While the extraterrestrial franchise goes towards a new territory – both thematically and in format..YY – with the Alien television series: Earth, we Weylin ‘Our Yutanis with the seven xeno -movies that landed in theaters. Yes, we will classify them from the worst to the best, from waste to masterful. Has your best extraterrestrial film arrived at number one? Discover below …
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Also, will we completely ignore the AVP films 20 years ago? You bet your buttocks that we are. Not only did the extraterrestrial films that followed disowned everything that was there, but Fox considers AVP – films, books and comics – like a distinct franchise with its own cannon.
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What is your best extraterrestrial film? Is it the original of Ridley Scott in 1979? The superb continuation of 1986 by James Cameron? The new fierce entry of Fede Álvarez in the 45 -year -old saga? We voted between us and found this official IGN ranking.
With arrow heroines played by Sigourney Weaver, Noomi Rapace and Cailee Spaeny, threatening Machiavellian monsters and monsters inducing nightmares whose whole bodies (inside and outside) are fatal, the extraterrestrial franchise is one of the most scary and most durable trips in the history of cinema.
Warning: some spoilers For extraterrestrial films, follow …
7. Alien: Resurrection (1997)
They definitely thought outside the bun with Alien: Resurrection, hiring the co-director of Delicatesen Jean-Pierre Jeunet and putting history 200 years After the events of the Aliens and Alien 3. He has visually magnificent moments, but it is tonedly everywhere. Sigourney Weaver has returned, but she doesn’t play Ellen Ripley … no version we know anyway. It is a super soldier’s style clone based on Ripley blood left on Alien 3, a rather calle fusion of humanity and xenomorphity.
Alien: Resurrection has space pirates, a new model of Android, a harmful scientist, knotty dead and the series of abomination, in the form of “newborn”, but all this does not take place in a disorderly way, and just as its place in chronology, it never exceeds the more disorder, and just as its place in chronology, it never exceeds the most.
6. Alien 3 (1992)
There have been attempts at alien 3 retro-redeem, giving it old treatment “is good”, but … no.
After having initially teasing a third set of extraterrestrial films on earth, Fox rather delivered a parade of dark misery on a prison of Weyland-Yutani, at a distance, mainly filled with shaved men carrying brown rags that you could not distinguish. Worse still, it coldly removed the issues that allowed the extraterrestrials of the 1986 to reach such emotional peaks by killing Newt and Hicks during the first minutes and transforming all the franchise, until that time, into a gloomy tragedy.
It was also the first time that the series used CG for its xenomorphic (the “runner”), and some of these effects have not aged gracefully. The end result of this very troubled production, which was unfortunately David Fincher’s first feature film (don’t worry, he bounced with Se7en), was a story that had the impression of punishing Ellen Ripley to survive and prosper. No, we will have nothing contrary to review. This film is a “woof”.
5. Alien: Covenant (2017)
Alien: Covenant is better than you remember, deepening the tradition surrounding the imposing engineers, the engineers of Buff and David de Michael Fassbender (which becomes the crazy robot of perfection which develops the standard “xenomorphic” – and the queen – using innocent victims in odious experiences) while “recovering the base” Prometheus.
It is also a course correction of the original idea of Ridley Scott’s original “New Trilogy”, Reining in the elements without xenomorph of Prometheus and trying to put the toothpaste back in the tube. This is another new planet and another new lamb situation at the slaughter, but this time, the monsters are more familiar in the design and the ramifications drop us more or less at the door of the 1979 foreigner (although we probably never discover the fate of David, which is still there somewhere, living forever as a synthetic).
Alien: Covenant also draws a “Trit”, killing Dr. Shaw on Noomi Rapace’s screen despite the crucible she endured in Prometheus and her crusade, at the end of this film, to take the engineers. It fears, although the touch of style of horror movie tearing it up almost.
4. Prometheus (2012)
Ridley Scott returned to the extraterrestrial franchise after more than 30 years? Not a single nerd was skeptical; All were excited and ravable. But what Ridley Scott delivered was polarizing. Some fans were great in the new tradition – with engineers and Black Goo Biow weapons and the first xeno -variations caused by its contaminative properties – and some thought that it too complicated a simple and terrifying species of foreigner predator, a case of a classic Monster film explained to death.
