Which Alien movie do you like most? Least?

Which Alien movie do you like most? Least?

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I've only ever seen alien, aliens and prometheus (if that counts)

I like alien the best and aliens and prometheus are kinda tied, not because they're of the same quality but because I didnt know what kind of movie aliens would be like and after having watched alien, I was really dissapointed

If Aliens isn't in your top 2 then you need to go back to rëddit.

wel it is but I only watched three

Alien is the only good one
Two is sterilized action-schlock that dips too far into the B-movie strong woman trope
Three is a fucking mess and even the "best" cut is still not that good
Four was a goophy horror scifi comedy thing

Everything past that is absolute trash
Particularly Scott's Prometheus and Covenant

Alien>Aliens>Prometheus>3>Covenant>Resurrection

AVP films aren't worth mentioning

I've only seen alien and from my understanding that's the only one worth seeing

Don't listen to these fucking pretentious roleplay niggers, Aliens is just as good, if not better than Alien.
>Excellent well written movie
>likeable characters
>still retains the scariness from the first one
>frequent bad ass moments throughout, especially at the end
>better themes, better message (importance of the nuclear family etc. etc.)

I personally enjoyed it more than Alien, and I can understand why some people think Alien is objectively the better film just because it came first, but I thought Alien had a weaker second act, whereas Aliens was strong throughout.

Newfags like to do everything to fit in on this board, often falling for the "older original is better xd" meme, and stick up their nose at anything that has action in it.

>still retains the scariness from the first one
I heavily disagree. the first alien as a super smart being that preyed on the cast. in Aliens they're dumb cannon fodder

I haven't seen Covenant, but is it really worse than 3? For me, 3 and Resurrection are mostly interchangeable, but I find myself liking 3 less and less.
Apart from that, your list is pretty spot on. I know this isn't Sup Forums but Alien Isolation is probably better than any move after Aliens, If you like the franchise I would heavily recommend it.

>If Aliens isn't in your top 2 then you need to go back to the place that likes Aliens
huh?

>Alien
>violent slasher grounded in isolation, mistrust, and blind sexual desire

>Aliens
>SHOOTY SHOOT SHOOT save the chillun Le Epic Game Over Man XD boss fight tiem!

4 FOR NONI

WINO FOREVER

Alien > Aliens >>> Prometheus > AvP2 > 3 > Covenant >>> AvP > Resurrection

This is objectively correct.

Yea, I only saw Alien, Aliens and Promethesus.


Best: Alien
Worst: Pro.

I don't think so. In the first film you had people dying due to their own incompetence. Kane seals his fate by being not cautious enough at the start, Brett is killed for being careless, Dallas dies because he underestimates the Alien, Lambert is killed because she is a stupid coward, and Parker dies because of this as well. The alien doesn't particularly DO anything "super smart" except for at the end when it hides on the shuttle (and even then, that was because that was the only place on the ship that wasn't blaring with sirens, not because it had any fundamental idea that the ship was going to self destruct and that part of the ship was going to survive some how)

The aliens are still smart in the sequel, they are smart enough to cut the power, and the queen was smart enough to learn how to use the elevator.
Having the marines there made it seem like things were going to be all right, but it showed that the Aliens are simply superior in every way. They're still pure killing machines that are better than the humans, even when they humans aren't actively sabotaging each other

That's correct.

Not quite. Aliens is a shooter with some good memes and moments. You can definitely watch it and enjoy it, POSSIBLY. But it's definitely not great.

Alien is must see. Aliens is not.

>Aliens had a scene where they machine gun down aliens as they march down a hallway
>Newt

>The aliens are still smart in the sequel, they are smart enough to cut the power, and the queen was smart enough to learn how to use the elevator.
This.
Also, the aliens creep through the ceiling and the humans are standing around yelling at each other.
"That's inside the room!"

Covenant was such a disappointment.

