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Not sure what it is about this film, the aesthetics, story, atmosphere, the acting? I think it’s perhaps my favourite film. The first 20 mins or so in particula

Not sure what it is about this film, the aesthetics, story, atmosphere, the acting? I think it’s perhaps my favourite film. The first 20 mins or so in particular are outstanding. I’m sure many know but the idea of having the mundane industrial theme transferred to space was supposed to have come from a student film called Dark Star[0]. Alien Isolation is also fantastic though hard to fully enjoy the atmosphere for the most part as it’s fairly terrifying. There was a piece on hacker news a while back where a programmer talked through how he was asked to code up the graphics for the landing sequence.(3D terrain wireframe). [0] https://lewtonbus.net/editorials/dark-star-chest-alien-burst/ https://lewtonbus.net/editorials/dark-star-chest-alien-burst...

monkeycantype 5y ago
Something that I love about alien is the way John Hurt's character as the 'face into danger, get things done' soldier resolves the problem of horror movies - why do people do these stupid things that put them in danger? Hurt's character is smart and professional, and doing exactly what he has been trained to do, to put himself and his team into danger in service of a larger agenda. He's no an idiot, he doesn't waver near the danger, he charges straight into it. He's doing his job, as retconned in later movies the xenomoph is valuable asset, worthy of risking the nostromo and its crew for.