"Alien 3" released 1992

Alien 3, released May 22, 1992, is the third installment of the Alien franchise, and just might be the worst of them, IMHO.  It was featured on a youtube.com channel as one of the top 10 movies that pissed off their audiences in the first scene.

Sigourney Weaver reprises her role as Ellen Ripley, and the movie takes place only days or weeks after the events Aliens.  A malfunction aboard the military ship causes the life pods containing Ripley, Hicks and Newt, to be ejected.  They crash-land on a prison colony planet.  And the aliens arrive on the same escape pod and begin to wreak havoc.

Michael Biehn (Corporal Hicks) found of that his character was written out of the third movie and so he refused to have anything to do with the film, even not allowing them to use his image. Carrie Henn (Newt) probably could not have recreated her role, since there were six years between movies, but only weeks between the events in the movies.

Alien 3 was nominated for an Academy Award, for Best Visual Effects.

"The Terminator" released 1984

The Terminator, the blockbuster directed by James Cameron and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Lance Henriksen and Michael Biehn, was released October 26, 1984.

It opened to mainly positive reviews, a rare 100% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and has spawned 5 sequels.  It won three Saturn Awards (Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films) in 1985 for Best Science Fiction Film, Best Writing and Best Make-up.  

"The Abyss" released 1989

The Abyss, James Cameron's underwater sci-fi flick, was released August 9, 1989.  It starred Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, and Michael Biehn.  The story is about a group of diving experts who are called upon to help recover a sunken nuclear submarine.  In the process, they discover underwater aliens.  It was kind of an underwater Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

It was a box office success and received good reviews.  It won an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects.