Yep It's the big thing that "Mr Business" was talking money about when he said "We manufacture those by the way" Lol..

word

And Bill ad-libbed it.

There were a trilogy of books in the Alien universe were they sent a squad of synthetics.

How dare you assume their genetic makeup!

Nowadays in many bad companies, if a computer breaks, it is fixed immediately. But if an employee gets sick, the employee is fired or forced to work sick. It seems today humans treat artificial people better than real ones.

@@josepablolunasanchez1283 it probably costs a lot more to purchase a new Synth from Cyberdyne than it costs to train, feed, house and bury a Marine noncom

Agreed. Then...Alien 3 and Alien 4, two of the worst films ever made, until Michael Bay started making 'Transformer' "Movies".

@@markvarley2962 One of the worst movies, but with one of the best performances of all time with Raul Julia's Dictator

@@parcelohssa2243 If you think the Transformers movies are bad than you went into them expecting them to be something they clearly weren't. They were designed to be dumb fun and they succeed in that.

@@markvarley2962 May I introduce you to the 1993 movie Super Mario Bros.

Adding unrelated context to things missing context program activated!:- “…it’s course, and rough, and irritating, and it gets everywhere.”

🤣😂

"Get Mama in the hole." ( =^\

Play in the air ducts! Play in the air ducts! I saw this as a kid and it works

They mostly come at night...mostly

Yes pleeeease! Great movies.

Terminator > T2, tbh. In my older age, I can't stand the goofs and comedy.

YES. I highly suggest she react to both.

The Queen wants to protect her children in a general sense, but individually the drones are all expendable. She'd never go full Momma Bear over a single egg.

@@Dafmeister1978 Yeah, and biologically that's a consideration of investment. The Queen has to teach her drones nothing. She doesn't have to provide for them either. On the other hand, humans have comparatively so few offspring, and put so much effort into raising them, that it's a catastrophe to lose even one.

I'd rather have a pen & paper.

@Michael Shaughnessy I think we call it tic-tac-toe.

While serving I learned a ton of card and dice games. Good times!

Except Hudson, he loves the charades.

There are two women and three men and a android there. They don't need other things to spend time. :)

Hey, I was a space marine once and I loved playing charades 🥳

Also it should be noted that Bill Paxton is the only male actor to have been killed by Terminator, a Yautja and a Xenomorph AND The lady who played Vasquez played John Connor’s foster mom in T2, so she holds the distinction of the only actress to have been killed bu a Xenomorph and a Terminator…..TMYK

@@davidbennett1357 and Michael Bien is in the Terminator. I'll leave it there as to not spoil it for Shan.

@@davidbennett1357 And she was the one putting the kids to bed whilst the ship is sinking in Titanic.

I feel like the first two Alien movies and the first two Terminator movies are siblings.

@@michaeljacyna1973 arguably the sequels are just as good if not better 😉

Sounds like they were mad about him...

@@havok6280 It's been a while since I've seen Aliens, but the scene I remember is Ripely telling Burke something like "I think I trust them more than you Burke. At least they wont sell you out for a percentage!".

@@davidmarquardt2445 Paul Reiser was in the TV show Mad About You....

@@JonJon-wf5yj And the show My Two Dads. It was weird him not being a scum bag.

Paul Reiser would (much later) be able to trade on how mistrusted he was in Aliens when they introduced him as a doctor in Stranger Things. It automatically made the audience suspicious of his motives because of the actor's other famous role, and they knew that when they hired him. Brilliant casting.

I guess she is not going to like the next movie

@@matsv201 Well I hope she doesn’t watch it.

@@matsv201 It has it's moments... I hated the movie when it came out, but it grew on me over the years. It's not a totally bad movie, but it's like the Star Wars sequels - well made but with a crappy story. 😆

@@Ryotsu2112 i think it would be funny

@@DeadpoolTesla It has the same core problem as the (imaginary) Terminator sequels past 2, in that it begins by undoing something great: in those it's that there's no reason for the T-101 to sacrifice itself if Judgement Day happens anyway, here that basically everything Ripley did to protect Newt was pointless.

We all do.

That used to be my Windows shutdown sound. Classic line. I miss Bill Paxton too.

"why don't you put her in charge!?"...Love that line

A real intellectual piece of dialogue there. High art.🙄

Chekhov's power loader

@@eliberdinner4808 LMAO! No joke! I saw the comment above and was going to make the Chekov joke, as well! lol You beat me to it. :-)

I despise that line. How quickly Newt forget her real "mommy" to latch onto someone else.

