# Fifth and sixth 'Alien' movie plots revealed **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 20, 2003, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifth-and-sixth-alien-movie-plots-revealed/183099 "2003-06-20T05:18:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2003, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifth-and-sixth-alien-movie-plots-revealed/183099/1 "2003-06-20T05:18:47Z")
[How 'bout that?](http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/entertainment/gossip/6023208.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp) :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Tars\_Tarkas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tars\_Tarkas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tars_Tarkas)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2003, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifth-and-sixth-alien-movie-plots-revealed/183099/2 "2003-06-20T05:55:25Z")
[Aliens vs. Predator](http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=15472) ---
**Author:** ![Alcibiades](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/cab0a1/32.png) [@Alcibiades](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alcibiades)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2003, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifth-and-sixth-alien-movie-plots-revealed/183099/3 "2003-06-20T12:03:56Z")
They both sound like they suck. Alien 4 was one of the biggest cinematic disappointments I’ve ever encountered. ---
**Author:** ![Gorgon\_Heap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f475e1/32.png) [@Gorgon\_Heap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorgon_Heap)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2003, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifth-and-sixth-alien-movie-plots-revealed/183099/4 "2003-06-20T12:21:57Z")
Agreed. And what the hell are they doing to Alien vs. Predator? I bought the original graphic novel when it came out in the early 90s and it was great. Crummy stinkin’ movie producers … ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2003, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifth-and-sixth-alien-movie-plots-revealed/183099/5 "2003-06-20T12:56:31Z")
You actually had to follow the link? It’s all clear without it: Aliens return, kill people, are defeated in the end . . . or are they? ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2003, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifth-and-sixth-alien-movie-plots-revealed/183099/6 "2003-06-20T12:58:43Z")
“Alien” was a great movie. “Aliens” was a great movie. And then it was time to stop painting the picture. ---
**Author:** ![kingpengvin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9dc877/32.png) [@kingpengvin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kingpengvin)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2003, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifth-and-sixth-alien-movie-plots-revealed/183099/7 "2003-06-20T13:14:13Z")
I even liked Alien3, the dialogue was better than Aliens… (Cameron stop writting dialogue… you really suck… Lucas style) Alien resurection was so nothing it disapointed me. These movies sound stupid. The “Alien Drop ship” is pure BS! I was sure that the Alien ship from the first movie was actually some other poor crew that came across this species and got it too. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2003, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifth-and-sixth-alien-movie-plots-revealed/183099/8 "2003-06-20T13:21:22Z")
\>\>The “Alien Drop ship” is pure BS! I was sure that the Alien ship from the first movie was actually some other poor crew that came across this species and got it too.\<\< Yes! That’s what was bugging me. I don’t recall the two faced lizards having their own ship. ---
**Author:** ![Gorgon\_Heap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f475e1/32.png) [@Gorgon\_Heap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorgon_Heap)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2003, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifth-and-sixth-alien-movie-plots-revealed/183099/9 "2003-06-20T13:39:34Z")
They don’t. They are transported by other species wo use them for various and sundry other things. Like the humans, who want to make them into weapons. And the _youtja_, who use them to train their young warriors. ---
**Author:** ![Greywolf73](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d9b06d/32.png) [@Greywolf73](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greywolf73)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2003, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifth-and-sixth-alien-movie-plots-revealed/183099/10 "2003-06-20T13:58:34Z")
Why can’t they just leave a good thing alone? Meaning, why didn’t they just stop after Aliens 3? (Yes, I am one of the few who actually enjoyed Alien 3) Next thing you know it’ll be a TV series. Feh. ---
**Author:** ![skin2skin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee59a6/32.png) [@skin2skin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/skin2skin)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2003, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifth-and-sixth-alien-movie-plots-revealed/183099/11 "2003-06-20T21:39:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by RickJay \* > \*\*“Alien” was a great movie. “Aliens” was a great movie. And then it was time to stop painting the picture. \*\* I totally agree with you, RickJay. Aliens is in my top 3. ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2003, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifth-and-sixth-alien-movie-plots-revealed/183099/12 "2003-06-20T22:29:15Z")
Good God, what’s next? [The Core 2](http://plaza.ufl.edu/sandler/news/core2.htm)? ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2003, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifth-and-sixth-alien-movie-plots-revealed/183099/13 "2003-06-20T22:34:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Ripley finds herself forced to turn to the dark side in order to save civilization. _Star Wars Episode VII: When Aliens Attack_ ---
**Author:** ![lno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2003, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifth-and-sixth-alien-movie-plots-revealed/183099/14 "2003-06-20T22:40:39Z")
Raargh! No! No no no! The aliens don’t have ships! They don’t have technology! They’re bugs! They’re animals! They’re of the rough mental equivalence of an anthill or a beehive! The ship in the first movie was from a completely separate alien species! You can see the corpse in the pilot seat has a blown-out chest! No! No no no! No! They weren’t invented by the Predators! _They’re just animals that eat everything they see!_ _pant pant pant_ Plot of AvP taken from [filmjerk.com](http://filmjerk.com), and I have no idea why I’m spoiler-tagging this because it’s all crap anyway:This new film will not involve any of the human characters from the films’ previous efforts, instead using entirely new individuals. As reported by several news sources, the story looks to involve human scientists going on an expedition to Antarctica to lure Predator hunters, using Alien eggs as bait. Of course, these plans quickly goes awry and the humans find themselves in the crossfire between two warring alien species. And one of the characters in Alien vs Predator is “Charles Weyland”, a “driven billionaire industrialist … [who] finances the expedition, chooses its team members and insists on coming along— no matter what the consequence to his health.” No! No no no! Weyland-Yutani is a faceless amoral corporation! There’s no photogenic young bazillionaire! This is The Corporation, spoken of either in reverent or hateful terms! My god, the franchise is shit already! Is this some kind of sick twisted joke among you movie producers? Are you trying to see how far you can drive this into the ground? Aaargh! ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2003, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifth-and-sixth-alien-movie-plots-revealed/183099/15 "2003-06-21T02:02:54Z")
> [@](#): > > they make Earth look like an incubator while attacking, leaving alien eggs around the humans. That’s when Ripley realizes her dreams have played a role in what’s happening and **she evacuates** and confines herself to a cell That’s a pretty natural reaction, but I hope they don’t show it too explicitly in the movie - some of us will be trying to eat popcorn 😛