If we don’t, remember me knocks it out of the park once again.
Just look at that shot. The clouds starting to fly past, Ripley’s expression, the sneaker propped up on the console, the blink. Alien had a look that perfectly captured a sense of place. Everything in that movie feels solid, used, real.
Compare that to Avatar or the Star Wars prequels where it feels like nobody is really holding anything. We see the characters in a world that they aren’t attached to.
“Micro-changes in air density, my ass.”
