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Good points.. Ridley scott was bright enough to employ well established actors for that very reason. He took a chance on sigourney weaver, but padded the rest of the cast with people who had been in the business for a couple of decades already:
Veronica Cartwright
Ian Holm
John Hurt
Yaphet Kotto
Harry Dean Stanton
Tom Skerrit
All had been doing movies at least since the 60s.. Hell, Veronica Cartwright was a child actor.
Plus, he used Jerry Goldsmith for the music (he also did Poltergeist) who already had a loooong track record, including the Omen.
Granted all of this took money, but Ridley Scott took the time and effort to brow-beat as much out of the studio execs as he could.
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