Quote from: BlueMarsalis79 on Jan 28, 2024, 01:25:26 AMAliens and Judgment Day totally used imagery and quotes from the prior film though?
To expand on my comment (and it doesn't have to be 💯 no repeated moments if done effectively.
For visual, Terminator has Reese with a shotgun with a string to hide it.
Salvation felt we had to see young Reese do the exact same thing for a different reason. So he could grapple it back. That's vapid.
For dialog, in T1, Reese says "come with me if you want to live" when he first rescues Sarah.
In T2, the T-800 says the same thing when it rescues Sarah. It's a huge psychological jolt to her to hear that same phrase from the face of her worst nightmare. That's a quality use of the element because it served a story purpose besides just blindly being inserted.
We see facehuggers emerge from eggs in multiple movies. There really isn't any other way to show it. That's logical. That works.
Aliens, as much as I love it and rate it one of the greatest movies ever, I can still think blowing the alien out of the airlock again could have been something else. It is a negative that Cameron repeated the same beat in the very next sequel. It was masterfully done no doubt. It certainly doesn't ruin the film.
AVP "you are one ugly...." Blah blah
Really it was more directed toward it being done over and over and over.
Lol AvP did change it up with the queen, but visually it looks similar.