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7. Aliens Plays Out Like The Vietnam War
A technologically advanced military force with questionable motives goes to war in a far-off territory only to underestimate its indigenous enemy. Remind you of anything?
The above sentence just as accurately describes the Vietnam War as it does the plot for Aliens, give or take a Xenomorph queen and the odd android.
First and foremost, James Cameron’s 1986 sequel is a sci-fi action flick, but the space marines' gung-ho attitude and the fact they're blindsided by their extraterrestrial opponents adds an on-the-nose metaphor to the equation.
Aliens arrived with the tagline 'This time, it’s war', and the digger you deep, the more obvious it becomes which war it is they were talking about.