8.5?!? Go watch your 'Transformers' trash then...

Rating: 10/10 (23 July 2017)

This is the one that will never be topped. CGI cannot compete with an actual physical presence and never will. We are all used to it now, but the first time I saw the Alien, it was difficult to look at, it was truly disturbing looking. I think I first saw this movie on VHS with my family when I was 10. I don't think any other movie gripped me; the end when Ripley is running through the corridors back and forth is classic. My heart was pounding I can remember it to this today. I was in that hallway with her. The orange lights flashing on my face. Everything about this movie is just classic. The fact that you never get to know what the Alien really looks like, because it keeps changing. So, it stayed frightening, most monster movies, you get one look at the creature and it might be scary, but soon you get used to it, this movie never allowed you the chance. First, its a pile of Bones (yes, bones), in a derelict spacecraft. Then its the egg and the face-hugger, then it changes to the chest- burster, and onto the Alien. It almost feels like 2 different movies; Act I is so different and is a really good Sci-Fi feel with the Nostromo and crew flying the ship and the lander. ACT II brings on the tension as soon as they land on LV426. I remember waiting for something to jump out at them, while walking to the ship, but in true Hitchcockian suspense nothing happened. The anticipation to the jump-scare of the face-hugger was tremendous. Add to that the parts of Dallas in the Tube and the side story about this greedy corporation, and the Ash, wow. What a movie, I don't think it will ever be topped, just as the first 5 seasons of 'Game of Thrones' will never be topped - like 'Star Wars' and 'Empire.' The times we live in are not conducive to creating similar works of art. CGI has taken over way too much for the detail to be spent on creating something from nothing. CGI creates laziness, look at the neomorph in Alien: Covenant, it looked totally fake to me, it did not look like it was in the same room with the lady. Sad we never got Prometheus II. They should have stopped after 'Aliens.' I totally agree with James Cameron. Although I liked Prometheus.