Why was Covenant so stupid?
>Let's land on the planet without any protective gear and THEN test to see if there's anything here that can kill us
>Let's trust this crazy robit that's clearly crazy
>Humans are stupid and not worthy of life. The most important thing in life is to create. The perfect lifeform is a stupid bug that cannot create anything.
>Two tiny facehuggers will surely be enough to turn 2,000 colonists into xenomorphs, even though xenomorph queens don't exist the Wigley Scott Alien-verse.
Fucking goddamn, Wigley.

>AvP 2 not dead last
>objectively correct

Here's your (you) user

Alien>Aliens>AvP>Resurrection>3>[POWER GAP]>Prometheus>Literal dogshit>Covenant>AvPR

>Which Alien movie do you like most?
The assembly cut of Alien 3

>Least?
Alien vs. Predator: Requiem. Or Aliens if you don't count that. The quality of Alien films is always inversely proportional to how well armed the protagonists are.

>this has got to be bait
AvP2 was the single worst Alien related piece of shit to ever exist.
AvP was terrible but it had some okay parts, but the second was terrible in every sense of the word, splattered with gore so often in a vain attempt to draw the viewers attention to how things don't even line up in its own movie, let alone matching up with the first one.

Do ALL the Alien movies start identically? Holy fuck.

AvP2 is a rock solid action-horror movie. Get fucked.

Any Alien movie that doesn't involve Ridley Hack >>>>power gap>>>>> any movie with Ridley Hack

No. In the original Alien they wore protective suits when they found the crashed ship. In Aliens they went to a planet that they already knew was safe to be on, from a ecological point.

This is the only list that makes sense.

Alien > Aliens >>>>> Alien 3 > AVP series (because lol) > Covenant >>> Resurrection = Prometheus

Ah, yes. Now I remember.

What do you mean? Alien and Covenant are the only ones that start with a space ship finding a signal and going to it where they discover Xenos.

>In the original Alien they wore protective suits when they found the crashed ship
They had to as they couldn't breathe the air, same as in Prometheus.

>In Aliens they went to a planet that they already knew was safe to be on, from a ecological point
"We were so wrong"

Why do people always act surprised when they watch a horror movie and see people act in a stupid way? If they were well prepared, it wouldn't be horror, it would be action. "Alien" with a crew that's well prepared is "Predator".

Same reason people criticised the Captain in Covenant for looking in the egg but not John Hurt in Alien: autism. They think because they wouldn't do x due to their experiences that characters shouldn't do it either.

REMINDER

This again with the "hurrr aliens is a gun shooting movie hur hur hur!" shit?

There was like 2 scenes in Aliens that had mostly shooting in it, the first was when they first go down into the nest and most of the marines there die anyway, and the second was when the aliens cut the power and sneak into the room through the roof.

That was literally it. That was pretty much all the marines did. The rest of the movie was Ripley with her bad ass guns taped together. The film still managed to keep the horror vibes, as even with the guns, the marines were still outmatched.

Lel

Cry more.

John Hurt had a helmet on.

>you will never play an Alien Isolation sequel featuring Winona Ryder
FEELS BAD MAN

pls stop bullying Siggy

>white people

So what? A robot told him it was safe, which was more information than Hurt had, and why would anyone that hasn't seen an Alien film think an egg would contain something that's hostile and stronger and faster than a human?

When the characters are overly stupid. In prometheus, the crew are supposed to be TRAINED PROFESSIONALS. Going on a BILLION DOLLAR MISSION to an UNKNOWN PLANET. TRAINED PROFESSIONALS THAT DO THE FOLLOWING:

>get lost despite having mapping technology
>have inadequate radio technology despite having a budget of $1,000,000,000+ and being the the far future
>frequently break quarantine and safety protocols despite having being briefed and trained for months and months before hand.

Some things I can understand/tolerate. If I was that guy stuck inside the alien building, I would probably get bored and walk around too. But going around touchin shit and messin with alien shit? Come on.


Watch this as an example of how people should act in horror films:
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Alien, Covenant/Resurrection DC.

Why do they always have a synthetic on board?

In case of life support failure. Ships are expensive.

