Bingowings said:

Cameron copied Ridley's lighting and much of the plot points but the tone is more comedic and cheesy, it has some awful special effects, the score is terrible...mostly and the choice of aspect ratio really does make the film look a lot cheaper and less epic than it needed to.

It's a solid action film (one of the best of the decade) with some really fun moments but it's not in the same league as the really troubling handsomely mounted horror of Alien.

Bingo is getting a lot of crap for his feelings on Aliens, but I completely agree with him. Aliens really isn't much more than a silly action film. It isn't even a shadow of the greatness of the first film, it really is just an action flick set in the same universe and using the same main character as the first film.