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"What is the best alien film?"

After a discussion with Whitestripes i wondered what you thought was the best alien film of the series.

I would rank them;

1.Aliens
2.Alien
3.Alien Resurrection
4.Alien 3

With 1 being best.

I've been questioning this... question since I saw the movie. The only time the queen alien came close to their ship was when she was detatched from her "egg tube", making it impossible for her to lay eggs...

The final scene in Alien 3 had some information I didn't understandin the last scene. Can anyone explain it?

Borat Sagdiyev wrote:
> 4) alien resurrection (last because of that stupid half human thing at
> the end)

Thanks for revealing the ending. No point me watching it next week.

Yep, that's right.

Anyway -

Aliens
Alien
Alien Resurrection
Alien 3

Apparantly Alien 3 had an amazing script, but the producers stepped in and messed everything up. One of them wanted the alien to come out of a COW! If they came up with that crap, you can see why the film was so bad.

The original script is the best un-made film in history according to some. But the producers and executive producers meddled too much. Happens a lot in Hollywood.

The ship that crash landed on the planet sends out a warning to other ships not to land their, because of the indigenous population: the nasty xenomorphs. The ship was used to lay eggs in because it was; a good source of victims and a respite from the hostile environment. The Aliens do not build ships or fly them. They simply wait for hosts.

I think the aliens would be more than capable of building a space ship.

After all, in ALIENS, they managed to switch off the power, or whatever they did.

There is a sequel planned, but not as you would think.

Aliens v.s. Predator is set for the big screen soon.

I'm pretty sure it was a ship.

There was the skeleton of a large Alien sitting in a large 'office chair' type structure. And it looked like some kind of control setup around it too.


Besides, that particular part was certainly a building, it had been made; it wasn't natural. So they obviously capable of this type of thing.



Having said, Aliens do turn other structures into hives, they could have simply invaded this ship and turned it into a hive. The fact that it crashed on that planet is probably a good indication as to the Aliens ability at flying a ship, and therefore not really supporting the idea that they could actually build one of their own.

got it, the script excerpt (from www.script-o-rama.com):


INSURANCE MAN
(to ECA Rep)

Are there any species like this
'hostile organism' on LV-426?

ECA REP
No. It's a rock. No indigenous
life larger than a simple virus.

Ripley grits her teeth in frustration.

RIPLEY
I told you, it wasn't indigenous.
There was an alien spacecraft there.
A derelict ship. We homed on its
beacon...

----------------------------------------

As she uses the term 'alien spacecraft' maybe the aliens did build it after all, which seems a little unbelievable. Unless there was a third party alien race that were victims for the aliens.

The plot thickens

cookie monster wrote:
> I think its the alien homeworld, the architecture is quite
> distinctive.

yes, but in the second film, near the beginning, there is a small discussion between ripley and some of those scientists, where they say "when we last went to LV-403 (or whatever) there were no aliens fitting ripleys description", which is where ripley points out the crashed spacecraft, suggesting they aren't indigenous, and arrived recently.

cookie monster wrote:
> I would rank them;
>
> 1.Aliens
> 2.Alien
> 3.Alien Resurrection
> 4.Alien 3

I would probably agree.