Skywalker
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I am a big fan of Alien3 as the final part of the original trilogy. In Alien, Ripley is the victim. In Aliens, she is the hero. In Alien3, she is the monster.
She basically gets the prisoners killed one by one in an effort to destroy the Xenomorph. You can almost treat Dillon as the protagonist, much like Ripley was in Alien. The death of Hicks and Newt was rough when first watching it but in this light it’s an absolute necessity to position Ripley and the movie to where it needs to be.
Unfortunately, it was a mess of a production and this came through in the film. However, the Assembly Cut fixes the major pacing and editing issues.
As for Prometheus and Covenant, they are both very pretty. But they are definitely late-era Ridley movies. With a confused disregard for the canon that has come before and a reliance on characters making dumb decisions to force the plot along.
I really like how the Alien RPG brings them into the history of the setting, but I treat as being their own thing otherwise as they don’t stand up to the original 3 movies. I’m saying that, I hope Ridley gets to do a third one just to round out his vision, whatever the hell it is.
She basically gets the prisoners killed one by one in an effort to destroy the Xenomorph. You can almost treat Dillon as the protagonist, much like Ripley was in Alien. The death of Hicks and Newt was rough when first watching it but in this light it’s an absolute necessity to position Ripley and the movie to where it needs to be.
Unfortunately, it was a mess of a production and this came through in the film. However, the Assembly Cut fixes the major pacing and editing issues.
As for Prometheus and Covenant, they are both very pretty. But they are definitely late-era Ridley movies. With a confused disregard for the canon that has come before and a reliance on characters making dumb decisions to force the plot along.
I really like how the Alien RPG brings them into the history of the setting, but I treat as being their own thing otherwise as they don’t stand up to the original 3 movies. I’m saying that, I hope Ridley gets to do a third one just to round out his vision, whatever the hell it is.