Alien3

Alien3

Oh Alien3.... so many mixed emotions.... so much to say about this film... most of it hate. Released in 1992 and directed by first timer David Fincher who went on to direct little films called fight club, se7en and the social network. The style and look of the film is excellent even if it does include some ropey early 90's CGI but its dark, grainy and moody. After the events of Aliens something goes wrong with the ship Ripley, Newt, Bishop and Hicks are on board and it ejects their lifeboat crash landing on a prison plant populated by only men, Ripley is the only survivor so no one mention rape, ok?.... Funnily enough the only people raped were the AUDIENCE! Newt, Hicks and Bishop all die in the first five minutes of the film, characters we invested in and cared about in Aliens, sound movie, real sound.

Best Bit

Hmmmmm good things about the movie are the fact it goes back to just one alien like in the original, Which is kinda cool because on the prison planet they have no weapons to fight it with so its a battle of wits to try and take the beast down. The alien in this one is different to the previous ones in that the face hugger attached to a dog so the alien took on the traits of a dog, running on four legs and what not, an interesting theory explored more in Prometheus.The creature effects are really great, the chestburster at the end is pretty cool and the dog- alien really likes to put holes in skulls. Also I liked the references to Aliens but they are so few and far between. :(

Worst bit

Ahh poor Alien3........ it was a bit fucked from the get go. Just following up to James Camerons perfect sequel was hard enough but when u kill off characters in the first five minutes you really cared about in the previous film you don't help your film that much, I can kind of get the fresh start thing but alien3 followed one of the greatest sequels of all time and shit all over it so basically Aliens didn't happen. The ending is one of the most depressing endings ever, Almost everybody dies bar one convict. Characters we begin to like are killed off way too early and Ripley is just miserable. This film is widely hated by Alien fans, I do like it but I think it was a wasted opportunity to have Ripley Newt and Hicks continue on and kick Xenomorph ass, if they have them. Also with Ripleys shaved head she looks like fucking Sinead o' Connor, Nothing compares to you Sigorney.

What it means to me

I saw Alien3 when I was pretty young about ten I think, got introduced to all the Aliens at that age. I loved the horror and how interesting it looked but also all the technology in the films and how everything worked. Even when I saw it then I thought it was depressing as fuck and nothing has changed.

Summing up

Alien3 is a good horror/sci fi film but compared to the others it really isn't as good. It ended as a trilogy but fans were so displeased with the ending that fix had to make a sequel bringing Ripley back from the dead in alien Resurrection which I shall discuss another day. But yeah Alien3 pretty good but depressing as FUCK. check it out but have something happy planned for afterwards...