'Alien' Celebrating 40th Anniversary With 6 Short Films

#4 of 6 Ore: (Thanks Gavin)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zv55of6Pb70

 Thank DK and Gavin.

I embedded the video here. I read it features a xenomorph and it is the best of the shorts so far. Can't wait to watch it.

Sorry about the long links

#5 Harvest

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Za0jUxBPQTw

#6 Alone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGWEihrIBvk

#6 Alone

Masterpiece.

Leto agreed! Alone was masterfully executed. The synthetic showed relatable emotion and motives that made her more of a sympathetic antagonist than David or Ash...more like Bishop gone amoral. 

Well done to the Alone team!

Of all the shorts, I would be most intrigued to see more of this story

The last xeno action didn't seem to make much sense imo (don't want to spoil).

So where it shows her hands being all twitchy does anyone else think this might be a physical metaphor reference to her being a "Hyperdyne model" synth. Explains why she went rogue

"Yeah. The Hyperdyne Systems 120-A/2."
"Well that explains it. The A/2s always were a bit twitchy."

I Raptus Yes, that observation was made quite a bit in YT comments. Good catch.

An interesting thing about Alone was the Xeno killing the synth at the end. Historically, synths were never targets of Xenos (except for Bishop). This short seemed to display a deeper intelligence from the Xeno- WY to the end- even synths are subject to the bigger agenda.

I know I'm late to the party but, oh man, too cool! I just watched Night Shift (loved it!) I'm going to watch them all. 

Is Signs of Life part of this list? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLcUiIy_ghw&feature=youtu.be 

I just found it, and it was AMAZING! (I loved getting a look around David's lab)

Guys? Guys. Listen. Words cannot express how much I loved "Alone" 

Oh man. Ok, at first when she was all "I've been counting the rivets in the B deck corridor. There are 28,882 Rivets. That's two more than in the technical specs..." I was like lol, 2020 quarantine vibes.

Then when she was sitting around sketching I was like "Her art style is like David." 

When she finally got into the sealed room and decided to unfreeze the specimen, at first I thought it was going to be a human who was infected with a chestburster and had been put in cryostasis for safe keeping. 

Then it's a facehugger and I'm like "Uh oh, here it comes!" THEN THE WHITE BLOOD! Oh! No wonder she draws like David!

And she keeps the facehugger as a pet!? 

Oh man, I don't know this film is just great. If fulfills my love of both sad/isolated androids, AND evil androids.

Ok, I know I'm necromancing a dead thread here but...this short is just...EVERYTHING.  

Was Alone your favorite? To me it was too much like Covenant, I got kind of bored. Ore was my favorite since you could see the panic that they reacted with, you had the corporate scumbag (the one that looked at the computer-screen). I liked the interaction between the characters for example in the locker-room in the beginning, that is like how speak with people in real life which is no deep talk but rather how you have casual conversations with your coworkers.

Unfortunately I didn't like Alien Alone or Alien Harvest. They were too much about the androids and Alien Covenant made me disinterested in that topic.

VivisectedEngineer, I am glad you revived this thread as I am rewatching them. Thanks- I almost forgot about these shorts.

Just watched "Containment"! Nice! A little close to home in the age of Covid... Was Albrecht a synthetic? I kind of thought she might be from her reaction to the chestburster. (Then again, she might just be a scientist)

Yeah, Alone also is my favorite. Specimen - the second. Night Shift - the third.

Ore - a little bit silly. Harvest - i almost forgot, but it's somewhere between Ore and Containment. Containment - a trash with all the cliches.

@Thoughts_Dreams

So far, Alone was my favorite because it just really ticked all the boxes for me. Like, I while I watched it, I had this grin on my face that just kept getting bigger and bigger. 

@I Raptus I really like the idea that the twitchy-ness was a reference to her being a hyperdyne model! 

I haven't seen Ore yet, I'll watch it next. 

I liked Night Shift because it felt like it had that authetic Weyland-Yutani bleakness from beginning to end. 

I also really liked "Signs of Life" because it was cool to see around David's creepy lab. 

@dk Yay! :D Discover any note-worthy details on the re-watch?

@Leto

I haven't seen Specimen or Ore yet, but I'll update with my reaction :D

I thought Containment was pretty good. I was just wondering if Albrecht was a synthetic or not. 

I wasn't really that big on Harvest. I'm not sure why, because it seemed like it was well done.

It might just because I watched too many of them in quick succession so they started loosing emotional impact, but I just found it a little underwhelming somehow.  

Also the ambiguity at the ending came off as frustrating rather than mysterious. A) Who were the two survivors? Her and her baby I'm guessing. But B) How did they survive with two(?) xenos on board?

Oh, I liked Ore! Good acting, relatable characters. Hanks' facial expressions watching the Xeno attack the miners were like a horror fan watching a scary movie. Like "That's terrible! But also awesome." Haha. 

I am pretty much with Leto on this. It's a toss up between Specimen and Alone. While I enjoy them all in their own right, these two stand out for me.

@dk

I just watched Specimen, it was great! It definitely took a different direction than I expected. 

I still have to say, Alone was definitely my favorite. It deserves an award or something.  

VivisectedEngineer Signs of Life is a good short, but it was not part of the IGN shorts series.

@dk

Oh, you're right! What is it exactly? Actually...maybe I should create a separate thread just to talk about "Signs of Life" because... is it canon?

Does that mean humans returned to Planet 4 and found David's lab? Is it a preview for another movie?? What's going on here!?  Man, I've missed a lot!

VivisectedEngineer It was a one off-

VivisectedEngineer

The expression (ticked all the boxes) makes sense but what in it did you like? I try to understand since it unfortunately is something that I am not a fan of. People have different opinions when it comes to alien things but that's alright. Can you explain it more in detail? Thanks

Specimen was alright, I liked the environment that they were in. Here is a short clip with the director of Specimen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSAt9oO_1is

Here is a short clip with the directors of alien Ore https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdOGOvUQfd4

DK mentioned Signs of Life, here is the link in case you're interested:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLcUiIy_ghw