Aliens Credits

MOVIE CREDITS

Titel: Aliens
US (1986): Science Fiction

137 min, Rated R, Color, Available on videocassette and laserdisc
Director: James Cameron
Executive Producers: Gordon Carroll David Giler and Walter Hill
Music composed by: James Horner
Alien Effects created by: Stan Winston
Certain special Effects created by: The LA Effects Group Inc.
Visual Effects supervisors: Robert Skotak and Dennis Skotak
Visual Effects supervisor - Post production: Brian Johnson
Editor: Ray Lovejoy
Production Designer: Peter Lamont
Director of Photography: Adrian Biddle
Story by: James Cameron, David Giler and Walter Hill
Based on characters created by: Dan O´Bannon and Ronald Shusett
Screenplay by: James Cameron
Produced by: Gale Anne Hurd

An inflated sci-fi action-horror film, this sequel to Ridley Scott's 1979 ALIEN is more mechanical than the first film - more addicted to "advanced" weaponry and military hardware. The movie is really a combat picture set in the future, in space. The writer-director James Cameron pits a platoon of United States Marines (ethnically assorted, of course) against a family of extraterrestrial monsters - a queen and her slimy brood. He does it in an energetic, systematic, relentless way, with an action director's gusto, and a shortage of imagination. The imagery has a fair amount of graphic power, but there's too much claustrophobic blue-green dankness. As Warrant Officer Ripley, the only human survivor of the spaceship that voyaged forth in the earlier picture, Sigourney Weaver seems to take over by natural authority and her strength as an actress. She gives the movie a presence, and Cameron toys with the sex-role reversal by turning the final confrontation with the queen into the Battle of the Big Mamas. But at 2 hours and 17 minutes this is just a very big "Boo!" movie, with bum dialogue. With Michael Biehn, Paul Reiser, Lance Henriksen, Jenette Goldstein as Vasquez the bodybuilder, and Carrie Henn as the wraithlike little girl, Newt, who is out there in space to arouse Ripley's maternal instinct. Produced by Gale Anne Hurd, for 20thCentury-Fox.