All the technologies predicted by James Cameron’s Aliens as the film turns 40

Director James Cameron ’s acclaimed sci-fi movie Aliens turns 40 in August. It’s a sequel to Ridley Scott ’s claustrophobic breakout hit Alien, made in 1979. Where the original featured one terrifying creature, Cameron’s movie features hundreds – and pits them against a squad of space marines.
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As Aliens celebrates its 40th anniversary, scientists reveal what the film got right and wrong

This month, the cult science fiction classic Aliens celebrates its 40th anniversary. But what did this visionary sequel get right about the future of technology?

How Aliens became the rare sequel that was as good as – or better than – the original

Forty years on, James Cameron’s transformation of Ridley Scott’s horror classic remains a masterclass in how to make a sequel.
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IN FRAME: Seeing signs — Exploring alien invasion films

The alien mothership makes contact with Earth in this scene from ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind.’ Columbia Pictures Amy Adams attempts to communicate with a cephalopod-like, seven-limbed alien that has landed on Earth in this scene from ‘Arrival.