User:Stephenfisher2001/sandbox/Alien 3

NOTE: This is my remake of Alien 3.

""No one hated it more than me; to this day, no one hates it more than me.""

- David Fincher, eventually disowned the film later on stating in an interview with The Guardian in 2009

Alien 3 (or in the title style ALIEN³, or sometimes with space A L I E N ³, or styled as  A L  I  E  N ³ ) is a 1992 American science fiction horror film directed by David Fincher and is the third film in the Alien franchise. The film was released on May 22, 1992. The film stars Sigourney Weaver as Ellen Ripley from the first two Alien films and co-stars Charles S. Dutton, Charles Dance, Lance Henriksen, and Paul McGann.

Alien 3 had faced a lot of trouble productions during the production, including shooting without a script, nor various screenwriters and directors attached. It was supposed to be directed by Vincent Ward, but it was changed into several directors until they chose David Fincher, who was a fan of the Alien series, and he was chosen to be directed. When the movie was finally released on May 22, 1992, however, it received very mixed reviews from critics, which was considered inferior to the previous installments of the Alien franchise, and it was it underperformed at the American box office, it earned over $100 million outside North America. However, in 2003, it has an Assembly Cut which has no involvement with David Fincher, and it fixes a lot of issues that it was considered to be better and received a better reception.

David Fincher eventually disowned the film in 2009, and he blames the studio interference and the deadlines and refused to talk about a third Alien film ever again.

Plot
In 2179, [[mh:greatestmovies:Aliens|following the events of Aliens}}, a colonial Marine starship USS Sulaco is on its way back to Earth. However, a stowaway Facehugger triggers fire on board, leading the ship to eject the slumbering Ripley, Newt, Corporal Hicks and the damaged android Bishop in an escape pod, and the pod crash-lands on Fiorina "Fury" 161, a barren world home to a foundry facility and penal colony inhabited by all-male inmates. The prisoners recover the pod, although the prison dog is attacked by a Facehugger hiding in the wreckage. Ripley is taken to the infirmary and tended to by Clemens, the prison's doctor. When she wakes, she is horrified to learn she is the only survivor of the crash. She is warned by the prison warden, Harold Andrews, that her presence may have disruptive effects. Ripley insists that Clemens perform an autopsy on Newt, secretly fearing that Newt may be carrying an Alien embryo. Her concerns prove unfounded and Clemens confirms Newt simply drowned in the crash. Nevertheless, Ripley insists the bodies are cremated. Despite resistance from the prison warden, Superintendent Andrews, the funeral goes ahead when Clemens covers for Ripley and claims there is a risk of communicable disease.

Elsewhere in the prison, a Xenomorph bursts from the prison dog named Spike, and the Xenomorph grows to full size, picking off several isolated prisoners. One such attack is witnessed by the unstable inmate Golic. However, Andrews dismisses his traumatized claims that a "dragon" was responsible and instead lays blame on Golic, a convicted serial killer. Seeking confirmation of her fears, Ripley recovers and reactivates the remains of Bishop, He verifies that there was a Xenomorph on the Sulaco and that it came with them to Fiorina in the escape pod. Ripley takes this information to Andrews, insisting they have to hunt the creature down. At the meeting room, the prisoners reveal that the facility has no weapons before rejecting her story, instead of blaming the recent deaths on unrest amongst the inmates caused by her arrival, the first woman any of them have seen in years. The Xenomorph suddenly ambushes Ripley and Clemens in the prison infirmary, killing him, and nearly slays Ripley, but then mysteriously spares her and retreats. Ripley then rushes to the cafeteria to warn the others. Andrews orders Aaron to take her back to the infirmary, but the warden himself is dragged into the vents and killed by the Xenomorph.

