Top 250 Review: Alien

Good morning, good afternoon, good evening...whenever it is you've come across this post.  Today I'm checking out the 1979 flick Alien.  Currently it is #51 on the top 250 with a 8.5 as for 4/3.  It stars Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt and John Hurt.  "After a space merchant vessel perceives an unknown transmission as distress call, their landing on the source moon finds one of the crew attacked by a mysterious life-form, and soon realize that its life cycle has merely begun."

(Note these comments start about half way through the flick, after the facehugger but before the chest bursting scene)

• Why do people in the future always go investigate things?  
• So the woman and the black guy are the smart ones while the white guys are dumb?
• This is why we can never go into space!
• We, as humans, are way to curious for our own good
• We have movies like this. The first alien I see is going to get shot in the face before it can attach to my face or turn me into a borg!
• Good grief look how young these people are!  I realize it is 37 years ago but wow!
• Yep, make sure you touch the creepy looking egg like things, nothing bad can happen there!
• That didn't look like he slipped and fell, more like he just slid down 
• That net is going to help any Parker, I'd get a gun...with lots of bullets
• I love the lighting in this flick, it is awesome.  Also the confined feeling is awesome
• It is going to be the cat right?  Yep it was the cat
• Goodbye Brett, we'll see you being creepy looking in your next flick
• Could the designers of the ship (in the movie world) make it any less creepy?
• They do a wonderful job of building the tension
• I think the Governor is in this room chasing Andrea...with the cat...either way you lock the door and get out
• Yes, fire in an inclosed space, this can't be wrong
• Wait...they are crawling INTO the ducts?  Do people get dumber in the future?
• That was anti-climatic for Dallas to fall that way
• I'd just get on that escape pod/shuttle and I'd be out of there
• Parker is off on his own because he is stubborn
• Of course its the damn "government" that called for the thing to be brought back alive
• Is he going to choke her out with a porn mag?  I know of choking other thing while having a porn mag but never that!
• She is worried about the damn cat!
• Why are the coolant containers in such bottles?
• Does Ripley not hear that horrible sound?  You know the sound of death as she walked into that area
• Why care about blowing up the ship, just get the hell out!
• Assume they're dead and leave, its the only logical thing to do!
• Could there be a more elaborate self destruct function?
• Why does the alien hate the cat?  Is it a dog alien?
• Wait...why is she trying to stop the self destruct?  Did I miss something?
• They freeze the cat too?!  I mean it makes sense I'm just surprised for some reason
• Lots of strobe lights in the future on space ships apparently
• How does it move so slow yet so fast?
• Is her plan to vent the oxygen?  If so brilliant idea!

Well that was pretty good.  I can see why it is in the top 250 for sure.  I'd give an 8/10.  It is slightly slow compared to most movies and that is a good thing.  As I said before it builds itself up so well and each time you go a little higher and come down slightly higher so the rollercoaster continues.  

I personally had a hard time understanding a few times and had to turn on subtitles but that could just be my bad hearing. 

I also had a hard time seeing the alien at times which might have been the point but it bothered me a bit to not see exactly what was going on, especially to Parker.

Overall I enjoyed the flick.  If you haven't seen it check it out.  If you have remember the next one in the series comes out this year so check it out again!