Seconded. The Assembly Cut of Alien3 is my favorite of all the films, with Aliens in second and Alien third, I don't consider the crap that is Alien: Resurrection part of the Alien continuity.
I find it kinda funny you always like the ones everyone else thinks was utter shit.
Yeah but it was still better than A3, the fact that they killed off two of the main characters at the start and then they tried to use the CGI which looked like crap, and pretty much killed off the people that should've stayed alive. The whole thing in itself was boring and wasn't something I care to watch again.
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To each his own Friend. I to was against killing off Michael Biehn's character and the little girl. You knew he got paid extra for that didn't you? He insisted when he found out he was not doing the whole film.
I liked P2 better because it concentrated more on the Predators, and I liked Alien3 because it didn't make the Alien character a stupid bug like Aliens did and because of it's darker atmosphere and music. The characters were pretty cool; Dillon is the religious leader who keeps his men together, Morse is the smartass, Aaron '85' is the Company Man who's just in it for the income and Clemens is the sympathetic doctor. The only fault I have with Alien3 is that it wasn't scary enough and the CGI, but other than that, it's pretty good.
I recommend you see the 'Assembly Cut' that comes in the Alien Quadrilogy set, it's MUCH better than Theatrical Cut that Fox themselves bastardized.
Did anyone else laugh their ass off when the hot chick got nailed to the wall by Wolf's disc?
I liked the movie a lot, being a fanboy of both franchises, but a couple of things irritated me:
-Wasn't their an elder Yautja on the ship that was housing the predalien's host...and wasn't that ship significantly larger than the one that crashed in Colorado in this movie? Surely an Elder could have ended the threat quickly enough...
- The xeno's really didn't have that 'alien' feel. They felt slow and rubbery, not agile and terrifying.
- Both races seemed to be holding back. There were several times Wolf could have given the coup-de-grace to many xenos, but instead just battered them around. Same goes for the big predalien; when Wolf was holding the two xenos by the throat (another example of both races holding back), the predalien could have easily stabbed him with his tail instead of knocking him away, which seems very uncharacteristic of xenos.
Other than a few things like the ones above, I though the movie was pretty good other than the human element.
Yes, i guess an excuse for the writers is that they could have separated, like a part of the ship was left circling around earth while the main big ship went on with its business? no idea.. just a guess
I agree with many of the things you said (especially the girl getting pinned to the wall), but I think that the PredAlien might have preferred using its tail as a club rather than a stabbing weapon.
The Elder might've been killed off screen.
Nope, they were trying to tie it in to the first ALIEN movie that way they could set up AVP3 in space, from what one of the director's told us over at AVPGalaxy's forums.
Movie-wise? Maybe. Box Office-wise? Not really. So far, it's made lower than the first AVP(Which made that much $$$ mostly due to hype and being shown at 800 more theaters than AVP-R is showing at).
Well what was that thing at the end of the movie that that dud had in the suitcase. It was a Yautja device and when that guy was looking at the pred onscreen he said something like"what are you?" he was speaking of the predator.
Of course the 1st did better box-office wise. It was the original with all of the hype. Does it mean it was a better movie? No. Nobody wants to see a story with these kinds of movies(atleast I don't) I pay the admission fee to see them duke it out onscreen.
Btw The Predator(no pun intended), how do you quote different statements like you did mine?
1. Of course. Supposedly, they wanted it to show that that device would have a hand in creating all the futuristic stuff in ALIEN and it's sequels.
2. He was looking at an Alien, not the Predator.
Exactly. Well, except I disagree with the story part. ALIENS couldve just been a mindless Marines Vs. Aliens film, but Cameron bothered to make a great story with it, which made it all the more better. Same with all the other films except A:R, AVP and essentially, AVP-R.
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