Alien (1979)

Rating: 90%
By the time I am typing the intro to this review, we will have around 15 days, 8 hours, and 40 minutes until Prometheus. So it is high time that around the next couple of days that I get it over with, with watching the Aliens series to that I'm all set and pumped for Prometheus. Now let's start with the one sci-fi horror film that started it all: Alien.

Plot: The spaceship Nostromo, is on its way home to earth from collecting mineral ore with it's seven crew members in stasis. But along the way, the ship receives a transmission from a nearby planet which causes the computer, "Mother" to awaken the crew to go check it out. When three of the members head out on the planet's surface, they discover an alien spacecraft and take a look inside it. But when they get deeper inside it, one of the crew members comes across a room full of eggs, and one of them opens and a creature attaches itself to his face.

Oh man I remember the first time I saw this movie. It was freaking suspenseful. I mean for those of you who haven't seen the film I won't say anything except that its one of those horror films that just builds up suspense more and more as the move goes on. It's also very creative considering the design of the mysterious creature, the ship, and the technology that they had for the movie. The visual effects and stuff are not spectacular, but they are very impressive considering the time that this movie was made. What's really nice about the movie is *WARNING SPOILER* how when you are watching it the first, time you don't necessarily have someone to particularly root for. The characters are all in it together and we don't get an actual main character until the very end. I think that especially was very interesting when it came to character and with what to make the audience think about the characters. *END OF SPOILER*

Actors/Characters:
Veronica Cartwright/Lambert: Yeah she was not much of an interesting character considering with how she was so super scared the whole time. So she may not have been that way the entire time, but most of us who have seen this movie remember her being the annoying scared one.
Ian Holm/Ash: I think this was the first movie I saw of Ian Holm outside of him being ol' Bilbo Baggins. So considering how he was this distant guy who just follows orders guy, plus what happens to him during the rest of the film can be messed up considering how he's so different from big a not-so-simple Hobbit.
Sigourney Weaver/Ripley: She was a cool character, tough, realistic, determined, and a much better leader than Dallas.   

Music: The music was very well done. While there wasn't a lot, they did make some of the scary moments more suspenseful.

Editing: The editing was very good. The cuts may have been quick whenever the aline was killing someone, but then again, there probably was not a lot of people were into blood and guts.

And that's my review for Alien. It's an awesome, creative, suspenseful film that was structured well in terms of character development and with the story. easily one of the best movies in terms of both sci-fi and horror ever made.