Aliens


Here we go. lets list all the similarities to Aliens!

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Calm down, everyone. Let's not all go at once.

And seriously, let's start with a Terminator 2 reference instead: when the kids break into the complex, they sure do look like John Connor and his friend cracking the ATM machine, don't they?

By the way, here's another great bad Aliens ripoff: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098321/.

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The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.

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The pacing of Shocking Dark is criminal and can't compare to C2's pacing. I would not recommend it for that sole reason. A way better and actually good Alien-inspired movie is Dog Soldiers. A unit of soldiers, Scottish woods and werewolves.

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General plot: People at an outpost get killed by creatures. A representative of the people who own it organizes a team to reestablish contact. Once inside they discover the horrible truth, find a child, and the team is attacked. When they try to escape the vehicle that brought them in crashes and explodes. It also turns out that everything will all go boom in a matter of hours. Someone has to hack into the system to bring in the evac. Insert uncomfortably close moment between main protagonist and child. The lights go red and the creatures attack the Operations room and bunch the team up in a small area. To escape they climb through the vents. One wounds their leg and another stays behind and they sacrifice themselves so the others can continue on. However one of them falls down deep into the facility. Not long thereafter evac arrives but one character decides to go and save the person who fell down into the facility so they go down a freight elevator. After finding the person, they meet the big one and go back up the elevator... However the creature has followed them back up and out and has to be fought with heavy machinery and thrown down a shaft to its doom before it's finally over.
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McQuaid's outfit is almost exactly the same as Burke's.
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Hudson: That's it man, game over man, game over! What the *beep* are we gonna do now? What are we gonna do?
-C2 equivalent-
Monk: No, what the hell are we going to do? The chopper's not feeling well! So what the hell are we going to do? Reed?
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Newt: We gotta get inside. It's gonna be dark soon, and they mostly hunt at night. Mostly.
-C2 equivalent-
Jesse: It's not safe here.
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Hudson: Ho, that's beautiful, man. Oh man, that that... that just beats it all...
-C2 equivalent-
Monk: This *beep* just great. So we're going to die in this stupid *beep* hole!
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Hudson: What do you mean, "*They* cut the power"? How could they cut the power, man? They're animals!
-C2 equivalent-
Monk: Figured out? What do you mean "figured out" man? Their lizards man!
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There's also the conversation between Reed and Jesse in the side room of Operations, the one where Jesse asks "Do you have any kids Reed?" It's almost word for word copied from a similar scene between Ripley and Newt.

That's all I can think of right now, I'm sure there's more.

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