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ALIENS
Aliens is a 1986 science fiction/action
film starring Sigourney Weaver, Michael
Biehn, Lance Henriksen, and Bill
Paxton. A sequel to the
1979 film Alien, Aliens
is set fifty-seven years after the first film and is regarded by many
film critics as a benchmark for the action and science fiction genres.[2][3] In Aliens, Weaver's character Ellen
Ripley returns to the
planet LV-426 where she first encountered the
hostile Alien. This time she is accompanied by a
unit of Colonial Marines.
Directed by James
Cameron, Aliens' action/adventure tone was in stark contrast to the
science fiction/horror motifs of the original Alien.
Following the success of The Terminator (1984), which helped
establish Cameron as a major action director,[4] 20th Century Fox greenlit Aliens with a budget of
approximately $18 million. It was filmed in England at Pinewood Studios, and at a decommissioned power plant.
Aliens earned $86
million in the United States box office during its 1986
theatrical release, making it the highest domestic gross of the Alien series. It earned $131 million
internationally,[5] and was nominated
for seven Academy
Awards including a Best Actress nomination for Sigourney Weaver, which was
considered a benchmark at the time when the Academy gave little
recognition to the science fiction genre. It won in the categories of Sound
Effects Editing and Visual Effects.
Top Gun is a 1986 American film directed by Tony Scott and produced by Don
Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer in association with Paramount Pictures. The screenplay was
written by Jim Cash and Jack Epps Jr., and was inspired by an article
written by Ehud Yonay for California Magazine entitled "Top
Guns."
The film stars Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis, Anthony Edwards, Val
Kilmer and Tom Skerritt.
The film follows LT Pete "Maverick" Mitchell, a young Naval
aviator who aspires to be a top fighter pilot in the United States Navy
Fighter Weapons School,
which trains the top 1% of all Naval aviators. Maverick gets his chance
to attend the school after one pilot drops out, allowing him and his
RIO (Radar Intercept Officer, the "back
seater" in the two-man F-14) LTJG Nick "Goose" Bradshaw to train with
the best.
The film opened in America on May 16, 1986 to good reviews, the aerial scenes being most notably praised. Similar
praise followed soon afterwards when the film broke records at the box
office, becoming a mega hit. The film accumulated over $350 million
world-wide, and broke home-video sales records.
Troops is a mockumentary film by Kevin Rubio,
which made its debut on the Internet in 1997.
The film is a parody of COPS,
set in the StarWars universe. In the film, Imperial stormtroopers from theinfamous Black Sheep Squadron patrolling the DuneSea on the planet Tatooine run into some very familiar characters while being filmed for the hit Imperial TV show Troops.
The film jump-started the modern fan film movement, as it was one of the first short films to bring fan films
into the digital age, taking advantage of internet distribution and
affordable production and special effects equipment, as well as fans
with movie-quality costumes.
The film has proven incredibly popular with Star
Wars fans, and was awarded the inaugural Pioneer Award in the Lucasfilm-sponsored
2002 Official Star Wars Fan
Film Awards.
Fan Films Quarterly listed Troops as one of the
10 most pivotal moments in fan film history in its Summer 2006 issue.
Robotech is a science fiction franchise that was launched by an
85-episode adaptation of three different animetelevision series.
Within the combined and edited
story, Robotechnology refers to the scientific advances discovered in an alien starship that
crashed on a South Pacific island. With this technology, Earth
developed giant robotic machines or mecha (many of which were capable of
transforming into vehicles) to fight three successive extraterrestrial invasions.
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