"Aliens" : Some nice effects, but actually kind've a crap film.

The actress who plays vasquez, I forget what she's called, she was in "near dark" and IIRC terminator 2 as well? K-ROWR!!!

foolish elvens.

you can't say that thats a cliche can you?

The trouble is films since Aliens have robbed it to fuck and now admittedly watching it again it some parts seem cliched but you have to realise it was unique at the time and was, and remains to be, an absoloute classic

Anyway:
Alien: claustrophobic atmosphere, good script, suspense, nasty shocks, superb design

Aliens: Suspense, nasty shocks, superb design and GUNS GUNS GUNS! LOTSA GUNS!

I declare a tie.

Alien 3 is underrated, by the way.

haha xpost

Alien: haven't seen it! wtf
Aliens: That's the clumsiest exoskeleton I've ever seen, HOMO SNAPIES U HAVE NO CHANCE 2 SURVIVE MAKE UR TIME, also kind of an injustice to the Aliens that they keep getting killed so easily, yes I understand the guns are big but seriously people, this is the most dangerous species in the galaxy, they don't need numbers to win
Alien 3: I have tried to watch this like 5 times and have been unable to figure out what is going on enough to bother sitting through the giger cave bukkake
Alien Resurrection: Am I the only person who thinks this would have been better standalone, without trying to tie in to the Alien franchise? Ron Perlman!!! Whoop

Heavens! This is the best of the lot.

OTM.

i can't really participate in this thread objectively, as i'm an alien/aliens obsessive. but Alex, you ARE SO FUCKING WRONG!

ripley's character "humorless and wooden"? echhh. she is traumatized, she narrowly escaped being killed by a space monster. she is the only one who realizes how much of a threat the alien really represents, and she is exasperated by the marines and the company's incompetence. to her this is serious shit, the stakes are just too high if the aliens spread. and i think sigourney weaver nails this perfectly.

newt annoying? i've always thought that newt was one of the least annoying child characters in a movie like this. she doesn't even have that many lines!

btw everybody I saw Sigourney at the Belmont last year and she's still SUPREMELY BEAUTIFUL at like 56 or whatever.

No I'm not, actually. You're just a fanboy in denial.

she doesn't even have that many lines!

One doesn't need lots of lines to be annoying.

why did i become a fanboy in the first place then, hmm?

"But why would a space-age forklift come equipped with one?"

welding?

I was about to say! Tom, trust me, it's worth it.

Perhaps, like I was, you were intrigued by the first film. Unlike me, however, your blind devotion to the promise of the first one makes you overlook the flaws of the second.

ps. tiny pedantry from earlier - the new Exorcist movie is a prequel. ?

Duly noted, Stence. But why do we need one of those either?

True, but von Sydow isn't playing said character. I believe the guy playing him is the advanced-Calculus genius from Eastern Europe with the fancy scarf that pals around with Robin Williams in Good Will Hunting. To which I say: why?

The Exorcist is fine where it is. Leave it there.