Reinventions of Sorts

Rating: 10/10 (23 June 2007)

Movies of the mid 80's and on before this age were always very good but aways seemed to lack one thing which never quite made them truly memorable (to me anyways), a climax of gripping proportions with tension that prevents your eyes from blinking even for a second. A feeling that sticks with you long after you've left the theatre or your couch. This feeling can be unsettling, uneasy, shocked, shaken or inspirational but the one thing that counts is that it's unlocked something in you that only it can do. For me Aliens was the first movie of it's kind to do this effectively even the space opera of star wars never amounted to this kind of humanity and character depth.
One line that really does this for me and i think many people forget or don't notice to the extend it is intend is after the Queen is blown out of the colonial marine ship newt turns to Ripley pludging herself into her arms and calls her mother. If you had not seen this movie at first you would find this abit weird because Ripley isn't her mother? Yet it works for one reason the character development that you witness through out the movie between these characters and the hardships both of them have survived. They are two lone survivors of horrifying world and it is through this bond that they are brought together.
This though is only a taste of the depth you can find in viewing aliens and for anyone who looks only for the action or scares should not be watching these events unfold for without these conflicts of heart pounding aw this movie would just be another "action" movie to toss aside.
What James Cameron has invented here is a complete reinvention of what action is and needs to be.
10/10 a solid near perfect vision of human conflict