The thread and the forum are fine.
I voted before people made comments so I'll add this.
Aliens is a solid action film but it's cinematic and artistic merits are well below Alien in my opinion.
The first film is better directed, better acted, better scored, has better art direction and is better shot.
Aliens has the same B-movie roots as the first film but it is more of a direct translation of the films that inspired it (it's Them! 80's style).
Alien took a B-movie style plot and elevated it to a piece of serious cinema (it's only superficially It The Terror From Beyond Space for the 70's).