The problem with them having a home planet is what species on their home planet is the normal host for their life cycle? It kinda makes sense that somebody, engineer or earthling, created them to be an ultimate bio-weapon like Umbrella for Resident Evil. They are too destructive to be a natural occurring species.
They filmed the beach scenes of this in the town where I grew up, Seaham in Northeast England. They call that beach the Blast, 'cause it was just a wasteland of black sand and tar from the coal mine runoff that poured into the sea next to it. Turns out when you want a place that looks like humans can't live there, you go where people in mining towns take their kids for a paddle. It's all cleaned up now, it's won awards and stuff for how much it's improved. This film was responsible for a lot of the attention it got. One of the reasons I can't hate it as much as a lot of people do.
I work in Seaham. Ridley Scott (born, of course, in nearby South Shields) was a student for a year or two at my secondary school, Grangefield School in Stockton on Tees, before I was ever there
I went to the art college in Hartlepool where I studied film design; visited Blast Beach several times. As well as going to Seal Sands to look at the oil refineries which inspired the opening sequence of Blade Runner. If you go to Seaton & look down towards the Tees Estuary you can make out several pieces of the industrial complex that featured in one of the matte paintings. Not sure how much of the furnaces exist on Tees Side since they started redevelopment.
The great set design is the #1 reason I love the Alien movies. Everything looks so industrial and gritty. The prison is enormous, I think they said it covered five square miles or something like that and 99% of it is abandoned and full of creepy dark places.
My late wife held this to be her favourite Alien movie ... but she was a Goth and loved the end shot of Ripley falling cruciform to her death and taking the alien with her :fond chuckles:.
I've never seen this version, and didn't know it existed. Needless to say at the alien birth part i'm just staring, thinking "wait....what....wheres the dog" and scratching my head. I had to pause this video and google search real quick to make sure i wasn't crazy.
I'll be honest, I think Spikey is better than the dead Ox. It puts more emotion into the interplay between the two scenes. Spikey was a good boy, and he didn't deserve what happened to him. The Ox? Who cares, it's a carcuss. There's a superior version of this film somewhere between the theatrical and director's cut. There's some good character stuff in the extended version, but there's also a lot of padding and fluff that drags the movie. Capturing the alien just doesn't work in my book. It relies on one character being immensely stupid, which doesn't lead to anything.
A lot of things are different on this version. The xenomorph has a different form, gets captured and released in a different way too. I actually love watching both versions, one after the other. I don't recommend watching Resurrection Director's Cut though, that one sucks haha.
So this film went through alot of changes more so than most and an earlier script called for the drone xenomorph to as we see in this version burst out of an ox but I don't think it tested well or the director shot it didn't like it and changed it to a dog. Because the xenomorph was always going to be moving around on all fours but the design was of a slimmer than what we had previously seen in the films and the director thought a dog would be a better choice given they used a dog in the newborn effect shots just dressed up on a halfway xenomorph costume. Once they settled on the dog idea they shot those scenes which sadly are sad to watch but I think fit better with the tragic funeral scene and the pray Dillon gives.
I love this movie! I'm glad that you reacted to it. This movie teaches a very important lesson. " Not all heroes come home." Ripley was the hero of the story. She will be missed.
For the record, this isn't the director's cut. David Fincher has effectively disowned this film and says that his cut of Alien3 does not exist and cannot be made. This was an attempt by the producers to best recreate Fincher's intended cut with the materials available.
which is irrelevant. The movie stands on it's own. This was in many ways better than the previous two movies. It just wasn't the movie many people wanted or expected.
Quole it's your opinion. Its my opinion this is good monster movie. A horrible sequel to aliens. Apone, Hicks, Vazquez, Hudson, Newt, Bishop, and more. How many characters do people remember from alien 3. Alien had the android and chestburster scenes and more. So it's just your opinion.
@@rauldeaquino8707 people dont remember things from alien 3 because they don't give it a chance lol. They hate it because of their preconceptions. And it hate to break it to you but the characters in Alien 3 are MUCH better written, with way more depth.
@@Quole1234 Quole, the only special snowflake who sees the brilliance of this franchise killer when all the other fans did not - all hail Quole the Enlightened :bows low: ... deaths too good for you :p. My late wife loved this film but I think she was the only person I have ever met who did.
@@dallassukerkin6878 there's a difference between objective facts, and subjective opinions. Alien 3 has better characterization, pacing, and is far more philosophically ambitious than Aliens. That is a fact. People just didn't like it because it wasn't the movie they wanted or expected, even if the tone of this film is far more appropriate to the subject matter. What you are doing is using an argument ad populum, which is a common fallacy. I could use t5hat same logic to say that Twilight is one of the greatest stories ever written and by your logic, I would be completely right. Come back to me when you actually learn how to debate. Oh but it's bad because 2 characters with no personality from the previous movie died. Hicks and Newt literally only existed to be catalysts for Ripley. Also nice to see the way you speak of your dead wife, by basically calling her an idiot for liking a 'bad' movie. I am sure she would be so proud of you!
Allow me to answer a question. You were right about the facehugger being bigger, thats because it is a Royal Facehugger. These facehuggers are not only bigger, but they can impregnate multiple hosts. Thats how Ripley and the cow got impregnated, and queens do take longer to gestate.
@Big Chap I'm pretty sure they used puppets and not stop motion. You're right about the layering being a bit obvious though. I don't think it would benefit at all from CGI, the puppets looks really good but modern image processing would work wonders for it.
@@wolfpredator1000 Yes, the problem was bad green screen and mismatched illumination, not bad CGI. Somehow the effect looks like bad CGI but it isn't. The puppets and full-costume (yes, there were scenes with a disguised guy) really look great and smooth, but the blending with the prefilmed scenes is horrible.
The facehugger they found was a queen facehugger, it is why it was so big. It also had webbed legs. A queen facehugger has 2 embrios it can implant instead of the one. It does this when there is no hive so there is a drone and the queen. they do this so the drone can make a hive and wait to look after the queen. so the drone was the one from the bull and the queen was in ripley. hope this helped....also on what you were saying about the neomorphs, they are the product of the last things alive david tested on the planet with the black goo. they were the ultimate species to adapt to it and then david made the xenomorphs from them...well more a protomorph, that is why it is more organic. david will add bio-mechanical aspect to make them stronger which leads to the xenomorph in the movie alien.
I'm so happy you watched this movie. I love Alien 3 as much as Alien and Aliens. To be honest, I love all Alien films. Each movie adds something new and fresh
@@irina1296 yeah I think some people prefer it to 3 but personally I think I've watched it once at the cinema and once at home and really have no desire to watch it again
I loved your guy's reaction to Aliens. Your wife is correct, the face-hugger is bigger than a normal one. Some says the bigger face-hugger is a royal face-hugger that infects Ripley with a queen alien instead of a normal alien.
I think the original concept was that this entire movie was to be a hyper sleep dream (nightmare). Which would make none of this movie real (I mean all her worst nightmares came true the death of 3 individuals she cares about and she has an Alien inside her.). Furthermore, if you analyze this film it duplicates scenes from Aliens.
