Quote from: The Kurgan on Jan 05, 2019, 03:24:38 PM
Quote from: Perfect-Organism on Jan 05, 2019, 03:12:23 PM
Quote from: 426Buddy on Jan 05, 2019, 03:00:33 PM
You can have a great aliens film without Ripley and at this point its time we had one.
Yes. You can have a great film without Ripley. We've had 4 Alien related films since 1992 without Ripley, or 5 if you count Alien Resurrection. So what are you even talking about? It's time we had an Alien film with Ripley. More specifically, post-Aliens, and featuring Hicks Newt and some Bishop parts.
I'm up for Ripley and non-Ripley films. There is room for both, and I believe both can be done well. The problem with ALL non-Ripley Aliens films is that someone is brought in to play the trope of a female protagonist. It drives me bananas! If they're going to bring in another female protagonist, give us the real thing - Ripley!
But how would you built a story around Ripley\Newt\Bishop without making them into hyper competent guerrilla fighters who fight a private war against WY/Xenomorphs? I think it would turn them from everyday normal people into some kind of action hero. Which is a sharp turn from what made them great to begin with.
You would go from ordinary people stuck in a bad situation to Die Hard 23 territory, where the same extraordinary situation happens to the same people over and over again.
There are certain life situations which define who you become. In the case of Ripley and friends, it would be almost certain that they would SEEK a confrontation with the Aliens knowing WY's motivations, whereas with Die Hard, Bruce Willis's character continues to CHANCE upon disaster. That's where the difference lies. Die Hard is implausible, bordering on comedy, whereas another encounter for Ripley is highly probable.
Moreover, if Alien 3 is retconned, it will only be Ripley's third encounter not the 23rd.
Hicks is already an action hero. Ripley could be a reluctant hero. Perhaps she's been on the run from W-Y all these years and Hicks finds her to tell her that he needs help in dealing with some W-Y madness? Or in the hands of a competent director, Ripley could go the route of Linda Hamilton in Terminator 2. Sarah Connor was a vastly different character between James Cameron's two Terminator films, and yet compelling.