Movies before 2000 - My Entry
Hello fellow Steemit users. Well there were a lot of good movies made before the year 2000. A lot of work was also done in the zone of horror and science fiction.
My personal favorite was Alien. It was released in the year 1979. It is a movie based on science fiction and horror. The movie is about a crew of a spaceship who intercept a distress signal on their route. They go over to investigate it and are attacked by an alien.
Imdb rating - 8.4
Rotten tomatoes - 98%
Director - Ridley Scott
Writer - Dan O'Bannon
Duration - 1h 57m
ABOUT THE MOVIE
The spacecraft Nostromo is on a return trip back to Earth with a seven-member crew, Captain Dallas, Executive Officer Kane, Warrant Officer Ripley, Navigator Lambert, Science Officer Ash, and two engineers, Parker and Brett. They intercept a signal coming from a distant area. The crew argues whether to investigate it or not. Ultimately, thinking it to be some kind of a distress signal. They travel to a distant, isolated planet. Three members of the crew go looking for the source.
They are surprised by the surroundings there. One of them explores further and finds the eggs of an alien. As he touches one of them, he is attacked by it. The other two members take him back to the ship. They leave the planet and take their route back to the Earth. The crew while examining their friend notice that he has become the host of that thing. He is presumed to be dead. But later he wakes up. However he becomes the first victim as the alien was feeding inside him. The alien kills him and vanishes in the ship.
The crew now has one job, to find it and kill it or capture it. As the movie goes, we watch how one by one the crew members fall prey to the beast until only one of them is left for survival. The last member blows up the main ship and escapes in a smaller shuttle. However, the alien manages to escape as well. In a fierce fight the last member manages to get free from the alien and leaves. The last member then places themselves in hibernation hoping to make it back home.
ANALYSIS OF THE MOVIE
Though a little dated, Alien still proves to be an explosive and unbearably suspenseful horror film bolstered by great performances and amazing set pieces. The story is to the point and apt. It shows how the crew encountered the species and how they fight for their survival. The movie does not waste time on why the crew was on expedition or narrating stories from their past life. The series in which the events take place are chronological and make sense. The movie shifts from mystery horror to survival horror. The movie is set mostly aboard the ship.
The lack of rooms in the movie in the movie adds to the building horror and suspense of the alien aboard the ship and hunting the crew all down. The cinematography had a narrative flow, being smooth tracking shots in the calmer beginnings, and escalating to loose shakey-cam once things got tense. Despite the technology being not so advanced as now, the movie still manages to provide a proper sci-fi genre. The sound quality of the movie was exceptional. It was as if we, ourselves were aboard that ship and we could hear each and every sound, be it the alien or the other ship movements.
I would recommend everyone to try and watch this awesome movie. Here, is the link to the trailer.
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