Following up on watching the original Alien, the next night we watched James Cameron's 1986 sequel Aliens. I've always considered the time I saw Aliens in the theater to be one of my favorite in-theater film memories, mainly because I think we arrived late, thus the theater was dark, and that then slid right into the beginning of the film where Sigourney Weaver's Ripley character is found in space. It gave the film an even more visceral feel. I've never been a huge Cameron fan, and I'll never get the three hours back that I wasted watching Titanic. Still, Aliens is certainly a fun ride, although I think it's clearly inferior to its predecessor (although you could also make the same comment in regards to the long-delayed sequels/prequels that Ridley Scott himself made). Mainly, as I re-watched it the other night I thought of the answers to one of my favorite trivia questions: What actors were killed by an Alien, Predator, and Terminator?
Answer: Lance Henriksen and Bill Paxton (that said, I don't know if I agree with the premise, since Henricksen's Bishop was torn in half, but, as an android, he "lived" on to say the little girl from being sucked out into space)
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