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Alien (1979)
In
space no one can hear you scream.
Director: Ridley Scott,
rated R for sci-fi gore, violence, language
  Starring:
Tom Skerritt, Sigourney
Weaver, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt, Ian Holm,
Yaphet Kotto
DML Rating:
★★★★★★★★★★
- perfect
DML Top 50
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Dad's Full (Spoiler) Review
and Deep Dive of Alien
"Wait a minute. If we let
it in, the ship could be infected."
- WO Ellen Ripley
Why watch this?
It introduced cinema sci-fi to a xenomorph and Sigourney Weaver.
Plot Summary:
The crew of a commercial space tug, Nostromo, is awakened
from cryo-sleep to investigate a distress signal from a nearby
planetoid. They discover a derelict spaceship and a lower
chamber filled with strange eggs. When one of the eggs is
disturbed, a deadly extraterrestrial creature comes aboard the
ship and proves to be quite lethal.
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Dad's Preview:
In the wake of
Star Wars
(1977), this film
gave audiences a very different sort of alien encounter. Director Ridley Scott went to great lengths to
create a futuristic space setting anchored in realism. The creature they encounter is what you might call a "worse case
scenario" - deadly,
unmerciful and all but indestructible. Sigourney Weaver, in her first
starring role, steals every
scene as a strong, confident, capable leader in a crisis. There are lots of scary moments
as the crew tries to find the alien within their spaceship -
full of tunnels and dark corners - only to realize that it's hunting
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Brandywine
Productions; 20th Century Fox
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