Ollie's 10...Best Alien/Predator Films

That's right, it's No.1. What's that you say? It has terrible acting? It has a really weak plot? It has awful special effects? I know, you're right, but that doesn't mean it's not amazing. This film avoids all the space-age science of the Alien films and replaces it with rough-and-ready commandos who are itching to get their guns off. It balances 80s cheese perfectly, it's incredibly quotable, it stars Arnold Schwarzenegger at his best and it has more background trivia than any other film I know. "What's the matter? The CIA got you pushing too many pencils?"

Alien is such a great film, but this multiplied the awesomeness by ten by having scores of xenomorphs, a squad of marines and a big-ass explosion. "I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."

The original holds a highly respectable and very close 3rd place. The xenomorph hunt in the shafts where Dallas gets got had my weeing myself when I first saw it. And this film also taught me that if you're going to try and kill Ripley, doing so by stuffing a rolled up newspaper into her mouth is probably bottom of the list.

This film got slated, but personally I found it to be a great homage to the original. and that's coming from someone who can't stand Adrien Brody as an actor. This was the film that the AVP duology should have been. Me likey.

This too has been slated as the worst of the Alien films, but I found it to be a pleasant return to the single alien plot of the original. Sequels always try and go bigger and better, but this took a step back and simplified things again. Keep an eye out for the "Assembly Cut" it has 30 minutes of extra footage and instead of the alien gestating in a dog it spawns from a ox. A nice twist to make it re-watchable.

It was a tough decision to put this above Predator 2, but I don't want to come across as bias. Completing the Quadrilogy (which isn't really a word) this film broke away from the 'less is more' philosophy of Alien 3 and revisited Aliens' format. This could have been in the top 5 if it weren't for that ridiculous man-woman-alien-beast. That and Jean-Pierre Jeunet trying to squeeze his steampunk style into it and his seeming compulsion to cast Dominique Pinon in everything.

This Predator franchise revisit had all the cheese, poor acting and weak plot of the original, but Danny Glover just isn't strong enough to hold that kind of combination together. Nice to add some background to the themes of the first film, but the stitching came apart. Bill Paxton played his usual whiney douche (True Lies/Predator 2/The Terminator) and having already been killed by a Terminator in '84, and an Alien in '86 sealed his trifecta by being killed by a predator to be the first to be killed by all three. "Game over, man!"

Well done, you did better than the first AVP attempt. You introduced some interesting new Predator weapons, but you missed the mark again. I don't want to see humans in another AVP film, set it on another planet somewhere, we've got our own problems.

This film was lame. However, Lance Henrikson sealed his title has the second person to be killed by an Alien, Teminator and Predator in this film (Terminator in '84, Alien in '86 and Predator in '04), beaten by 14 years by Bill Paxton in 1990.