Quote from: RaisingCane on Oct 23, 2012, 06:14:44 PM
Here are all the shots of her tube after the bolt explodes (from the special edition Blu-ray).
There are side shots when the cryotube drops down where it appears clearly unbroken on my BR disk. Also there appears to be a quick shot Ripley is red shaded with no break in the glass. The tubes themselves are an even bigger continuity error. Cameron at least worked to make the interior match the Narcissus seen in Alien - the cryotubes in Alien 3 are clearly a completely different design from Aliens - so somehow while in transit their entire cryotube area got re-modeled?
I know Fincher was doing the best he could but the sequence is clearly flawed, in part it appears down to unfilmed sequences that would have provided some continuity. As it is you see one Egg open, a facehugger crack Newt's tube, then Ripley's tube cracked (I think it's ambigous whether it's the bolt or supposed to be the result of a facehugger from the cutting) then when they splash down Newt drowns due to her cracked tube while Ripley doesn't drown despite having an equally cracked tube... and then there's the little matter of why neither Newt or Ripley are actually shown with a facehugger on them when the tubes are loaded into the escape capsule. In Alien (and strongly implied in Aliens) the facehugger remains on for quite a while as it impregnates it's victim, yet in Alien 3 the thing gets into their tubes and out again in a ridiculously short time - then somehow it still winds up in the escape capsule anyway.
I actually like Alien 3 in terms of the cinematography and some of the sequences but the picture is fatally flawed from start to finish in terms of continuity particularly with regard to what had been established beforehand regarding the creatures behavioral patterns.