Showing posts with label Alien (Movie). Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alien (Movie). Show all posts
Saturday, 4 July 2015
Alien (1979) - Lisa's Review
I have great memories of sitting in front of the sofa on the floor and watching this movie with my dad when my age would still have been in single figures. Let me get this out there now - I don't like sci-fi movies as a whole. I'm not a fan of the copious amount of sci-fi programs out there and I generally get bored pretty quickly if they start talking in sci-fi language. That out of the way, I LOVE this movie (and several of its sequels).
For starters, the alien referred to in the movies title was designed by none other than one of my favourite artists H R Giger. It was like nothing we had seen before and was ground breaking, influencing so many movies that followed. It obliterated the template for science fiction movies and brought so much that was new to the genre. There was so much more to offer here. I won't go into a plot or premise, as the likelihood of anyone reading this having not seen Alien is non-existent. I will say that even if you don't like sci-fi, give this one a go anyway. It has a great script, fantastic acting, amazing cinematography and a set design like I've never seen. Everything from how the Alien came to be on board the ship Nostromo, to the attempts to destroy it with limited options available, to how the story ended, was pretty near perfect. You won't watch this movie and feel that you wished they'd done anything different. This movie is pretty much as near to perfect as you can get for a science fiction movie.
Tuesday, 23 June 2015
Alien (1979) - Will's Review
Alien was groundbreaking in its depiction of space travel; it was (and to a large degree, still is) the norm to show all space travel, no matter how far in the future, as being the domain of pioneers and explorers, in gleaming white console rooms. Here space travel has clearly been going on for a while, and the crew of the Nostromo are basically space-truckers (or at best the space-merchant-navy), while the ship itself is industrial looking and lived-in.
When they accidentally pick up the Alien, the confined setting gives plenty of scope for claustrophobia, while the labyrinth of corridors which comprise much of the ship give the creature plenty of room to hide, allowing that the Alien could be anywhere. This mixture of claustrophobia and hiding spots gives the movie a lot to play with in the way of suspense.
When they accidentally pick up the Alien, the confined setting gives plenty of scope for claustrophobia, while the labyrinth of corridors which comprise much of the ship give the creature plenty of room to hide, allowing that the Alien could be anywhere. This mixture of claustrophobia and hiding spots gives the movie a lot to play with in the way of suspense.
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