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Since I've noticed some controversy on this at school, I thought I'd see what people on the Forums thought. I'll have to say I like the Predators a little more than the Aliens. All those blades are pretty immpressive.

HUMAN PRIDE!

*streaks through thread, BV style*

Nice. :p

I think they are both great at a significant distance. In close proximity, I don't think I'd care much for either.

Too true.

No competition...Aliens without a doubt. If the Predators didn't have the weapons they do, the Aliens would kick 'em every time...but I guess you could argue that the Predators DO have their weapons so that point isn't really worth worrying about.
Anyway, Aliens are definitely the coolest.

Bugger, I voted for the wrong one. I wanted to say Predator, but chose Alien by mistake. I think Arnie's cooler though, he'd kill them all (excluding his politics).

I don't know if either would accurately be described as 'cool'...I don't know their relative body temperatures, for one thing. Would having concentrated acid for blood mean your internal temperature would be significantly higher? I'm no biologist.

Of the two, we know more about the Aliens than the Predators. We have good overall sense of the growth, reproductive cycle, social structure and function of individuals within the hierarchy of an Alien colony - but do we know as much about the Predators? (I must admit, I haven't gotten around to renting AVP, due to the nearly-universal panning it received, so there's no doubt info I'm probably missing)

Not nearly so. Their culture seems somewhat frivolous in their customs. Beings capable of interstellar travel who use it for sport hunting? Seems a little decadent...like a culture in decay. It's all coming back to me now, how I felt after watching the original Schwarzenegger flick - "Hi there, I'm from a highly-advanced interstellar culture, and I've just flown in several dozen light-years to scalp a few dozen of you smaller, weaker, but obviously sentient creatures..." It just seemed hilarious to me at the time. A stupendous regurgitation of Hollywood Sci-Fi flicks gone by.

So I'll have to side with the Aliens on this comparive poll. I think the Aliens are 'cooler' because their motivations have been well-defined, whereas the Predators are still, to my knowledge, cinematic boogeymen with a sketchy rationale. But there is a question, a lingering question, that has come to mind repeatedly over the years: Who or what was the species found by the Nostromo crew inside the control center (or whatever it was) of the crashed space vessel in the original Alien movie?

I was sorta speaking of whos cooler based on the species, not how good the movie was. Otherwise i would have to say aliens. And about traveling so far to hunt, look how far people will go and how much the'll spend to kill, say, a lion. And i wondered too about that species. Who were they? Just as a note, in my opinion, they did a better job of showing the Predators in AVP.

I think they are both great at a significant distance. In close proximity, I don't think I'd care much for either.

In close proximity, you've got a better chance of survival with the Predator. Just don't pick up ANYTHING that could be construed as a weapon.

If AvP and AvP II has taught us anything, it is that the alien is much more fun to be.

Although the Predator has that cool spinning throwing thing, and a neato invisibility button.

In close proximity, you've got a better chance of survival with the Predator. Just don't pick up ANYTHING that could be construed as a weapon.
Unless of course they are hunting you. In which case either pick up a weapon or run. Possibly both. Of course their aim with that shuriken\boomarang and the spear is pretty good, so running might not help.

Singularly, a Predator would be infintely cooler than an Alien. But the whole point of the Aliens is that there's like a trillion of them, so I don't know if that's a fair comparisson. Predator > Alien, but PredatorS < AlienS.

Alien. Looks like a squid, snake, spider, insect, penis and human. I like Giger's design.

Preds, probably, though Aliens are the ownage too. I'm mainly being swayed by the awesome weapons.

Alien kicks ass. It's an elegantly simple killing machine. Strong, fast, stealthy, equipped with acid blood for defense, and kills it's enemies in the process of reproduction. That means for every enemy it eliminates it adds one more to it's numbers.

Predator is just a souped-up ugly human.

Predators have cool intelligence, but aliens are much more elegantly!

I'd have to say Aliens. But all my info is secondhand from a friend I used to have who was obsessed with the the two things. He preferred Aliens a bit, so I know a little more about them. They sound pretty good.

I love both Aliens and Predators (I have both in plush toy format :D), but I'm gonna vote for Preds.

While Aliens are damn spiffy and deadly and stuff, I have to go with my technophilia and vote for the Predators smexay advanced weaponry. Circular Frisbee of Death, oh yeah... ;)