Best Science Fiction Film Tournament Final Four: Alien (2) vs The Terminator (3)

[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.



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The Terminator
Release Date: October 26, 1984
Director: James Cameron
Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Biehn, Linda Hamilton, Paul Winfield
Plot: A human soldier is sent from 2029 to 1984 to stop an almost indestructible cyborg killing machine, sent from the same year, which has been programmed to execute a young woman whose unborn son is the key to humanity's future salvation.
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[Lady Redfield]

The Terminator

 

[Chris]

I voted against both Terminators

 

[Alexa]

I voted against both Terminators

I did like you at one point

 

[Marty McFourth]

Alien for me. I really am probably one of the only ones on this forum that thinks the orginal Terminator isn't that special aside from some lines. I much prefer T2, like by a considerable amount.

 

[Keith]

Its close. I went for Alien. This is a great semi.