The Mad Doc's 10 Favorite Alien Movies Jan 26 '04 (Updated Jan 28 '04)    Write an essay on this topic. Tweet Popular Products in Movies 1776 From $8 Alias - The Complete Fifth Season From $20 The Bottom Line I think the Bottom Line is an Alien trying to take over the Earth... Well boys and girls, me thinks tis time for another list. As always, this was difficult and I've pondered this one for a couple of months. It's just really very hard to limit myself to ten in such a great area. I'm sure I'll think of others as soon as I post this.. I always do. In no particular order then are are my current ten favorite Alien movies: Alien ~ Ok I know all you men just liked seeing Sigourney Weaver in her undies, but this one scared the bejeezus out of me. When it was released in 1979 I had been in a fight with my current idiot of a boyfriend, so I just drove myself to the Drive In and watched this alone. Smart move, eh? Ummm NO. This Ridley Scott masterpiece about a mining ship that answers a distress call on some planet had me hunkered down in my seat and scared to walk up to the concession stand for more soda. Mother! Turn the cooling unit back on! Mother! ... You bitch! E.T The Extra Terrestrial ~ I actually went to the Drive In 3 times to see this one when it came out in 1982. I did happen to have Azure then, but she was only one, so she was just a thinnly veiled excuse. heh. This great by Steven Spielberg is a heartwarming story of the funniest and most endearing little alien you'll see. The poor thing is lost and takes up with a little boy, who tries to reunite him with his people. A real classic in every sense of the word. Elliot: Yeah, he came back. But he's not a goblin. He's a spaceman. Tyler: Ooh! Where's he from? Uranus? Get it? Your anus? Star Wars ~ George Lucas' claim to fame. I'll admit that I have actually liked them all, but this first one was just the bomb. Who can forget Luke Skywalker who, with the aid of a very sexy Han Solo (played by Harrison Ford), goes on a mission to rescue Princess Leia from Darth Vadar. Vadar was and is one the best move villains ever. Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid. Enemy Mine ~ From 1985 comes this change of pace in Alien movies starring Dennis Quaid as a human stranded on another planet who meets up with an Alien also stranded there played by Louis Gossett Jr. This alien happens to belong to the race he was fighting when he got stranded. The two have to learn to get along to survive. Davidge: Where would you be without me, Jerry? Jerry: Home. Mars Attacks! ~ Hilarious send up of just about all Alien movies with an all-star cast. The Martians have landed, and Earth will just never be the same... This movie has just about every possible comedic set-up, secondary story-line, and sight gag imaginable. The first time I heard the old grandma laugh and yell They killed Congress! I about died laughing. Go Martians! The Day The Earth Stood Still ~ A wonderful old 1951 black & white gem that still holds up to viewing today. I like it because it dares to show us as the bad guys, and the Aliens as the good guys... they pretty much tell us to grow up or die. You go! Director Robert Wise went on to give us Westside Story, The Andromeda Strain, and Star Trek: The Motion Picture, among many others. I'm impatient with stupidity. My people have learned to live without it. Plan 9 From Outer Space ~ One of director Ed Wood's finest moments, this 1959 movie gave us Aliens who have tried 8 times already to take over the Earth, and are trying just once more by re-animating our dead. This one is memorable and a favorite of mine due to the cheesy dialogue, the horrendous special effects, and because it is Bela Lugosi's last picture. But one thing's sure. Inspector Clay is dead, murdered, and somebody's responsible War of the Worlds ~ This 1953 movie is based on the book by HG Wells. I remember quite vividly when my parents let me stay up to watch this one on Saturday Night Creature Feature in the late 50s. The scene that stays with me the most is the soldiers in the foxhole while the Aliens just tear up. It's about us being invaded by seemingly unstoppable Aliens. George Pal produced this, and also brought us the other Wells adaptation "The Time Machine". Later this was broadcast on radio by Orson Wells and had the entire nation in a panic. Oh how I would have loved to have heard that live... Major General Mann: Pattern-wise, one lands, then two, making groups of threes joined magnetically. Is that possible? Dr Clayton Forrester: If they do it, it is. Spaced Invaders ~ Funny as hell... You see, Mars is attacking... but this one ship gets separated from the fleet and isn't real sure just who they are supposed to be attacking. They put out an antennae to try to pick up some kind of communication and happen to stumble upon a replay of War of the Worlds on the radio... on.. Halloween... in a very small country bumpkin kinda town. Do you see the possibilities here? Wonderful! Well, let's see. We got a torqued-out digi-framus, our mega-spaz redundancy pile is on the blink, and it looks like we bruised our boo-boo Forbidden Planet ~ The crew of a space ship goes to check out a colony that has been silent for too long and finds two survivors and a bit of trouble involving their own nightmares and dark sides... Released in 1956, this is another one that holds up fine to this day. The special effects set a new bar for the time period. Robby the Robot was excellent. Another one of them new worlds. No beer, no women, no pool parlors, nothin'. Nothin' to do but throw rocks at tin cans, and we gotta bring our own tin cans ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Almost Made Its Close Encounters of the Third Kind (loving refered to as CE3K by nerds everywhere) Independance Day (ID4.. don't ya love it when movies have pet names?) Dreamcatcher Invasion of the Body Snatchers

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