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[Morgoth]

Now that a new alien film is almost upon us, lets discuss the amazingly diverse alien film series.
1. ALIEN(1979) - theatrical cut.
My all time favorite film. The set design, the acting, the atmosphere. everything is top notch.
This is the film that made me love the art of film.
2. ALIENS(1986)- 1991 special edition
Where the first film was a haunted house. This one is a roller coaster. It is nonstop from beginning to end. The special edition add the fact Ripley had a daughter who is now dead, It shows more of the colony before finding the derelict. Also the sentry gun scene is pretty damn cool.
3.ALIEN 3 (1992)- Assembly Cut
This film is what happens to be the reason I love this series. Each director doing his own take on a alien film. David Fincher took a much darker different approach to the series. The assembly cut adds much needed character development.
4 Prometheus(2012) Breathtakingly beautiful but the script is lacking. Has some interesting concepts that are not fully fleshed out.
5.Alien Resurrection(1997)-theatrical cut.
Basically the director making a french comedy. Everybody hates it. I like it a lot. Joss Whedon wrote it and you can see the Betty crew is a early version of the crew from firefly. Plus the auriga is the best ship is the series.

I don't consider avp part of the series.Just bad monster movie spin-offs.
So what are your guys ranking and thoughts on the series. Also are you looking forward to covenant?

 

[How About No]

Alien >= Aliens > what the fuck ever else

I do wanna go watch Covenant, more for obligations sake than anything else

 

[Michael F. Assbender]

Same ranking order as order of release.

 

[therealminime]

Alien >= Aliens > what the fuck ever else

Done and dusted.

 

[Magwik]

Release order with Alien 3 and Prometheus fighting spots for 3rd place.

 

[MMarston]

I'm pretty sure your rankings are gonna make up 80% of this thread's responses, which would be a pretty good thing.

 

[SolidChamp]

Alien >>>>> Aliens >>>> Prometheus >>> Alien: Covenant

And then the rest.

Alien is still superior to everything that has come after it.

 

[CadetMahoney]

Alien >>>>> Aliens >>>> Prometheus >>> Alien: Covenant

Damn. That bad huh. I had hopes for Covenant too.

Any word if it bombed?

 

[Askherserenity]

Waiting for someone to not have Alien at the top of the list.

 

[TaterTots]

1. Alien
2. Aliens

I have to say, even though Prometheus is set in the universe and tries to show how it all began....I do not consider it a true Alien movie. I never read about the movie and went in cold and was surprised when I discovered it was in the same universe. Maybe that's why I genuinely like it. It was a movie about our creators to me and then dropped that bomb and I was like, wtf?

 

[Biggest-Geek-Ever]

1. Alien - my favorite film of all time.
2. Aliens - a great action flick
3. Alien 3 - The assembly cut is actually decent until it turns into a mindless action flick.

*huge gulf*

4. Prometheus - A beautiful film that turns into Star Trek V meets Friday the 13th
5. Alien: Resurrection - I'm not at all sure what anyone was thinking making this. A work of madness, no doubt.

*huge gulf*

6. Alien vs. Predator - horrendous
7. Alien vs. Predator: Requiem - even more horrendous.

 

[wenis]

Release order is also the order from best to worst.

Alien will always be the pinnacle of the series. Perfect in every way.

 

[Count Dookkake]

Alien
Aliens

AvP


Alien 3
Prometheus



AvP: Requiem
Alien Resurrection

 

[Bobby Roberts]

Alien (theatrical) - The best horror film ever made
Aliens (theatrical) - one of the best action films ever made
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Alien: Covenant - a better Alien 3 than Alien 3
Alien 3 (special edition) - a wounded, broken thing that manages a tonal coherency (and a good ending for Ripley) despite all the fuckery behind the scenes.
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Alien: Resurrection - bad parody of Aliens, but a good rough draft for Firefly
Prometheus - a shocking (and shockingly well shot/desgined) waste of potential and energy.
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The AvP movies - who gives a fuck, fuck 'em.

