Okay,a show of hands please....

I do not love alien resurrection but i find it enjoyable. all the otthers I love.

Alien.

dark night trilogy.

planet of the apes.

mad max.

starwars comes close but There is always jar jar and the "i dont like sand line"

star trek comes close also but star trek 5 was awful.

terminator hasn't had a desent movie sinse t-2.

lord of the rings would have made the list but then the 2 hobbit movies came out witch are some of the most bloated pieces of crap I have ever seen.

alien by far the best franchise. watch movie tackled a different theme.

alien took on sexual violation

aliens took on the vietnam war

alien 3 used nihalisim to great effect

alien ressurection didn't really have one solid theme but i felt that a large part of it was identity. 

prometheous and covenant explored creation

even isolation witch to me is part of the franchise sinse it is cannon deals with what people will turn into to try to survive.

The Alien movies are set apart for me because of the obvious reasons we speak about here. Behind that, as far as a franchise, now Blade Runner offers history worth looking at (my opinion). 

There isn't another franchise that comes close to Alien ninXeno426.

I loved the Michael Keaton and Christian Bale Batman movies as well as all the Terminator films. Super hero movies are something I'll get around to watching if I'm bored from watching The Thing (both 1982 and 2011) over and over. 

The only franchise that could come close to Alien would be a franchise for Big Trouble in Little China. If they started that up, it would cut into my Alien topic production.

Whilst I love the Star Wars and Mad Max franchises too, ALIEN remains my first love. Not the Franchise, just ALIEN alone, it never needed a sequel.

I have come to despise ALIENS, I just can't watch it anymore! I do enjoy A L I E N 3. As yet, there's still nothing that can topple ALIEN.

PROMETHEUS comes close and I have found myself watching it more and more since A:C's release. I now view it as a one off. It's unique, weird and fascinating. A strange trip which will never be fully explained. Given that the direction it took appears to have been all but abandoned, I treasure it now!

ALIEN: COVENANT still needs time to settle in with me. Once we have the Blu-ray (with download) here in the UK, I'll be viewing it multiple times.

As for franchises, I've never been all that much into Superheroes, I grew up on Mystery In Space comics and things like that, as well as Star Wars.

Star Trek, aside from Classic and some absolutely splendid fan-productions, I've walked away from.
Paramount has diddled away it's big reboot, and I absolutely will NOT watch ST: Discovery, and am looking fwd to seeing The Orville kick it to the curb.

The ALIENverse is where I live, and no matter what FOX does theres the Fanbase and it's works as well as PROMETHEUS and ALIEN for me to always come back to. I have to say ALIEN: Covenant wasn't that bad, and I did enjoy it.

The superheroes can have Earth, and keep bashing each other over the head. I live out amongst the cold and silent darkness between the stars, where no one can hear you scream and there's all manner of Interesting and Big Questions, which come with chilling answers. ;)

Blackwinter-witch I loved the Star Trek reboot but thought it lost steam immediately after that. 

dk

Agreed.

ST 2009 = Good, enjoyed it.

Into Darkness = Mainly I liked Cumberbatch's villian, got a lot of ideas from his version of Khan.

Beyond = wow, 3rd movie and 'Hey, let's kill the Enterprise in yet another battle where it's hopelessly outmatched!'

That's when I said 'Bye' to Star Trek, as the Kelvin's scene involved a lot more ship combat and such than the Enterprise has seen in 3 films, and performed better even while getting pounded into wreckage.
I am sick of seeing The Enterprise being used as nothing more than a big sitting-duck for some over-powered enemy.
Narada
Vengeance
Swarm ships
Yeah, Paramount's fetish for hopeless situations vs Uber-enemies poisoned me against the whole ST franchise.

Blackwinter-witch I think it would have worked better to have the ST reboot springboard into episodic seasons via Netflix/Amazon- back to the ways of TOS and NG et all. Not as much revenue I suppose.

dk

I'm not sure ST can be, or should be saved. I think it's run it's course, but your idea has merit, and would be worth a try...IF proper writers were involved.

Blackwinter-witch I would rather let it it be. Same goes for things like Twilight Zone and Matrix. Things get diluted the more they get milked.

dk

Agreed, exactly, yeah. And as ST is falling back into the story-habits that killed the franchise and necessitated a reboot, well...the writing's on the wall.

Allow me to defend the AVP films as I love them for what they are. Too bad so many Alien fans seem to treat them as a whipping boy. So for me there are Seven awesome films and the most recent abomination I won't count as #8.  Dark knight was well done but most studios can't replicate that quality wether it's a hero or horror. They(studio) elites live in a bubble and just have very poor management when evaluating creative talent, imo.

As I sit here, continuing to build ALIEN: Manticore towards it's conclusion, I've been pondering the influences that show in it.
I have to admit, there is some influence from AvP, the pyramid structure. Well, insofar as the 'feel' of being in the dark, possibly alone, and not really knowing which way is out while Nasty Things are out and about.

Frankly, the folks in AvP had a MUCH easier time of it than what I'm putting my characters through. :D
Oh, and my characters don't have any friendly Predators to help them out.

AvP-R...I don't hate it, there's bits and pieces I do like about it. EG; I did enjoy the rainy street scene where the aliens were picking off soldiers, to me that stated how excellent they are at stalking, using available cover to hide behind, and how sneaky/stealthy they are.

In the end, I take the AvP movies as pure Stand-Alone works, action films with some cool things to complicate matters and give some fear-thrill.
But I don't really consider them to be ALIEN in feel, tone or substance.

Maybe I am dumb as F but I am not really sure what the topic of this post is. There are different movies that I like. I usually watch zombie movies (the Night of. . . movies are good) or action movies (Kill Bill for example for some reason it is good that they only did 2 or else it would have been like the Friday the 13TH kind of thing). Some of the Star Wars movies are good Empire is my favorite among those. Episode 2 and 3 among the prequels are alright but The Phantom Menace is just boring.

DK:

“The ONLY super hero I support is The Tick!” 

How about the Batman movies that Tim Burton did (1989, and 1992)? I like those movies, not really a fan of the rest although I got to admit that I liked the Batman Forever when I was younger.

May be a bit off but speaking of Superhero movies i'd love to see one with this guy. ;)

LOBO

- Smoking 

- Drinking 

- Chauvinist

- Bad mannered

- Absolutely political incorrect

- Makes Deadpool look like a kindergarten kid

I loved the original comics.

Okay, yeah, Loba...an exception I'll make to the Superhero genre. A friend showed me a few comics in her collection regarding him beating the tar out of Superman as if it were a schoolyard bully deal.
He is pretty seriously badass.

That and he wiped out every other member of his own species JUST so he alone could be Unique.

If i am totally honest, i watched Alien on a pirated VHS in about 1982 and i loved it. Although not as  much as a friend of the time. i suspected he got his views from his older brother with the pirate VHS. Anyways Aliens came and along with Predator and commando i loved those 80s action flicks. Stallone even Arnie.

Something stuck with Aliens but later would prefer Alien and also respect the others after all they are in a universe i love. it was about done as avP / AVpr approached.

Anyways Prometheus got me back. seriously. like nothing else. the universe opened up and i was excited.

Prometheus saved the Franchise. Hopefully one day i wil say RS saved the franchise i love ?????????????