Alien3 is extremely underrated, I respect and love it more with each rewatch.

@jamesabernethy7896

Ай бұрын

I love Alien 3 and I'm glad to see it getting some love in the comments.

Alien 3 is a gem of a movie in spite of the production issues. It's got powerhouse performance by all the cast and a wonderfully dark story. It's well ahead of its time and is worth watching again

@jamesabernethy7896

Ай бұрын

I'm a massive fan of the movie, I'd even dare to say it's my favourite because of the atmosphere. Although the Alien and Aliens had great casts and great performances. There are subtleties to some of the performances and you have to watch the actors and not just listen to the dialogue.

I love Alien 3. More of an arthouse movie.

@jamesabernethy7896

Ай бұрын

Despite its issues, there is some great cinematography. I love the visual style.

I've only just found this retrospective and I really enjoyed it. I'm actually a big fan of this movie,

I didn't think there would be anything new to say about Alien 3, but this was very engaging.

Greatest TRIQUEL ever made in movie history. Eeerie atmosphere, wonderful cast, amazing visuals, poor xeno CGI but it is ok. People feel like ranting crap about the movie because newt and hicks got impaled, but who cares!! Movie is awesome and still holds up.

@ArcadeMusicTribute

10 ай бұрын

for me personally the best 3rd instalment in the franchise is Nightmare on Elm Street III - The Dream Warriors :3

@teletranoats7491

10 ай бұрын

@@ArcadeMusicTribute Patricia Arquete was in her prime. Loved that one too

@georgelea4297

3 ай бұрын

It's not " bad CGI " it's mostly a Rod Puppet with bad composition

I was so anxious to see this in 1992 and left disappointed. At the time, i was just 16 years old and over time, I've learned to appreciate the film. My senior year in high school, I wrote my own version of how I wanted this film to go and I totally forget how it went other than I left Hicks alive while letting Newt die in the crash. Great video!

Just finished watching all 3 of your Alien Retrospectives. Most excellent work!! I have subscribed so I can watch your future Retrospectives.

@everysinglefilm1539

7 ай бұрын

Thank you!

Alien 3 Assembly Cut is a masterpiece

I never really understood why they themselves didn't go into the bunker. The alien couldn't reach them in there while they wait for Bishop 2.

You had me with an exquisite MMPR insert!

I love A3 , aesthetics, good actors and dialogs...i would even put it in front of Aliens , cause A's is filled with huge plot holes from left to right and never cared that much for Newt and Hicks. Also there is that nostalgia factor i must to admit where A3 brings me back to my sweet cosy childood... I love your review btw, fast paced and str8 to the point.

@everysinglefilm1539

9 ай бұрын

Thanks for your thoughts and for the kind words!

Dude you do a great job! I hope you do the Nolan Trilogy

Alien 3 is way underrated. It's my second favorite after the original Alien. I don't understand why it gets a bad rap. I love the bleakness and depressing mood it develops. The hate may come from killing off the survivors of Aliens. I thought that was a brilliant move. It conveys that life can be unfair and cruel. The film is also very atmospheric, has excellent art direction, and has a great music score.

@SmashTactics

5 ай бұрын

Same here man. I love that it's darker and even slower-paced for a while. I love the score and the set pieces too.

@jimbowlan5804

5 ай бұрын

You are correct the hate comes from killing the alien’s survivors people wanted aliens 2.0 aliens split th e franchise in 2

@Paul_1971

5 ай бұрын

Its really grown on me over time

@Paul_1971

4 ай бұрын

I think it would've taken the sting out of it a little for fans if Ripley had got jettisoned on the EEV and left Newt & Hicks on the Sulaco to travel back to earth, in a way that would've been even more tragic knowing she'd never see them again...

@poloshirtsamurai

4 ай бұрын

I love the studios choice to kill them. Or else it wouldn't be back to the original premise of helpless people against the alien and the horror surrounding it. Newt is annoying as well, like a teakettle going on and on. Good riddance! Aliens is turning the franchise into a popcorn movie: guns and laughs. If Alien 3 haters had their way, we'd have Alien Resurrection in advance. lol

Excellent breakdown, sir! I saw this in the theater and I loved it. It was so bleak and sad and desperate. Not going to lie, I cried at the funeral/birth, autopsy, and final scenes. Sigourney Weaver, Charles Dance, and Charles S Dutton were spectacular, Pete Postelthwaite and Lance Henriksen were standouts I wanted more from. I don't hate the 3 of them in the funeral shot, because i thought it was a unifying moment. We never found out anything about who/what Andrews lost, but you don't end up on that hell planet without loss. I also prefer the theatrical ending. I think Ripley deserved to go out knowing she made the right call. At least she had that one comfort as she died. I think removing that comfort makes it TOO bleak.

