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Seen on: 01/12/2012 (rewatch)

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Aliens (1986)

Directed by James Cameron

Action | Adventure | Science Fiction

Most recently watched by zombiefreak, KrazyKatAIC, sensoria, noahphex, BTSjunkie, sleestakk

Overview

When Ripley’s lifepod is found by a salvage crew over 50 years later, she finds that terra-formers are on the very planet they found the alien species. When the company sends a family of colonists out to investigate her story—all contact is lost with the planet and colonists. They enlist Ripley and the colonial marines to return and search for answers.

Rated R | Length 137 minutes

Actors

Paul Maxwell | Paul Reiser | Bill Paxton | Michael Biehn | Lance Henriksen | Elizabeth Inglis | Jenette Goldstein | Mark Rolston | Sigourney Weaver | Carrie Henn | William Hope | Al Matthews | Colette Hiller | Daniel Kash | Cynthia Dale Scott | Ricco Ross | Tip Tipping | William Armstrong | Mac McDonald | Bob Sherman | Alan Polonsky | Holly De Jong | Stuart Milligan | Barbara Coles | Tom Woodruff Jr. | Jay Benedict | Alibe Parsons | Alec Gillis | Eddie Powell | Blain Fairman | Trevor Steedman | John Lees | Valerie Colgan | Carl Toop | Chris Webb | Jill Goldston

Viewing Notes

Got the blu as a birthday gift and so I had to revisit it immediately! Still excellent, though not as good as Alien. This is one of the few Cameron movies I feel has actually aged well in terms of the SFX, though there are some moments here and there where things do show their age.

I remember seeing this in the theater and being glued to my seat, loving every minute of the thrill ride. Aliens is the classic “Zulu” plot wherein the good guys hole up somewhere and slowly but surely get backed into corners by the bad guys, piling up bodies as they go. The Michael Caine film Zulu is the first time I ever noticed this. Dog Soldiers also uses a similar premise.

This movie is to sci-fi/action what the original Alien was to sci-fi horror.

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