Alien (film) disguise imaginative poverty". In a 1980 episode of "Sneak Previews" discussing science fiction films of the 1950s and 1970s, critics Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert were critical of "Alien". Ebert called it "basically just an intergalactic haunted house thriller set inside a spaceship" and one of several science fiction pictures that were "real disappointments" compared to "Star Wars", "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", and "", though he did compliment the early scene of the "Nostromo" crew exploring the alien planet as showing "real imagination". However, the film later made it onto Ebert's "Great Movies" list, where he gave it
Alien invasion Anderson]]'s "[[The High Crusade]]", an alien ship lands at a Medieval English village, but the overconfident would-be conquerors find out the hard way that they are not immune to swords and arrows; the humans take over the ship and proceed to carve out an empire among the stars, but lose contact with Earth which goes on with its familiar history. In "[[Eifelheim (novel)|Eifelheim]]" by [[Michael Flynn (author)|Michael Flynn]], an alien spaceship lands in central Europe in the middle of the [[Black Death]]. In "Doctor Who", because of the time travel element, historical invasions happen a lot, notably the [[Cyberman]] invasion