Alien Saga

A mining vessel Nostromo (interestingly enough Conrad wrote a book called Nostromo which was about a mining town) is diverted from its path by the corporation that owns it to answer a distress signal. The first film was released in 1979. Skerritt (Top Gun) is the captain, Weaver (Avatar) plays Ripley who is second in command, and Stanton (The Green Mile) is part of the crew with Hurt (Hellboy) who becomes infected. Holm (The Fifth Element) is the artificial intelligence on board. When the crew inspects a crash of a very alien ship one of them gets something stuck to their face. It turns out the creature plants an egg in the person's stomach and then falls off. The egg grows and punches through the persons chest to escape. They have acid for blood and they follow a queen who lays the eggs. The size of the alien depends on the size of the creature they come out of. Super scary - good use of music to add suspense - they learned from Spielberg. Scott (Blade Runner) directed this. All in all, I say: SEE IT.

Released in 1986 Ripley who was the only person to survive in a cryo-pod is found by a space trash crew. Her story is not believed and she is given a night job operating a space crane until the company receives a distress call from the planet that Weaver's crew picked up the alien. The company wants one of the aliens to study and use in warfare - the military crew wants to find survivors. Weaver wants a chance to end her nightmares and save the innocent lives that were tricked into living on the planet. Biehn (Terminator) is the leader of the Marines. Paxton (Apollo 13) is one of his men. What they find when they land - a ton of aliens including the queen and a little girl. Reiser (My Two Dads) is the bad guy. Henrikson (Terminator) is the artificial human. This movie is what gave me the name of my blog. "Get away from her you bitch!" I love, love this movie. Cameron (Terminator) writes and directs this. All in all, I say: SEE IT - even if you don't see the others see this one.

FIncher () directs this third film in the series. Ripley is again the only survivor when her cryo-pod ends up on a prison planet. An alien climbed aboard her ship and takes out the tubes of the little girl and Biehn. Parts of Henrikson make it, too. The planet only has men. The alien winds up in a dog and then in  person - turns out Ripley has one inside her, too. Problem - the planet has no weapons and when the company finds out Weaver and the alien have survived they send a crew to get the species. Ripley takes it with her to her death at the end. All in all, I say: SEE IT if you liked the others otherwise skip it.

The company managed to collect Ripley's DNA and they are trying to clone her. The problem is the alien DNA is in there, too. What they end up with is a Ripley that is super strong with acid like blood. The artificial intelligence is Ryder (Dracula). The company has been cloning on a ship and one of them escapes wrecking havoc. The ship is headed to earth and Ripley and the remaining crew will do anything to prevent that. Jeunet (City of Lost Children) directed this one and uses his favorite actors: Pinon (Amelie) and Perlman (City of Lost Children). All in all, I say: SEE IT if you are seeing the others. If not, then skip it.