@minirth.maggie

5 ай бұрын

P.S. I hope your channel grows, you do great work! ❤

28:52 ''It's always sunny on Fiorina 161''------------------------Hahahahahahaahahahahahaahahahahahaaaaaaaaa

Unlike a certain other franchise with terrible films that aren't exactly universally loved, at least David Fincher, the cast or Fox never insulted the fans over their opinions of Aliens 3. That makes A3 better than it should be and yes the movie does have some problems but still an interesting film on its own.

The Queen planting eggs on the Sulaco has NEVER been an issue for me. When we meet the Queen she's connected to her ovipositor laying eggs. That process gets interrupted and she has to chase after Ripley. Why is it so hard for people to believe that given the egg laying process was interrupted the Queen still had a few eggs still inside her and as a contingency plan in case she didn't survive, while Ripley was suiting up in the power loader the queen placed the remaining eggs on the Sulaco? I don't even have to suspend disbelief to think this. It seems logical.

I can explain the ox footage is brand new footage added in 2003 the rest of the film is mixed from finchers cut before the reshoots and the theatrical film

@SaigonBrit

4 ай бұрын

Actually, in the 1992 novelisation it is an ox not a dog. I wonder which one was filmed first?

They I've kept Newt & Cop Hicks & Bishop & Ripley and Turk and Jones The Cat alive in ALIEN 3 🥺😔😞

One day.....I think it is possible that there will be a 'rapprochement' between Fox and Fincher and a true director's cut will be made. No doubt they have hours of unused footage. With modern technology and some CGI used sparingly I think an 'Ultimate Director's Cut' will eventually be made.

I really don't understand why sonmany people, including those involved in making it, think this movie is so bad. I really like it. Totally confused

The Alien trilogy is a tragedy. Once you see it this way then you can enjoy Alien 3 more. Ripley never had a chance. Want a cookbook story arc? Won't accept anything else? Alien isn't your jam

This is where even the producers knew Aliens was a slaughtering of the fatted calf. It was impossible to make a third movie without discrediting the first or the second movie. Do we go back to the mysterious suspense horror or the starship troopers approach. In the end be they tried for both. The movie despite being good wasn’t original groundbreaking or inspirational. The main protagonist had already been reduced to a generic movie monster by Aliens precluding its allure.

I do wish people would stop saying 'Xenomorph'. It is 'alien' or 'creature' or even 'beast' 'dragon' but the word xenomorph is a misnomer, spoken by Lt Gorman from a report he is reading. xenomorph simply refers to a 'foreign/alien lifeform' as otherwise unspecified in Gorman's report. I don't know why people use this word.

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The problem I have with this movie is that it's a bad sequel. It's a good movie on its own, but a bad sequel. If it was a stand alone movie, I would've actually liked it. It's not a bad movie if you consider all the problems they went through in the production stage. My main problems with this movie : 1. Ripley dies 2. how did the facehugger get on the Sulaco [perhaps the worst problem of them all] 3. no Hicks and no Newt. As you pointed out - everything that Ripley worked so hard through the 1st and 2nd movies is eradicated. The cinematography is great. The movie looks good. Charles Dance certainly helps - so does Charles S. Dutton as Dillon. One thing I would say - all 4 Alien movies look ahead of their time. Alien looks like it was done in mid 80s, Aliens could pass as an early 90s movie, Alien 3 looks like it was done at the end of the 90s and Alien Resurrection could fool you looking like an early 2000s movie...

@everysinglefilm1539

10 ай бұрын

Thanks for the comment! I agree, if you can get past the films blatant problems, and watch the Assembly cut, it’s a very bleak, solid film.

@ArcadeMusicTribute

10 ай бұрын

@@everysinglefilm1539 No problem. I love your in deep analysis of the film. Have to check your other videos. Alien 3 is within my top 20 all time movies for sure, but I hate it as sequel. It's like a cat that just pushes everything from the table :D

@ArcadeMusicTribute

10 ай бұрын

@@everysinglefilm1539 One more thing. What other movies are you going to review next? I can't wait. I checked your Alien and Aliens reviews so far and they're great. I will check out some others also like Batman 1989.

@everysinglefilm1539

10 ай бұрын

Thanks for asking! Right now I am halfway through writing the script for my next video that I'll keep as a surprise. As for future videos, Star Wars keeps lingering in the back of my mind so that franchise won't be too far away. I am open to suggestions, also!

@ArcadeMusicTribute

10 ай бұрын

@@everysinglefilm1539 Great! Can't wait to see the next surprise video. Star Wars is great, as long as it's not the sequels :D I would love to see more classics like The Thing, Robocop, Total Recall - whatever you like.

are you talking into a coffee can?

