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
Spaceship Superstar Spaceship Superstar Spaceship Superstar is the first official single by the Canadian rock band Prism. "Spaceship Superstar" was written by Jim Vallance. It was also the first single from the band's self-titled debut album Prism. "Spaceship Superstar" reached No. 63 on the Canadian Singles Chart and No. 82 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in the United States. The song was used as the wake up song for the Space Shuttle "Discovery" crew members in 2011. In 1978, Spaceship Superstar received the Certificate of Honour from Performing Rights Organization of Canada (PROCAN). The song was written by Jim Vallance