I am not sure how many times I have listened to this and possibly posted on here, but I have listened to this many many many many many many times over the past 10 years. Thank you for keeping the channel alive!
This movie keeps getting better and better with every viewing! Way way underrated...the characters were great and the concept is so true to the alien mythology....the directing is increduble and the actors had some meaty dialog
It deserves way more love than it receives. The quiet, slow and depressed pace & theme of the movie was IMO the right choice after the high action Aliens. I hated it the first time seeing it as a kid, but at some point it started to resonate with me more and more.
@@themeage3605 "slow and depressed pace & theme". You nailed the description right there. The movie is harsh reminder that the alien universe is far from being a happy place. It's tragic, it's traumatising and unforgiving. Killing off Newt and Hicks in such dispassionate manner only adds to this feeling of hopelessness. Alien brought the suspense, the mystery; Aliens was "larger", quicker, action packed; Alien 3 is drama, it's tragedy and sacrifice. Not one of these three tries to "mimic" the other two. They're each one of a kind: different visions of 3 extraordinary directors. And Fincher brings the story to a beautiful and epic close, with the ultimate sacrifice of the Hero Ellen Ripley. And Elliot Goldenthal came up with the perfect Adagio for it.
@@thyrandus well said about the ending. The final shots of empty spaces hits really hard to me for some reason. I also like that this time around Ripley has to work together with the ill equipped ultimate losers in contrast to the hightech elite marines. You can sense the camaraderie build up towards the end.
This is how you use brass. Goldenthal absolutely nailed this score and brought home Alien 3's somber mood. This score is terrifying, violent, grand, vicious and beautiful, just like the creature itself.
An EXTRAORDINARY SCORE to an increasingly recognised Film - Goldenthal's music so impressed me I went straight from the cinema in 1992 and bought the OST! This is a Chilling, melancholic, almost Religious score that simply is one of the most astounding pieces of film music - Symphony No1 indeed!!
It’s cool how in the very end of the movie when it’s playing the flight recording of Ripley’s voice talking about the Nostromo, the score switches and reminds you of the first two films. Ties it all together. Like in the end, the main thing was she was a survivor
I will NEVER forget the encapsulating beauty of this movie and soundtrack... The runner alien at the end had some of the best moments and looked horrifically beautiful. Weyland wanting the queen and Ripley dying was one heck of a cinematic and absolutely unparalleled masterpiece. Along with the score.
That build up at @10:15 and those brass BLASTS at @11:09 and @11:48 which marks the start of one of the BEST finales to a score. Love how dark, and chocolatey, and thick and rick this score is! @12:47 ugh....@13:21 pure orgasmic bliss and @13:35 those brass blasts continue. And what remains is beautiful, cathartic, melancholy.
I always break up and cry when listening to this if I am alone, I couldn't help it. It is proof that certain music can touch your soul no matter what, given that it has the right deepness. I am swayed into a vortex of mixed memories interwined between key moments of the movie, my life and prospectives for the future alike, alongwith a strong sense of emphathy and understanding towards the character of Ellen Ripley. It's all in there, shaked like a cocktail of sadness inside the depths of my most intimate feelings. When confronting those memories, at the end there is some sort of feeling of 'Letting it go' to go on with life, but is that the right solution? This score is so good because it perfectly fits the scenes, something that nowadays filmmakers are completely unaware of, seemingly. The music of Goldenthal here is a lively creature, stretching from the crude location where the story takes place, running alongwith the xenomorph and its hunt and finding that secret delicate place where Ripley holds her thoughts, feelings and regrets. It's all very mean, emotionally haunting and piercing, profound, as well as astonishing tender and nostalgic. You get the idea of having each movie representing a step or phase in Ripley's unfortunate space-quest, and by the time you get to Alien 3 you feel like the whole puzzle is a fact. There is a longing for a resolution. I indeed find this soundtrack to be the most memorable among those from the other movies, because of its semi-avantgarde attitude I guess. Goldenthal nailed it here and composed a real masterpiece that's basicly talking about life and sacrifice. Rewatching movies as you get older adds more layers to their plots, and Alien is basicly a Mother's tale, which is the struggle to survive through a harsh and hostile universe to protect your cuddles. Just as well, that's also the Alien(s) scope, to proliferate and keep their kin alive.
