Post by cannibalchris on Jun 28, 2007 23:32:39 GMT -5
Nostromo, a commercial towing-vehicle en route to Earth towing several million tons of mineral ore, carries a crew of seven and a computer the crew calls "Mother", which monitors the ship's operations. At the start of the film, Mother receives an apparently unidentifiable signal from a nearby planet and wakes the crew to investigate. The tug portion of the Nostromo lands on the planet (with the ore and mining facilities left in orbit) and Dallas, Kane and Lambert leave the ship to investigate the signal. They soon discover a derelict spacecraft of unknown origin. The group enters the craft, finding the pilot's (see Space Jockey) fossilized remains. Kane descends into a chamber beneath the pilot, discovering thousands of leathery eggs. One of the eggs opens, the lifeform inside leaps out, breaks through the transparent sealed visor of Kane's spacesuit, and attaches itself to his face. Dallas and Lambert carry the unconscious Kane back to the Nostromo. Ripley, the commanding officer in Dallas's absence, refuses to let them back onboard, citing quarantine protocol. However, Ash disregards Ripley's decision and lets them in.
Dallas and Ash attempt to remove the creature from Kane's face, but when they try to cut it off, they discover they can't because it will take Kane's skin off. When they try to cut off one of its digits, its acid blood burns a hole through several decks. Eventually, the life-form detaches from Kane's face on its own (the crew later find it dead). Kane wakes up, seemingly unharmed, and he and the crew decide to have one last meal before they re-enter hypersleep. During the meal Kane begins to choke and convulse and an alien creature bursts through his chest. Parker grabs a fork to kill it, but Ash stops him. The creature then scurries away and the crew splits up into two teams with the aim of capturing it. Ash rigs together a tracking device, while Brett assembles a weapon similar to a cattle prod. Picking up a signal, Parker, Brett, and Ripley think they have the creature cornered, only to discover the crew's cat, Jones. Realizing they might pick up the cat on the tracker again later, Parker sends Brett to catch him. During his search, Brett encounters the alien, now fully grown and enormous, and it hauls him into an air-duct.
Kane examining an eggThe crew realizes that the alien uses the airshafts to move around. Dallas enters the network of airshafts with a flamethrower, intending to drive the alien into an airlock in order to blow it out into space. Using the trackers, the crew picks up the alien's signal moving toward Dallas. Attempting to escape, Dallas runs right into the creature. Ripley queries Mother for advice on destroying the alien, but in the process discovers that the "Company" (unnamed in this film, but identified in the sequels as Weyland-Yutani) had recognized the signal as a warning and wanted one of the alien lifeforms brought back even at the expense of the crew. Ash attacks Ripley after she learns of the Company's "Special Order", but Parker and Lambert arrive before he can finish the job. Parker dislodges Ash's head with a fire-extinguisher, revealing Ash as an android. The three remaining crew members decide to destroy the Nostromo and escape in the shuttle. While Ripley preps the shuttle for take-off, Parker and Lambert go to gather coolant for the shuttle's life-support system. Ripley hears the screams of her colleagues echoing from the bowels of the ship and she runs off to investigate. She arrives too late, discovering the alien has killed Parker and Lambert. Ripley activates the ship's self-destruct and races to the shuttle, but sees the alien near the shuttle-bay entrance. After an unsuccessful attempt at aborting the self-destruct sequence, Ripley escapes with Jones to the shuttle, with the alien nowhere in sight. She takes off and the Nostromo explodes. As she prepares for hypersleep, Ripley discovers that the alien has hidden itself inside the shuttle. She succeeds in donning a spacesuit, blasting the alien outside the ship's hatch with a grappling-gun and blowing it into space using the ship's engines. The film ends as Ripley and Jones the cat enter hypersleep.
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1- damn slow and boring
2- the best one
3- REALLY GORY, hard to watch, but good
1- 4/10
2- 10/10
3- 10/10
I have all three of them
