While it can’t be denied that it came out after Scott’s film (the biggest blow against its case for No.
“Aliens” makes a franchise out of something that seemed to be a one-off (in the age before everything was a franchise). Even with (or maybe because of) practical effects, this horror movie on a regimen of Eighties steroids remains a blast.Ĭameron smoothly mixes tones, as Hicks (Michael Biehn) provides military discipline, Hudson (Paxton) loses his nerve with endlessly quotable one-liners, and Ripley is the ultimate protective mother figure to orphaned Newt (Carrie Henn, in the ultimate one-and-done acting career). If you’re a competing “Aliens”/“Predator” film, or a competing film on a James Cameron list, or on a list of action films, or movies with great one-liners, it’s “Game over, man, game over” when you go up against “Aliens.” In a saga that’s always seeking fresh angles, the masterful simplicity of pitting monsters versus Marines, and of genre-hopping decades before the MCU made it cool, can’t be beat.
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