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every time i view alien i can't help but to marvel with awe at th** timeless masterpiece horror classic,the best of its genre ever made.ridley scott,with the help of breathtaking,brilliant alien design from h.r.giger,takes the viewer to the very end of the nightmare tunnel,the darkest recesses of the worst nightmare imaginable.th** movie ** made on a shoestring budget and the old fashioned way,with imagination and talent.the end result ** the absolute epitome of horror that gets better with age.the nostromo ** a mining ship,a huge towing vessel,created with sets that were dark,claustrophobic and unforgiving.most of these sets were made out of old airplane parts and the result was a spectacular achievement in horror,with flickering lights,gently swaying and clanking chains and dripping water,providing a sin**ter environment for a most unwelcome guest.
the crew and cast are a blue-collar lot of unknowns,but the chem**try and acting ** superb,d**turbing and believable,enhancing the absolutely real horror that awaits each one of them.there are no superheros here,as they were in no way prepared for what awaited them.they are scared,and rightfully so,and no one projects th** better than veronica cartwright as lambert,the very embodiment of a hysterical,sobbing woman scared out of her wits.and for very good reason.th** ** simply the scariest movie ever made,so enough niceness and on with the review!2
alien ** truly awesome from beginning to end.the hands on effort and imagination of scott ridley ** stunning,even in th** day and age of special effects and cgi.the designs of giger are wildly original,horrifically breathtaking and unforgettable.the editing by terry rawlings was cr**p and parsimonious,making for a perfect storm of a horror flick.no one who has seen alien will ever forget the dinner scene,one of the most dramatic even to be presented to an unwary viewer.even the actors were unaware of what was coming down,maximizing the effect of the event.memorable!3
it ** almost always dangerous to project an absolute about anything,but as far as i am concerned,everyone else can just flush their so-called monsters or baddasses down the sewer.[green goblin in spiderman,yeah,right!i'm sorry,there just can't be anything in reality or the human imagination that can top th** creature that we barely get to see during most of th** horror classic.the metaphorically rich design of th** snarling,biting,chomping,ev**cerating and head-banging nightmare from the bowels of hell can never be duplicated or topped.if you d**agree with me,then you are wrong.if you think the predator had a bad attitude,you will not believe the unchartable hostility that the alien carries around as second nature.the predator,as tough as he was ** about the equivalent of the pill**ury dou**oy when compared to th**“bad boy”.ash said it best,“it's structural perfection ** only matched by its hostility.perfect organ**m.unclouded by conscience,remorse,or delusions of morality.”chilling.
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every time i rev**it th** movie,i must take pause to reflect on the enormous raw talent and creativity that made it possible.the ships are organic,almost alive as was terrifyingly demonstrated by the creepy,c**ernous spaceship that surrounded an even creepier space jockey.i cannot say enough about the use of lighting and sound which complimented goldsmith's wonderful musical score.ridley scott ** a genius and h** creativity with using ordinary objects and hands on attention to detail make th** film what it **.the design of the alien monster ** a feat that will probably never be duplicated.
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it’s always worth reminding yourself during a watching of‘alien’that not all extra-terrestrials are quite as nasty as th** one.when things start to get a bit scary,simply take a few deep breaths and think of e.t.or alf.or mork.well,maybe not mork,but you get the idea.
deep in the bowels of space,the cargo ship nostromo ** on its way home to earth.routine mediocrity ** the order of the day among the crew of seven,until what’s thought to be a d**tress signal ** received from an unknown planet.unfortunately,by the time they’ve real**ed it’s not a d**tress call at all but a warning,crew member kane(john hurt)has had h** face latched onto by a faceless,spider-like space critter.
from then on it’s cack-your-slacks time as a freshly-impregnated hurt gives birth(via an exploding stomach at mealtime)to a beast that will go on to pick off the crew of the nostromo one by one,growing bigger and stronger with every victim.
despite taking only second-billing in the cast l**t,sigourney we**er ** the star of the piece as the soon-to-be iconic ripley.here,however,she’s a considerably less intimidating character than later on in the franch**e,and her well-documented fondness for the word‘**’appears to be only in its early stages.
th** ** a much,much darker slice of sci-fi than anything‘star wars’or‘star trek’were throwing into the ring at around the same time,and in actual fact leans further towards the horror genre than anywhere else.director ridley scott keeps things dark and moody at all times and,similarly to steven spielberg with‘jaws’,keeps glimpses of the monster to a minimum.
but perhaps the best thing about it ** that,despite the subject matter,everything seems remarkably real.there are no arnie-style quips to interrupt the movie’s tensest of moments,the characters’beh**iour under the circumstances seems true to life,and the plot ** simple enough not to need any far-fetched tw**ts in order to keep it on track.
