Sigourney Weaver Aliens
Sunday, July 13th, 2008
You can’t keep Sigourney Weaver down for long. After the success of the first Alien movie Weaver was brought back for a sequel by James Cameron, resulting in arguably the best movie in the Alien universe to date, Aliens.
Weaver returns as Ellen Ripley, the only survivor of her cargo ship, found over 50 years after the attack by the titular alien. Having lost her family and her life she’s ready to start over again - but she doesn’t get the chance, as a group of marines led by a slimy corporate executive (played by Paul Reiser) need her to provide advice on a colony that they’ve lost contact with.
Fittingly enough, the colony is located on the same planet that had been home to the alien.
What follows is a series of horrors where Ripley must endure the steady loss of each protecting marine in turn and do her best to survive not just one alien, but an entire colony of them. The movie’s finale is one of the most dramatic ever to be seen as Ripley faces off against the alien queen in a battle to the death.
Aliens is one of those must-see movies. So if you haven’t yet, hurry up and rent it. The movie has been re-released on DVD more times than you can count on both hands.