I fell asleep watching Aliens last night. Here's an example of why it's the Greatest Movie Ever
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prayformoJaws (aka mayhem)
Nov 7 '12, 06:49
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As a backdrop for everything else that happens with Ripley, Newt, the Marines and the aliens, you have the impending threat of the complex going nuclear. The filmmakers did a really good job of keeping on the backburner as an increasingly serious threat at the same time that the more urgent threat of the aliens is being dealt with. The script wisely avoids the pitfall of having someone try to "disarm" the eventual thermonuclearness, which would have been an unnecessary diversion - instead, Ripley and company just have to face the fact that they place is going to blow, they have a fixed amount of time to evacuate, and oh yeah, they have to do it while being deck deep in aliens.
But the whole impending explosion was also put into play in a reasonable manner, with the realization that any firing in the complex would damage the coolers - which, of course, happens. And that it does is also completely understandable - even when they were warned of the danger (one of the great lines of the movie - "What are we supposed to use, harsh langguage?") - of *course* the Maries are going to use firepower when the aliens start attacking.
The whole situation of the eventual explosion of the reactor is so well thought out, and yet it's pretty much kept in the background while the more urgent action of the movie plays out.
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