Ten Reasons to Love: Ridley Scott's ALIEN: "With the imminent release of Prometheus, the precursor to Ridley Scott's 1979 Alien film, it behooves one to look back at what made the original such a damn good movie in the first place.
I came to Alien in a strange way - I may be misremembering, but I believe I saw Cameron's bombastic sequel Aliens first. JC's film is full of snappy dialogue, lens flares and fun action sequences, and was a near perfect film for my adolescent brain. As I've gotten older, I've grown to appreciate tremendously a film that at the time was my most disappointing film experience, Alien3. When you're expecting space opera, and get bald guys and dreary endings, my high-school brain wasn't up for the challenge. These days, free from the the expectations set by the previous films, Cameron's sequel has become a mere trifle, little more than a guilty pleasure, while Fincher's has at least become an integral part of the series (yeah, I even like the fourth one).
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