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 Alien (unproduced film) don't know. What its form basically conveys is a kind of ethereal innocence, and it is difficult to associate either great evil or great power with it; yet a feeling of eeriness is there because of the resemblance to a sickly human child." The 2003 Bollywood film "Koi... Mil Gaya", directed by Rakesh Roshan, appears to be based on Satyajit Ray's "The Alien". In particular, the film appears to parallel "The Alien" more closely than "E.T." in that it revolves around an intellectually challenged person coming in contact with a friendly alien. In 2003, Satyajit Ray's son Sandip Ray began