![]() ![]() Sir Ridley Scott was one of them, and his 1979 sci-fi horror thriller, Alien, remains the type of masterpiece that critics use as one such subversion. Naturally, as time has passed and moviegoers have evolved, there have been countless filmmakers who have infamously toed the line between smart and savage, curious and crazy, bizarre and ballsy. The movies didn’t need big, jarring explosions, visceral gore, or gluttonous effects to become a spectacle as long as they had something revelatory to say about our culture at large. It was a genre that prompted audiences to think, meditate, and wrestle with concepts, themes, and conflicts that were beyond our own reality. ![]() There used to be a time when science fiction wasn’t for popcorn. ![]()
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