What I love is he likely went into cryo-sleep with that cigar in his hand so he’d be ready.

@@HudsonDoodle I love that image.

TALK TO ME, PEOPLE!

Al Matthews said he ad-libbed the cigar scene because the girl who played Detreich kept bitching at him like "You're standing in MY light" so he was like "you think im in your light now? well watch this" so he did the cigar thing and got a bunch of praise by Cameron and showed her up. she was pissed.

“Gee would you sir? I’d like that”

Not a contention. That is a statement of fact.

“Outstanding”

Love galaxy quest!!

Sigourney looks wonderful in Galaxy Quest :)

By Grabthar's Hammer! It has to happen!

Starring Guy Fleegman

She'd love it.

Ssshhhhhhhhhhh! 😆

😂

I dunno, for a universe as cynical and dark as this one, that seems like too idyllic of an ending. This seems like the perfect franchise for a budding director to work on, though. Might not be a great movie but I bet it'd still have its charm. Almost definitely shouldn't do any more after that, though.

PREACH

That's how it should have been. I read somewhere that the original idea for the third one was to have the aliens on earth like having them stalk through corn fields - yes, that idea became "Signs". I can totally see Ripley, Hicks, and a sightly older Newt making a stand in their farmhouse and defending their new home. Could have been great.

Exactly they try and write a strong female character as anti male and anti testosterone Ripley was just a strong woman that’s it that’s all you need

Oh, yes! I have to agree! I grew up watching reruns in the 80s of the TV series _The Six Million Dollar Man_ and _The Bionic Woman,_ that were made in the 70s. Jaime Sommers (Lindsay Wagner) had all the powers you could expect of a "bionic" person: superstrength, superspeed, and so on. However, she was feminine, good-humored, kind, generous, and resolved most issues using her wits and being empathetic towards other people, instead of just using brute strength. She used her powers to go through locked doors and things like that, and only rarely to hit other people. She loved her dog, had a good friendship with her male boss (just a real friendship, nothing more) and smiled in appreciation when people gave her good-natured compliments for her looks, reacting annoyed to that only when it was done with second intentions. The character background was of a former tennis player and she wasn't tech savvy, but she was clearly intelligent, determined, and more than capable of figuring things out and making important decisions -- sometimes with personal sacrifice. An adventurous, corageous, compassionate, and -- abovel all -- believable human being. The idea that "strong female characters" have to be carbon copies of brutish men is stupid from all perspectives and all levels of analysis. And insisting that this "girl power" has to be framed by constantly bashing men adds an extra layer of stupidity. Ellen Ripley is awesome. I offer to you, also, Jamie Sommers as a different example.

It's also cool that this movie contains both types of "strong female characters": Vasquez is the more common "one of the boys" type, whereas Ripley as mentioned above is simply a smart, competent character, who is also a well-rounded female character.

@@-M0LE Precisely! Today's films simplistically think to have a strong female character that they have to be obnoxiously anti male while simultaneously embodying the worst characteristics of men.

Yeah, but if you consider the prequels and AVP movies to be canon, everyone except Ripley knew about that ship.

Exactly. And we find that out later in the scene between Ripley and Burke, which is why the added colonist scene in the Director's Cut is the only thing I don't like about it- it's redundant and takes away any suspense from what happened to them. When CBS showed this as their Sunday Night Movie in 1989, they left in all the scenes from the Director's Cut EXCEPT that one , making that version IMO the best.

@@ashscott6068 No self-respecting filmgoer considers that crap canon.

There are all sorts of problems if you start thinking about the science. It's movie logic. They might as well be breathing by magic. It doesn't matter. Just enjoy the story. It's fiction not science.

@@scp_redacted989 true, but it's tradition that science fiction is understood to be magic. In Star Wars they go to light speed. A) Light speed is too slow for space travel. B) Time dilation. No time passes at light speed. It would be impossible to leave light speed. You'd be frozen in time forever. Unless you collided with something and maybe not even then.

I remember the first time I watched this, I was kind of disappointed with the airlock, well not so much the airlock, but the fact that in the first one she was wearing a spacesuit and strapped in with a seatbelt. Which I took the spacesuit why she could breath with the airlock open, and the belt attaching her into I assume bolted in chair, why she didn't fly out into space with the Alien. Then here, even with no atmosphere processor/spacesuit, the space doesn't take away all the oxygen, and she's able to avoid being sucked into space by linking her arms, even though the pull is strong enough to drag newt almost out.

