How do you make a sequel to a classic? For director James Cameron , you make a completely different film and amp up the action — and acid-spewing baddies. In the intense sci-fi flick Aliens, Sigourney Weaver ’s Ellen Ripley is still alive — and still plagued by aliens who want to kill her and every human they encounter. When she accompanies a crew of hardened space marines to investigate the disappearance of a human colony on a distant planet, she knows they’re in for trouble, but no one listens to her. She’s proven right when the aliens start attacking, but that doesn’t do her or orphaned girl Newt ( Carrie Henn ) any good when the bodies…
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