re: Alien. 45th Anniversery....Just saw it in a theater!

I watch it from time to time when I get a chance to actually watch an R rated film.

The used future set designs, the squabbling between the engineers (Brett and Parker) and the flight crew over “the bonus situation”, the subtle hints upon rewatch that the reveal of one crewman was fairly done and not an arse pull, etc, all contributed to a film that mostly feels timeless.

The only real zeerust involved is the MOTHER computer being similar to a 2001 HAL control panel rather than being closer to what we know. And even then it comes off as the Nostromo being an extremely old vessel possibly being held together by spit and bailing wire.