Is the movie Alians awesome or not?

As I'm typing this 15% of the people that took part in this poll are crazy.

@believer258: My main issues lie with James Cameron. There are distinct factual differences between the first two movies, and most of them could be easily explained away, but Mr. Cameron refused to do that in the film.

James Cameron is a terrible filmmaker but a genius investor. He knows exactly how far he has to take things to produce mountains of cash. Titanic is a ripoff of Romeo and Juliet; BUT THE MAN BUILT A FULL-SIZE COPY OF THE TITANIC. Avatar is FernGully in space; THE MAN MADE IT WITH $237,000,000 OF CGI. Aliens is to Alien what Modern Warfare 3 is to Amnesia; MOST OF THE VISUAL EFFECTS STILL LOOK GOOD TWENTY-SEVEN YEARS LATER.

His movies are the highest grossing because he doesn't skimp on style. It's a pity his style and my taste are diametrically opposed.

I don't entirely disagree but you don't build movies that are still being talked about thirty years later solely on style. James Cameron has definitely mastered how to make a really good blockbuster, but that doesn't change the fact that the acting, dialogue, pacing, and plots of most of his movies are generally pretty good. Discounting Avatar, of course; that movie was pretty but meh. I don't care much about it. Meanwhile, there are slight continuity errors in pretty much every piece of fiction that has more than one entry, and most of the things in your earlier list of issues are, indeed, "slight" continuity errors. We can easily accept the differences because the story in Aliens is generally considered "pretty damn good".

By the way, Titanic might take some inspiration from Romeo and Juliet but, with some research, you could probably come up with a large number of films that take some inspiration from Shakespearean plays. The Lion King, for instance, is loosely Hamlet with a happy ending. You could say that Loghain's actions in the early parts of Dragon Age Origins are based on Macbeth, though I still haven't beaten that fucking game so I don't know how he ends up yet.

@oldirtybearon: The greatest action movie ever made is Terminator 2.

It's a damn fine action movie but let's be real Alien is a million times better.

Never go full retard.

No, it's a real bad movie.