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Originally Posted by DudeEMETIB
Alien (1979)
I've never seen it before, and I'm sure most of you will disagree with me. But I was bored for the majority of this movie. It was definitely pretty good visually considering it's time...but aside from the (relatively short) suspenseful scenes with the Alien...it was pretty boring. 2.5/5
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It's amazing in context.
I doubt you have managed to get through life without seeing the Alien creature in media, toys or another film, so it wouldn't be as striking. If you had never seen it before, though, it's hella scary.
It's a shame, the coverage of the creature has completely ruined it for anyone these days. Sort of like seeing a big close up of Kevin Spacey on a movie poster for The Usual Suspects with the caption "Academy Award winning actor, Kevin Spacey
is Keyser Söze". Sort of takes the wind out of the sails, if you know what I mean...
The original director, Ridley Scott, is working on two prequels. Maybe he can breathe some life back into the franchise. Or even better, give us a new Alien.
According to Ridley Scott the time-frame of this film will be, "... a while ago. It's very difficult to put a year on Alien (1979), but [for example] if Alien was towards the end of this century, then the prequel story will take place thirty years prior."