Runtime:
117 minutes
Directed
by: Ridley Scott
Starring:
Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, Ian Holm, Veronica Cartwright
From:
20th Century Fox
I
figured it was time to watch the Blu-Ray of this great film, which
I've seen on VHS, DVD, and even on the big screen before. It was a
few years ago I got to watch it on the big screen, but it was an
obvious DVD projection, as I realized by the end that it was the
Director's Cut, which was literally only created to have another
version of the film out there and to have some heralded scenes that
fans wanted to see; stuff was taken out so that it would be the same
length. Both versions are pretty cool to me but I decided to see the
original version this time.
You
guys already know the plot: a bunch of space trucker types end up
going to a mysterious moon to research a mysterious signal; they find
the famed Space Jockey and poor Kane (John Hurt) gets attacked by a
Facehugger and a Xenomorph pops out of him and causes all that
trouble.
I
don't think I need to do much explaining as to why this movie is
great and it works well even 33 years later, but I'll at least say a
few syllables. The familiar cast of character actors along with the
relativey new to motion pictures Weaver are pretty great as an
ensemble. They work well together and all their arguing makes sense
and it's realistic; the fact that the characters all seem realistic
(for example, the characters played by Yaphet Kotto and Harry Dean
Stanton argue that they should be paid more for having to go down to
LV-426) is a big asset too.
But,
what is the best part is how tense and claustrophobic it is. It still
is tense and claustrophobic in 2012, a lot of it being set on a ship
that is actually huge but it comes off as being small. These average
people have to fight a mysterious creature that is lethal with just
items like flamethrowers and electric prods... awesome. Others have
said much more and much better about this movie so you can explore
those opinions on your own; I presume that everyone has seen this
already and will agree with me on how great this is, anyhow. Compared
to this, no wonder why I was let down by Prometheus.
I'll
be back Wednesday night.
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