I honestly think I could take a power loader in a fight
One of the all-time greats for sure. Great characters who can be richly realized in just a few lines, superb design that thoughtfully builds on the aesthetic vibe masterpiece that is ALIEN, and too many memorable sequences to count.
Guiding us through this is Sigourney Weaver who somehow tops her performance in the original, giving us someone who is believably broken and bombastic in turns. Watching her watch the chaos unfold is a delight.
I love the franchise and I’ve long debated internally which is the best between this and the original. I think I’ve finally decided that ALIENS is ever so slightly lesser. There are too many sequences where I’m left wondering why everyone acts like they do. It takes several hours of decimation and disaster before someone asks how they might get off the planet. Aliens show up in places where I struggle to understand how it could have happened, and there’s just a few too many action sequences that boil down to edits of aggressive screaming intermixed with random xenomorph explosions.
Don’t get me wrong - this is still one of the all-time greats and I’m finding faults only out of nitpicky fandom.
