Bingowings said:

The film I would love to see is Vincent Ward's Alien 3 because that would have really have been a visual departure from the first film and a completely unique story (but I'd have to jump through the dimension gate to find it).

Talking about things like this make me sad. So many great things that could have been that are constantly being ruined by studio interference.

However, from all I read about the Vincent Ward version of Alien 3, it seems much of it remained in the actual filmed version. Just swapped out monks for prisoners, and had less exciting sets than Ward's would have been, and it really isn't all that different.

You still have Ripley's surviving companions from Aliens dying before the film even starts, you still have Ripley finding herself a lone woman on a planet/satellite full of bald men, and you still have her getting her head shaved. Eventually monks/prisoners start getting picked off by the alien after not taking Ripley's warnings seriously and start to try to defend themselves from it.

Maybe it would have been better, certainly it would have been as far as visuals are concerned. But I think a lot of the things people hated about Alien 3 would have still been there. Newt and Hicks dying before the film starts, making the ending of Aliens pointless, being one of the biggest complaints I hear about the current Alien 3.