my favorite movie ever

Rating: 10/10 (10 July 2004)

What can I say that hasn't already been said by the legion of fans that this movie has?
In short, it all came together for this film.
Do you ever think back to your all-time best film-going experience? This was it for me. I went to see this movie by myself as a matinée in 1986. It was the first R-rated film I ever saw. I remember pretty clearly the feeling I had for the rest of the day (and for a week or so later) after I walked out of the theater. It was a feeling like the rest of life was so... boring and inconsequential... after seeing this movie. Of course, that's how a great action film should make you feel, and I now realize that I had developed a huge crush on Sigourney Weaver too. She definitely deserved to win the Best Actress Oscar for this role.
In a movie with so many great lines, let me share one that I repeat from from time to time, to no one in particular, when a situation is going from bad to worse: "DRAKE, WE ARE *LEAVING*!"
Anyway, if you haven't seen the film and are a sci-fi, horror, or action fan, stop reading this and go rent the director's cut. Or better yet, perhaps it will be re-released for the big screen sometime soon.
Fox Entertainment, are you listening?