This movie was actually pretty scary! 😱
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The casting is so good here.  I love how everyone looks like people instead of former models or Disney channel tweens turned actor.    There is something very grounding about humans looking like average humans.

When they landed, they didn't detach from "the main ship". The smaller ship IS The Nostromo. The larger part is the cargo. Think of the Nostromo as the cab of a semi-trailer with the back part as the cargo it's hauling. The cargo in this case is a huge mobile mineral refinery. The Nostrono is a long-range faster then light tug boat. The crew are basically interstellar truckers.

Dudes, Ash was trying to shove a magazine down Ripley's throat to block off the air to her lungs.  He was trying to suffocate her. The white milky stuff was his hydraulics. He was all soft, malleable material with no mechanical internal support. He needed all that tubing for movement. He started leaking because Ripley pushed him against the wall and caused a lesion.

A theater in Montréal showed the first four films in a row on the 40th anniversary of this one, and I will never forget being in a room with diehard fans wanting to experience this again...

The Thing (1982) that's the alien+horror movie you're looking for.

About the character decisions:  bear in mind that these are basically "truckers in space" - they aren't trained scientists or explorers.  They do a job and they go home; Parker is worried about his pay and his bonus because he needs it to live - they're years away from home shipping stuff they have no interest in.  They're doing it for pay, naturally Parker wants the most he can get out of the time he's lost (he may very well have been screwed over before).  They're probably tired out emotionally, as seems to be the case as you watch them at the start.  They just want to go home, and are not in a position to make intelligent decisions, not by training and not by current inclination ... and don't think the Company wouldn't have taken that into consideration.

All the water, dampness, "rain" was from the ship's massive coooling units.  Like the water coming off your car's A/C when it's running.

I loved how they did not name the sequel Alien 2, but just slapped a “s” on the end of the word Alien. I thought that was brilliant. The making of this movie truly changed the direction of sci-fi horror movies.

In the book the alien got so big so quickly because it was eating the raw food packages in the storage lockers. At one point they could have blown the alien out of the air lock, but Ash set off an alarm scaring it away from the area. In the extended version of the movie Ripley and Parker see the alien drag Brett into the tunnels, you also get to see what happen to Dallas and if you look closely the alien was fixing the walls of the ship to look like where Kane originally found the egg form of the alien. Oh, and by the way I think other than Ripley, Jones was the smartest of the crew he knows when to get the hell out when there was trouble. 😂😂

"Does Predator have its own movie series" cracked me up😂 definitely should be on your watch schedule

There's a deleted scene in this movie that reveals what happened to Dallas's body after he was attacked in the vent. Let's just say, if the alien were to catch you, you'd best hope it decides to kill you then and there because the alternative is far, far worse...

One insane ending they almost used:
The Alien kills Ripley in the final scene in the shuttle. You then somehow hear Ripley making her final report. The camera pans over to show the Alien having the ability to perfectly mimic her voice as it makes the final report. It suggests that the "perfect life form" would make it to Earth after all.
THANK GOD they dismissed that ending!!!

The alien wasn't sitting in front of a huge gun. That was a computer console.

They're all from earth:  "That's not our system" meant that they realize they woke up too soon, and they're all in the wrong system:  not home.

Saw this in theaters when I was 16. Blew my mind. The big screen makes it even better.

All the dripping water and moisture when Brett is looking for the cat is because he went into the landing gear bay, and the moisture is form the condensation accumulate4d on the landing gear that is retraced up into the bay ceiling, and that is also why there is all the chains in the bay was well. Similar to the safety chains on trailer hitch assemblies, etc.

The reason Ripley ran back to try and shut off the sea-destruct system is because the alien was in the corridor blocking her way to the shuttle.

The insides of the alien egg looks real because it IS real. If i recall correctly from the Behind-the-scenes, stomach linings and intestines of pigs or cows were used.

What is often missed today is this is the very first monster movie where the woman is not saved by the leader guy.
First ever. It was amazing for that.

1:15:56 The actress playing Ripley came up with the idea of quietly singing to herself while attempting to defeat the Alien once and for all. Ripley was using it as a coping device while trying to defeat the Alien once and for all.
The song is "you are my lucky star" from the movie "SINGING IN THE RAIN."
The studio gave her grief for this. They couldn't do any reshoots (IDK why) and they feared they'd have to pay expensive royalties for the use of the song.