@@lmcgregoruk In reality the pressure inside the vessel would 'explode' out the moment the outer doors were opened. The pressure would stabilize (at close to vacuum) very quickly. Which would mean that, in reality, an advanced ship like that would NEVER allow both doors to be open at the same time, it would be a hard wired safety feature. Remember, there is so such thing as sucking, there is only expansion.

@@Merecir Yes, but I'm going by established movie logic here, not reality. As in what Jack Slater would expect to happen, not what actually would happen.

@@lmcgregoruk I took it as the size difference between the ships in Alien and Aliens as the explanation. One was a shuttle craft and the other a giant space faring vessel. I don't think either are 'realistic' with how they treat decompression or whatever it's called but do make sense and are consistent within this soft sci-fi franchise.

"feels so distinct and a great continuation" Yes, that is what is fantastic about Alien trilogy. Every film is fantastic but they are very different from each other. That is great. Usually movie trilogies are just more of the same. :)

@@tsogobauggi8721 Except, in the case of Alien 3, different doesn't mean better. Or even good.

When is Cameron not at his peak?

@@leonefurlan137 depends on who you ask. I personally like all of his movies but hyperbolic movie snobs will tell you that Avatar is "garbage". It's not. Some people have never suffered through actual bad movies before.

@@CrowTRobot You also like Piranha II: The Spawning ;)

Also demonstrated in the scene where Newt's dad is infected with the facehugger near the alien ship.

Terraforming, a shake & bake colony! The movie tells us several times why it had atmosphere. 😆

They manufacture those by the way.

Why the attitude?

What's a newspaper? 😁

I was scrolling uber-eats while working remotely the other day, then a banner popped up for Aliens, I clicked on it as I walked over to my couch and started streaming it. Woah, it was so good. ;)

I remember me & a friend were hanging out, being bored & looking for something to do. My friend’s sister said she was going to see the new Alien movie & we thought, “Hey, why don’t we do that.”🤣 I’d hadn’t seen Alien at that point, but I’d talked to people who had seen it & had the gist. Needless to say, this film left me pretty impressed.

@@MrRezRising Paper Facebook..

@@MrRezRising an oldspaper is a like a giant kindle for old people that doesn't scroll. It also isn't backlit.

U thing wrong .. directors cut is +25% for me (from 90 to 115 xD )

I agree and disagree, both have advantages and drawbacks. The theatrical cut, as you mentioned, does play into the tension and suspense of uncovering the mystery better than the director's cut. On the other hand, the director's cut is the version that features Ripley being a mother who lost her child and Newt as a child who lost her mother, a symmetry that I think makes it all the more powerful when the two bond as adoptive mother and daughter throughout the film. Overall, I think the theatrical is a stronger film in terms of setting and suspense, and the director's cut is a stronger film in terms of themes and character.

