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re: Unpopular Opinion: Alien Covenant is the Second Best Alien Film
Posted on 9/24/18 at 11:40 am to BulldogXero
Posted on 9/24/18 at 11:40 am to BulldogXero
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Coming off of the first film, it felt way too cheesy and over-the-top.
It's definitely not one to watch expecting the first film again. Aliens is a great movie, but it exists in a completely separate genre than Alien.
Alien is a horror movie. Aliens is a war movie with the sci-fi elements. Aliens was more or less the first movie to seamlessly blend those two genres.
I don't get the idea of it being over the top. Stuff like the rescue mission at the power generator, the aliens breaking into the compound and the facehugger loose with Newt...I can't see those as over the top. Those are executed 3x better than anything in Resurrection, and that's before the climax with the eggs and the ending battle.
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Posted on 9/24/18 at 12:01 pm to Rep520
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Alien is a horror movie. Aliens is a war movie with the sci-fi elements. Aliens was more or less the first movie to seamlessly blend those two genres.
Alien might be one of the best sci fi films of all time.
Aliens just feels so generic
Posted on 9/24/18 at 12:43 pm to Rep520
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Aliens is a great movie, but it exists in a completely separate genre than Alien.
This is true. And I would say it's pretty much straight up action, rather than "war." While it still holds a few horror-type elements, overall it's an action movie with typical military tropes.
I do like Aliens, and think it's solid, but I always feel that it is pretty overrated based on how awesome people usually feel it is.
I think Baloo and I are the only people on Earth that actually think Alien 3 is the superior movie/sequel. I don't know why, but I just love it. I think the whole trapped in a prison in space thing, along with the cat and mouse they play, Ripley still being a badass, etc. And I still say that people hated it mainly because it wasn't on Earth, which was how it was marketed at first. But lost within that hatred is a really solid Alien film.
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