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1979
Alien is a 1979 science fiction horror film directed by Ridley Scott and written by Dan O'Bannon, based on a story by O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett. It follows a commercial starship crew who investigate a derelict space vessel and are hunted by a deadly extraterrestrial creature. The film stars Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt, Ian Holm, and Yaphet Kotto. It was…
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*(SPECIAL NOTE: Capsule review of the same film is available here.)* When science fiction becomes a topic of discussion among people who aren't fans or even superficial connoisseurs of the genre, they usually have a very narrow definition of what a science fiction film is or what it should be. Thanks to the influence of people like George Lucas, Steven Spielberg or Gene Roddenberry, science fiction is considered an…More
