In our series "Have You Seen?" we discuss a movie that some of us know well and others have just now seen for the first time. Our conversation focuses on the experience of someone watching the movie for the first time today and their reaction.
This week the talk about James Cameron's Aliens from 1986 which is a sequel to Alien and the other good movie in the Alien franchise. In this science fiction action classic, Ellen Ripley returns with a squad of Colonial Marines to the moon LV-426 to battle hordes of deadly Xenomorphs after contact with a human colony is lost.
We talk about what makes Aliens work as a sequel, why Ellen Ripley is such a great character, and more.