Thursday, August 9, 2012

Alien (1979)

While I can safely grant you that the practical effects are mind blowing, the set design is amazing and the mood is kept tense and excitable throughout the film... I can grant you those things.

What I didn't expect in going to see Alien for the first time was the amount of running back and forth down the same corridor for seemingly no reason and the rescuing (again and again) of a cat, once again, with no reason given. Though tense and visually appealing, a lot of the air is taken out of it due to these repetitious and unexplained exercises.

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