This is one of the most powerful soundtracks of all time. I stand on that. I never skip a track. I just ride the roller coaster of emo tions, and let it play all the way through.
@@valentusdolor3742 This part of the score, or something very much like it, is heard toward the end of the movie when Ripley goes into the furnace. Wait, it's 12:48 here where she drops in. Yes?
@@valentusdolor3742 It is the part where Ripley and the inmates have gathered to bury Newt and Hicks by throwing their bodies into the furnace. This is the moment when they release their bodies.
It is one of the most touching pieces of music ever created... it surpasses time and mankind, something only vaguely grabbable to us that was made audible... like a universal emotion so beautiful and sad, this piece made it feelable for us. Goldenthal completely understood the tragedy of Ripley, and of life, death, sacrifice and inenavibility in general. This piece expresses an emotion and truth in us all in a way that words can never do.
One of the most beguiled Alien movies, which I hated when it came out. These days, with the director's cut, I love it and rate it up there with 1 and 2, but Alien 3 has always had the greatest theme tune by a long shot in my humble opinion :o)
I absolutely agree. Alien 3 is like a troubled child though, it had a rough start from the begining and it really is the genious of Fincher that it was even finished in a state like we know it today. When you look at all the really unbelievable trouble Fincher and the actors had to go trough, due to the Studio and all the other issues, it really helps to appreciate the movie a bit more. The script for example which they changed like 10 times or something, was still not finished when Fincher started filming and Fincher came somewhat halfway to the project, as the previous director left the project due to disagreement with Fox.
The most amazing thing about this soundtrack was that it was released on CD before the movie was released..I conjured a whole movie in my mind before its release.
Those lite sounds heard in the first twenty seconds was an upright bass. I remember back in high school in orchestra I was just fooling around on my bass making harmonic sounds and immediately recognized that sound from the ALIEN 3 soundtrack.
12:05 when you feel sad because you realize Ripley is about to face her final trial but you also get happy because her journey of martyrdom is about to end and she will finally relief and rest. This movie already starts with a punch on our faces by having newt and hicks killed, from the beggining you know things will not end well, and in the end death is all the relief one gets. Its brutally sad and realistical. 13:08 thats when one cry with a smile in his face. Its sad, but the suffering is finally over.
I get that it's a tricky listen if you're not sure what to expect. Common meters are right out the window. It plays almost as a fragmented collection of passages and cues, assembled like a collage into a new construct. BUT - once you step back and find a way to take in the entirety of it, it makes sense. Let the emotions inspired by each moment flow right along, and enjoy the ride.
Usually I don’t pay attention to the ost into a movie. Alien 3 ost is the only one I have buy on cd. I can listen this ost line any other cd album of music.
Great work on the suite! Goldenthal is high up on my list of favourite composers, much because of the music from Alien 3. But also Titus and FF has some incredible moments.
MFC1791 I guess this suite is edited by the uploader. Highlights from the score so to speak, seamlessly edited together. Sometimes the composers also makes "suite" or concertversions themselves, but I'm not sure if Goldenthal has done this...
Morten MalvikFor me to ... probably one the bests movies music composers with Howard Shore ... subtility , originality , and excellent capacity to compose classic partitions . Over the Goldenthal' s music , there is the " shadow " of Stravinsky , but also Mahler ( in their adagios ) and Schönberg ... excuse me for my bad english !
Yeah...it's an impressive score, but at around minute 6:30 it sound A LOT like the 2nd Movement of "Harmonielehre" by the composer, John Adams. There are little bits of "The Planets" by Holst, and touches of Ligeti, and Takemitsu.
Well artists will always be inspired more or less by what came before them if they aren't ignoring everything around, whether to call this plagiarism or not...
Why "but" ?. Should we just put a patent on classic music, so no one else will ever create something derivative being inspired and inflamed by prior existing pieces? And while we are at it, this movies called "Alien" should have never beeen made, cause it plagiarized Aliens as a concept which where already created from the 50ies onwards... how dare they jus plagiarize the idea and make another spin of it...
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That's what every single musician including all great classical composers do.
I only wish the movie lived up to the score. Goldenthal is really growing on me. When I was in college, I bought the FF score based on reviews but I could never get into it. Maybe I should give it another go....
