Doesn't quite hold up after all these years.

Rating: 6/10 (26 February 2017)

After viewing the film again after 37 years, and loving it when I first saw it, I realize that it has many flaws. Most noticeable are: 1) the horribly developed dialogue between crew members. Obviously the writers never worked in a factory like setting, or for that matter, any setting where they had to communicate with small talk with co-workers. Compare this dialogue with the dialogue from the 1951 Thing or even Forbidden Planet.
2) Sigourney Weavers character is way too harsh. It may have been a sign of the times to create a "strong woman" but in the film she comes off needlessly harsh and unappealing.
3) Overuse of technical effects like the strobe light. Why does a ship have strobe lights anyway?
4) A very big rip-off of the film "It, the terror from beyond space. The plot line and dialogue was better in that one as well.