 The alien franchise like most has had its share of problems, but I firmly believe there's way more good than there is bad Today I'm ranking them starting from the bottom as always and working my way up It's the best and worst of alien on movie views. I'm not gonna lie I made it about 30 minutes into this piece of crap before I shut it off and smashed my controller to the floor Then beat my wife mercilessly kidding. I am kidding. I would never break a good controller like that It's perfectly fine. The film looks like it had a budget of $25 and the acting was just terrible The first movie was bad enough and I have earned a scared stupid to watch so my time is precious, obviously How in the hell do you take two hard-art movies and push the fire so badly? What does that even look like? It looks like AVP. Studios have been doing a stellar job of turning successful franchises into more accessible pictures Look what they did to diehard in Robocop. AVP has some cool fan service And some of the battles are okay, but there are far too many cutaway shots and the fear is nowhere to be found It's just a mindless action-fest with throwaway humans The only returning character from past films is Lance Henriksen is Bishop who plays second fiddle to the rest of the group It has a script that rivals weekend at Bernie's in terms of intelligence But I could see how this is a guilty pleasure for some just make sure you know It's a guilty pleasure and not a good movie Well that was depressing, right? Jesus, this movie could have been a hell of a lot better. It should have been a hell of a lot better And it could have gotten so many different routes. I don't know what they were thinking here The story is just bonkers Ellen is the lone survivor after crash landing on some prison planet years after the events of two all the likable characters are dead Killed off-screen the exciting action from aliens gone the interesting heroes and villains gone The film is a result of multiple rewrites multiple directors and one hell of a bad year for David Fincher Everything I've read about the production on Alien 3 is a cluster fuck It's just a nightmare for everyone involved Including the 28-year-old director who had everything to prove in the feature length film department coming off of music videos like Madonna He was handed unfinished scripts that he had to constantly rewrite Which is not a good thing when you are a perfectionist like David Fincher Taking 20 takes per shot at times and this movie ends on such a bitter ugly sad dark note With Ripley once again having to do it all herself Sacrificing herself to get rid of this last xenomorph that's inside her body. This is some T2 shit Except for with James Cameron's awesome movie We knew that Arnold Schwarzenegger was just a badass doing it, you know He's still a machine Ripley's a human a human that has been through more torture and pain than anybody should ever have to Go through only to wind up where she is Dead yet. There is a part of me that can appreciate this flick mainly because I can see the blood sweat and tears from everyone involved on the screen It's muddy. It's dirty. It's grimy and somehow that looks kind of surreal and pretty Some people call it a bad dream and and they stick by that The movies are alien one and two and that's all we have so far I enjoyed Prometheus the same way I enjoy a college chick on spring break There's really not much under the hood, but what's presented in front of me I can dig I'm really into it looks beautiful, especially in IMAX Not not the chick. Well There is some genuine tension throughout with the highlight by far coming from the alien abortion sequence And then there's the badass final review where our alien turns into that cute little teenage xenomorph Ready to take on the world and then kill it all there is however a gigantic amount of plot holes and just beyond Stupid character decisions this of course comes at no surprise when you find out David Lindelof was involved in the writers room Thank You David for the biggest fuck you in TV history More like alien perfection, right? No, well, I enjoyed this movie It's not like three gave us a lot of places we could go and Fox of course couldn't leave the franchise dormant, right? Just we didn't deliver to fun little script full of action drama and nostalgia Some will argue that that's not the old Ripley on screen and to an extent that's true But Sigourney Weaver doesn't miss a beat handling the complex emotions her clone is going through Why not a writer may have been a bit out of place But Perlman seems right at home in this installment avoid the hate on this one don't go along with it alien Resurrection is a good movie and it belongs in the alien franchise Game over man game over. This is as good as it gets James Cameron took the alien name and ran with it Aliens is far more action-heavy with space marine squaring off against xenomorphs left and right There's a great cast of diverse characters outside Ripley like Hudson and Newt It's a shame they only get a couple hours on screen before the next movie gives him a huge disservice Where the first movie focuses on a single threat terrorizing the ship this one goes all out with these assholes on a planet Mouth fucking everything that moves we get our introduction of the alien queen here, too She'll go on to appear in a couple of the later installments But this is the one where we get the most memorable moments You would think after the events of this one She wouldn't even bother with the cryogenic sleep every time she wakes up another hellish nightmare unfolds Just walk away from the cryo chamber. Just walk away Impossible for me not to have this at the number one spot although aliens is just as good Some of the effects have lost a bit of edge over the years But the direction by Ridley Scott is handled so well You don't really care the cast is brilliant the pacing is fantastic and our leading lady could not have been picked better It's an edge of your seat space horror done right for me personally It's just one of those rare groundbreaking experiences. You just don't come across that often in cinema So you gotta grab hold of it and really soak it in As I stated at the beginning of this episode the alien franchise has certainly had its ups and downs with the AVP series being this terrible afterthought and Alien 3 being kind of a step backwards in the wrong direction Which would be which would be backwards in this case yet for all the missteps I still find all of them very watchable minus requiem and I have watched all of them multiple times Rumors have been flying just left and right that a fifth movies on its way It's in production or something. I don't know if that's the case. I'm there day one I like this franchise a lot. I want to see it continue to grow. Give me your list below I want to hear what you have to say. I'm sure it's gonna be different minus It might as kind of unconventional I would say out of the one other list I've seen on the internet. So take that for what you will more than just reviews. 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