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After 57 years in hypersleep, Ripley awakens aboard a medical space station orbiting Earth. She recounts the events of the Nostromo but is disbelieved by her superiors in the Weyland Yutani corporation, which has now begun to terraform and colonise the planetoid from the first film. When contact with the colony is lost, Ripley is persuaded to accompany a squad of marines to investigate. They discover the colonists have been wiped out after being directed by the company to secure the derelict ship reported by Ripley. There is only one survivor, a girl named Newt. The aliens vastly outnumber and quickly overwhelm the marines, who fight for survival. Only a handful, including Ripley and Newt, escape.
Two hundred years after the events of Alien 3, several clones of Ripley, including the alien queen she was carrying, are grown by the military aboard the USM Auriga. The military intends to exploit the aliens, and uses humans kidnapped and delivered to them by a group of mercenaries as hosts for the queen's eggs. The Aliens escape, and Ripley 8 (a clone mixed with Alien DNA) and the mercenaries attempt to escape and destroy the Auriga before it reaches Earth.
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Tom Cruise plays a desk-bound military officer who receives his first combat assignment when aliens invade Earth. For better or worse, his character gets stuck in a time loop that allows him to die over and over again, while he learns the best way to defeat the aliens and save the world.
Picture it: you're a grieving widow living in Wisconsin. One night, a mysterious orb appears and takes on the form of your dead husband. This person who looks like your dead husband begins reciting a United Nations message inviting aliens to visit Earth. And the alien needs a ride.
Before John Boyega defected from the Storm Troopers in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, he played Moses in this hilariously apocalyptic comedy about what happens when aliens go up against a South London gang.
District 9 isn't just another alien encounter movie. This one challenges viewers to question how welcoming they would be if aliens arrived on Earth in need of our help. Events in the film were inspired by the real-life District Six, a region in Cape Town where tens of thousands of non-white residents were forcibly removed from their homes in the 1970s after the neighborhood was declared a "whites only" area.
A family struggles to survive when Earth is overrun by blind aliens who hunt using sound. The temptation to hold your breath while watching this movie is real. Make sure to breathe. The aliens can't hear you.
Grays are a weird childhood phobia of mine, goes back to my dad letting me watch one of those wacko "docummentaries" about alien abduction. A big upside to the situations that even mediocre horror movies with the grays are damn scary to me so I tend to look them up.
I have always loved any alien movies. Thankfully my children are now showing interest in them as well. I had posted this question on a pretty general subreddit and was told to check over here. Someone had asked this exact question but it has since been deleted. I would love to know all recommendations to make a list of all the movies I haven't seen and to show my kids. Thank you in advance and I'm looking forward to watching some of the scarier ones today on my partial child free day! Edit: Looking for all movies with aliens, doesn't have to be child friendly I won't show a lot of them until they are older but looking for recommendations for myself as well.
Following years of discussion, allusion in films, and comic book meet-ups, Alien vs Predator was finally brought to the big screen by Paul W.S. Anderson (Resident Evil, Event Horizon). A group of scientists travels under the ice of Antarctica to explore a newly discovered archeological site. There, they awaken a xenomorph queen who begins producing xenomorphs and, soon after, predator aliens show up to clean house. The PG-13 adaptation merging two R-rated franchises struggled to capture the thrilling action of the Predator franchise or the chilling intensity of the Alien franchise, resulting in an underwhelming flagship entry.
21st century humanity encounters the xenomorph for the first time when exploring an unearthed ancient ziggurat miles under the Antarctic ice. Predator aliens arrive to clean up the outbreak before they lose their hunting grounds to the rapidly growing horde.
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The ads for "Aliens" claim that this movie will frighten you as few movies have, and, for once, the ads don't lie. The movie is so intense that it creates a problem for me as a reviewer: Do I praise its craftsmanship, or do I tell you it left me feeling wrung out and unhappy? It has been a week since I saw it, so the emotions have faded a little, leaving with me an appreciation of the movie's technical qualities. But when I walked out of the theater, there were knots in my stomach from the film's roller-coaster ride of violence. This is not the kind of movie where it means anything to say you "enjoyed" it.
"Aliens" is a sequel to the very effective 1979 film, "Alien," but it tells a self-contained story that begins 57 years after the previous story ended. The first time around, you may recall, Sigourney Weaver and a shipload of her fellow space voyagers were exploring a newly discovered planet when they found an abandoned spaceship. Surviving in the ship was an alien life-form that seemed to consist primarily of teeth. The aliens were pure malevolence; their only function was to attack and eat anything that was warm and moved. And they incubated their young inside the bodies of their victims.
Weaver was the only survivor of that first expedition, and after saving her ship by expelling an alien through the air lock into deep space, she put herself into hibernation. She is found 57 years later by a salvage ship, and when she awakes she is still tormented by nightmares. (The script does not provide her, however, with even a single line of regret after she learns that 57 years have passed and everyone she knew is dead.) A new expedition is sent back to the mystery planet. Weaver is on board. She knows what the aliens are like and thinks the only sane solution is to nuke them from outer space. But in the meantime, she learns to her horror that a human colony has been established on the planet and billions of dollars have been invested in it. Now Earth has lost contact with the colony. Has it been attacked by aliens? Are there stars in the sky? The crew is made up of an interesting mixed bag of technicians and military personnel. My favorites were Lance Henrikson as a loyal android, Jenette Goldstein as a muscular marine private and Michael Biehn as the uncertain Cpl. Hicks. Also on board is the slimy Burke (Paul Reiser), who represents the owners of the planet's expensive colony and dreams of making millions by using the aliens as a secret weapon.
The movie gives us just enough setup to establish the characters and explain the situation. Then the action starts. The colony has, of course, been overrun by the aliens, all except for one plucky little girl (Carrie Henn) who has somehow survived by hiding in the air ducts.
The marines explore the base on foot, which seems a little silly in view of the great speed with which the aliens attack. Nobody seems very interested in listening to Weaver's warnings. After all, she's only the one person who has seen an alien, so what does she know? And then the movie escalates into a nonstop war between human and alien.
It's here that my nerves started to fail. "Aliens" is absolutely, painfully and unremittingly intense for at least its last hour. Weaver goes into battle to save her colleagues, herself and the little girl, and the aliens drop from the ceiling, pop up out of the floor and crawl out of the ventilation shafts. (In one of the movie's less plausible moments, one alien even seems to know how to work the elevator buttons.) I have never seen a movie that maintains such a pitch of intensity for so long; it's like being on some kind of hair-raising carnival ride that never stops.
Some conspiracy-minded ufologists viewed Close Encounters as a concerted effort masterminded by the U.S. government to introduce the public to the concept of friendly aliens. The aliens depicted in the film are decidedly more benign than any previous incarnations: child-size, with large heads and protruding bellies, they have largely featureless faces with deep-set eyes. They return their human captives, including Barry, unharmed. At the end, after Lacombe makes the hand signals he has devised to communicate, the lead alien actually seems to smile before heading back onto his ship, taking Neary back with him as an ambassador from Earth.
Set 400 years in the future, the sci-fi comedy follows the crew of a mid-level exploratory spaceship (both humans and aliens) as they face the wonders and dangers of outer space, while also dealing with the familiar, often humorous problems of everyday life.
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