The Best of all the Alien films

Rating: 10/10 (28 August 2005)

This film was by far better than all of subsequent followers. It dwarfs the others as a matter of fact and actually made the others easy to do. Become the film laid out a masterful template. Attempting to re-release this film today would be a huge mistake, the generation has no patience for the type of style and setting up of a story that this films delivers. They want action and explosions right out the gate. They want horror but this films delivers terror which is totally different from horror. Terror stalks you and haunts you until your nerves are completely shattered and then it resigns. Only to return just when you feel you have a grasp on what just happened. Horror on the other hand is the end result of what you found terrifying. The film plays so deep in the mind that it is hard to escape the images.
When the film first opens up with the shot of the ship. Like a haunted house, I felt like death had entered the ship and oddly enough the first person it touched was Kane. He was the first to be awakened by deaths hand. The soundtrack was perfect! The cast, perfect! I've watched this film so many times it would be embarrassing to say. I absolutely love this film for it didn't pretend to be like any other film. The idea that space had been conquered and people traveled through as casually as traveling to other parts of the country and then have something truly terrifying happen. It's like the "Deliverance" but in outer space, an easy trip turned into a nightmare.
There were so many great lines in this film, but one of my favorite is when Ripley asks Parker about how much time before the ship blows. "How much time before the ship blows?" "Ten minutes!" "No bullshit?" "If we ain't got of here in ten minutes. We won't need no rocket to fly through space!" Classic, dark humor in moments of complete despair.