I rewatched A:R today after not seeing it since 1997. Better than I remembered. It deserves a bump up a notch over AvP 2004 in my list. Definitely better than AvPR.
Lastly I have a question: when Ripley fell and landed on some slimey alien carpeting before she encountered the queen, what the hell was that slimey stuff? Was that the top of the queen's sack (if you can call it that) and then proceeded to spit her out of the side of the sack?