Quote from: LastSurvivor92 on Mar 09, 2019, 06:33:42 PM
Honestly if you watch the Special Edition of Alien 3 nine times out of ten you'll like it just as much as the first two. Was it a slap in the face killing off Newt and Hicks? Sure it was. Did it really matter in the long run? Not really. Most people say that they like the feeling of hopelessness and dread Fincher was able to create along the studio interference that ran within. I think Alien 3 (Special Edition) wraps up the original character of Ripley's story nicely and give's her stories end kind of a daring and "into the fire" type of vibe.
It's all in how you look at it. Did you want the family dynamic to continue which would of equaled more sequels or did they do the right thing in the end by bringing finality to everything? I think the latter for sure.
I take the middle ground myself. I think Ripley had all the finality she needed at the end of Aliens, personally. Went back to LV-426 and faced her fears, and found a surrogate daughter in Newt (as well as another alien survivor in Hicks). There were probably more stories that could have theoretically been told with those characters, but that was a perfect stopping off point for me.
To render the events of Aliens utterly redundant in the opening credits of the sequel was (as far as I'm concerned) a massively disappointing choice from Fox. I know they were antsy about continuing without Ripley, but anyone with half a brain could have come up with a solid story that didn't include her, and people would still have flocked to see it.
As for Resurrection, the less said the better...
