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Dark, Eerie And Familiar

Thu, 06/14/2012 - 10:04am
Movies: ‘Prometheus’
By
Patrick L. Sullivan
patricks@lakevillejournal.com
Michael Fassbender as David, the duplicitous robot

I saw “Alien” when it came out in 1979 at the fancy Uptown Theater movie house on Connecticut Avenue in Washington, D.C. It was a great barn of a place, with an enormous screen and all the bells and whistles — Dolby sound, speakers everywhere and a decidedly liberal policy about smuggling in your own libations. They didn’t even mind if you smoked a little reefer in the alley.

So when the alien thing popped out of the guy’s stomach, it was, er, memorable. More so than it is at age 50, sipping herbal tea and watching the Netflix stream on a laptop, that’s for sure.

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