NECA: Alien Movie Franchise Figures

[a-dev]

...shhh! Aliens fans are going to get mad

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[jye4ever]

Just like with theatrical Jaws1/Exorcist1/SW/ESB/T1/T2/Robocop1/Predator1 and DieHard1, there are no flaws with Aliens.

Alien 3 will never join that list, so very sorry.

 

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[Yahzee]

Just like with theatrical Jaws1/Exorcist1/SW/ESB/T1/T2/Robocop1/Predator1 and DieHard1, there are no flaws with Aliens.

Alien 3 will never join that list, so very sorry.

... we're just gonna have to agree to disagree

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[zuckuss77]

Loving pics, we Need to pepper this thread with more . Good job

 

[P.]

Kill this franchise already, take it out of its misery, there will never be another Alien/Aliens again.

Same for Terminator and Predator.

the only good thing in alien 3 was the part that people hate most: erasing that disneyish happy-end of aliens. all the rest was as dull and eventless as if scott himself made it

 

[bigbisont]

the only good thing in alien 3 was the part that people hate most: erasing that disneyish happy-end of aliens. all the rest was as dull and eventless as if scott himself made it

I wouldn't have even minded if they ruined the happy ending with some actual substance. Give the audience a proper 'farewell'. The "oh by the way, everyone is f'n dead" intro was an unimaginative gutless sucker punch. Other than that, Alien 3 is OK.

I completely agree with a-dev, though. If you prefer a horror lean, that is totally cool. Doesn't mean you need to try to crap on 'Aliens' in order to justify your preference for more traditional horror.

 

[a-dev]

Aliens was a massacre. I wouldn't call it a Disney ending just because a slightly greater number of characters survived than survived the first movie. There were more characters in it - not entirely unexpected that a couple more would remain alive at the end. Should Aliens have copied Alien by just having Ripley survive alone yet again? I think that'd be a bit stupid and overly coincidental to be honest

 

[P.]

If you prefer a horror lean, that is totally cool.

no, i prefer that there is no "and they lived long and happily ever after" in an alien story. a kind robot, a kind soldier, a child and a mother who lost her child - what a perfect set for a family - mother, father, daughter and alfred to look after them.
drowning them and throwing android out with other trash was a perfect response to that totally artificial happy-ending. at least it made me sad for those characters, they stopped being invincible heroes meant to survive from the beginning. same was in alien 4, just far worse.
plus it's Biehn's fate to die in movies anyway
i don't like anything in A3, but the beginning and the end have their value. beginning deals with Cameron's dull obsession about families and saving everybody within in his movies (aliens, terminator 2, true lies, the abyss, etc etc), and ending shows that there can be a survivor in a more interesting way than "the main hero and his beloved ones".

 

[a-dev]

How come you don't love Alien 3 then? It's arguably the most grim film of the bunch - killing not only the ''family'' from the end of Aliens but even then killing anyone thereafter that Ripley comes to care about (Clemens) before ultimately killing her too!

 

[bigbisont]

The 'horror lean' comment was directed more to the others who try to prop up Alien 3 over aliens, not you specifically. Just addressing a recurring theme.

All the same, I never once took the off camera killing of main characters as a "humanizing" experience. It wreaked of laziness to me. I imagine the meat-heads sitting around a table:


Fincher - "I want to get back to what made the first Alien so successful. Ripley and the alien. Little to no weapons. Just a cat and mouse chase.

Meathead#1 - "duh...but there is that marine guy hanging around.

Meathead #2 - "... and a kid and a half a robot"

Fincher - "Ah...damn. Yeah this will require some creative writing".

Meathead #1 - "hey. Hey... Hey. What if we just said everyone was dead already when the movie started!?"

Meathead #2 - "Oh man that would save us a TON of work"

Fincher - "BRILLIANT!!!"

 

[P.]

How come you don't love Alien 3 then? It's arguably the most grim film of the bunch - killing not only the ''family'' from the end of Aliens but even then killing anyone thereafter that Ripley comes to care about (Clemens) before ultimately killing her too!

but i already said why i don't: because it's super dull and event-less (i mean nothing happens. don't know the word), almost like the first movie (which would be a lot more interesting thing if Scott didn't exchange lots of major plot parts for excessively long shots of waking people, flying ships and fakely screaming victims).

it's like with Predator 1 - 80% of it consists of stupid 80's action movie which are dull and have no events (though many things flash on the screen).

 

[a-dev]

You have very complex views on all our Aliens & Robots films.

 

[Yahzee]

...so Alien³ and Predator have no events... okaaay...

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[VLAGAS]

All I know is that the franchise couldn't take another "Alien 3 or 4" movie. But then again i'm not sure how many of you actually want to see it continued?

 

[jaklynfiorhollyw]

Personally I want another "Alien and Alien3" movie.

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[Yahzee]

...I just one more movie that wraps up the loose ends of Resurrection and the whole series

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[jye4ever]

Nothing memorable in A3 for me other than the WTF death reveal.

The director of the movie is shocked people actually enjoy it.

 

[a-dev]

I've never read any comments from Fincher about Alien 3, direct or indirect. I thought he flat-out refused to talk about it.

 

[jye4ever]

I'm just guessing that but search your feelings a-dev you know it to be true.