Alien (1979) vs Aliens (1986)

[I'm Shawn Spencer]

Have you guys seen this interview where Cameron is talking about having to follow up what Ridley did? I find this interesting

 

[CutStryker]

You know what else I liked about Aliens, the practical effects. Alien had practical effects as well don’t get me wrong. With time comes better capabilities such as better substances like epoxy etc. Creature makeup etc got better

 

[TCE]

Aliens.

Loved them both though.

 

[Mangar]

Which is the better movie?

Both amazing movies. I like Aliens slightly more though.

 

[Mangar]

You know what else I liked about Aliens, the practical effects. Alien had practical effects as well don’t get me wrong. With time comes better capabilities such as better substances like epoxy etc. Creature makeup etc got better

Ya I really wish more movies used practical effects. It's more expensive I guess but the results are often worth it. The Alien films used them and the results paid off. Another movie that had some of the best practical effects ever was "The Thing" which is one reason why it's probably my favorite movie of all time.

 

[HI SCOTT NEWMAN]

Both are very good movies, but Alien is my favorite out of the 2.

 

[LMP]

I love both of these movies. Alien is a piece of art. Aliens is an awesome movie.

 

[90 50]

I respond to this thread once a year.

I prefer Aliens. I'm not gonna bag on Alien because I like it. Ok maybe a little bit - there are just too many corny things that don't work for me anymore. The "gotcha" pose when the Alien gets Dallas, the clunky giant head on that thing, well ok that's about it. It's a great movie.

But Aliens is WAY more re-watchable for me. The characters are frickin' great. The Aliens don't look like guys in suits. It stays respectful to the original. It's in my top 3 all time.




The Thing, of course. But surely you've seen it. Pitch Black is kinda sorta ok. Tremors. The Descent. The 3 Stooges episode where that Gorilla is chasing them. Apollo 18 (a little slow and boring...)

I love pitch black

 

[Dan O]

Aliens is fun, Alien is tense. Tie in my book. Both always in my top ten, all time.

 

[wendelbudwhite]

Really surprised by the people bagging out gigers alien in the first I found that design far superior to Cameron's aliens. The queens awesome but the warriors in aliens Im not a fan of, their heads aren't phellic enough imo.

Also I know I'm always gonna be on the minority here but give me the characters in the first over the second any day. I fucking hate that bull dagger Vasquez.

 

[Mike]

I've read that David Fincher wanted to do a lot different with Alien 3, but there was too much studio involvement. I love almost everything he does, such a shame, we could have had a great third film.

Read some excerpts from the original script and it sounds great. Shame what we ended up with.

 

[Mike]

Ya I really wish more movies used practical effects. It's more expensive I guess but the results are often worth it. The Alien films used them and the results paid off. Another movie that had some of the best practical effects ever was "The Thing" which is one reason why it's probably my favorite movie of all time.

I still rewatch both regularly and it's quite amazing how well most of the effects hold up. And the few that don't, you're so into it you don't care.

Masterpieces.

The 80s were a hell of a decade for movies.

 

[BisexualMMA]

Have you guys seen this interview where Cameron is talking about having to follow up what Ridley did? I find this interesting

Also, notice how Reiser / Burke, as soon as he sees it's Ripley, looks back to make sure the chick he has over isn't in view.

That's the extra little stuff that makes movies like Aliens great.

 

[Prex32]

aliens is probably the most fun to rewatch movie ever
no matter how many times
it basically answers your question

 

[Deleted member 110072]

You know what else I liked about Aliens, the practical effects. Alien had practical effects as well don’t get me wrong. With time comes better capabilities such as better substances like epoxy etc. Creature makeup etc got better

Really the original Alien was more based on its set design I would say, you never got to see much of the creature and most of the atmosphere was built on the nostromo and the derelict.

Along with the visuals I do preffer the drama to the original which is rather more subtle and arguably has a better all round cast. I always felt that Aliens was a great film was also a bit of a learning experience for Cameron, he'd mastered the level of production we saw on the original Terminator but this was a bit step up and as a result does feel a little straight forward in places for me. With the Abyss and T2 on the other hand I think you see he's more comfortable on a large scale film, maybe the former doesn't have quite as good a story but visuals/acting wise I think its more mature.

 

[Deleted member 53199]

Aliens

 

[n...not crazy]

Ya I really wish more movies used practical effects. It's more expensive I guess but the results are often worth it. The Alien films used them and the results paid off. Another movie that had some of the best practical effects ever was "The Thing" which is one reason why it's probably my favorite movie of all time.

Is CGI really cheaper? It seems like all these transformersuperhero movies have 100 trillion dollar budgets. Why?

555, in the pipe.

Fun fact: For the longest time, I thought Hudson had screamed "We're in some real fruity shit now!". Pretty shit... as my friends laughingly corrected me...

 

[SamSchmidt]

What bothers me about all this is the new films can't grasp why we loved these 2 movies with the new ones.

It's not a hard formula to follow but they keep fucking it up every time.

They tried in requiem. But just couldn't get there.

Drop some interesting Marines on a hive world. Say action!

Wtf is so hard about that?

 

[LockardTheGOAT]

Aliens

Probably the most intense film I've ever watched

 

[Scerpi]

Alien was a masterpiece considering the year it was made. It holds up even today.