@everysinglefilm1539

5 ай бұрын

I wish I could afford a coffee can…

Really good analysis. When your film's plot starts with an illogical, unexplainable plot hole, you know there's going to be problems. It's deservedly shit on. If you're going to kill off major characters, fine, but you better have a good reason for doing so. Alien 3 didn't. Roger Ebert said it best: "This is one of the best-looking bad movies I have ever seen. It is a triumph of art direction and a disaster of screenwriting." It simply should have never been made. They waited too long to make it, they re-wrote it too many times, they hired and fired too many people, they made poor character decisions, they settled for shitty special effects, and they constantly undermined David Fincher by not backing him and not giving him any creative control. Ultimately it’s a failed sequel to a film that had a definitive ending.

@poloshirtsamurai

4 ай бұрын

Wah.

Dumpster fire film. The opening scene alone and disregard for the second film make it unwatchable. It’s between this film and Highlander 2 for winner of biggest wastes of time and franchise killer.

In the future all prisoners are white 🤓

Yep. Its still garbage that crippled the Alien franchise forever. As Michael Biehn says, "F**k Alien 3!"

@everysinglefilm1539

8 ай бұрын

While I don't agree that the film is garbage, it's clear that Alien 3 has generated a wide range of opinions over the years, and it's interesting to see how it impacted the franchise's legacy. While it may not have been everyone's favourite, it's certainly sparked a lot of discussion. I'd love to hear what you think about the other films in the Alien series.

Slow hand clap for all those Fox executives....This is why Alien 3 is sh*t.

@choosecarefully408

4 ай бұрын

@@ZXSPEX2 being crappy & Spielberg-like doesn't make 3 better. How did Ripley get an alien inside her? No egg, face-hugger etc. on board. We don't learn anything about The company that we didn't already know. "It's dark, they killed main characters" means we can ignore all the other failings? This movie's only premise was to get an alien into this confined space & they failed at that. They essentially just said "one appeared."

@choosecarefully408

4 ай бұрын

@@ZXSPEX1) I'm not making any comparisons. I'm very rare in that I truly can set aside most of my preconceived notions. 2) I don't even care _for_ comparisons. Seen on its own is the only way to judge anything. In football, a new head coach or GM will often oust locker-room leaders simply to feel like it's "their" team. It felt like this movie was trying harder to not be its predecessor than it was trying to be its own film. It also felt like the director had No Love for the material. I don't care that they killed off Hicks or Newt or were going for dark. I care how someone executes their plan. Here, the plot elements were supposed to carry the darkness I suppose. But the setting failed to do so. Despite being on a satellite surrounded by men I never once felt Ripley was in danger from them. Yeah I know there was a scene that made it clear this was a false impression. My point is that this was simply done wrong. She was walking around alone. They'd already semi-established that some would work to avoid this happening, then left it to happen. That's simply bad staging. If the setting was to appear dark, you either make the lighting help with that, the blocking or both. Instead we have a surprisingly well-lit scene that could have been out of Oliver with adults dressed like the ragamuffins. The _pacing_ was off. Tension built occasionally, then disappeared for too long. The clues that an alien was there were weird. I mean if the queen left eggs on the shuttle somehow, why only one? What happened to the egg-casing? Those don't evaporate. The face-hugger somehow got into her cryo-chamber without damaging it, went through most of its gestation period, also evaporated, yet she went *days* before it burst out of her? Kane lasted hours tops. I don't lose sight of the forest for the trees either & there were some great performances in it. But the story seems to exist for No Real Reason. What does it do for the universe this takes place in? Do we learn more about Wutani, the alien, Ripley, the people on this prison? No. It failed at its own goals, accomplished no other ones, & not one thing from that movie added to anything in any of the others. Even what they did in the hated #4 could have been done without 3. All I retained from this was knowing who Charles S. Dutton was. No one else was memorable.

@choosecarefully408

4 ай бұрын

@@ZXSPEXI've never been nostalgic. I _do_ revisit stuff I like. Whose Line Is It Anyway reruns, the sadly only two seasons of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency that has So Many Amazing Actors in it. But it's not _about_ winning it's about enjoying. I saw this movie exactly twice & the 2nd time I stopped paying attention. To each their own.

13:35 Nihilistic, a word repeated over and over but doesn't apply. So sick of hearing it. If Alien 3 is nihilistic, they wouldn't bother to join forces to fight the alien, have hope that they would succeed or be sad or angry when they lose a friend. First thumbs down.

@everysinglefilm1539

4 ай бұрын

I disagree but respect your opinion. Alien 3 is definitely a divisive film that is fun to discuss and analyse. Even if it's a thumbs down, thank you for engaging with my video!