Aliens (1986)
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A deep salvage team rescues Ellen Ripley after being in hypersleep for 57 years. The moon that the Nostromo once visited has been colonized. However, all contact was lost with it. This time, the marines have overwhelming firepower, but the natives are quite resilient.
‘Aliens’ Movie Summary
Ripley is ostracized and treated like the crazy cat lady of future. That is until some colonists on LV-426, the planet where the Nostromo landed on in the first film, stop communicating with Earth. Suddenly Ripley has use again. She is shipped off with a unit of Colonial Marines to investigate what happened to the colonists.
Once on LV-426, Ripley and the Marines find no colonists, save a sole little girl by the name of Newt. Newt tells them that the aliens took over the colony. The Marines search the colony and the near by power plant. Eventually, the aliens and the Marines meet, and Marines start dying. The situation begins to look grim as each of the Marines start to die one by one, mainly because they don’t listen to Ripley.
Ultimately, the sole survivors are Ripley, Newt, Corporal Hicks, and the android Bishop. They start to make their escape from the planet, when they have to make a short detour to save Newt from implantation. The ultimate conclusion has Ripley encountering and fighting a new even deadlier threat before they come to the pulse pounding conclusion.
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Twentieth Century Fox released Aliens to theaters on July 18, 1986. James Cameron directed the film starring Sigourney Weaver, Michael Biehn, and Carrie Henn.