Fifty seven years after Ellen Ripley survived her disastrous ordeal, her escape vessel is recovered after drifting across the galaxy as she slept in cryogenic stasis. Back on earth, nobody believed her story about the "Aliens" on the planet LV-426. After the "Company" orders the colony on LV-426 to investigate, however, all communication with the colony is lost. The Company enlists Ripley to aid a team of tough, rugged space marines on a rescue mission to the now partially terraformed planet to find out if there are aliens or survivors. As the mission unfolds, Ripley will be forced to come to grips with her worst nightmare, but even as she does, she finds that the worst is yet to come.
Written by Brian Rawlings
According to myth, the name for the company, "Weyland Yutani", was taken from the names of Ridley Scott's former neighbors - he hated them, so he decided to "dedicate" the name of the "evil company" to them. In reality the name was created by conceptual designer Ron Cobb (who created the Nostromo and the crew's uniforms) to imply a corner on the spacecraft market by an English-Japanese corporation. According to himself, he would have liked to use "Leyland-Toyota" but obviously could not so he changed one letter in Leyland and added the Japanese name of his (not Scott's) neighbor.
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Goofs
Revealing mistakes:
Just before Ripley rescues Newt from the cocoon, she kills the parasite coming out of the pod and one of the aliens charges at her. As it is moving down and towards Ripley, wires can be seen on top, helping to move it along.
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Quotes
[first lines]
Salvage team leader:
Bio-readouts are all in the green, looks like she's alive. Well, there goes our salvage, guys. See more »
Crazy Credits
The ALIENS title forms slowly during the opening credits. The full title
isn't seen until the opening credits are finished, and the "I" illuminates
brightly.
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