From: ccoprdj@prism.gatech.EDU (Jorge Diaz)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.movies
Subject: Re: Natives Down the River (was re: ALIEN^3 Eggs on Sulaco)
Date: 16 Aug 92 07:22:11 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

In article <4723@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP> seawasp@vm2.cis.pitt.edu (Sea Wasp) writes:
>In article <Bsy5DD.vK@acsu.buffalo.edu> v075q5fr@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Scott J Gorcey) writes:

>	Nope. The nearly universal impression of those I know (that is, the
>impression of 34 out of 35) who have seen the movie is:

>	1) Alien^3 sucked the big one.

This is bullshit (either that, or you have just started reading this
newsgroup, or you have a very selective memory).  I've read opinions on
this newsgroup and r.a.m about the film since the day the film opened,
and they seemed to be split pretty evenly. 

>	2) Neato cinematography does not a movie make.

Nor do whiz-bang shoot-em-up scenes.  What's your point?

>	3) No matter what excuses one may give ("homage to the original" or
>what have you), the way Alien^3 was done made EVERYTHING in ALIENS 
>completely pointless.

Maybe because Aliens was completely pointless?  Nah.

>What point now Ripley's heroic overcoming of her
>fear to return to LV426?

What about it?  Why does her death on a prison planet somehow ruin her
heroic overcoming of her fear to return to LV426?

>What point in the sacrifices of Gorman and Vasquez?

Sorry, but many sacrifices go unnoticed.  I'm not losing any sleep over it.

>The duel between two mothers? 

Again, how does her dying on a prison planet in any way destroy what
happened in the second movie?

>	4) Not only is it pointless, this clumsy excuse for a script can't
>even do us the courtesy of explaining HOW this disaster came to happen.

Well, the way I figure, if people can come up with 'valid' explanations
for how a non-living liquid-metal machine can pass through a time
machine that only allows living things to pass, they should have *NO*
problem coming up with a 'valid' explanation of how the eggs got on
the Sulaco.

>Someone just decided "let's do it this way" and to hell with continuity,
>logic, or anything else. Atmosphere be damned, it does NOT excuse this!

Hmmmm....  Methinks you need to ease off the caffeine.  They don't need
to excuse it.  It was their movie, and it made money.  Sorry.

>	The PROPER sequel would have followed some of the advance publicity
>lines: namely, the Aliens get to Earth. Probably by a Company ship landing
>(finally doing what they should have done to begin with) and grabbing
>one of the eggs off the alien ship (then either taking the whole ship or
>nuking it to prevent any competition from getting it). Ripley and Newt and
>Hicks and Bishop would have gotten back home just in time for the fun
>to start.

You're still pissed off because they killed off Newt and Hicks, aren't
you?  Everyone seems to have ideas for what the PROPER sequel would have
been.  Either set on Earth, or the Aliens' home planet, or LV426, or
somewhere else.  Maybe you should become a screenwriter.


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