Favourite Alien Movie?

[Local Trouble]

God, I hated that scene.

[Kradan]

I'm not saying Aliens is a bad movie. It's just really.... bleh. It feels like it was made in a factory. It's very technically well-made, but beyond that I don't see much of artistic merit. It's a 7/10 or a low 8/10 depending on tastes.

That's fair, I guess. Caneron is very technically-minded direcror after all

Side note, your avatar gives me creeps. Which is not a necessarily bad thing

God, I hated that scene.

[Local Trouble]

Aliens was the closest this series ever came to being a mainstream crowd-pleaser.  It's a damn fine, expertly-crafted piece of filmmaking on every level.

But Alien is still the better movie.

Alien 3 was just boring.  A well-crafted film in many ways, but the story had no suspense.

The real question should be: Aside from Alien and Aliens, which film is your favorite?  Alien 3 would then get my vote.

The rest of the films in the series are just different flavors of shit.

[BlueMarsalis79]

I don't even disagree, I am just an odd duck that really loves Alien and Alien³ but just enjoys Aliens.

[Kradan]

Nothing odd about that

[judge death]

AR's the easiest to watch honestly.

The first three, maybe apart from Alien, require a specific mood from me.

AR is a hard one for me to watch (because of feels)...I don't like what happened to my Queen.  The one I'll never watch again is Covenant and my favorite is Alien.

I agree that the first 3 are mood specific.

You and me both, hate that part of the movie and what happened to the queen, it was an alright popcorn movie but after that scene the movie just implode to me. The xenos stopped to be a threat and the movie has no scary ending plus insulting xeno fans.
Also that part of the movie could easily be made scarier and better with some slight editing.

[BlueMarsalis79]

After Watching:
People who go to work, because of their financial circumstances, are not abandoning their children. Weird take. Again I enjoy Alien and Alien³ more than Aliens but I can not deny Aliens' brilliance.

[NecronomIV]

AR was the first Alien film that I had the opportunity to see at the theatre, and passed on it. I thought about it carefully and decided I was a fan of good film-making, not a "franchise".

When I did finally watch it, I felt I'd just watched a not-great Dark Horse comic. And that kind of followed through with AVP and AVPR (again, I passed on both of these on theatrical run).

[Immortan Jonesy]

AR was the first Alien film that I had the opportunity to see at the theatre, and passed on it.

AR was also the first Alien movie I saw in the theatre. Oh and a VHS of ALIEN³ was what introduced me to the Alien world. 

[Local Trouble]

Imagine if this was your introduction, Komi-chan.

I'm surprised they didn't have a product placement deal with Pepsi in the movie itself.

[Immortan Jonesy]

Imagine if this was your introduction, Komi-chan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZiWhkwJwCU
I'm surprised they didn't have a product placement deal with Pepsi in the movie itself.

They should have made the Covenant versión.

Komi-chan.

[Local Trouble]

Doesn't everybody?

[Immortan Jonesy]

I thought I was the only one 👉👈

[Elmazalman]

Was the same Alien suit performer (Woodruff Jr.) from A3, also used for the Pepsi commercial?

[NecronomIV]

Imagine if this was your introduction, Komi-chan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZiWhkwJwCU
I'm surprised they didn't have a product placement deal with Pepsi in the movie itself.

I've never seen this before.

I'm reminded of Clive Barker speaking of seeing Pinhead on TV on a talk show giving (?)Mel Gibson a pin to fix his jacket or somthing like that.

I really see where Ridley Scott was coming from with his famous "the beast is done" statement. Both Scott and Barker are creative people, both collaboratively created horror icons ... and they  become devalued by repetition and from being absorbed into popular culture and normalised.

The alien is a monster designed to be a psychosexual nightmare horror ... and it's advertising Pepsi on TV.

Watching that, even more than after watching AR or AVPR, I can see why Ridley wanted to move beyond the alien for Prometheus and take the series in a different direction.