A Guide To Making A Classic: Sci-Fi Edition

Rating: 9/10 (21 September 2018)

Aliens is as good as its predecessor but not quite the same as its more action and less horror. Director James Cameron does an eminent job as well as making Aliens an exhilarating, quotable and ultimately unforgettable.
The plot is simple, Ripley wakes up after 57 years of hypersleep and finds out that the moon she previously visited is colonised but by whom...
The eeriness and fear are replaced with intense action and larger than life marines. Replaced for good? Yes and no, What made Alien great is its eerie music tone and sound design with the alien being more feared. However what makes Aliens great is the exact opposite, more aliens result in more action and more intensity as if its a new lease on life.
We're introduced into a brand new Ripley, she's a survivor now and Sigourney Weaver does a nearly flawless job utilising her character.
The technicalities are kept and the sound design is overhauled in an impressive way.
Like all movies, Aliens isn't flawless and it does have one slightly major plot hole: Hicks knew the aliens were going to breach their perimeter sooner or later yet no one suggested going to the other dropship until they learned about the nuclear disaster. Meaning they were going to sit in that same room for seventeen days with barely any ammo and 100+ aliens breaking in only if the reactors didn't go critical.
Aliens knows what it wants to be and makes a genre-defying attempt doing it.
Final Rating: 9/10