Tears For Fears – Everybody Wants To Rule The World
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Aliens
23 May 2021 Leave a comment
Aliens (1986) Director: James Cameron
“You’re going out there to destroy them, right? Not to study. Not to bring back, but to wipe them out?“
★★★★☆
Aliens is a remarkable action film. In some ways it is James Cameron’s radical departure from the classic original Alien (1979) which was directed by Ridley Scott. By all accounts it should have been a cheap, sophomoric effort but Aliens is a surprisingly powerful roller-coaster of a sequel. Beset by roadblocks and lawsuits, a sequel to Alien was delayed for some seven years.
Aliens picks up 57 years after the original. Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) has been floating through space while in stasis and she happens to be picked up and returned to members of her company at the “Weyland-Yutani Corporation.” She explains to them what happened to the Nostromo, but the leadership do not believe her story about an alien race on…
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The Great Escape
23 May 2021 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape
How safe are nuclear weapons?
23 May 2021 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: Atomic weapons
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