Aliens

[KLAXXON]

Ripley, the sole survivor of the Nostromo, is asked to go back to the planet where the aliens were first found, when communications with the colonists are lost... Includes the scenes edited from the 1986 film release.

Ripley and a team of space marines battle a group of Aliens - and this time they’ve brought their mother.


Aliens is the perfect sequel. The Empire Strikes Back, while certainly a better film than Star Wars, was more a polished segment in a longer story than a stand-alone adventure. But Aliens is the model for every potential sequel-maker: it connects irrefutably with the events of the original (even to the point of starting exactly where the drama left off, albeit 57 years later) and expands on all the ideas and themes while simultaneously differentiating itself. The same, yet entirely different. Perfect.


It also stands as testament to the unwavering vision and icy nerve of James Cameron (here directing only his third movie). Utilising the bombed out skeleton of Battersea Power Station to create the vast industrio-grim colony/hive setting for events, he was faced with a veteran British crew who had worked on Alien and worshipped the ground Ridley Scott walked on. What could this Canadian punk kid know? Well, for starters that in this case more is, indeed, more. Not just a single, ruthless, unbeatable killing machine but an army of them. On home turf.


Writing as well as directing, Cameron posited a simple premise. The planet LV-426, where the first Alien was unwittingly discovered has been colonised by the Nostromo's mother company Weyland-Yutani. And now communication has been lost. Time to send in a < href="http://passion.com/p/imc/view_video.cgi?pid=g883507-ppc">

Sigourney Weaver ... Ellen Ripley
Carrie Henn ... Rebecca 'Newt' Jorden
Michael Biehn ... Cpl. Dwayne Hicks
Lance Henriksen ... Bishop
Paul Reiser ... Carter Burke
Bill Paxton ... Pvt. Hudson
William Hope ... Lt. Gorman
Jenette Goldstein ... Pvt. Vasquez
Al Matthews ... Sgt. Apone
Mark Rolston ... Pvt. Drake
Ricco Ross ... Pvt. Frost
Colette Hiller ... Cpl. Ferro
Daniel Kash ... Pvt. Spunkmeyer
Cynthia Dale Scott ... Cpl. Dietrich (as Cynthia Scott)
Tip Tipping ... Pvt. Crowe


Download Torrent

[thyris]

Just a tiny suggestion (I registered just for this suggestion).

Contrary to popular belief the Alien series is not actually Sci-Fi.  From a film junkie's perspective, Science Fiction usually contains, for one, potential future constructs and some detailed background on their operations through lore surrounding the movie, or books later on.  Sci-Fi writers will be frequently seen consulting physicists in order to be able to explain their creations.  This was never the case with Alien, these things simply were the set for the true genre of the movie, and that is Horror.

The Alien series contain all the great classical concepts (and indeed created some) of a great horror flick, and are by far, my absolute favourite films of all time, hence feeling the need to register just to post this.  One of the great features of these films, and another reason they are horror, as opposed to sci-fi, are that the director and special effects crews were always trying to find creative ways to get genuine expressions of horror, or shock, or dismay from the actors.  So, when that little alien popped out of the chest of Thomas Kane, those looks of horror from Sigourney and the rest of the cast were genuine, as they were not told that this was going to happen.

Many other scenes in this wonderful series of films were set up as such.  Another example is when Sigourney Weaver in Alien: Resurrection first spots the room of all the previous attempts at extracting an alien (won't say anymore to not spoil exactly WHAT I mean by that for those unfortunate enough to have never seen it) and enters it and sees everything there, those tears, and that shock and anger, because she was so into her character at that moment are genuine.

These are masterpieces of horror, and should not be condemned to live their immortal lives misclassified as Science Fiction.  That's all ^^