This is the first time I've heard someone describe Aliens as boring. Aliens is Cameron's best film and it stands as one of the best action flicks of all time.

I'm sorry but you're fucked in the head and you should go back to Buzzfeed.

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Aliens was a fun movie when I was a kid. The whole movie plays out like a dark Ride at Disneyland.

Ha, I guess your totally right there. Though I love this film and really dig all that silly gearhead stuff (In addition to my love of rigorous sci-fi, this is obvs super un-rigorous)

I'm curious, as somebody who is immune to that all gearhead weapons porn stuff* ,did u not find aliens to be a tense well made 80's action film at all?
Trying to look thru the gun porn myself I reckon there is a solid action movie screenplay and some good tense moments. Eg they build up newt as a character u invest in then threaten her and Ripley has to rescue her.

Did u not play with guns/army toys as a child? All the boys toys were like that when I was a kid for some reason, so probably its conditioned me..

I can see the argument that for a Cameron movie, Aliens is light on personality, except for Bishop. T2 is probably a better balanced movie for action and characterization, since the technology in that are the characters.

Let's see what I can remember...

Newt, Bill Paxton, and Paul Riser all added some cartoonish colour to the otherwise stony movie. They were welcome.

I did not find it very tense or exciting, probably because unlike the first movie the tension wasn't allowed to build long enough before a really long shootout (this is my comparison to modern blockbusters, which generally are heavy on blitz but light on suspense and build-up). Pretty sure I was watching a director's cut, so maybe the pacing is tighter in the one you guys remember?

I did play with guns and stuff as a kid, and some of the macho tech in Aliens was pretty cool, but unless there's someone I care about driving it I'm gonna glaze over pretty quick. Had a similar problem with the new Mad Max movie, which I know is another sacred text online. Not trying to be stuffy, here. I like James Cameron's Terminator movies a lot, because the heroes are relatable and they're so outmatched by the villain that every scene has a lot of dread and suspense.

I'm sure Aliens was Super Awesome when it was made, but it's also one of those "classics" that got oversold to me. People said it was better than the first one, and it just isn't. Cartoonish, macho, techie, yes. But I missed all the blue collar chatter about shares.

As for Buzzfeed, I don't the get it. Usually that's slang for being dumb or trivial, but does liking Aliens really make you an intellectual giant? You should have called me a hipster or something, right?

Two jar, if you saw the blu-ray give it another chance, they really, REALLY fucked up the blu-ray.