Alien and Aliens remain one of the strongest back-to-back combinations in sci-fi history because the movies compliment each other rather than competing with one another. Ridley Scott approaches Alien ...

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These wildly different films explore the wondrous, and sometimes terrifying possibilities of contacting extra-terrestrial life.

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Even the later sequels become more compelling during a marathon because they are willing to get stranger and meaner than most modern studio franchises. Alien 3 strips the series down into something ...