Alien vs Aliens

Alien
Total votes: 40 (93%)
Aliens
Total votes: 3 (7%)
Total votes: 43

Re: Alien vs Aliens

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I think I prefer the first one. The alien blood spill, the chestbuster, the sequence of Ripley initiating self-destruct, the android, so many good suspenseful scenes.

When I was 9 or 10, my parents let me watch the last part of Aliens, starting from when Ripley takes the elevator down to rescue the little girl. I remember thinking it was gross but cool!
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Re: Alien vs Aliens

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Alien without a doubt. Scott took his time and I'm a sucker for dread crossed with sci-fi.

Aliens is a tremendous shoot 'em up. I read a criticism somewhere the other day that Aliens doesn't "hold up" because the dialog is so corny and cliched. I'm pretty sure it was corny and cliched in 1986, on purpose. Still great.

Re: Alien vs Aliens

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ALIEN always and forever, it's brilliantly made, thoughtful, highly imaginative visually and conceptually, and a standalone piece of genuinely frightening sci fi. What is this creature? What will it do next? What are we up against? Is it going to kill everyone on board?
ALIENS I admire for its mastery of the action-film form, but I also loathe it for turning Scott's singular vision into franchise fodder - and aside from Godzilla and James Bond, maybe the first in the torrent of shit that flowed from the Hollywood franchising mindset ever after.

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