@@jjjones8609 actually there were 4 scripts written for the third instalment one was William Gibson's which was a rehash of Aliens but in a Cold War context-like concept where two mega corporations Weyland (capitalist) and the UPP (communist) fight for the possession of alien bioengineering and create mutated aliens like in Resurrection. Hicks was going to be the main character while scrapping Ripley totally from the franchise. Second script was David Twohy's idea of a prison installed in an asteroid where scientists where researching the alien behaviours with death row inmates. This concept was similar to the comic Alien Labyrinth. And no Ripley or Hicks were involved in this movie. The third one was Eric Red's the worst script of them all. The fourth was Vincent Ward's that was supposed to be set in a wooden planet made by the monks who vowed to be isolated from the rest of the civilization, just like the prisoners in Alien 3. This movie had a really cool concept of a chameleonic alien able to hide in plain sight by mimicking the surroundings it was in and mocks and stalks Ripley to torment her for the dead of the queen in Aliens. Overall the script wasn't good, but it had cool concepts like that. Alien 3 is basically a mixture of David Twohy's and Vincent Ward's written by David Giler and Walter Hill the producers and owners of the franchise. Although they gave full credit to Vincent Ward because its where they got more ideas from for the final film. Just imagine the prisoners as monks and that was Vincent Ward's script. All these scripts can be found on google, they are worth to read if you'd like to see the potential directions the franchise could have gone to and expand the lore.
I remember when this came out, I went to the theater with my parents and sat next to my mom. During the opening credits I hear my mom whispering, "I'm pissed...I'm already pissed." I didn't fully understand, because I'd only just recently been allowed to watch the Alien movies. Of course now I understand.
Regular version has the alien come out of a dog. Which makes more sense, since the higher metabolism would explain why it chestbusted as a more developed xenomorph.
Many hate how Hicks and Newt were just killed off, the rescue in the last made feeling pointless, it’s heart breaking, a lot love the nihilism but it’s also admired for it, not many do reaction to this movie. Thank you for giving it a shot love or hate ir
I really feel that if the beginning had just Ripley ejected from the ship and not the three of them, so Hicks and Newt could have just sailed peacefully onwards, then a lot more people would enjoy this film. That just soured so many viewers on it straight off the bat. It also didn't help that they managed to do worse special effects in this than in the two previous films. The green-screen effects are distractingly terrible.
Yeah it was a crummy and disrespectful thing to do to such great characters, especially within the first few minutes. Made the entire previous film pointless
During the scene with the three guys in the tunnels, when the first one is grabbed by the alien, the other two are actually running away but they go in a circle by mistake and end up back where they started...
Interesting fact: The reason the face hugger looked so much bigger in this one was because if you read the movie notes from the script it says that was a Queen Face Hugger...different from the regular ones that make the soldiers because it creates both a Queen larva and a Soldier larva to protect the Queen's host while she gestates. The notes also said that in this story, the face hugger impregnated Newt but then the ship crashed and Newt drowned in her pod and the Queen Embryo crawled out of her mouth and entered Ripley since she was the only living host to complete it's gestation in. That is why in the first scenes you see the face hugger on Newt's cryotube and then when you see Ripley's tube, it is also broken.
I know the comic adaptation did that but I'm not sure the film did that. The face hugger crawls over her tube get acid on the side burning the hole but jumped on Ripley's tube cracked it open and impregnated her and that's also why Newt drowns and Ripley floats out out the escape pod.
@donovanbradford8231 Again... if you read the script notes from the original adaptation which was finally reedited into the "Assembly Cut", it explains that this was the original idea. You can also tell in that cut that the face hugger we see doesn't look normal in size or appearance.
I enjoy your reaction of alien franchise quite entertaining. True story Actor Michael Biehn Aka Hicks Went to see the debut of Alien 3 in theaters When he saw his name (Hicks dead) He shot out loud said BOOOO! They killed me off the character BOO!!
Alien 3 directors cut is genuinely one of my favourite horror films. It has the perfect mixture of hope and absolute desperation combined into a proper thrill ride. Because they changed the type of alien vs the previous iterations of it and the lack of weapons makes it so much more involved, then combined with the prisoners, most being rapists and murderers but many having true redemption arcs - masterpiece
@@vladyvhv9579 Doesn't change that David Fincher was NOT involved. and HEY! I don't HATE Alien Resurrection...hundreds of years later = It's just somthing else 😛
@@acfan8253 There's nothing to elaborate. It's never stated in canon that it had two entities in it. We only know it had a queen. There were two face huggers. Now, kindly stop being wrong about things and piss off.
19:40 That scene and speech is exactly why Newt and Hicks had to die and why it makes perfect sense, especially after learning Ripley's daughter died while she was in Hypersleep waiting to be rescued.
I really can't understand why people slag off old fx. Alien3 is almost 30 years old and I think the cgi stuff stands up well. For some reason modern audiences seem to lack the ability to suspend disbelief which is a real shame.
I think our issue was the fact that Alien and Aliens while older never had special effects that took us out of the moment. Alien 3 effects do at times. Other times they look really great.
@@YouMeTheMovies to be fair my comment wasn't aimed at just you. Loads of reactors say exactly the same kind of thing and I find it pointless really. When I was a kid in the 1980s I went to the cinema and saw films like Aliens and Predator which were then state of the art but I'd also watch the old Flash Gordon serials from the 1930s and although their fx were really primitive it never bothered me and still doesn't. I just don't get why it would.
@@eddhardy1054 I get you. Hey, I love Japanese Godzilla movies myself. That's just a guy in a suit with miniatures. I think the issue with Alien 3 is that continuity of flawless special effects you don't even notice that look great and then the third one being a bit of a downgrade somehow. I also think that has to do with looking back after 20 years and seeing where SFX are now and that really affects how you see things. When I was younger and these movies just came out, they weren't as jarring from the old effects.
It was really hard to capture a really fast alien that could run at 60mph as we see in the explosion scene and the final chase scenes, the previous two were animatronics and stunts dressed as the aliens and they didn't require running as fast as the alien dog/ox does in this movie. The problem was that they couldn't finish the colour correction and effects since Fincher left and they were already behind schedule to release the movie
@@YouMeTheMovies but even now mate I can watch something like The Guardians of the Galaxy and then go and watch something like Dark Star from 1974 that was done on a shoestring budget and the discrepancy in the sfx still doesn't bother me.
There is no "Director's Cut" of this movie. There's a "Special Assembly" (which is what you're watching) but the director (Fincher) was not involved in any way.
Oh, I forgot. The Golden Child has a good Charles Dance performance in it too. An often overlooked Eddie Murphy joint. I also enjoy The Distinguished Gentleman, though I doubt anyone else does. It's a pretty decent political comedy that doesn't come up in conversation much.
The facehugger is not a normal facehugger... it's called a Royal Facehugger. It has webbed fingers so it can swim, it also does not carry just one alien... it carries two... One Queen and a normal alien as a guard.
Besides Alien 3 the movie i really enjoy with Charles Dance is The Golden Child. His villain character was so interesting. I really enjoy this movie and i actually like how the ending goes. Finally Ripley can rest... plus also the alien species got their revenge. Its funny that people considered the Alien the main Villain, when the fact its not. Its just a species trying to survive. Humans are the real villains, specially the company. enjoy very much the dark path it went. Not always the hero survives and not always the villains are what we want them to be. Newt and Hicks need it to die for this particular story. Newt actress was a little old to reprise her character... and Hicks was too wounded. The other way to incluid them, was to make a different story... Sure the movie have some issues, particular how messy the production was. But still it is a good final for Ripley ark.
One of the common tropes in the Alien films is that central leadership (basically the people who might be able to keep order or solve things) is wiped out as the situation worsens leaving the remaining characters to struggle and in turn, rely on Ripley. It works! In Alien 3 it's Clemens and Andrews. Looking back, this particular cut of the film has aged well IMO.
Love those films. I wonder how many she has seen. We’ve gone to all the remakes together one of her favorite trilogies. I’ll ask her what films she’s seen or not. Of course with her memory, we could likely start from the first one.
