They should have listened to Ripley!

Rating: 10/10 (22 April 2013)

Having just watched Alien recently (for the 5th time at least), I find impressive how timeless is this sci-fi/horror classic. Even if it was released more than 30 years ago.
I would have loved to watch this movie in the big screen, without knowing anything about Alien, because by the time I was old enough to watch Alien, in some way or another I had been exposed to the "chest bursting scene" and other hallmarks of the Alien franchise.
What I like the most about this movie are: - The whole scenery (the Nostromo is a space haunted house, and I love the way that the camera moves at a slow pace through the corridors at the beginning)is how it breaks a lot stereotypes of the genre by that time.

Characters make silly decisions that lead to their death (like Brett), but in no way it looks cheap or dumb like in other horror movies. They just happen to be fulfilling a task for the crew, that led them to be isolated.

Having a female as leading character, surviving (I think that was kind of new for the genre, it was 1979!). The way they set the plot, you would imagine that Dallas might be the only survivor at the end, because Ripley doesn't take a lot of relevance until half the movie is done.

The crew feel real, a bunch of blue collar workers that just wanna collect their money and get home ASAP.

A great movie, that made a great impact in both genres: Horror and Sci-fi Score (10)