Aliens (1986)

Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) returns in her salvage ship a half a century later and in a deep sleep and the only survivor from the last film.
She is then taken back to Earth and learns that a human colony was founded on the same planet where the aliens were first found including families on the planet.
Ripley tells them what could happen if an alien was taken back to Earth like these people plan to.
The colony is suddenly lost when Earth tries to contact them and ask Ripley to help find any survivors on the planet.
She agrees but only to wipe out the aliens and not to study them or bring them back to Earth as a lead chief named Burke (Paul Reiser) assures her that is what the plan is.

Then they arrive at the planet with a full army of soldiers to protect Ripley. They go down to the place where the people built their colony building but it is deserted and torn up.
They find a little girl named Newt (Carrie Henn) who tells Ripley that her family has been killed by the aliens. They find a hive of people cocooned up and finds an alive one but then an alien starts hatching out of this victim and the people kill it.
Suddenly there's aliens surrounding them whom were sleeping until that event woke them up and killed some of the soldiers.
Also their ship to take them back to their main ship crashed and destroyed after an alien got in and killed the pilot.

Ripley and the other survivors hide out at the deserted tower and figure out a plan and hope that the aliens won't manage to get in but however they are not succeeding.
Burke also has a deadly plan for Ripley and doesn't keep his word on destroying these aliens as he wants to impregnate her with one of the laiens eggs so he can bring one to Earth so he can do some research on it at his lab.

A great action packed fast paced film with a great story like the first one with a bigger cast and more aliens too.
I loved seeing the queen alien during the first scene of it as it looked terrific and terrifying.
Excellent special effects too. You couldn't ask for a better film than this.

The acting is superb and excellent with again mainly a household cast. I loved Ripley's motherly role with Newt which was of course Sigourney Weaver and Carrie Henn.
Michael Biehn was great playing the good tough guy soldier Dwayne Hicks as his role is similar to his role in Terminator.
I also enjoyed Jenette Goldstein play the tomboy butchy Vasquez and usually was cast on other films having minor roles which I though she deserves better acting work.
Of course I remember Paul Reiser from the TV series Mad About You as the scumbag Carter Burke and I truly felt he got what he deserved in the end.
We can't forget about James Cameron's favourite actor Bill Paxton who plays the whiney Hudson as he worked in Cameron's other films like in Terminator, True Lies and Titanic (all excellent movies) and is good in all of them too.
In the special edition there is a special appearance by Mac McDonald who played Colony Officer Al Simpson as people who saw the special edition remembered his role in it as he was quite witty in it. He then moved to the UK to pursue his acting career there and was well remembered for playing Captain Hollister in certain episodes comedy-sci-fi cult classic TV series Red Dwarf.

There are corpses cocooned up and an alien burts out of one of them.
Acid is splashed on a couple people's faces but that isn't really gruesome.
The android Bishop is split in half but again he is just a robot.

The directing by James Cameron is amazing and very action packed like as he always is with his work if you've seen the Terminator, True Lies or TItanic.
He knew what he wanted out of each scene or each actor and is a perfectionist at doing so.
We have a perfect opening sequence with Sigourney Weaver's character sleeping inside the little ship she took after the last incident with her pet cat.
She showed great aggression at a conference there when she discusses the terrible sitaution and what can happen if they bring those creature's to Earth.
She has perfect violent attiitude towards Lance Henriksen's role after she finds out that he's an android. Truly great energy there.
There's great dailgoue and direction inside the ship with the cast playing the soldiers mainly performed by Bill Paxton, Michael Biehn, Collette Hiller and Jenette Goldstein.
Awesome camera shots on the planet during a rainstorm with the cast as well as going inside the battered tower being alert of any alien attacks.
I love the dialogue scene with Weaver and child actress Carrie Henn when she tries to talk to her as Henn looked believably disturbed and battered. She was terriofic spitting oput her words telling Weaver's character that her family is dead.
We have full of shocking suspense when the aliens come down from their sleeping place and attacks as well as kill the supporting cast and during this moment especially by Goldstein screaming "Let's rock!!!" and then everyone uses their machine guns to try and kill these things.
He directed Paxton terrifically with his whiney attitude when he realises that he's stuck on the planet with those creatures.
There's a terrific battle with Weaver and Henn's character's against an alien who tries to plant a seed in one of them while they're trapped in a room.
I especially enjoyed his direction with Weaver and the queen alien when she was battling her in the cargo suit and her first lines were "Get away from her you bitch!!!!".
The classic battle with the soldiers and the aliens was also memorable.
My most all time favourite direction though of his was when Weaver first spots the queen in her hive when she rescues Carrie Henn's character.
He wrote this piece too as he is very gifted for this film.

