I Watched And Ranked EVERY Alien Movie...
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- With the release of Alien: Romulus this week I wanted to take a second and watch all of the Alien movies because... I hadn't seen a SINGLE ONE! I know, it's messed up, but hey, I finally watched all of them. So in today's video, not only do I go over Ridley Scott's almost perfect series of films, but I highlight great parts of the franchise like Sigourney Weaver's performances, James Camerons perfect sequel, and the under appreciated nature of David Fincher's first feature film in Aliens 3, but also...much much more...so watch the rest of the video :)
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Movies Included:
Alien (1979)
Aliens (1986)
Alien3 (1992)
Alien: Resurrection (1997)
Prometheus (2012)
Alien: Covenant (2017)
Alien: Romulus (2024)
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Alien: Romulus (2024)
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Synopsis:
Space colonizers come face to face with the most terrifying life-form in the universe while scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space station.
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Cast:
Sigourney Weaver, Michael Fassbender, Charlize Theron, Idris Elba, Bill Paxton, Danny McBride, Caillee Spaeny, Isabela Merced, David Jonsson
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IF YOU'RE READING THIS....I'M THE SOLE SURVIVOR OF SHIP DYLICIOUSTAKES...AND I AM STILL SEARCHING...
okay so it's come to my attention that my brain fried and the nostromo is NOT in Alien Romulus, it's a different ship. I swore it was the nostromo in promos but I digress, it's a different ship lol...
movie is still fire though
The wreckage at the beginning is the nostromo though
@@leytonchua8498 THAT'S WHAT I THOUGHT! lmfao okay im not crazy
Prometheus was a funny movie but did leave out some breadcrumbs to find out where aliens come from😅 13:18
Yeah Nostromo wreckage was at the start but the movie takes place on the Romulus/Remus station
And also 9:43. The answer to that was because the embryo inside her was a queen and the queen chestburster takes longer to break through the chest than a normal Chestburster. Love your video keep up the good work, just thought you wanted to know that.
Aliens is one of the greatest sequels ever made
Yeah it’s really good
Hands down👍
It’s funny that James Cameron made the two greatest sequels of all time with Aliens and Terminator 2
One of the greatest *movies* ever made
Yup. Alongside Terminator 2.
Seeing Prometheus ranked over Alien is the craziest hot take I've seen in a minute. I respect the hell out of it, even if i disagree with it
Prometheus is underrated af, def in the top 3
What?! I did like Alien 3, but Prometheus over Alien? That's shocking.
@ydcee3123 It's not that shocking
He's young and watching for the first time concurrently, with no built up expectations
I also prefer the original over Prometheus just for the record
I think Prometheus is the best of the prequels and post alien 3 but I'm hopeful that Romulus is actually good I haven't been able to watch it yet but I think I will soon
@@wayne1da121I'll give you that, the first time I watched Prometheus I didn't fully understand what was going on (I was like 14 watching on a laptop lol) but after rewatching it and understanding the lore implications its pretty decent not the og trilogy worthy, and tbh i dont even remember anything in Covenant but I love Prometheus and alien 1 and 2
Prometheus over the original is mental.
No, aliens above the original is crazy, Prometheus can be comprehensible.
@@user-js3mg1dc6s ALIENS is the best movie the most technically complicated and hardest to achieve
Prometheus 3 whennnnn???🙁😔
Agreed - prometheus ruined the franchise for me
@@user-js3mg1dc6saliens is probably a little worse, but they’re realistically on about the same level
Romulus shook me to my core....great movie lol
Nice just came back from the theater I thought the movie was great my only complaint the make a wish kid engineer alien thing at the end 😂
How though? There's nothing original in it other than Andy. I just don't understand the hype
@@guesswho1573I just didn't like the end
@@guesswho1573They made the ALIEN actually scary again. It's a movie where there's not just a billion Xenomorphs chasing the crew all of the time, and gave the facehuggers their own time to shine. If anything, Romulus is Alien 1 Remastered, It's more of the same actual horror aspect of the first movie but with a different twist to it and honestly I dig it, also the cinematography is just amazing
@@eduardopolletini8726 i agree the cinematography is very good, I don't think it was that scary to be honest, there was just too high of a pace to feel scared or build up anxiety in my opinion, I hate that the chestburster kept getting cut away from as that's such an iconic moment in these movies. But I think it is the best thing to come out of this franchise since no.2
Just one note: the shots you are talking about in alien 3 arent cgi, it is actually a superimposed puppet, filmed on a miniature set. It is actually very well made, the problem is that the compositing just doesnt work with that lighting, and makes it look super weird and out of place. The only cg shot in the movie is the split second shot of the aliens dome cracking up when it is dowsed in cold water.
