TAF, I'm pleased that you like the notion of these edits, and we'll just have to see if someone eventually gets in touch with me who'd like to see them too. While not everyone dislikes how things worked out in the existing versions, I know there's plenty out there who do...
So we'll see.
But for the moment, I'd kinda like to keep the solutions under wraps, purely so that fans of these characters can get the opportunity of a little uncertainty about exactly *how* things end up resolved when they watch these versions. (That's *if* they end up getting produced by anyone at some point, of course)
A while back, I was informed by xeno_alpha_07 that amongst a couple of previous attempts in the past to 'save' Newt, Hicks, and Bishop which came to nothing, there was also an unfinished ALIEN 3 project a few years ago where a group of editors intended to have Ripley crash-land *alone* on Fury 161 due to her EEV 'malfunctioning'...while implying that a *seperate*, 'fully functioning' EEV with Newt, Hick, and Bishop aboard, ended up 'drifting safely' into space...
However, that still wouldn't have 'saved' Ripley from her eventual ALIEN 3 outcome...and personally, I want to see her 'survive' the sequels too!
Where GENERATIONS is concerned, I don't know if you've ever seen these 2 inventive and heartening 'alternate ending' videos by a guy called Matt Kendrick or not...but I got a kick out of them, and they encouraged me to try and come up with a solution that would satisfy me using only *pristine*-quality footage from the movie instead. Here they are -
Part I - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2JeKeVynbY
Part II - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOopmLt3X_U
And here's a version by a guy called Major Grin that certainly gave me a belly-laugh when I came across it - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPUr_hDr9gs
There's no additional f/x work required for any of my proposals, only a re-arrangement of certain footage. But giving the impression of an alternative outcome for these movies was only half the fun I had with them, as my other intention was to tweak certain moments thoughout each of them in ways I'd prefer to see too. :)