I notice you got three Godzilla posters in the background' perhaps you can do a reaction video to the original franchise of that? But if you plan to do it I think you should include all the tie-in films as well too' so you can watch the entire original Toho Showa Universe, that will give you 15 Godzilla films and 15 tie-in films to watch altogether from the first series. Then you need to figure out if you rather go by chronological order of the timeline or just simply by release order? If you need a list of the tie-in films feel free to ask me and I'll write them down in case you are not sure about some of them. The only other two franchises I can think of are Friday The 13th and A Nightmare On Elm Street for reactions videos.
@@tlyon2 Mr. Movies here. I actually have my own TH-cam channel dedicated to Godzilla/Kaiju Content. th-cam.com/users/TheKaijuCowboy You should check it out. Mrs. Movies has seen quite a bit of Godzilla in this household. Our two daughters are hooked on it.
A couple issues I had with both 'Prometheus' and 'Covenant' are that a lot of totally illogical things have to happen and the films get way too far up their own ass philosophically. 'Alien 3' is hated by most fans because of the disrespect shown to Hicks and Newt by having them killed offscreen...which basically makes Aliens irrelevant.
I like the idea of the prequels but they needed to just come out and say some of the ideas rather than just letting people just try and figure out the story after the fact by piecing together various images and alien variations and such. To little actually described for such a complex story arc. They would have been better off using just the basic queen to alien life cycle from the 1st two movies and use it more as genetic engineering than trying to add in the magic goo that isn't adequately explained.
So, I know that I’m well over a year late to the You, Me, & The Movies’ “Alien 3” party, however, I have a couple quick things to say… 1. I’m *sure* that someone else has already informed y’all of this, but if by some _crazy_ chance no one has… the Paula Abdul song with the cartoon cat in it is “Opposites Attract”. His name is MC Skat Kat and he does all of the male parts in the song as well! 2. I freaking *love* “Last Action Hero”! It was one of my favorite movies as a kid and I still greatly enjoy it!!
I always felt that the final alien drone is determined by the host the face-hugger impregnates. This one used a cow so came out less bi-pedal and more quad-pedal. That’s why it’s running around on four legs so much and other things were not used to seeing the alien do. Either that or by using CGI they could achieve more movements than with earlier puppets.
Sigourney Weaver started the trend of actresses shaving their heads. Not that it happened a lot. Demi Moore in GI Jane. Natalie Portman in V For Vendetta. We should not forget Karen Gillan shaved her head for her role in Guardians of The Galaxy. There's probably more. Those are just the ones I can think of.
I like the movie. It's a good addition to the story and it's a great alien, sci fi, horror, action movie and it gives more insight into how the alien anatomy works. I didn't know the alien would integrate traits of its host until this movie.
The Original setup for the next film was that 1 of the survivors of the prison was supposed to get back to Earth with an Alien inside him but that was changed of course.
Your discussion of the source of the xenomorphs reminds me of the two Highlander films that try to show the origin of the immortals and how much people don't like those two films.
The alien wasn’t cgi, it was a rod puppet in front of a blue screen. Wasn’t rendered too well. I think there’s a few instances of cg but it’s mostly the puppet I like 3, mostly because I saw it young and just accepted it as what happens. I understand why people hate and I’m not gonna argue in it’s favor any time soon.
'' 07:57 puppy psycho monster '' !!!! Great description !!!! I almost fell off my chair laughing !!!! And a little note : They r called '' facehuggers ''. Info u may not know because well , u didn 't mention it : The '' Alien '' is based on a painting by H.R.Giger. Great Artist. Check out his Art.
So glad you watched the Assembly Cut; it’s a far superior than the theatrical cut. Alien 3 is something of a flawed masterpiece & I think after the upbeat ending of Aliens with Ripley, Hicks & Newt being almost a family people found the dystopian vibe of Alien 3 hard to get their heads round. Hicks & Newt needed to die, to continue to keep Ripley isolated. Throughout the films Ripley lost everything; the crew of the Nostromo, her daughter, the marines. From the moment the Fox fanfare starts to end & distort, it helps set the tone for the film. This isn’t a pleasant film & I think Fincher did incredible even though the studio fucked his vision up so so badly. The cast in Alien 3 is absolutely incredible; Brian Glover (Andrews) played some awesome roles in his time. Then throw Ralph Brown, Charles S Dutton & Charles Dance into the mix & it’s just excellent. Fun Fact: I went to art college not far from where they filmed the EEV impact & Ripley washing up on the beach; Blast Beach in Seaham, North East England. Also parts of the blast furnaces that are on the Tees Estuary feature in the matte paintings; although they filmed some scenes at Blyth Power Station. During filming Tom Woodruff from Amalgamated Dynamics spent up to thirteen hours inside the creature suit for certain scenes. Also, regarding you puppy comment….well they did tests with a whippet in an alien suit….let’s just say the results are comical.
The film destroyed the franchise by being a boring and depressing film and no joy at all to watch. It’s not scary either It’s widely regarded as one of the worst sequels ever, even the director David Fincher disowned it But hey if you like it, fine
I totally agree with what you guys said at the end also. As a long time Alien fan, I too always wanted and hoped for a movie that would someday show us the home world of the Aliens and their origin, and when Prometheus came along it was not what I expected. But that doesn't mean that the origin the creator of this world gave us is somehow wrong or not good because it wasn't what we expected. That's where I have a problem with my fellow uberfans. We don't own these franchises because we call ourselves fans. Ridley Scott gave us his movies and that makes them fact and correct. As fans we don't have to like it or watch the movies if we don't want. But I find fault with fans watching it and saying things like the movies was garbage because the actual creator didn't write or direct the movie the way we wanted. We are just the bystanders to these stories that get to be a part of it for a couple of hours as it goes by on the movie screen. I wasn't expecting that origin story, but I do think it is pretty amazing. So the Aliens aren't some race of creature that evolved on planet Alien some where but are instead a bio weapon that another race experimented with and the experiment got out of control and is now one of the most dangerous, horrifying things in our galaxy...pretty good plot if you ask me.
"Ooh it's a big one. When did it get bigger?" In all my viewings I've never noticed that. And I am one of the ones that like all the movies in the series (especially #4). Seriously, get your undiscovered gifted self over to Scotland Yard or Interpol or the World Police; your observation and deduction skills are through the roof (based on many a video watch with you). Maybe you SHOULD watch Fincher's Zodiac... five minutes in and you'll be "so the killer is... was..."
"The dipping bird is in every movie" - and Ripley gets a nose bleed from stress in every movie (though it's never said out loud - her nose spontaneously starts bleeding under high stress).
If I remember correctly the reason the colony doesn't have weapons is because sigourney weaver doesn't like guns and refused to do the movie unless they met 3 demands and no guns was one of the demands
I still like watching this film, though I'm obviously biased due to my involvement in it. Whatever the haters say about it, I still think we did a great job with the project we were given. I couldn't say which I prefer, but I was there for all of them up to and including Prometheus.
It's an amazing piece of work, the details of Fury 161, beautiful cinematography, great acting, definitely Sigourney Weaver's best performance as Ripley, the best score out of all the Alien films. And it's dark and moody which is perfect for the series. I love it!
"Who loves music videos?" Ha, people who had MTV in the '80s and '90s. I saw this and liked it like a standalone movie, barely having seen "Aliens" and without having seen "Alien." Now, looking back and after watching the progression, not so much and simply because of the start. The ending really had an impact on audiences. It had a huge opening weekend followed by much less of a take the following week as word spread.
