to take a movie, and limit it to one character your invested in, is pretty lazy, specially for a two hour movie.
plus, like I said, by her being impregnated with a queen... you take away the fear of the alien...
you don't care if the prisoners are killed by the alien, and you know it won't kill Ripley... so, now it turns into a slasher type movie where you route for the bad guy.......
the only aspect that was original, was her having one inside of her. But you almost knew it was going to end in a self sacrafice angle...
anytime you have a creature, monster, or serial killer... you need them to go up against a group of people you care about, and don't want to see get hurt.... you didn't get that with Alien 3
Yes you do.
You really dont get the Alien series....it's Ripley's nightmare.
In Alien, she LOSES everyone. Every single person she knows on the Nostromo. She wakes up, 57 YEARS LATER, everyone in the WORLD she knew, is dead. Everyone. The Alien has killed them. Not indirectly, but if they didnt land, if the she didnt have to escape the Nostromo, none of this would've happend.
So now she's daughterless. Friendless, everyone she knew is dead.
She meets Hicks. Sparks fly, ect. SHe meets Newt. She falls in love. She will protect her until the end of time.
In Alien 3, the Alien strikes again. Killing more people she loved. It turns her character into a rock. She does not care any more. Until Clements comes in.
Same deal with Hicks, except they have sex.
And then Clements dies.
Everyone she's cared about, everything she's done, has come to this last moment, when she is impregnated with the QUEEN embryo. She knows what the answer is.
One line that, to me, sums up the entire series "You've been in my life so long....I can't remember anything else."
She sacrifices herself, for mankind. She is the unheard savior of the human race.
If that's not powerful, I dont know what is.
Unless 50 Powerloaders running up against 10000 Aliens is more meaniningful...but I digress.
