
Being really sick means I have tons of down time. The bad news is I’m too dizzy to play “Halo” or other video games, but I can get caught up on the stack of DVDs I have to watch, which is why I spent some time today with “Alien” and “Aliens” (something Jim Smash convinced me to do).
My first impression of both films is that even though they are 25-30 years old, they still hold up. The characters, the plot, the dialog, the pacing… it all still works. In fact, for the most part, even the special effects were effective. There were only two scenes in the first film where I thought “oh soooo a guy in a suite” and there was only one scene in the seconded where I thought “oh that’s sooo a model.” (Read on …)