I really like both! Between them though... if you asked me 25 years ago when I was a teen, I would've said Aliens was the better film, but these days I find the original a little more to my liking. Like others have said, there's more of a character arc in the original. I just feel like the tonal difference between Alien and Aliens is a kind of microcosm for the difference between filmmaking generally in the '70s versus in the '80s. The '70s was among the best decades for American filmmaking in my opinion overall, alongside the 1920s. The Hollywood studio system had bankrupted itself in the 1960s and given way to smaller-budget projects by a new, angsty generation of movie-makers. The result, even in the case of many spectacles like Alien, was more earnestness and down-to-Earthness (so to speak!) than has typically been the case in major movie-making. The characters often struck one one as more dynamic and believable. From the '80s, we all too often got more glitz and less multi-dimensionality.
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