wish I had seen the original first

Rating: Null/10 (14 May 2000)

"Aliens" is one of my top 3 favorite movies (right up there with "Saving Private Ryan" and "SLC Punk"). The first time I watched it I only got through the first 40 min. or so, and I enjoyed the mystery of the colony. (WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD) But after I bought the special edition the mystery was ruined with the shots of Newt's family and the other colonists. Still, the scenes of the robotic machine guns and Hudson referring to himself as "the ultimate bad a**" should have never been cut. I can only imagine the thrill of seeing this in the theater back in 1986. James Cameron, Stan Winston, Sigourney Weaver..., everyone who made the film possible, they're all cinema geniuses.