10 Best "All Hope Is Lost" Moments In Movie History
7. "Game Over, Man" - Aliens
Between Titanic and Aliens, it's clear that James Cameron is a dab hand at delivering soul-crushingly hopeless moments, but at least in the case of Aliens, it also happens to be pretty amusing, courtesy of the late, great Bill Paxton.
Once Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) and the Marines get a first-hand glimpse of how dire the Xenomorph infestation is on the colony of Hadley's Hope, Hicks (Michael Biehn) calls a dropship to pick them up.
But it turns out that a Xenomorph managed to stow away onboard, killing the ship's crew in mid-air and causing the ship to crash to the ground, exploding in a fireball.
It's a completely defeating moment for the embattled heroes, prompting Hudson (Paxton) to indelibly quip, "That's it, man. Game over, man. Game over! What the f**k are we gonna do now? What are we gonna do?"
Seeing the typically gung-ho, hyper-masculine Hudson become near-instantly panic-stricken is a perfect summation of how bleak the situation on LV-426 truly is.
And in turn, Cameron and Paxton also gave us one of the most memorable one-liners in cinema history.