Ripley rallies the inmates and proposes they use highly flammable toxic chemicals stored at the facility to spark a fire and drive the Xenomorph into an unused nuclear waste storage tank, but suddenly, the Xenomorph cames back and kills Frank instantly, and his fire stick suddenly came down and causes an explosion, and killing a lot of prisoners, afterward, Ripley goes back to her EEV and she reveals that she has a chest-burster inside of her. Dejected, she goes to find the Xenomorph running loose in the prison, hoping it will kill her, but once again the creature refrains, sensing its future within her. Ripley next asks Dillon, the religious leader of the inmates, to end her life; he agrees to do so only if she helps them kill the adult creature first. They form a plan to lure the Alien into the foundry's molding facility, during the chaotic chase, many of the prisoners were killed during the chaotic chase. Ripley and Dillon manage to lure the creature into the mold, at which point Dillon sacrifices himself to ensure the plan's success. Surviving prisoner Morse pours the lead as Ripley escapes, apparently killing the Xenomorph. But it turns out the Xenomorph is still alive and it leaps from the molten metal and goes after Ripley. She activates the overhead fire sprinklers, causing the creature's exoskeleton to shatter from thermal shock, finally destroying it.

The Weyland-Yutani team is met by Aaron, who leads them to the foundry. The team's leader, a man who looks identical to the Bishop android, implores Ripley to come with them, promising to have the embryo inside her removed and destroyed. Seeing through his platitudes and realizing the company is only interested in the creature, Ripley refuses. Aaron is killed when he attacks the company man, while Ripley throws herself to her death in the facility's gigantic furnace just as the Queen erupts from her chest. As she dies, Ripley grabs the face-hugger and holds it to her to ensure it enters the fire. In the aftermath, the prison facility is closed down for good, and the sole surviving inmate, Morse, is taken away. Onboard the Sulaco's escape pod [[mh:greatestmovies:Alien|Ripley's recording from the first film}} plays for the final time in the EEV, and the transmission ends, and the EEV is turned off and the movie ends.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) This is completely inferior to what made the first two Alien movies so great, in fact, it feels all different with tons of boredom and echo trips throughout the movie to the point where it didn't feel like this is a horror movie at all. It has no huge amount of charm or hearts from the first two films.
 * 2) It went suffered through a trouble production throughout the years before it was released, including shooting without a script, with various screenwriters and directors attached. It was supposed to be Ripley found herself in Arceon, the wooden planet with a Xenomorph in it, and...well, Twohy's proposed script was rejected and was followed by the first draft of what would become the final shooting script, and it was replaced with the prison planet in the final version of the movie.
 * 3) None of this movie have the same power as the first two movie, and the worse is, the scare factor is far below than of its predecessors of the first two films, in fact, the movie feels like a comedy, talking show and doing working and the characters picking up on a street than being a scary and a blockbuster sci-fi movie.
 * 4) Bad acting that was ruined by goofiness, and even campiness, especially for the newer roles of Charles S. Dutton, Charles Dance, and Lance Henriksen.
 * 5) Most of the character development to the prisoners of the Fiorina 161 were terrible, because of this, many of the prisoners were rather rude, goofy, and cartoonish and insulting to Ellen Ripley.
 * 6) Some of the soundtrack parts keep being cut to another.
 * 7) Plot holes, plot holes, everywhere.
 * 8) *How did the Alien egg appear on the Sulaco at the beginning of the film?
 * 9) *Ellen Ripley has no other reason to kill herself, yet she decided to do so anyway.
 * 10) *How did Ripley has a chest-burster inside, even though she wasn't being caught by the face-hugger from the first two movies?
 * 11) Almost none of the parts has suspense or scary moments or any fun moments throughout the entire film, it has campy, and boring moments, which it's not in a good way, it is mainly due to an unfinished script.
 * 12) The whole movie is very predictable, usually, you already get to know if the Xenomorph runner is on a prison planet right before the prisoners meet their death by the Xenomorph.
 * 13) It missed the spirited of the franchise for a few reasons:
 * 14) *When they crashed landed on Fiorina 161 at the starting gate, it killed off to our beloved characters Newt and Hicks.
 * 15) *Ironically, it also made it so obvious that Ellen Ripley is almost a dislikable character, and she went on a massive ego trip and demanded that her character should get killed off.
 * 16) This movie could lead you dozed off, and fall asleep in the middle-to-final third to the last act of this movie.
 * 17) Misleading trailer, and False advertising: In the teaser, the announcer states that "on Earth, everyone can hear you scream" implying that it was going to take place on Earth, but as mentioned above, it was actually set on a prison planet, and the Alien would not come to Earth until Alien vs. Predator. This is due to the script not being finished by the time the trailer was made.
 * 18) *What's more, there's the official trailer made the third film look like some amazing, suspenseful action horror film, Here, it had less action and suspense until in the third act.
 * 19) As mention again on BQ#4, most of the Charles S. Dutton, Charles Dance, and Lance Henriksen, (even the other casters who are prisoners) were never good as the prisoners, and most of them either of them are bland, boring, unlikeable, or did very idiotic mistakes throughout the entire movie for many reasons:
 * 20) *There's scene where Ripley founded Bishop at the junkroom, some of the inmates suddenly came in to attack her.
 * 21) *While Ripley and the other prisoners were spreading the quinitricetyline in the ventilation shafts, hoping to kill the Xenomorph runner, Frank uses his detonator stick in the ladder, which he shouldn't have brining it here as soon as the Xenomorph comes back to kill him.
 * 22) Even if the movie tries to have some emotional moments, most of those scenes just have more exposition rather than talking about or showing how they feel or express what anyone loved to do.

