Best Science Fiction Film Elite Eight-ish: Alien (2) vs The Fifth Element (7) vs Aliens (10)

[Chris]

Alien
Release Date: May 25, 1979 (United States), September 6, 1979 (United Kingdom)
Director: Ridley Scott
Cast: Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton
Plot: After a space merchant vessel receives an unknown transmission as a distress call, one of the crew is attacked by a mysterious life form and they soon realize that its life cycle has merely begun.



VS

The Fifth Element
Release Date: 7 May 1997 (France)
Director: Luc Besson
Cast: Bruce Willis, Gary Oldman, Ian Holm, Chris Tucker
Plot: In the colorful future, a cab driver unwittingly becomes the central figure in the search for a legendary cosmic weapon to keep Evil and Mr. Zorg at bay.



VS

Aliens
Release Date: July 18, 1986
Director: James Cameron
Cast: Sigourney Weaver, Michael Biehn, Paul Reiser, Lance Henrikson
Plot: Fifty-seven years after surviving an apocalyptic attack aboard her space vessel by merciless space creatures, Officer Ripley awakens from hyper-sleep and tries to warn anyone who will listen about the predators.
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[Barry Poppins]

Fifth element is fucked basically.

I'm going with Alien tbh. I like my horror to be slow and atmospheric, not action packed.

 

[Chris]

Fifth Element has a chance if the Alien vote is split

But yeah I went with Alien (no s) as well

 

[Spitfire]

I honestly am confused how anyone has voted an Alien sequel instead of Alien lol

 

[Kiffy Lube]

Those folks have never seen Alien.

 

[Comrade Khan]

Fifth element all day.

 

[Chris]

I honestly am confused how anyone has voted an Alien sequel instead of Alien lol

I used to rank Aliens slightly over it until the last time I rewatched them both tbh I think it's mostly bc I like horror movies more now lol

 

[Comrade Khan]

Aliens is action n alien is more horror. Not really comparable. Similar to t1 n t2

 

[Barry Poppins]

Aliens is action n alien is more horror. Not really comparable. Similar to t1 n t2

Alien is horror thriller, Aliens is action horror.

 

[Marty McFourth]

Alien is more horror and it's probably why I prefer it a LOT more. It definitely gets my vote here I would say, although I was close to picking Fifth Element too.

 

[Lady Redfield]

Alien

tough with the fifth element in there, such a great movie.

 

[Keith]

Quite the threesome

Alien might be one of my fave movies ever.

 

[Lethal]

Fifth Element