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This is why you never ever trust an android/scientist .. except bishop he was awesome ..

Still love this movie, always great to watch over again 10/10. Love Ripley :)

the thing that makes this movie so good is that it doesn't really focus on the alien that much, but more of the conflict that starts between the crew, and because you don't see that much of the alien it creates this vibe where you want to see more of it.

This is a work of art. Everything about this film is of the upmost quality, from the cinematography of Derek Vanlint to the brilliant score by Jerry Goldsmith.

The work by artist Hans Giger is completely nothing short of awe-inspiring.

Not enough is said about the acting. It is solid, even inspired, ensemble.

It must be mentioned... this is a really scary movie! Most spooky movies just go through the motions of being scary. This is the one that delivers. And with multiple watchings it never looses its frights!

a strong and innovative SF picture that blends with horror and proves the point that originality pays off, unlike its successors.

excellent film. i like aliens better, but this film is classic.

A film that broke barries for a women action star and created the ultimate steam in a dark hallway setting.

I've always like Sigourney Weaver and some of the actors in this film were very entertaining, but I have never sat through a film and been so excruciatingly bored in my life. (I couldn't just walk out like in other bore-you-out-of-your- mind movies; I was in a film class.) This outdated and dated seventies monster movie was a meaningless mishmash of one ghoulish parasitic effect after another that at some arbitrary point reached the hundredth climax and got packed up for the ending. Irritatingly loud pseudo sci-fi construction machines drive around the screen fighting octopus type mutants and crab-like aliens or preparing for take offs and landings. An archaic "feminist" script samples lines and comebacks like: "Did anyone ever mistake you for a man?" -- "No, has anyone ever mistaken YOU for a man?" (Actually a pretty good line delivered by Vasquez, a tough female, sci fi marine with a giant toys-are-us machine gun.) Weaver stomps around like big foot in a giant steel contraption blowing up overwhelming creatures with fire guns (every woman's dream of machine gun downing all her sexist coworkers in 1970s office land?). Perhaps these self conscious, 70s elements were the good points of an otherwise loud, story-free, non-timeless romp thru space. We are told that obstacles and villains make for good movies but does there have to be an obstacle at every half second of the entire movie? The obstacles continue non-stop until the movie suddenly ends (perhaps at the point where every effect and gimmick has been included). The original idea for this film must have been hatched by a welder in his teens one day while cutting through a steel door. (There are plenty of welding scenes and flying tanks and weapons, talk of nuking the octopus looking aliens to death and a host of other destroy-the-planet concepts cavalierly dealt with in true Hollywood fashion.) Perhaps this is all a part of some elitist mind control experiment to desensitize everyone to the dangers of nukes and war machines and make us think we can survive on other planets by fire gunning imaginary aliens, boogie men and 'weapons of mass destruction.' Who knows? Or maybe there is really no hidden conspiracy for world/intergalactic domination and this was just another wasteful, meaningless attempted escape from boredom that was more boring than boredom itself. Tomatoes for Hollywood, anyone?

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This is one of the very few films to ever scare me when watching it. I am normally fine when it comes to horror films, but this was diferent, the suspense alone was enough to make me soil myself. It might be a bit out of date, but it still has scenes that make you fall off of the edge of your seat in terror! 9.5/10