tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9014106.post8272161452060234076..comments2023-09-08T01:35:21.679-07:00Comments on Zaki's Corner / Zaki Hasan: Zaki's Retro Review: Aliens (1986)Zakihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06150118173142516267noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9014106.post-32179076902331685762012-06-04T12:58:40.537-07:002012-06-04T12:58:40.537-07:00Great post, Zaki!
I've seen the movie a milli...Great post, Zaki!<br /><br />I've seen the movie a million times and I still got excited reading your recap.<br /><br />Cameron found something with this picture (also in True Lies and the Abyss, and to a point, T2) where every single character, no matter how one-note and briefly on screen some of them were - - they're all likable.<br /><br />The Marines, specifically, in Aliens - - you're rooting for them the whole time even though most of them have only one or two lines.<br /><br />And I think that points to what you were talking about where we KNOW the danger they're about to face and we KNOW most of them aren't going to make it.<br /><br />So you love them, but feel sorry for them right off the bat. Pretty amazing.<br /><br />Aliens is easily the most quotable movie of all time in my personal kitchen. The great Bill Paxton has most of the good ones.<br /><br />I'm killin' myself trying to get them to cast Michael Biehn and Bill Paxton for an episode of Tron where they play guys named Hicks and Hudson. <br /><br />We've already got Lance Henriksen!<br /><br />Imagine the three of them in an episode sharing voice-time together?!?!?!<br /><br />I'm plotzing already.<br /><br />And an interesting side note - - this is one of those go-to movies that my mom and I used to watch together. <br /><br />I remember after Avatar came out, people started on this reverse-bashing of James Cameron. Titanic, I'll give you. There is a dated cheese-factor about SOME of the film. But then there was talk like "dude, go back and watch Aliens. . . it's pretty cheesy nowadays." <br /><br />Suffice it to say, those people were never heard from again.<br /><br />James Cameron has three perfect films under his belt in T2, True Lies, and Aliens. Really good ones in Terminator and The Abyss. And really great accomplishments in Titanic and Avatar.<br /><br />And it seems like, each time, he got to do things HIS way.<br /><br />Bastard.<br /><br />I pretty much have lost track of what it is I came to say.<br /><br />Oh yeah. Aliens good.RobRoyhttp://www.moosehub.comnoreply@blogger.com