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Originally Posted by Targan
The 1987 film Near Dark has several of the actors from Aliens in it including Jenette Goldstein, Lance Henriksen and Bill Paxton. Not a bad film IMO.
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Ah yes, I remember it. I always referred to it as "trailer park vampire movie"
And I did like it.
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The Wikipedia article on Aliens shows the full names of the Colonial Marines (many of which I didn't know) and its interesting that the writers used the actors' real first names for the characters they played.
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I'm terrible when it comes to naming NPCs*. I used the names of some of the characters when I had to name some US Marines for a 1941 adventure. For an adventure set in 1942, I'm using names from Dog Soldiers ...
* PCs are worse. First, there was an AD&D fighter named Morgan. Then there was an Aftermath drifter named Morgan. Then a Traveller ex-Scout named Morgan Fuchida. Now, a Star Trek character named Neko Morgan ...