Alien movie franchise.

[Dredd]

Yeah but still funny!
I thought Ridley Scott had something to do with it? Sorry, my mistake!

No big deal.

I wish Ridley Scott had been at the helm. We would have had a different, and (probably) better movie.

No offense to Mr. Fincher, of course. I think he was under extraordinary pressure to pump out a film that lived up to the smash success of Aliens - there was no way that was going to happen.

I remember interviews he did during the production of Alien 3 - he was enraptured to have been given the reigns. He was definately enthusiastic about the subject matter, so this was not a case of an indifferent director looking for a big paycheck and an easy box-office ride. He really wanted Alien 3 to be the best film it could be.

That could still happen if they made another one, due to the ending in Resurrection. I doubt it though

It's the next logical step storywise. The Dark Horse graphic novels dealt with that concept years ago - good stuff, and not nearly as goofy as AvP.

[Ash Housewares]

They tried to recapture some of the flavor of the first movie

but they didn't, hence it smells

I agree with Dredd about the AvP comics/books, I read one or two and they were nice and all, but they didn't cry for a movie, certainly not a Paul W.S. Anderson movie anyways, how did he blow Event Horizon?? It was such a fun idea!

[Keldaris]

well i would have to rank them
1)Aliens:I prefered the characters more in the second one.....hicks, hudson, and vasquez. there was more action, and i like the story better than the first one.

2)Alien:the face huuger on kane, the chestburster at dinner, ripley risking her life for a cat....more suspensful than the other ones

3)alien 3:the no guns thing had already been done, although the exploding alien was a good idea.

4)alien ressurection: the killed the black guy!!!! he was the best character....other than jonmer and vreiss....

5)alien nation: the making of alien

6)AVP.......I don't count it as part of the series

[Dondrei]

The Dark Horse series of comics, especially early on, were wonderful. That said, I was never keen on the idea of the concept being adapted for the big screen.

Nevermind the whole stomping-on-sacred-ground thing - the comics were entertaining, often well-written and the artwork was fantastic, but it was a hokey, fanwank pairing that should have stayed in the realm of graphic novels. Just my opinion.

I agree. Comics can handle a much higher level of - shall we say - lameness and camp than a movie can. Different medium, different rules. As for Alien 4, the only good thing about it was the cast (WEAVER, WINONA RYDER, MICHAEL WINCOTT and RON PERLMAN!!!!), and I just felt sorry for them because they were totally wasted.

The best bit in Ressurection was when the 3 aliens are in the cage, the two on the outside look at the one in the middle, shrug, then slash him, spilling acid onto the floor & escaping!

I thought that was one of the worst scenes. The aliens aren't supposed to think like humans, that's dumb and it makes them less scary. They were frightening in the originals because they were animals - cunning, but still animals. Primal and whatnot. That scene just illustrated to me that the makers had no respect for the concept of the aliens and the essense of their character. Like the velociraptors in the abysmal Jurassic Park 3.

Alien 3 bugged me (no pun intended) because they killed off Hicks and Newt right in the beginning.

Oh hell, I forgot about that. That is so rooted. It totally makes all that drama in Aliens a complete anticlimax. Sure, there's no way they could have kept Newt around without annoying the hell out of everyone (in Aliens it was all fine, but twice in a row would be testing the audience's patience), but they should have thought of something better.

I wish they would have gone with Cameron's idea for the third one, but the budget for it would have been ridiculous. I mean a huge, all out battle on Earth? How cool would that have been?

Nah, then it would have lost all the claustrophobia and suspense and just would have been a special effects-a-thon. There must be a middle ground.

how did he blow Event Horizon?? It was such a fun idea!

I know, I know. The whole movie was perfectly summed up by the absurd end credits: Oh my God, that's some funky ****.

[Stoutwood]

Oh hell, I forgot about that. That is so rooted. It totally makes all that drama in Aliens a complete anticlimax. Sure, there's no way they could have kept Newt around without annoying the hell out of everyone (in Aliens it was all fine, but twice in a row would be testing the audience's patience), but they should have thought of something better.

Hicks was the best character in the second one, and they killed him off. I suppose the director expected me to get an attachment to the forgettable prisoner characters, but he might as well just made the whole planet populated with Ensigns. Never mind the fact that somehow the queen alien laid an egg in the ship despite losing her tail before going onto it. Plus it was annoying how the alien in the first movie popped out in no time, but for some reason it took forever to incubate when it was in Ripley.

[Ash Housewares]

the only character I empathized with in Alien3 was the dog