Which movie is better

This is one area that's hard to truly determine a definitive winner in, as the result largely comes down to how one prefers their horror and use of monsters. The first A Quiet Place is much tenser, and the monsters attack suddenly and often without their hideous visages being focused on until the later stages. Being a sequel, A Quiet Place Part 2 has no problem showcasing its alien monsters in full right away, and also has a bigger budget to work with.

Combined with there now being a weapon to use against the alien monsters, this greatly ups the action factor and makes the sequel more thrilling in a general sense. For the first time, there are also human villains introduced, leading to a type of action and suspense sequence not really possible with marauding monsters. That said, those who prefer a more horror-oriented presentation, and focus on scares and tension, will likely gravitate to how A Quiet Place does things. Those who want more action and actual battling of the monsters will probably like Part 2 more.

Both do what they do extremely well, though. One of the most memorable aspects of A Quiet Place was its use of sound, and perhaps more importantly, the lack thereof, to tell its story.

Since A Quiet Place universe's monsters are attracted to sound, the Abbott family did most of their communicating through American Sign Language, and the few times they were able to speak, it was due to a specially-constructed location that helped block the sound from reaching the aliens. In Aliens , Cameron expands the mythology just enough to give us more tantalizing details about the xenomorph without over-explaining it or shredding the mystery around the species entirely ironically, it would be Ridley Scott himself who did that in the awful Prometheus and Alien: Covenant years later.

While both films are genuine classics, in the end Aliens has held up over the years as the more satisfying experience. But as a sequel it can only ever be a copy—an extension of the original genius. And while Aliens is certainly more epic, I would hardly call it more satisfying.

For starters, there are the characters you mistakenly claim are more memorable than the original crew. As is often the case in Cameron screenplays, the characters are broadly drawn archetypes who speak almost entirely in on-the-nose dialogue with all the subtlety of a villain waving a gun on the Titanic as it sinks. Conversely, the cast of characters in Alien feel painfully real.

However, she is only a survivor in the first movie, not an action hero. Get the best of Den of Geek delivered right to your inbox! Some of the secondary characters go on little journeys of their own too, from Gorman William Hope to Vasquez Jenette Goldstein , and even Hudson has a moment or two to shine as he finally finds his courage toward the end of the film.

Watching Aliens , it feels like most of the major or secondary characters get some kind of payoff. Thank Robert De Niro. Al Pacino delivered stunning performances in both films, but the addition of another legendary actor in flashbacks helped elevate the mob movie.

Those flashbacks give context to the Corleone family and delve deeply into the psychology of power-hungry men and the country of opportunity that created them. Leone had almost no money to film the movie and so cast a then-Hollywood castoff Eastwood and filmed several silent scenes because it was faster than shooting scenes with dialogue.

All those tense moments built up to the most famous standoff scene in cinematic history. Debate all you want about the best movie in the Bond franchise. Bride of Frankenstein perfects the campiness that the original film, Frankenstein , desperately needed. This Frankenstein is not scary—just a mild-mannered monster in need of a friend. Still considered a high watermark in the monster movie franchise, the movie slyly snuck a queer subplot, feminist plot points and meditations on necrophilia past the ratings board.

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