Yea fair shout. The storyline has potential, but they killed it. Same with Resurrection. Storyline had a good concept, shit way of portraying it
Alien 1 is definitely the scarier movie. I remember watching it when I was really young, the facehuggers + the chestburster scene scarred me for life.
They fucked up by killing her off in the 3rd. So many people were disappointed as they knew there couldn't be a 4th. Obviously there was a 4th but I didn't like it tbh. Saw them all when I was younger. I think we have the whole disc set somewhere.
Possibly (re: Resurrection). It was such a hash job though. I have to say, I thought the whole premise was a bit shit, but thinking about it, I guess the general idea works, but the execution was incredibly poor. I didn't think the studio messed around with Resurrection like they did with Alien 3. I've got the director's cut of Alien 3 somewhere, and most of the extra scenes are poorly edited (as you'd expect, they were cut after all!) but the film makes much more narrative sense with them in there.
Raiders of the Lost Arc, and it's still widely considered the best. I was a big fan of all the movies though, with the exception of the Shia LeFuckingBoof one.