set the standard for sci-fi for the last 2 decades

Rating: Null/10 (1 March 2004)

you know,you can really pick apart the plot to any fictional movie,why did this happen?? why didnt this happen? ad infinitum .....i think when you look at anything that way its always a disappointment..alien,released in 1979,was a breakthrough movie,the style in which it was filmed was not seen up to that point,both from a cinematography standpoint as well as the continuity of the movie...but enough movie-eaze,at the time alien was released it could only be seen as a move forward stylisticly and you can see the influence it has had on science fiction movies in the last 25 years,i cant think of many science fiction movies or even horror movies other than the exorcist pre 1980 that were as scary or believable