on 4/21/2013
Two amazing films, but neither is quite up there with my favourites. They're completely different films, both of which have contributed an astronomical amount of filmmaking technique and inspiration to their respective genres, but this is one of the occasions on which I'm going to side with the more entertaining film. So SPR clinches it, by a nose.
on 9/16/2013
Saving Private Ryan. It's a way better movie, and it also beats out Aliens for me. Just everything about that movie stuck with me like no other film can.
on 9/17/2013
Alien
on 9/17/2013
Alien is a horror classic. One of the best sci-fi films ever made. I choose that as the better film. But SPR is an astounding film as well.
on 10/31/2013
Saving Private Ryan is million times better, it has better acting, more exciting and far better action scenes.
on 12/11/2014
As gritty as Ryan is, I'd still watch Alien any given day. Nothing beats the xenomorph reveal.
on 2/7/2015
Saving Private Ryan is an amazing film through and through, my favorite war movie of all time. So SPR it is.
on 2/8/2015
saving private Ryan wins quite easily...alien builds a great atmosphere but at the end fails to capitalize
on 2/8/2015
Two of my favorites, but I gotta go SPR...
on 2/21/2015
Alien
on 8/2/2018
Alien is the choice.
on 8/2/2018
The one that portrays the alien in a ruthlessly malicious light.
on 8/2/2018
^It seems that some people aren't taking film reviewing seriously anymore. The Prestige is better.
on 8/2/2018
Sorry, i meant alien.
on 8/2/2018
Alien. Idk, I've never been a ww2 buff so the subject matter of Alien just resinates with me more.
on 8/3/2018
Tom Hanks = Shilluminati; Spielberg = Apologist for state-sanctioned Israeli terrorism guarding the Protocols of the Elders of Zion; Saving Private Ryan = Most despicably biased depiction of aliens this side of the Hostel movies which, incidentally, were also directed by a Zionist Jew, Eli Roth.
on 8/3/2018
If I'm not taking film-reviewing seriously anymore it's because, over the past few months, my realization that movies and media are basically just platforms for the psychopathic elite to dump their sinister agenda on the gullible, brainwashed masses, has greatly diminished my love of film as an art-form. Like many of you using this site, film was at one point of time my favorite storytelling medium, my favorite art-form – hell, my favorite everything; it was a portal to unexplored worlds, and a standard with which to measure the value of all other forms of art. Even when I could tell something was wrong with the world but couldn't quite pinpoint what, movies provided me with the requisite beauty and calm to keep pushing through the weariness of everyday existence. Alas, all that has changed since. Film is none of the things I had previously thought, for it's first and foremost a weapon deployed by the elite to fight a psychological battle; a most effective weapon, in fact, to confine the masses to a zombie-like state of obliviousness through deception, distraction, social conditioning, subliminal messaging and predictive programming – these subtle tools of mind-control being all the more dangerous because the resources and equipment needed to distribute and produce films will forever stay in the hands of the few. Moreover, film is a shockingly wasteful medium: Millions of dollars are splurged on movies which, in turn, earn billions at the box office, but where is all this money going? It's certainly not being used for the betterment of humanity. Binging year in, year out on movies, Netflix and porn, so inured have we become to the capitalist mindset that we think it's justifiable to waste millions on set construction while millions of people spend their entire lives languishing in desperate poverty. Why are vain movie stars and sell-out directors paid in pools of cash? If your response is "cuz the system allows it," my response would be to fuck such a system in the face. We don't need such a system – or at the very least, I don't need it. It's frightening when you realize the production budget of Marvel's latest turd is big enough to feed the entire population of Bagamoyo. And last but not the least, we come to the final nail in film's decrepit coffin: it's simply an inferior form of art, fit for mass consumption by passive viewers, who wouldn't enjoy the same luxury in a more challenging, active format like literature. There, I said it. For a business that came into being a little over a century ago, film has already reached its apotheosis as an art-form, already reached its potential; and judging by the amount of blockbuster crap like Marvel being ground out each year, it appears things will only go further downhill from here. Think about it, in a much older medium like literature, innovations like stream-of-consciousness and the post-modern novel were being developed and perfected as late as the 20th century. Even if we limit the field to artists in the 20th century (since film was a relatively recent movement), the phony, media-hyped "geniuses" of film-making look laughable next to the genuine masters of literature, music and painting. I would proclaim that movies are dead, but to say so would be to admit they were alive to begin with. Adios.
on 8/11/2018
^ [ Clapping Hands]