Just left a similar comment before seeing yours - drives me nuts when people automatically assume it was CGI, considering CGI wasn't widely used up until then.
Was going to say this but you beat me to it, love Alien 3 but wish that compositioning could be fixed
Calling it “bad cgi” is stil accurate because they composited the shot with computers, and it looks bad. They didn’t shoot the puppet in camera on set.
@@yeahiagree1070 Digital compositing is not the same thing as CGI.
It’s a weird thing, the shots do almost take me out of the feeling yet at the same time they make me more uneasy, some uncanny valley stuff going on with this creature which is already unsettling. It would ONLY work for that movie IMO.
Prometheus and Covenant have by far the absolute worst dumbest crew I've ever seen for a horror movie.
😂😂
Ah, so you haven't seen ROMULUS yet then...
@@Kingdoms.Kobolds_81 yea and the crew from prometheus and covenant are WAY FUCKING WORSE, the stupidity of the crew literally ruins the logic of the movie
@@Kingdoms.Kobolds_81 Who was dumb in romulus? I watched it and I would say their reactions were pretty reasonable.
@@Kingdoms.Kobolds_81 at least in that movie the characters are teens and not scientists so is more believable if they do dumb shit.
People always forget that in reality smart people can do really dumb things. So seeing smart people doing dumb things in movies is very recognisable
It’s refreshing to see Prometheus get some love. I absolutely love that film despite its flaws.
The big ideas it tried to tackle were incredible.
The masses were never gonna accept that. But i appreciated it. Plus it was a complete visual treat.
Also shootout to HR GIGER for being the goat.
yesss prometheus got me into alien in the first place because ALIEN released 20 years before my birth. I will allways love it for that
What so many have failed to realize about the franchise, prometheus included, is it's the worst kind of cautionary tales, I'm glad it's getting some love finally
Only Alien (first movie) and Prometheus manage to give the alien species such a ominous vibe.
Aliens might me a masterpiece and all but when i watch these movies i want the uneasy feeling of Alien, Alien 3 and Prometheus.
Alien 3 is a good film, don't give a shit about the bad FX because it stills put you on the edge and is bold. I cant get it, why people criticize it saying 'is too depressing and mean'? i though we like this franchise partially because of that...
Resurrections may be a comedy, when i was a kid it was very scary to me, later i just made me laugh, then i watched the rest of the director movies and i understand why it was like that.
I saw someone say the following and really thought it was great.
They said they saw it as a movie in the Alien Universe and not an actual prequel to the Alien movies.
Fun fact: Ripley's basketball shot on Ressurection apparently is not edited. The director hated the fact that the ball went out off frame, and Ron Perlman's reaction is 100% real and almost ruined the shot which is why, in the movie, the shot is cut from so quickly.
She sunk the shot on the very first take, even though she was six feet further past the three-point line. Ron Perlman was completely stunned (and thoroughly impressed), and turned directly at the camera and broke character, saying, "Oh my God!" The editors looked at the shot and decided that there was "enough room to get the scissors in". Weaver was excited about making the shot, but Jeunet was concerned that audiences would believe the shot to be faked due to the ball leaving the frame. Upon Weaver's insistence, he kept the shot as it was. Weaver described the miracle shot as "one of the best moments in her life", after her wedding day and the birth of her daughter, of course.
Apparently, Sigourney Weaver had been practicing this shot for two weeks prior to filming and insisted on doing it herself.
Most of this is correct, except for the claim that Sigourney got this on her first try. She did not. They did dozens and dozens of takes trying to get this right, and it was only on the final try before they were going to do something like use a second ball or CGI that Sigourney finally got it. The reaction from Ron Perlman was absolutely genuine, though.
Wrong. It took almost 50 shots
Alien: 10/10
Aliens: 10/10
Alien 3: 7/10
Alien Resurrection: 6/10
Prometheus: 8/10
Alien Covenant: 7.5/10
Alien Romulus: 9/10
YASS!! GREAT RATING!!
