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movie review - Alien

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Calgary, 2002.05.20

This is the third time I've seen this one, and I've noticed something. As with The Fly, I can see this one every five years or so and not remember a damn thing about it. Which is good, because it's certainly worth seeing repeatedly.

The movie is about the crew of a small space vessel that's en route to the Solar system from deep space towing a large ore refinery. On the way, the ship intercepts a signal of unknown origin while the crew sleeps. The Company that owns everything redirects the ship to investigate, and the crew is woken to do the dirty work. And what dirty work it is, indeed.

Strongly recommended.

rand()m quote

Immature poets imitate mature poets steal bad poets deface what they take and good poets make it into something better or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique utterly different than that from which it is torn the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion. A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time or alien in language or diverse in interest.

—T.S. Eliot