The music was composed by James Horner and is superb with it for this one and has a huge resume for his composing in other films.

Also classical music is composed on this film and I loved the closing credit music.

[first lines]
Salvage team leader: Bio-readouts are all in the green, looks like she's alive. Well, there goes our salvage, guys.

Van Leuwin: Thank you, Officer Ripley, that will be all.
Ripley: God damn it, that's not all! 'Cause if one of those things gets down here then that will be all! And all this, this bullshit that you think is so important, you can just kiss all that goodbye!

[On whether she would return to LV-426]
Ripley: Now please leave. I am not going back, and I am... I would not be any good to you if I did.

Ripley: Just tell me one thing, Burke. You're going out there to destroy them, right? Not to study. Not to bring back. But to wipe them out.
Burke: That's the plan. You have my word on that.
Ripley: All right, I'm in.

Ripley: [to Jones, the cat] And you, you little shit-head... you're staying here.

Gorman: Good morning, Marines. I'm sorry we didn't have time to brief you people before we left Gateway, but...
Hudson: Sir?
Gorman: What is it, Hicks?
Hudson: Hudson, sir.
[points]
Hudson: He's Hicks.

Apone: All right, sweethearts, what are you waiting for? Breakfast in bed? Another glorious day in the corps! A day in the Marine Corps is like a day on the farm. Every meal's a banquet! Every paycheck a fortune! Every formation a parade! I LOVE the corps!

Drake: Hey Hicks. Man, you look just like I feel.

Hudson: Man, this floor's freezing.
Apone: What do you want me to do, fetch your slippers for you?
Hudson: Gee, would you sir? I'd like that.
[Apone points at his face with middle finger]
Apone: Look into my eye.

Hudson: Hey Vasquez, have you ever been mistaken for a man?
Vasquez: No, have you?

Vasquez: Hey, Mira. Who's Snow White?
Ferro: She's supposed to be some kind of consultant. Apparently she saw an alien once.
Hudson: Well whoopee-fuckin'-do, hey, I'm impressed.

Hicks: Guess the new lieutenant's too good to eat with the rest of us grunts.
Frost: Boy's definitely got a corncob up his ass.

Ripley: You never said anything about an android being on board, why not?
Burke: It never uhm, never occurred to me. It's common practice, we always have a synthetic on board.
Bishop: I prefer the term "Artificial Person" myself.

[Ripley slaps away the tray of food Bishop offers her]
Frost: I guess she don't like the cornbread, either.

Hudson: Hey top, what's the op?
Apone: It's a rescue mission, you'll love it. There's some juicy colonists' daughters we have to rescue from their virginity. Heh!

Apone: Allright, sweethearts, you heard the man and you know the drill! Assholes and elbows!

Hudson: Maybe we got'em demoralized.

Hudson: Stop your grinnin' and drop your linen!

[the marines are all hard at work, preparing for the drop]
Ripley: I feel like kind of a fifth wheel around here, is there anything I can do?
Apone: I dunno, is there anything you can do?