I'd go
Alien - 10+
Aliens - 10+
Alien 3 - 4
Alien Resurrection - 6
Prometheus - 8.5
Alien covenant - 6
Alien Romulus - 9.5
My ranking is very similar!!
Alien: 10/10 (very very good, especially for the time. And we have to consider that it's the movie where we see the creature for the first time)
Aliens: 10/10 (the rhythm, the scary moments are maybe better that the ones in Alien and it expanded the lore)
Alien 3: 6 (meh, nothing really new here...)
Alien Resurrection: 5.5 (they tried to introduce some new aspects, but the final product is unbalanced)
Prometheus: 8 (not for everyone and not a perfect movie, but with interesting concepts)
Alien Covenant: objectively I have to give it a 6 (but honestly I would give it a 4, because this movie could have been so much more!!! It was a big disappointment, since I had some expectations after Prometheus)
Alien Romulus: 8.5 (one of the best in the franchise, for sure)
Alien: 9.2/10
Aliens: 9.5/10
Alien 3: 6/10
Alien Resurrection: 6/10
Prometheus: 8.3/10
Alien Covenant: 6.5/10
Alien Romulus: 9/10
Not disagreeing Just my tweak...
I have not seen all of the films, but one addendum:
Alien 3: 6.5/10
Alien 3 Assembly Cut: 8/10
I do think that the alternate cut improves the movie tremendously.
Also-I don’t think I hate Resurrection as much as some other people do, but it has some of the most odd tone shifts I’ve ever seen in a film. One good example is the “lab scene” discovery, with the alternate Ripley clones. One of the strongest scenes in the movie, for sure. But then it was followed up immediately by a ridiculously goofy joke/comment by Ron Perlman’s character. It’s just jarring, and serves to cheapen & dilute the impact of the previous scene.
Anyway…
For Alien 3, I don't remember the details, but I think the reason the Queen chestburster was taking so long to gestate in Ripley had something to do with the medicine the doctor had been giving her, which was causing the process to slow. That, and I guess Queens are just supposed to take longer too.
Correct, from the books they take around 5x the amount of time.
Wow someone who actually likes Alien Covenant? There's not many of us.
Covennat was a good sequel of Prometeus, and I love both, btw, however I believe that it was a pity to not see all the things that happened between movies; the massacre of the engineers and the tortures from David. The off screen recreates a kind of terror, which is cool, but splicit terror would be better
AI is 4/4.
Winona Ryder: "What am I a joke to you?"
I was not ready to get sent back in time 15 years too early UA-cam at 0:44
I strongly disagree with the Prometheus ranking. But I respect the love for Alien 3
alien 3 slept on man...
There is nothing that bad about Prometheus. But Alien 3.... It's the most insulting sequel I've ever seen
@@DyliciousTakes alien 1 is like a 1/10
@@FrcsWolfweek bait
@@Zilliguy im serious lol, the movie is super slow, 58 minutes in th movie and we still havent seen the alien
alien 3 didn't use any cgi, apart from the scene where the xenomorph head explodes. the aliens in this movie are actually most of the time puppets filmed before a green screen and later added to the scenes.
Was going to say the same thing. The reason it looks bad is because they didn't properly match lightling between the puppet and live plates. Also you're getting that classic black line around the puppet that comes from compositing different live plates. But you know thing looks bad, It MuSt bE CgI.
Alien 3 looked like bad CG before bad CG was everywhere! Ahead of its time
Technically they used blue screen with optical compositing and they rotoscoped out the rods used to move the xenomorph puppet. Ironically, they could probably make the visual effects look a lot better if they replaced the puppet with CGI.
I've been saying it my whole life. Alien 3 rules.
The setting, the tone, the return to roots. The new alien. No guns and still figuring out how to kill it.
Always liked it.
I don’t think it rules at all, and I don’t think the return to roots was a great idea for that movie.
Alien 3 is boring and no characters are likable. The effects suck and the whole movie feels pointless
I think the biggest issue people have was killing pretty much every other character from Aliens in order to get to it. It takes away from Aliens, in order to deliver the plot of this one.
so refreshing to hear that someone else likes prometheus. i feel people went in expecting and wanting something different than what Scott intended. seen romulus opening night, Fede needs to carry on the Alien franchise with Scott’s blessing and obvious involvement because that movie was great, i typically don’t react/speak to films when i watch but romulus made me audibly say “nope” multiple times. him making the cast young and untrained made their decisions and mindsets a ton more believable. i give it a 9/10 or an A+ on a bad day and an S on a good day. your list is very similar to mine too
The idiocy of alot of the characters didnt help this film.
