Alien³ (1992)
Directed by David Fincher
After escaping with Newt and Hicks from the alien planet, Ripley crash lands on Fiorina 161, a prison planet and host to a correctional facility. Unfortunately, although Newt and Hicks do not survive the crash, a more unwelcome visitor does. The prison does not allow weapons of any kind, and with aid being a long time away, the prisoners must simply survive in any way they can.
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I’ve now rectified this with viewings of Alien (Ridley Scott), Aliens (James Cameron), and Alien 3 (David Fincher), and enjoyed them all to varying degrees.
Aliens, a great action movie, cheapened the original by replacing one hyper-intelligent, indestructible monster with an army of gormless critters.
First-time director David Fincher and four writers have created another horror movie, attempting existential overtones as they make the alien in this film Ripley's "Moby Dick."
Only David Fincher, still reeling from the ghastly experience of making the film over a decade later, refused; but there already existed an assembly edit of the film prepared before Fincher fled, and this formed the basis for the 2003 DVD edition; no more a "director's cut" than the 1998 restoration of Touch of Evil , but at the same time, so much clearer in its intentions and thoughts that it's effectively a different movie.
This includes the recent Alien: Director's Cut that played in theaters, James Cameron's excellent 154-minute "Aliens" cut plus pre-release versions of David Fincher's Alien 3 and Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Alien Resurrection.
When it becomes clear the creature is at large (after all, this is called "Alien "), Weaver assesses the available weaponry.
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This creepy interplay brings to mind the final moments of Apocalypse Now but doesn’t really spill over into the rest of the film.