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Complete with near rape scene where he corners her and makes her say she loves him because to do otherwise would most certainly mean her death.

That brings up an interesting question... is it rape? Do you need consent to have sex with a 'machine'?

There was certainly a reason they added the narration to what was the theatrical version, and that's because the original version was a little too dark and noir.

Voice-over narration is a genre staple for film noir. They changed almost all of the narration, but this is one of those myths that just won't go away. V.O. was not added by the studio, it was there from the beginning.

The Crossbow project led to the house full of popcorn! http://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/real_genius.html

If the company had known about it, they would have sent a specialized team there instead of diverting a freighter.

Not necessarily. In the film, they use hypersleep - suspended animation - because even at whatever multiple of the speed of light the ships move at, trips still take months. (Script says they're near Zeta II Reticuli, 39 light years from Earth, and they still have ten months to go.) If they can transmit data faster than ships move (or unmanned ships can move faster) then mobilizing a specialist team might take more time than they want to spend, when they can divert a freighter going by anyway.

The novelization (non-canon, but working from the shooting script) had Ash saying that the beacon had a fairly detailed warning, so the Company may well have known that parasitic aliens were there. No biggie, let the crew get infected and the ship return on autopilot.

Also let us not forget that returning a "dangerous creature through ITC quarantine" is implied to be VERY VERY illegial. Like way more of an issue than say moving fissionable material through an airport nowadays. Sending out one of your uper-duper expensive research ships is probably going to get noticed (like maybe even requires stating who and what and why you are sending it to the ITC) as opposed to a bunch of expendable blue collar "truckers in space".

BTW: While the Nostromo itself and its cargo are expensive, the ship is obviously able to be autopiloted back to Sol via Mother so it's not like there's actually that much risk. Crew dead? "Oh we're sorry there was a malfunction in the hypersleep chamber-here's some payoff cash to the families".

Not necessarily. In the film, they use hypersleep - suspended animation - because even at whatever multiple of the speed of light the ships move at, trips still take months. (Script says they're near Zeta II Reticuli, 39 light years from Earth, and they still have ten months to go.) If they can transmit data faster than ships move (or unmanned ships can move faster) then mobilizing a specialist team might take more time than they want to spend, when they can divert a freighter going by anyway.

The novelization (non-canon, but working from the shooting script) had Ash saying that the beacon had a fairly detailed warning, so the Company may well have known that parasitic aliens were there. No biggie, let the crew get infected and the ship return on autopilot.

They don't have to prove damage to the users, only to Apple

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tortious_interference#Elements

1. The existence of a contractual relationship or beneficial business relationship between two parties.
2. Knowledge of that relationship by a third party.
3. Intent of the third party to induce a party to the relationship to breach the relationship.
4. Lack of any privilege on the part of the third party to induce such a breach.
5. Damage to the party against whom the breach occurs.

Tortious interference always reminds me of this quote from The Insider
http://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/the-insider_shooting.html

HELEN CAPERELLI
(cuts in)
And, I'm told there are questions as to
our "star witness'" veracity.
LOWELL
(trying to control his anger)
His "veracity" was good enough for the
State of Mississippi.

HELEN CAPERELLI
(historic)
Our standards have to be higher than
anyone else's, because we are the
standard...for everyone else...
Whatever that means...

LOWELL
(wry)
Well, as a "standard"...I'll hang with
"is the guy telling the truth?"

HELEN CAPERELLI
Well, with tortious interference, I'm
afraid...the greater the truth, the
greater the damage.

LOWELL
Come again?

HELEN CAPERELLI
They own the information he's disclosing.
The truer it is, the greater the damage
to them. If he lied, he didn't disclose
their information. And the damages are
smaller.

LOWELL
Is this "Alice in Wonderland"?

Note in this case the damage was to the tobacco company, not to the guy who broke the confidentiality agreement.

It's too bad the quote is "the devil" or you might have gotten yourself some free geek credibility there.

John Carpenter already demonstrated how to shut down brains with light. You just need a shaky grasp of metaphysics, and a very big bomb...

VANESSA: Mr. Boy 13, my job is to acclimate you to the Nineties. You know, a lot's changed since 1967.

DANGER_BOY_13: Well, as long as companies still are dedicated to their employees, only asking for hard work in exchange for life-long employment, and secure retirement benefits, I'll be sound as a pound.

(Original)