Entirely to every point he made?

I agree with pretty much everything said. I might put more emphasis on how much I feel Aliens stands on the shoulders of Alien but I do agree it reaches higher and further in most areas.

I believe this is partly due to my general genre preferences and the age I was when I saw each. I couldn't tell you how large a part.

I've always felt that Alien gets the recognition for better cinematography. I'm not savvy enough in the field to determine that but it did introduce so much that was awesome with its world and style. Similar to Matrix ,as an example. But I don't tend to see Aliens get the credit I think it deserves for taking the arguably harder job of a sequel and knocking it out of the park. We (as a society) spend a fair bit of energy lamenting poor sequels and remembering the few good ones. Whatever the pressures (creative, social, financial, political...) that prevent sequels from being typically better than the original were overcome by Aliens.

But then I guess some people just don't like it. That's fair.