Right, so I watched Alien the other night. Really enjoyed it, it was better than most sci-fi/horror movies including those made recently with presumably higher budgets and more sophisticated special effects.
It suffered from some pretty cheesy plot aspects, like someone going off on their own or just doing something stupid but there weren't too many of these.
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Currently I can only think of the other engineer being sent off alone to catch the cat, although I'm sure there are more.
They seemed to have tried to justify why most actions were taken, so for example
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the captain guy had to be alone in the maintenance shaft or whatever it was because there wasn't much room to maneouvre, and obviously the unwise actions of Ash were proven to be logical and deliberate when his true identity was revealed.
I was pretty scared watching it, it was certainly creepy and tense. I liked that it built the tension well rather than just throwing shocks about. The alien craft was very creepy and I felt like I was willing them to leave.
Got the second, third and I think fourth as well now on the Sky+ box so will hopefully get around to watching the next one sometime soon