http://movies.amctv.com/movie-guide/top-ten-alien-encounters.php Alien encounters can be good (Avatar) or bad (District 9). How would you rank these E.T. run-ins from most to least welcome? en Copyright 2012 Fri, 14 May 2010 13:07:57 -0500 http://services.rainbow-media.com http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification movie-name 1503 Ridley Scott's aliens are so alarming that one of the film’s designers was held at the airport for carrying drawings of the creatures. http://movies.amctv.com/movie/1503/Alien/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/1503/Alien/overview 20100513183447 15032 Some aliens eat humans, others eat Reese's Pieces. Steven Spielberg’s candy guzzler finds his way home, with help from Drew Barrymore. http://movies.amctv.com/movie/15032/E-T-The-Extra-Terrestrial/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/15032/E-T-The-Extra-Terrestrial/overview 20100513183542 10031 These benevolent aliens are so welcoming, an earthling (Richard Dreyfuss) decides to permanently join them aboard their mother ship. http://movies.amctv.com/movie/10031/Close-Encounters-of-the-Third-Kind/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/10031/Close-Encounters-of-the-Third-Kind/overview 20100513183433 154946 With Earth imperiled by aliens, top-secret wisecracking agents (Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones) come to the rescue. http://movies.amctv.com/movie/154946/Men-in-Black/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/154946/Men-in-Black/overview 20100513183628 423766 When a ship full of aliens gets stranded in South Africa, the government confines them to a slum. Apartheid parallels abound. http://movies.amctv.com/movie/423766/District-9/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/423766/District-9/overview 20100513183553 352199 The lanky blue aliens are the good guys in James Cameron’s epic, which cost a hefty $280 million to make. http://movies.amctv.com/movie/352199/Avatar/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/352199/Avatar/overview 20100513183518 263250 You barely get to glimpse the aliens in this M. Night Shyamalan thriller, but the little you see of them is chilling. http://movies.amctv.com/movie/263250/Signs/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/263250/Signs/overview 20100513183634 10146 A group of benevolent aliens creates a swimming pool with rejuvenating powers, thrilling the elderly folks who use it. http://movies.amctv.com/movie/10146/Cocoon/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/10146/Cocoon/overview 20100513183559 312948 As aliens stomp around Earth in giant tripods, harvesting humans for blood, Tom Cruise tries to whisk his family to safety. http://movies.amctv.com/movie/312948/War-of-the-Worlds/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/312948/War-of-the-Worlds/overview 20100513183617 66900 Though he’s known more as a hero than an alien, Superman is of another world. He’d win an alien beauty-contest any day, though. http://movies.amctv.com/movie/66900/Superman-The-Movie/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/66900/Superman-The-Movie/overview 20100513183456