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When the film was released, the NYT review describes it as "a flaming, flashing, crashing, crackling blow-'em-up show that keeps you popping from your seat despite your better instincts and the basically conventional scare tactics." Empire Online calls it "the perfect sequel."
Roger Ebert opens a positive review with this: "The ads for "Aliens" claim that this movie will frighten you as few movies have, and, for once, the ads don't lie. The movie is so intense that it creates a problem for me as a reviewer..." Rotten Tomatoes has a 98% critics score.
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Eep! No frighteners for me, LOL!
ReplyDeleteThat original Alien movie! Definitely took me a long time to recover from that one.
DeleteI think I saw Alien with somebody who wanted to see it. That's where they are stuck on a spaceship with a big ugly slimy creature, right? Those are the kind of movies that don't interest me in general, so I'd never watch the sequel. I don't remember being scared. I don't know why, but monster movies don't usually scare me. I think people are scarier--LOL!
ReplyDeleteI wanted to see the original, but I'd thought it was science fiction. I wasn't happy at the horror and all the jump scenes. More startling than scary, but effective at what it set out to do.
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