@@UnifiedEntity i get that but these were teenagers-young adults. as much as we’d like to think we’d act a certain way in situations you can’t speak for the next person. while frustrating, a lot of their actions were justified.
Sigourney Weaver a goat ngl 🐐🐐🔥
Das babe😍 for life as far as I’m concerned
A female lead done right
I know this is not popular opinion but Alien3 is my favourite from this franchise and this is my favourite movie of all time. 10/10
The 'Assembly Cut' version of Alien 3 is a whole grade up from the theatrical version. Pretty much puts it in a tie with Romulus in my book.
Yes, apart from the ox birth. The alien was more dog like in behaviour, so they should've kept that bit.
This is the first video of yours I’ve seen, and I absolutely loved it! You put a lot of hard work into it, and I believe you’ll be going places in no time, keep it up man!!
Thank you so much!! Welcome to the channel! 🔥🔥
It's amazing that James Cameron made Terminator 2 and Aliens, two of the greatest sequels of all time
I'm always happy to see Alien 3 get more love. I've been defending that film since the 90s when it came out and still have people complain to me that it's not as good as the first two.
crazy challenge of watching them all and ranking them. Good Job!!!
Thanks!!
9:55 it took so long to hatch because A) it was the next Alien Queen growing inside of her, so it needed longer, and B) she was facehugged while in Cryosleep, so it probably took longer for the embryo to grow in the first place because of that
That should be the funniest thumbnail I've ever seen in all the years of my life.
Covenant was my favorite movie honestly, the gore in that movie was something else.
The Neomorph had a fantastic “uncanny valley” feel to them, especially the temple scene where it stands there staring.
Covenant keeps getting better over the years. Despite kind of trying to please everyone, it actually feels like a hyper focused story and it's a great film because of it.
I have never been so happy to see clickbait, Aliens in F teir had me worried was glad to see it deservedly be in S teir
It was a class move to be fair! 😂
Alien: 9/10
Aliens (Special Edition): 10/10
Alien 3 (Assembly Cut): 8/10
Alien: Resurrection: 5/10
Prometheus: 7/10
Alien: Covenant: 6/10
Alien: Romulus: 8/10
My ranking
Alien 9/10 near perfect
Aliens 9/10 near perfect
Alien 3 5/10 Medicore
Alien resurrection 1/10 one of my least favorite movies
Avp 5/10 Medicore
Avp 2 2/10 awful
Promenthus 7/10 good
Alien covenant 6/10 not bad
Romulus 8/10 great
5:29: Fun fact: With me being an airport ramp agent (the guy that loads bags, ect.) the APC in Aliens is nothing more than an aircraft tug with a plywood body kit added.
SO glad you loved Prometheus!! I love it too. So sad we never got a worthy sequel. Ridley Scott should have continued his vision exactly how he wanted. I wanted a movie with the Engineers so badly.
Aliens > Alien > Resurrection > Romulus > Prometheus > Covenant > Alien 3
I completely agree with your Alien 3 take, but Prometheus over Alien is wild to me...
The Queen Xenomorph embryo has a much longer gestation period, that's why it takes days to burst.
FUN FACT: In Alien 4, Sigourney Weaver actually made that blind basketball shot in one take. So the other actors surprise reaction was genuine. Unfortunately the camera wasnt zoomed out enuf to show it was all legit cuz they never thought she could hit it.
It was not in one take. It was dozens of takes.
1. Aliens
2. Alien
3. Alien: Romulus
4. Alien: Covenant
5. Prometheus
6. Alien 3
7. Alien Resurrection
Kudos for the Prometheus praise, I know it's not what a lot of people like or expect especially with how much fox loves their alien. I'm seeing Romulus tonight should be fantastic with fede at the helm
19:55 it’s not the nostromo. It’s a completely different ship called the Romulus, hence the name of the film “alien Romulus”
Actually it's the Renaissance space station. It's divided into 2 sections: Romulus and Remus.
