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Worst one of the series?

posted 7 years ago by Renovatio (2990)
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Is this the worst Alien movie of the series?

I think it's a toss up between this and Aliens... It really has none of the mood of the original Alien... But I wonder if we would have even gotten here with this movie if Cameron hadn't taken the series into the action movie territory with family dynamic (with kid and military types forming a family with Ripley)...

Glad to see Ridley has taken us back to horror at least with Covenant, even thought I liked what he had done with Prometheus...

[–] [deleted] 7 years ago

Well it was a bit silly,but enjoyable in its own way.

If we're not counting avp then yes the worst in the series.

[–] moviechatterer (13217) 2 years ago

*never* count AVP

[–] Volley (3366) 7 years ago

For me the worst part of the film was the ugly little bug that the handicap squishes at the beginning of the movie, and then spits it out onto the window. Gross, even for the immature CGI of the time.

[–] degree7 (821) 4 years ago

Aliens the worst out of the series? Put down the crack pipe.

[–] kuatorises (7467) 3 years ago

"I think it's a toss up between this and Aliens... "

Were you drunk when you posted this? Suffered a head injury, perhaps?

[–] exithereplease (3553) 3 years ago

Easily...

[–] blue1981 (6412) 3 years ago

I've always liked Resurrection more than Alien 3.

[–] cyguration (3834) 3 years ago

Same.

Worst in the series has got to go to Alien: Covenant, not only does it do nothing new, but it retcons the xenomorph origins into something idiotic, regurgitates the kill-off team formula in the most banal way imaginable, and then the showdown with the xenomorph at the end was trite and uninteresting. Worse yet is that Covenant borrowed everything from previous Alien films and then did it all worse, which I didn't think would be possible.

[–] PrimeMinisterX (8289) 3 years ago

Yeah, Covenant. It's amazing that Ridley Scott ever thought that film was a good idea.

[–] Cognoscente (2463) 3 years ago

With the exception of bringing back Ripley, the movie had a lot of ingenuity to it.

[–] [deleted] 3 years ago

Really?

You think breeding 12 aliens at once (instead of trying with one and see where it goes from there) wasn't stupid?

Then keeping them all together, where they're in constant contact with one another (knowing about the acid blood)... that was smart?

Then the queen giving birth through a human reproductive system inherited by Ripley... after gestating for only a few hours, without being fertilized, all this while laying viable eggs.. I mean come on.

All these (and I'm sure there's elements I did not think of) are not very ingenious.

In fact I find nothing to be ingenious with this movie.

[–] Cognoscente (2463) 3 years ago

It's not a logically sound film but I liked it for being different, even something simple like the aliens swimming.

[–] [deleted] 3 years ago

I also liked the aliens underwater. I liked the crew of the Betty too (even if Ron Perlman's character was a caricature).

I really think this 4th movie was unnecessary and that they should have left it at 3.

They wanted another movie. So the clone thing was the only way to bring back Ripley (I guess they thought people wouldn't be interested if Sigourney Weaver didn't return) but I don't get how cloning her would make an alien grow in her chest. If they had xenomorph DNA, any human would work for that. They supposedly took blood samples from Ripley before she died in the 3rd movie, when she had the queen growing inside of her. To my knowledge, a parasite can alter its host's DNA but not transfer it all to it AND produce two separate beings from the same DNA strand. That's freaking ridiculous (see? that's another problem right there). Anyways, from there it went from bad to worse for me where logic/ingenuity is concerned.

I agree that it was still somewhat enjoyable to watch. It wasn't atrocious. But definitely the worst of the 4, in my opinion.

[–] LennyNero (474) 2 years ago

Hmmm... definitely the campiest of the series, but I’d easily take this over the crap that Ridley was pretentiously trying to sell afterwards.

I’m of the opinion of if you did this exact movie with a more “indie sensibility”, it would have worked much better. IMO, it works like a guilty pleasure, but I feel like an ambitious new director would have made this script fly.

IMO, it was a little too “Hollywood”. I think the script would have worked awesome with a director with more indie sensibilities. Hehe...maybe more artsy-fartsy, but the original had that sensibility too.

IMO, I think Hollywood producers were trying to sell this to be a “quick and entertaining thing”. Kinda like a Friday the 13th sequel.

IMO, very fantastic director with too much “Hollywood” intervening. The director’s “Amalie” is brilliant.