But a film like Jaws is much easier to relate to while still putting the humans in a setting (the sea) where they're out of their comfort zone.Īliens is a great sequel but the rest are more average. This movie's an exception to their routine. But we do get the impression they're heading back to Earth and usually spend their journeys in some kind of cryo-sleep.

These humans are in the middle of nowhere. The tone is a bit depressing in some ways. It builds up the anticipation and a sense of inescapability. It's more about suspense than jump scares. But I like its presence and the overall mood of the movie - it's a very well made horror. I have to admit, I don't find the alien itself scary. But we also get to experience some imaginative situations which aren't yet possible with current technology but might well become realities in the near future. There are some frustrating horror cliché moments where it seems like problems could have been prevented if the people were less stupid at key moments. This keeps things tense - we don't know what might come out of nowhere, who can be trusted, where are you safe. There are many twists and turns in the plot. There's always plenty to take in and ponder. But I enjoy the quiet moments just as much.

When things do happen, they have more impact because of the calm moments in between. The movie takes its time setting things up and creating a mood. There are slow shots moving down corridors, letting us take in the designs of the walls, sometimes with emergency rotating lights and gas clouding things a bit. As it turns out, she was right the whole time. She know why certain rules are in place and gets frustrated that others would prefer to take risks. She's one of the few to use common sense throughout the whole movie. Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) is a strong female character who is forced into a survival situation. The details surrounding the alien, how it reproduces, what defence mechanisms it has, what on Earth it even is are very cool. We're in the dark along with the characters. Like all the great horror movies, the monster or threat is only gradually revealed. Our universe (and the beings in it) can be a harsh but beautiful mistress. In Interstellar as well, the characters go on journeys at the edge of what's possible, seeing incredible things but also facing the serious risk of death. There's a juxtaposition of beauty and death. As one character says at one point, they practically admire the alien, despite its capacity for destruction. It's mysterious but captures mankind's natural sense of wonder - it's not completely evil. There are faint echoes of more innocent sounding woodwinds with swelling, ominous strings in the background. br> The score by the prolific Jerry Goldsmith is one of his best. It's a shame Prometheus was such a terrible attempt at expanding on the story behind it. The inside of an alien spaceship is full of imaginative and strange details like nothing you've seen before. They seem to combine the organic with the artificial and often border on the sexual.

He also worked on Jodorowsky's Dune (which never got made) and you can see similarities in the design. Giger, a German with a unique and fascinating style. The Nostromo spaceship, the interiors, the Alien itself. The look of the movie is incredible from start to finish. Its strength is its patience combined with top-notch visuals and music and an original plot. When one of the eggs is disturbed, the crew realizes that they are not alone on the spaceship and they must deal with the consequencesĪlien is one of the best sci-fi movies of all time and it also happens to be a horror, making it all the more tense and exciting to watch. At the same time as they discover a hive colony of some unknown creature, the ship's computer deciphers the message to be a warning, not a distress call. After a rough landing, three crew members leave the spaceship to explore the area on the moon. The crew are under obligation to investigate and the spaceship descends on the moon afterwards. The distant future, the crew of the commercial spaceship Nostromo are on their way home when they pick up a distress call from a distant moon.

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