"Although the spaceship models look like they were patched together with Super Glue in your brother's basement, the majority of the 24-year-old movie holds up well. The production design in Alien was always among the movie's strongest points, and the bulky details (a motion detector the size of a leaf blower; spaceship monitors that look like Radio Shack TRS-80 computer screens) seem more industrial than quaint. Even with its horrifying villain and scenes of bloody excess, Alien endures as a superior piece of filmmaking, with a pace that's like watching an art film when compared to the over-the-top space operas in recent years."
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British films1970s American filmsScience fiction horror filmsAlien (franchise)Films directed by Ridley Scott
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Peter Hartlaub, “Few surprises in an impressively streamlined 'Alien'”, Sfgate, (Oct. 29, 2003)
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