Alien (1979) is a science-fiction film directed by Ridley Scott and starred by Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, John Hurt, Ian Holm, Harry Dean Stanton, Veronica Cartwright and Yaphet Kotto. (Most people you have seen before in the movies but whose names don't say anything to you) . Alien (1979) is about a vessel's crew that lands on a death planet due to a faint S.O.S. There, a terrorific monster -part animal, part machine, part insect, part human- hatches from an egg and gets in the vessel. When the crew realize it was a faint S.O.S called, they find themselves struggling to survive against this killing machine. At the end, only one member of the crew survive: Sigourney Weaver (we will see her on the next eigth parts of this thriller).
All right, but, Why I don't like this movie?
Because this genre has a lot to give, and when you see that it doesn't fulfill your expections in terms of special effects you feel disappointed. I mean, everything is so fake: the ship, the austronauts' suits, the setting, the little metal-teeth alien coming out from Kane's stomach and the weapons (they are in the XXXth century and still use bullets, what about laser?).
Moreover, and here it goes the second reason, when you watch science-fiction, you expect an interesting plot. A plot that make you live that hypothethical world the movie tries to picture.
While you watch Alien (1979), you start feeling that waiting for an almighty space creature to kill all the scared crew of a vessel is not a great plot. Ok, let's admit, it may happen in a distant future, but you ask yourself: if they have such a technology to travel across the universe, why this monster is so easily able to land on the Earth? Where are the weapons to destroy de ship before it lands, or why aren't it sended more ships to see what's going on there?
At this point, the entire plot of the movie relies on your ability to don't understand what is really happening, and the pure desire of see bloodshed.
Finally, most of science-fiction movies left you something, although hypothetical, valuable for your daily life, like Predator, where you learn that infrared vision can't see through mud; or The Planet of the Apes, where you learn why you should not maltreat apes and gorillas; or in The Fly, where you learn that our DNA is compatible with the one of a fly. In this sense, you don't feel Alien (1979) leaves you something, unless you get rid off parasites every six months to avoid envy-like snakes or little aliens growing in your stomach.
