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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Warrior Poet" data-source="post: 1982861" data-attributes="member: 1057">Spoilers below, incidentally.Haven't seen AVP.I really liked Alien3 a great deal.  I though it was a nice counterpart to the action and just general all-around bad-assedness of Aliens, which is the best action movie I've ever seen.I liked much of what they had to work with in Alien3:  a junk prison planet, no weapons, a disgraced doctor, beaurocracy, remoteness, the parallel of Ripley as the alien among the "familiarity" of the prisoners vis-a-vis the alien as the, uh, alien among the "familiarity" of the humans.  I think they did a pretty bold thing, and that's [SPOILER]kill Newt[/SPOILER], which seems to go against the Hollywood grain, and accentuates Ripley's pain even more in a Stephen R. Donaldson sort of way (what ELSE could possibly happen to this poor woman, who happens to kick a lot of butt, etc.).  I liked the idea of the bug breeding [SPOILER]in the dog[/SPOILER], to showcase some adaptiblity of the monster.  I liked the appearance of Bishop again . . . I was very hopeful about Alien: Resurrection.  I thought it was a fun, good movie, right up to the part where Ripley sinks through the floor.Then I just wanted it to be over, and my $8 to magically reappear in my wallet.It had so much great potential:  the moral problem of the smugglers, the conflict of outlaws working for the law representatives, the double-crossing, the advancing science, a really cool smuggler ship that had a kind of organic feel to it, little cubes that turn into whisky when you zap them with a laser beam.And I really liked Ripley as [SPOILER]hybrid[/SPOILER].  I just thought that was spectacular, particularly how she escaped from her cell, and the way her eyes looked in the mirror, and a whole bunch of stuff.  Very, very cool (it helps to have a crush on Sigourney Weaver).  Not to mention [SPOILER]her confrontation with the failed clones, which I felt was very, very powerful[/SPOILER].  There was much potential there.Then she fell through the floor.  After that, it was crap, and that's too bad.  I just didn't buy that the [SPOILER]alien baby would think of Ripley as mom, instead of the big mama alien, and then when it gave the puppy dog eyes, I know I was supposed to feel sympathy, but all I could feel was "This is dumb."[/SPOILER]  Plus the effects seemed shoddy.  Maybe they ran out of budget?Thanks for listening,Warrior Poet</blockquote>

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