While I love the alien movies, I kind of wanted the origin of the Xenomorph to be left a mystery. I liked thinking that no one knew where they (and the engineers) came from, possibly some distant galaxy several thousand years ago, which of course would have lead to some interesting questions such as how did Weyland Yutani know about the organisms and where to find the crashed ship. I'm hoping for either a movie or possibly in the TV series that we will see an outbreak on Earth or another heavily populated planet, which is caused by the Weyland Yutani corp believing they had control over containment of a Xenomorph research lab.
Myself I always enjoyed this film as a kid and still do because this really lets you know these stories are just as much about Ripley as they are about the Xenomorphs as we get more of the Xenomorphs we get more of Ripley's story and growth of her character and that's why she is not only such a strong female character but an iconic character in cinema. I loved Dillon he was by far my favorite character and his ending while sad was great, he just goes out on his feet like a boss no fear or hesitation. Loved the chase through the corridors and planet so much fun. I get the heart break of Newt and Hicks being gone but it sadly had to happen because we needed it to ve be about Ripley and given where the company was and what they planned she needed to be ready for the nightmare to finally be over and not having any attachments to anyone at that point in the story was the right call. Good movie sad it doesn't get the love that developed for say Predator 2 as time went on but we all have movies like that.
It's not actually CGI , they used rod puppets and inserted that into the the movie like green screen kind of... The actual suit looks great, better than aliens imo ...
The alien develops differently depending on its host. For example, when they face-hugged a Predator, they developed the armoured skin that the Queen had in the original series.
The cartoon cat is Paula Abdul Opposites Attract. This is how I see the series. The good ones: Alien, Aliens. The meh ones: Alien 3, Prometheus, Covenant. The so bad it's good: Resurrection, AVP
One thing I hate about the version you watched is Ripley's death scene. In the theatrical cut the queen bursts out of her chest while she's falling into the lead and she grabs it so it can't get away but in this one she just falls into the lead and that's it.
Fun fact in the original Reales instead of an ox it’s a dog and a dog was originally gonna play as the runner xenomorph but they changed it to a rod puppet
My understanding was that Prometheus and Covenant (and their yet-to-be sequel) were meant to be Ridley Scott’s magnum opus as a separate franchise, but fans wanted more Alien so badly he tried to cram a bunch of lore into a philosophical story, and it just didn’t work for everyone. At any rate this is my first peek at this newer version of Alien 3, definitely gonna check it out soon.
In the theatrical cut it was a dog not a cow. Part of the reason was because the cow/ox refused to do the face hugger scene and this movie already being riddled with reshoots, rewrites and all over interference from the studio, they just switched to a dog as dogs are trainable. Plus the CGI alien was already created by the time Fincher came onboard that they needed a different kind of host than human to justify the alien's look of being more a four legged creature rather than a two legged one that were in the previous movies. That's why this alien is able to run on all fours that the others did NOT do. And this concept of the alien taking on physical characteristics of its host was carried through in Prometheus and Covenant.
~There's only two pices of CGI in this movie - the "dust" blown around outside, and the alien head as it cracks open. Everything else was rod puppets. oh, in the special assembly (the one you're viewing) they did CGI in the alien as it bursts out the cow.
Awesome job! Love the reviews, don't get a chance to comment to every one. Like I said in previous comment, I like all of the alien films, including the new ones, even though I do find the AI plot device for humanity's destruction is somewhat overused, but is interesting. I like the mystery of the alien species as natural creation in contrast to them being an experiment in bioengineering.
Ahahaha I love your channel and these incredible reactions, definitely one of the best find I've come across on TH-cam !...Seing such pure and authentic reactions is great xD..Especially on jumpscares and more scary movies ahahah. Y'all both awesome :D Keep up the great work! ...Also laughed my ass off at 15:30 XD that was way too funny /cute xD
The alien isn’t CGI, it’s a model. But because it’s based on the animal it came out of, it’s got an animal shape to it. So they couldn’t put a person in a costume and had to green screen it against the sets. That’s why it looks janky in some shots.
There is another movie cut in which the alien is not shown as often as in the cut you reacted to and, in my opinion, gives a more misterious and interesting view to the film. Anyhow, I loved your reaction.
Hey Guys, like the reactions and liked this movie also. This for me is where Ripley's ends for me. They shouldn't have made a fourth movie although there is some good action in the fourth movie. Before you go on to the AVP movies she needs to have seen the Predator 1 and 2 movies. Good stuff keep up the good work.
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The problem with them having a home planet is what species on their home planet is the normal host for their life cycle? It kinda makes sense that somebody, engineer or earthling, created them to be an ultimate bio-weapon like Umbrella for Resident Evil. They are too destructive to be a natural occurring species.
Whiskey just kicked in
They filmed the beach scenes of this in the town where I grew up, Seaham in Northeast England. They call that beach the Blast, 'cause it was just a wasteland of black sand and tar from the coal mine runoff that poured into the sea next to it. Turns out when you want a place that looks like humans can't live there, you go where people in mining towns take their kids for a paddle.
It's all cleaned up now, it's won awards and stuff for how much it's improved. This film was responsible for a lot of the attention it got. One of the reasons I can't hate it as much as a lot of people do.
That's pretty cool. Thanks for the personal story connection :)
That's a genuinely interesting story. Thanks for sharing!
I work in Seaham. Ridley Scott (born, of course, in nearby South Shields) was a student for a year or two at my secondary school, Grangefield School in Stockton on Tees, before I was ever there
I went to the art college in Hartlepool where I studied film design; visited Blast Beach several times. As well as going to Seal Sands to look at the oil refineries which inspired the opening sequence of Blade Runner.
If you go to Seaton & look down towards the Tees Estuary you can make out several pieces of the industrial complex that featured in one of the matte paintings. Not sure how much of the furnaces exist on Tees Side since they started redevelopment.
I grew up in Seaham too. Always held this little piece of film trivia as a claim to fame :)
The great set design is the #1 reason I love the Alien movies. Everything looks so industrial and gritty. The prison is enormous, I think they said it covered five square miles or something like that and 99% of it is abandoned and full of creepy dark places.
The music is great too. i think the end soundtrack to this is my favourite of the series.
You ever play Alien: Isolation? Brilliantly frustrating game. Hurt myself during a scene that didn't even involve the alien. 😂
My late wife held this to be her favourite Alien movie ... but she was a Goth and loved the end shot of Ripley falling cruciform to her death and taking the alien with her :fond chuckles:.
As a fellow Goth-ish woman I also like this film for the 90s gritty industrial aesthetic.
It is a very relentlessly grim film. It's one reason I like it too.
Rest in peace she had great taste ❤
I've never seen this version, and didn't know it existed. Needless to say at the alien birth part i'm just staring, thinking "wait....what....wheres the dog" and scratching my head. I had to pause this video and google search real quick to make sure i wasn't crazy.
Im glad I found this comment because I also remember the dog.
I’m glad you didn’t cry Mandela Effect lol
I'll be honest, I think Spikey is better than the dead Ox. It puts more emotion into the interplay between the two scenes. Spikey was a good boy, and he didn't deserve what happened to him. The Ox? Who cares, it's a carcuss.
There's a superior version of this film somewhere between the theatrical and director's cut. There's some good character stuff in the extended version, but there's also a lot of padding and fluff that drags the movie. Capturing the alien just doesn't work in my book. It relies on one character being immensely stupid, which doesn't lead to anything.
A lot of things are different on this version. The xenomorph has a different form, gets captured and released in a different way too. I actually love watching both versions, one after the other. I don't recommend watching Resurrection Director's Cut though, that one sucks haha.
