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Watch with director commentary. There are deeper undertones to all of that ineffective firepower. It didn't work, sound like any wars you know of?
And the caricatures were done-up by the actors themselves, not by some dudes at a round table. You could also argue that the characters in Alien were caricatures... the whiny woman (who was written intentionally as a screen representation of the scared audience member), the moaning and groaning mechanics, the heartless corporate guy (who is basically the same character as Burke).
Aliens isn't as campy as people make it out to be. It's not Commando or Cyborg or some shit.
I've watched directory commentaries of Alien and Aliens. Yes I get it was a Nam reference and Aliens was released in the middle of the great 80s Nam movie explosion.
Aliens is a little bit campy though very effective action movie.
Alien is an ultimate example of a film catching lightening in a bottle with it's story, set design, acting, cinematography, and music being well all ahead of its time. The movie ages incredibly well through a combination of set design and smart lighting and cinematography.
Not comparable movies....one a masterpiece in atmospheric horror where the entire movie is a slow build up from the moon with the beacon to the evolution of the xenomorph during the film so the viewer never knows how it looks or what to expect. The other movie is a largely a fun action movie using the same universe as the first movie but is about as different of a movie and you could possible have. It would be like if the second Jaws movie had 100 great whites and the coast guard was fighting them all. It just such a different approach from the first movie that they share little with each other except being in the same universe.