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LeoRavus
09/08/22 4:18:53 AM
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Alien
Aliens
Prometheus
Alien Covenant
Alien Resurrection
Alien 3

I would have put Covenant over Prometheus but Jussie Smollett was in it. Not only is he a douche but a terrible actor.

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Nacen
09/08/22 4:20:11 AM
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Alien
Aliens
Who cares

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UnfairRepresent
09/08/22 4:26:05 AM
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Alien
Aliens

Alien Resurrection
Alien 3
Prometheus
Alien Covenant
AvP
AvP2

Nacen posted...
Alien
Aliens
Who cares
yeah the quality gap is bigger than the Space Jockey

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Glob
09/08/22 4:31:38 AM
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Nacen posted...
Alien
Aliens
Who cares

More or less my feeling.

When Im in the right mood I might argue that Aliens is joint first with Alien, but its hard to compare because theyre both amazing films but very different.
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Irony
09/08/22 4:39:56 AM
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Nacen posted...
Alien
Aliens
Who cares


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Shadow_Don
09/08/22 4:40:54 AM
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Aliens >= Alien >>> Alien 3 >>>>>>>>>>> dumpster fire trash

Take Ripley out of Alien 3 and I think people would view it much more favorably.

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TigerTarTheo
09/08/22 4:42:29 AM
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Aliens
Alien
Prometheus


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UnfairRepresent
09/08/22 4:43:50 AM
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TigerTarTheo posted...
Prometheus


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Man you really don't like Prometheus

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TigerTarTheo
09/08/22 4:45:13 AM
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UnfairRepresent posted...
Man you really don't like Prometheus
The only thing I hate more than Prometheus is that fucking Fallout New Vegas

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UnfairRepresent
09/08/22 4:48:39 AM
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TigerTarTheo posted...
The only thing I hate more than Prometheus is that fucking Fallout New Vegas
Really? Most people like that game

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LeoRavus
09/08/22 4:50:55 AM
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The prequels grew on me after a few watches. How they explain the origin of the aliens and humans.

Previously we had no idea where the aliens came from. Maybe some people prefer a mystery.

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cjsdowg
09/08/22 4:59:07 AM
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Aliens
Alien

Alien 3

There are more then those 3.

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TigerTarTheo
09/08/22 5:00:22 AM
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UnfairRepresent posted...
Really? Most people like that game
No, in fact I think its the worst

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UnfairRepresent
09/08/22 5:03:16 AM
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TigerTarTheo posted...
No, in fact I think its the worst
Out of the main 5 I'd put it second worse

it's better than 2.

It's also way better than BOS and Shelter

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Laura_Hughes
09/08/22 5:10:07 AM
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Alien
Thats it.

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alphagamble
09/08/22 5:12:00 AM
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I like most 80s action films except Aliens

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ultimate_reaver
09/08/22 5:13:13 AM
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alien is the clear best. it's incredibly atmospheric and claustrophobic, and a total masterclass in set design and suspense building.

aliens is a neat sci fi action movie. i dont like it as much as most people seem to but it isnt bad by any means. it's clearly better than anything after it obviously, but i don't like it as much as the first by a longshot.

alien resurrection is not great and certainly has problems, but i think it's a little better than people give it credit for. if it had a bigger budget i think it would have ended up a lot better. the newborn alien has a really cool design

alien 3 sucks. im sure theres a story about how it ended up as it did but the result absolutely sucked. it casually killed three beloved characters from the second movie off offscreen because it couldn't figure out what to do with them, and it was for the sake of a tepid bad movie. it looks pretty gritty and cool, but thats about all the positive i can say about it

i have never seen prometheus past about the halfway point. its incredibly boring. i at least finished alien 3 once so i have to put it below

i have never seen covenant because of all the bad press it got, so i guess ive got nothing to say about it

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Umbreon
09/08/22 5:14:09 AM
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Nacen posted...
Aliens
Alien
Who cares


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LeoRavus
09/08/22 5:18:24 AM
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ultimate_reaver posted...
alien is the clear best. it's incredibly atmospheric and claustrophobic, and a total masterclass in set design and suspense building.

