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After floating in space for 57 years, Lt. Ripley's shuttle is found by a deep space salvage team. Her account of the alien and the fate of her crew are received with skepticism since the planet where Ripley first encountered the alien was colonized over twenty years earlier and no evidence was found to support her story. The Company declares her psychologically unfit and revokes her flight officer's license.

Soon after, the colonists mysteriously disappear and Ripley may be forced to return to the planet where her nightmares began. Determined to face her fears and exterminate the deadly creatures, she accompanies a team of high-tech colonial marines and a Company representative to investigate.

Upon arriving at LV-426, the marines find only one survivor, a nine year old girl named Newt. But even these battle-hardened marines with all the latest weaponry are no match for the hundreds of aliens that have invaded the colony. They are forced to cut short their search for more survivors and retreat to the Operations Center to await rescue themselves.

While securing their base, Ripley and the marines discover that the Company is still interested in obtaining an alien specimen, and that a facehugger has been planted in the room with Ripley and Newt in the hopes that they will become "hosts" and brought back to Earth.

But the aliens overcome the barriers to the Center and the marines, Ripley, and Newt are forced to retreat to the Landing Field.

Newt is captured during the retreat and Ripley goes back to save her. She finds that Newt has been taken to the domain of the alien Queen - a larger, more intelligent, and more frightening alien who is as determined to kill as the others.

Private First Class Hudson
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Hudson is nearing the end of his tour of duty when called to action on LV-426. He constantly makes cocky remarks to his fellow soldiers and anyone else who will listen. His wisecracking, swaggering style causes him to continuously butt heads with his superiors and fellow marines. He describes the other missions he has been on as a "walk in the park," but finds he is mistaken in his belief that this one will be the same.

