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Alien - Director's Cut (2003)Horror, Sci-Fi , 1 h 57 minTom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean StantonDirector: Ridley ScottIMDb rating: ★★★★★★★★★☆ 8.5/10 (599,159 votes)With their intention being to respond to an SOS call they recieved from an unknown moon, the crew of a commercial spaceship decides to search the mentioned moon for intelligent life; when they run into a completely different, bizarre form of being. The alien soon starts hunting and terminating the terrified crew, one man at a time.( IMDb)Critical reception:Critical reaction to the film was initially mixed. Some critics who were not usually favorable towards science fiction, such as Barry Norman of the BBC's Film series, were positive about the film's merits. Others, however, were not; reviews by Variety, Sight and Sound, Vincent Canby and Leonard Maltin were mixed or negative. (Maltin, however, reassessed the film upon the release of the Director's Cut and gave Alien a positive review.) A review by Time Out said the film was an 'empty bag of tricks whose production values and expensive trickery cannot disguise imaginative poverty'. In a 1980 episode of Sneak Previews discussing science fiction films of the 1950s and 1970s, critics Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert were critical of Alien. Ebert called it 'basically just an intergalactic haunted house thriller set inside a spaceship' and one of several science fiction pictures that were 'real disappointments' compared to Star Wars, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and 2001: A Space Odyssey, though he did compliment the early scene of the Nostromo's crew exploring the alien planet as showing 'real imagination'.

This film captures Pink Floyd live - and alone - in a small stadium in the petrified Italian city of Pompeii, playing some of their pre-Dark Side of the Moon material. There is also footage of the band in the studio, working on Dark Side.

Vikings war of clans codes for resources. However, the film later made it onto Ebert's Great Movies list, giving it four stars and stating, 'Ridley Scott's 1979 movie is a great original.' ( Wikipedia)More info at,. I am a bot.

Live versions of the songs, filmed in an old Pompeii amphitheater. Songs included are Echoes (split into 2 parts), Careful with that axe, Eugene, A saucerful of secrets, One of those days, Set the controls for the heart of the sun, Mademoiselle nobbs (Seamus, but with Rick's dog on vocals). 'Careful' and 'Set the controls' are shot at night with minimal lighting, setting a beautiful mood. And the live Saucerful just has to be seen, with Waters jumping around in the sunlight banging the huge gong. The 80-minute version features studio footage from the recordings of Dark side of the Moon, with alternate versions of Us and them, On the run and Brain Damage, as well as interviews with the band. I absolutely love the Pink Floyd, but have been let down by Floyd-related things in the past, so I was quite wary of this movie.

It managed to win me over, however, and now it's one of my favourites. It was absolutely hysterical to see Mason go absolutely wild and smash his drums so hard that one of his sticks was flung off into the distance. It was amazing, how fast he managed to recover with a spare. Makes you wonder if he has some sort of quick release drum stick gadget hidden somewhere in his pants. All in all, a fantastic piece.

Syd Barrett

I highly recommend it!