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Alien Series Movie Review

Starring: Sigourney Weaver
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Ellen Ripley returns with a marine team to destroy the aliens, or so she thinks. The scientists actually want a sample of the alien for the money and research. The aliens kill their team and the survivors fight to kill the aliens, while trying to escape the planet.
Matthew Hagenah, Resident Scholar

The sequel to Alien brings Ellen Ripley working with the Colonial Marines being sent to LV426 in order to investigate what is believed to be an attack led by thousands of the aliens she encountered.
Trevor Schmitt, Resident Scholar

Sigourney Weaver returns as Ripley, the only survivor from mankind's first encounter with the Alien. Her account of the Alien and the fate of her crew is received with skepticism--until transmissions from space colonists who have since settled on the Alien's planet abruptly stop. Determined to end the recurring nightmares of her terrifying ordeal and to completely exterminate the deadly creature, Ripley joins a team of high-tech combat vets sent to investigate the disappearance of the space colonists!
ChiZ, Resident Scholar

Ripley returns with force with round 2 of a battle with the Aliens. Ripley accompanies a Marine Battalion on a mission to rescue settlers from a planet that is populated by Aliens. Despite Ripley's warnings, the over-confident Marines step into a bloodbath that leaves them scrambling for thier lives. Ripley must now control her fear and master her wits as she goes toe-to-toe with Aliens!
Tracy Hocutt, Resident Scholar

Sigourney Weaver returns from the first movie "Alien," in which she played the character Ripley. Ripley is the only survivor of a previous attack by the aliens. This time she is here to guide a crew that is landing on a space colony, where the aliens are thought to have attacked the people there. It isn't long before things get out of control. Lots of special effects.
BethG, Resident Scholar

Colonists on an alien planet in need of rescue by elite futuristic marines and a civilian advisor who has previous experience fighting the enemy aliens.
Scott Bayha, Resident Scholar

Ripley and a squad of marines go to a planet teaming with aliens and a lot of bullets are expended.
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Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 44.3%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzle - 41.4%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 14.3%




**Fantasy or Science Fiction?** - science fiction story
Part of a series? - Aliens
Horror film? Yes
Kind of Horror Story - the monster chased me!

Main Character
Identity: - Female
Profession/status: - pilot, civilian
Age: - 20's-30's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events? Yes
Hair color? - brunette (Brown)
Hair type - (woman) short/butch/lez
Body type - skinny (woman) - ample chest & buttocks (woman)
Events of movie makes character more... - aggressive - tougher
Ethnicity/Nationality - White (American)
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings - hard edged
Sense of humor? - Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - average physique

Secondary Main Character
Identity: - Male
Hair color - brunette (Brown) - blonde
Hair style - (man) short/standard straight
Body type - average build (man)
How much in movie? - 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality - White (American)

Main Adversary
Has special powers? Yes
Magical/mental powers of main antagonist: - is very quick - super strength
Sense of humor? - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Average Intelligence

Setting
Spaceship setting: - futuristic human freighter/transport - really, really giant spaceship/station - futuristic human warship
A substantial portion of this movie takes place on a non-Earth planetary body: - humans in a futuristic society - unfriendly aliens - empty, or nearly empty world - big overbuilt futuristic city
Planet outside our solar system? Yes
Takes place in spaceship? Yes

Style
Accounts of torture and death? - explicit references to deaths
Tone of movie - fearful
Any profanity? - Occasional swearing
Kinds of F/X - exploding vehicles - exploding spaceships - exotic spaceships - exotic aliens
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