Quote from: SM on Jan 06, 2014, 10:00:59 PM
QuoteSo the human characters that fans "loved" did not truly win. Instead it establishes that the aliens are in fact unbeatable.
Except that Ripley beat them and did in fact win - not only against the Alien, but the Company as well.
Ripley had to sacrifice herself to beat them, and that's one of the many reasons i love Alien 3.
It's just like @sting3r said, this series is not about happy endings and none of this bullshit. The Alien series is about the ALIENS. A demoniac parasite xenomorph acid for blood creature that spread through the universe and destroy all the others life forms that it encounters. A perfect and ferocious organism that always learn a way to survive and adapt.
Doesn't matter who comes across it. Astronauts, Marines, Killers, Mercenaries, Scientists, they will never destroy nor control it. Dont matter what they do, they will die.
And we see these creatures through the eyes of a woman who has to keeping fighting to survive after finding these monsters, and how her life becomes hell after this.
That is why this trilogy (yeah, TRILOGY) is awesome, its about this unstoppable terrifying creature that destroys everything, and when this woman finds a way to survive it, the creatures destroy what she care's most, her family. Even when she think's that is all fine and that she can live in peace and happy with a new family, the ALIEN crushes it. At the end she stop struggling and sacrifices herself to destroy the creature and save mankind, and that is the most close to a happy ending that we are all get.
They are supposed to be a dark, thrilling, science fiction horror movies, and they are great in it.
I don't count Alien Resurection that much because is not even Ripley and it is f**king dumb..