ALIEN vs all other ALIEN movies
Drake
MemberFacehuggerMarch 06, 20175929 Views32 RepliesI love the fact that all of us are such hardcore ALIEN fans that we are willing to disregard 4+ movies as non-canon. Most of us would say that ALIENS is canon but there seems to be some debate about that as well. I just think it is very interesting and comical that all of us have so much devotion and admiration to the first film that's so much of the work was created outside of the first film is viewed as a giant waste of time. Requiem was disregarded by every single person who watched it let alone every Alien fan. Alien 3 could have been a great film but obviously was very conflicted so many of us would love to believe that it was simply a dream. Resurrection was produced so poorly that comes across as embarrassing. Prometheus certainly had quite a bit of idiot plot which should not have been present in a Ridley Scott film but otherwise was enjoyed by most of us. Here's hoping that Alien Covenant does not disappoint and becomes permanent canon!
Alien I think is a very special case. It set up a lot of potential avenues that were lost opportunities imo. I think Aliens, 3 and Resurrection work in there own right, but it is a bit like someone skipping tracks when viewing them back to back. What I mean by this, is that when you watch Aliens, you could then watch Aliens directors cut to discover more about the colonists on LV 426. As much as Aliens is a great Sci-fi shoot em up, I think it would have been great if before the arrival of the marines, there had been a movie which portrayed the colonists last stand. The end of which would have you wondering about Newt, with everyone else getting picked off by the xeno’s.
When you go from Aliens to 3, it feels like a major anti-climax as if something more could have happened in between. It is like watching a strippergram turning up to the wrong house. You know there is entertainment value there, but something went wrong with the planning. The big track skip is then onto Resurrection which just seems to occupy a point in space, that does’nt want to be part of the franchise/canon but is. AVP and Requiem feel like they want to be part of a team (bless em), but just don’t know which one. It’s an away match, with bellowing Predators on one side playing against less than capable Xenos, the end result is much like watching a monkey throwing its own excrement at a fog horn. Even B movies have standards.
@ Drake – I agree with your view on what canon would be if Alien 5 gets greenlit. But there is something very odd that now stands out. It is the numeric series of 1,2 then 5. I remember that Prometheus was at one point supposed to be part of a trilogy, but that has now changed and I find myself wondering if Alien 5 is the fourth movie to follow from Prometheus. Is 5 to become the fourth? At some point there was part of Alien 5 that did not dovetail correctly with Ridley’s vision. With Ridley as executive Producer, then canon is all the way down the line subject to Ridley being the grand architect of Alien lore.
