Stea Aliens [4K UHD]

What are you supposed to say about one of the best classic Sci-fi film ever made. This film is timeless, it's incredible how the special effects are on par with todays, maybe better IMO because the special effects are more realistic as they used more traditional means and not CGI. I think this is the best Alien film in the series. The acting quality is so good and believable, this film has so many classic, memorable and famous lines. This film hits the spot for me. Lots of famous actors were "born" from this film.

Slick dialogue, skillfuly excecuted tension and iconic setpieces

Aliens is a perfect film. After it was over I felt exhausted, as though I'd been running alongside Ellen Ripley. This is, in my opinion, James Cameron's best movie, closely followed by Terminator 2. The special effects and look of the film are awesome - every shot is absurdly rich - but they're backed up by magnificent storytelling which equals Alien's. Some of the same twists from Ridley Scott's movie are used, though Cameron tweaks them just enough so that we don't see them coming.Sigourney Weaver is back, and this time around she's less naive, becoming an action hero who's not concerned about protocol. She's spent 57 years cryogenically frozen, drifting through space, and is distraught to learn that her daughter has since grown up, lived and died during her absence. She's picked up and woken by a salvage crew, then told about a colony which has been established on the planet where the aliens were found. They've since lost contact with the colony, and Ripley is sent as an adviser to join a bunch of marines in investigating what's happened.In hindsight the marines could be seen as less malign precursors to Avatar's soldiers. Of those that are developed Bill Paxton plays Hudson, a petulant private, Jenette Goldstein is Vasquez, a butch shooter, and Michael Biehn is Hicks, a squad leader who grows close to Ripley (first Sarah Connor, then Ellen Ripley; Biehn got through the 80s sci-fi heroines). There's also an android (Lance Henriksen) who Ripley naturally distrusts, and Burke (Paul Reiser) a representative of the corporation that invested in the colony.When they arrive on the planet they discover Newt (Carrie Henn), a young girl who escaped the aliens by hiding in the air ducts. She's of course traumatised, but is brought out of herself and comforted by Ripley. Their bonding is the film's emotional core, and in a way Newt serves the same purpose as Ripley's cat in Alien: she softens her, giving her something to risk herself for. Given that Newt is a child, not an animal, and Ripley's own daughter is dead, that raises the stakes. Henn gives a strong, realistic performance and her character's development was compelling. Weaver as Ripley is more confident and world-weary here. In Alien she felt slightly naive, uncertain, and at one point tried denying crewmates access to the ship in case they introduced a threat. Aliens' Ripley is more of a humanitarian, and disobeys orders so she can save her colleagues.Though it does have similarities, Aliens is very different to Alien, which Ridley Scott compared to Ten Little Indians. Alien was a slower paced psychological horror story, while Aliens is pure pulp sci-fi. It tells an action packed tale filled with much larger aliens who do unspeakable things to the colonists and crawl about looking for fresh meat, their acid blood oozing from their horrible mouths. Aliens is, quite simply, a masterpiece, and one of the best films ever made.

Good film

Its aliens theirs nothing negative about this movie brilliant picture

The best action movie of the 80’s. With smoking (unfortunately).As anybody reading this already knows, it’s really a story of redemption, of Ripley regaining the family and friends she lost originally. Cameron for all his hardness actually has a soft heart and likes happy endings and this film definitely ends has that.All subsequent Alien films (a bit like Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein) are curios and can be safely ignored.Especially ignore the die hards who say Alien3 is a troubled but actually brilliant film because it was directed by Fincher and written on the hop whilst being made and stars a vast number of classical British actors. That doesn’t excuse the fact it’s terrible.And it’s the best one of all the subsequent movies!Daniels not suspecting that Walter could be David? Ripley and Bishop not thoroughly checking the Sulaco for any alien eggs?Ripley AND a dog impregnated by by just one facehugger?Come on, the producers and writers were taking us for fools! And you get die hard’s who have to invent all sorts of convoluted reasons to explain it!No, there’s just no getting away from it. Alien and Aliens were totally brilliant, the rest don’t count. And I’ve seen them all and WANTED them to count, but it just doesn’t work.I may have strayed somewhat from my original thoughts on Aliens….. I guess Alien3 still winds me up 30 years later with the fact that it has major plot holes and killed Newt. Off screen! The bastards…