Ridley Scott's Alien. John Carpenter's The Thing. Which of these classics is truly the ultimate in alien terror?

>>there’s an evil alien in space and it looks cool
read: evil giant wasp
why did ash think it was so great, wouldn't he have a built in encyclopedia and realize it was just a big parasitoid wasp?

and this is why Aliens is better
if you're gonna have such a brainlet theme, better go full brainlet

The Thing is a hundred times more memorable. Dig through your brain right now; you can come up with ten quotes from the film but can't think of more than five from Alien.

rewatched the thing yesterday, while its great in its setup, characters and pacing it fails to create much tension compared to Alien which creates this great feeling of isolation and dread.

>the thing fails to create tension or a feeling of isolation and dread

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Alien is so boring, it's good for one watch but man it out stays it's welcome. I could the thing every month

it really doesnt, for most of the time its the cast hunting the creature instead of the other way around.

you must of skipped literally 99% of the movie. the couch seen builds up more dread then most of alien.
yes and they still all die

They're both pretty comfy desu

Alien is a perfect horror film and a masterpiece but the thing is my favorite horror film of all time. The Thing 4k when?

The couch scene is a masterpiece

I don't know what kind of people would prefer alien to the thing but they are not my niggers

did you not realize that the thing was literally right there in the middle of the cast with them "hunting" itself deliberately sabotaging their attempts in every scene after the dog kennel?

alien is more about aliens where in the thing it could be replaced with a virus or a demon and it wouldn't matter

If you find people who appreciate a masterpiece like alien and they aren't YOUR nigger then YOU don't deserve to be their nigger.

Two interily different beasts. Alien is only body horror for a short while with the chestbuster part.
The Thing is the more tense and scary movie while Alien is more of an atmospheric movie with cool set designs.

Without Carpenter we wouldn't even have Alien.

Dan O'Bannon came up with the premise of Alien while working on Dark Star with Carpenter, the two of them had put in this goofy ass beach ball alien in there and Dan decided that he should just run with that as a horror instead of as a comedy as they had written it.

The whole goddamn movie is a masterclass in tension and suspense, what the fuck did you watch?

The Thing, no contest.
You can see the Alien(or not) coming to you, but The Thing can be even your lovely dog or whatever.

I rewatched The Alien the other day and lossed all the impact. Feels slow as fuck.

I watched Blue Collar like a week before rewatching Alien, and it was bizarre seeing Parker complain about getting dicked by his company two movies in a row.

i choose Alien, fuck you with your fucking bias

Arien

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I choose the thing but I swear all these fucking faggot zoomers everywhere are pissing me off how they're talking about alien. Complete lack of respect for a masterpiece just because they're adhd and can't pay attention to a film unless it has gore effects every 5 minutes to keep them off their phones.

Alien is fine but it's very safe and boring compared to the thing. Aliens biggest strength is the set design and photography, and it's quite obvious Scott comes from advertising. It's so sleek looking but also devoid of a real personality. Whereas Carpenter is less sophisticated visually but much more interesting as a personality, you feel like there's an actual point of view in there about humanity, about evil, about masculinity or social relationships. Carpenter is a jaded and angry man, completely disillusioned about man and society, but he's also a man who strongly believes in upholding certain individual values, and it seeps through every frame of his movies. As a result the atmosphere, the horror and also the action feel a lot more potent and engaging. More fun, more disturbing, more unique and more exciting. It's not just the creature or the gore, the paranoia and tension also feel a lot more gritty and threatening, more organic and authentic, than in alien.

Alien is about rape babies and abortion

>Ship they're on is called mother
>The alien is parasitic
>Characters in the movie constantly contradict Ripley whenever she attempts to take control of the situation (letting the face-hugged crew members on the ship, for example)
>She literally ejects the alien at the end

The Thing is better

The Thing.

When it comes to quoatability Aliens is superior to both

"Game over man, game over" etc

It embraced the dumb 80s action film tropes which makes it kino af

Just because you prefer The Thing, doesn't mean you have to be a cunt that makes strawmans about the opposition because only weaklings do that. Both films are great, but Alien is clearly the superior one for more reason than one.

Everything you said applies to alien. I feel like you need to go watch it again. The Thing is my favorite horror movie ever and I can talk about it and watch it infinitely but there is no point down talking alien as anything less than a masterpiece.

>but it's very safe and boring compared to the thing
Not at all.

That's one line. Now quote four more.

Alien.

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