You don’t hate Alien 3 as much as you think you do.
A terrible sequel, the third installment of the ’Alien’ saga created by Ridley Scott, isn’t actually a terrible movie on its own. In fact, if you haven’t seen director David Fincher’s 2003 “Assembly Cut” for the DVD/Blu-Ray box set, you haven’t even really seen Alien 3. It’s a dark and nihilistic arthouse SF film with a complex, challenging female lead. No wonder it flopped as a summer blockbuster in 1992.
Not to say that summer blockbusters can’t have complex, challenging female leads. The previous year introduced moviegoers to a stronger, crazier Sarah Connor in Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Where have the Sarah Connors and Ellen Ripleys of my youth gone? My guess is that they’re all on television these days. ScarJo pouting through The Avengers in a catsuit just isn’t cutting it for me. Noomi Rapace has enormous footsteps to follow in as the lead of Ridley Scott’s upcoming Prometheus.
Lets hope she succeeds in her endeavor where Alien 3 failed so spectacularly.
[The bitch is back...]