They shouldn't have messed with Jerry Goldsmith's score.

Rating: 9/10 (6 June 2000)

In case you already didn't know, director Ridley Scott has made two movies where Jerry Goldsmith's score was disrepspectfully cut up (as in Alien) or completely thrown away (as in Legend). At any rate, Alien still is a classic. We have a female hero, we have H.R.Giger's imagination, and we have one mean alien. The filmmakers wanted to show an image of "truckers in space", hence the blue collar looking workers and chains, and an "inside a factory" like appearance. All this plus the cinematography and direction gives this film a very grotesque realism and clastrophobia. But only if they had kept Jerry Goldsmith's score as it originally was composed. When will they ever learn?