Aliens - My Own Cut - Cinema Series

[SM]

Right down to the clanking chains and gyroscope toy on the dining table recalling the dippy bird.

[SiL]

Cameron put serious effort into trying to make his film follow from Scott's. You'll also notice there are a shitload more closeups in Aliens than in most Cameron movies, because Alien is full of close-ups especially in the second half (he mentions trying to keep up in the commentary).

[Local Trouble]

But he turned the aliens into bugs though.

[Immortan Jonesy]

Bugs ? 🪳

[Corporal Hicks]

also - why don't they have the maps to their own facility.

Andrews would probably have that, or could request it.

the world building is nonsense. but whatever.

For real world reference, we tend to keep maps of the prison away from the prisoners. Only certain very specific staff have access to detailed maps/floorplans, but a generalized satellite view is readily away to all staff.

[SM]

Boggs, Rains and Golic had a map while they were foraging.

Such an odd and easily debunked criticism.

[Corporal Hicks]

Boggs, Rains and Golic had a map while they were foraging.

Yeah, there is that too. 

And Aaron and Ripley had schematics/flooorplans while trying to figure out where the Alien was.

[SM]

Yeah I mentioned that on the last page. They spend half a scene looking at and talking about it.

[VeteranSergeant]

The gerbil/hamster scene should go.  It is a "motion tracker fakeout" which is fine, but that fakeout happens twice in the movie which detracts from the tension of the second one. Since we need the Newt scene, this one needs to go. Not finding anything is way more scary than a cheap jump scare.

The sped-up shot of Vasquez and Hudson bursting into the room, looks bad - reason enough to dump the scene, imo.

Not to mention, as a former Marine, I find the idea of breaching a room with a four foot long machinegun amusing.

But, then again, these are the same guys searching a civilian habitation structure armed with flamethrowers.

[BigDaddyJohn]

The storming of the room in slo mo I always find horrible.

[Elmazalman]

It's a crap scene that has no business being in the film.

[BigDaddyJohn]

I said slo mo I meant sped up of course. I wonder why they even thought it was a good idea in the first place.

[SM]

Probably looked awkward at normal speed, and Cameron wanted to show how badass they were.

Plus it was cut anyway.

[BigDaddyJohn]

That was a good call.