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Originally Posted by The Batlord
I know. I'll never get tired of the first forty minutes or so of the movie, right up to and including the chestburster scene. A lot of people bitch about the slow pacing, but again, substandard intelligence. The first half of the movie is even more tense than the majority of the second TBH, and it would be a brilliant straight up sci fi short film.
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The slow pace is pretty much necessary for the atmosphere of the movie. I don't feel like the movie ever drags on since there's always some small thing that makes it interesting. The sets, the light and shade, the body language of the characters. Even small things like that scene where the dude that says "yep" all the time looks up and washes his face with the dripping water. Details like that make it more human and memorable. I'm straining to avoid sounding pretentious.