Sunday, 10 February 2013

FILM OF THE WEEK (10/02/2013): ALIEN (1979).

Ridley Scott's second feature film and his international breakthrough, Alien is a tense and claustrophobic melding of horror and sci-fi with some outstanding visuals.

Owing a strong debt in design to Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) and 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) (from which it also takes one major character point), some people hold this as good but inferior to James Cameron's sequel, Aliens (1986) which I have never understood or agreed with. It takes its time to get going, but the whole experience is quite remarakable. Bonus for Lord Of The Rings fans as we have a ship which contains both Aragorn (from the lesser-known Ralph Bakshi adaptation) and Bilbo (from the better-known Peter Jackson adaptation).

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