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Film still holds up well.


I watched it last week. Still looks great, and holds up very well. I'm afraid Scott's new film will be awful. We'll see, though.

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I saw Prometheus and Alien at the cinema last night, followed by a ten minute preview of Covenant and honestly, it does look awful. :(

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Alien is perfect. But the new ones are terrible, Scott should just retire, he makes 4 bad movies for a good one now. That's a bad average.

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Everything looks good except the adult alien looks cheap. I think Ridley Scott is a fabulous director. His pictures are usually hits.

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It still looks as magnificent as a film can possibly look. It doesn't get any less visually arresting (or tense) as time goes by, in my book.

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Watched last night for the he first time in. Few years and it does hold up well on all fronts. The acting really is top notch for a horror film! The only thing that looked bad was the plastic looking alien getting blasted with the exhaust at the end. It should have been writhing in agony

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That and 8 bit computers with monochrome text and 8 color displays. :/

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True
Also “Mother” less processing power than my iPhone

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Most of the other movies have been terrible.
The movie holds up except not even HR Giger
thought about the displays being flat screens.
It always makes me laugh to see all those
PC monitors they dragged into outer space.

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I am always so impressed with the sets used in this film. They look so real, it really feels like a starship that has been used for ore transport/processing for years. No computer graphics, everything is just 'real'. The computers and flight controls are more realistic than those in Alien Covenant and Prometheus as well.

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What about the TV cathode-ray monitors ... not exactly realistic.

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well , in the future , they ran out of unobtanium , which is vital in the manufacture of flat screens, so they had to return to CRT

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