One of the first real science fiction movies

Rating: 10/10 (29 June 2005)

The beginning of Alien is fabulous. We're in the future on what seems like the kind of spaceship that will actually exist in the future, with the kind of technology that we, at that time, thought we would have in the future. The whole film is very realistic, making the suspension of disbelief very easy for me. The acting is fantastic with characters who have the same problems getting along with each other that we often do, and the same "colorful" language that keeps my wife from letting my kids watch this movie. The only flaws with the film is that the humans are sometimes a little stupid, staring and screaming at the alien instead of shooting it, and that our star risks her life for her stupid cat. The great risk is that if the alien got back to earth, it could wipe out the planet, giving our protagonists the chance to be noble by self-destructing their ship.
This was a serious movie. It didn't have the silly dialog that kept star wars light and happy. These people didn't use the force or any other fantasy goblins or vampires. This was deep, dark, hard-core science fiction of the best kind, and it was very well done.