I’ll never understand Alien³
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Alien³
Melton1 — 2 weeks ago(March 17, 2026 04:14 AM)
When you’ve made something as objectively awesome, groundbreaking, timeless and successful as Aliens, why in the name of God’s butthole would you trash it like Fox did with Alien3?
The incredible hair’s-breadth escapes and meaningful character journeys are rendered utterly worthless by 3’s demented decision to kill off everyone, including giving Ripley the indignity of having an Alien queen burst out of her chest.
Normally studios make **** sequels because they get greedy. Not here. They made a small, weird, alienating film that was never going to have the kind of mass appeal of its predecessor, and bricked in the mouths of everyone who loved Aliens and would have followed the adventures of Ripley and her pals to edge of the universe. I expect studios to commit artistic suicide, but
financial
suicide??
To add to the insanity, Fox hire a newbie, Fincher, to direct, and then do everything in their power to stop him making a good film. Stabbing him in the back, front, tying him up and dunking him upside down in molten lead. Such was the trauma that Fincher, who has gone on to greatness, completely disowns the film.
I know that Sigourney wanted to kill off Ripley, remove all guns and various other stupid decisions, but when a star starts going nutso like that you don’t buckle. Leave her out for a film or two if you have to and wait for her to come to her senses as her career declines (as she surely enough did when she came crawling back for the godawful Resurrection)
To make things worse, when Ridley comes back to make his Alien prequels he farted all over Aliens again with his origin story which rejects the whole queen alien concept. Fox took yet another dump on their masterpiece.
I’ll never understand Alien3. I actually like the Assembly Cut but there’s no way in hell I’ll ever consider it canon. As it is the Alien series ends with Aliens, which is crazy because that franchise could have been a never-ending gold mine for Fox. -
Melton1 — 2 weeks ago(March 17, 2026 02:03 PM)
I considered it but then I considered the odds of someone who hasn’t seen Alien³ actually reading the OP and decided it was simply unnecessary.
I’ll reconsider depending on what kind of response this topic gets.