So this film went through alot of changes more so than most and an earlier script called for the drone xenomorph to as we see in this version burst out of an ox but I don't think it tested well or the director shot it didn't like it and changed it to a dog. Because the xenomorph was always going to be moving around on all fours but the design was of a slimmer than what we had previously seen in the films and the director thought a dog would be a better choice given they used a dog in the newborn effect shots just dressed up on a halfway xenomorph costume. Once they settled on the dog idea they shot those scenes which sadly are sad to watch but I think fit better with the tragic funeral scene and the pray Dillon gives.
I love this movie! I'm glad that you reacted to it. This movie teaches a very important lesson. " Not all heroes come home." Ripley was the hero of the story. She will be missed.
For the record, this isn't the director's cut. David Fincher has effectively disowned this film and says that his cut of Alien3 does not exist and cannot be made. This was an attempt by the producers to best recreate Fincher's intended cut with the materials available.
which is irrelevant. The movie stands on it's own. This was in many ways better than the previous two movies. It just wasn't the movie many people wanted or expected.
Quole it's your opinion. Its my opinion this is good monster movie. A horrible sequel to aliens. Apone, Hicks, Vazquez, Hudson, Newt, Bishop, and more. How many characters do people remember from alien 3. Alien had the android and chestburster scenes and more. So it's just your opinion.
@@rauldeaquino8707 people dont remember things from alien 3 because they don't give it a chance lol. They hate it because of their preconceptions. And it hate to break it to you but the characters in Alien 3 are MUCH better written, with way more depth.
@@Quole1234 Quole, the only special snowflake who sees the brilliance of this franchise killer when all the other fans did not - all hail Quole the Enlightened :bows low: ... deaths too good for you :p.
My late wife loved this film but I think she was the only person I have ever met who did.
@@dallassukerkin6878 there's a difference between objective facts, and subjective opinions. Alien 3 has better characterization, pacing, and is far more philosophically ambitious than Aliens. That is a fact. People just didn't like it because it wasn't the movie they wanted or expected, even if the tone of this film is far more appropriate to the subject matter. What you are doing is using an argument ad populum, which is a common fallacy. I could use t5hat same logic to say that Twilight is one of the greatest stories ever written and by your logic, I would be completely right. Come back to me when you actually learn how to debate.
Oh but it's bad because 2 characters with no personality from the previous movie died. Hicks and Newt literally only existed to be catalysts for Ripley.
Also nice to see the way you speak of your dead wife, by basically calling her an idiot for liking a 'bad' movie. I am sure she would be so proud of you!
Allow me to answer a question. You were right about the facehugger being bigger, thats because it is a Royal Facehugger. These facehuggers are not only bigger, but they can impregnate multiple hosts. Thats how Ripley and the cow got impregnated, and queens do take longer to gestate.
The only CGI shot in this movie is when the alien cracks in the end, everything else is practical. :)
@Big Chap I'm pretty sure they used puppets and not stop motion. You're right about the layering being a bit obvious though. I don't think it would benefit at all from CGI, the puppets looks really good but modern image processing would work wonders for it.
The green screen is what makes people think it was cgi when it was in fact a well done puppet, so people should blame that instead of cgi
@@wolfpredator1000 Yes, the problem was bad green screen and mismatched illumination, not bad CGI. Somehow the effect looks like bad CGI but it isn't.
The puppets and full-costume (yes, there were scenes with a disguised guy) really look great and smooth, but the blending with the prefilmed scenes is horrible.
There's one more in the AC. The shot of the bambi burster running away from the dead ox is a new CGI shot, because the original was never finished.
the dust outside is cgi. as technically is the computer readouts (but they dont count).
The facehugger they found was a queen facehugger, it is why it was so big. It also had webbed legs. A queen facehugger has 2 embrios it can implant instead of the one. It does this when there is no hive so there is a drone and the queen. they do this so the drone can make a hive and wait to look after the queen. so the drone was the one from the bull and the queen was in ripley. hope this helped....also on what you were saying about the neomorphs, they are the product of the last things alive david tested on the planet with the black goo. they were the ultimate species to adapt to it and then david made the xenomorphs from them...well more a protomorph, that is why it is more organic. david will add bio-mechanical aspect to make them stronger which leads to the xenomorph in the movie alien.
I'm so happy you watched this movie. I love Alien 3 as much as Alien and Aliens. To be honest, I love all Alien films. Each movie adds something new and fresh
Based.
The first 3 I agree, resurrection is an abomination ....
@@iad77 I got used to it
@@irina1296 yeah I think some people prefer it to 3 but personally I think I've watched it once at the cinema and once at home and really have no desire to watch it again
exactly i don't understand the hate on 3 i love 3 just as much as the 1st two.
Did you know that facehuggers are quite delicious if properly prepared. You have to neutralize the acid and add warm garlic butter sauce
I loved your guy's reaction to Aliens.
Your wife is correct, the face-hugger is bigger than a normal one. Some says the bigger face-hugger is a royal face-hugger that infects Ripley with a queen alien instead of a normal alien.
it is ..That's why it also takes longer to grow inside her
@@Pinkielover the theory is that Clemens' injections were slowing the gestation process
I think the original concept was that this entire movie was to be a hyper sleep dream (nightmare). Which would make none of this movie real (I mean all her worst nightmares came true the death of 3 individuals she cares about and she has an Alien inside her.). Furthermore, if you analyze this film it duplicates scenes from Aliens.
@@jjjones8609 actually there were 4 scripts written for the third instalment one was William Gibson's which was a rehash of Aliens but in a Cold War context-like concept where two mega corporations Weyland (capitalist) and the UPP (communist) fight for the possession of alien bioengineering and create mutated aliens like in Resurrection. Hicks was going to be the main character while scrapping Ripley totally from the franchise.
Second script was David Twohy's idea of a prison installed in an asteroid where scientists where researching the alien behaviours with death row inmates. This concept was similar to the comic Alien Labyrinth. And no Ripley or Hicks were involved in this movie.
The third one was Eric Red's the worst script of them all.
The fourth was Vincent Ward's that was supposed to be set in a wooden planet made by the monks who vowed to be isolated from the rest of the civilization, just like the prisoners in Alien 3. This movie had a really cool concept of a chameleonic alien able to hide in plain sight by mimicking the surroundings it was in and mocks and stalks Ripley to torment her for the dead of the queen in Aliens. Overall the script wasn't good, but it had cool concepts like that.
Alien 3 is basically a mixture of David Twohy's and Vincent Ward's written by David Giler and Walter Hill the producers and owners of the franchise. Although they gave full credit to Vincent Ward because its where they got more ideas from for the final film. Just imagine the prisoners as monks and that was Vincent Ward's script.
All these scripts can be found on google, they are worth to read if you'd like to see the potential directions the franchise could have gone to and expand the lore.
@@acfan8253 the William Gibson's Alien 3 graphic novel is great
Alien 3 (Assembly Cut) is great. glad y’all enjoyed it.
I remember when this came out, I went to the theater with my parents and sat next to my mom. During the opening credits I hear my mom whispering, "I'm pissed...I'm already pissed." I didn't fully understand, because I'd only just recently been allowed to watch the Alien movies. Of course now I understand.
Regular version has the alien come out of a dog. Which makes more sense, since the higher metabolism would explain why it chestbusted as a more developed xenomorph.
"Face-suckers" hahahah! I don't know why. But, I find that hilarious! 😂😂
You two guys have the conversation about Alien that I always wanted to have with someone but never could have ..... Bravo, thank you ........😁😁😁😁😁
Sounds like your wife is getting hooked on the Alien world. Welcome to the club. Now get the novels, comics & the games. :-D
and marvel owns the comic rights now so look forward to new comic series.
