Aliens just turned 30 this year

[publiusr]

I was 20 when the movie came out. Great movie

 

[Orac]

Hard to believe this James Cameron classic sequel is 30 this year.

What are your fond memories of the film? i was 4 years old when it first came out in theaters and saw it 3 times one with my mom then my dad and then with a babysitter. I thought it rocked and had the comics as a kid as well even had the toys when i was 10/11.

It's a good movie but I wouldn't take a 4 year old to see it.

 

[DonIago]

Yeah, that's pretty messed up. Maybe the OP meant 14?

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

Aliens was rated "R" in the US and "18" in the UK on theatrical release so even 14 would seem too young. The British rating was likely due to the number (24) of F bombs rather than the violence but I don't have any evidence for this. The violence seems relatively tame now although there is quite a lot of smoking. How times change...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090605/parentalguide

The BBFC apparently rated the previous film Alien as "X" because the monster represented a perverted view of reproductive sex that might adversely influence teenagers. Yeah, right...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/...ed-18-censors-found-the-monster-too-sexy.html

 

[Mr. Adventure]

Aliens was rated "R" in the US and "18" in the UK on theatrical release so even 14 would seem too young.

An R rating only means adult supervision is recommended for children under 17. I was about that age when I saw it and think it would be fine for someone that age. I was about that age when it came out, maybe 15 but I've gone to R-rated movies unsupervised since I was 13 and was only denied tickets once for being too young (for Purple Rain lol, remedied five minutes later by getting some people in the parking lot to buy tickets). Maybe things were different then?

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

Yeah, I confused "R" with "X" ("NC-17" was introduced in 1990). The rating was reduced to "15" in the UK when it was re-released. Swearing aside, I think the film is fine for someone of 14 years to watch but it would likely scare the bejessuz out of a 4-year old.

 

[FPAlpha]

I was a teenager back then when i first saw it and it was glorious. Alien gave me nightmares because i saw it when i was a kid (bad choice but sometimes movies slip by parents) but Aliens came at the right time for a male teenager full of hormones, ready to kick suburban ass and feeling all kinds of macho because he saw it in the movies

I love basically everything in the movie.. the future military look and style, the gear, the Marine swagger and the tone of the movie. Watching them having their asses handed to them by the Aliens and dying one by one was just gripping from start to finish and the final fight is movie legend now.

One small thing i always was especially fond of was the gun sound.. that very special sound the Pulse Rifle makes when being fired on burst or full auto (you all know it). For some reason it is a favorite thing of mine about the movie.

 

[Aldo]

It's a good movie but I wouldn't take a 4 year old to see it.

I was 8 and my dad took me to Robocop 2 when it came out.

 

[DWMarch]

Remember, this is a universe deep in the dark side of capitalism, so they just might have considered a standing crew on the ship to not be cost-effective.

The movie was also meant as a Vietnam analogy and the empty support ship is a sign of the crew's hubris. Hudson gives a speech about how him and his squad of "ultimate badasses" will protect Ripley using their arsenal of everything from nukes to sonic electronic ball breakers. Yet in their first combat with this primitive enemy the Marines get their asses handed to them because they don't know what they're walking into. The rest of the movie is them trying to retreat. But they never thought they'd have to in the first place.

 

[Marsden]

Aside from all of the other good things that have been said, I think this was also a very good Starship Troopers movie, even better than and of the ones named Starship Troopers.

I'd still love to see a more accurate to the book movie, but that will never happen.

 

[HarryCanyon1982]

It's true i was 4 and the first R-rated movie i saw in theaters as i did watched Creepshow with the original Alien on HBO the month before this came out as the first R-rated films i watched at that age and even saw Cobra, Vamp, Link, Maximum Overdrive and more in theaters at that age with my family.

My parents had no problem of me watching r-rated movies and comics when i was a kid.

 

[Gary Mitchell]

I first saw Aliens in the movie theater. During the scene where Burke is looking at the facehuggers in the transparent tubes, you kind of know that something is going to happen. When the facehugger moves, i involuntarily jumped a little in my seat but the cool thing was that in my peripheral vision, I could see the people around me jump too.

 

[MacLeod]

Can stilmake you jump today even though you know it's coming.

 

[mos6507]

Aside from all of the other good things that have been said, I think this was also a very good Starship Troopers movie, even better than and of the ones named Starship Troopers.

I'd still love to see a more accurate to the book movie, but that will never happen.

BTW, I don't know why people like Starship Troopers (the actual movie). It's self-parody--in a bad way. And that co-ed shower scene is one of the most bizarre and implausible things I've ever seen put to film.

 

[DonIago]

Frankly I enjoyed Starship Troopers the movie much more than the book. Somewhat of a rarity for me.

 

[JD]

BTW, I don't know why people like Starship Troopers (the actual movie). It's self-parody--in a bad way. And that co-ed shower scene is one of the most bizarre and implausible things I've ever seen put to film.

Co-ed showers and locker rooms are a pretty common thing in sci-fi, just off the top of my head I remember seeing them in Robocop, and one of the uncut Ron Moore Battlestar Galactive movies and I doubt those are the only three.

 

[DonIago]

Of course, Robocop had the same director.