A Dark, Strange, Fabulous Journey!

Rating: 9/10 (5 February 2003)

The very beginning of the Alien Saga starts off in 1979 with Ridley Scott's ALIEN.
It's really quite doubtful that the moods in this movie, though often imitated, will ever be effectively duplicated. I think that the actual mystery of seeing this creature for the first time is quite marvelous.

At its core, Alien is technically a horror movie - and, though I'm not a fan of the genre, this movie got to me (I now own all three on DVD). It's stylistic, dark, and unforgiving.
This of course being the first movie in the saga, will be when you're all introduced to the most bad-assed sci-fi heroine of all time. Lt. Ellen Ripley, though not a soldier or warrior, is more assertive and tough than you might think that average warrant officer might be... and you will see her endless battle throughout Alien, Aliens(1986), and Alien 3(1992) - I don't care what they tell you - they did NOT make a 4th one. Well it just does not exist... IMO.
Although the sequel, James Cameron's ALIENS, is much better, this movie is where it all started, it is REALLY GOOD and... oh hell just go see it already!