The Reel Rejects - ALIEN 3 (1992) MOVIE REVIEW!! FIRST TIME WATCHING!!

Episode Date: August 11, 2024

DAVID FINCHER'S ALIEN THREEQUEL!! Alien 3 Movie Reaction Watch Along:  https://www.patreon.com/thereelrejects/   With Alien: Romulus debuting to strong word of mouth, Tara Erickson & Aaron Alexander RETURN to the Alien Franchise giving their FIRST TIME Reaction, Commentary, Analysis, Breakdown, & Full Movie Spoiler Review of the followup to Ridley Scott's Alien & James Cameron's Aliens! Returning from LV-426, Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) crash-lands on the maximum-security prison Fiorina 161, where she discovers that she has unwittingly brought along an unwelcome visitor.. the cast includes Charles Dance (Game of Thrones), Charles S. Dutton (A Time to Kill), Lance Henriksen (Alien vs. Predator), Paul McGann (Doctor Who), Brian Glover (An American Werewolf in London), Ralph Brown (Star Wars: Episode 1 The Phantom Menace), Holt McCallany (Mindhunter, Fight Club), Pete Postlethwaite (The Usual Suspects, The Lost World: Jurassic Park), Christopher Fairbank (The Fifth Element), & MORE! Tara & Aaron REACT to all the Best Scenes & Scariest Moments including Molten Lead, Ripley's Sacrifice, It's Here!, Dr. Clemens Killed, Just Do What You Do, the Xenomorph Corridor Chase, & Beyond! Follow Tara Erickson: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@TaraErickson Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/taraerickson/ Twitter:  https://twitter.com/thetaraerickson Follow Aaron On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/therealaaronalexander/?hl=en Support The Channel By Getting Some REEL REJECTS Apparel! https://www.rejectnationshop.com/ Music Used In Manscaped Ad:  Hat the Jazz by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ POWERED BY @GFUEL Visit https://gfuel.ly/3wD5Ygo and use code REJECTNATION for 20% off select tubs!! Head Editor: https://www.instagram.com/praperhq/?hl=en Co-Editor: Greg Alba Co-Editor: John Humphrey Music In Video: Airport Lounge - Disco Ultralounge by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Ask Us A QUESTION On CAMEO: https://www.cameo.com/thereelrejects Follow TheReelRejects On FACEBOOK, TWITTER, & INSTAGRAM:  FB:  https://www.facebook.com/TheReelRejects/ INSTAGRAM:  https://www.instagram.com/reelrejects/ TWITTER:  https://twitter.com/thereelrejects Follow GREG ON INSTAGRAM & TWITTER: INSTAGRAM:  https://www.instagram.com/thegregalba/ TWITTER:  https://twitter.com/thegregalba Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I overwear it. Um, okay. No, you're like the perfect amount. The perfect amount. This did not have the perfect amount of Practical versus CBI for me. I'm just going to say it. You say that. I liked this movie.

I did. I like, but here are the couple things I had issues with. I wanted to see Newt. I wanted to see that relationship. I think we all wanted to see Alien 3 as like her and Newt. Like, Newt's a little badass. And if there was an alien still, I want to see how her and Newt handle it together.

And then just my other thing was, I think that because we had practical, practical aliens, we obviously saw it, that I'm just like, I'm not sure why we went to the CGI, but I would have used the practical. I don't need to see it on the ceiling. If I saw one practical hanging on and not running and just moved, and now we cut to where it is later in the hallway.

I would have been happier with that using all practical rather than the funky CGI. Like, I don't want to laugh at it. I want it to feel real. Of course. Like, an alien is coming for us, and I agree with you. This wasn't as intense. It wasn't as threatening. It wasn't as ominous.

It wasn't, like, on the edge of your seat. It was sort of like, we know there's an alien coming up, okay? A couple times it got me. there obviously no bad acting in this there never is they know how to cast this which i very much appreciate because if they didn't i i would be a lot i think harsher on this on this film and i also think the script was still great it was really just those two things that that bugged me because i really just thought we were definitely going to see rippley and new and i'm sad we didn't yeah this one is an interesting one because it didn't feel like an escalation of

because it felt like a pivot. I don't know if it was a downgrade or a pivot, but it was definitely not an escalation because we went back to having one alien and the way that they used it didn't feel as effective as having the alien in the first movie because you would imagine

with the intention of it being a singular alien that it would be like, okay, it's that prey versus man kind of thing as it was in the first one, except there's a lot more men for it to kill, but they just didn't utilize it in the same way And I'm shocked because David Fincher is usually such a effective director and he like really like takes his time. And I'm a surprise that this movie didn't have that same sort of effect that I'm accustomed to him for him.

