Alien 3 (1992) Retrospective 

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Thank you!

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.

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

Its really grown on me over time

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...

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

Thanks for your thoughts and for the kind words!

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

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

Wah.

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.

@@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

@@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.

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!

@@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.

I wish I could afford a coffee can…

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.

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!

@@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."

@@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.

@@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.