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	Watch carefully - the rifles throw out cases... but the ammo is declared as "caseless" (BTW: 91 [or so???] rounds of caliber 9mm could never fit in a 1cm x 10cm x 5cm clip!!
	When Ripley fights the queen alien with the loader machine they fall down a shaft. Before they fall off, the loader hits the ground and breaks the light on top of it. When it shows the loader down in the shaft the light is perfectly fine.
	The marines can stand up straight inside the APC, but when they are outside of the APC, they are taller than it.
	Obvious looped background conversation noise during the breakfast scene.
	In the first attack Drake and Vasquez are shooting and falling back at the same time. When Drake shoots a alien it burst quickly and then in another scene Vasquez shoots the alien that was next to Drake and it too uses the same shot of it bursting. Then during the sentry gun scene they use they same shot of the alien bursting. Its the bursting scene right before drake get acid on him...just in case you windshield. After she runs over it, the next shot of the APC shows that the windshield is fixed.
	During the end of the movie, before the second attack, their pulse rifles can be seen to be fake. It's easy to tell if you look at the grenade launcher barrel, it's covered up there's no hole. Then when they fired the rifles the gernade launcher barrel is open. A good spot to see this is when Ripley is going to fight the queen, up the elevator shaft, when she is putting all of her stuff on,the pulse rifle is obviously a prop. Not really a blooper but just something to look for. Thanks Terrie Carlson
	Early on in the Movie , Hudson (I believe) says that, all the colony workers were fitted with little tracking devices. Its following these signals that lead to the Marines getting their butts kicked in the powerplant/reactor area. Why then does Ripley put her little wristwatch style tracking device on Newt, toward the end. wouldn't Newt already have her own, that Ripley could just tune into and avoid all that frantic searching at the end?
	Ripley's headset around the time she tells Gorman "they're cut off".
	When the board room members are looking at the pictures of the crew from the first movie Kane is never shown.
	When Ripley tries to break the glass in the med lab there is a scuff mark on the glass before her first swing. After this finishes, the mark disappears and we see Ripley actually making the mark with her second swing.
	When Bishop is cut in half and lying on the ground, reaching to get Newt, you can see the hole he is standing in to make it look like he is cut in half. Thanks Vic Cherubini
	Michael Beihn character says they could only salvage out of the plane wreckage:15 grenades,two flame throwers,and four pulse rifles with 50 rounds each.Throughout the rest of the movie each person fires more than 50 rounds with there rifles.
	Foot visible when Frost falls down the shaft. Thanks Terry Stones
	The APC window becomes unshattered.
	The yellow caution light on the loader when the mother alien pulls it into the air-lock.
	When Ripley goes back and rescues Newt she grabs the girl and and runs into the queens nest. Maybe it's just me, but did the queen look at least 50 Ft. taller then Ripley. She's as tall as building. Later in the fight scene she appears to be only slightly bigger then Ripley.
	When Ripley starts destroying the hive, the queen tear her egg sack and follows Ripley. That means that she can`t lay any more eggs. Bishops ship has been remotely controlled down to the planet, so no eggs could have arrived until then. When the queen enters the ship she does not carry any eggs either. This makes it impossible for the two eggs in Alien3 to show up. Not really Cameron`s fault though.
	While Ripley is running out of the complex with Newt in her arms you can plainly see that Newt is really a doll. When she is in the queens nest and doing her slow turn toward the queen, there is a good shot of Newt's fingers around her neck and you can see they are fake, like the two hands are joined together.
	When they are looking around the room with the alien walls, Dietrich says that they don't show up on infrared at all, then the alien grabs her from behind. She uses the flame thrower and Private Frost turns and the poor guy catches on fire, then falls down to his doom. But wait, how could his whole body catch fire like that? Even if the bag of magazines did explode, it would of hurt Frost and maybe catch his side on fire, but the flames wouldn't of engulfed his whole body like that. On modern day flame throwers, they shoot out a highly flammable goo all over someone, then the flames will catch burning the goo. But no goo came out of the flame thrower, so either Frosty's uniform was washed with gasoline or it's a fault. But why'd such a terrible death have to happen to the best guy in the movie anyways?
	In the first movie, the Nostromo was diverted to LV-whatever because of an SOS/Warning beacon. This beacon was estimated to have been working for perhaps thousands of years (the fossilized state of the alien spaceship inhabitants would also suggest this). Nobody in the first movie disables it, to my knowledge. Unlikely it would simply stop working on it's own.....  Yet the poor colonists inhabit the planet and cheerfully terraform it without a hint of what lies on the other side of the planet, and they never detect the beacon....
	At the end of the movie when Ripley is in the air lock with the queen you can see that the little tail spear thing is missing from the end of her tail
	In many respects, one of the fundamental assumptions regarding the Alien(s) movies is flawed. They all go around thinking of how great a weapon these creatures would be. But are they?? A bare dozen marines execute a frontal assault (bad thing to do in the first place) on the Alien nest and are only partially armed (remember how they gave up their ammunition because of the coolant fear?). Yet, even when facing an unknown enemy on unknown ground less than fully armed, the marines kick the Aliens butts! Sure, the marines lose a few, mostly to fratricide. Also keep in mind that the marines were heavily outnumbered. Imagine what would have happened the other way around. Or imagine what would have happened if there were twice as many marines (instead of the pitiful dozen on hand). And the Aliens were TERRIBLE when it came to offense, Hudson kills half a dozen of them before he dies. Vasquez kills several more with a machine gun, pistol, and grenades. Face it, the Alien race stinks as a weapon. Why even bother?
