Aliens (film)
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| Aliens | |
 Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | James Cameron |
|---|---|
| Produced by | Gale Anne Hurd Gordon Carroll David Giler Walter Hill |
| Written by | Story: James Cameron David Giler Walter Hill Screenplay: James Cameron |
| Starring | Sigourney Weaver Michael Biehn Lance Henriksen Carrie Henn Paul Reiser |
| Music by | James Horner |
| Cinematography | Adrian Biddle |
| Editing by | Ray Lovejoy |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
| Release date(s) | July 18, 1986 |
| Running time | 137 minutes |
| Country | United States United Kingdom |
| Budget | $18,500,000 |
| Gross revenue | $131,060,248 |
| Previous (series) | Alien |
| Next (series) | Alien3 |
| Prev. (production order) | Alien |
| Next (production order) | Predator 2 |
| Prev. (in-universe chronology) |
Alien |
| Next (in-universe chronology) |
Alien3 |
Aliens is a 1986 science-fiction/action film directed by James Cameron and starring Sigourney Weaver. It is the sequel to the 1979 film Alien.
[edit] Plot
Ellen Ripley is found floating around in her lifeboat by a deep-salvage crew and returned to Gateway Station where she is interviewed about the incident that happened in the first Alien movie, which turns out to have been 57 years earlier. Ripley is un-aged due to having been in cryo-sleep all the time.
No one seems to believe her story until contact is lost with the colony of Hadley's Hope, on LV-426 where the aliens were originally found. Due to the faint chance that she might be right, she is recruited to accompany a crew of Colonial Marines who are sent to investigate, along with a corporate representative, Burke.
Upon arriving they find that all of the colonists, aside from a single, scared girl, appears to be missing, and that many parts of the colony appear to be in disrepair. Damage to the facility indicates that Aliens have been killed there. Testimony from the girl, Newt, finally proves that Ripley's Xenomorphs are not just an excuse for the destruction of the transport ship in Alien which she was blamed for.
Each colonist had a transponder surgically implanted, and their transmissions are eventually located, leading the marines to a section underneath an atmospheric processor(a massive fusion reactor that helps make the atmosphere more Earth-like.), where it turns out the aliens have set up their hive. Unprepared and arrogant, the marines are overwhelmed and only about half of their number escape, and then only because Ripley rams their APC through a wall of the alien hive, giving them a way to escape.
Against Burke's protestations, they decide to take off and nuke the site from orbit, but an alien infiltrates their dropship, previously landed in Hadley's Hope, and kills the pilots before it can pick up the APC and the marines, in fact crashing into the APC and destroying most of their supplies.
Eventually they decide that Bishop must bring down the remaining dropship by remote while the marines, Newt, Burke and Ripley make a stand in the colony's command center. There is a brief period of calm, interrupted when Burke attempts to infect Ripley and Newt with facehuggers to sneak alien embryos past customs, but eventually the aliens attack. Again unprepared for advanced tactics, such as cutting off the power, from "animals," the marines are overwhelmed and forced back, losing everyone but Ripley, Newt, Hicks and Bishop in the process.
Just before reaching Bishop's dropship, however, Newt is abducted by an alien, and Ripley decides not to return to the Sulaco, the ship that brought them to LV-426, instead arming herself with guns from the dropship and seeking out Newt deep in the alien hive, where she meets the Queen, destroys many eggs and eventually rescues Newt. She makes an escape, with the Queen in hot pursuit, and the two are picked up by Bishop, then returned to the Sulaco.
However, the Queen hitched a ride and slaughters Bishop, it's only defeated when Ripley ejects it into space, only barely avoiding being dragged out herself. The movie ends with Hicks, Ripley, Newt and Bishop's(still-sentient) remains being placed in hypersleep for the trip back to Earth.
[edit] Cast
- Sigourney Weaver as Ellen Ripley
- Paul Reiser as Carter J. Burke
- Michael Biehn as Corporal Dwayne Hicks
- Lance Henriksen as Bishop
- Carrie Henn as Newt
- William Hope as Lieutenant Gorman
- Al Matthews as Sergeant Apone
- Cynthia Dale Scott as Corporal Dietrich
- Bill Paxton as Private Hudson
- Jenette Goldstein as Private Vasquez
- Mark Rolston as Private Drake
- Ricco Ross as Private Frost
- Colette Hiller as Corporal Ferro
- Daniel Kash as Private Spunkmeyer
[edit] External link
- Aliens at the Internet Movie Database
