Alien Trilogy vs. Terminator Trilogy

[BisexualMMA]

it was so weird- it was like they really wanted to expand the mythos with Prometheus but then abandoned all the thought-provoking questions and ambiguities, probably because they couldn't think of how to resolve them in an effective way. As you said, Covenant does not deliver on what Prometheus started to hint at. It's just a dumb, moderately entertaining Alien film.

It's called Damon Lindelof syndrome.

Ridley Scott had some kind of meltdown when people didn't like Prometheus. He made up a boogeyman problem that people didn't like it because it didn't have xenomorphs, instead of the dumb characters and million-questions-and-zero-answers. So he said fuck it and solved a problem that didn't exist, threw in a half dozen different kinds of xenomorphs and basically did a Rian Johnson on Dr. Shaw and the Engineers.

At least he knew he had something good with Fassbender as a synthetic.

 

[ufcfan4]

It's called Damon Lindelof syndrome.

Ridley Scott had some kind of meltdown when people didn't like Prometheus. He made up a boogeyman problem that people didn't like it because it didn't have xenomorphs, instead of the dumb characters and million-questions-and-zero-answers. So he said fuck it and solved a problem that didn't exist, threw in a half dozen different kinds of xenomorphs and basically did a Rian Johnson on Dr. Shaw and the Engineers.

At least he knew he had something good with Fassbender as a synthetic.

haha. Well said. That's a shame.

Fass seems to be the king of acquitting himself well even in movies that are rife with problems.

 

[Steve Rogers]

It's called Damon Lindelof syndrome.

Ridley Scott had some kind of meltdown when people didn't like Prometheus. He made up a boogeyman problem that people didn't like it because it didn't have xenomorphs, instead of the dumb characters and million-questions-and-zero-answers. So he said fuck it and solved a problem that didn't exist, threw in a half dozen different kinds of xenomorphs and basically did a Rian Johnson on Dr. Shaw and the Engineers.

At least he knew he had something good with Fassbender as a synthetic.

I will forever be grateful to Damon Lindelof for

 

[DoomPatrol]

Which is superior?







vs.

If we stop at the second movie in both trilogies then they are both a 10/10.

Alien and Aliens were both perfect movies. Alien 3 was dog shit. They literally killed off everyone who was important in Aliens at the very beginning, and the whole plot with the dog alien and Ripley being a fucking lunatic in this one was stupid. It only got worse from there too.

The Terminator and T2: Judgment Day were both perfect movies. T3 was when they started going off the rails. It made zero sense that the T-X was getting the shit beat out of it from a T-101. Terminator: Salvation was the dumbest fucking plot line of the entire franchise.

 

[BisexualMMA]

Terminator: Salvation was the dumbest fucking plot line of the entire franchise.

Do you even Genisys bro?

 

[DoomPatrol]

Do you even Genisys bro?

Well Genisys is technically a reboot and I pretend it never existed.

 

[Herwald]

Alien > T1 > T2 > T3 > Alien 3 > Aliens

I don't like Aliens. I admire it technically and I've watched that 3 hour making of documentary about it, like, 20-30 times in my life, but I just don't care for the actual movie. Alien, though, the first one, is a fucking beast of a film. T1 is more entertaining and I think I've seen it more times, but that's cause Alien is like fine wine, I can't just put it on in the background - I wanna dim the lights and get into it.

Terminator 3 has some bombastic popcorn schlock scenes that work for me on that level, so that's why I'd rate it that high. But, frankly, T3, Alien 3 and Aliens... whatever. It's all about the first Alien flick and the first two Terminator movies. Don't really need anything else. But that's why Im voting for Terminator cause it's 2 great movies vs 1.

EDIT: Here's the doc:

 

[BisexualMMA]

Alien > T1 > T2 > T3 > Alien 3 > Aliens

I don't like Aliens. I admire it technically and I've watched that 3 hour making of documentary about it, like, 20-30 times in my life, but I just don't care for the actual movie. Alien, though, the first one, is a fucking beast of a film. T1 is more entertaining and I think I've seen it more times, but that's cause Alien is like fine wine, I can't just put it on in the background - I wanna dim the lights and get into it.

Terminator 3 has some bombastic popcorn schlock scenes that work for me on that level, so that's why I'd rate it that high. But, frankly, T3, Alien 3 and Aliens... whatever. It's all about the first Alien flick and the first two Terminator movies. Don't really need anything else. But that's why Im voting for Terminator cause it's 2 great movies vs 1.

EDIT: Here's the doc:

I gave you a like for posting the documentary.

But holy fuck, liking this...

...more than Ailens?

Buddy, you need to spend some more time in Mike Kripke's basement.

 

[Herwald]

I gave you a like for posting the documentary.

But holy fuck, liking this...

...more than Ailens?

Buddy, you need to spend some more time in Mike Kripke's basement.

I don't care about either of those movies, man. It's just that, if I had to actually sit through one of them - in Mike Kripke's basement, for example - I'd take T3 with all it's schlock over listening to that "RIIIIIIIIPLEEEEEY!!!" squeal for billion times and watching aesthetically decimated, androgynous looking Weaver play an action hero.

 

[Happy Man]

I can’t vote.

I like all 3 aliens movies, didn’t like 3rd terminator so much.

 

[neverwas]

this choice comes down to the 3rd film in both for me, and i like alien3 that bit more.

 

[HUGHPHUG]

I probably like Terminator most out of all of them movies, then Alien & Aliens equally, then T2 so...

Terminator pro rata /Alien+Aliens - T3 *T2 /Alien 3% = Alien trilogy

but really it's Alien & Aliens vs Terminator for me, so it goota be the space bug things

 

[Law Talkin’ Guy]

Alien 3 > Terminator 3.

The others are all close, the third movies are the tiebreaker.

Exactly my feeling.

 

[Steve Rogers]

I don't care about either of those movies, man. It's just that, if I had to actually sit through one of them - in Mike Kripke's basement, for example - I'd take T3 with all it's schlock over listening to that "RIIIIIIIIPLEEEEEY!!!" squeal for billion times and watching aesthetically decimated, androgynous looking Weaver play an action hero.

 

[Herwald]

That's the thing, bro: they made her look bad. She looked perfectly fine in the first one.

 

[Steve Rogers]

That's the thing, bro: they made her look bad. She looked perfectly fine in the first one.

Ah, well, OK then.

 

[Fatality]

Alien 3 sucked less than Terminator 3 so Alien gets my vote.

If I were to rank them:
1. T2
2. Aliens
3. Alien
4. T1
5. A3
6. T3