Aliens is episode 74 of Blank Check: Special Features as part of the Alien Franchise commentaries. Posted October 21, 2020 and released from behind the paywall on October 21, 2023.
Summary[]
Easily our favorite movie that got sold with a whiteboard and a dollar sign - we get to cover Alien$ again, bay-bee! Griffin, David, Ang, and one white-hot Benny revisit James Cameron's Vietnam allegory, how it's so drastically different from the thrilling original (and still works), and why that set the standard for new genre spins as the franchise and evolved. We're asking deep questions this week. Would aliens make good house flippers? Was there a slime unit on set and how do we get that job? And WHY DOES NO ONE LISTEN TO RIPLEY???
This is the THEATRICAL CUT.
The movie starts at...6:37 [1]
Milestones and Ephemera[]
- Lots of talk about how Disney is handling the Fox catalog.
- Both Griffin and David share horror stories of dropping their wireless headphones into liquids (🚽 and ☕️, respectively).
Quotes[]
Griffin: I wish Newt had taught me to read.
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Griffin: You ever date someone who shared a name with a lizard, Ben? Ben: Uhhh, I’ll have to think.