Anyone here watch this in the theater when it came out in 1986?

Loved it at the theatres and everyone was jokingly copying all of Hudson’s lines after.

“Game over, man...game over!”

Yes. I saw it in a packed theater and the movie hit every note it wanted to. Very memorable experience.

Tiniest complaint from experience:

ANY important line that was uttered after one of Hudson's rants was completely lost thanks to the audience laughing (myself included)

Worst Offense: Bishop says he'd rather not go, he may be synthetic but he's not an idiot. Never heard that line until the VHS came out because of what preceded it: Hudson saying, about Bishop being the only one qualified to remote-pilot the dropship, "hey that's right, Bishop should go ... GOOD IDEA!"

That line, plus Vasquez looking disgusted, brought the house down.

Best part to me: Gorman pulling out the grenade & arming it, with the close-up on Vasquez. Never had the same impact on a smaller screen.

It was a pretty intense experience. I was only twelve at the time, and it was possibly my first rated R movie at the theater. My late aunt took me. She liked horror movies.

I saw it twice in theaters when it first came out. I almost never do that.

I saw it in ‘86 in Sherman, Texas. It was amazing! Probably the most tense/intense movie-going experience (for me) since JAWS.

I saw it twice in successive weeks in the Odeon Leicester Square. It was awesome. There was gasps and "oohs" and when Ripley walked out in the Loader, there was a real cheer after her line.

Definite positive experience!!!