None of them ever scared me. Far to tough and manly to ever be afraid of film...(even though I might not have been able to feed my dog after watching John Carpenters the thing as a kid).
Resurrection was the only 90's movie I saw in theaters. Saw Prometheus, which at the time I didn't hate as much, probably because I was deploying soon, saw it three times actually, once in theater, once at a hotel, and once on the flight over to my deployment..............but didn't start hating it until I was back. Saw Covenant in theaters but it was ruined by its tie in with Prometheus. There was an older black couple sitting in front of me, and their commentary on the movie essentially summed up how I was feeling inside.
I saw Aliens the first out of all the movies, then Alien 3, and then Alien. For some reason the VHS (yes I'm that old) of Alien was hard to get for a little while. Couldn't find it to rent, and nobody had it for sale.
For about fifteen years, the Alien series was my favorite series of all time. Over saturation, then crappy product killed my overall love for it. Sometimes a game or book or film will manage to capture a flicker of that same magic and I'll get a huge nostalgia dump and briefly feel the love I had for the series surface back...........and then it will fade back into oblivion.
Aliens Defiance (started out so f**king excellent), Charybdis, Isolation (world building and presentation), moments in FTE (this captured the old game EU fairly well), Dark Descent (this actually is the only title out of all of Alien lore that captures the tension of the second movie), some of Covenant.
I know I hate on Prometheus alot, but one of the younger guys I deployed with ONLY likes Prometheus as it was his entry point into the series. I showed him Alien and Aliens while we were over there, and he was just like, "they are alright I guess but what about (a bunch of prometheus bullshit)?"
I'm glad some of the younger generation enjoys the series. Hope they can find as much enjoyment as I did out of them for the run I had with the series. Which was a good run, all things considered. I hope something comes along in the series that restores that love I once had for it.............but I have my doubts. Now I just am in just in the Church of the Anti-Ridleys. Ridley Scott, Ridley from Metroid..........f**k those guys.