The good, the bad, and the okay of deleted scenes in Aliens: The short scene with the photo of Ripley's 'daughter' is one of the most important, best improvements of any scene ever restored to a special edition/directors cut. It absolutely belongs in the film, and even with the other little mother/daughter bit of dialogue in the med lab it hardly adds anything to the run time. In terms of run time it costs next to nothing to add it back in, and in terms of enhancing the theme/story/characters it adds everything. Early in my history with Aliens I had a buddy who told me about this scene because he had seen it in a behind the scenes special or read it in the novelization or something, so I basically have always watched the movie with this paradigm. I still prefer the theatrical cut (being forced to choose which available version to watch) since I already know about Ripley's daughter. 100% of the stuff at the colony before the attack is a travesty of film making. I never choose to watch the directors cut, or introduce people to the film with the directors cut because I can't stand this stuff. Not that there is anything 'wrong' with the material from a technical perspective, but I think... 1) it undercuts the thematic functions of Newt's character for us to actually see her pre-trauma. Ripley is our POV character and I prefer to be on the journey with her, only able to ever guess based on bits and scraps of information about Newts past that she finds in Newts 'nest'. There is a pathos to the loss of whoever this little girl was before tragedy struck that is an interesting parallel to the life Ripley's own daughter lived that Ripley will also only ever be able to guess about by reconstructing bits and pieces of archival information or perhaps hearing second hand from other people. Showing the audience who Newt was 'before' takes away from the film thematically and takes away from Ripley's emotional connection to Newt. Unlike with her daughter who has passed, Ripley has a chance to make up for 'lost time' with Newt, so as an audience member I prefer for that time in Newts life to be truly 'lost' to me, like... oh, let's call it... tears in the rain. 2) It's too on the nose for Newt and her family to be directly involved and present in how the Xenomorphs got unleashed on the colony. Also, with Newt and her family no doubt invested in her father's medical progress, it seems like it puts Newt too close to 'ground zero' and makes it less likely that she would be one of the last (finally the only) survivor. This is more of a nit pik and subjective opinion, but in a movie with a lot of tight scripting and 'real life' sense of stakes, this just feels like 'convenient' writing and I think it weakens the script overall. (I'm fine with convenient writing if the tone of the movie supports it. Let Shanelle react to Monster Squad and I will defend convenient plot coincidences all day long!) I knock it here because it feels out of place in a movie that mostly tends to eschew that type of writing. Mostly. 3) There is mysterious, chilling, foreboding, creepy, tones to the abandoned officescape of coffee and doughnuts on peoples desks that is ruined by showing us the 'before'. It's the section of the film that arguably best captures the 'haunted house' feel of Alien. 4) Even in the theatrical cut that I mostly love (except for missing Ripley's missing daughter) it arguably takes a long time to get into the action. It's really not worth the screen time to show us these locations twice. Showing them to us with Ripley and Co (again, with our POV characters) has lots of arguments to defend it -- building tension, informing us of the layout, etc. For pacing, one of these sets of shots needs to go -- and based on what they each add to the film -- it's clearly the 'before' stuff that needs to go. Anything of artistic value in showing us a parallel, is dwarfed in comparison to cutting the before stuff to up the spooky atmosphere and sense of dread/tension. The 'before' stuff at the colony is actually one of the only deleted scenes of any movie that I kind of wish I could un-see. Then there is all the stuff with the security guns. I can kind of take or leave that stuff. Really interesting to see how cleverly it was removed and that they were able to still make everything flow well without it. As a fan of weapons and f/x it's fun to get to see it. It's the perfect kind of gee-wiz cool stuff to see on a deleted scenes special features, but I don't feel strongly like it diminishes the film to remove it either. It adds to the run time and doesn't really move the plot forward in any meaningful way. Same for Hudson's 'bad ass' speech. Kind of glorious to see as a special features, but doesn't really tell us anything we didn't already know.

@@willarms5510 Yeah, I agree with all of this. Out of the Director's Cut stuff, the revelation about Ripley's daughter needed to stay, everything else adds little to the film and is actually deleterious to the pacing or tension. It's still great, but theatrical all of the way.

Legend! 💯

Good puppetry still looks better than 99% of CGI creatures.

The newest Planet of the Apes movies are among those rare exceptions.

CGI is over-used. The ideal way to use it is as one in an entire toolbox of special effects, not the be-all end-all. Contrast Lord of the Ring, where they used practical effects except where they needed CGI, with those dismal Hobbit movies, where it was CGI 24-7.

The early 2000s sf show Farscape used realistic puppets for its aliens (similar to the original Star Wars trilogy). The showmakers soon realised that the way to sell them as 'real' was to have the actors physically interact with them as much as possible. Touch them, manhandle them when angry, etc. Like Yoda, you know the puppet's not really alive, but at least it's clearly *there* in the room with the actors, and the light bouncing off it is actual light bouncing off real material instead of a rendering effect, and so on. Oddly enough, George Lucas of Star Wars reputedly doesn't see any difference between using puppets and using CGI. To him it's all equally fake. He seems puzzled that people think puppets look more real. But he's an odd duck in many ways...

WARNING when seen this cannot be unseen. - - - - - - When Ripley fires the flame thrower over the eggs and the alien Queen reacts to that she raises her head and that exposes the metal truss inside the chest that the head is mounted on. I did warn you. 😆

And Janelle the foster mum in T2.

She was also Diamondback in "Near Dark", and detective Meagan Shapiro in "Lethal Weapon 2". Jenette Goldstein is a legend.

Fun fact: When Jenette Goldstein auditioned, she knew absolutely nothing about the movie, she thought it was something about lives of illegal immigrants and showed up for audition in pink minidress and high heels thinking that her role would be illegal immigrant forced into prostitution or something.