Many hate how Hicks and Newt were just killed off, the rescue in the last made feeling pointless, it’s heart breaking, a lot love the nihilism but it’s also admired for it, not many do reaction to this movie. Thank you for giving it a shot love or hate ir
Yeah the first time I tried to watch it I noped out as soon as they were killed off :(
I really feel that if the beginning had just Ripley ejected from the ship and not the three of them, so Hicks and Newt could have just sailed peacefully onwards, then a lot more people would enjoy this film. That just soured so many viewers on it straight off the bat. It also didn't help that they managed to do worse special effects in this than in the two previous films. The green-screen effects are distractingly terrible.
Yeah it was a crummy and disrespectful thing to do to such great characters, especially within the first few minutes.
Made the entire previous film pointless
@@RYMAN1321and ironically aliens made the first film pointless too since Ripley went back to LV-426
Alien and nihilism go hand and hand. For some reason people forgot that
He told her the entire plot of Alien 3 and she forgot really fast.
I did back when she didn't want to watch 3 and she has the memory of a goldfish. Haha
During the scene with the three guys in the tunnels, when the first one is grabbed by the alien, the other two are actually running away but they go in a circle by mistake and end up back where they started...
Alien vs Predator vs both wearing cowboy hats vs sarcasm vs drinks vs that face @ 29:40 !
Not CGI, it was a puppet that was rotoscoped into the film via bluescreen.
Interesting fact: The reason the face hugger looked so much bigger in this one was because if you read the movie notes from the script it says that was a Queen Face Hugger...different from the regular ones that make the soldiers because it creates both a Queen larva and a Soldier larva to protect the Queen's host while she gestates. The notes also said that in this story, the face hugger impregnated Newt but then the ship crashed and Newt drowned in her pod and the Queen Embryo crawled out of her mouth and entered Ripley since she was the only living host to complete it's gestation in. That is why in the first scenes you see the face hugger on Newt's cryotube and then when you see Ripley's tube, it is also broken.
I know the comic adaptation did that but I'm not sure the film did that. The face hugger crawls over her tube get acid on the side burning the hole but jumped on Ripley's tube cracked it open and impregnated her and that's also why Newt drowns and Ripley floats out out the escape pod.
@donovanbradford8231 Again... if you read the script notes from the original adaptation which was finally reedited into the "Assembly Cut", it explains that this was the original idea. You can also tell in that cut that the face hugger we see doesn't look normal in size or appearance.
I enjoy your reaction of alien franchise quite entertaining.
True story
Actor Michael Biehn Aka Hicks
Went to see the debut of Alien 3 in theaters
When he saw his name (Hicks dead)
He shot out loud said BOOOO!
They killed me off the character BOO!!
I've always loved the first 3 alien movies. Big love for the cinematography in this film and of course Weaver's skin head 😎
Alien 3 directors cut is genuinely one of my favourite horror films. It has the perfect mixture of hope and absolute desperation combined into a proper thrill ride. Because they changed the type of alien vs the previous iterations of it and the lack of weapons makes it so much more involved, then combined with the prisoners, most being rapists and murderers but many having true redemption arcs - masterpiece
It ain't a "directors cut"!
@@dallesamllhals9161This version is. Though the real red flag is that someone's posting positive things about this movie. Resurrectoin was better.
@@vladyvhv9579 Doesn't change that David Fincher was NOT involved. and HEY! I don't HATE Alien Resurrection...hundreds of years later = It's just somthing else 😛
the face hugger is bigger because is a royal face hugger which carries a queen and a drone simultaneously
Not canon / in the films. It's simply bigger as it's a queen hugger.
@@sarcasticstartrek7719 that’s what royal means…
@@acfan8253 I know what it means mate. I also know what canon means. You clearly do not.
@@sarcasticstartrek7719 elaborate instead of getting triggered
@@acfan8253 There's nothing to elaborate. It's never stated in canon that it had two entities in it. We only know it had a queen. There were two face huggers.
Now, kindly stop being wrong about things and piss off.
19:40 That scene and speech is exactly why Newt and Hicks had to die and why it makes perfect sense, especially after learning Ripley's daughter died while she was in Hypersleep waiting to be rescued.
I really can't understand why people slag off old fx. Alien3 is almost 30 years old and I think the cgi stuff stands up well. For some reason modern audiences seem to lack the ability to suspend disbelief which is a real shame.
I think our issue was the fact that Alien and Aliens while older never had special effects that took us out of the moment. Alien 3 effects do at times. Other times they look really great.
@@YouMeTheMovies to be fair my comment wasn't aimed at just you. Loads of reactors say exactly the same kind of thing and I find it pointless really. When I was a kid in the 1980s I went to the cinema and saw films like Aliens and Predator which were then state of the art but I'd also watch the old Flash Gordon serials from the 1930s and although their fx were really primitive it never bothered me and still doesn't. I just don't get why it would.
@@eddhardy1054 I get you. Hey, I love Japanese Godzilla movies myself. That's just a guy in a suit with miniatures. I think the issue with Alien 3 is that continuity of flawless special effects you don't even notice that look great and then the third one being a bit of a downgrade somehow. I also think that has to do with looking back after 20 years and seeing where SFX are now and that really affects how you see things. When I was younger and these movies just came out, they weren't as jarring from the old effects.
It was really hard to capture a really fast alien that could run at 60mph as we see in the explosion scene and the final chase scenes, the previous two were animatronics and stunts dressed as the aliens and they didn't require running as fast as the alien dog/ox does in this movie. The problem was that they couldn't finish the colour correction and effects since Fincher left and they were already behind schedule to release the movie
@@YouMeTheMovies but even now mate I can watch something like The Guardians of the Galaxy and then go and watch something like Dark Star from 1974 that was done on a shoestring budget and the discrepancy in the sfx still doesn't bother me.
There is no "Director's Cut" of this movie. There's a "Special Assembly" (which is what you're watching) but the director (Fincher) was not involved in any way.
16:53 Also, he turns out to be a MAD Time Lord who travels through time and space with his 'magical' police box.
Oh, I forgot. The Golden Child has a good Charles Dance performance in it too. An often overlooked Eddie Murphy joint. I also enjoy The Distinguished Gentleman, though I doubt anyone else does. It's a pretty decent political comedy that doesn't come up in conversation much.
The Royal Facehugger is a much larger and much stronger than other ones, the aliens also get much larger than any you see in the movies
I have a love-hate realtionship with this film. Love Charles Dutton, love a couple of the scenes
HATE killing Newt and Hicks offscreen
The facehugger is not a normal facehugger... it's called a Royal Facehugger. It has webbed fingers so it can swim, it also does not carry just one alien... it carries two... One Queen and a normal alien as a guard.
I like Alien 3s directors cut. But I think the dog from the theatrical cut was a better birth
Alien 3 is enjoyable. This would've been a perfect note to end on.
Besides Alien 3 the movie i really enjoy with Charles Dance is The Golden Child. His villain character was so interesting.
I really enjoy this movie and i actually like how the ending goes. Finally Ripley can rest... plus also the alien species got their revenge. Its funny that people considered the Alien the main Villain, when the fact its not. Its just a species trying to survive. Humans are the real villains, specially the company. enjoy very much the dark path it went. Not always the hero survives and not always the villains are what we want them to be.
Newt and Hicks need it to die for this particular story. Newt actress was a little old to reprise her character... and Hicks was too wounded. The other way to incluid them, was to make a different story...
Sure the movie have some issues, particular how messy the production was. But still it is a good final for Ripley ark.
