Alien Resurrection (1997)

Look, I know Alien Resurrection gets dumped on, but I actually had a good time with this one. Yeah, it's weird and definitely the black sheep of the franchise, but Jeunet brought some seriously cool visual flair that makes it feel different from the other films. The whole cloning angle is bonkers, but Weaver seemed to be having fun playing this hybrid Ripley who's got alien DNA running through her. That basketball shot alone makes it worth watching.

The action sequences are solid and the alien designs get pretty creative - that newborn alien thing is nightmare fuel in the best way. Sure, the tone is all over the place and some of the humor doesn't land, but when it works, it really works. The underwater chase scene is legitimately tense, and Ron Perlman chewing scenery as the smuggler is entertaining as hell.

Is it Alien or Aliens? Hell no. But as a weird sci-fi action flick that happens to have xenomorphs in it, I dig it way more than most people seem to.