Don't forget that the "Somebody said aliens, she thought they said 'illegal aliens' and signed up" is a joke about how she showed up for her audition dressed as a mexican immigrant because she didn't realise Aliens was a science fiction movie.

The other one being "Get away from her, you BITCH!"

It also works better that our first view of the colony is the same as Ripley & Co's. Going in blind matches the perspective of the main characters. I'm glad those scenes were cut in the original but accessible later on.

Hudson Sir, he's Hicks.

So true. May be my favorite video game (and Aliens is my favorite movie). I think Shanelle should do a Let’s Play of Alien: Isolation.

How about a work/vacation on board the Alterra capital ship, "Aurora"? As "Ryley Robinson," you will be Non-Essential Systems Maintenance Chief, on the way to build a Phase Gate. The "Aurora" will make a gravity-assisted turn over the unexplored ocean-Planet 4546B. If you get shore leave, you can look at the ocean denizens from a safe distance. What could go wrong? "Subnautica: A once-in-a-lifetime experience, masquerading as a game.";)

Absolutely. I bet she’d get upset when she finds out about the locker mechanic. Lol.

Literally they sell everything. You look into the deeper aliens lore and Wey-Yu literally manufactures EVERYTHING. There is not a industry they dont have products or investments in.

They even basically own the marines too.

Well, they are THE company ^^

and life insurance policies, all of which come with a clause where we also get even more of a payout from your death than even your beneficiaries get...if they get anything, because our terms are such that they'll almost never qualify for benefits upon your death.

Did I forget to mention that companies today actually are taking out life insurance policies on their employees?

Agreed! The Abyss is another one to watch!

Piranha II: The Spawning was Cameron's first film (before Terminator). It was and always will be awful. I see he's involved in four, yes, four Avatar sequels coming over the next four years. I bet they will mostly suck too.

People really believe she hasn't seen these films

@@-_James_- Yes an dreadful movie, but at least Lance Henriksen was the leading man in it.

Maybe that’s how you stop the aliens Just build a wall 🤭🤣🤣🤣

Oh dear

"She thought it was illegal aliens and signed up" Actually a true statment

Game over man! Game over!

How do I get out of this chicken sh!t outfit?

That's a mother's love.

That's when you know someone has done a good acting job.

Excellent observation, and I totally agree with this take. Theatrical cut is the best for a first watch for anyone for this very reason. (Which is why I simply don't understand why reaction channel fans always seem to pile-on beg for reactors to watch the director's cut for their first watch.)

Its imoressive to die so bad as you get your own trope.. I misssed thst one

If done today "I am Iron Man" would win.

Except this was made in 1986

Why would you want to extend that trainwreck of a film?

@@Jekyll_Island_Creatures Because its missing the whole Golic subplot - rather than him just disappearing in the theatrical cut which made no sense

I like surprises, that definately fits my internal narrative (most people imagine multiple ways he became prices, right?)

You can even hear the detonation of that grenade in the theatrical version as Ripley goes deeper into the hive.

I heard it was cut because the timeline didn't fit well given how quickly Ripley went into the hive.

@@cnkclark - That doesn't make sense either.. since there was clearly enough time for them to cocoon Newt, and Burke was grabbed before Newt was.

@@Garryck-1 I looked it up. When Ripley finds Burke in the deleted scene, he begs for help and says he can feel the chestburster moving around inside him - he's already been implanted. But Cameron realized that didn't make sense, by the established lifecycle timing Burke should have still had a facehugger attached to him. So they just cut out the scene.

There are some minor cuts too--for instance, the discussion of 'who's laying these eggs?' is a lot shorter in the theatrical cut. Hudson doesn't get to say his piece about anthives.

@@SchrodingersTransCat It's been a while since I compared both versions - I only remember the scenes that were completely cut. :)

Really? I watched it in the early 2000s, didn't realize he was the bad guy until it was made very obvious.

Totally disagree, the DC is way better than Theatrical, and is how it was ment to be seen.

How does the Director's Cut show you that Burke is the villain from the start? I mean, its been a couple of years since I watched it, but from what I remember, the only extra scene that even has Burke in it is the scene where he tells her about her daughter at the beginning of the movie isnt it? How does that scene give you any extra indication of Burke's motives? I agree though, that the scene with Newt's family is wholly unnecessary. Mostly because it kills the mystery of what happened at the colony before we get there. I mean, the movies called Aliens so we can gather that the xenomorph's were involved in the reason why the colony went dark, but I prefer the creepy, mysterious aspect of not knowing exactly what happened until the marines arrive and they have to piece it all together.