Have you seen the Assembly Cut of the film? Its the definitive version of Alien 3 and compliments the score nicely. The only thing I feel the Theatrical cut did better was having the xenomorph born from a canid(as opposed to an ox, which is also a very good scene and still a bit tragic, but the alien born doesn't have any traits of an ox.)
Yeah, I've seen it and you are right - it is a definite improvement over the theatrical release. Ditto to all your comments. One thing I will say for Alien 3 - at least it still FEELS like an Alien movie (as opposed to Resurrection).
Will Morgan Agreed, Resurrection felt like a bad fanfiction. It had a few interesting concepts though(such as the hybrid and the return of the Xenomorph Queen.) But it was painful to sit through. What's even more odd is that Resurrection's director's cut manages to be even worse then the theatrical cut. I can't help but feel that Prometheus' release years later kind of compensated for the existence of Resurrection, as Prometheus is at least a more competent film.
Natalie P. Funny you say that- the end of the 'End Credits' of the complete soundtrack absolutely reminded me of Shostakovich. I'm a big fan of Russian 20th C big orchestral music and I completely see where you're coming from- the big climactic ending which subsides into a bleak emptiness... There's surely some inspiration there in the writing. It's a great score.
@@dknystylez they literally kill all three of the fan favorite side characters two of which were of screen. You like the movie keep on liking it but don’t say I have no reason to dislike it
![James Horner: Aliens [Extended Theme Suite by Gilles Nuytens]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/zWG4UE0bfc0/mqdefault.jpg)
It's incredible how this soundtrack is underrated. One of the most impressive work I've ever heard.
You said it
Yes!
This is one of the most impressive soundtracks ever made.
The best soundtrack to an Alien movie so far
It seems to be very underrated indeed, much like the film itself.
I am not sure how many times I have listened to this and possibly posted on here, but I have listened to this many many many many many many times over the past 10 years. Thank you for keeping the channel alive!
This movie keeps getting better and better with every viewing! Way way underrated...the characters were great and the concept is so true to the alien mythology....the directing is increduble and the actors had some meaty dialog
This!
It deserves way more love than it receives. The quiet, slow and depressed pace & theme of the movie was IMO the right choice after the high action Aliens. I hated it the first time seeing it as a kid, but at some point it started to resonate with me more and more.
@@themeage3605 "slow and depressed pace & theme". You nailed the description right there. The movie is harsh reminder that the alien universe is far from being a happy place. It's tragic, it's traumatising and unforgiving. Killing off Newt and Hicks in such dispassionate manner only adds to this feeling of hopelessness.
Alien brought the suspense, the mystery; Aliens was "larger", quicker, action packed; Alien 3 is drama, it's tragedy and sacrifice. Not one of these three tries to "mimic" the other two. They're each one of a kind: different visions of 3 extraordinary directors.
And Fincher brings the story to a beautiful and epic close, with the ultimate sacrifice of the Hero Ellen Ripley. And Elliot Goldenthal came up with the perfect Adagio for it.
@@thyrandus well said about the ending. The final shots of empty spaces hits really hard to me for some reason.
I also like that this time around Ripley has to work together with the ill equipped ultimate losers in contrast to the hightech elite marines. You can sense the camaraderie build up towards the end.
It's been my favorite Alien movie. The original comes on a close second,
For me the soundtrack is the best aspect of the film and the most memorable.
This is how you use brass. Goldenthal absolutely nailed this score and brought home Alien 3's somber mood. This score is terrifying, violent, grand, vicious and beautiful, just like the creature itself.
Everyone goes on about alien 2 but for 3 was the best and the scores were all very haunting .
An EXTRAORDINARY SCORE to an increasingly recognised Film - Goldenthal's music so impressed me I went straight from the cinema in 1992 and bought the OST! This is a Chilling, melancholic, almost Religious score that simply is one of the most astounding pieces of film music - Symphony No1 indeed!!