Drake: They ain't paying us enough for this, man.
Dietrich: Not enough to have to wake up to your face, Drake.
Drake: What? Is that a joke?
Dietrich: Oh, I wish it were.

Gorman: Any Questions?
[Hudson raises his hand]
Gorman: What is it private?
Hudson: How do I get out of this chickenshit outfit?
Apone: You secure that shit Hudson!

Vasquez: Look man! I only need to know one thing: where they are.

Vasquez: Anytime, anywhere, man!
Hudson: Right, right. Somebody said "alien" she thought they said "illegal alien" and signed up!
Vasquez: Fuck you, man!
Hudson: Anytime, anywhere.

Hudson: Is this going to be a standup fight, sir, or another bughunt?
Gorman: All we know is that there is still is no contact with the colony, and that a xenomorph may be involved.
Frost: Excuse me sir, a what?
Gorman: A xenomorph.
Hicks: It's a bughunt.

Apone: All right you guys, we're a team and there's nothing to worry about. We come here, and we gonna conquer, and we gonna kick some. Is that understood?
Marines: Yes Sir!
Apone: That's what we gonna do, sweethearts. We are going to go and get some. All right people, on the ready line!

[special edition]
[during the drop to LV-426]
Hudson: I'm ready, man, check it out. I am the ultimate badass! State of the badass art! You do NOT want to fuck with me. Check it out! Hey Ripley, don't worry. Me and my squad of ultimate badasses will protect you! Check it out! Independently targeting particle beam phalanx. Whoa! Fry half a city with this puppy. We got tactical smart missiles, base plasma pulse rifles, RPGs, we got sonic electronic ball breakers! We got nukes, we got knives, sharp sticks...
Apone: Knock it off, Hudson. All right, gear up.

Frost: Hey, I sure wouldn't mind getting me some more of that Arcturian poontang! Remember that time?
Spunkmeyer: Yeah Frost, except the one you had was MALE.
Frost: It doesn't matter when it's Arcturian, baby!

[When they are dropped over LV-426]
Hudson: We're on an express elevator to hell - going down!

Frost: It's hot as hell in here.
Hudson: Yeah man, but it's a dry heat!

Hicks: Remember: short, controlled bursts.

[a facehugger trapped in a stasis tube tries unsuccessfully to attack Burke]
Hicks: Looks like love at first sight to me. Oh, he likes you, Burke!

[Bishop reads a medical chart describing the captured facehugger]
Bishop: "Surgically removed before embryo implantation. Subject: Marachek, John J. died during the procedure." They killed him taking it off.

Dietrich: Looks like some sort of secreted resin.
Hicks: Yeah, but secreted from *what*?

Burke: Busy little creatures, huh?

Ripley: I dunno how you managed to stay alive, but you're one brave kid, Rebecca.
Newt: [whispers] N... Newt...
Ripley: What?
Newt: Newt. My name's Newt. Nobody calls me Rebecca except my brother.

Ripley: These people are here to protect you. They are soldiers.
Newt: It won't make any difference.

Gorman: Drake, check your camera. There seems to be a malfunction.
[Drake smacks the camera against a nearby support. The picture clears]
Gorman: That's better.

Ripley: How many drops is this for you, Lieutenant?
Gorman: Thirty eight... simulated.
Vasquez: How many *combat* drops?
Gorman: Uh, two. Including this one.
Drake: Shit.
Hudson: Oh, man...

Frost: Man, I'm telling you, I got a bad feeling about this drop.
Crowe: You always say that, Frost. You always say, "I got a bad feeling about this drop."
Frost: Okay, okay. When we get back without you, I'll call your folks.