Before the film, Scott himself said that Prometheus was not directly Linked to Alien, but that has still not prevented some from feeling deflated by this new direction. Anyway, Prometheus is magnificent, from his costumes to his sets to his impressive effects, and he opened a brand new corner of science fiction Ai, which Scott himself helped to Pioneer in a modern sense with Alien and Blade Runner. Michael Fassbender’s David represents the only recourse of Peter Weyland for immortality (man, billionaires hate sharing death in common with Poors, is it not), so it goes without saying that the CEO of technology would travel light years to try to discover the secret to escape Reaper.
Oh, and this scene of Cesarean Medpod, when Dr. Elizabeth Shaw takes the trilobite from his abdomen? It’s a bizarre scene, guy.
Even if Alien: Covenant is not a bad film, the fact that Scott failed to finish his original extensions of Prometheus finally injured the film, and that made the future films have to face his mythology.
Alien: Terre also explores the use of synthetics to make humans immortal, but in a very different way. It should be noted, however, that he does not at all use Prometheus or Alien: Covenant as a source material, which will clearly make certain fans happy.
3. Alien: Romulus (2024)
Fede Álvarez (Evil Dead, Don’t Breathe) may not have added anything to the mixture, in itself – unless you count the “offspring” creature at the end of the film – but what he did with Alien: Romulus was to take the DNA of the alien of the 1979s and to merge it with the Promethes of 2012, to make a step of the research station Cryopods of the research station, to steal cryopods, from minors, to steal cryopood cryfheus from a research station, Vuchis Xenomorph Hive has engendered exactly the same Xeno of the first film. Yes, this one in space by Ellen Ripley.
So, you get the Facehuggers, the Chorsbursters and the Xenomorphs, now mixed with the nasty plans of Black Goo and Weyland-Yutani to use Goo to evolve humans in better workers’ slaves of deep space. Some did not like how much he called the previous films (with even Alien: Resurrection obtaining his flowers thanks to offspring), but ultimately, Romulus is a wild and inventive story with incredible visuals and a favorable character in fans in Andy by David Jonsson, a defective synthetic companion but in case of mouth. Romulus links almost everything together, which is never an easy feat; Some believe that it collapses a little under this burden, while others find that it is the balance that we are looking for.
2. Aliens (1986)
James Cameron’s first great film after the Terminator was the continuation with foreigners-equal, who took the slow-abroad terror from abroad of Ridley Scott and exploded it. Literally. It is one of the best action films ever made, overflowing with emblematic moments and images. And even if it is not a horror film, like the original, it is always frightening like hell. It may not be possible to make a xenomorphic film and not be weird. The moment when the colonial navies enter the hive and are dismantled by the monsters living within the walls is one for the ages.
With extraterrestrials, Cameron widened the extraterrestrial franchise and the production of films in general. Space Marines, the Xenomorph Queen, the food of Weyland -Yutani, a heroine who goes from the last girl as a Badass action hero – the extraterrestrials have created a new landscape while keeping things terrifying. It is without civilian effort, constantly re-rear, and the quest for Ellen Ripley to save Young Newt in the third act (whether you consider Ripley’s daughter, Amanda as cannon or not) is a breathtaking culminating point. The extraterrestrials are a tremendous science fiction, an exemplary and simply fun narration.
1. Alien (1979)
Unsurprisingly, Alien obtains the best notes here. He reshaped science fiction, which is particularly impressive as a result of Star Wars, when everyone was trying to make copies in spatial opera carbon. It is a space film, a monster film and an exploration of AI ailments, and he struggled the public with his creature effects and his unforgettable dear scene. While the extraterrestrials, seven years later, would be a shoot at High-Octana, the original of Ridley Scott, written by Dan O’Bannon, must be studied. It is a mastery of tension and terror, perfecting the hybrid genus of spatial horror. We always see the effects of abroad on cinema almost 50 years later.
Alien presents a distribution of non-heroic blue collars in a well-used and lived science fiction environment. There is a clever protagonist of bait and switching, the doubling about the idea of making fun of the AI to empathy and valuing efficiency, and the background of a slasher film (with one of the best “final girls”). The film also has a ridiculously beautiful production design, a sea of lights and buttons that provide a backdrop of technological discomfort. Alien is an incredible experience, to be enjoyed.
Matt Fowler is an independent entertainment writer / critic, covering television news, criticism, interviews and features on IGN for 17 years.
