Favourite Alien Movie?

[#6.0]

Yeah if the last letter of its title is not the letter S, it's not my fav.

[DoomRulz]

Oh, the difference a letter makes...

[Gash]

Alien is a class film. IMO easily the best. Almost to the extent that I consider the 'franchise' as a different entity altogether. Alien 3 is a laudable attempt at something that might have worked if Fox had had faith in Fincher. The rest I could happily forget.

[samoht]

I love ALIEN
I love ALIENS
Alien 3 is a pretty good movie but I don't like it because it pissed me off so much. I was so annoyed when they killed of Hicks and newt. At the end of ALIENS it all seemed to nice that only those few survived, but when they killed them off so quickly in ALIEN 3 it spoiled the ALIEN franchise for me permanently.

[predxeno]

My fav is Aliens all the way.

[Gash]

ALIEN is in a league of its own. The 'franchise' that came after doesn't inspire me at all, though Alien3 has lots to commend it.

[Gilfryd]

Alien is a masterpiece. Aliens is great too, although I don't think it's as timeless. And I find Resurrection more satisfying than 3. So there you go.

[AliceApocalypse]

Alien is a masterpiece. Aliens is great too, although I don't think it's as timeless.

Excellent point.

[Sharp Sticks]

The only reason Aliens isn't completely timeless is because the 80's ended.

And that's a terrible thing.

[OmegaZilla]

Yep.
Aliens suffers from the fact you can tell it's a balls-out awesome 80s flick.
Alien instead doesn't feel "locked" in a certain period of time. It could even be a film released in the 2000s, if you don't count some SFX issues typical of earlier films.

[Sharp Sticks]

I wouldn't say Aliens 'suffers' from anything. It's a near-perfect film, as is Alien. They're just different. You wouldn't call the Wizard of Oz timeless as a film, it's as 1939 as 1939 gets, but the story and themes are universal. Same with Aliens.

[OmegaZilla]

Of course.
What I am saying is that Alien doesn't feel locked in a certain period of time. You couldn't tell it was made in a certain period by its style. Films like Aliens, or as another example, Predator, are immediately recognized as being 80s films.
Perhaps I should have used a different verb than "suffer", but you get the point.

[Valaquen]

Alien has the whole "you go off alone, we'll look way over here," Scooby Doo thing that many 70's and 80's horror had. It looks great though.

[Sharp Sticks]

Yeah, of course Omega.

Not that you could make Alien today. It's practically an art film compared to the Hollywood standard these days.

[OmegaZilla]

If you copy bit-by-bit the whole thing, of course you can. It wouldn't bring anything fresh to see though, so there'd be no reason.
The 2006 Omen is a proof of that.

Alien has the whole "you go off alone, we'll look way over here," Scooby Doo thing that many 70's and 80's horror had.

The only ones I could recall are Halloween and The Thing. You got any more examples?