Ripley is a BAMF

Okay, I know that I haven't posted here in a billion years. Actually, more like two years, but that will change.

Short version of the long story is that I've graduated from college and now am looking for longer than part time employment. This free time means that I will be able to catch up on my movie list and knock out reviews.

I've decided to alter the blog a bit. Instead of just tearing crappy movies a new one, I've decided to give honest reviews to movies that I've seen, good and bad alike.

So in following with this new decision, the first movie that I'm going to give an honest to God review is Alien.

I saw the movie in the library the other day, and since I hadn't seen the film since I was in 6th grade, I decided to give it another viewing, now that I'm older and better able to appreciate the film as a whole.

I really liked Alien. I loved the Ripley isn't the typical female protagonist that starts out in lacking strength/moxie/guts/ability only to become a bad-ass by the end of the movie. She is already a bad-ass. She's good at her job. Yes, she grows as a character (and she is far more bad-ass in the next two installments of the franchise) but she is believable as a character and a woman. Smart and as level-headed as one in terror can be, she was one of my first examples of what I wanted to be when I grew up when I first saw the movie all those years ago. That hasn't changed one bit.

I appreciate that it is made exceptionally clear that if they had listened to Ripley at the beginning of "The Incident" they probably would have made it back home with minimal loss of life.

For a film that was made twenty some-odd years ago, it stands up. The dark ship is still creepy. The technology on the ship, while slightly outdated, is passable. And the Alien itself is still scary. There is a minimum of hokey special effects that tended to be prevalent at the time.

If you want an awesome alien movie that features one of the baddest of the bad-ass chicks on her way to becoming even more epic, check out Alien.