aliens is a neat sci fi action movie. i dont like it as much as most people seem to but it isnt bad by any means. it's clearly better than anything after it obviously, but i don't like it as much as the first by a longshot.

alien resurrection is not great and certainly has problems, but i think it's a little better than people give it credit for. if it had a bigger budget i think it would have ended up a lot better. the newborn alien has a really cool design

alien 3 sucks. im sure theres a story about how it ended up as it did but the result absolutely sucked. it casually killed three beloved characters from the second movie off offscreen because it couldn't figure out what to do with them, and it was for the sake of a tepid bad movie. it looks pretty gritty and cool, but thats about all the positive i can say about it

i have never seen prometheus past about the halfway point. its incredibly boring. i at least finished alien 3 once so i have to put it below

i have never seen covenant because of all the bad press it got, so i guess ive got nothing to say about it

I personally saw nothing boring about Prometheus. Just watched it again last night. And my attention span is super short. Probably why I never got through a single LotR movie without falling asleep.

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VigorouslySwish
09/08/22 5:44:01 AM
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1 & 2 are equal but in different genres

1 is a great horror movie and 2 is a great action movie

every other Alien movie sucks

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VigorouslySwish
09/08/22 5:45:19 AM
#23:


Shadow_Don posted...
Aliens >= Alien >>> Alien 3 >>>>>>>>>>> dumpster fire trash

Take Ripley out of Alien 3 and I think people would view it much more favorably.

it would be better but honestly the movie was just a mess overall, it was all over the place

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LeoRavus
09/09/22 3:46:18 AM
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VigorouslySwish posted...
1 & 2 are equal but in different genres

1 is a great horror movie and 2 is a great action movie

every other Alien movie sucks

Nah they're all good. I didn't consider AvP in this. That's it's own thing.

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BurmesePenguin
09/09/22 3:54:40 AM
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Nacen posted...
Alien
Aliens
Who cares

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SamHide
09/09/22 3:55:47 AM
#26:


I agree with TCs ranking.
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Unknown480
09/09/22 3:57:22 AM
#27:


Alien
Aliens
Alien 3
Alien Resurrection
Alien Covenant
Promethuses
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Xethuminra
09/09/22 4:00:47 AM
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Aliens (the sequel) is cool but I can't imagine rewatching it religiously or anything, like the first one. 3 can be tolerable to view multiple times in a row. More than tolerable. Lots of those scenes are great for trailers of the series. It doesn't have the depth or replay value of the original, and for that matter Aliens doesn't have the depth either. At all. Great military fiction and turning the Alien into a multimedia thing, with the hive, and hordes of them, and they basically invented the "Space Marine" for that movie haha.

Resurrection falls apart after 1 or 2 viewings, even if you can pick it back up, that's just not it. You're practically asked to hate on the movie as a requisite to enjoy it.

Prometheus is a 10/10 movie though. 9/10 without Covenant. Covenant is arguably the only Alien movie that's straight horror. Easily a 10/10

I'll happily rewatch Covenant and Prometheus over Alien 2, 3, Resurrection, etc

AvP2 is a little boring like it was made for TV but at least it doesn't suck and we got a Gremlins reference
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tripleh213
09/09/22 4:06:39 AM
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TigerTarTheo posted...
No, in fact I think its the worst
Horrible opinion

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The_Creep_2020
09/09/22 4:11:28 AM
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Shadow_Don posted...
Aliens >= Alien >>> Alien 3 >>>>>>>>>>> dumpster fire trash

Take Ripley out of Alien 3 and I think people would view it much more favorably.
Yes.

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Xethuminra
09/09/22 4:16:04 AM
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Is Prometheus a space adventure movie at the heart?
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LeoRavus
09/10/22 4:15:36 PM
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Xethuminra posted...
Is Prometheus a space adventure movie at the heart?

It seems to follow the same formula as the others.

One thing I never understood is the inconsistent gestation periods after someone gets "impregnated". In some movies people walk around for a while like everything's fine. In others as soon as the face hugger falls off they're getting chest bursted. I think the guy in Resurrection lasted the longest.

