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Star Trek!

I watched two Star Trek movies last night during my recovery from the endless shoveling.  (See...right there...last night shoveling on my netbook was only acceptable with two l's...wtf)  First Contact with the new cast is awesome.  There are a few dialogue issues; "Assimilate this!"  "You guys are on some sort of...star trek..."  "Resistance is futile!" (Data, during climax).  Seriously?  As my wife pointed out; there were many intelligent people in that production and didn't anyone think it was too cheesy?  I think actors who have been playing a part for over five years or more should be able to edit scripts to not ruin their characters.  

One of my favorite movies growing up was, Aliens.  Great movie.  James Cameron doing what he does best.  He takes an established hit movie and ramps it up a little then injects some capital to make a fantastic sequel.  

Aliens, Terminator 2...both epic sequels.  Anyway, that aside, Aliens was well done.  There are two really fantastic points in that movie where they put in just the right dialog for the moment.

Point 1:  Vasquez and Gorman are trapped in the air duct with aliens closing in on them.  Gorman pulls out a grenade and just before they detonate it, Vasquez says:  "You always were an asshole, Gorman."  It's a little cheesy but the actress really pulled off the scene.  (Insert her IMDB link here...)  Worked well and no cheesy heroic one-liner.  "Space marines all the way..." or something like that.

Point 2:  The most epic of all time.  "Get away from her, you bitch!"  Perfect.  Just perfect.  She's pissed!  She's standing in a robotic super suit, on a giant spaceship, fighting an alien and they didn't get trapped into using some hero line.  Good job.  There were a million lines they could have put in there to make Ripley more "heroine bad-ass" but instead they stepped back for a moment.  They actually considered that she is protecting a small girl who represents the daughter she lost on Earth.  Does a mother crack a one liner when her kid is being attacked?  Nope.  Just pure anger.  Brilliant.