Alien 3

 

            Well, everyone we are officially in the month of October; that's right everybody as you've probably gotten all your Halloween candy out since the middle week of September and maybe you've got your slutty Halloween costume bought by the beginning of August and now come on you must admit you dirty sluts. So, I decided since October is the month of Halloween, by watching certain Alien movies I haven't seen or talked about in years. And don't get me wrong, I love the Alien movies, even Prometheus and Alien: Covenant. And for certain I'm going to take a crack at the latest Alien show by Noah Hawley most infamous for Fargo. Though I've never taken the proper time to watch both Alien 3 and Alien Resurrection too of the Alien films that no one remembers and as of this month of the year I decided I'm going to watch these movies and so far, Alien 3 isn't that bad.

             Set years after the events of Aliens. Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) is the only survivor when she crashes land on Fiorina 161, a bleak wasteland inhabited by former inmates of the planet’s maximum-security prison. Once again, Ripley must face skepticism and the alien as it hunts down the prisoners and guards. Without weapons or modern technology of any kind, Ripley leads the men into battle against the terrifying creature.

              I can imagine Alien 3 wasn't the most exciting or perfect as the last two films, granted I don't know, but from the first time watching the third installment I got to admit this wasn't all bad of a movie in fact I enjoyed it considering it was an hour and fifty-minute movie. In all fairness the film before it got the green light, was still in a bad case of creative writing differences in fact there was a grand total of six writers developing the third installment so, yeah, this film was not going off that good of a start. Though watching the film all the way through there actually was some really good ideas as well as some great concepts like, the idea of this film being set in a maximum security prison with all Brits and one African American in the entire movie which I guess is strangely funny but in all reality feels a little convenient but hey, it's the early nineties. I will say when watching this film for the first time, there's a lot of recognizable actors that you sort of remember although YOU, will most certainly not remember these actors like I do, give you a great example Paul McGann who played the Eight Doctor in Doctor Who: The Movie, ANYONE REMEMBER DR. WHO: THE MOVIE? No? Well then, I probably rest my case on that example. But hey, I'm sure all of you remember Charles Dance who infamously portrayed Tywin Lannister in Game of Thrones and played a master vampire in Dracula: Untold, I mean he was the only good thing about that whole movie. And so, with this movie when I saw those two actors’ names I was surprised and had that minor shock of "OH HOLY CRAP, it's that guy" you know the kind of reaction we would all have when seeing a movie like this. I will say the movie has some moments of good concepts and interesting ideas and I well, I sort of liked the fact that they go back to just one Alien but then through the course of the movie especially some of the wide shots of the Xenomorph, you slowly realize the Alien is fake or computer generated, which was a disappointing factor about the film which sure they were working with a 50 million dollar budget, but at least make the Alien at least more believable because those shots of the Alien were just no good, in fact it was almost like a high school project for film class and that was the disappointing factor which took me out of the film. Granted this isn't the most epic Alien movie considering they're just relying on one Alien for which they're just recycling story elements from the first film I mean which is okay-ish, but really you get great cinematography from Alex Thompson and first time director in David Fincher who, surprisingly does a good job considering this is a first time big project, but in the end would later come out with more nineties classics with Seven and Fight Club so, deep down Fincher gets a good deal out of finishing Alien 3. With a great list of actors including Sigourney Weaver who of course does a great job with a pretty good story as well as working with what she had to provide and either way I don't think this is the worst Alien movie I've seen granted I've relived Alien vs. Predator but deep down it was a fun movie to watch as well as a good suspenseful movie to start off in the month of October.