Aliens (1986)
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Sigourney Weaver’s Aliens Oscar Snub Hurts Even More 37 Years Later
Alien franchise star Sigourney Weaver’s Oscar nomination for Aliens was well-deserved but remains one of the genre’s biggest snubs. The ...
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1 Cut Aliens Scene Proved The Best Way To Stop Xenomorphs 38 Years Ago
A scene cut from the 1986 Aliens sequel demonstrated the best way to stop or, at the very least, greatly ...
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Aliens’ Ripley Is Decked Out With Weapons Next To Facehugger Eggs
Sigourney Weaver’s iconic hero Ellen Ripley gears up and arms herself against the terror of Xenomorph menace in Alien art. ...
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Avatar 2 Perfectly Reversed Another James Cameron Movie Story (& Shows How His Career Has Changed)
While Avatar: The Way of Water’s Tulkun hunting subplot might seem entirely original, the storyline secretly riffs on an earlier ...
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Predator: Prey Needs To Steal The Alien Franchise’s Smartest Trick
The Predator franchise needs Prey to steal the Alien franchise’s smartest trick. The newest entry in the Predator series follows ...
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Aliens: The 10 Weirdest Story Arcs In The Comics
The Alien franchise has been a hot commodity in the comic book scene for decades at this point. Best known for being ...
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Marvel’s Official Aliens Sequel Has Radioactive Xenomorphs
Marvel will be returning to one of the most recognizable settings in the Alien universe — the colony of Hadley’s ...
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10 Reasons Why Aliens is the Best Sci-Fi Sequel Ever Made
There have been many great science fiction sequels since 1977, when Star Wars redefined the idea of cinematic sci-fi for ...
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Legendary Film Composer James Horner Passes Away
We regret to inform you that legendary film composer James Horner – the man behind the scores of films like ...
James Cameron is Getting an Aliens Action Figure
Writer/director James Cameron is joining the Aliens action figure line as a Colonial Marine. Aliens, of course, is the second ...
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Why Aliens Took Seven Years To Happen After Alien
1979’s Alien is generally regarded as a sci-fi/horror masterpiece, but it took seven long years for its sequel Aliens to ...
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1 Aliens Detail Secretly Proved The Original Was Ahead Of Its Time
Ridley Scott’s legendary Alien is genre-defining in many ways, but one specific character detail, revealed in James Cameron’s Aliens, proves ...
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Aliens: Why Hudson Is A More Relatable Hero Than Ripley
Although Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) emerges as the traditional stoic hero of James Cameron’s Aliens (1986), Private Hudson (Bill Paxton) ...
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Aliens’ Comic Sequel Was a Tragic Human-Android Romance
The Alien franchise is known for its destructive aliens, but a comic sequel to Aliens brought a romantic relationship between a human and an android ...
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The Predator & Aliens Are Coming To Marvel Comics
It’s official, monster movie fans: Marvel now owns the rights to both the Alien and Predator movie franchises. And yes, both are on their ...
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Ridley Scott Confirms He’s Working On New Alien Movie
Ridley Scott confirms he’s still working on a new Alien movie. Released in 1979, the original Alien changed films forever ...
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Alien 3: Why Killing Newt and Bishop Was The Right Move for the Franchise
Future Social Network director David Fincher’s Alien 3 was a famously flawed film but one of the movie’s most hated choices, ...
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What Needs To Be Fixed To Save The Alien Franchise
The Alien franchise started in 1979 as a terrifying sci-fi horror tale about a seemingly unkillable monster hunting the crew ...
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Typo That Broke Aliens: Colonial Marines Discovered After 5 Years
Five years after the release of Aliens: Colonial Marines, a modder has discovered that a simple typo in the enemy ...