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ProboBum
09/10/22 4:17:15 PM
#33:


Alien
Alien Isolation (not a movie but it's damn good so I'm counting it)
Aliens >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
The rest of the Alien series


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The_X_Dawg
09/10/22 4:22:51 PM
#35:


Alien
Aliens
Alien 3
Alien Resurrection
Alien vs. Predator
Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem
Prometheus
Alien: Covenant

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RiKuToTheMiGhtY
09/10/22 4:46:22 PM
#36:


1st Alien or Aliens
3rd Alien Covenant
4th Alien Resurrection
5th Prometheus

Alien 3 is so shitty to me it does not matter, and I do not include the cross over movies.

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FortuneCookie
09/10/22 4:52:12 PM
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Alien is a franchise that would benefit from a Terminator: Dark Fate-style sequel.

Make it star a 24-year-old "Newt" Ripley and her wife as they battle a new army of xenomorphs. Sigourney Weaver can have a cameo where she's de-aged to 50. If not, just have her alive and off-camera instead of telling us she died.

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SauI_Goodman
09/10/22 4:59:15 PM
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in the order they came out.
1 > 2 > 3 > 4

also for many years i didnt know the babe from aliens was a brownfaced jewish actor. i guess her speaking fluent spanish kind of helped.

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LeoRavus
09/10/22 5:11:07 PM
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SauI_Goodman posted...
in the order they came out.
1 > 2 > 3 > 4

also for many years i didnt know the babe from aliens was a brownfaced jewish actor. i guess her speaking fluent spanish kind of helped.

Yeah she also played John's foster mom in Terminator 2

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/3/6/AABulwAADqPM.jpg

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rodu_jr
09/10/22 5:12:14 PM
#40:


Aliens
Alien
who cares
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SauI_Goodman
09/10/22 5:12:22 PM
#41:


LeoRavus posted...
Yeah she also played John's foster mom in Terminator 2

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/3/6/AABulwAADqPM.jpg
lol yeah as a kid didn't even notice

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LeoRavus
09/10/22 5:19:57 PM
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SauI_Goodman posted...
lol yeah as a kid didn't even notice
Me neither. I always thought Vasquez's complexion looked off though. Didn't realize it was brown makeup

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SHRlKE
09/10/22 5:56:09 PM
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Currently watching 3. Not as bad as I remembered.
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AtelierGaming86
09/10/22 5:57:07 PM
#44:


Nacen posted...
Alien
Aliens
Who cares


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GeneralKenobi85
09/10/22 6:05:01 PM
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Aliens > Alien > Alien 3 > Alien: Resurrection > Prometheus > Alien: Covenant

The middle three are hard to rank because Prometheus is technically the best one there. But Alien 3 still at least feels like an Alien movie and it of course has Ripley as the main character. Resurrection is stupid but entertaining. The other three are all easy. Aliens and Alien are incredible. Covenant is the clear worst.

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LeoRavus
09/10/22 6:07:43 PM
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SHRlKE posted...
Currently watching 3. Not as bad as I remembered.

I watched 3 earlier and now Resurrection. I don't think any are really bad but some are definitely better than others. The CGI was pretty awful in 3. It came out a year before Jurassic Park and that shit was perfect.

Walmart has the 6 film collection on blu ray and digital for $25 which would be about the same price to rent for 48 hours on Prime. I think Covenant is the only one available in UHD.


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Aressar
09/10/22 6:15:02 PM
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Alien > Resurrection > 3 > Aliens > Prometheus.
Haven't seen the rest.

I'd probably rate Aliens higher if Newt wasn't in it. I absolutely hate little children in survival horror movies, because their helplessness always results in all the cool and useful characters getting killed. The fact that Newt screams all the time makes it even worse.

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MICHALECOLE
09/10/22 6:16:46 PM
#48:


LeoRavus posted...
Alien
Aliens
Prometheus
Alien Covenant
Alien Resurrection
Alien 3

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GeneralKenobi85
09/10/22 6:39:55 PM
#49:


Aressar posted...
Alien > Resurrection > 3 > Aliens > Prometheus.
Haven't seen the rest.

I'd probably rate Aliens higher if Newt wasn't in it. I absolutely hate little children in survival horror movies, because their helplessness always results in all the cool and useful characters getting killed. The fact that Newt screams all the time makes it even worse.
That doesn't really seem to apply to Newt though. The mission was FUBAR'd whether they had found her or not.

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