why aliens is so great

@Shardy cannot agree with you about Aliens being a reductive version of ALIEN. ALIEN was about making first contact with that species and they did not know a thing about it before. Aliens is a hommage of the US-Vietnam war where the US troops lost to a technical inferior enemy. It is about arrogance of the USMC in the movie where they did not take the Xenomorph serious enough when they went in.

Aliens had the worst casting I have ever seen in the franchise... Mrs Weaver must have felt very lonely on the set for she was the only professional actress in that movie. The charactor of Carter Burke was the worst of them all. Man... such bad acting but understandable since he was a stand-up comic...) Long Live Alien (not the director's cut) !

agreed shabou and the way he was dressed in the film pins it down to the eighties in an instant,.... he's wearing a ben elton suit for christ sake. The other thing is the marines acting was bad i guess Discipline is a free for all in the future and its not enforced in the marines very well. Also there was an over use of back projection that looks poor today . ties it again to the eighties. The film was entertaining but the original was a masterpiece .

i got to say i'm sick to death of sc fi films resorting to the military in almost everything these days that joke isn't funny anymore and its tired and lazy as i said in an earlier post the marines/army could of saved themselves a lot of bother if they were armed to the teeth with a few gallons of cockroach killer lol.

@Shardy I never saw it that way, but it does make sense to me. Alien 3 - It was just okay to me. I felt it ended way to slowly and the visuals of Ripley going into the fire below was just too dorky for me. Alien Resurrection - well, ugh! I was not a fan of the comic remarks through the movie. They should have been scared out of their minds, but instead, they seemed more like they were on a journey instead of trying to fight for their lives. The character Call - YAWN! The new alien at the end - double YYAAWWNN! That is what ultimately ruined it for me - and having it sucked out through that window - and the blood bubbles. OMG!!! :(

the best part is that the alien is so adapted at killing and its so vicious and fast and strong..but homo sapien can go toe to toe with it..thats the coolest part,,that humanity doesnt actually have to spend all its time running from the thngs but can lock stock and kick their asses...its strikes a deep chord...like when as a tribe we used to be able to hunt lions. homo sapien is a bad ass..we have spears...bows...pulse rifles

that and the queen is perhaps one of the most amazingly lifelike animatronic puppets ive ever seen