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Originally Posted by octothorp
And in regards to Aliens already being picked, I'm not going to trash talk someone else's pick too much, but I strongly prefer Scott's tense sci-fi horror tone over Cameron's slightly goofy action adventure.
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I'm so glad I'm not the only one who feels that way. My wife and I often talk about the relative merits of Aliens and Alien--and the prior film's bleak, nearly soundless spaceship, with its class-specific hierarchy (the dank and noisy engine-room vs. the genteel authority figures above) plus Ian Holm's (this was unless I'm mistaken his first American film, though he already had a very impressive resume in the UK) subtle and nuanced performance as Ash, the android who stands in for the inhuman corporate agenda that lingers as the movie's true, unspoken "monster."
Just a great film--and is a great example of how sound editing really makes a horror movie far more effective.