OG Aliens is epic and Prometheus was incredible! You sold me, i gotta watch Romulus .... btw great music choices!
Hope you enjoy it! and thanks!!
The scene in Aliens where Ellen finds out that her daughter already had died and they gave her a picture of her very old, is heartbreaking.
But the Sentry gun scene ( omitted in the theatrical release ) is for me one the most tense scenes in the movies, the ammo counters just keep going man.
You're 100 percent correct about the third. It gets a lot of hate because they killed off two fan favorites in the beginning, but that's life. The alien holds up. It's just not as good as the first two, but it's still good. I'm happy you watched it with an open mind.
I used to think the same thing, I never cared that Hicks and Newt were killed - making a movie with them would be lame. But Alien 3 is too dramatic maybe if they toned that
drama down it would have worked better
Alien Romulus for me was mid-didnt scared me at all from the beggining to the middle, but after that, when they showed the offsping, the xenomorphs, oh my god, it made me almost threw me up 9/10
This guy should play alien isolation
is it good?
@@DyliciousTakes a real but clencher!
Alien, Aliens, and Alien: Isolation were all inspiration behind the making of Alien: Romulus. And yes it's that good if majority whom played it place it next to those two as best in series.
ps Alien is S tier all day everyday.
To answer your question the reason the Alien 3 Xenomorph took so long to hatch was because it was a queen like you saw at the end of alien 2. Which is why Ripley felt the dire need to sacrifice herself or the queen would almost guaranteed wreaked havoc and a new hive would start. Which is also why the xeno spared her, not because there was any basic alien In her but because it knew it was becoming a queen and it would be completely counterintuitive to their purpose of living to kill a possible queen, which their only goal in living is literally too spread like a virus. Also the poster picture for the film is a picture of the chestburster queen which is why it has the frill on its head.
Aliens is probably my favorite movie of all time. Just the story of redemption from the first movie was beautiful. Don’t trust Androids, grow to trust Bishop. Ripely loses daughter but finds Newt. Goes from a fearing victim of the Aliens to their destroyer. Fantastic 👌
someone prob already said it.... but in case not.... the effects in Alien 3 were NOT cgi, they were a rod puppet with some very dodgy compositing. they just had a hell of a time matching the existing live action, angles, lighting and all that.... there were a few tiny bits of cgi. the cracking on the head and the shadows under the composite shots of the puppet. But for the most part, no cgi. cgi was very much in its infancy when 3 was made. wild thing is... this movie got a visual effects oscar nomination.
now that's a satisfying alien tier list
Love your review of 3. You arent blinded by the production / writing/ delays controversies. Watching it blind like you did was going to get a better review. 👊🏽
Thank you for giving Alien 3 some love. It’s so underrated!
Fun fact: Most of the wide shots of the xenomorphs in alien 3 are actually practical puppets that were filmed and then superimposed into the scenes, however due to the time constrains on the release of the movie, the special effects team did not have as much time as they needed to properly make the scenes look convincing, which is such a shame.
Worth noting that the lore of the franchise is very muddy, but David did not create the Xenos, he only reverse engineered them. They pre-date David by a VERY long time, evidenced by the murals on the walls in Prometheus and the ancient alien ship with a cargo of eggs. The actual origins of the Xenos are still a mystery.
I‘m curious which version of Alien 3 you have watched. Because the assembly cut is about 30 minutes longer and gives some characters more screentime. Many fans prefer it over the theatrical cut.
justice for alien resurrection fr
What I didn’t like about Romulus is how quickly the alien hatched from the girl and how the gun seemed to have infinite ammo despite being at “10%”
Those shots of the Alien in 3 are actually a puppet composited in. It’s a really ambitious effect and not just for its time and it probably would have looked better if the post production wasn’t rushed and if Fincher had more control over it. It hasn’t aged great but I like it for its tenacity.
The biggest issue with alien 3 is how it ruins the whole 3rd act of aliens by killing off newt and bishop in the opening which makes Ripley facing her fears and going inside the alien nest to rescue her seem redundant when she literally dies first thing in alien 3
Its interesting to note that despite David's claim that he has finally created something (a thing that Synthetics are not supposed to be able to do), he did not in fact create the Xenomorphs but he did ultimately alter its evolution. I suppose David is satisfied with at least that.
