The Best Alien Movies

When it comes to alien movies, you can not list one movie as being the best. There are many: Alien Legacy (the Aliens series, 4 parts), Starman, E.T., Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Independence Day and many, many more.

The biggest alien movie of all time was E.T. The Extra Terrestrial (1982). In this movie (which introduced the world to Drew Barrymore) an alien which accidentally crash lands on Earth and the scared and homesick alien that is inside the ship is taken in by a warm, loving boy named Elliot. Elliot and E.T. form a friendship and this friendship is tested as government officials discover the aliens existence.

The Aliens Legacy was a different kind of alien movie. This series brought extreme terror to the screen. The cast is led by Sigourney Weaver who fights the aliens in all four parts of the series. Undoubtedly one of the greatest alien series of all time. Here is a quick run down of each movie.

Alien : The first in the series. On their voyage back home from deep space, the crew of the starship Nostromo are sent to investigate a distress call. They realize soon enough that the call was a warning and not a call for help. They soon find themselves in a battle for life.

Aliens : After floating around is space for fifty seven years, Ripley is found and must go back to battle the aliens she once fought on the planet they came from. This planet became colonized some twenty years earlier and discovery leads to the destruction of all who inhibited the planet, except for one child.

Alien 3 : Ripley and one single alien crash land on a prison planet. Now the inmates and Ripley must join forces to fight the alien with no guns or weapons of any kind.

Alien Resurrection : Two hundred years have passed since Ripley died. A team of scientists succeed in not only cloning her though DNA, but the alien terror that she tried so hard to destroy.