There is nothing wrong with being a white person

He already knew that the robot was fucking crazy when it told him the egg was safe to stick his face in.

No he didn't, he knew David didn't want him to shoot the alien, the best explanation for which is that he's a robot, and robots aren't hostile.

>get lost despite having mapping technology
>have inadequate radio technology despite having a budget of $1,000,000,000+ and being the the far future
>frequently break quarantine and safety protocols despite having being briefed and trained for months and months before hand.
That's about as believable as US soldiers getting lost and wasting a huge budget on random shit they don't use. Oh wait, that actually does happen in real life. TRAINED PROFESSIONALS who engage in life threatening jobs are actually mostly retarded. The more you know

Official power ranking:
Alien>Aliens>Prometheus>Alien3>Resurrection=Covenant

If we're not counting AvP fanfic. If we're being fair, Resurrection is a worse-made film than Covenant but it's shlocky and funny and doesn't destroy the Alien lore like Covenant does.

Even the Alien Isolation game had 10times better story than Prom and Cove

>doesn't destroy the Alien lore like Covenant does
No it doesn't

Alien 3 (Assembly) > Alien > Prometheus > Alien vs. Predator > Covenant > Alien 3 (Theatrical) > Aliens = Resurrection > sitting in silence for 90 minutes > Alien vs. Predator: Requiem

A few basic points:
>Kane had a full suit on, including helmet with thick glass
>None of the crew had seen anything alive on that ship
>Kane was not escorted into the egg chamber by a suspicious as fuck character who he was on the point of shooting because he was so suspicious of
>Kane looked towards the egg out of sheer curiosity, Covenant Captain did it because he was instructed to by the suspicious as fuck character

bro that might have happened 60 years ago, but I find it hard to believe that such a thing happens today, let alone in the far future.
also, you idiot, it's one thing to say, "oh sure getting lost happens to us all", but they literally had mapping equipment. By the movies OWN LOGIC, they should not have gotten lost.

I don't even know why I'm arguing with you. The retards even take off their helmets and start fucking around with shit. ON AN ALIEN FUCKING PLANET.

Why not just have them sit by the door and wait, and then get attacked by something? Why go out of your way to make these people go and do unbelievably autistic things for no good reason? It just doesn't make sense.

The movie would have been so much better if they sat there waiting out the storm when they realise that they're not alone and they get attacked and are screaming and banging on the door as the vagina cobras jump down their throat. That would have been more terrifying than
>do cliche horror movie dumb shit
>get cliche horror movie death

This.
Watching Alien, then playing Isolation, then watching Aliens is God Tier Trilogy.

Kane saw that the eggs were alive before he stuck his face in them, and there was nothing suspicious about David that Oram saw, he had his gun held in a ready position, he wasn't going to shoot David.

/thread
Still have kind of a soft spot for 3, the set design and score are incredible. Makes for an excellent ending.

>implying aliens isnt a top 10 redditor flick

Bullshit. He pointed his gun at David because he knew was dangerous and dishonest. If he just thought David was too nice then he wouldn't have felt the need to threaten David for the real story of what the fuck was happening, stupid.

This shouldn't be difficult to grasp but I'll explain in detail as you seem to be struggling: Kane had not seen any living thing before that on the ship and it is not normal for something to jump out of an egg at your face, and if it did, he was wearing a helmet. Covenant pilot had seen an absolute shit ton of fucked up stuff that very day with weird alien life forms that were incredible aggressive from birth. He'd seen most of his crew die at the hands of life on that planet. He'd seen the guy who showed him into the egg room stood with the one of these lifeforms. He then held that guy at gunpoint yet still went and stuck his bare, open face into an open egg at the command of this suspicious guy on this planet where everything wants to fucking kill you from birth.

Not to mention: Kane was part of a commercial vehicle and not on a science expedition. He was not trained for dealing with alien life forms in any level close to how the captain should have been. He was a glorified trucker.

The two situations are not remotely the same.