I find kind of hard to say how beautiful and haunting this score is but you used the right words 🙌
It’s cool how in the very end of the movie when it’s playing the flight recording of Ripley’s voice talking about the Nostromo, the score switches and reminds you of the first two films. Ties it all together. Like in the end, the main thing was she was a survivor
One of the best soundtrack.💯
I will NEVER forget the encapsulating beauty of this movie and soundtrack... The runner alien at the end had some of the best moments and looked horrifically beautiful. Weyland wanting the queen and Ripley dying was one heck of a cinematic and absolutely unparalleled masterpiece. Along with the score.
This score contains Some incredibly emotive and beautiful music. So underrated
this might be my favorite Alien score.......
My favorite soundtrack of all time.
This is the best soundtrack of all the Alien films.
That build up at @10:15 and those brass BLASTS at @11:09 and @11:48 which marks the start of one of the BEST finales to a score. Love how dark, and chocolatey, and thick and rick this score is! @12:47 ugh....@13:21 pure orgasmic bliss and @13:35 those brass blasts continue. And what remains is beautiful, cathartic, melancholy.
Massively underrated movie.
I always break up and cry when listening to this if I am alone, I couldn't help it.
It is proof that certain music can touch your soul no matter what, given that it has the right deepness. I am swayed into a vortex of mixed memories interwined between key moments of the movie, my life and prospectives for the future alike, alongwith a strong sense of emphathy and understanding towards the character of Ellen Ripley. It's all in there, shaked like a cocktail of sadness inside the depths of my most intimate feelings. When confronting those memories, at the end there is some sort of feeling of 'Letting it go' to go on with life, but is that the right solution?
This score is so good because it perfectly fits the scenes, something that nowadays filmmakers are completely unaware of, seemingly. The music of Goldenthal here is a lively creature, stretching from the crude location where the story takes place, running alongwith the xenomorph and its hunt and finding that secret delicate place where Ripley holds her thoughts, feelings and regrets. It's all very mean, emotionally haunting and piercing, profound, as well as astonishing tender and nostalgic.
You get the idea of having each movie representing a step or phase in Ripley's unfortunate space-quest, and by the time you get to Alien 3 you feel like the whole puzzle is a fact. There is a longing for a resolution. I indeed find this soundtrack to be the most memorable among those from the other movies, because of its semi-avantgarde attitude I guess. Goldenthal nailed it here and composed a real masterpiece that's basicly talking about life and sacrifice.
Rewatching movies as you get older adds more layers to their plots, and Alien is basicly a Mother's tale, which is the struggle to survive through a harsh and hostile universe to protect your cuddles. Just as well, that's also the Alien(s) scope, to proliferate and keep their kin alive.
Wonderfully said!
Magnifique commentaire ❤.
This is the perfect portrayal of music and atmosphere in a movie. One of my all time favorites, I never understood the hate this got.
Best soundtrack of the alien saga .
The film is ok, if you're Alien fan. which we all are but this music is unique and astonishing
I'm not an Alien fan, I came for Goldenthal
Masterpiece
This is one of the most powerful soundtracks of all time. I stand on that. I never skip a track. I just ride the roller coaster of emo
tions, and let it play all the way through.
9:01 is just gorgeous and stirring ... and a big moment in the film.
Which moment is it from actually? I know it re-appears at the ending adagio again
@@valentusdolor3742 This part of the score, or something very much like it, is heard toward the end of the movie when Ripley goes into the furnace. Wait, it's 12:48 here where she drops in. Yes?
@@valentusdolor3742 It is the part where Ripley and the inmates have gathered to bury Newt and Hicks by throwing their bodies into the furnace. This is the moment when they release their bodies.
It is one of the most touching pieces of music ever created... it surpasses time and mankind, something only vaguely grabbable to us that was made audible... like a universal emotion so beautiful and sad, this piece made it feelable for us. Goldenthal completely understood the tragedy of Ripley, and of life, death, sacrifice and inenavibility in general. This piece expresses an emotion and truth in us all in a way that words can never do.
The end of it, gives me goosebumps.
9:24 - 10:02 - absolutely chilling.
One of my favorite soundtracks. It is a piece of music that works very well by itself.
Incredible composition, especially the part that begins at 11:00.
Pour the lead!
Reminds me of Batterdammerung from Batman Forever. Love those strings.
I love the delicate piano work here....very tender. If Newt had of survived that piece would of been perfect for the scenes of her with Ripley.