Good Qualties

 * 1) The idea of a prison in space full of inmates affected by a fictional syndrome is pretty nifty, making it the most darkest chapter of the Alien franchise, even though there are false advertisings.
 * 2) Sigourney Weaver's performance as Ellen Ripley is still the good selling point of this movie.
 * 3) The scene where Ripley sitting against the wall and being close by Xenomorph runner in fright is pretty iconic.
 * 4) Elliot Goldenthal's score is well done, and it does have suspense and haunted stuff too, even if some of the soundtracks were kept cutting.
 * 5) The cinematography isn't too bad.
 * 6) Even though the movie is the downgrade of the first two movies, there is the Assembly Cut on DVD, the cut, however, does try to fix things and is considered receiving better reviews by the fanbase, and critics alike.
 * 7) *On the topic, the cut removes the chest-burster when Ripley committed suicide at the end of the movie.
 * 8) Pretty decent special effects.
 * 9) The design of a Xenomorph as a dog-like creature, is actually pretty cool.

Critical response
The film was released on May 22, 1992, and was not well received by critics, audiences, for fans of the first two movies. Alien 3 currently holds a 44% rating on Rotten Tomatoes from 55 reviews, with an average rating of 5.34/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Alien 3 takes admirable risks with franchise mythology, but far too few pay off in a thinly scripted sequel whose stylish visuals aren't enough to enliven a lack of genuine thrills." Metacritic assigned a weighted average score of 59/100 based on 20 critics, signifying "mixed or average reviews"

Box office
Alien 3 opened up at #2 on its opening weekend grossing $19,449,867 domestically. It would later make a domestic gross of $55,473,545. In overseas markets, it made $104,340,953. Overall, the film grossed $159,814,498 worldwide against its $50 million budget and was a box office disappointment.

Seventeen years later
In 2009, just 17 years after the release of Alien 3, David Fincher was in the interview with The Guardian in 2009 that "No one hated it more than me; to this day, no one hates it more than me." He also blamed the producers for not putting the necessary trust in him. After that, David Fincher disowned the entire film for good, and he was never heard from his film never again.

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Trivia

 * After the release of Aliens, Sigourney Weaver joined an anti-gun organization, and the original script had a big emphasis on weapons, so it was difficult to get her back. This is why the film is free of weapons.
 * It was supposed to be directed by Vincent Ward, and a film would've taken place Ripley found herself in Arceon, the wooden planet with an Alien in it. For more information, look here on Cancelled Movies Wiki.