alien was, and is, classic.  great film. 

aliens isnt a film, its a movie.  buts its a pretty damn good movie. 

alien3, lotta people dislike, but i think its mostly as effective as the first two.  just different. 

now, we come to resurrection and avp, which i hated.  made me give up on the franchise. 

but then, comes prometheus... 

Potato-tan said   
Alien was basically a slasher in space.   

i give points for historical significance.  when alien was new, slasher movies were barely a thing, and nothing like alien had been done. 

in fact, the slasher genre has always borrowed heavily from alien.  alien set the standard in two genres, and for a while. 

its kinda like night of the living dead.  show that movie to a millennial, they will piss all over it, sure.  but in 1960-whenever, that shit was wig-peelingly raw. 

Alien 2 explored Ripley, the mother.   

in the original, theatrical edition, not so much.  but thats easy to draw from it, still. 

Alien Resurrection was Ripley, the inhuman.
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All the clone ever knew was the worst parts of Ellen Ripley's existence.

i barely remember resurrection.  mostly i remember being severely disappointed.  lotta eye rolling. 

for one, i hate movies with what i call xerox clones in em, where they are exact copies of the actor character, scars and memories and haircut and all.  if we have the technology to do that, then we should be able to do all kinds of shit.  basicly, we would be functionally immortal. 

avp was loaded with canon breaks.  its like it was written by some kid who never saw alien or predator, but did at least read the back of the vhs boxes...