Aliens is the best sci-fi sequel of all time in part because it doesn’t have to continue a story. Cameron was free to take the two loose ends of Alien — Ripley in hypersleep and the idea of more aliens out there that the company might want to get their hands on — and make his own movie in the Alien sandbox. It’s a marvelous, gorgeous, pulse-pounding act of creation.

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