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**Nowhere Man** · 01-03-2008, 02:01 AM

I gotta say, I liked Alien a lot better than Aliens. For one, the dialogue was a lot more naturalistic and less action-movie-quotey. Second, the Alien itself was a hell of a lot scarier because you didn't know anything about it or what it could do. The ones in the sequel were just over-sized bugs.

Anyway, apart from Alien (which is my favorite), Spielberg made two unbelievably good extra-terrestrial movies (Close Encounters and E.T.). The build-up in Signs is amazing, but the ending is stupid. And the different remakes of War of the Worlds (the Spielberg one and Independence Day) are pretty fun, depending on what mood you're in.

01-03-2008, 02:01 AM	#7
Nowhere Man Now. Here. Man. Posts: 8,370	I gotta say, I liked Alien a lot better than Aliens. For one, the dialogue was a lot more naturalistic and less action-movie-quotey. Second, the Alien itself was a hell of a lot scarier because you didn't know anything about it or what it could do. The ones in the sequel were just over-sized bugs. Anyway, apart from Alien (which is my favorite), Spielberg made two unbelievably good extra-terrestrial movies (Close Encounters and E.T.). The build-up in Signs is amazing, but the ending is stupid. And the different remakes of War of the Worlds (the Spielberg one and Independence Day) are pretty fun, depending on what mood you're in.