This movie is a bit goofy due to the extreme low budget but they stretch that money and do some really cool practical effects. Also, it's a lot funnier than I expected. Like genuine laughs, not laughing at it, but with it. And almost every single laugh came compliments of my boy Dan O'Bannon. Not only did he write Alien and direct one of my fave of all time, Return of the Living Dead, turns out he's a pretty good comedic actor. The scene with him and the alien was pure bugs bunny style genius. And the scene where he does his personal diary entry is laugh out loud funny. So good!

I don’t have much to say about this one, I didn’t get it and it wasn’t for me.

3 inflatable ball aliens out of 10 Benson, Arizona

Wow, 1h 23m that I'll never get back. I had to see it because I expected more from John Carpenter. He was only 26 years old and it was 1974, so a low budget really had to be stretched including an attack of a killer tomato, some corny items that shouldn't have taken up space, and could have been better spent by providing some razors to trim those beards. At least they had cigarettes and Tiparillos to smoke in their confined space, ugh. I assume that the hair would have been discarded into space and that there would be some giant ball of hair floating around out there. Really though, this is one of the worst movies I've ever seen. 2001 A Space Odyssey was made six years earlier and is still to this day considered a masterpiece where this movie is really a master piece of (insert colorful metaphor here). Sorry John, loved many of your movies, but this one... :-(

Proof that vacuums don't exist only in space.

I guess I just don't get it. Also I hate the 70s look on those dudes.

Philosopher hippies in space with severe pacing problems...

Yet...I always end up being charmed somewhat by the end. Which, I suppose, is why I end up rewatching this from time to time...Even though I always end up wondering why ten minutes in, but then... etc. etc.

Weird film, weird that I somewhat like it, and very weird that I have seen it as many times as I have.

Carpenters music is really the only stand out in this film.

Great humour throughout the movie. Must be the best low-budget sci-fi I've ever seen. At some points it goes "deep" with the philosophical dialogues, and afterall you'll think about this movie in all-philosophical way.
I didn't expect much (as Carpenter's first movie), but after the first 5-10 minutes it started to work well.

Loose, cheap. John Carpenter in his not very promising start. At least it's short