But yeah, maybe it's just the rise of the CGI and like I don't know if he got like studio notes or whatever. But yeah, it did feel like a strange sort of sidestep or backstep to establish characters like Newt and then the other guy and then not really do. anything with them because yeah I'm sure obviously we've watched the last one fairly recently and we were looking forward to seeing this new trio go into their next adventure or whatnot give granted I imagine when you're watching it at the time people don't know there's going to be a third one but I imagine when you did know that there's going to be a third one you were looking forward to seeing them and I can only imagine how frustrated people were waiting years to see these characters again only for them to die off screen immediately

right away and off screen that being said though I will say I did enjoy the new characters we got to me I liked the black dude and I liked a Ripley's very short-lived love interest and I liked his backstory I thought he was a very genuine very kind character until they immediately murked him yeah yeah like I thought the setting was interesting one thing I can say about this franchise is they always find a way to read I don't want to say reinvent but find the premise of having Ripley and alien and putting in new settings never feel stale i feel like they're able to find interesting ways to evolve the fact that she is this woman that nobody listens to and then has to be in these scenarios i think the plot on its own is a very interesting sort of scenario to put her in uh like the sole woman within like a male prison who have like their own kind of like religious thing going on. I feel like the exploration of that could have maybe been a little more, I don't want to say thought out because I feel like conceptually is very interesting. So I don't know what it was that felt like they didn't allow the concept of that to breathe mixed in with the horror. I think if you would have doubled down on the horror and focused on the relationships to really get us into the the setting of it I think it could have

really amplified because the only person I really cared about was Ripley and then that guy and then the black dude because he was a stand-up guy everyone else

I didn't really give a crap about and I feel like that is kind of a problem because you would want to want to want our characters to live but I don't know

it's like this interesting balance right between like wanting them to live and then also wanting the alien see the alien kill people right But especially at the end, the guy who's like looking back and he like does a thing because he's the prisoner and they're like kind of scared of him, that would have been good to add in more of a foundational relationship so that when we do see him survive, the audience would have gotten actually an emotional and or thought that that was funny, a reaction that we would feel, not just the people in the movie that we assume they felt because he's a prisoner. If you gave us that foundation, that would have meant something more to us that he. he survived, that he helped Ripley

kill herself, that he was there for her knowing what needed to be followed. I guess maybe that would have taken too much time. I don't know. Yeah, I don't know, but I will say that out of the three this is probably my least favorite. But one thing I do know about this movie, and

I don't know what it's rating is, I know that this is the, I know that there's four, and there's a new one coming out. Oh, really? Yeah, there's a new one, a new alien movie coming out, I think next month, actually. but that would be the fifth alien movie and they haven't made a proper like alien movie in like a few years but I know that the the Ripley ones obviously it's like the 70s 80s 90s but I think

that um of these 90s movies and like previous generation movies this one's not very popular but I will say that that and that's the only thing I knew about it I didn't know why it wasn't popular I just knew that people love the first two a lot but I had fun with it I don't think it's as nearly as good as the first two, but I still enjoyed watching it. It wasn't boring. It wasn't No. It was a little cheesy. I thought it was funny, but I was very much

entertained, and I would watch this again. Yeah, I was entertained as well. I just, you guys know the issues I had with it, which is probably why maybe other people had the same issues. I'm going to read some trivia. At one point, David Fincher was denied permission by the films

producers to shoot a crucial scene in the infirmary between Ripley and the alien where the ladder menacingly closes in on Ripley against orders. Fincher grabs Sigourney Weaver, a camera and shot a camera and shot this scene away. This scene not only appears in the final cut, but also feature prominently in trailers, and many regard it as the movie's most iconic shot. Wait, against orders, Venture grabbed Sigourney Weaver, a camera and shot the scene anyway. That's the crucial scene in the infirmary between Ripley and the alien. Yeah.

He liked him in her face. Oh, got it. When he got it. Yeah. Okay. I'm really glad that David Fincher did that. Yeah, that was the best scene. That is.

