I Hate Wall-E

Alien Dir. Ridley Scott

Feat. Sigourney Weaver (Riley), Veronica Cartwright (Lambert), Harry Dean Stanton (Brett), John Hurt (Kane)

20th Century Fox, 1979.

Ridley Scott’s 1979 film Alien is a poorly displayed sci-fi film. I am a huge sci-fi lover except for two films: Wall-E, and… Psycho. People who are sci-fi lovers normally find the genre intriguing and suspenseful. The so called “sci-fi” haters believe that the genre can come off as boring or difficult to grasp. Perhaps those people just say the movie Alien, because after viewing the film, I would agree that this movie was pretty boring.

Although, I may be discrediting the movie due to it’s boring ways, it did have a set theme in place. Expect the unexpected, and take it from there. The crew was led by a gentlemen named: Dallas, who had a second man in command: Kane. As they were on their way back to Earth when they received a distress call. They went on to investigate. When they were investigating, Kane was attacked by an alien who just hatched from an egg. The crew members were then put in a predicament: should they let Kane, and the two other crew members (Dallas and Lambert) back in or not. Ripley’s initial decision was to keep them out, because if they were let back in, the rest of the crew members lives would be in danger. Even though leaving them off the ship would most likely kill the three, she knew that if they were let back in the rest of the crew would be in danger. Later on in the film, another crew member would eventually open the hatch and let the three back in… with the alien.

Now you can possibly see, when something potentially catastrophic happened, the crew members had to know how to act quick. They were desperate for survival. All they could have done when the ones outside of the ship were with the alien was to keep their composure and “go with the flow.” This movie was somewhat suspenseful, but it definitely was not one of the suspense films that I would watch. One reason is because it did not have many settings. For example it is like Wall-E (hence my title). It took place either on a moon or in a spacecraft, which I found was very boring and bland. If this movie had more changes of scenery and significant plot twists I would have gave it more credit. It surely does not live up to it’s rating on popular movie review site Rotten Tomatoes.com: 94%... maybe 44%.