Pop Goes The Abdomen
Continuing my quest to catch up on movies I should have seen years ago, I watched the director’s cut of Alien tonight. The first hour was pretty slow, I still didn’t know half the characters’ names when they died, and the alien character design has almost become a cliche, but I will say the set designs blew me away. For the most part, they didn’t really look dated and they managed to convey both expansiveness and claustrophobia. Very creepy, very wonderful. I IMDbed the film afterwards and checked to see if it was nominated for an art direction Oscar. It was.
I do have to ask though: what the hell was up with the milk robot?