Thread:Gargoyle One/@comment-31377280-20180521011057/@comment-31377280-20180525110356

'k, I just need checks to make sure I'm not going crazy.

Oh, one more thing I love about the film: almost every sci-fi work out there has to spend a lot of valuable time on explaining in-verse mechanics and points of significance to the audience... but Alien doesn't really have that. No one had to give a encyclopedia entry on what they were doing in space or how this or that tech worked. And the way that the audience understands how the Alien functions just by visual means. Genius.

Of course, the sequel Aliens rules, too. Less thematically masterful, but no slouch and probably a more entertaining film overall.