I liked this more than Aliens, saw the assembly cut first. The plot and design was interesting, the characters were stro
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Alien³
Grenn78 — 9 years ago(January 24, 2017 06:04 AM)
I liked this more than Aliens, saw the assembly cut first. The plot and design was interesting, the characters were strong and it expanded the world a little bit. It didn't tread on the original movie's toes either.. unlike Aliens with the stupid Alien Queen.
It had a real Super Metroid-esque vibe to it which I liked a lot, switched things up a little bit with the design.. and I liked how rough around the edges it was.
David Fincher is wrong to say beep about this movie. Even Charles Dance has come out and said he thinks it's better than Aliens.. I really don't get the hate. I accept Alien 3 as the true ending of the saga, Resurrection doesn't exist to me. -
Snake_MacReady82 — 9 years ago(January 24, 2017 11:50 AM)
David Fincher is wrong to say beep about this movie.
Although I like Alien3, Fincher had to suffer through the hellish production of this movie. That gives him the right to say or not say whatever he wants about it.
It didn't tread on the original movie's toes either.. unlike Aliens with the stupid Alien Queen.
How did the Queen tread on Alien's toes? Maybe the Queen and whatever drones were on the Jockey ship died of old age or entered a deep hibernation state decades beforehand.
Oh, waitThere
was
a Queen in Alien3!
I accept Alien 3 as the true ending of the saga, Resurrection doesn't exist to me.
I gotta agree with you there. But Ron Perlman makes Resurrection at least watchable. With plenty of fast-forwarding.
Thit and thpin! -
Hansen9000 — 9 years ago(February 07, 2017 02:49 PM)
First if all, theatrical version=poopoo. Special Edition=On par. The special edition/assembly cut (whatever people like to call it) does a much better job at depicting the lives of the prisoners before Ripley arrived and turned everything to shizzle. For instance, the scene where the two prisoners are towing the dead ox, they're bantering and breaking balls, unaware of the horrors about to befall them; the scene with Tywin walking in solitude on the beach before he finds the EEV, him clearly being one who has lost his place in society and, despite being quite capable and intelligent, relegates himself to tending to lowlifes, which in turn mirrors the quasi-religious life that all the lost souls on the prison planet have adapted to bring meaning to their own painful existence, which also mirrors how Ripley has lost everything to the Alien, and struggles to find meaning in this prison sht-hole, what with Newt, Hicks and Bishop gone; the montage where Ripley and the prisoners band together to trap the Alien and, once again, the prisoners are bantering and unionizing to banish evil (all that scene was missing was Eye Of The Tiger). It's all quite beautiful (much like the cinematography, which is some of the best I've ever seen).
And that BS in the theatrical where the Alien pops out of her chest while she's falling? I've seen less laughable death scenes on Mystery Science Theater 3000. It's much more dignified for her to just fall into the lead, on her own terms. Although, that effect looks like sht. In both versions. But that's nitpicking!
It might sound like I'm being sarcastic, but I'm not. The only thing wrong with alien 3 is that it's called "alien 3". If it had been an original movie, instead of a sequel to two very different movies, it would have done much better. When they sell the movie as "Sigourney Weaver as Ripley lands on prison planet with Xenomorph on board", people have certain expectations. Whereas if the the tagline was "Mysterious woman lands on prison planet with mysterious alien on board (totally not a Xenomorph, btw) and has to adapt to the hostile inhabitants, whilst also warning them of the danger they're in", it would be very compelling. It's a good movie with polarized characters that band together to fight a common enemy. I love it.
Special effects suck, though. Looks like something out of a 90's videogame cutscene. Nitpicking!
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