Hello everyone and welcome to this special reposting of our episode on 1979's

alien I am the outlaw John Roa Jones as always by my co-host Steve Morris

I am once again frightened.

Every time I think about this movie, I get scared.

Well, you know, I just saw Alien Romulus a few days ago,

and this movie, the original movie movie I think it has a lot of

connections to the original movie not just some of the fan service but I mean the

mood and the energy and the vibe and finding out that Fedi Alvarez consulted with Ridley Scott, the director of

1979's alien, about what to do with some of the stuff in the movie I thought was

fascinating because you can clearly see the influence in Alien Romulus of this particular movie.

And Steve, I've seen battles on the internet on social media over the weekend of like,

who is, what is better? Alien or aliens. I I'm always gonna side with alien because I just think this film

Is aiming for the bullseye of art and I think aliens is aiming for the bullseye of

Popcorn summer Aliens is aiming for the bullseye of popcorn summer movie reaction and popularity. And so I just find a lot more to savor and enjoy as a film fan overall in 1979's alien and I really enjoyed our

discussion on it. It really is alien to aliens is like the perfect example of

the 70s to the 80s to me. Yeah.

Because alien is a mood piece with character overlapping dialogue

and characters that are complicated and not entirely

knowable and we're kind of drifting through this space into a

ridiculously scary horror movie, which is aliens is the well-made team up to go fight the bad guys movie you know where each character has

their moment and we establish the ensemble and it's like the difference between

very well- drawn but very simple characters in a movie in aliens and

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