I just watched this movie for the first time ever and it's fucking amazing. I have no idea how Cameron managed to pull it off on an 18 million dollar budget.
Aliens > Alien
>>87115737
I agree overall. Aliens is about as perfect as action movies get.
$18 million was a decent budget for 1986
OP here. It was cool to see how much Aliens influenced some of my favorite video games over the years. Resident Evil especially with the destruct sequence countdown and final boss battle.
>>87115885
It was but for something as large scale as Aliens, that's not a whole lot. Ghostbusters was made for like twice that two years before.
>>87115692
Budgets skyrocketed in the 90s. That was a lot in 1986.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J43vXq-Cvfo
>>87116115
I have a huge boner for this kind of prop and set design. Man.