Not a 10 but very very close

Rating: 9/10 (26 August 2008)

I agree in general. I cannot say it is the best movie ever but certainly in my opinion one of the top. The problem of rating this and other older movies is the fact,that most people tend to compare it with contemporary film making. This is totally wrong. When we saw Alien i was a student in England in my teens. People were leaving the theaters scared to death!!!We never had a similar experience in the past. It was the scariest movie we have seeing up to that time. It's being copied ever since thousand of times, but never surpassed even by Aliens, which also is a very good movie, an action thriller and not a sci-fi as this original. The creature is also the meanest, ugliest, scariest and perfect alien ever designed. It is the perfect killing machine, and this what makes the film so interesting. The humans are helpless when confronting it, and although technology has advanced they are still very weak compared to it. I think that if there is a moral issue coming from Alien is that we have to be humble no matter how much we advance scientifically. Alien is the punishment for our arrogance, an arrogance which is obvious in the early stages of the movie. I would give it a 9.