[Tyrian]

I'm surprised nobody has said Star Wars yet...  It's at least in my top 10.

[Polpolion]

Starwars went downhill after the original trilogy. Or more like, fell off a cliff.

[brozozo]

I beg your pardon, Ridley Scott directed Alien (the original) not Aliens (the sequel). Wiki link. The better film IMHO.

I tend to think that comparing Alien and Aliens is rather pointless. Despite the same characters and universe they're actually quite different genres. It's like comparing Saw and Saving Private Ryan.

Besides people who like either movie should be complaining about how **** the 3rd and 4th film were instead.

Agreed. 

I actually didn't think Resurrection was that terrible, though.  Certainly better than the third, at least.

We are in disagreement. Resurrection should not be touched with a pole that is many feet in length.

I like Alien³ a lot. I never get why it's so disliked.

[Nuclear1]

We are in disagreement. Resurrection should not be touched with a pole that is many feet in length.

I like Alien³ a lot. I never get why it's so disliked.

They killed off Newt, Hicks, and Bishop in Alien³, and before any of the action even took place.  For that, it deserves to burn.  Plus, incinerating Ripley rather than have some sort of epic struggle ala Aliens was just a disappointment.  I mean, com'on, it's the freaking Xenomorph, not something you just drown in fire to kill. 

Resurrection had the advantage of killing the Xenomorphs in the most awesome fashions (brains sucked out through airlocks, grenades in escape pods, and crashing the ship, turning it into a huge nuclear inferno of DEATH).  For that, it trumps Alien³.  Nevermind Ripley's odd character twist in Resurrection or the other chick's rather sub-par performance, Resurrection > 3.

[BlueFlames]

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

No movie before or since has narrated directly from my brain.

[Mefustae]

...and crashing the ship, turning it into a huge nuclear inferno of DEATH). 

I never quite got the logic behind doing that. I mean, didn't they just destroy all life on Earth akin to the extinction of the Dinosaurs? Yeah, great ending.

[karajorma]

They killed off Newt, Hicks, and Bishop in Alien³, and before any of the action even took place.  For that, it deserves to burn.

Especially when you consider that Ripley blew up the Alien Queen's ovipositor back in the alien nest. So how the **** did the facehuggers even get onto the Suloco? Surely Ripley would have noticed if she'd come up the lift with an egg under each arm?

Then lets further ignore that Alien eggs do not hatch unless in close proximity to prey (Space Jockey's ship, the fact that the eggs in the nest didn't open except when Ripley was close to them, the fact that there weren't facehuggers running around the alien nest in search of prey even when the marines went in there) and as such would be unlikely to have hatched on the Suluco even if the Queen had managed to carry them in and hide them on the dropship without anyone noticing or even ****ing thinking to check!

Resurrection had the advantage of killing the Xenomorphs in the most awesome fashions (brains sucked out through airlocks, grenades in escape pods, and crashing the ship, turning it into a huge nuclear inferno of DEATH).  For that, it trumps Alien³.  Nevermind Ripley's odd character twist in Resurrection or the other chick's rather sub-par performance, Resurrection > 3.

Yeah but the newborn was pretty ****. IF you can get over the stupidity of Ripley being a clone then the movie is pretty good right up until the last 20 minutes. They should have had a showdown with the queen again instead.