 

[TaterTots]

Alien (theatrical) - The best horror film ever made
Aliens (theatrical) - one of the best action films ever made
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Alien: Covenant - a better Alien 3 than Alien 3
Alien 3 (special edition) - a wounded, broken thing that manages a tonal coherency (and a good ending for Ripley) despite all the fuckery behind the scenes.
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Alien: Resurrection - bad parody of Aliens, but a good rough draft for Firefly
Prometheus - a shocking (and shockingly well shot/desgined) waste of potential and energy.
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The AvP movies - who gives a fuck, fuck 'em.

What? How can you say Alien is the best horror film even made when Chucky exists?

 

[Replicant]

It's kind of hard to do when there are only 2 films in the franchise.

But if you must, Alien = Aliens. There.

 

[itwasTuesday]

Is this ranking thread day? Okay.

alien
alien(s)
prometheus
commentaries about alien 3
alien 3
alien with ron perlman

Is their another one? I feel like I'm missing one. Maybe not. I should walk over to my dvd case and check the quadrilogy. Yeah quad is 4. I know that.

 

[BashNasty]

Aliens > Alien >>> Alien 3 > Alien Resurrection.

I actually like all four of the films, but Aliens and Alien are masterpieces. Aliens does fairly convincingly take the top spot for me though.

 

[lvl99 Pixel]

the first two are the only ones that matter and I refuse to rate them against each other

 

[Bobby Roberts]

It's kind of hard to do when there are only 2 films in the franchise.

Tiiiiiiiired

the first two are the only ones that matter and I refuse to rate them against each other

weeeeeeeak

 

[Killer Queen]

Alien
Aliens
Covanent=Prometheus (haven't seen Covanent yet, but i like Prometheus a lot)
The rest=who care

 

[Chained Prometheus]

Alien (theatrical) - The best horror film ever made

I see no lies detected here.

Tiiiiiiiired



weeeeeeeak

It's like people want to deprive themselves of the wonderful gifts of Alien 3: Assembly Cut. It's flawed to hell and back, but goddamn if it doesn't have some of the best cinematography and characters in the whole series, plus the GOAT soundtrack in the series.

Wanting Newt and Hicks to live isn't worth this sort of deprivation from quality film aesthetics imo.

 

[Biggest-Geek-Ever]

This thread has actually reminded that AVP went for sexual tension between Sanaa Lathan and a predator.

*edits initial post*

 

[Blackage]

This thread has actually reminded that AVP went for sexual tension between Sanaa Lathan and a predator.

*edits initial post*

In their defense it was Sanaa Lathan.

 

[Count Dookkake]

This thread has actually reminded that AVP went for sexual tension between Sanaa Lathan and a predator.

*edits initial post*

You never heard of a sexual predator?

 

[Discotheque]

Alien
=
Aliens




AvP
Alien 3
Prometheus

Resurrection
AVP Requiem

 

[Chained Prometheus]

You never heard of a sexual predator?

Spoiler

Well played, good sir.

 

[daviyoung]

I think I'm broken, cos...

Alien
Prometheus
Alien 3
Aliens
Alien Ressurection

 

[Diabelli]

Alien is the better film, but if both of them were on different channels at the same time, I'd watch Aliens.

 

[Bobby Roberts]

Any word if it bombed?

It hasn't even opened in America yet.

It wont' bomb.

 

[Servbot24]

Alien is the best by far. Aliens is okay. Rest are trash. Haven't seen Prometheus.

 

[Biggest-Geek-Ever]

You never heard of a sexual predator?

Guess it fits with the scene in the trailer of a xenomorph perving in the shower

 

[toddhunter]

Alien >= Aliens > what the fuck ever else

No arguments here.

 

[boingball]

Alien is in my personal Top 10 and by far the best of the bunch. Ripley is badass.

Aliens is a good movie but falls in the bigger is better trap. Having hundreds of aliens diminishes the threat of the aliens. Ripley is still badass though.

Alien^3 goes back to the roots and I like it way more than NoGAF does. And while Ripley has fewer weapons in this movie than in Aliens I think she is more badass than in the previous one.

