James Cameron's Best Special Effects

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During the making of Aliens, Cameron, then still a young director, often clashed with many of his cast and crew members, who viewed him as too inexperienced to fill the shoes of the esteemed director Ridley Scott. Because The Terminator had not yet been released in the U.K., where Aliens was made, the British crew had little knowledge of Cameron's work. Years later, Sigourney Weaver, who starred as Ellen Ripley in Aliens, would once again work with the visionary director in a little film featuring blue-skinned humanoid creatures.

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