Continuing with Alien films I haven't seen, and this is strangely the least depressing of all the Alien movies. Now I liked Alien 3 there were surprisingly really good ideas and some interesting concepts even though director David Fincher got fired 3 times, upon which I don't know that that works considering Fincher and the producers got into more fights almost like a dysfunctional married couple fighting then seconds later apologizing. Look, more importantly, I will argue and say that between Alien 3 and Alien Resurrection, I would choose Alien 3 in a heartbeat even though the Alien in Alien 3 still looks awful on the wide shots of the movie.
The saga continues 200 years after Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) sacrificed herself for the sake of humanity. Her erstwhile employers long gone, this time it is the military that resurrects the one-woman killing machine through genetic cloning to extract the Alien from within her, but during the process her DNA is fused with the queen and then the alien’s escape. Now Ripley must decide where her allegiance lies.
The surprising factor about this movie and granted this is the only surprising factor, is that former creator of Buffy, and Firefly as well as the first ever Superhero team-up in movie history Avengers, Joss Whedon long before he was charged with workplace harassment. The studio of 20th Century Fox was impressed by Joss Whedon's screenwriting with the success of his first script Buffy the Vampire Slayer, though initially, Whedon's screenplay for Alien Resurrection had five versions of the final act of the film and yet none of his five versions of Joss’s final acts didn't make the cut for the final movie. I think the movie takes me out of liking the film is that Ripley simply fell in a huge burning furnace and yet for some reasons the company was able to clone her with her own blood but I don't remember Ripley ever bleeding through the final act of the movie so, I don't understand how they were able to clone her and the main problem is Whedon doesn't even explain how they were able to clone her. And really what makes Alien 3 decent for me is that they at least close the chapter in the Alien franchise, but yet, 20th Century Fox for whatever reasons needed a fourth chapter where we focus on a cloned version of Ripley who is insanely weird and frequently sexualized with some of the Aliens especially the last one in the movie and I would understand that she has a connection with the Aliens since she had in Alien inside of her but wasn't affected, either way nothing was logically explained. Danny Boyle, Bryon Singer and Peter Jackson were actually approached to direct this movie and yet this guy, Jean-Pierre Jeunet directs this movie and made it just way too weird to explain especially in times where I feel like Ripley is making love to a Xenomorph, as well as having weird incest to some of the Aliens especially at times where it feels like she's acting like them in fact having the same hunting traits almost like Paul W.S. Anderson making Alice in Resident Evil films being a sole survivor and then in the next movie she becomes a bad-a** action star, which I guess Cameron started that whole shenanigans and yet 20th Century Fox wanted to repeat that concept. Now after watching Alien 3 and Alien Resurrection I can understand why these films are somewhat forgotten because all they do is rehash the same concepts from the first-two Alien films and don't create anything fun or exciting (although Alien 3 tried) but just losses the same feel and fun as the first-two movies, and this movie I would rank as the worst of all the Alien films. Granted I would recommend watching Alien 3 because it's at least having interesting concepts and this movie just sucks the fun out of it, almost a thief of joy. All the Alien films are all on Hulu and Disney Plus so, if you’re feeling the need for any Alien movies, I would highly recommend watching all of them except for Alien Resurrection, you can just simply skip that movie unless you have a good sense of adventure.
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