Alien: Isolation

[BanzaiCat]

Yep, you're remembering the wooden structure in space thing from one treatment. That was going to have Hicks and Bishop teaming up to fight alien hordes...would have been awesome.

I think Biehn was all in for Alien 3 but want to say he dropped out either because he hated the script or they wouldn't pay whatever salary he was demanding. (Maybe both?) I do recall he ended up getting almost as much cash for Alien 3 as he did for Aliens, just from them using his likeness for a few seconds in Alien 3.

[JasonPratt]

Interesting -- one of the Badass Digest writers (not FILM CRITIC HULK, who has been worryingly absent since mid-August) ran an article yesterday defending Alien3.

http://badassdigest.com/2014/10/15/its-time-you-reconsidered-alien-3/

I would have bet money it would be in response to the game's return to the original film's design; but it wasn't. It was in reply to Fincher's recent Gone Girl instead, as a side-effect of discussing how the new film ranks in Fincher's body of work.

[BanzaiCat]

And besides: when I consider the original trilogy, I've always considered the films to be loosely structured around a birth/life/death cycle.

A fair point. I'll give him that.

I still hate Alien 3, though. It's easily the worst of the four films. At least, IMO.

[Gusington]

^Worse than Resurrection?? SHUT UP!

What did you all think of Prometheus? It kinda blew my mind.

[mirth]

Prometheus definitely blew :P

[mirth]

A3 was crap. Resurrection was slightly less smelly crap. No movie with Ron Perlman can be all bad.

[BanzaiCat]

A3 was crap. Resurrection was slightly less smelly crap. No movie with Ron Perlman can be all bad.

Pretty much this, in a nutshell. The underwater scene was pretty epic, too.

Like I said, I liked Resurrection in general, until it hit the end and they did that human/Alien hybrid bullshit. That was a HUGE ::) moment and any decentness I felt the film had was lost.

I kind of liked Prometheus, but like every other damn Alien movie they've made since Aliens (including the AVP crapola), each film has been so wide of the mark its embarrassing and a wonder the studios haven't gotten a clue after what, five MEH movies after Aliens? Lord.

[mirth]

Dan Hedaya as the general in charge of a super secret research ship made me laugh. All I could think of is, "Who put Nick Tortelli in charge?"

Oh and who thought it was a good idea to make the default emergency protocol to return the ship full of cloned Xenomorphs to Earth? That's the stupid shit you get when you put Nick Tortelli in command.

[Gusington]

HAHAHA Nick Tortelli!

[BanzaiCat]

Juuuuuust keep in mind Joss Whedon wrote the script to Alien Resurrection.

[mirth]

Juuuuuust keep in mind Joss Whedon wrote the script to Alien Resurrection.

Don't remind him. He's not very happy about it

http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/JoshWildingNewsAndReviews/news/?a=77814

[BanzaiCat]

^ Ha, yeah...well it's not all entirely his fault. You write the script, the studio execs tear it to pieces and second-guess it to death, the casting agents get people that in no way fit with the roles written...the director interprets the script in a different way...and on and on and on.

Though AR had a lot less studio interference than A3 did, I think.

I kind of liked the second AvP movie, though. Finally, Aliens on Earth. Though...sigh. Yeah.

[mirth]

Though AR had a lot less studio interference than A3 did, I think.

Fox really put Fincher through hell on A3. It was his first feature and he reportedly had to check in daily with the studio execs on what he had shot and then they basically told him what to shoot the next day. He was so pissed about all the bullshit that he very nearly left Hollywood before his career began.

[GDS_Starfury]

The human/alien hybrid thing at the end was just retarded and it lost just about all of its cred with me at that point.

yet still cooler then aquaman.

[Toonces]

I never saw Alien 3 (thanks for the farking spoiler Jarhead).   ::)

The guys at SimHQ are loving AI.  Peally just finished it (20 hours was his playtime he said) and everyone there is gushing over how awesome it is.

I'm cool with picking this up during the Steam Xmas sale.