As good as it was, it could have been better

Rating: 8/10 (29 December 2000)

This film is obviously the "Star Wars" of outer space horror films and I was almost as blown away at the originality of this movie as I was with the special effects in "Star Wars".
Unfortunately, on a "Creature Feature" late night program I got to see what was left out--and I was even more blown away and disappointed with the theatrical release.
Although later pictures in the Alien series gave of some of this, what the hell was Ridley Scott thinking? He had left most of the good stuff out. I subtracted 2 points from a 10 for stupidity!