alien or aliens?

whats your favourite?
they are both equal in my opinion but if i had to pick then mine would probably have to be the first one because it is more horror

well the first is obvisouly the crown winner, because it is so original, not only in story telling,but in filmaking. The character development is top notch,as is the acting. However,lets get real here, the better of the two on the entertainment department is Aliens. It is just more bang for your buck. The suspense in the movie is just outrageous. It also rivals any other suspense action movie to date. This is just filmaking at it's best here. More aliens that are presented in a dark memorable way. Not to mention the baddast ass marines hollywood can produce on film 🙂 maybe it's just because aliens is my fav film.

My favourite out of all of the films is the first one, Alien, love it.

same here, the first one

Originally posted by ragesRemorse
The character development is top notch,as is the acting.

Funny you say that, because there is no character development. I watched "Alien" yesterday with commentary by Dan O' Bannon and Ridley Scott and he said he didn't feel you needed character development with the Alien on the ship.

I love them both, but "Aliens" was just overall more entertaining.

chalk and cheese.

Alien was a great haunted house story, Aliens was a great Gung-ho war movie. I prefer haunted house as a rule but Aliens made me sweat more. I always refuse to choose when asked this.

i say alien, because it is obviously more original and creative. Aliens is a great movie as well, and is action packed. Its a rough decision, but in the end alien pulls off the win cuz the alien creature looked so much better (in concept). It had the fiberclass "case" over its head, whereas in aliens it was removed.

i would say that aliens was just better becuase it had the queen alien, way more action, way more dead plp, and just having more aliens makes it worth it. but alien is still a fav to me, i liked it becuase it was way more scary(when i was a kid) darker. but 2 was way more entertaining.

i kinda liked the second one.

Alein

while I respect Alien and enjoy it very much.......I must go with Aliens on this one.

and to totally mindfuck most of you I'm sure........I'm going to have to go with Alien 3 over Alien too. Same dark atmosphere as the first movie........the plot wasn't any better....I just enjoy it more......I enjoy the characters more.

alien 3 was more sadder and i hated that they killed newt and hicks off...that pissed me off...no way better than alien but it is still a great watch

I enjoyed Alien and Aliens both quite a bit. However, they are completely different types of movies and very hard to logically compare.

I LOVED the beginning of Alien 3............

I love the fact that they opened the film by completely shooting down the happy ending of Aliens. Basically they're saying, "you know the happy ending at the end of Aliens? If the movie would have been 10 minutes longer this is how it would have turned out".................

that's one reason I love the flick so much.

Originally posted by Cinemaddiction
Funny you say that, because there is no character development. I watched "Alien" yesterday with commentary by Dan O' Bannon and Ridley Scott and he said he didn't feel you needed character development with the Alien on the ship.

I love them both, but "Aliens" was just overall more entertaining.

Well any way you look at it, there was infact character development with Ripley's character. I think it was pulled of very subtle and quite well. Nothing epic, but very significant changes. when it comes to sci-fi you dont get much character development period. The best performance of this in a sci-fi flick is probably Kurt russel in soldier. However, the first three Alien movies do have some damn fine growth in their characters.

As for Alien 3. For the lonest time i hated the movie for basically being the same movie as the first. After years of being pulled twords it,i broke down and decided to analyze it positively. It does as Evil says, have great Atmosphere. Not better than the previous, but not worse. though the film did pretty much copy it's roots. I think it did well in staying it's own movie, with the writing and acting.

Man this is hard, but I'm going with Aliens.

Originally posted by ragesRemorse
Well any way you look at it, there was infact character development with Ripley's character. I think it was pulled of very subtle and quite well. Nothing epic, but very significant changes. when it comes to sci-fi you dont get much character development period. The best performance of this in a sci-fi flick is probably Kurt russel in soldier. However, the first three Alien movies do have some damn fine growth in their characters.

As for Alien 3. For the lonest time i hated the movie for basically being the same movie as the first. After years of being pulled twords it,i broke down and decided to analyze it positively. It does as Evil says, have great Atmosphere. Not better than the previous, but not worse. though the film did pretty much copy it's roots. I think it did well in staying it's own movie, with the writing and acting.

that is exactly how her character grows. At first glance ripley is given off as ghost on the crew of strong leaders. Her strength and will is hinted at a few times before the mayhem that ensues. she stays a quiet officer loyal to her duties. then suddenly they are faced with an unknown killing machine. Everyone of the crew is lost except for Dallas. Dallas holds their sanity and resoning together. Ripley shadows this at times,but is still bound to her training. After dallas is killed, she then rises and shows her leadership, though she is frieghtend her strength still shines through. By the end of the movie, Ripley has gone from a quite restrained officer on the ship, to a desperate,feirce woman who is no longer scared of what has preyed on her entire crew.

There's a difference between stepping up and literally being thrown into a position, like Ripley was. She was already a commanding officer on the Nostromo, so whatever she actually overtook, leadership wise, shouldn't have been a surprise to anyone.

The only evolution in Ripley's character would be in "Resurrection", if you ask me.

didnt like ressurection at all.