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Alien 3 (Collector's Edition) [Import]

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many people didn't like alien 3 alot. i can't see why that is!! what? just cause there any guns!? that's dumb, alien 3 had cool effects and robotics and things like that! not to mention good acting. sure, i like aliens better..but alien 3 comes next on my list. this one was great and i don't care what anybody else says.

The first two films were masterful, but the third one is so full of holes that there's nothing solid. Consider this: how could that face hugger (ignoring that it probably couldn't have boarded the space ship to begin with) inject an egg into Ripley, and still be alive? If you remember what they said in the first two, the parasites die after their job is complete. Also, if this thing is alive long enough to impregnate a poor dog on the prison planet, why does the alien burst out of its chest immediatley, promtly grow up, and kill everyone, while the alien inside Ripley dosen't make its appearence unitl the end of the film?

With these complaints aside, the film fails to create suspense. This is because we know Ripley will die after seeing the first shot in the movie. Then the other survivors with her--Newt, Hicks, and Bishop--who you will not want to see die, are killed off at the very beginning. The only people on the planet are convicts in a maximum security pen. With no one to route for, you'll be glad to see the alien eliminate the entire cast.

The creature itself is impressive here, but the concept is essentially a re-hash of the first film, gaining nothing (except cash) from the repetition. As a result, the film is not exciting, scary, or even very interesting. It's only dark, tiring, and depressing.

Perfect camerawork, exelent directing, very good music ... the best movie of the year 1992. The dramatic ending is very sad and enjoyable.

The other 3 were great. This movie was terrible, why spend Aliens trying to save Newt then have an uneventfull death at the beginning of 3. Clearly, the worst of the series.

The first two entries in the Alien world were beautifully crafted, cohesive, actually believable stories, and I have only good things to say about them. Three was an awful disappointment, but based on the absurd premises, uncommitted direction and writing, and general ham-handling of it, the result was perhaps the best we could hope for. It's a lot of gray, yellow and black motion brought to you by a director who should have known better than to tell a two-hour story with Nike-ad blur-and-flash action shots.

One of the worst ways to ruin a sequal, in my opinion, is to kill off the survivors of the previous in the very begging. (What's the point in having them survive, then?) Not only does it hurt the sequal, but deminishes the previous as well.

Then there is the whoel problem of how the eggs got there in the first place.

If you want a good sequal to "Aliens", find the Dark Horse comics versions. They are "Aliens: Book 1", "Aliens: Book2", and "Aliens: Earthwar".

Awful, awful, awful, awful. It was rumoured prior to the making of Alien 3 that Ms. Weaver was unwilling to grind out more Alien sequels. Perhaps this is why she helped co-produce this abomination - to kill the series! Amazingly Ms. Weaver was honored with an Oscar nomination for her Ripley role in "Aliens", who becomes a juggernaut of a protective mother when pushed (either to protect the marines lost in the maze of Aliens at the plant or protecting Newt. Obviously the "Alien 3" filmmakers decided the mother daughter plot in that film didn't warrant further exploration and instead turned Ripley into a weakling. This was a major psychological mistake since people who jump into the fray are generally very strong characters internally, so it's unlikely Ripley would have ever retreated in the scared bunny routine that begins this tale of so much woe. Pity, there was a lot more potential in the mother daughter relationship than this mess.

Furthermore, no matter what anyone suggests about this DVD version with additional footage, there is NO satisfactory EXPLANATION given for a supposedly laid egg by the Alien Queen to GET INSIDE the ship when she was located in a crevice OUTSIDE the SHIP piloted by Lance Henriksen. Not to mention Ripley DESTROYING the Queen's EGG SACK that the QUEEN actually SEPARATED HERSELF FROM before chasing after Ripley carrying Newt in the exploding air manufacturing plant. You see it works like this, NO egg sack, NO eggs. Sad, just sad. Next, how the hell did the Face hugger from this egg that couldn't have existed get inside Ripley's hybernation chamber? Remember that in "Alien" it dissolved through John Hurt's helmet to get to his face, yet Ripley's chamber cover had not been melted or damaged in any way, so how? HOW? HOW? Regardless what you think of the acting ability of Dutton or Weaver, if a film begins on a screwed up premise (remember Highlander II and the orginal Highlander?) nothing the actors can do will save it. Don't even get me started on Alien 4 -- a parasitic host zenomorph that combines at DNA level? To quote another sci-fi great "Don't insult my intelligence!"

The Alien Series started getting very bad and silly starting with this thrid film. These filmmakers just want to make a profit from foolish fans who don't know any better.

Fox completely botched the entire Alien series with this piece of garbage. They basically stole Vincent Ward's ideas and butchered his script and made one hell of a mundane sci/fi film. The original Alien 3 story by Ward was that Ripley crashes on an artificial planet made out of wood. This wooden planet was home to exiled monks who rejected technology and instead of the monks we get predictable violent prisoners. The monks were all sexually attracted to Ripley but the Abbot of the monks wanted Ripley killed for he believed she brought the devil and that technology is what brought it to them, which they of course oppose. There would have been a scene where this Alien is chasing monks through a wheatfield and it adapts to its environment, becoming a chameleon and it would have looked like wheatstraw. Mindblowing, inventive ideas. The original idea for Alien 3 is AMAZING and I think this film should still be made. It was said that they couldn't make the wooden planet because it would defy the laws of physics even for hollywood. Also a hallucination scene of the alien gave it a "human element"...like Riley trying to save Newt in Aliens wasn't a human element? Fox just wanted to cash in quick and the fans got screwed over from what could have possibly been one of the most incredible science fiction films ever. Fincher actually saved 3 from being even worse than what it was. He had no control over this and he wasn't even working with a finished script throughout the film, entirely not his fault.

Horrible film... where it may turn on the Goths, it disgusts me. Here, we have two very awesome character - who, despite what some cynics say, people cared about; Newt, and Hicks...and look what they do with them. They could've expanded those characters into some real cool character, but NOOooo. Don't watch this movie, if you're a fan Aliens and Alien. It's a BIG let down.