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!
