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
The Red and the Black (The X-Files) The alien ship's lights were created with a lighting rig augmented by computer effects. The crashed alien spacecraft was sixty feet in diametertwice the length of any other spaceship seen before on the showand was forcibly dragged across the ground to create a deep gash in the earth. Twenty-five explosions were set off to simulate the saucer crash; the remains of the wreckage were then burned and filmed. The scene took a full night of production to shoot. The opening scene featuring the alien rebels incinerating a group of Russian abductees was filmed without actual Russian cars. Picture car coordination