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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

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

—-Antoine de Saint Exupery