Quote from: DoomRulz on Jun 11, 2013, 08:08:10 PM
Quote from: Rankles75 on Jun 03, 2013, 11:54:06 PM
Because I'm a huge fan of Alien and Aliens, and because I wish to spread my utter hatred of Alien 3....
Bishop II: Android or Human?
Could be a bunch of monkeys in disguise for all I care. That film should be stricken from all existing records. I'm not going to defend Alien Resurrection, nobody in their right mind would, but Alien 3 left it with nowhere to go. An Alien film without Ripley possibly could have worked if it focused on the other survivors of Aliens, but obviously that couldn't happen because some idiot decided to kill them all off at the very beginning of Alien 3. By then having Ripley sacrifice herself at the end, the makers of Resurrection had three options as I see it:
1. Make the film with a cast of characters that had no links to the previous films.
2. Have one of the survivors of Alien 3 (e.g Morse) take over as the main character.
3. Bring back Ripley as a clone.
Unfortunately, all these options suck. To be fair, they went with the least sucky option but it was still never going to work. By seperating the survivors at the start of Alien 3, they could have still gone with a similar storyline to that film (or a good one) and opened things up for another 1 or 2 films. However Alien 3 was clearly created with the intention of ending the series when, in reality, such a big franchise was never going to be allowed to end with just three films. Which is why we got such an abortion of a fourth film.....