Alien (3/4 stars)

Some time in the future Earth has sent out a group of people as ore miners. Reposnding to a distress call they decide to investigate and introduce the world to the acclaimed "scariest movie ever made."


"ClearPlay Experience"

I have previously watched bits and peices of Alien but have never sat down and watched it from start to finish, in 1 setting.

I turned off all the filters off for Violence, Blood and Distrubing Imagry, because - like I said - I'd seen the most famous parts of the movie already. I was not only surprised by the superb job ClearPlay did in accurately taking out the profanity and skipping the "Ripley" character getting down to her underwear, but the violence - at the time was shocking - would now be a PG-13, when stacked up against others, like Saw. The chest burst is a lot less graphic than I remember, probably because I remember the "magic" of the moment being shocking, because of what happens and not because of gory visuals.

Actually the violent content in this movie is suggestive and doesn't show any chest cavities spewing forth the alien. When this scene does come to fruition the burst is so quick I almost didn't know what happened and we see a small alien in the foreground of a bloody arm and chest, but no human insides are seen.

Additionally, the alien attacking people shows about half a second of the alien attacking. You cannot even tell where on the person the alien attacks.

Finally the weapons... there was only a flame thrower, that was only used... probably twice.


Overall I say ClearPlay did a wonderful job.


Alien has a common sense rating of PG-13, but filtered at maximum levels would Alien only be appropriate for 13+, due to scary images and blood.