What are your rankings in the Alien series?

1 Alien

2 Aliens (not directors cut simply because the sequence showing the girl's parents getting killed early on ruins the discovery of her to me)

3 There are no other ALIEN films. ;)

#1 Alien

#2 Aliens

#3 Alien 3

#4 Prometheus

#5 Resurrection 

#6 Covenant

#7 AvP

#8 AvP Requiem

I am watching the Aliens Director's cut now and the scenes that show Ripley's daughter, the automated weapons killing the Aliens and the extended board meeting added some good context.

With Newt's father getting attacked by a facehugger, it was just good to see the derelict again from the first movie.

All is forgotten, Avp. You have more Alien DNA than Alien: Covenant.

#1 Alien

#2 Aliens

#3 Prometheus

#4 Alien 3

#5 Alien Resurrection 

#6 AvP

#7 Alien: Covenant

#8 AvP Requiem

Alien

Alien Covenant

Aliens

Prometheus

Alien 3

Alien Resurrection

Not far off mine @Joylitt.  I was THIS closw to putting Prometheus above Alien 3 for a moment.

@Spellbound - Covenant coming in at #2?? lol.  Did you work on the movie?  lol

Phallic Jaw It might sound rediculous to rank Avp higher than Covenant. But to me Covenant makes a huge mistake in moving away from sci-fi straight into fantasy territory. A franchise can recover from a bad movie, but it won't recover from one that so drastically switches genres and objectives.

I hear ya, joylitt.

1. Alien

2. Alien Covenant

3. Aliens

4. Alien 3

The rest is shit and does not even deserve to be in my ranking.

And I don't think AC deserves to be at number two on anybody's list but, each to their own I guess. :-/

^he said, passive-aggressively condescending anyone who happened to actually like the film. 

Lol.  No, not anybody who liked the film (I didn't DISlike it, it just infuriated me), but just saying that anybody who would put it above a great movie (not just a great Alien movie but a GREAT movie) like Aliens is a bit much.  Sorry but  for one, Aliens did the whole "blow it out of the airlock" thing much better, and also "get away from her you bitch" was better than "I got you, you son of a bitch" and if you disagree, you're wrong :-P

And Batty's "that's the spirit!" was better than Div'Ed's too!  But I digress.

So opinions are now facts huh Phallic Jaw?

Anyway here's my list

Aliens

Alien

Alien: Covenant

Prometheus

Alien 3

Alien Resurrection

Alien vs. Predator

Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem

Note: The only film on my list that I dislike is AVP: Requiem as Alien Resurrection and Alien vs. Predator are my two biggest guilty pleasure films. As for the three Predator films I like all three but IMO the Alien films are way better.

Haha Jurassic, not at all.  Hence my cheeky smiley at the end. ;-)  But it works both ways doesn't it?  Although I do believe the majority of people in the world would consider Aliens to be far superior, to be honest.  Still just mere opinions, but do the opinions of the many not count?

@phallic jaw

We have a saying in my country which translates, the taste is like your ass, divided. Having that said we all have our own personal preferences and anyone that has read my posts on this forum know that I love Aliens, but it has a couple of fundamental flaws in the context of the entire franchise such as turning the aliens into space ants. For me AC tries to be different and original but at the same time connect to the first movie. Very hard to do, but I think they did it very well. So my divided asscheeks are smiling :)

ALIEN - Masterpiece. This is the creation, everything of it is original and never seen before. 

ALIENS/ ALIEN 3  - Same rank for me. Personally Alien3 is important to me. I really love its tone that David Fincher set up. Its transition from ALIENS is beautiful.
James Cameron's version is unbeatable, it's a rollercoaster ride.

ALIEN COVENANT - Maybe it's honeymoon effect. I am even surprised I rank this quite high.

ALIEN RESURRECTION - I enjoy this one a lot, it's quirky, unique. Full of styles, and it's from AMELIE director hello, I love this guy.

PROMETHEUS - This film keeps growing on me. I appreciate it creates a whole new universe for the Alien saga. 

I don't consider AVPs are part of the franchise, they are entertaining to watch though. 

All Alien films are great, but Sir Ridley is the best. 

#1 Alien 

#2 Alien isolation 

#3 Aliens

#4 Prometheus & Covenant

#6 Alien 3 

I don't rate any of the others lol

1/Aliens. Brilliant action, brilliant horror - brilliant characters.

2/ Alien Covenant. Horror, shock, explanation to some degree. Good character build up with David.

3/ Alien. Nothing needs to be said.

4/ Alien vs Predator. A fair effort..

5/ Prometheus. Nonsensical opening scene and confused writing. Even the director doesn't know what the film means in parts.

6=/ Alien Resurrection. Stupid story, stupid designs, stupid characters. A potential franchise killer it was so bad.

6=/ Alien 3. Another potential franchise killer. Poorly written, poorly directed - stupid characters and poor cgi. Should be studied at university on how not to make a movie.

Wonder Boy: I think you and I are from different planets. Lol.

@Necronom - oh, and what country is that?