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List Price: $14.98 Our Price: $9.99 You Save: $4.99 Features • Anamorphic • Closed-captioned • Color • Director's Cut • Dolby • DVD-Video • Special Edition • THX • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 18 July, 1986 DVD Release : 01 June, 1999 |
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| Nearly sixty years have passed in 'Earth Time' and Ripley is still floating around in space, oblivious to the world she has left behind, or the world she's just escaped from. Nearly sixty years, she hasn't aged a day but her daughter on Earth has since died. After being rescued, she is told the two great pieces of news that will rock her world forever: her daughter has died, and the planet she escaped from, has now been colonised. But they've lost contact with the colonists.
So James Cameron's version of Aliens begins. Taking over the reins from Ridley Scott, comes a far more superior version, expertly handled, and better written, with better characters. I still dislike the first one. But then I disliked the first Harry Potter book! So long as I persevere it's fine. James Cameron has to be one of my favourite directors and I own a few of his movies - plus, he's the only director I can normally put a film to! What makes this movie so much better, is the characters. They're likeable, you want them to survive, and they also have better back stories. Watching Sigourney Weaver's brilliant portrayal of Ripley discovering the awful news that the daughter she left behind, barely a teenager, lived to be an old woman, and died never knowing what happened to her mother. The viewer can quite literally feel her emotion, her sense of loss, knowing that her daughter grew up without her. I hated Ripley's character originally, she just didn't click with me. But by expanding her role, and showing her maternal instinct with the little girl who's found alive on the planet, it works a whole lot better, and makes her likeable. Bringing in the James Cameron standards, Michael Biehn and Bill Paxton, also works for me. After working with Cameron on many of his films, you can understand why they make a good team on screen, as Cameron really does bring out the best in Paxton. He almost steals some of the scenes out from under the rest of the cast. Carrie Henn, as the mysterious little girl, left behind on the planet to fend for herself, is a shining star in this movie, and it's a shame it was her first and only film role. With brilliant effects, I have to say that this movie far surpasses the original, and where some sequels failed, this definitely didn't. It has an outstanding cast and director, and for me, was definitely the superior of the Alien movies so far. I've only seen two!!! Definitely worth seeing, if like me, you weren't that keen on the original. |
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