Il cinema ha salvato la musica "classica" e la musica classica ha ricambiato elevandolo
This is an absolute masterpiece. Glory of symphony !
JEEPERS -- The best BRASS COMMANDER in all halls of composers. No one has ever moved me with compositions like this bad-ass has...
One of the most beguiled Alien movies, which I hated when it came out. These days, with the director's cut, I love it and rate it up there with 1 and 2, but Alien 3 has always had the greatest theme tune by a long shot in my humble opinion :o)
I absolutely agree. Alien 3 is like a troubled child though, it had a rough start from the begining and it really is the genious of Fincher that it was even finished in a state like we know it today. When you look at all the really unbelievable trouble Fincher and the actors had to go trough, due to the Studio and all the other issues, it really helps to appreciate the movie a bit more. The script for example which they changed like 10 times or something, was still not finished when Fincher started filming and Fincher came somewhat halfway to the project, as the previous director left the project due to disagreement with Fox.
The most amazing thing about this soundtrack was that it was released on CD before the movie was released..I conjured a whole movie in my mind before its release.
I agree
Those lite sounds heard in the first twenty seconds was an upright bass. I remember back in high school in orchestra I was just fooling around on my bass making harmonic sounds and immediately recognized that sound from the ALIEN 3 soundtrack.
12:05 when you feel sad because you realize Ripley is about to face her final trial but you also get happy because her journey of martyrdom is about to end and she will finally relief and rest.
This movie already starts with a punch on our faces by having newt and hicks killed, from the beggining you know things will not end well, and in the end death is all the relief one gets. Its brutally sad and realistical.
13:08 thats when one cry with a smile in his face. Its sad, but the suffering is finally over.
I really wish they would have ended the series here.
Alien: birth
Aliens: life
Alien 3: death
I get that it's a tricky listen if you're not sure what to expect. Common meters are right out the window. It plays almost as a fragmented collection of passages and cues, assembled like a collage into a new construct. BUT - once you step back and find a way to take in the entirety of it, it makes sense. Let the emotions inspired by each moment flow right along, and enjoy the ride.
fantastic piece of music
11:04 killing the beast. Magnific soundtrack
4:45 - "Lungs. Flooded with fluid."
Magistral ! Digne des plus grands compositeurs.
Usually I don’t pay attention to the ost into a movie. Alien 3 ost is the only one I have buy on cd. I can listen this ost line any other cd album of music.
Great work on the suite! Goldenthal is high up on my list of favourite composers, much because of the music from Alien 3. But also Titus and FF has some incredible moments.
Is this a different mix of the score? The CD I have doesn't have this version on it.
MFC1791 I guess this suite is edited by the uploader. Highlights from the score so to speak, seamlessly edited together. Sometimes the composers also makes "suite" or concertversions themselves, but I'm not sure if Goldenthal has done this...
Morten Malvik OK thanks. Do you have the live concert of Alien 1-4? I've seen it only on here but wondered if it's really great on a TV.
No I haven't seen it...
Morten MalvikFor me to ... probably one the bests movies music composers with Howard Shore ... subtility , originality , and excellent capacity to compose classic partitions . Over the Goldenthal' s music , there is the " shadow " of Stravinsky , but also Mahler ( in their adagios ) and Schönberg ... excuse me for my bad english !
Fantastic edit to one of my favorite scores of all time! Loved that you worked in samples of the complete score, would kill to hear this in concert
Elliot Goldenthal does great sci fi scores, dreamy, hard ,hitting, I would love to hear a score for a future star trek film.
Good editing. Sometimes I just LOVE this soundtrack.
Whoever put this together...THANK YOU!
Goldenthal at his best
5:18 hints of the Prometheus OST...
Interesting!
It's just beautiful
It jumped out at me like a face hugger.
Best soundtrack ever...
Better than the Omen movies?
Although I enjoyed Alien 3 immensly - especially the directors cut - this score deserved a larger film.
Yeah...it's an impressive score, but at around minute 6:30 it sound A LOT like the 2nd Movement of "Harmonielehre" by the composer, John Adams. There are little bits of "The Planets" by Holst, and touches of Ligeti, and Takemitsu.
Well artists will always be inspired more or less by what came before them if they aren't ignoring everything around, whether to call this plagiarism or not...