@@Bodanki It's been years since I watched either, but I just remember getting that impression. The courtroom scene is extended as is the scene where Burke recruits her in the apartment.as I remember it, both have dialogue that convinces you that the company has far from reformed, that it's all about the money, and that there's a decent chance this isn't a rescue mission. And Burke by extension may be a baddy.

My mom took myself and my younger sister to see Aliens in the theater when I was 10 or 11. I was on the edge of my seat for so long my hands started shaking on the way home, coming down from the adrenaline rush. Great theater experience!

Well indeed. Don't show horror films to kids.

“Why don’t you put her in charge!”

He managed to be in both the alien and predator franchises

@@Revanbzn And Terminator. In fact he holds the unique distinction of being killed on screen by a Terminator (T1), a Predator (Predator 2), and a Xenomorph (Aliens). Lance Henriksen almost makes the cut if you count Bishop being torn apart in Aliens, which I dont, since he is clearly alive after. He was killed by a Terminator in T1 and a Predator in AvP.

totally agree.

The second time I saw Aliens, I thought I must have had an aneurism, as I didn't remember that scene from the first time I saw the show.

Which book? or are you joking?

@@skaraturbo -- I can't remember if it was in the book, or the screenplay / script. I know it wasn't shot which is a shame.

@@skaraturbo I think David is referring to the novelisation, written as part of the marketing for the release of the movie. They're often based on early drafts of the script/screenplay because the author has to start writing them in advance--so they tend to differ from the finished film in odd ways, and can provide an insight into work-in-progress ideas that were dropped. For instance, the novelisation of the first Alien movie has the crew waking up from cryo-sleep naked rather than in their undies. (Apologies if you already know this stuff--wasn't clear from your comment.)

@@skaraturbo The novelization of Aliens was done by legendary SF writer Alan Dean Foster, who also did the original novelization for a small flick named Star Wars, among many others 😁

@@johnirving5949 Is there a way to get that novel today?

Except Cameron was forced to cut his film by the studio, so he didn't have ultimate decision making power. He did get to choose what to remove, but his hand was forced by Fox. So the theatrical cut was more of a producer's cut, not a director's cut.

@@jmwild1 Indeed. Cameron did not have that sort of clout yet in 1986.

Agreed, Cameron knew the perfect moment when to cut the scene.

And so the tobacco industry invented vaping

As a kid growing up in the 70’s, I can relate. Every trip in the car was us 3 kids in the back seat while my parents were both chain smoking in the front with the air conditioning on. That shit really burns your eyes and you have to crack the window and stick your nose up to it to try to get fresh air. There constantly smoked at home too, of course.

Not killing doesn't mean not hurting you lol

It's often said that restrictions encourage creativity. If you can't do everything you want, you have to come up with something clever to get around the problem. The result often turns out better than your original plan. Like the malfunctioning shark in Jaws forcing Spielberg to avoid showing it as much as possible, which made that film much more suspenseful. Cameron really knew how to make the most of a low budget and a tight deadline. Thanks, Roger Corman!

He was also in Dog Day Afternoon, Cool flick, with Al Pacino and the GOAT of Character actors John Cazale.

@@jypziiatthecrossroads9047 He was also in Network.

@@jypziiatthecrossroads9047 Not to forget his leading performance in James Cameron's first movie. Piranha II: The Spawning.

There were a huge storm in the first movie to though!

What's terrifying is that if she hadn't, or had never been recovered, they would have kept terraforming and exploring and by the time they did come across the derelict even more people would have died, and it possibly could have gotten off easier as the company would have been all over it.

"She's not my mother, Todd" - John Conner

I saw the theatrical version and felt something was missing. The Special Edition Laserdisc (!) answered that question and the added footage "made my day." The question? How did Ripley "get close, quickly" to Rebecca? "Sisterhood" was on reviewer's answer, but that rang hollow.

This is usually called "superior position" in scriptwriting, the idea is the tension comes from _you_ knowing what's going to happen to oblivious characters rather than from not knowing. Granted, whether it works or not is a personal matter. Though in this case it's a bit hard to make your argument since we know it's the same planet from the boardroom scene and that it will be aliens because the film is called Aliens.