marines, firebats, and a thousand hydralisks

Rating: 10/10 (20 July 1999)

It's been more than ten years since I first saw the movie (when it scared the gall bladders out of a 11 year kid). Now i am 21 and Aliens still moves, inspires and frightens me. The marines with their pulse rifles and flamethrowers standing ground and firing away before the rushing swarm of a thousand vicious, armor-plated, acid-spewing creatures truly brings out the insanity and horror of their direst of situations. Yet Ripley and the marines never backs down or gives up. Even more beautifully ironic is the fact that a little girl, Newt, managed to survive, equipped only will and wit. This is the region in the human spirit that screams survival, adaptation, and "never give up".