Originally it was going to be called Starbeast before Dan O'Bannon decided on calling it ALIEN since he found the name more catching and he noticed he was writing that word repeatingly in his script.
Also do you dislike the ALIEN series?
Why are Star Trek fans made fun of more than Star Wars fans in popular culture?
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Also do you dislike the ALIEN series?
One is too pulpy the other is too generic.
Needs something else.
Plus, there's also this:
What? like calling ALIEN, Xenomorph instead? I like ALIEN, its straight to the point, just like Star Trek and Star Wars in their titles.One is too pulpy the other is too generic.
Needs something else.
Plus, there's also this:
Why does the "Star Beast" have a comedic "whaaaaa?" expression?One is too pulpy the other is too generic.
Needs something else.
Plus, there's also this:
Okay you come up with a better name then? No joke names, I mean legit, a better alternative that captures the plot of the movie. Like How there is a War raging on in Star Wars or an ongoing Trek through the stars in Star Trek.
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Space Terror.
That sounds like the name to an ALIEN knockoff or a Cheesy B-movie, which makes it more generic sounding than ALIEN.
Also Space Terror could be anything, from a human-psycho trapped in a spaceship to a spatial anomaly.
But you get points for coming up with an alternate title for my Favorite Sci-Fi Franchise.
You do realize an alien could be anything too, including humans? That Xeno is just Greek for strange or alien, and is quite generic in Greek?
The reason I don't like the franchise title is because it's too generic. That when I spent time as a younger writer trying to research conceptions of alien life over half of the search results would be around the Alien franchise.
Are we related? Cuz when I saw this, I honest to Zod thought it was me.
I also did theater for a few years. 
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I blame the press for the stigma.
They coined the term "Trekkie" and showcased conventions with footage of fans in costume, quoting lines from the show and wearing Spock ears and such. Suddenly, this TV show that the general public forgot about, that "space show" was suddenly revived by a bunch of people wearing costumes with apparently nothing better to do.
Star Trek was a cult show. Fans were cultists.
Star Wars exploded when it arrived and wasn't a cult, it was a worldwide hit that appealed to the general public, not rabid fans. So Star Wars was accepted. Star Wars fans were everywhere and everyone. May the Force Be With You was greeted with whatever else someone wanted to say from the movie (I've got a bad feeling about this or something). If the person you didn't say Live Long and Prosper to wasn't a fan, you got the rolled eyes, at best. Bullying at worst.
Didn't stop me from wearing my Donmoor shirts to school and having Mego Kirk in my book bag. But yeah, I was part of the problem...
Well yes I know alien can mean foreigner (which applies to humans) and that xeno is a greek word that means alien/strange/foreign.
Oh so thats why you don't like the title. I suppose they should have called it Xenomorph since the title alien is called a Xenomorph (coined in the second movie).
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Fairy Tales also have messages. Every one of them.
He did at first, before going all damn-lee-row in the end.
Ok but what's the message of Star Wars?
Keep shooting!
Fascism bad.Ok but what's the message of Star Wars?
well that last bit he was getting attacked by a xenomorph
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