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<p dir="auto"><strong>Drooch</strong> — <em>9 years ago(October 17, 2016 05:36 PM)</em></p>
<p dir="auto">After much deliberation, and as much as I really like Alien 3, I don't consider it a legitimate instalment of the Alien story (all those made after Alien 3 are, obviously, not canon either, because they're sht). I can't get past the decision to wipe out all of the characters we loved from Aliens, in whose futures we had invested. It wasn't an artistic decision, it was born of studio madness and star egomania.<br />
The series ended with Ripley and her new family - Hubby Hicks, Newt Kid and crazy Uncle Bishop hyper-sleeping in the Sulaco, and Alien 3 is a weird nightmare, to be broken only by another legitimate Alien film (possibly Blomkamp's proposed Aliens sequel..?)</p>
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<p dir="auto">Its Canon bro.<br />
Homo No Homo<br />
MAGA<br />
4<br />
L1F3</p>
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<p dir="auto">Oh well as long as you've made that decision…<br />
My password is password.</p>
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<p dir="auto">Try to stay on topic.</p>
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<p dir="auto">Make me, Hitler.<br />
My password is password.</p>
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<p dir="auto">Try to stay on topic.</p>
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<p dir="auto">Well HEIL HITLER, bitch!<br />
Any other commands that poster should be obeying?<br />
My password is password.</p>
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<p dir="auto">Try to stay on topic.</p>
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<p dir="auto">Would you date a black girl?</p>
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<p dir="auto">Your previous post would beg to differ.<br />
Thit and thpin!</p>
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<p dir="auto">Hell nah n i g g a, those movies are trash.</p>
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<p dir="auto">Maybe you should just stick to the Friday the 13th films.<br />
Thit and thpin!</p>
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<p dir="auto">Alien 3<br />
doesn't show Aliens as being these stupid bugs that get killed all the time. That single Alien in<br />
Alien 3<br />
was on a rampage. I want to see Aliens as strong, unstoppable beasts!<br />
Suck my dick n i g g a.</p>
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<p dir="auto">At least in Alien 3, you don't see Aliens getting killed by humans in every 5 fvcking seconds.<br />
Instead we see random, mostly indistinguishable guys getting killed every five seconds. This was more of a slasher movie than a proper horror movie.<br />
Thit and thpin!</p>
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<p dir="auto">Sure. If someone thinks<br />
AvP<br />
is canon, even tho it's clearly<br />
NOT<br />
canon, it must be canon to them since that is what they want to believe.<br />
If someone thinks<br />
Prometheus<br />
isn't canon, even tho it clearly<br />
IS<br />
canon, it must not be canon to them since that is what they want to believe.</p>
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<p dir="auto">And yet if someone decides that it's not canon for them, then it isn't for them.  No matter how much you say it<br />
IS<br />
canon.</p>
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<p dir="auto">You know I'm right, just admit it.</p>
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<p dir="auto">Haha! Thanks</p>
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<p dir="auto">Nope, you're wrong. Whether you like the movie or not,<br />
Alien 3<br />
is canon.<br />
Plus, who gives a donkey's ass about Hicks and Newt? Hicks was just a soldier, that's it. People like Hicks simply because he was played by Michael Biehn, if Hicks were played by a different actor, no one would give a shlt about Hicks. And people like Michael Biehn just because he was in the first<br />
Terminator<br />
film. I'm pretty sure it's safe to say no one watched<br />
Terminator<br />
for Michael Biehn but watched it for Arnold instead.<br />
and Newt was just a little kid who would<br />
"AAAAAAAGH! RIPLEYYY! AAAAAAAGH!"<br />
She was annoying as fvck. Thank God they kill her in the beginning of<br />
Alien 3<br />
and we never have to worry about her annoying ass screaming again. Seriously, her character was pointless. James Cameron wanted Newt in<br />
Aliens<br />
just to add that useless mother/daughter relationship.<br />
Until someone makes a film that contradicts the events in<br />
Alien 3<br />
,<br />
Alien 3<br />
IS<br />
canon, and<br />
Alien 3<br />
(Assembly Cut) is way better than<br />
Aliens<br />
.<br />
Alien 3<br />
is dark, gothic, brutal, and I love the religious tone in the film. And the idea of Xenomorphs taking their hosts' genes and the quadrupedal Xenomorph were awesome.<br />
At least in<br />
Alien 3<br />
, you don't see Aliens getting killed by humans in every 5 fvcking seconds.</p>
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<p dir="auto">Nice. A really tacky spinoff series called<br />
Alien: Hyperdreams<br />
could be quite fun. We see the hyperdreams of each major character from the series,<br />
John Hurt could come back for a cameo - he dreams about himself in old age, now married to a chestburster. Or Burke fantasising about all that money he could have made, driving in a Ferrari, draped in fresh whores, one of them a just-legal Newt.<br />
Wet Hyperdreams<br />
hosted by Spunkmeyer. The possibilities are endless</p>
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<p dir="auto">At the time I said the next film should be called Alien 3.1 - and that Alien 3 was a hypersleep dream.  Which could just about have been plausible as Ripley said to Newt at the end of Aliens something like 'sleep tight and don't dream'.</p>
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<p dir="auto">I agree OP.  I cannot accept all of Hicks, Newt and Bishop being dead, right off the bat.  As far as I'm concerned the Ripley story ends in Aliens.  I'll call the others parallel universe stories or whatever. And this one a nightmare.</p>
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<p dir="auto">I see it this way.  We all agree Resurrection was a disaster.  I want Alien 3 Assembly Cut to be cannon, but as Ripley's Dream.<br />
James Cameron was FURIOUS when he saw Alien 3 originally because they immediately destroyed the audience's love for Hicks and Newt.<br />
Either way I love Alien 3 Assembly Cut.  I wish they would spend a little money on fixing the goofy CGI used.  But I'm okay with this being a dream sequence.  Supposedly, Blomkampf's version will have Sigourney Weaver, Michael Beign, and CARRIE HENN!  The girl that played Newt and never acted again.<br />
If that turns out true, then it makes sense Ripley dreamed Alien 3, and maybe some compromise was done to their cryosleep capsules and they aged.<br />
Hence a TRUE SEQUEL to Aliens.  <img src="https://filmglance.com/discuss/assets/plugins/nodebb-plugin-emoji/emoji/android/1f642.png?v=8570fb93240" class="not-responsive emoji emoji-android emoji--slightly_smiling_face" style="height:23px;width:auto;vertical-align:middle" title=":)" alt="🙂" /></p>
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<p dir="auto">Well, anything after Alien 3 is complete junk, albeit with slight variations of crapness, including the odd memorable sequence here and there, but no sane person could say that Resurrection nor any AvP film is canon.<br />
Alien 3 presents a problem, however, because it is very good in many ways with much to admire, and I could totally understand a person seeing it as the legitimate end of a great trilogy. For me, I can't get past the decision to casually wipe out all of the Aliens survivors, after their epic ordeal, huge losses along the way, incredible hair's-breadth escapes in action sequences that pushed the boundaries of cinema, and final elegant closure. To crap on Cameron's masterpiece in this way is incredibly disrespectful, and I am forced to reciprocate that disrespect - Alien 3 isn't canon. It's a hyper sleep nightmare at best, and the real sequel to Aliens is yet to come</p>
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<p dir="auto">Unfortunately after Alien 3 the whole franchise became so muddled up especially when you count the predator crossovers it's hard to say what is canon anymore and what isn't.</p>
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