Every playoff series victory starts with a single win…
- Yankees @ Dodgers (0-2), 5:08 pm, FOX
Alien (1979)
Rating: B
Dir: Ridley Scott
Star: Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton
The thing which stands out about Alien now is, it’s a bit like Monty Python‘s TV series. By that, I mean, at its best, both are great… but, boy, is there a lot of easily forgotten filler. Here, it’s easy to remember certain scenes, most obviously, John Hurt’s last meal (above), which is right up there with the blood-test sequence from The Thing as genre landmarks. However, I’d forgotten just how much slow creeping around dimly-lit corridors this contains. It’s well-photographed slow creeping around dimly-lit corridors, to be sure. This is Ridley Scott, who could deliver well-photographed paint drying. Yet, for anyone who has seen this a million times before, so knows who and why gets to the end, it’s not particularly exciting.