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looking into space,you give free rein to your imagination-how many stars are
there in the universe?what ** it like to tr**el ten thousand light-years away
most important of all,do aliens really ex**t,and if positive,what do they
look like and how do they live their lives,and are they stealthily watching the
planet we live on – are we alone?not only do these puzzles make us common people go crazy,they never cease to perplex all scient**ts around the world.ufos are a perennial topic among these special**ts and space lovers.novels and cartoons featuring alien monsters are always on the best-selling l**ts.the hollywood blockbuster“star wars”series
are the f**orite of many movie fans.given all these facts,there should be no
surpr**e that a documentary broadcasting a whole process of an autopsy of an alien took the entire world by storm in 1995.it’s reported that hundreds of tv
stations bid on the film that year and tens of millions of people watched the documentary and few uttered a word of questioning.after all these years of rowdiness,it turned out that the film,the autopsy of an alien,was all faked.it was nothing than a scandal.
things might not be that easy,though.
hollywood ** a fascinating world;it has the most sensitive feelers about the human conditions.the scandal about d**secting an alien that was rumored to h**e
been kept by the american military was recently made into a film titled alien autopsy.with great interest,i downloaded and watched the movie soon after it was **ailable on the internet.if you h**e been tortured by the above confusions,
or if you want to while away a boring afternoon with some fun movie,alien autopsy ** exactly what you’ve been seeking for:
depressed by their m**haps in their home country,and hoping to blaze a new path
two brit**h young men went to america,where they somehow had their hands on a
film which was said to h**e been kept for than 50 years by an old man.the film actually recorded an entire process of the american military d**secting an alien and was watched on the spot by one of the two friends.excited by their
d**covery,they found a sponsor who happened to be a believer of aliens.they
bought the film and brought it back to brit**h,only to be told the film had been badly destroyed since the owner brought it to light,and that the hope of regain the data was razor thin.desperately worried that the sponsor would not buy
their story,the two lads decided to gamble on their luck and gathered a few friends of theirs to“artificially make”an alien by following what the one lad saw on the film.and they actually made it.then they almost had it done:the
sponsor swallowed the story hook line and sinker,as did the later pursuers,tv
journal**ts around the world,all other media.the hand-made film even caught the attention of the american military,which later somehow served to cover the whole story up.the group made a decent profit by selling“the most shocking d**covery in the human h**tory”to the rest of the world.when their story was being questioned,they even hired a tramp in hollywood to cover the lie,and the
tramp turned out to be a former hollywood movie star who had stopped playing for
40 years.but there’s to it than meets the eye – after the whole thing
was d**closed,that eccentric-looking old jerk,the film-fixing expert,came to
the two hoaxers telling them the destroyed original was mostly fixed – it was true!but what could they do now?the original was then buried deeply somewhere
maybe someday some adventurer will h**e the luck and bring it to light again.
the movie ** made in a slight humorous way,enough to give you a good time in th** burning hot summer season.and the performance of all the actors ** terrific
if i h**e to point to some flaw of it,i would single out the accent of their
typical brit**h that sounds too“tropical”to me.
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when alien was first released during the summer movie season of 1979,science fiction films were all the rage.the trend had been started two years earlier with the unexpected box office success of star wars,and,by 1979,anything even remotely connected with space and/or aliens was guaranteed to ra**e some interest.two highly anticipated efforts-the big-screen debut of star trek(star trek:the motion picture)and the star wars sequel(the empire strikes back)-both of which were within a year of their opening dates,further invigorated the atmosphere...