Top Five: Best Action Sequels Ever
1) Aliens: Special Edition (1992)
This is Cameron’s second best movie after The Terminator. Funny how Cameron kinda progressively slid with his movies after this. It’s the best sequel ever. It takes balls to try and outdo Alien but Cameron did it. Starting over is always a good idea. How do you outdo a film about a beast that terrorised the crew of a ship in space? You add another fifty beasts – then send in state of the badass art Marines in on a fucking bug hunt. Genius. It amps the whole premise up yet it does it respectfully and doesn’t jump the shark. This movie was so ahead of its time. I mean, the good guys control sentry guns with a laptop. A fucking laptop, in 1986! The props, the score, the direction, the cast… it’s all faultless. And despite being a war movie, it has a story to tell. Star Wars? Fuck that shit. Pulse rifles beat lightsabres and dropships beat Jedi any day of the weak. And yes, Bill Paxton beats Yoda.
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