Other times, they're voiced by Seth Rogen, and hanging out with nerds played by Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. Sometimes the aliens are just.out to kill us. And that's something that's present in varying degrees in just about every wake of life.īut we also have to be real-it's obviously not always that deep. In the case of Jordan Peele's Nope-one of the best movies of 2022-it's all about the addiction and obsession with spectacle. Whether it's a world where they're running rampant-like, say Guardians of the Galaxy-or a world where they're basically hunting us down one-by-one-like, say, the entire Alien franchise-an Alien always makes for a great movie hook.īut what is it about this trope that we find ourselves so drawn to? Why do we love Alien movies so much, and why does Hollywood love the idea so much that it keeps churning out movies of widely-varying quality? It's probably something of a cross between the idea of otherworldly beings in and of itself, a human being's nature of being drawn to fear, and the curiosity of the unknown.

We always want to know what's going on in a world beyond our own, even if usually it's not even somewhat based in reality. If you're watching a mediocre movie and it turns out to be an Alien movie? It's automatically a million times better.

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