Like, that's, like this movie would not be the same without it because there's some dips in the, as we know, CGI. The film's production process was so chaotic. It's reception by fans and critics so unfavorable that nearly ended David Fincher's career. Really? Four even had a chance to gain momentum as a director. but the two things ended up saving Fincher from permanent movie jail. The first thing was Sigourney Weaver publicly and often angrily sided with Fincher against 20th century Fox, telling journalists that the studio had made decisions that resulted in an impossible situation for the young director

that he would have an excellent career if given further chances. The everything was the producer, it's always probably a producer. The producer Arnold Coppelson knew and didn't respect the management in Fox, and that was part of the process where he ultimately offered Fincher a new, oh, good, it was a good, It was a good part of a producer, offered him a new project a few years later, and that was seven, which is a phenomenal movie. Seven is prime time, and it's massive success, reignited Fincher's career, making him one of the most respected directors of his time. Everybody loves to hear that kind of a story. I'll read a couple of spoilers.

Let's see what I can get into. Let's see. This one's long. Maybe I'll just read one. Although Ripley's discovery that she carried an alien embryo suggests that she's the person being face hugged in the opening montas, which is what I thought, the final shooting script and comments adaptation confirmed

that this actually happened to Newt. This is merely hinted at during the opening credits. The facehugger can be seen attacking, cracking Newt's cryotube, and when the scanner shows the facehugger attached to the person, Ripley is shown in a seizure state, but she's clearly not being face hugged. Okay. And Asson Byrd is later discovered on News Tube, not Ripley's.

After the EEV crash landed, Newt drown, sadly while conscious and crying for help. After she died, the alien emberle crawled out of her mouth and swam to Ripley's tubes as it requires a living host to grow properly. It opened Ripley's mouth and forced itself into her throat, explaining why her throat is sore when she wakes up. While unconscious, Ripley would have had a nightmare where she finds Newt in a tube and the EEV who suddenly sift up right and spews alien slime, after which the queen embryo forces itself out of Newt's mouth. Although these scenes were storyboarded, they were never filmed because the effect of the creature switching host could not be portrayed realistically. Did anyone think that some of that CGI was that realistic?

The theatrical cut adds more confusion to the backstory since Ripley's crowd tube is already in, which was just kind of what you talked about, is already inexplicably broken before the ejection while Newt later appears intact, begging the question, how could she have been face hugged and drowned while Ripley survived? this is somewhat cleared up in the extended cut where Clemens discovers a half-drawn Ripley on the shore covered in dirt and lice implying that water rushing into a broken crowd tube woke her up. This also fixes the continuity error in the theatrical cut where Ripley is spotless in the EEV but dirty when Clemens carries her in the infirmary.

That is true. I didn't notice that one. The game aliens ignores the backstory by showing that the facehugger actually attack Ripley's carotube and latched on doorface fire was caused because someone accidentally fired a bullet through the facehucker. That is quite a long trivia. That's the only one

I'll read. That did give us a lot of information. I did notice that yes, she was very dirty and then that's right when he was carrying her that that continuity wasn't there. I like that. I like that they explained that that was there that did answer some of her questions. How did we know that

was queen? Stuff like that with Newt. And I also like the connection with that's why her faces her face, her throat is sore. I was the movie would have done more to tell us that. Agreed. I absolutely agree. I agree with a cool.

Don't show us. Have it be a reveal that she's pregnant with it. Give it some time. But it would have been cool if there was a way for the audience who have made that connection in the movie. Giving us some sort of juice that would lead to the throat thing. And then we would go like, oh, why? Anyway, I still liked this movie.

one and two way better in my opinion um i do not feel i i i absolutely agree with sigourney weaver to stand behind david fincher she obviously saw a lot that was on set and there's was probably plenty of reasons with 20th century fox and other things that came up that blocked him for making the best movie that he wanted to because we know david fincher is david fincher as he is now and so i'm glad that he was in put in movie jail because Sigourney Weaver stood up for him which when you're an actor and a director is being taken down but you know they're a good

director and they weren't like a dick on set and they were making some really good moves that you probably saw that producers or the upper execs wouldn't let happen. You kind of want to talk about it which I would too so I'm like heck yeah Sigourney Weaver she's a queen. Any last

word you got to say about this bad boy Aaron? I liked it I had fun and And, you know, if there's more aliens, I would love to dive into some aliens. Me too. I'm always, always here for it. This was not a terrible movie. It was definitely fun and great.

The practical effects were there. And like I said, phenomenal acting. It's just coming from one and two where there weren't many mistakes really at all. It was really just that CGI that threw me off and that newt wasn't still alive. That kind of made me like a little upset. But I'm still totally here for it. and I'm here for all the alien movies forever and always. We love you guys.

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