I've never completely warmed to 'Aliens'.

I mean I know its an awesome film and all that but it always seemed to me to be a bit lacking in imagination plot-wise. Whether that is a result of it following the instant classic of Alien I don't know. Sigourney Weaver herself thought there were a 'few too many' aliens running around in the sequel and I think the xenomorph lost some of its mystery because we see so much of it and so many of them in the sequel. And the ending...its like Ronald Shusett said about writing the plot for Alien, they had to come up with an imaginative way of getting the alien on board the ship 'it can't just be, it snuck in' which is exactly what happened in Aliens. To be honest I don't think the alien queen really worked for me anyway, it wasn't scary and looked a bit silly when it walked. 90% of the movie is pure gold I think but its never felt like the flawless piece of cinematic brilliance its always been presented as to me. The making-of on the Quadrilogy is a real eye-opener though particularly concerning the tensions in the crew on set. David Giler I think is magnificent in the interviews, I think he really got the British sense of humour and way of working in a way that perhaps James Cameron struggled with at times.