	In the scene where Hicks explains to Ripley how to use a pulse Rifle, there are 3 nitpicks. First, what use is the ammo counter midway along the side of the gun? Hicks says when it starts to read 00 you reload. You can't possibly see the counter whilst firing are you meant to ask the marine next to you, "how much ammo have I got left"? Or do you keep stopping during a battle and turning the gun around for a look? Why isn't the counter located on the back or at the top where it can be seen? Secondly, the counter reads 99 with a full clip. Judging from the size of the casings ejected, I'd be very surprised if you'd get a hundred bullets in one of those clips. Thirty seems more plausible. Lastly, Ripley asks what the grenade launcher does, and Hicks replies "you'd better not mess with that". This seems to indicate its got some grenades in the gun. These guys are desperate for ammo. Why did Hicks give Ripley a gun containing grenades, that as far as he was concerned, she wasn't ever going to use?
	Hicks supposedly has the shotgun throughout the movie, so why don't you see it? Also, the shotgun disappears after Drake dies and he shoots the alien.
	When Ripley and crew first come into combat with the aliens, one of the crew gets set on fire and falls down a kind of stairway chute thing. If you look closely at the bottom of the shoot, someone's leg is popping out and quickly pulls itself back in!
	As I recall, the officer in charge had his marines turn in their clips because he, Burke, and Ripley were afraid of a thermonuclear explosion if the marines' explosive shells hit the colony's reactor. Well they needn't have worried themselves. You can't set off a nuclear reaction just by setting off an explosion in a reactor--it's a lot more complicated than that. If the marines *had* hit the colony's reactor, the worst that could have happened would be a core meltdown and large radiation leak--something you really want to avoid under ordinary circumstances, but an acceptable risk when you're sending soldiers into a combat situation.
	When Ripley hits the button to close the Air-lock once the Queen has been expelled, if you look closely they are buttons from a Fruit machine and the button she hits even says hold on it.
	Bishop's body as he stops Newt being sucked out of the Air-lock.
	The two scenes where Ripley has just flamed the Queens eggs and where she & Newt are on the collapsing platform waiting for Bishop & the Drop Ship are VERY obvious back projections.
	When Bishop is performing his hand knife trick on Hudson during the breakfast scene, look closely at the left side of the screen, where the other soldiers are looking on. You will notice that their movement appears sped up, giving away that the film speed was increased.
	When Ripley looks out the glass of the Med Lab when the face-huggers are in there, there are two marks on the window. She then gets a chair to break the glass, and there are no marks. She then attempts to break the glass, making the exact marks that were already visible. Thanks Marie
	The queen alien's breathing sounds do not match the steam coming out of her mouth.
	At the end when Ripley opens the Air-lock & the queen alien is holding on to her leg/foot, Ripley just continues holding on. I'm not an expert, but I believe that the combined force of the the loss of pressure & the Queen's weight would have clearly ripped her arm off....
	When the Marines first land on the planet, Gorman tells Vasquez to take point. At the time, Vasquez is armed with the M56 Smart Gun. Now, I am no military tactician, but that rifle is obviously a support weapon, not an assault weapon. Vasquez should have been prepared to lay down covering fire while someone with a pulse rifle was ordered point. Then again, this mistake could have been attributed to Gormans obviously green status at command...
	The company comes down on Ripley because of something she did 57 years ago? If they were just looking for a reason to can her it could have been because, cryo sleep or not, technically she was probably almost 90 years old. Remember that in the first movie they were only ten months from earth when they encounter the planet with the alien, so most crews would probably not have been in space more that a couple of years at a time. That's a long time to be away from the family. Speaking of family, how come Ripley didn't ask about grandchildren, great grandchildren, sisters, brothers, her husband, surely she would have had nieces or nephews that would remember her. Instead of working in that space station I would have been heading to earth to find something or someone that would give me some kind of comfort.
	at the end when Ripley is in the dropship to rescue newt, she gets a pulse rifle and a flamethrower. well if you look you can see that she first grabs a flamethrower,in the next shot she places down a pulse rifle. then she grabs a pulse rifle from the rack and the next shot she puts down a flamethrower.
	When the marine team is getting killed by the aliens Gorman and Ripley are arguing in the APC. Both are wearing headsets. At one point Ripley gets mad and yanks hers off and tosses it down, in the next scene she has it back on.
	The Marines are able to stand when inside the APC, yet outside they are taller than it. Thanks G_O_Destruction
	On the second attack of the aliens, after a while they fall back. Hicks is shooting and telling them to fall back. If you look toward the left part of the screen you can see gorman. He is acting like he's shooting..there is no gunfire coming out. Maybe he was just practicing on his stance. *WIDESRCEEN EDITION*
	When Ripley & Hicks are trying to cut through the decking to rescue Newt from the "sewers", the motion tracker/scanner starts beeping and displaying signals. The reading counts down from 27 (meters?), through 26, 25, and 24. Ripley notices the scanner is beeping, turns to look at it and the display clearly counts 24.00, 14.70, 24.00, 19.75, 20.25, 19.75, 19.50, 19.00, 19.50, 19.25, 19.00, 19.25, 19.00. Ripley then tells Hicks to Hurry and the scanner counts 9.00, 9.25, 8.25, 9.25, 8.25, 8.00.
	When Ripley retrieves some weapons to rescue Newt, he picks up one weapon from the rack, puts a different one down on the floor, picks up the second weapon from the rack, and puts the first one down on the floor. This is fixed in the special edition.