Alien Resurrection has its moment but also plenty of weaknesses. Ripley is still badass.

Prometheus, well no Ripley.

So
Alien >> Alien^3 > Aliens >> Alien Resurrection > Prometheus

I suspect Covenant will land somewhere around Resurrection (I keep my expectations in check).

 

[Toa TAK]

Alien and Aliens are tied for me. Both are perfection in what kind of movies they are. Best horror and action.

Third is Prometheus.

Then the rest is just 3 and Resurrection. I GUESS if you had to put the awful AvP moves it would be AvP followed by Requiem.

I'd put Alien: Isolation above all of these after Prometheus, though. And that barely has a story.

I guess it's kinda funny everything sorta sucks after Aliens. Nothing in the series has really been able to measure up to two of the best films in their respective genres. It's a tall order for any series, but they fall so far below expectations of the series and are just coming consistently crappy movies.

We'll see where I place Covenant after I see it. But if it's supposed to be better than 3 or Prometheus that's seriously unimpressive.

 

[How About No]

Tiiiiiiiired



weeeeeeeak

I can't pit them against each other. I just can't. If they were my children I'd just burn the inheritance money rather than favor one over the other in my will

They're just movies you big baby! Pick one already

 

[Bjoern the Smexy]

Alien > Prometheus >>> Aliens >>>>> Alien Resurrection >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Alien 3

 

[Bobby Roberts]

I can't pit them against each other. I just can't. If they were my children I'd just burn the inheritance money rather than favor one over the other in my will

They're just movies you big baby! Pick one already

 

[Toa TAK]

They're just movies you big baby! Pick one already

Movie children.

 

[Haly]

Aliens > Alien > whatever

 

[JustSomeone]

Alien >>>>prometheus >>>> 3 > 4 >>>>>> Aliens

Aliens is terrible film and suffers from all the issues of the non terminator James Cameroon films

 

[shintoki]

Alien
Alien 3 DC
Aliens
Alien Res
Prom

Poopy

 

[RatskyWatsky]

Alien > Aliens > Alien 3 > Alien Resurrection

Haven't seen Prometheus yet and I don't give a fuck about AvP.

 

[Count Dookkake]

Alien
=
Aliens




AvP
Alien 3
Prometheus

Resurrection
AVP Requiem

We are brothers.

 

[Chained Prometheus]

My rankings:

1. Alien (Theatrical Cut) - Tied with Disney's Beauty and the Beast (1991) as my favorite film of all-time.
2. Aliens - Great horror-action film and also one of Cameron's best works imo.

3. Alien 3 (Assembly Cut) - A gorgeously underrated film that happens to be victim to some downright tragic BTS studio fuckery. Weaver's best turn as Ripley as far as I can see, and Elliot Goldenthal's score is one of my all-time faves.
4. Prometheus - A stunningly well-shot film that's carried entirely by Michael Fassbender's acting, due to David being the only remotely likable character in the whole damn film. Also home to one of the most insultingly idiotic casts of characters I've had to see in a movie.

5. Alien: Resurrection - To be fair here, I've only ever seen the film in fragments. I'm meaning to change that sometime over the summer, but what little I've seen of the film just makes me want to shake my head. Hopefully I like it more as a full picture.

6. AvP - Haven't seen this in over a decade, but I just remember thinking even as a kid that it was a pretty bland and weak movie, even by popcorn flick standards.
7. AvP: Requiem - ... Uh... yeah. This one's so bad, it's almost hilarious.

 

[itwasTuesday]

Alien 3 DC

If only.

 

[yamaneko]

Alien > Alien Isolation > Aliens > Prometheus

 

[Syf]

Alien is the best by far. Aliens is okay. Rest are trash. Haven't seen Prometheus.

Agreed with this, except I have seen Prometheus and would include it in the trash pile. Alien is the only one I really love.

 

[Discotheque]

We are brothers.

Not a fan of the dumb mythology scott is doing with the series now but if it goes as slasher-y as the trailers suggest I might like that one quite a bit

 

[Bobby Roberts]

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Okay, I'll allow it.

this time