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Aliens James Cameron James Cameron David Giler Walter Hill Gordon Carroll, (ep) David Giler, (ep) Walter Hill, (ep) Gale Anne Hurd, Adrian Biddle Ray Lovejoy 20th Century Fox 1986 154 min. English English Spanish Sci-fi / Action 1.85:1 |
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| Sigourney Weaver Carrie Henn Michael Biehn Paul Reiser Lance Henriksen Bill Paxton |
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| Ripley, the only survivor from mankind’s encounter with the monstrous Alien returns to the scene of the crime...nearly a century later. Her account of the Alien and of the fate of the Nostromo crew are met with skepticism, until colonists on LV-426 dissapear. She accompanies high tech colonial marines to investigate and faces her fear...multiplied by the thousands. | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Behind the Scenes Trailer 17 minutes restored footage enhanced for 16 x 9 TVs |
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| Probably James Cameron's best film. The script is tight and focused. The performances are great, and the film is really well cast. It's one of the few action films that has a terrific premise and is executed masterfully. There isn't one wasted shot, nor are there any scenes which feel gratuitous and thrown in merely to emphasize an efffect. One of the most significant and telling differences between Aliens and other, lesser films in the same general genre, is that in Aliens the characters are forced into action, and spend the whole film trying to avoid it. Writers and directors need to see this film to understand the dramatics of action. Explosions, by themselves, are not dramatic. What makes an explosion entertaining and dramatic and memorable, is what happens around the explosion. Who is trying to stop and explosion and why, who is trying to make something explode and why, these are the interesting questions. There is plenty of action in Aliens but not nearly so much as other films. What makes Aliens worthwhile is that each bullet fired is a desperate attempt to stop the necessity of firing bullets. And what makes that so interesting and watchable is that the logic behind the story is so realistic and tightly woven, that Cameron was never asking us to give him the benefit of the doubt, never saying, "trust me, this is what would happen." The script happened, obviously. It was real. It was the natural extension of the first script. |
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