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Originally Posted by Nosferatu@Cult Labs  As much as I like Cannibal Holocaust and The Fog, I would rather spend two hours watching Alien than them. I'm not quite sure what it is about the film that makes it so watchable, it's probably because it has a much more complex text and deeper characters than any other films that have been mentioned so you can pick out different things each time.
The Fog and Zombie are good 'fun' horror films and are different viewing experiences than Alien, which is a much more serious piece of work which can be viewed as a simple monster movie or something much more complex with serious things to say about gender politics. |
I'm not a fan of anything that involves space travel or sci-fi elements so "Alien" leaves me a little cold. I think the gender politics in "Alien" has been vastly over hyped by film critics and theorists. Whilst "Alien" is a far more intelligent film than most genre films, at the end of the day it's just a slasher with a better script and "Final Girl" than say, "Friday the 13th" and the rest.
