As part of the ongoing discussion about which movie is better, Alien or Aliens...

Originality vs over-the-top action.

The original by far. It's a 10/10. Aliens is a 6.5.

while I agree and respect your persepctive, I like them both equally, in different ways for their differences.

Seriously bad take. Familiar, but nevertheless poor.

I prefer Alien too. But the pretentious twaddle that people come out with to enhance the stature of their preference of that film is absurd.

By everyone involved in that movie's own admission, Alien was nothing more than an attempt to put a cap on a maligned b-movie trope of the monster loose somewhere, a confined space where the victims are taken out one after the other. With great production design and direction. That's why attempts to emulate the original film are and will always be a failure because that movie did it all as well as it could be done (while still being no more sophisticated than a guy in a suit).

I remember finding Aliens scarier. Since there were hordes of Aliens, nobody as safe at any place at any time. OF course it's more of an action movie. But so what? Some people prefer action films to monster movies.

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I agree with you newts, for me it's Alien by a landslide.

I like both.

Alien is in fact nothing more than a generic horror movie in space, like Halloween with a crew, and the alien is Michael Myers, or Friday the 13th but it takes itself much too serious, full of corny dialog.

See what I did there?

ALIENS is, imo, far superior.