Alien: Resurrection

Distephano: I thought you were dead.

Ripley: Yeah, I get that a lot.


Alien: Resurrection
Starring Sigourney Weaver, Winona Ryder, Dominique Pinon
Written by Joss Whedon
Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Plot: Ripley is back, 200 years after she died she is revived as a human/alien clone and once again fights a bunch of badass aliens on a ship in space.

"Unfortunately not so good. Even the writing talents of Joss Whedon could not save once last attempt to bring back the Alien franchise."

Alien 3

Ripley: This is a maximum security prison, and you have no weapons of any kind?

Andrews: We have some carving knives in the abattoir, a few more in the mess hall. Some fire axes scattered about the place - nothing terribly formidable.

Ripley: That's all?

Andrews: We're on the honor system.

Ripley: Then we're fucked.


Alien 3
Starring Sigourney Weaver, Charles S. Dutton, Charles Dance
Written by David Giler, Walter Hill, Larry Ferguson
Directed by David Fincher
Plot: It's round three of Ripley versus the alien -- this time on a prison planet.

"Enjoyable. Not the best of the series, but definitely worth watching mainly due to the direction of David Fincher."

Aliens

Ripley: Get away from her, you *bitch!*

Aliens
Starring Sigourney Weaver, Michael Biehn, Carrie Henn
Written by James Cameron
Directed by James Cameron
Plot: The planet from Alien has been colonized, but once contact is lost with it, Ripley and a rescue team are sent once again to take on the badass alien creatures.

"The tone has definitely been amped up from the original, but that is not necessarily a good thing... Or a bad thing."

Alien

Ripley: Mother! I've turned the cooling unit back on. Mother!
Mother: The ship will automatically destruct in "T" minus five minutes.
Ripley: You... BITCH!

Alien
Starring Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, John Hurt
Written by Dan O'Bannon
Directed by Ridley Scott
Plot: A mining ship on an expedition ends up on a distant planet and ends up running into some badass alien creatures.

"The definition and standard of sci-fi horror."