I was disappointed in ALIEN 3 at first because I had read the 1st Dark Horse comic series years earlier and figured by the teaser trailer that the xenomorphs had made it to Earth. Newt and Hicks played a major part in that series, but the beginning of the third movie threw all that out the window haha! Jonatwork does makes some very compelling arguments to support the reasoning behind this brave decision. From my initial viewing in the theater I felt the film was a step backwards from the precedent made in the second film, and it went back to the smaller cat and mouse setting of the original. At the time I felt the series should have went with a much more ambitious scope with an all out war against the xenomorphs. Then again it could have turned out like STARSHIP TROOPERS.

Despite my initial displeasure I've since come to appreciate ALIEN 3's strengths in its good cast, bleak sets and bizarre prison planet setting. Brown is as important to the look of this film as blue was in ALIENS. Plus I liked the xenomorph itself taking on the aspects of its host giving it a more non-humanoid appearance this time around. I really liked Charles Dance's character a lot, and it was a bit of a shock to have him killed off so early on in the film.

As much as I wanted to like ALIEN: RESURRECTION going into it, it is by far the least successful of the series. I still like it more than the 2 AVP films though. I admire Jeunet's other films so I thought his take on the Alien universe would be amazing, but it simply turned into a rehash of elements of all the previous films. It had an excellent cast, but I felt Michael Wincott was mostly wasted in his role. Ron Pearlman and Dominique Pinon made a great team and are the most enjoyable aspect of the film for me. The underwater scene was the only real inspired moment, a standout in an otherwise mediocre film. 

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