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137 minutes - Director's Cut 154 Minutes, USA, 1986
Motion Picture Association of America Rating - R
Adult language, graphic violence

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	One of the sets was kept intact after filming. It was later used as the Axis Chemicals set for Batman (1989).
	Michael Biehn's character gets bitten on the hand by another character. This happens to him in every James Cameron movie he's in - see Abyss, The (1989) and Terminator, The (1984).
	The "special edition" includes extra scenes: Newt's parents discovering abandoned alien ship on LV-426, scenes of Ripley discussing her daughter, Hudson bragging about his weaponry, robot sentry guns repelling first alien raid, Hicks and Ripley exchanging first names. Also included is a scene on LV-426 where a child rides a low-slung tricycle similar to one ridden in Terminator, The (1984), also directed by James Cameron.
	In an early draft of the script, Bishop claims to have been made by "Cyberdyne", a company from Terminator, The (1984).
	The mechanism used to make the face-huggers thrash about in the stasis tubes in the science lab came from one of the "flying piranhas" in one of Cameron's earlier movies Piranha II: The Spawning (1981). It took 9 people to make the face-hugger work; one person for each leg and one for the tail.
	Ripley's (Sigourney Weaver) daughter was played by Weaver's mother.
	The APC was modeled after an airplane tug.
	"Sulaco" is the name of the town in Joseph Conrad's "Nostromo". See also Alien (1979).
	Hicks was originally played by James Remar, but Michael Biehn replaced him a few days after principal photography began, due to "artistic differences" between Remar and Cameron.
	"She thought they said `illegal aliens' and signed up..." said Hudson. This line (directed toward Vasquez) was in inside joke amongst the actors. Jenette Goldstein (Vasquez) had gone to the audition thinking the film would be about illegal immigrants. She arrived with waist-long hair and lots of makeup. Everyone else was wearing military fatigues.
	Directors Trademark (James Cameron): [nice cut]: a few minutes into the movie, we see Ripley lying in the cryo-tube, and then the scene fades to the picture of the earth; the earth directly fits into the silhouette of Ripley's face.
	Directors Trademark (James Cameron): [feet]: When the soldiers arrive on LV426 and jump out of the armored vehicle. See also Abyss, The (1989).
	Directors Trademark (James Cameron): [feet]: When Ripley drives the APC, she crushes an alien's head under one of the wheels.
	Directors Trademark (James Cameron): [feet]: close-ups of the power-lifter's feet.
	Directors Trademark (James Cameron): [nuke]
	Only six alien suits were used. The appearance of hundreds of aliens is simply clever editing and planning.
	During the scene inside the APV preparing for battle, "El riesgo vive siempre!" can be seen scrawled in white across Vasquez's armor. This is Spanish for "Risk lives always."
	The body mounts for Vasquez's and Drake's smart guns are taken from Steadicam gear.

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