Aliens are a race of insect-like aliens that first appeared in Ridley Scott's cult film Alien. In the thirty-five years since the release of this film, there have been three direct sequels to the original story and several films indirectly affecting this universe.
Basic tetralogy about strangers
The first film (1979) became a unique phenomenon of its kind, since there were practically no such realistic pictures about space and the monsters that live there at that time. The film takes place inside the space cargo ship Nostromo, which is returning to Earth on a standard route when it suddenly intercepts a request for help. On the unremarkable planet LV-426, the ship's crew finds an alien ship with a pilot, as well as a huge number of obscure objects that look like huge eggs. The further sequence of events leads to the fact that a bloodthirsty monster appears on the ships, destroying people. Lieutenant Helen Ripley, played by Sigourney Weaver, successfully confronts him. The film's budget was eleven million dollars, and theatrical receipts exceeded one hundred million. In fact, after the release of this film, Sigourney Weaver became a star of the first magnitude.
If Weaver received only thirty thousand dollars for "Alien", then her fee for "Aliens" was already a million dollars.
Aliens was directed in 1986 by David Cameron (author of The Terminator). 57 years after the events of the original film, the capsule with Helen Ripley arrives on Earth, where it finds out that the planet LV-426 has long been colonized, but the connection with the colony was somehow interrupted. Helen Ripley and a detachment of brave marines are sent to the planet they are looking for, where instead of a colony of people there is a huge "anthill" of aliens. Only one girl survived. In the course of further events, Helen Ripley defeats the fearsome Alien Queen and leaves the planet.
The first film was undoubtedly a thriller, the second became one of the best action films in the world.
In Alien 3, directed by David Fincher (Fight Club), it is revealed that before her death, the Alien Queen managed to lay aside the larva of the face-hunter, which infects Ripley while she is in suspended animation. Due to the breakdown of the ship's systems, he crashes on a prison planet, which contains several dozen especially dangerous prisoners. The surviving face-hunter manages to infect the dog, which gives life to a new species of strangers. The resulting monster destroys almost all prisoners. Further events lead to the fact that Ripley commits suicide.
Alien: Resurrection is the latest direct sequel to the original, directed by Jean Pierre Jeunet (Amelie). In it, the earthly military is engaged in cloning the cells of the infected Helen Ripley from blood samples found on the prison planet from the previous part. They do this in order to get strangers and use them as a particularly dangerous weapon. Along the way, they clone Ripley herself. The warship, where all the action takes place, is molested by smugglers who supply people that military scientists are going to infect with strangers. Unfortunately, viable aliens break free and kill almost the entire crew of the ship.
Later films
Later, films were made that unite the universe of "Aliens" with the universe of "Predator", the reason for this was a hooligan shot in the second film about "Predator", where among the trophies of this warlike alien one could notice the skull of an alien. In total, two films were shot with the opposition of a predator to a stranger. In the first, the action takes place in an unusual pyramid in Antarctica, where a group of scientists arrives. During the study of the pyramid, they initiate the appearance of alien eggs from the already familiar eggs, and the predators who came to this pyramid to hunt begin their game. As a result, traditionally, almost all heroes die. In the second film, we are talking about the first predator infected during the events, from which a new species of alien appears. Since this happens already on the predator ship, a new individual attacks the team, the ship falls to Earth. The alien begins to multiply uncontrollably, and the only surviving predator hunts him. Both films based on this universe have a lot of flaws and flawed logic, but they are perceived as good action films.
In 2012, the author of the first "Alien" Ridley Scott released a kind of prequel "Prometheus", in which a company of scientists arrives in a star system, to which LV-426 belongs, on which the actions in the first and second films took place. Here they find many apparently artificial structures. During their research, scientists find unusual creatures, are infected with an incomprehensible infection. Further events lead to the fact that most of the crew perishes.
"Prometheus" was poorly received by fans of strangers, because it was too loose with the original story. Besides, the film is replete with a lot of logical assumptions and blunders.