Ripley: Lieutenant, what do those pulse rifles fire?
Gorman: 10 millimeter explosive tip caseless. Standard light armor piercing rounds, why?
Ripley: Well, look where your team is. They're right under the primary heat exchangers.
Gorman: So?
Ripley: So, if they fire their weapons in there, won't they rupture the cooling system?
Burke: [interjecting] Woah woah. Yeah, she's absolutely right.
Gorman: [turns round to Burke] So, so what?
Burke: Look, this whole station is basically a big fusion reactor...
[Gorman turns back to stare, horrified, at the screen]
Burke: ...right? So you're talkin' about a thermonuclear explosion and "Adiós, muchachos."
Gorman: Oh, great. Wonderful. Shit!

Gorman: Apone! Look... we can't have any firing in there. I, uh... I want you to collect magazines from everybody.
Hudson: Is he fuckin' crazy?
Frost: What the hell are we supposed to use man? Harsh language?

[Pulling out his pump-action shotgun]
Hicks: I like to keep this handy for close encounters.

[Hudson is reading a motion detector which indicates the alien horde should have passed the door by now]
Hudson: It's reading right man, look!
Hicks: Well, you're not reading it right!

Vasquez: LET'S ROCK!

Hudson: Let's just bug out and call it even, OK? What are we talking about this for?
Ripley: I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
Hudson: Fuckin' A...
Burke: Ho-ho-hold on one second. This installation has a substantial dollar value attached to it.
Ripley: They can *bill* me.

[the Marines are being torn apart by the Aliens in the Atmosphere Processor Hive]
Hicks: Where's Apone? Where's Apone?
Hudson: The Sarge is gone, man! Let's get the fuck outta here!

[Hicks is dozing through an extremely turbulent entry into a planetoid's atmosphere]
Apone: [laconically] Somebody wake up Hicks.

Hicks: Drake, we are LEAVING!

[an alien pushes the APC doors back trying to get in]
Hicks: [pushes his shotgun into the alien's mouth] Eat this!
[fires]

[the drop-ship crashes]
Hudson: Well that's great, that's just fuckin' great man. Now what the fuck are we supposed to do? We're in some real pretty shit now man... That's it man, game over man, game over! What the fuck are we gonna do now? What are we gonna do?
Burke: Maybe we could build a fire, sing a couple of songs, huh? Why don't we try that?

Hudson: Oh dear Lord Jesus, this ain't happening, man... This can't be happening, man! This isn't happening!

Newt: We'd better get back, 'cause it'll be dark soon, and they mostly come at night... mostly.

Newt: My mommy always said there were no monsters - no real ones - but there are.
Ripley: Yes there are, aren't there?
Newt: Why do they tell little kids that?
Ripley: Most of the time its true...

Bishop: I'm afraid I have some bad news.
Hudson: Well that's a switch.

Hudson: You maybe haven't been keeping up on current events but we just got our asses kicked, pal!

Ripley: How long after we're declared overdue can we expect a rescue?
Hicks: [pause] Seventeen days.
Hudson: *Seventeen days?* Hey man, I don't wanna rain on your parade, but we're not gonna last seventeen hours! Those things are gonna come in here just like they did before. And they're gonna come in here...
Ripley: Hudson!
Hudson: ...and they're gonna come in here AND THEY'RE GONNA KILL US!
Ripley: HUDSON! This little girl survived longer than that with no weapons and no training.
[to Newt]
Ripley: Right?
[Newt apes a salute]
Hudson: So why don't you put her in charge?
Ripley: You'd better just start dealing with it, Hudson! Listen to me! Hudson, just deal with it because we need you and I'm sick of your bullshit.

Ripley: Well, someone's gonna have to go out there. Take a portable transmitter and patch in manually.
Hudson: Oh yeah, sure! With those things running around? You can count me out.
Hicks: Yeah I guess we can just count you out of everything, Hudson.
Hudson: That's right, man.
Bishop: [speaking under Hudson] I'll go.
Hudson: And watch you go, man!
Bishop: [more loudly] I'll go.
Ripley: What?
Bishop: I'll go. I mean, I'm the only one qualified to remote-pilot the ship anyway.
Hudson: Yeah right, man, Bishop should go. Good idea!
Bishop: Believe me, I'd prefer not to. I may be synthetic but I'm not stupid.

