Movies Ranking the Alien franchise

[bubbleboyjones]

Alien, the best film.

Aliens was a great action film.

The rest have problems.

Maybe 3 for number 3.

Despite big issues with the script, I actually like Prometheus.

100% spot on this post. I'd actually say Prometheus got better after I saw Covenant.

 

[RerouteToRemain]

3. Alien: Covenant

Movie was trash

 

[RerouteToRemain]

Alien
Aliens
Alien 3
Prometheus
Resurrection
Covenant

 

[minute bull]

Ron Perlman was the shit.

Definitely not the one with whom to fuck. The underwater sequence alone gives the film a pass but it's definitely a mashup of two different speeds (rather like JUSTICE LEAGUE).

Hmm, turns I really love this franchise. Each one holds a special spot so long as a Predator doesn't make an appearance.

 

[Randlewand]

AVP movie ranks:

AVP 2 > AVP 1

 

[Drain Bamage]

Alien
Aliens
Alien 3
Prometheus
Resurrection
Covenant

Awful list

 

[StewDogg11]

Anyone who doesn’t have Alien: Resurrection dead last has awful taste in movies in my opinion.

 

[RerouteToRemain]

Awful list

Covenant was the biggest let down of the year by far. Absolutely shit, all of it. Fassbender is the only reason it's not a 1/10. It contradicts previous movies and the stupidity level from the characters is something out of a straight to DVD film. It ruined what could have been an amazing sequel to prometheus.

Alien is the best movie.
Aliens is the best action film of them and still a great movie.
Alien 3 wasn't great but it was better than the rest.
Prometheus could have been fantastic but I felt it was written poorly. Honestly A3 and Prometheus are swappable imo.
Resurrection is trash.
Covenant is dog shit, i don't think I've ever been more disappointed in a movie as I was with that.

 

[Deleted member 110072]

Alien > Aliens > Alien 3 seems pretty clear to me.

Beyond that I think Prometheus and Covenant probably have more positives to them but the scripts are total messes, Resurrection is blander pulp but doesn't make such clear misteps.

 

[BisexualMMA]

Alien > Aliens > Alien 3 seems pretty clear to me.

I won't disagree with anyone who puts Alien or Aliens first.

Beyond that I think Prometheus and Covenant probably have more positives to them but the scripts are total messes, Resurrection is blander pulp but doesn't make such clear misteps.

Yeah, pretty much. For every big step forward, Prometheus and Covenant take a couple of giant leaps backward. Meanwhile, Resurrection just kind of shuffles its way along to the end, ending a little bit ahead of where it started.

The Winona Ryder android is boring as hell and adds nothing to an *okay* movie. Fassbender's androids are outstanding but also the only thing helping a shitty movie keep its head above water at all.

Resurrection has a couple interesting ideas but the movie is mostly a flatline to get to them. A flatline is still better than utter dog shit though. And I hated shit like the Weyland Yutani bought out by Wal Mart joke. That's Last Jedi level meta crap and disrespect.

 

[Deleted member 110072]

Yeah, pretty much. For every big step forward, Prometheus and Covenant take a couple of giant leaps backward. Meanwhile, Resurrection just kind of shuffles its way along to the end, ending a little bit ahead of where it started.

The Winona Ryder android is boring as hell and adds nothing to an *okay* movie. Fassbender's androids are outstanding but also the only thing helping a shitty movie keep its head above water at all.

Resurrection has a couple interesting ideas but the movie is mostly a flatline to get to them. A flatline is still better than utter dog shit though. And I hated shit like the Weyland Yutani bought out by Wal Mart joke. That's Last Jedi level meta crap and disrespect.

The prequels are the kind of film were its nature to focus a lot on what they do wrong as well exactly because you sense there was potential for pretty good films to be made, much of the casting was strong and they look if not as good as the original at least a cut above your typical modern sci fi.

I think people are going to look back on the 2010's and view it as the decade were the Abrams clique gave pretty much every major sci fi franchise the touch of death, Trek, Starwars and Alien all messed up by scripts that seemed like they were written in a weekend via nothing but cocaine.

 

[Herwald]

1, Alien
2. Prometheus
3. the rest of them

Prometheus looked good but at the expense of completely ruining the mythos of the franchise. The Space Jockey being a bald dude in a bony spacesuit is a fucking joke. Someone had to tell Ridley Scott to quit smoking crack. Fuck off Ridley, we all know it was a giant space elephant bio-merged with his spaceship. It was not Vin Diesel playing a flute to steer his spaceship.

I thought Spacey was bound to the chair and moved around the ship on a kind of train rail mechanism that morphed along with it. Like the ship itself was alive. Cause the stricture of it and those tunnels just do not make any sense for a biped humanoid to walk around in.