Alien 3 is underrated REEEEEEE

well, there are only three alien movies
Alien 1
Alien 2
and Alien 4

Bull fucking shit, you liar. He pointed the gun directly at David's chest and threatened to shoot him. He said to David "I will seriously fuck up your perfect composure" while training the laser sight of his AR on his chest.

Kane knew he was on a ship that contained hostile lifeforms that killed the pilot by exploding out of its chest, it's exactly the same. Nobody on the covenant was "trained for dealing with alien life forms" as you claim either, nobody is because nobody knows about its existence. Also Oram wasn't the real captain so he wouldn't have had this hypothetical captain training you mentioned.

It's only underrated because people regard it as the second coming as Hitler.
It wouldn't be underrated if it was considered to be just a lame wasted opportunity, rather than the franchise-raping abomination Aliensfags like to claim it is.

So you're telling me that a crew of scientists sent on an expedition to find a new planet for humans to settle had received no training on how to approach potential alien life?

I can't work out if you're just a massive Scott apologist or a moron.

Why the fuck would anyone assume a giant bug monster exploded out of an alien's chest just because it's mummified corpse has a hole in it? And why the fuck would anyone assume the big brown pod is that giant bug monster?
Stop being willfully retarded.

>So you're telling me that a crew of scientists sent on an expedition to find a new planet for humans to settle had received no training on how to approach potential alien life?
Yes. They didn't even expect to find trees on the planet they were going to, that's why they brought wood to make a log cabin.

What franchise do you think you're watching? There is no known alien life in this universe, why would they train people to deal with it? What exactly would that training entail? Are they trained to deal with ghosts too?

>Why the fuck would anyone assume a giant bug monster exploded out of an alien's chest just because it's mummified corpse has a hole in it?
They commented on how the chest was exploded outwards, what else would cause that?

>And why the fuck would anyone assume the big brown pod is that giant bug monster?
He saw it had something moving inside it. Or if you prefer, I'll grant you that point: why would Oram not assume that the big brown pod was safe after a robot that shouldn't be able to lie told him so?

Aliens>Alien>Prometheus>Covenant>Alien 3>Ressurection

>There is no know alien life in this universe

An entire mission to find alien life had taken place earlier in this universe. The ship got lost, so there won't be any protocols on how to deal with specific things, but there is an understanding within the Alien universe that stuff may be out there. They had quarantine procedures in place on Covenant so they were clearly trained to deal with things like contamination and contact with unknown pathogens. You'd assume if they weren't as pants-on-head retarded as you they'd also have a procedure on what to do in the eventuality that you find life on a mission to find a hospitable planet.

Alien=Aliens>Alien3>AvP1>Covenant>Prometheus>>>>>>>Resurrection

I watched AvP2 but it was so forgettable I can't even place it on the list. Fun fact: the queen has high heels

>I watched AvP2 but it was so forgettable I can't even place it on the list
The original AvP was a great movie which did a lot to try and stay faithful to the original series while expanding on it, it had excellent atmosphere and most of the cast was good too. AvPR was absolutely dire, it's the one about the teenage pizza boy that gets bullied by chad then Xenos show up and start killing them all. I have no idea what they were thinking.

If they set it a hundred years later, it could even have remained part of the canon, the fact that there are Xenos in 2004 is the only contradiction with Prometheus and Covenant.

good post

Alien is basically just the best-looking, scariest slasher movie ever made. Don't get me wrong, it's a masterpiece, but that's all it is. Aliens is so much more

>They commented on how the chest was exploded outwards, what else would cause that?
Alien heartburn? Why assume you know anything at all about alien biology?
>He saw it had something moving inside it. Or if you prefer, I'll grant you that point: why would Oram not assume that the big brown pod was safe after a robot that shouldn't be able to lie told him so?
He already knew that David was lying, dipshit. That's why he told David to come clean about what the fuck was really happening.

Can you blame them though? It ruined what couldve been objectively the greatest trilogy of all time.

Alien 5 could have been a good one. But it was cancelled.

Why don't aliens die from their own acid blood?