A good script?
this post was submitted on 14 Jan 2025
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3 was so fucking close
Out of the first 4 movies, 3 was the worst.
I feel like 4 was objectively bad. am I taking crazy pills or has it aged gracefully? guess I know what I'm watching this weekend.
Well, I'm not sure if it was good, but it committed to turning it up to 11.
Alien^3 insulted the ending of Aliens and felt like it was full of slightly lame choices.
I saw it in the theatre on the opening night, and couple of times afterwards. I thought it was light, artsy fun. A pretty good movie with some awesome directional choices.
I think it has aged well, especially after the newest 3 movies in the franchise.
I watched it last year. 3 wasn't grear, but oh boy was 4 bad.
It was. But that doesn't stop me from watching it.
You mean the worst movie in the franchise?
The first 3 where better than any of the dross since.
3 got kneecaped in production and the director left. The concept and what was left on the cutting room floor had more potential than anything else in the franchise.
Thd theatrical release deserves most of the hate it gets though.
Resurrection was better than 3 by a lot, imo. They could just remove 3 from the franchise and it would only improve.
That concept was just an extended Jesus metaphor. That's all of it. Shit was played in 500 AD.
Covenant exists
Haven't watched it yet, and it may just be a failure of imagination on my part but I have a hard time imagining a worse movie than Alien 3, let alone a worse Alien movie.
Dreamcatcher is a worse movie. it was so bad that I refused to watch a movie that a friend described as "better than Dreamcatcher" because the mere comparison meant it must be shit as well, just not as much and as literally as Dreamcatcher. oh yeah that alien thriller movie is largely about shitting.
That's a bold move Cotton. Let's see if it pays off.
Romulus was pretty good. Until it turned into a braindead marvel movie full of certified fan moments.
Somehow, Ripley returned…
I really really really hope not. Butttt, IIRC Romulus happens between Alien and Aliens.
I don't think you have to worry about it. Sigourney Weaver has a career very separate from Alien these days.
There was actually a good Alien novel saga that explored a mysterious reappearance of Ellen Ripley that turned out to be an android recreation of the real Ripley. I can't remember if it was set before or after Alien Resurrection
Studio executive: let's do alien cats! Yeah, no one will be expecting that! What about alien cows? I'm on a roll here! Alien dwarves!
Dunno man. I get the best kicks out of arcs that explore the evil mankind is capable of, but the movies seem to keep chucking large amounts of cgi and jump scares. It's like they don't care about the source material at all. Now it's all about scientist or goofy kinds on a jaunt in space, make goofy decision, discover or release alien spawn, firefight, running, showpiece shot, etc
Alien: The Musical
Even better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01CPgkptW5E
One more for the thread:
Alien on Stage (2020, dir Danielle Kummer and Lucy Harvey)
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwUHTKOsZwk
This is a story about a unique crew of Dorset bus drivers whose amateur dramatics group decide to ditch doing another pantomime and try something different. They spent a year creating a serious adaptation of the sci-fi horror film Alien, finding ingenious solutions to pay homemade homage to the original film. The show is a crushing flop but fate gives them a second chance to find their audience. Whilst still adjusting to the idea that their serious show is actually a comedy, the group find out they’re suddenly being whisked from their village hall to a London West End theatre to perform this accidental masterpiece for one night only. With wobbly sets, awkward acting and special effects requiring 'more luck than judgement,' will their West End debut be alright on the night? This bus driving crew are our space heroes. Their bus station is our space station. Dorset is outer-space and where is the Alien? It’s behind you!
Dudes... Dudes!
Brazil enters the chat:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxAB33ZpNDx3qbSngseNCe5XcLTk_HrrxV
With even more butthole
Titties?
Big juicy alien tiddies
Alien franchise that we’ve never been before, and to discover things that you’ve never seen before.
this just smacks of writing a film by devising a bunch of action sequences and reveals then smushing it together hoping that the big shinny sequences distract from the plot and characters being wafer thin cardboard cutouts like last time.
Its terrible writing to work like this, cobbling together a script around predefined points. Its typical of film writing by committee where everybody on the committee has to add in their idea they came up with independent of the script to demonstrate their value.
I just hope the next movie isn't a bunch of kids again. No offense to the 20-something-year-old readers here, but having a variety of age groups is an important part of the diversity in a movie, and something which the franchise has been better with in the past.
People actually side stepping a giant, rolling object instead of continuing to run from it down the path it's rolling?
White goo instead of black goo.
And yes, it will be semen -- also something never seen before in an Alien film.
Aren't the androids filled with white goo?
Ok, true. Damn.
But is it semen?
Probably
This is canon now.
i thought that's what's the robots were full of
Full penetration.
And then the franchise sort of....ends.
I read this as Romulan and was very excited for a whole movie / series based around them... I don't even really care that much for star Trek but I got slightly excited...
Anyway... This is pointless but yeah
Yeah generally sequels show new things in them
It's ducks and you can't convince me otherwise.