Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site h-sc1.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!mhuxn!mhuxr!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!h-sc1!shiue From: shiue@h-sc1.UUCP (steve shiue) Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Re: In defence of Alien - Re: Alien II coming soon Message-ID: <648@h-sc1.UUCP> Date: Sun, 27-Oct-85 14:47:18 EST Article-I.D.: h-sc1.648 Posted: Sun Oct 27 14:47:18 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 30-Oct-85 04:25:50 EST References: <11900004@hpfclp.UUCP> <7013@ucla-cs.ARPA> <85149@cpsc53.UUCP> <987@mit-vax.UUCP> <85156@cpsc53.UUCP> <447@looking.UUCP> Organization: Harvard Univ. Science Center Lines: 24 Regarding Doug Anderson's comments on "Alien" (didn't read the original article but excerpts posted by Brad Templeton): Has this man ever heard of the "willing suspension of disbelief"? I realize that some poorly written and filmed sci-fi films are so ludicrous that it is impossible for anyone with ANY science background to enjoy them because they spend too much of the time cringing. However, I don't think that "Alien" comes remotely close to falling in this category. And besides, for me, the gothic horror elements of the story are the real active ingredients. I don't think this movie "tries to be a sci-fi film and fails miserably" at all. I think that the sci-fi elements provide a vehicle for the story, much as the sci-fi trappings in "Dune" (THE NOVEL) are a setting that provides Frank Herbert freedom to create a geopolitical and religious messiah epic. -Steve Shiue "The only thing that worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge..." -Hunter S. Thompson