One of the finest feminist films ever made

Rating: 9/10 (8 September 2016)

Had to review this one. As Hollywood carts out one male fantasy after another about "butt- kicking" women and insisting these cartoonish appropriations of male violence are somehow progressive, it's good to go back to Ridley Scott's ALIEN and revisit what REAL feminist characters should look like.
As you may or may not know, I'm a feminist accidentally born with testicles, so my opinion in this matter is valid. Both women characters in ALIEN prove to be smarter and more resourceful than the men they are surrounded by. The film begins, as you should well know, with a landing crew investigating a large, phallic spaceship that has sent out a distress signal. Veronica Cartwright's character Lambert says, no less than twice, "Let's get out of here." Her feminine intuition has already told her the distress signal is a decoy. When they find the giant skeleton of a humanoid alien on the ship with its chest cage busted out, she says it again. Do the men listen? No. And they will pay a price for it.
Shortly after, the landing party brings an injured member back (Harry Dean Stanton's unfortunate character Brett) to their spaceship with an alien attached to his face. Sigourney Weaver's ACTUAL butt-kicking character, Ripley, refuses to let the infected crew member on the ship. Once again, a woman doing what is exactly right and, once again, the men don't listen to her. She, of course, will be rewarded once the alien has cut loose and wreaked havoc on the ship by being the only member to survive.
Do guns and flamethrowers and other phallic symbols of the oppressive patriarchy help her survive this ordeal? Ultimately, no. She disposes of the alien, in her final confrontation with it, using her wits.
Women are inherently repulsed by violence. That Ripley should eliminate the threat to her life using her intelligence as a weapon makes her, possibly, the greatest feminist character ever put on screen.
One last thing: I see a lot of people calling this movie "slow." Clearly, they are threatened by a strong, independent female protagonist, otherwise, they would not criticize this movie.