[only in special edition]
[discussing where the eggs come from]
Hudson: What if it's like an anthive?
Vasquez: Bees, man. Bees have hives!

Burke: Look Ripley, this is a multi-million dollar installation, okay? He can't make that kind of decision, he's just a grunt!
[to Hicks]
Burke: Ah, no offense.
Hicks: None taken.

Burke: Okay, look. What if that ship didn't even exist? Did you ever think about that, I didn't know! So if I went and made a major security situation out of it, everybody steps in; Administration steps in, and there's no exclusive rights for anybody, nobody wins! So I made a decision, and it was... wrong. It was a bad call, Ripley. It was a bad call.

Burke: Look, this is an emotional moment for all of us, okay? I know that. But let's not... Let's not make snap judgments, please. This is clearly an important species we're dealing with and I don't think that you or I, or anybody, has the right to arbitrarily exterminate them!
Ripley: Wrong!
Vasquez: Yeah. Watch us.

Burke: Ripley? You know I expected more from you - I thought you'd be smarter than this.
Ripley: Well, I'm happy to disappoint you.

Hicks: Hey! I know we're all in strung out shape but stay frosty and alert. We can't afford to let one of those bastards in here.

Ripley: Did IQs just drop sharply while I was away?

Ripley: You know Burke, I don't know which species is worse. You don't see them fucking each other over for a goddamn percentage!

[after making a plan to wield the doors shut and put the sentry units]
Hicks: Outstanding. Now all we need is a deck of cards.

Hudson: They're coming outta the walls. They're coming outta the goddamn walls, we're fucked!

Gorman: Hicks, meet me at the south lock. We're coming in.
Hudson: He's coming in. I feel safer already.

Hudson: [Points muzzle of pulse-rifle to Burke's face] I say we grease this rat-fuck, son of a bitch right now.

Hicks: This doesn't make any god-damn sense.
Ripley: He figured he could get an alien back through quarantine, if one of us was impregnated, or whatever you call it, then frozen for the trip home. Nobody would know about the embryos we were carrying; me and Newt.
Hicks: Wait a minute now... We'd all know.
Ripley: Yes! The only way he could do it, was to sabotage certain freezers on the way home. Then he could jettison the bodies and make up any story he liked.
Hudson: Fuck. He's dead.
[Points muzzle of pulse-rifle to Burke's face again and looks him in the eye]
Hudson: You're dog meat pal!

Hicks: All right, we waste him. No offense!

Ripley: They cut the power.
Hudson: What do you mean "they cut the power"? How could they cut the power, man? They're animals!

[Hudson is frantically mowing down aliens]
Hudson: Come on! Come on! Come and get it, baby! Come on! Let's go, yeah, come on! Come on! Come and get it you bastards! Come on, you too! Oh, you want some of this? Fuck you!

Vasquez: Whatever you're gonna do, do it fast!

[Gorman has just run out of ammo, and it is clear they will now both die]
Vasquez: You always were an asshole, Gorman.

Bishop: Ripley, in nineteen minutes this area is going to be a cloud of vapor the size of Nebraska!

Hicks: I wanna introduce you to a personal friend of mine. This is an M41A pulse rifle. Ten millimeter with over-and-under thirty millimeter pump action grenade launcher.

Ripley: Bishop, how much time?
Bishop: Plenty, 26 minutes!
Ripley: We're not leaving!
Bishop: We're not?

Newt: [to Ripley after they return to the ship] I knew you'd come.

Ripley: Get away from her, you bitch!

Bishop: Not bad for a human.

[last lines]
Newt: Can I dream?
Ripley: Yes honey. I think we both can. Sleep tight.
Newt: Affirmative.

[last lines]
Ripley: Sleep tight.
Newt: Affirmative.