'Aliens' at 40: Here Are 26 Reasons Why James Cameron's Sequel Is Still the Greatest Sci-Fi Action Movie of All Time
James Cameron turned the sequel into a military action film and helped launch a new sci-fi subgenre, with 26 reasons cited in the anniversary tribute.
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40 years later, James Cameron's 'Aliens' still beats Ridley Scott’s original. I said what I said
In 1986, Ellen Ripley teamed up with the Colonial Marines to fight terrifying extraterrestrial creatures in “Aliens.” Written and directed by James Cameron, “Aliens” is the sci-fi sequel to 1979’s “Alien,” Ridley Scott’s groundbreaking horror that first introduced audiences to the Xenomorph that wreaks havoc on the unlucky humans who cross its path.“Aliens,” which celebrates its 40th anniversary in July, is a landmark film. It’s probably not as …
Sequels that surpass their originals are a rare occurrence. Even rarer are sequels like Aliens 2, which managed to improve an already extremely good film, while radically changing the genre and dramatic focus of the original.
'Aliens' at 40: Here are 26 reasons why James Cameron's sequel is still the greatest sci-fi action movie of all time
Making a sequel to Ridley Scott's 1979 classic "Alien" should have been a disaster. This was a movie that defined a whole new sub-genre of outer-space horror, a perfectly structured scarefest that also introduced one of cinema's greatest-ever monsters to the world.Luckily, James Cameron — then one of Hollywood's hottest properties off the back of "The Terminator" — has never been a shrinking violet, and was brave enough to face the Xenomorph cha…
40 Years Later, James Cameron's Most Brilliant Reinvention Remains The Ultimate Sci-Fi Sequel
20th Century Fox/Kobal/ShutterstockJames Cameron’s pitch for Aliens is now the stuff of Hollywood legend. In the early 1980s, 20th Century Fox was keen to get the ball rolling on a sequel to Ridley Scott’s Alien. At this point James Cameron was an up-and-coming director whose screenplay for The Terminator was floating around Hollywood, and he was invited to provide a treatment for Alien II. During a later pitch meeting with studio executives, he…
‘Maybe the best pumped-up sequel ever made’: James Cameron’s Aliens hits 40
The director’s more-is-more approach to the 1986 sequel gave us seat-edge action and an indelible performance from a rule-breaking Sigourney Weaver James Cameron loves tough female characters. That seems like a given now, after three Avatars and two particularly muscular arms belonging to Linda Hamilton in Terminator 2. Even the lushly romantic Titanic is about…
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