Watch Romulus in ScreenX and it blew me away. One of the best space movie experiences I've ever had. Crazy immersive
Fun fact the alien in alien 3 wasn't CGI, it was a miniature rod puppet filmed against a green screen (or something similar) that was later overlayed/added in. This is why it looks awkward in the movie.
Can't wait to see Alien Romulus.. I forgot how good the special effects were back in 79...Great vid.. Thanks for the updates.. I gotta watch these again!
the effects were insane!!
My unpopular ranking from best to worst:
1. Aliens
2. Alien
3. Romulus
4. Prometheus
5. Resurrection
6. Covenant
7. Alien 3 ( sorry but i hate it )
Romulus fucking SLAPS. That shook shook me to my core 😭
I love that I’ve found someone who doesn’t just shit all over Prometheus. It was fantastic
Seen all of these many times. My favorite franchise by far. And in my opinion, your list is spot on.
Heeeey, a fellow (and rare) fan of Alien 3. Such a beautifully dark and dreary flick with great acting, incredible music and set design. Love it. There's a fan-made 4k cut coming out in October that improved the CGI stuff. Looking forward to that. OH and I think the reason the alien took so long to gestate is because it was a Queen. That was my thinking, anyway :)
that's awesome! i'll have to check it out when it comes out
See I liked the third alien for it’s characters and setting the only thing I wasn’t the biggest fan of and I think was why the low rotten tomatoes was the cgi for the alien that’s it otherwise it was a great movie I just didn’t really like the cgi but great setting
@mr.invisiblegaming8760 it's technically not CGI (look up what they did, its actually pretty neat... it just didn't work so well), but yes, it looks terrible and takes you out of the movie. Apparently, they managed to improve it for the upcoming 4k cut. Dunno how much or if it's even possible to improve, but I can hope :)
@@interdimensionalsteve8172 I looked it up and I didn’t know that, I thank you
That thumbnail had me writing paragraphs 😂
WE MAKING IT OUTTA THE RIBCAGE WITH THIS ONE🔥🔥🗣️🗣️
Romulus was great. Not once did I think about my phone or anything else while in the theater. Kept me engaged the whole way.
It’s almost hard to believe that you went your whole life not watching any of these. BS or not, great video, and THANK YOU for not hating on 3…I love that movie and I don’t get all the hate.
love the song choices here, didnt expect badass for covenant lol
what people didn't really like about Alien 3 is mostly that the little girl and Hicks ( USCM corporal from the last film) completely got kill from the start, Nutt shouldn't have being kill, she would have been the best character that would have follow Ripley's foot step for future Alien films.
Fun fact: in aliens 3 it’s not CGI used, they used an alien puppet over green screen and then put into the movie
David didnt create the xenomorph he just created an offshoot version of it, but xenomorphs existed long before humans
Fun fact, the "CGI" in alien 3 is actually a practical alien puppet shot on a blue screen and then cropped into the movie
Great video. For me it would be:
S tier - Alien, Aliens
A tier - none
B tier - Alien3, Romulus
C tier - Prometheus
D tier - none
F tier - Covenant, Resurrection
My rating of *almost* all the Alien movies (a lot of people will disagree):
Alien: 8.5/10
Aliens: 10/10
Alien 3: 4/10
Alien Resurrection: 3.5/10
Prometheus: 1/10
Alien Covenant: 1/10
Alien Romulus: (still ahead of me)
I can't remember if it was explicit or implied in Alien 3, but the reason the alien took longer to incubate was because it was a queen rather than a drone.
I think, the theory is that the embryo that infects her in the third movie is from a outright queen, not a normal drone. Therefore it takes longer to develop.
Alien 3 is great. People love to shit on it because some of the alien effects weren’t great, but that is skipping over SO much great film.
And the opening is a pretty big slap in the face.
Im definitely with you that Prometheus is unfairly maligned. But ranking it over Alien made my head explode lol
Didn't even saw the video yet but I see Romulus in a tier on it's own. One of the best movies I've seen and surprisingly better than all the others in the saga
Prometheus on Top? Yes!
Alien 4 LAST? Yes!
Damn, I have to say that literally agreed with every single ranking here, except for the fact that I also liked resurrection and would put it in B tier. but I do have a few notes to add:
- The aliens David made imo don't ruin the unknown origin of the creatures at all, cause the true source of them was the black liquid. He just utilized that to create the version of aliens that we have seen in the sequels. The true origin is still something that we never understand.
