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ackblom12:
Alien - Best Horror film ever made (with heavy competition from "John Carpenter's The Thing")
Aliens - Best Action film ever made
Discuss!
BeoPuppy:
Alien - best use of a simple white T-shirt.
Aliens - ... can't even remember.
Carl-E:
Alien - all the "simple" suspense of a Hitchcock thriller.
Aliens - never saw it. Didn't really want to. I knew it couldn't measure up!
ackblom12:
I highly recommend giving Aliens a try. It doesn't measure up because James Cameron knew well he shouldn't bother trying, so he took it to a fairly logical next step and decided not to make it a horror film. It's also not quite "just" an action film either though. The Ripley from Aliens is one of the best characters to ever grace the big screen.
TheEvilDog:
--- Quote from: Carl-E on 04 Dec 2012, 08:22 ---Alien - all the "simple" suspense of a Hitchcock thriller.
Aliens - never saw it. Didn't really want to. I knew it couldn't measure up!
--- End quote ---
Well there's the thing. James Cameron knew he could never match Aliens to the first in terms of it being a thriller.
So he didn't go for a thriller. He went for a war film.
That's the key thing to think about when you watch it.
Which is why Alien 3 and Alien Resurrection were far inferior sequels, they tried to copy what the original did, but you can't catch lightning in a bottle twice, no matter how many times you try. Hence why Cameron went for a genre shift.
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