One of the common tropes in the Alien films is that central leadership (basically the people who might be able to keep order or solve things) is wiped out as the situation worsens leaving the remaining characters to struggle and in turn, rely on Ripley. It works! In Alien 3 it's Clemens and Andrews.
Looking back, this particular cut of the film has aged well IMO.
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Love those films. I wonder how many she has seen. We’ve gone to all the remakes together one of her favorite trilogies. I’ll ask her what films she’s seen or not. Of course with her memory, we could likely start from the first one.
I notice you got three Godzilla posters in the background' perhaps you can do a reaction video to the original franchise of that?
But if you plan to do it I think you should include all the tie-in films as well too' so you can watch the entire original Toho Showa Universe, that will give you 15 Godzilla films and 15 tie-in films to watch altogether from the first series.
Then you need to figure out if you rather go by chronological order of the timeline or just simply by release order?
If you need a list of the tie-in films feel free to ask me and I'll write them down in case you are not sure about some of them.
The only other two franchises I can think of are Friday The 13th and A Nightmare On Elm Street for reactions videos.
@@tlyon2 Mr. Movies here. I actually have my own TH-cam channel dedicated to Godzilla/Kaiju Content.
th-cam.com/users/TheKaijuCowboy
You should check it out. Mrs. Movies has seen quite a bit of Godzilla in this household. Our two daughters are hooked on it.
@@YouMeTheMovies Wait till the new 1 comes out with Ripley in it :):)
I love 3 and Resurrection too.
A couple issues I had with both 'Prometheus' and 'Covenant' are that a lot of totally illogical things have to happen and the films get way too far up their own ass philosophically.
'Alien 3' is hated by most fans because of the disrespect shown to Hicks and Newt by having them killed offscreen...which basically makes Aliens irrelevant.
I prefer Prometheus and Covenant, they’re just more interesting to me for some reason.
That is a plus for me.Why Alien 3 should follow the formula of everyone being ok after Aliens?
You're crazy Alien 3 is my favorite next to Resurrection. It's all about Ripley! Love her so much. 🤗
I like the idea of the prequels but they needed to just come out and say some of the ideas rather than just letting people just try and figure out the story after the fact by piecing together various images and alien variations and such. To little actually described for such a complex story arc. They would have been better off using just the basic queen to alien life cycle from the 1st two movies and use it more as genetic engineering than trying to add in the magic goo that isn't adequately explained.
@@METALSCAVENGER78 because they fought hard to survive
So, I know that I’m well over a year late to the You, Me, & The Movies’ “Alien 3” party, however, I have a couple quick things to say…
1. I’m *sure* that someone else has already informed y’all of this, but if by some _crazy_ chance no one has… the Paula Abdul song with the cartoon cat in it is “Opposites Attract”. His name is MC Skat Kat and he does all of the male parts in the song as well!
2. I freaking *love* “Last Action Hero”! It was one of my favorite movies as a kid and I still greatly enjoy it!!
I always felt that the final alien drone is determined by the host the face-hugger impregnates. This one used a cow so came out less bi-pedal and more quad-pedal. That’s why it’s running around on four legs so much and other things were not used to seeing the alien do. Either that or by using CGI they could achieve more movements than with earlier puppets.
Sigourney Weaver started the trend of actresses shaving their heads. Not that it happened a lot. Demi Moore in GI Jane. Natalie Portman in V For Vendetta. We should not forget Karen Gillan shaved her head for her role in Guardians of The Galaxy. There's probably more. Those are just the ones I can think of.
Even after the producers destroyed this movie with all their meddling it still holds up mainly due to the great acting
I remember when I went to see this movie back in 1993, just blew my mind....so glad you react to this movie....love you guys!!!!
I like the movie. It's a good addition to the story and it's a great alien, sci fi, horror, action movie and it gives more insight into how the alien anatomy works. I didn't know the alien would integrate traits of its host until this movie.
The Original setup for the next film was that 1 of the survivors of the prison was supposed to get back to Earth with an Alien inside him but that was changed of course.
13:37 Xenomorph: "UMMMMmmm you like that don't you...[lick]...I'll be BACK...."
Your discussion of the source of the xenomorphs reminds me of the two Highlander films that try to show the origin of the immortals and how much people don't like those two films.
The version I saw had the alien bursting from a Rottweiler. I think that was the theatrical version.
The alien wasn’t cgi, it was a rod puppet in front of a blue screen. Wasn’t rendered too well. I think there’s a few instances of cg but it’s mostly the puppet
I like 3, mostly because I saw it young and just accepted it as what happens. I understand why people hate and I’m not gonna argue in it’s favor any time soon.
'' 07:57 puppy psycho monster '' !!!! Great description !!!! I almost fell off my chair laughing !!!! And a little note : They r called '' facehuggers ''. Info u may not know because well , u didn 't mention it : The '' Alien '' is based on a painting by H.R.Giger. Great Artist. Check out his Art.
29:40 that can't wait was so enthusiastic xD loved it
So glad you watched the Assembly Cut; it’s a far superior than the theatrical cut.
Alien 3 is something of a flawed masterpiece & I think after the upbeat ending of Aliens with Ripley, Hicks & Newt being almost a family people found the dystopian vibe of Alien 3 hard to get their heads round. Hicks & Newt needed to die, to continue to keep Ripley isolated. Throughout the films Ripley lost everything; the crew of the Nostromo, her daughter, the marines.
From the moment the Fox fanfare starts to end & distort, it helps set the tone for the film. This isn’t a pleasant film & I think Fincher did incredible even though the studio fucked his vision up so so badly.
The cast in Alien 3 is absolutely incredible; Brian Glover (Andrews) played some awesome roles in his time. Then throw Ralph Brown, Charles S Dutton & Charles Dance into the mix & it’s just excellent.
Fun Fact: I went to art college not far from where they filmed the EEV impact & Ripley washing up on the beach; Blast Beach in Seaham, North East England. Also parts of the blast furnaces that are on the Tees Estuary feature in the matte paintings; although they filmed some scenes at Blyth Power Station.
During filming Tom Woodruff from Amalgamated Dynamics spent up to thirteen hours inside the creature suit for certain scenes. Also, regarding you puppy comment….well they did tests with a whippet in an alien suit….let’s just say the results are comical.
The film destroyed the franchise by being a boring and depressing film and no joy at all to watch. It’s not scary either
It’s widely regarded as one of the worst sequels ever, even the director David Fincher disowned it
But hey if you like it, fine
Yes, dipping bird is in Prometheus
I totally agree with what you guys said at the end also. As a long time Alien fan, I too always wanted and hoped for a movie that would someday show us the home world of the Aliens and their origin, and when Prometheus came along it was not what I expected. But that doesn't mean that the origin the creator of this world gave us is somehow wrong or not good because it wasn't what we expected. That's where I have a problem with my fellow uberfans. We don't own these franchises because we call ourselves fans. Ridley Scott gave us his movies and that makes them fact and correct. As fans we don't have to like it or watch the movies if we don't want. But I find fault with fans watching it and saying things like the movies was garbage because the actual creator didn't write or direct the movie the way we wanted. We are just the bystanders to these stories that get to be a part of it for a couple of hours as it goes by on the movie screen. I wasn't expecting that origin story, but I do think it is pretty amazing. So the Aliens aren't some race of creature that evolved on planet Alien some where but are instead a bio weapon that another race experimented with and the experiment got out of control and is now one of the most dangerous, horrifying things in our galaxy...pretty good plot if you ask me.
She is seriously good at predicting movie concepts.
Yes but he also told her the entire movie beforehand
"Ooh it's a big one. When did it get bigger?" In all my viewings I've never noticed that. And I am one of the ones that like all the movies in the series (especially #4).
