It can't be the "best" in the franchise
Why not? Just cause it's new?
To be serious though, in some parts, yeah. As strange as it sounds. But see movies like Mad Max are not just action movies. The 80s in particular have seen a lot of action movies (which decade hasn't ...), but while the rest was somewhat forgetable Mad Max became a classic. I can't tell all the reasons, but its obvious that the movie has some great quality behind it. That's the reason why Max Max has now 4 movies and Commandos well only one - don't get me wrong I absolutely love Commandos, but hey, it is extremly cheesy. And a part of it is probably the nostalgia. See, the first Mad Max really was not just about blowing stuff up, compare the action scenes to what you see today. It feels more believable, at least to me, and Maxs motivations make more sense. He's on a vengance. Damn the whole scene where his sone is killed and his wife seriously injured? That alone has a lot of qualities that later Max movies never achieved.
Obviously I am a bit exagerating here, but nostalgia plays a big part, at least for someone like me. I have grown up with movies like Mad Max or Alien or what ever. If they now make new movies, well, they simply can't create the same feeling. No matter how hard they try.
It can't be the "best" in the franchise.
Good luck with your future Alien movie hopes then.
There have been rumors for the past no clue? 20 years about some new Alien 5. I say, let us wait and see. Anyway, to answer your question, I have not really high hopes for a new Alien movie. For me Alien as franchise was pretty much finished with Alien 3. Alien 4 is a bad abomination. No clue why there is such a big fuss about new Alien movies - and I am saying this as a really big fan of the franchise. I mean seriously, at some point a franchise is simply finished and most of the stories told, there are enough comics to explore things outside the movies, but comics are a different kind of medium.
There have been 3, well at least 2 very decent movies. What else do you want? No to mention that they most probably will never ever do the same kind of movies like with Alien and Aliens. Why? Because the target of those movies is a different one compared to today, where you have to save the whole world or universe no less. You can somewhat compare it to the previous Superman movies and the last one, the tone is a very different one. Alien? The movie for it self was extremly simple. It was a horror flick/haunted mansion in space, to speak so. With incredible effects (for its time). What makes both Alien and Aliens extremly good as movies is the interaction between the characters. It's more about survival. Truckers in space that happen to meet something that they can't fight. Not some big complex plot or mystery that has to be solved, all of the stuff with the space jockey and where the creature is coming from is the icing on the cake. The real meat are the actors. Considering how Prometheus worked though I just can't see modern movies following in those footsteps anymore. I mean already Aliens was extremly different from Alien, but at least it was still about survival. I would not be surprised if the new Alien 5 would end up with Aliens invading earth, big military units, or something like that. Just to get big explosions inside. Or maybe they will explain where the Aliens come from, their home planet or what ever. Which would be the worst thing ever. Like I said. The first Alien movie was or is the best one.
