Either you liked or not, it is YOUR opinion and YOUR feeling. Attacking this movie for "SF sux" because it don't use last computer technology is pure dumbness.
That
was my opinion. I never said the special effects sucked ass. For the most part, they were extremely well done for it's time period, which is why the cheesy alien threw me for a loop. It was so obviously a guy in a suit that I half expected it to look down and check it's wrist watch. Not once did it ever scare me, and it ruined the atmosphere of the entire film.
In case you didn't know, the aliens in the sequel were men in suits as well, but at least they acted the part.
And for the special effects critic, you should consider the age of the movie before stating some BS like that. This is movie is probably not of your generation and will never be. You are a pure product of the: "Ho this thing is cool because it is full 3D vextred with high poly numbers" generation. It is because of you that games and movies are only now a succession of special effects and explosion without any kind of originality behind it!
Don't give me that shit about how special effects don't matter. If the alien's costume was made out of tin foil and magic marker, would you still hail the movie as a classic? Hell no! Special effects are just as important as anything else in a movie or game. Pretending otherwise just makes you sound like an elitist asshole.
By the way, if all anyone cares about nowadays is flashy special effects, then explain why movies like Wing Commander, Pitch Black, and Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within bombed in the theaters.
And don't try to categorize me. You know next to nothing about me.
Keichii: are you sure you have seen the movie ? Splitting and running in the dark without purpose ?
WTF are you talking about ?
They didn't know the danger it represented at first.
They tried to get rid off of the thing by separating the heavy cargo, that asked for some TEAM work.
They were betrayed by the humanoid...
Yes, I own the entire set on DVD. From what you've written, it sounds like
you're the one who hasn't seen it. The only time that they ever seperated the cargo from the hauler vessel was when they went down to LV-426 to inspect the distress signal, and that was simply because they couldn't land the ship while carrying hundreds of thousands of tons of ore behind them. Just so you know, I'll give you a rundown of the entire film...
"OH NO! A crew member was attacked by some kind of alien organism while investigating that derelict alien spacecraft and now it's attached itself to his face... oh, but now it fell off. It's all good. OH NO! Now some sort of alien creature burst out of his chest and is loose aboard the ship! Let's go search the poorly lit corridors for it! YES! We've got it cornered! WHOOPS! It was just a cat. Let's send someone out to get the cat so we don't pick it up again on our mysterious motion trackers. OH NO! The alien killed him! Now let's send the captain into the pitch black air shafts to try and flush the alien out, but let's not give him one of those fancy motion trackers. OH NO! It killed him too! Who would've guessed? OH NO! Now the science officer, who turns out to be an android, has gone crazy and is trying to kill everyone to protect the alien! It's a good thing we managed to kill him. Fuck it, let's just blow up the ship! First, we need to get coolant for the emergency escape vehicle, which apparently isn't much of an emergency escape vehicle since it can only support a fraction of the crew and needs coolant to operate, which is stored in a seperate location for some strange reason. We'll just send two people down to get some; one of them being a paniced idiot who couldn't operate a door knob to save her life. OH NO! The alien is trying to kill them now too! At least they've got a clean shot. Too bad the paniced idiot won't get out of the way so that the would-be hero can blast it. WHOOPS! They're both dead now too. I'll just make my way to the escape pod... OH NO! The alien is blocking the way. I'll just disengage the self destruct and... OH NO! It's too late! Better get back to that escape pod, which doesn't seem to need coolant anymore. Phew! I made it! Now I can relax... OH NO! The alien escaped with me! No biggy. I'll just grab on to something and blow it out into space, which is what we should've done in the first fucking place. THE END."
Like I said, most deaths resulted not from any alien creature, but from the crew's own idiocy. The movie was pure cheese, plain and simple.
-Keiichi
