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Posted By: seras_integra at 10:51pm, August 22, 2008
My all time favorite horror movie. It is nearly flawless. The closest thing to perfection I have ever seen. I believe it even exceeded the original. I have never felt such anxiety and fear as this movie engendered in me the first time I watched it. Sigourney Weaver should have won an Oscar for her performance as Ellen Ripley. Once again, the casting was top notch and the special effects by Stan Winston were incredible. James Cameron at his finest as a director. I'll take this movie over "Titanic" any day!
The best of the Alien films and my fav!!
Bill Paxton is super awesome in this flick crap everyones awesome in this movie. I'll never get tired of watching it!
James Cameron not only delivers a great sequel to ALIEN, his ALIENS actually continues the story "logically" (which is more than I can say for the awful sequels that followed) by redefining the role of Mother (Computer, Ripley, Alien Queen) .... In fact, everyone involved deserves credit (from actors, special effects, etc) in giving more life to H.R. Giger's fantastic vision (if only 20th Century Fox would respect his artistic integrity by giving Giger proper credit)!
For a sequel that is arguably just a good as the original, this film couldn't be more different. The suspense/horror tone of the first is replaced by a more action driven one in this sci-fi blast of a sequel.
This time around we have more aliens, new aliens, super cool colonial marines, many more catch phrases, and a universe built upon by the imagination of James Cameron. Whether you love his vision or not, the film is undeniably bold and daring as it takes the storyline of the original film in an entirely different direction.
In my opinion, it was very successful. I believe I was 7 years old when I first saw "Aliens", and from then on I was a rather huge fan. I used frolic around my house, causing all kinds of shenanigans while acting like I was as hardcore as characters like Hicks. I used to draw sketchy, rather terrible pictures of aliens and space marines and even write my own fan fiction. Oh yes, those were the days!
Excellent action movie, but fails to deliver on the horror front. However, it compensates by being one of the best action movies ever, so I think I can let that slip.
Alien was a true horror masterpiece. Why? Because of the hopelessness . . . just the tag line gives me chills. You know from the first 30 minutes that no one is going to live, and whoever does live is going to have one of the most intense struggles ever captured on film.
Aliens was a happy-jolly action movie that could have been mistaken for a Vietnam movie for over half the runtime. The last 30 minutes are great; the first 30 minutes are great; maybe 20 minutes in the middle are great—the other hour is terrible. And I can’t just look over that.
The only good Alien film was the first one. This is the most overrated movie I have ever seen. Why the fuck is this an action movie? seriously! By turning this into an action movie you ruin everything that made the original great. instead of the intimate atmospheric Gothic horror movie we get a cartoonish macho action movie in the vein of Predator or Robocop. now that wouldn't be a problem if this weren't a sequel but it is.
With the exception Of Weaver and the little girl the rest of the performances by the space marines Are just as macho and over-the-top as their big goofy guns.
overall Aliens was entertaining as an action movie
but as a horror movie it wasn't scary and rarely intense. Not a worthy follow up to the original but then again thats a sequel for ya .
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