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Plot Summary:
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Decades after surviving the Nostromo incident, Ellen Ripley is sent out to re-establish contact with a terraforming colony but finds herself battling the Alien Queen and her offspring. |
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Cast: (First 20, for the rest click 'Show All Cast & Crew' below.)
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Miscellaneous Companies:
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- Arkadon
- motion control
- Peerless Camera Co. Ltd.
- motion control
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- Peter Aston model effects
- miniatures
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Special Effects Department:
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- Fantasy II Film Effects
- Peerless Camera Co. Ltd.
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- Stan Winston Studio
- The L.A. Effects Group
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Filming Locations: (Now With Clickable Links To Location On Google Maps)
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Tech Info:
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- Budget:
- $18,500,000
- Revenue:
- $183,316,455
- Camera:
- Moviecam Cameras
- Color Info:
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Color (Eastmancolor)
- Laboratory:
- Rank Film Laboratories, Denham, UK
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- Aspect Ratio:
- 1.85 : 1
- Cinematographic Process:
- Spherical
- Film Negative Format:
- 35 mm - Kodak 5294 & 5295
- Printed Film Format:
- 35 mm / 70 mm
- Shooting Dates:
- Sep 1985 - Jan 1986
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Quotes:
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Newt: We'd better get back, 'cause it'll be dark soon, and they mostly come at night... mostly.
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Van Leuwin: Thank you, Officer Ripley, that will be all.
Ripley: God damn it, that's not all!! 'Cause if one of those things get down here then that will be all! And all this bullshit that you think is so important, you can kiss all that goodbye!
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Hudson: They're coming outta the walls. They're coming outta the goddamn walls!
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Ripley: What do those pulse rifles fire?
Gorman: 10 millimeter explosive tip caseless. Standard light armor piercing round. Why?
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[Pulling out his pump-action shotgun.]
Hicks: I like to keep this handy for close encounters.
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Trivia:
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- Frost and Spunkmeyer mention Arcturans. In The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy series, various Arcturan species are mentioned.
- 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 The Abyss and The Terminator.
- "She thought they said 'illegal aliens' and signed up..." said Hudson. This line (directed towards 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.
- 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 "The risky always live"
- In both the standard and special addition VHS versions, the fifteen minute countdown at the end of the film is indeed fifteen minutes.
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Credits Fun:
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- As the final credits fade, there is the sound of an alien egg opening.
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