Aliens (1986)
Director James Cameron's sequel to Ridley Scott's
original outer space
nightmare sees Sigourney Weaver return as Ripley. She is found
adrift in space, having woken up from suspended animation 57 years
after the events of the first film. Bizarrely, after 57 years
asleep, she still needs a cigarette when she is revived!.
She is horrified to hear that the aliens planet, LV-426, has
now been colonised. Unfortunately the colonists have all
disappeared - the thick plottens . . .
And so Ripley is sent back, sensibly this time taking along a
team of Marines with one object to their mission: Locate and
destroy acid-spewing, flesh-eating mutations before they multiply.
Equipped with high-tech artillery, tanks, lasers, and the
latest in intergalactic combat weapons, Weaver and the space
marines take a full forty-five minutes to reach the deserted
colony on LV-426 - Well, deserted except for hundreds of
aliens.
Naturally it's only a matter of time before the aliens are
attacking them, and once again it's up to Ripley to help the team
get out of there alive.
The only surviving colonist, a little girl who has been living
in the underground pipes, leads the team to horrors the mind
cannot fathom, and the rest of the film wallows in stomach
churning special effects and piles on the gore with complete
disregard for the audience's digestive system.
Will the spaceship be able to leave before the power blows
everyone to pieces? Will Ripley rescue the child from the queen of
the monsters (a cross between Grace Jones and a 500 ton praying
mantis)?
And Just when you think it's all over, the action begins again!
Everyone bleeds, vomits, spews blood, and agonizes unspeakably
until the audience becomes desensitised to the violence and
carnage.
The visual effects are fantastic, and James Cameron directs
with a penchant for strobe lights and prolonged stalking.
Do not watch this movie after a meal. Or before one, either.
TRIVIA NOTES
Bishop's blood at the end was a mixture of milk and yoghurt.
Ripley's daughter, seen only in a photograph, is actually
Sigourney Weaver's Mother.
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