Seriously, get your undiscovered gifted self over to Scotland Yard or Interpol or the World Police; your observation and deduction skills are through the roof (based on many a video watch with you). Maybe you SHOULD watch Fincher's Zodiac... five minutes in and you'll be "so the killer is... was..."
The only CGI shot is near the very end right before the alien explodes. The rest is either a model or stop motion.
"The dipping bird is in every movie" - and Ripley gets a nose bleed from stress in every movie (though it's never said out loud - her nose spontaneously starts bleeding under high stress).
If I remember correctly the reason the colony doesn't have weapons is because sigourney weaver doesn't like guns and refused to do the movie unless they met 3 demands and no guns was one of the demands
I still like watching this film, though I'm obviously biased due to my involvement in it. Whatever the haters say about it, I still think we did a great job with the project we were given. I couldn't say which I prefer, but I was there for all of them up to and including Prometheus.
It's my favorite with the first one. I have major nostalgia for Alien 3.
It's an amazing piece of work, the details of Fury 161, beautiful cinematography, great acting, definitely Sigourney Weaver's best performance as Ripley, the best score out of all the Alien films. And it's dark and moody which is perfect for the series. I love it!
"Who loves music videos?" Ha, people who had MTV in the '80s and '90s.
I saw this and liked it like a standalone movie, barely having seen "Aliens" and without having seen "Alien." Now, looking back and after watching the progression, not so much and simply because of the start.
The ending really had an impact on audiences. It had a huge opening weekend followed by much less of a take the following week as word spread.
I like that ripley was like I rather take my life, than letting the company get the alien in side me to use it as a biowapen.
I like this alien movie a lot actually.
Interview with a Vampire is a great movie
'Can't Wait... ' said very un-enthusiastic. 😂
While I love the alien movies, I kind of wanted the origin of the Xenomorph to be left a mystery. I liked thinking that no one knew where they (and the engineers) came from, possibly some distant galaxy several thousand years ago, which of course would have lead to some interesting questions such as how did Weyland Yutani know about the organisms and where to find the crashed ship. I'm hoping for either a movie or possibly in the TV series that we will see an outbreak on Earth or another heavily populated planet, which is caused by the Weyland Yutani corp believing they had control over containment of a Xenomorph research lab.
Exactly
I felt my imagination was stolen when I saw they explained that we made them or androids did
It was a big middle finger to the original films
Myself I always enjoyed this film as a kid and still do because this really lets you know these stories are just as much about Ripley as they are about the Xenomorphs as we get more of the Xenomorphs we get more of Ripley's story and growth of her character and that's why she is not only such a strong female character but an iconic character in cinema. I loved Dillon he was by far my favorite character and his ending while sad was great, he just goes out on his feet like a boss no fear or hesitation. Loved the chase through the corridors and planet so much fun. I get the heart break of Newt and Hicks being gone but it sadly had to happen because we needed it to ve be about Ripley and given where the company was and what they planned she needed to be ready for the nightmare to finally be over and not having any attachments to anyone at that point in the story was the right call. Good movie sad it doesn't get the love that developed for say Predator 2 as time went on but we all have movies like that.
It's not actually CGI , they used rod puppets and inserted that into the the movie like green screen kind of...
The actual suit looks great, better than aliens imo ...
I’m rewatching your videos and thank goodness. I missed some. This was a great video. I love alien 3. It looks bad but it was still entertaining,
The alien develops differently depending on its host. For example, when they face-hugged a Predator, they developed the armoured skin that the Queen had in the original series.
The cartoon cat is Paula Abdul Opposites Attract. This is how I see the series. The good ones: Alien, Aliens. The meh ones: Alien 3, Prometheus, Covenant. The so bad it's good: Resurrection, AVP
At least Prometheus and Covenant stuck to the Alien history
One thing I hate about the version you watched is Ripley's death scene. In the theatrical cut the queen bursts out of her chest while she's falling into the lead and she grabs it so it can't get away but in this one she just falls into the lead and that's it.
Ripley and Tywin Lannister in an affair!
Fun fact in the original Reales instead of an ox it’s a dog and a dog was originally gonna play as the runner xenomorph but they changed it to a rod puppet
My understanding was that Prometheus and Covenant (and their yet-to-be sequel) were meant to be Ridley Scott’s magnum opus as a separate franchise, but fans wanted more Alien so badly he tried to cram a bunch of lore into a philosophical story, and it just didn’t work for everyone. At any rate this is my first peek at this newer version of Alien 3, definitely gonna check it out soon.
In the theatrical cut it was a dog not a cow. Part of the reason was because the cow/ox refused to do the face hugger scene and this movie already being riddled with reshoots, rewrites and all over interference from the studio, they just switched to a dog as dogs are trainable. Plus the CGI alien was already created by the time Fincher came onboard that they needed a different kind of host than human to justify the alien's look of being more a four legged creature rather than a two legged one that were in the previous movies. That's why this alien is able to run on all fours that the others did NOT do. And this concept of the alien taking on physical characteristics of its host was carried through in Prometheus and Covenant.
~There's only two pices of CGI in this movie - the "dust" blown around outside, and the alien head as it cracks open. Everything else was rod puppets.
oh, in the special assembly (the one you're viewing) they did CGI in the alien as it bursts out the cow.
Its more like Alien 1. Slow moving suspense building.
Awesome job! Love the reviews, don't get a chance to comment to every one. Like I said in previous comment, I like all of the alien films, including the new ones, even though I do find the AI plot device for humanity's destruction is somewhat overused, but is interesting. I like the mystery of the alien species as natural creation in contrast to them being an experiment in bioengineering.
Ahahaha I love your channel and these incredible reactions, definitely one of the best find I've come across on TH-cam !...Seing such pure and authentic reactions is great xD..Especially on jumpscares and more scary movies ahahah.
Y'all both awesome :D Keep up the great work! ...Also laughed my ass off at 15:30 XD that was way too funny /cute xD
The alien isn’t CGI, it’s a model. But because it’s based on the animal it came out of, it’s got an animal shape to it. So they couldn’t put a person in a costume and had to green screen it against the sets. That’s why it looks janky in some shots.
Watching the Workprint version it has alternate footage and additional stuff that the theatrical version didn't; it runs more than 30 minutes longer.
So glad you chose the alternate version
There is another movie cut in which the alien is not shown as often as in the cut you reacted to and, in my opinion, gives a more misterious and interesting view to the film. Anyhow, I loved your reaction.
It's the Theatrical Cut. This one came out later on, when the Special Editions were released.
I was so mad leaving the theater that when I got home I wrote a treatment for Alien 4 and 5, ignoring the events of 3.
I was disappointed that you didn’t list ‘Judith’ by ‘a perfect circle’ as one of the music videos David Fincher directed.
Hey Guys, like the reactions and liked this movie also. This for me is where Ripley's ends for me. They shouldn't have made a fourth movie although there is some good action in the fourth movie. Before you go on to the AVP movies she needs to have seen the Predator 1 and 2 movies. Good stuff keep up the good work.
Pls keep pumping out these movies your channel is gonna be 100k by xmas I swear
My personal requests would be THE FIFTH ELEMENT / GALAXY QUEST / MATRIX plsssssssss
Your misses is so smart! Always gets what’s gonna happen 👏🏿👏🏿
Liam Nelson, Darkman 1990.
Imagine playing a drinking game for every F bomb they drop 😂👍👍
it was in Prometheus as well :)
Many would say Prometheus was not good but at least it tells us more about that ship
Loved y'alls reaction!!
4:53 -- Are sea lice the same thing as sand fleas ?