the body/body-adjacent horror was delightful
the inception-style game within a game was delightful
the acting was fine
too much of it was dialogue that could have been visual or action
overall felt a bit dull
super reminiscent of the matrix (computers, cyberpunk, everyone's plugged into a second universe) but they both had to have found their influences elsewhere, not in each other
In the 1979 horror sci-fi classic, people on the remote towing spaceship Nostromo are terrorized by an alien monster. Fantastically weird sets and alien design by Swiss artist H.R. Giger establish a truly creeptastic environment.
This first of the franchise is sometimes called “Truckers in Space”. Everyone is there to finish a job and collect the money. The second movie in the franchise, Aliens, is “Soldiers in Space”. Alien is the slightly better movie because the characters are more nuanced…
