Aliens

Moving onto my other obsession during this quarantine...James Cameron’s ALIENS. I love ALIENS and I think it’s the superior film of the franchise. I think what Cameron did was respect what Ridley Scott set up in the first entry and just added more to the lore.

I get irritated sometimes when I hear that this is just an action film when it is more than that. Plus Cameron doesn’t rehash the scares but is able to still combine horror amongst the spectacle and allows Ellen Ripley to grow with her relationship with Newt and she’s also got a nice supporting cast of colonial marines. It’s very hard to dislike Hicks, Hudson and Vasquez. It’s unfortunate ALIEN 3 disrespected Hicks and Newt and I’m still foolishly holding out hope for Neil’s Blomkamp’s ALIEN 5 where it looked like he would disregard ALIEN 3 and RESURRECTION.

Like JAWS and TERMINATOR, the ALIEN films end here in the second film for me, as I have been disheartened by every other entry and the awful AVP nonsense.