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Originally Posted by spooky
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."
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Yes, the first Alien in context was moon-shattering. The images, sounds, characters, and ideas we so real--contrast this with its contemporary, the original Star Wars. But, out of context today, it doesn't hold up. That's a shame. This is really similar to what a lot of art geeks are trying to explain that Keith doesn't get. Context really is important.
I consider Darkstar 1974 to be the real prequel for Alien. But for the beach ball segment, it was pretty innovative--real, bored people working in outer space, thinking existential thoughts, blowing stuff up... including themselves.