentucky.

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What?

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I can't mind to you about your chances, but you have my sympathies.

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Hey, Real Talk listeners, welcome back.

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As always, we thank you for downloading and being here

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with us tonight. Audience, I really feel like you're going to love this episode. This episode is

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dedicated to one of my all-time favorite movies, Ridley Scott's 1979 masterpiece Alien,

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which this is the first episode of the second year of Real Talk.

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And back on Alien, T-Man and I have talked about this several times before, and I don't say

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this lightly.

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I truly don't, but I feel Alien is a perfect film.

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And you might say, Wes, there's no truly perfect films aside from fear of clowns.

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But Alien is about as close to perfect as you can possibly get.

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That doesn't mean that I think everyone has to like it.

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It just simply means for what they were going for.

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It was executed pretty much perfectly.

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And as we did with the Science of the Lambs episode, we're going to tackle this movie a little

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