Why "but" ?. Should we just put a patent on classic music, so no one else will ever create something derivative being inspired and inflamed by prior existing pieces? And while we are at it, this movies called "Alien" should have never beeen made, cause it plagiarized Aliens as a concept which where already created from the 50ies onwards... how dare they jus plagiarize the idea and make another spin of it...
That's what every single musician including all great classical composers do.
11:04 Storm from Vivaldi...
Beat me too it. All the more apropos since this cue was for the scene where Ripley kills the alien by turning on the sprinklers.
the piece of music after 85 dies is amazing
Belle le pubblicità proprio in mezzo alla musica
Отличный композитор, чужой навсегда, все части гениальны
Wonderdfull!
os bons tempos das trilhas sonoras de filmes.
Эллиот - Ты Гений!!!!
Он вполне может противостоять Хансу циммеру!
Think of all we can learn from it!
came back after watching alien: romulus. could have sworn I heard bits of the alien 3 theme in the music.
exquisite
Think of all we can learn from it
It’s a magnificent species! You must let me have it 😢
6:23 epico 😦😮😲😲
jaw-dropping
If anyone can tell me what cues, sections or tracks from the original soundtrack this suite is made up of, please let me know.
I only wish the movie lived up to the score. Goldenthal is really growing on me. When I was in college, I bought the FF score based on reviews but I could never get into it. Maybe I should give it another go....
Have you seen the Assembly Cut of the film? Its the definitive version of Alien 3 and compliments the score nicely. The only thing I feel the Theatrical cut did better was having the xenomorph born from a canid(as opposed to an ox, which is also a very good scene and still a bit tragic, but the alien born doesn't have any traits of an ox.)
Yeah, I've seen it and you are right - it is a definite improvement over the theatrical release. Ditto to all your comments. One thing I will say for Alien 3 - at least it still FEELS like an Alien movie (as opposed to Resurrection).
Will Morgan
Agreed, Resurrection felt like a bad fanfiction. It had a few interesting concepts though(such as the hybrid and the return of the Xenomorph Queen.) But it was painful to sit through. What's even more odd is that Resurrection's director's cut manages to be even worse then the theatrical cut.
I can't help but feel that Prometheus' release years later kind of compensated for the existence of Resurrection, as Prometheus is at least a more competent film.
I like Prometheus, I would like some reference to Alien 3 in the new Alien 3.... like a runner
Maravilhoso! Me lembra Gustav Mahler...
When space used to be empty, cold, isolated. Hostile.
The movie alien 3 sure had it's flaws. The score however, was not one of them.
5:15
He should score Alien Covenant, it is due time.
Unfortunately, he did not :P
most undderrated film, though soundtrack is spectacular
I hear a little of Stravinsky in this.
..and which part of Stravinsky?.. however, it does not matter. Stravinsky is.. just .. as a pioneer of the world's music.
Natalie P. OK not quiet Stravinsky more his aborted child which is kind of a part of him, I definitely get that from it.
Natalie P. Funny you say that- the end of the 'End Credits' of the complete soundtrack absolutely reminded me of Shostakovich. I'm a big fan of Russian 20th C big orchestral music and I completely see where you're coming from- the big climactic ending which subsides into a bleak emptiness... There's surely some inspiration there in the writing. It's a great score.
Eeriest score in the franchise next to goldsmiths original
At the end always can hear the fake Bishop : Nooooooooo
4:00 enters scene
5:03 change score and pick back up
6:20 eye contact and gun shots or 6:50 so skip from 20 to 50
6:50 chase on foot down sewage drop and towards train yard
7:25 quiet face off
8:20 lost him
10:00
ALIEN 3 was the best
It has some modernist touches here and there but I wouln't say it's a very inventive score. We're far from Goldsmith's Planet of the apes.
Shame this sound track had to be in that movie
you got bad taste
@@dknystylez they literally kill all three of the fan favorite side characters two of which were of screen. You like the movie keep on liking it but don’t say I have no reason to dislike it
And I think : thanks god it is ! He scored the perfect atmosphere and drama for Ripley finale ❤
@@janetmontalvo6944 You literally universally said that it IS a shame this ost is in "that" movie. It is not, though, it is just the case for you.
@@reidal666 Amen