I can appreciate Alien 3 for craft, it's strong score, casting, and some of its ideas, I just hate how the movie bends over backwards to be like the first movie. The idea that this nightmare will never be over for Ripley is very interesting for a third movie. I like the nihilistic aspect of that. I just wish that wasn't in service of a retread of the first. It's a retraction after the second. I'm not saying go bigger, but the lack of creativity and excuses for why this movie is good gets frustrating when it's so fundamentally half measured. It's why I'm never gonna like the entire movie.