{"id":27212,"date":"2026-09-13T13:20:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T17:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=27212"},"modified":"2026-09-13T13:23:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T17:23:11","slug":"alien-predator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/alien-predator\/","title":{"rendered":"Alien\/Predator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an update to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/alien-2\/\">this<\/a> list. The <strong>Alien<\/strong> and <strong>Predator<\/strong> movies are in the same universe.<\/p>\n<h2>Alien<\/h2>\n<p>The quadrilogy<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Alien\n<ul>\n<li>1979 -&gt; 3\/5 (+)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/aliens\/\">Aliens<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>1986 -&gt; 4.5\/5 (+)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Alien3\n<ul>\n<li>1992 -&gt; 3.5\/5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/alien-resurrection\/\">Alien Resurrection<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>1997 -&gt; 4.5\/5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ridley Scott&#8217;s prequels<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/prometheus\/\">Prometheus<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>2012 -&gt; 4\/5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/alien-covenant\/\">Alien: Covenant<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>2017 -&gt; 4\/5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The new movie<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/alien-romulus\/\">Alien: Romulus<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>2024 -&gt; 5\/5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Predator<\/h2>\n<p>The original<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Predator\n<ul>\n<li>1987 -&gt; 4.5\/5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Dan Trachtenberg&#8217;s movies<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/prey\/\">Prey<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>2022 -&gt; 5\/5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/predator-badlands\/\">Predator: Badlands<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>2025 -&gt; 5\/5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/predator-killer-of-killers\/\">Predator: Killer of Killers<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>2025 -&gt; 4.5\/5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an update to this list. The Alien and Predator movies are in the same universe. Alien The quadrilogy Alien 1979 -&gt; 3\/5 (+) Aliens 1986 -&gt; 4.5\/5 (+) Alien3 1992 -&gt; 3.5\/5 Alien Resurrection 1997 -&gt; 4.5\/5 Ridley Scott&#8217;s prequels Prometheus 2012 -&gt; 4\/5 Alien: Covenant 2017 -&gt; 4\/5 The new movie Alien: Romulus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[182,42,6,8],"class_list":["post-27212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-thoughts","tag-aliens","tag-lists","tag-movie","tag-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27212"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27216,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27212\/revisions\/27216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}