50 Reasons Why Aliens Is The Greatest Movie Of All Time

5. Scene: Fight In Operations

The last 45 minutes is an action packed thrill ride and the fight in the control centre kicks it all off nicely. Having seen the Alien horde defeated in the corridor everyone uses the opportunity to get a little rest where possible, but the Aliens show their resourcefulness and pop in through an open skylight (assumption only) to drop in for an epic action shoot out. The marines unload everything on the Aliens, pulse rifles blaze away and grenades blow the beasts to hell, before they have to strategically run away. Burke uses the chance to escape like the weasel he is rather than fighting and Gorman and Vazquez go up in the flames taking a few Aliens with them. Great heart racing sequence where you can€™t be sure if anyone will get out alive and most actually don€™t. Also Kudos to Hudson for dying with as many swear words possible.

4. Scene: Hold That Elevator For Me

After Newt drops down a laundry shoot (more assumption) and lands a couple levels back down the complex, Ripley and Hicks have to go after her. Or more to the point, they choose to go after her. We see that Ripley is growing into the protective mother figure and that Hicks is just an all-round awesome guy who€™ll put himself on the front line to protect those around him. When they are cutting through the grate but an Alien beats them to the kid, we feel the emotion of the scene€Newt has been taken. They run for the elevator when the tracker starts to whine and in an almost playful dig at technology, the door takes two attempts before it shuts, which is a nice touch, cranking technology betraying the main charac...hold on this sounds like another film. Anyway, the delay allows an Alien to pop its head in as if to say €œhold that elevator€€ and Hicks gets an acid bath that takes him out of the rest of the picture.

3. Scene: Return To the Hive

This is an amazing sequence because it just reeks of the original. Ripley, alone walking through the Alien hive, not knowing which corner they could be hiding around, flamethrower and Pulse Rifle gaffer taped together€what a combo. The scene is tense and shot brilliantly, using very tight angles so we are almost jumping at every shadow.

2. Scene and Quote: Get Away From Her, You Bitch!

The final fight sequence of the movie may be the best robo-alien fight sequence in movies ever. (It is quite clearly the best) Ripley distracts the Queen, grabs the load lifter and goes all Tyson on the Alien bastards face, before dropping the evil bitch out of the airlock, Alien style. Of course this scene is most memorable for the line €œGet away from her you bitch!€ which makes that feeling of €œthis has just made me shit my pants and cum at the same time€ rise through your chest. And I didn€™t even mention the bit where Bishop gets ripped in half yet! That was so fucking cool! The Queen disposes of the android like you would a broken toy. Beautiful piece of film, perfect end fight sequence, no guns, just guts a guile. Take that you Alien whorebox from hell.

1. The Ending

As the film draws to a close, Ripley puts Hicks and Bishop to bed for the journey home, before having a very sweet and lovely talk with Newt and putting the kid in stasis as well. The ending shows Ripley asleep with a weird but close nit €˜family€™ in Newt, Hicks and Bishop the pet android. This brings a closure to the nightmare adventure for them and is a nice subtle ending to such an epic action heavy story. With only the three and a half survivors, you can€™t call this a happy ending as such, but it is about as close to one as you can get in such a film. The scene fades to black bringing the curtain down properly on the film and if there had been any justice in the world, the franchise€ So, those are some of my reasons for offering Aliens up as possibly the best film ever made. I know there are a billion people or so that have had a lobotomy who disagree with my choice, but I hope that at least the article gave you some good memories to focus on. Disagree? Liked the choice? Why not tell us what you think in the comments
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