STARRING: Sigourney
Weaver, Carrie Henn, Michael Biehn, Lance Henrickson, Paul Reiser, Jeanette Goldstein
1995, 154 minutes, Directed by: James Cameron
Description:Sigourney Weaver returns as Ripley, who awakens on Earth only to
discover that she has been hibernating in space so long that everyone she
knows is dead. Then she is talked into traveling (along with a squad of
Marines) to a planet under assault by the same aliens that nearly killed
her. Once she gets there, she finds a lost little girl who triggers her
maternal instincts--and she discovers that the company has once again
double-crossed her, in hopes of capturing one of the aliens to study as a
military weapon.
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This Special Edition is a
version of Aliens, now considered to be an almost modern sci-fi
classic, which has never been seen before its release on video and laser disc.
It contains
about 17 minutes of extra footage restored to the original film by its director James (Terminator, Titanic) Cameron.
These scenes include:
References about what
happened to Ripley’s daughter
Scenes in which the
colonists on the planet are sent to investigate Ripley’s claims about the alien ship
whose distress signal her crew had intercepted in the original Alien
movie
A minor subplot involving
automated machine gun sentries employed by the space marines against the alien hordes
Even though 17 minutes may
sound like a lot, the extra added scenes do not change much to the overall film and merely
fleshes out a few characterization points and redundantly colors in what audiences would have
deduced anyway.
The machine gun sequence is cool however and so brief that one is left
wondering why it wasn’t left in the film in the first place.
If you haven’t seen
Aliens yet, then this is the version to seek out.
If you’ve been planning to
see it again in any case, a rental wouldn’t hurt much. Otherwise, unless you’re
a fanatical film completist, it isn’t worth losing sleepless nights over not
having seen this particular version of the movie . . .
Description:
Sigourney Weaver returns as Ripley, who awakens on Earth only to
discover that she has been hibernating in space so long that everyone she
knows is dead. Then she is talked into traveling (along with a squad of
Marines) to a planet under assault by the same aliens that nearly killed
her. Once she gets there, she finds a lost little girl who triggers her
maternal instincts--and she discovers that the company has once again
double-crossed her, in hopes of capturing one of the aliens to study as a
military weapon.
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