- Alien 3 has to be the biggest wasted potential out of all of them. They killed off what I thought was the most interesting character super early and for pure shock factor. the directing and composition really ruined some of the scenes, and Ripley just felt underutilized as far as her development goes. Like I felt like the movie could have dived so much more into how she feels, but it didn't really do much of that.
- I agree with the overall ranking of it, but I actually liked the first half of alien way more than the second half. It just kind of devolved into a good horror experience, with so many tropes that are pretty lame imo, while the first half was some of the most atmospheric and tense space goodness I have seen.
- I'm so happy someone gets why Prometheus is god damn good. If no one else will, I fully stand by your side on it being even better than alien. yes the characters did dumb things, but in alien they split up multiple times at the worst possible times, and got themselves killed to save a cat. which was kinda hype that they did, but like.... why would you do that!?
We expected more of the "military sci-fi" action from Alien 3. And it was supposed to be one (you can see a basic concept in Alien 4), but Sigourney Weaver said she will only return if she does not handle any guns. So that's what we have. Also, the fact that Newt and Hicks were so unceremoniously killed off at the very beginning and Ripley was killed off at the end was a big turn off for me.
1. Aliens (1986) 10/10
2. Alien (1979) 10/10
3. Prometheus (2012) 7/10
4. Alien Covenant (2017) 6/10
5. Alien: Romulus (2024) 6/10
6. Alien 3 (1992) 5/10
7. Alien: Resurrection (1997) 1/10
S - Alien
A- Aliens
B - Prometheus
C - Romulus; 3
D - Covenant
"Vasquez, you ever get mistaken for a man? ", "No have you?" gets me every time. Romulus has so many easter eggs and canon references. I stopped counting after 10 minutes. First one i spotted was the nodding bird desk ornament.........
You should do predator too
i'll add it to the list!
I got to experience the original in theaters for an anniversary event. Worth every penny. Resurrection holds a special place in my heart as a standalone 90s monster movie. I have to give Prometheus another chance. Unfortunately it just wasn't what I wanted from an Alien film at the time
Alien 3 just disrespected the 2nd movie by killing Hicks and Newt, two characters that had a lot of potential for a sequel. Cliff Bleszinski (Gears of War 1-3) even once got the gig to make an Aliens game with a grown Newt joining the Colonial Marines.
Also, never call Marines "soldiers."
I was VERY bothered by Shaw's story not continuing. I truly felt she was the best of the iconic Ripley's spiritual successors in films without feeling like an obvious Ripley clone. While I enjoyed Romulus VERY much and the leading lady, Spaeny. The visual casting was obviously Ripley-esque. They really had something special with Shaw in my opinion that makes her stand out amongst the non-Sigourney leads in the franchise.
Also Great list! I love seeing love for Prometheus!
I breathed a sigh of relief when you said you liked Prometheus! 😅
For me this what I’d rank them
1. Alien
2. Prometheus
3. Romulus
4. Aliens
5. resurrection
6. Alien 3
7. covenant
Essentially in alien 3, the xenomorph in her was not only a queen but likely still fatigued and slowed in growth due to cryosleep
Alien 3 it's actually one of my favourite in the franchise. Great set, interesting setting on a space prison, no guns, the grim atmosphere, cat and mouse game xenomorph and the ending that gave meaningful arc
But ruined the arc of the previous film (and it's characters) to get there. Killing off Newt and Hicks unceremoniously just served to retroactively make Aliens worse.
Let me just say this. You are spot on with the best. AI characters, because all 4 of them are spot on, I will have to respectfully disagree. I think 3 and covenant should be lower character choices and endings, but prometheus definitely went up for me. After I reevaluated it recently, and yeah, Rigley, scott knows how to make an incredible looking film, and I felt that moment in the end of prometheus 15:55 It still has a few flaws, but nevertheless ridley.Scott, they'd pay much homage to the first alien.
I knew the only really good movies were the first two, so I watched just them and went to see Romulus, and oh boy, it was such a blast.
Aside from the first 2 masterpieces, and Romulus, the other movies just have chunks and pieces that are awesome, rather than the entire movie.
I don't trust anyone who places Aliens above Alien in their ability to critique films, sorry