The only movie I would show friends in the early 80s

Rating: 10/10 (25 February 2017)

I know ...I.m old but I have to share my experience..pls bear with me 1977, I was in boarding school in UK and just won a class prize for best student. Just so happens the prize was a movie ticket to see STAR WARS. I loved it. 1978, a class matinée showing of 1968 Space Odyssey. Loved the detail of the props in that film.
To me, then, science fiction, any science fiction, WAS ALWAYS fantastic. The colors, the motions, the fantastic geometry of future.
Fast forward late 1979, my older classmate managed to sneak me into the a local theatre by convincing me that a scary sci-fi movie just got released. 'Alien' was rated X in UK in 1979. I was only 15, my friend only 17, in fact, so we both thought it a thrill to sneak in somehow.
If it wasn't for my friend, I probably wouldn't have had my mind expanded in so many different ways so early in age..about science fiction films !! The movie from start to finish, THEN, AND NOW, is nothing less than absolute MIND F&CK.
The story from start to finish, the plots, the characters, the DETAIL of future n technology, the character stories and build up..but of course most of all.... the close up of the key scene on the breakfast table is indeed the best shot and scene, CINEMATICALY... in my opinion regarding horror and/or science fiction.
Whatever happened to Ridley Scott just those few weeks in 1978 n 79 to come up with a cinematic display of something that troubles our deepest subconscious ..... i would say was PROPHETIC.
No need to review about the movie as it has been done so much so now for ...coming to yes..40 YEARS.
THIS MOVIE CANNOT BE CRITICZED ....in the least bit !!!
Except perhaps ..... the actors should have been made to suffer much more horror without knowing the plot as if they were in REAL LIFE through the story.
THE HORROR ....