Alien 3 gives no consideration to the audience’s attachment to Newt, Hicks, and Bishop, although Ripley has a tender moment as she tearfully examines Newt’s corpse for signs of alien infection. While Cameron brought a level of sentiment to his portrayal of Ripley and the supporting cast in Aliens, Fincher’s approach is harsh and unmerciful, breaking Ripley down physically and emotionally. Ripley has a tender moment as she tearfully examines Newt’s corpse for signs of alien infection. When he’s later briefly revived to help Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) access the ship’s flight data he’s pathetic and broken, pleading to be shut down. The android Bishop (Lance Henriksen) is also essentially killed, all but destroyed as their escape pod from Aliens crashes on the remote prison planet Fury 161. It seems almost spiteful the way that Fincher and the various screenwriters - both credited and uncredited - dispose of the survivors from James Cameron’s Aliens.īefore the opening credits have even finished rolling, an alien has brutally dispatched Corporal Dwayne Hicks and the child known as Newt. There’s a bracing nihilism to Alien 3 that’s almost completely absent from modern blockbuster filmmaking, a willingness to casually discard so many of the elements that made the previous film such huge hits. But while Fincher himself may have essentially disowned the movie (and didn’t participate in creating the later “assembly cut” meant to approximate his original conception), it’s still an underrated follow-up to two of the most revered sci-fi movies of all time, and skeptics can now stream it for free to see why.
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