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Neither of these is the better film. They are just at opposite ends.
20 films tagged aliens
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2016 · Science fiction
Twelve alien craft arrive without explanation, and a linguist is brought in to work out how to ask them what they want. Most of it is the slow business of translation.
AI estimate, not yet described
1979 · Horror
The crew of a commercial towing ship is woken early to investigate a signal from a nearby moon, and brings something back aboard. Long stretches of corridor and waiting.
AI estimate, not yet described
1968 · Science fiction
A strange black slab turns up at three points in human history, and a ship heads for Jupiter to find out why. Very little is explained, and long stretches carry no dialogue at all.
AI estimate, not yet described
2018 · Horror
A family lives on a farm in total silence, because anything that hears them comes for them. Most of it is signed or whispered, with long stretches where nobody makes a sound at all.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
AI estimate, not yet described
2020 · Horror
A mother and her children leave the farm and go looking for other survivors, in a world where anything that hears you comes for you. Long stretches with no talking, and it keeps moving.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
AI estimate, not yet described
2018 · Science fiction
A biologist joins an all-woman expedition into a stretch of coastline sealed off behind a shimmering wall, where the plants and animals have gone strange. It moves slowly and gets stranger the further in they walk.
AI estimate, not yet described
2023 · Comedy
Families gather in a tiny desert town in 1955 for a junior stargazing convention, and the week does not go to plan. The whole thing is staged inside a story about a play being written.
AI estimate, not yet described
2009 · Science fiction
A paralysed marine ships out to a moon on the far side of the galaxy, where a lab-grown body lets him walk among the people whose forest sits on what his employers want. Long, and built to be looked at.
AI estimate, not yet described
2022 · Science fiction
Jake Sully's family leaves the forest and asks the reef clans for shelter, learning to live on and under the water. It runs well over three hours and is built to be looked at.
AI estimate, not yet described
2018 · Action
A warlord crosses the galaxy collecting six stones that would let him do anything he likes with the universe, and every hero on the board tries to stop him. It cuts between half a dozen groups on different planets.
AI estimate, not yet described
2018 · Horror
Something arrives that kills anyone who looks at it, so a woman takes two small children down a river blindfolded. It cuts between that trip and the crowded house where it all started.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
AI estimate, not yet described
2009 · Science fiction
Twenty years after an alien ship stalls above Johannesburg, its passengers live in a fenced-off slum and a company man is sent in to hand out eviction notices. It starts as a fake documentary and turns into a chase with a lot of gunfire.
AI estimate, not yet described
2014 · Science fiction
An officer with no combat experience is dropped into a losing war against aliens and wakes up at the start of the same day every time he is killed. Most of it is him getting better at it, and it is funnier than it sounds.
AI estimate, not yet described
2014 · Action
A small-time thief picks up a mysterious orb and ends up in an alien prison with a green assassin, a talking raccoon and a tree. Big, loud, colourful, and joking most of the way through.
AI estimate, not yet described
2022 · Horror
A brother and sister running their late father's horse ranch notice something in the sky above the valley and decide that filming it is the way out of their money troubles. Wide open country, long quiet stretches, then bursts of chaos.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
AI estimate, not yet described
2012 · Science fiction
Scientists follow a set of matching cave paintings to a distant moon, on a ship paid for by a dying billionaire who wants to meet whoever left them. Big empty landscapes first, then a lot of running.
AI estimate, not yet described
2011 · Science fiction
A group of kids shooting a zombie movie on Super 8 film are filming at a railway station when a train comes off the tracks, and soldiers fill their town soon after. A summer-of-1979 adventure with the kids doing most of the work.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
AI estimate, not yet described
2012 · Action
Six heroes who cannot stand each other are put on the same team because a god from another realm has turned up on Earth with an army. Bright, jokey, and built towards one very long fight.
AI estimate, not yet described
2013 · Comedy
A man in his forties drags four old schoolfriends back to their hometown to finish the twelve-pub crawl they failed as teenagers, and the town is not quite as they left it. Fast, very English, jokes stacked on jokes, and it turns into a fight.
AI estimate, not yet described
2013 · Horror
A woman drives a van around Glasgow picking up men, and she is not from here. Very slow, almost no dialogue, and long stretches of black space and noise.
AI estimate, not yet described