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#1
Let Dillon be Dillon, not just a generic movie good guy please.
#2
Man, as someone familiar with the ins and outs of the Alien fan edit, I gotta admit these narrative changes are disappointing.
Alien 3, apart from maybe Covenant, is the only Alien movie that actively does not care if you like it. It's divisive, it's mean, and it's ruthless in how much it wants to get that across to viewers. And I think that's a large part of what makes it a great film. Over the years it's become second to the original for me.
While I can understand why you'd want to make Dillon someone to root for - the point is that you can't, or rather, shouldn't. His acts of redemption throughout the film don't make him a good person - just a better person than he once was. And if you can leave this plane of existence a better person than you were before you were pitted against the scariest, most gruesome creature in the galaxy, well that just shows you how hopeful Alien 3 also is! To echo what's been said, the worst of the worst saved the galaxy in Alien 3, with Ripley being their guiding light of redemption.
I do hope that the editor rethinks the narrative decisions, because the color corrected effects in the 4k package would've made this the definitive edition for me.
#3
Quote from: Scott Conover on Today at 02:48:03 AMQuote from: BigDaddyJohn on Yesterday at 08:07:20 PMBackburster shouldn't have been showed in a trailer, that was something new and nasty that I would have prefered discovering in theaters.
Even worse - they showed the whole sequence. Insane marketing choice. Imagine if in 79 they just released the chestburster scene or the Dallas vent scene weeks before the movie came out.
I guess they tried to show they had something new and more brutal as a marketing point.
#5
Last post by CANNON - Today at 10:11:43 AM
Quote from: BlueMarsalis79 on Today at 12:40:15 AMI have never got a match in 2024, I think everyone plays it on PC now.
That's unfortunate because I need to somehow get the 'that's a ready habit' achievement. 18000+xp. Wonder if there is a work around?..
#6
Last post by SiL - Today at 09:47:21 AM
I'm hopeful that seeing how the line resonates with audiences, and the perspectives given here, might get him to rethink his decision. Especially since people who are otherwise keen to see his work would sooner not watch it for the sake of something he considers simple to remove.
#7
Last post by SM - Today at 09:40:27 AM
Think he did the latter before the former from memory didn't he?
#8
Last post by Ingwar - Today at 09:35:13 AM
Not the best quality
No spoilers
#10
I already called it a hatchet job. Not much else I can say now that I haven't said already.
The guy who's making it is welcome to prove that asshole on AvPG (me) wrong by reversing those stupid changes, but I won't hold my breath.
It's just a shame that this is the only 4k version of Alien 3 on the horizon and, as it stands now, it's a shameless act of artistic vandalism.
