Bingowings said:
DrCrowTStarwars said:
But what point does it serve in the end other then to say "Life's a bitch and then we die"? Okay fine if that is the point you want to make more power to you but did we really need three movies to do that? The second movie doesn't really fit into the story and really should be removed. For the story they wanted to tell in Aliens 3 to work I think they should have just had Ripley crashing after the events of Alien and pretended the second movie never happened since it doesn't work at all with the tone or message of the third film and it makes everything feel disjointed. I mean the second half of the second movie wasn't needed at all and we really didn't need any sequels to tell this story,they could have just had the alien in the lifeship kill Ripley at the end of the first movie and gotten the same point and story across.
Sorry but to me it just made the first two films feel like padding so I would rather right off one film then two.
Largely the problems with Alien 3 as it stands stem from the bolted on prison planet plot strand which is barely touched upon beyond the design ethic.
As a wooden monastery, with the Alien as Satan and Ripley as the sacrificial lamb the piece makes sense. Her impregnation as a metaphor for possession and infection panics (like the AIDS crisis). Ward's Alien 3 is one of the great unmade movies. The environment, the Bosche nightmares. The feeling of crawling dread would have made it as unique as the first film.
The theatrical version of what we got was a mangled version of a mangled version but it's better than Alien 4 which is better than Prometheus.
As for aliens on Earth, I can't see the point. Earth in the time period of the films is as alien a place as any of the other planets in the films.
The only Earth we can really relate to is the one of our lifespans so AVP2:Requiem for all it's hideous rubbishness is as close to the 'Aliens on Earth' film that makes sense as to make no odds.
Now that is a movie I would watch because it has a point and isn't just a tacked on depressing ending to a story that had already ended. That version of Alien 3 is the one I want to see.