And the creature actually looking like it did in the first flick and not being a suit was super intriguing. The possibilities you could do with this creature. Could've tapped into H.P. Lovecraft myths, made him a kind of Space Cthulhu type character.

But, after accepting the new direction, I actually got intrigued with the potential of the Engineer mythos and... it went fucking nowhere. Ridley phoned in a reheated bowl of piss with the last one. Another Xenomorph karaoke movie. The only good parts where the extensions of the Prometheus story and even those ended up being anti climactic. The new crew was the most nothing bunch outta all these flicks.

Music was good, though. And I agree about 'bender, he's a good actor and carried these prequels.

 

[Deleted member 110072]

But, after accepting the new direction, I actually got intrigued with the potential of the Engineer mythos and... it went fucking nowhere. Ridley phoned in a reheated bowl of piss with the last one. Another Xenomorph karaoke movie. The only good parts where the extensions of the Prometheus story and even those ended up being anti climactic. The new crew was the most nothing bunch outta all these flicks.

Music was good, though. And I agree about 'bender, he's a good actor and carried these prequels.

I strongly suspect that Scott did not have overriding control of the scripting on either of these prequels, both these scripts reek of studio meddling to me in the way Alien horror elements are so badly shoehorned into them.

 

[CaptHANDSUP]

How could anyone possibly think that 'Resurrection' is not the worst Alien movie ever? By a clear margin too.

 

[raty tat tat]

1. Aliens
2. Alien
3. Aliens Vs. Predator

And hopefully someday we get
Aliens Vs. Predator Vs. the creatures from Pitch Black.

 

[TrueBias]

Resurrection (It was a fun movie and the characters didn’t go full retard)

Huh.

Theres a.... comedic scene where an asshole pulls out his own brains.

Only part thats good in that stink fest is the one girl's ass.

 

[Deleted member 110072]

How could anyone possibly think that 'Resurrection' is not the worst Alien movie ever? By a clear margin too.

Its the only one that never really shows any potential at greatness, well perhaps the scene with the pickled Ripley's but really I view it as middle of the row pulp, no offencively bad not very unremarkable. It feels more like the Alien/Predator films to me than the rest of the mainline franchise.

 

[TheLinguist]

Alien and aliens are the only movies.

All due respect to Fassbender for his performance in Prometheus but after the original and sequel there is nothing, like Rocky ended with the 4th and Terminator ending with T2.

 

[-Magua-]

I enjoyed the 3rd and it’s theme prolly more than most.
The theme of Engineers and all that was promising and I’ll continue to watch, but it’s a different movie/storyline; Almost a complete departure it feels.

 

[AngryWeasel]

I think people are harsh towards Alien 3&4 and the prequels. The 3 and 4 were good movies in my book, just not on the goat contender level for horror and action movie the first two were.

The 3 had that wicked and claustrophobic apocalyptic ambiance wich suited well the whole "we are trapped in a prison facility in a prison planet with no guns and an invulnerable man-eating predator" situation and did a good work on the evolution of Ripley's character. Plus a dog alien that runs like hell and was well done in CGI for the time.

The 4 had some cool ass space pirates, good looking aliens and delve a bit more on the darker side of Ripley, big tech companies, the android question (that have been a continuous topic since the 1) and horrific-sexual stuff that also was on the first then forgetten (after all we are talking about humanoid predators that like to put their tails between women's legs and are born from a mouthraping gagging double hand creature itself born from a pussy-cross egg). Too bad Jeunet is anything but an action real.

Prometheus & Covenant are underrated too IMO. They considerably expend the lore and are full on big SF movies, wich I like, and don't get stubbornely stucked on the Alien itself. One more time, the big tech companies, the androids, ethics about creating / preserving / killing, a bit of the sex-horror stuff are interesting thematics that were present in the original and developped in them. Prometheus obviously went a bit in all directions but Covenant actually did a good job of thightening the storie and providing explanations. And had the balls to have a bad guy winning, dark and grim ending.

Plot holes, mysteries and stupid human behavior were all present in the first one without people getting all riled up anyway. I mean there was no explanation whatsoever about the space jockey, the crashed ship or the company knowing about that unknow specie on an unknow planet. Or wtf was the alien doing chilling between tubes in the final sequence as it is about to be thrown in space while the whole movie it killed every human crossed in seconds. And we had a guy putting his head the closest possible to an enormous alien egg hatching live and two different characters on two different occasions searching for a fucking cat, unarmed, alone while people are getting slaughtered left and right...
I think people just tend to be more entitled and less imaginative today.

On a sidenote, that shitty ugly human-alien hybrid and all the AVP of the world can suck my dick.