Yes!!!!!! It was one of the best creative decisions of the production that didn't go wrong! I love this unexpected intro score by Goldenthal.

Exactly. The music in many movies is a large part of what makes a movie epic. And this point is an incredible and chilling point from the very start. Brilliant.

Kinda like the gunbarrel sequence from License to Kill

killzone783 yes the soundtrack after is everything

+1

Intro music for the Bohemian Rhapsody movie by Brian May is great too

Takes me back to being a young kid popping in a block buster VHS with my dad and popcorn and having a psychedelic experience without drugs involved lol

It’s like the logo knew it was in Alien 3 and said “Oh Hell no I’m out of this shit!”

I remembered that.

Mine as well

I personally hate this film. It made the events of Aliens to be all in vain. They killed off the best Alien movie cast - what it remained of them anyway - in a 2 minute intro sequence. Sure, Hicks in cannonically not dead, but still.

@@cooper1531 bull and we guess you don't gripe that ripleys nostromo buddies were also deceased. Maybe you should squawk to the film hierarchy to bring Kane dallas Brett Parker and lambert back, eh, buffalo butt?

Why do you loathe it? It was a masterpiece

@@josephkane2312 It is definitely not a masterpiece. It had a few interesting concepts but was generally a studio-meddling disaster that killed off two main characters for no reason other than they didn't want to pay them.

@@josephkane2312 It is okay (maybe at best). It is not a masterpiece, though.

Watch the extended version, it’s brilliant and makes the film amazing. A fitting end.

@@dyveira Even despite of that, it is a very well executed film. David Fincher did a good job anyway. What Alien fans hate of this movie is, above it all, the fate of the main characters. It happened to me, I was so angry when I went out the theater. But I have learnt to appreciate the movie over time.

Glad to see you have open eyes. This movie is a masterpiece, a pity not many can see this.

They were tired. They just wanted to sleep. "We'll look for alien eggs later." lol

The video game Aliens: Colonial Marines tried to explain this - something about a second ship docked with this one, for some reason only Hicks was awakened, then he didn't really die because he killed an antagonist and put their body in his chamber instead. Far-fetched, really.... but what isn't in the Alien/xeno universe?

I mean Ripley never even bothered to check the Narcissus for an alien onboard in the first one. It was just blind luck that it made itself known to her. And they never checked the drop ship itself for the Queen. It's a criticism you can direct towards any of the Alien movies if you want to be pedantic about it.

@@zufgh both those cases were emergency situations with no time to spare, after they beat the Alien Queen they had plenty of downtime to check the ship but apparently didn't because the third movie needed a story

@@zakkizer2490 What I mean is that Ripley had plenty of time to check the craft for the alien once she was away from the Nostromo. Instead she immediately started getting ready to go into hypersleep.

The movie has issues but I agree that its a good movie. Fox intervened a lot and didn't let Fincher do his thing, so the editing is a mess. I much prefer the Workprint version.

yes it is a good movie but i think for many that it was not the story they were expecting.

The Alien Queen was just really preggis when she was swiping at Newt!

I'm surprised you claim that as the one plot hole, and not the fact that the sleeper pods are different to Aliens, the Sulaco's insignia is wrong, the interiors don't match, and the list goes on.

Brandon Gould Hey not to give you a hard time, but can you tell me some of the differences between the models of this opening of Alien 3 versus the moldels of Aliens 1986.

@@draconusfrigidus That's a continuity error, not a plot hole.

The running fan theory is that it was Bishop who secretly packed an egg onto the dropship.

lol ill give ress. a pass. you mean you didnt like her running from the circle ship, or the ha-ha shower scene..... it is junk.

*Laughs in Alien Isolation

The death of Hicks and Rebecca had to be justified. I'm sure the Type337 EEV is a good ship.

So you missed the memorial scene in the furnace?

Not to mention the Assembly Cut that really improves upon it, even though its not perfect either. My preferred version would be a mix of both Versions.

Considering the considerable and extensive production-hell and development-hell this movie went through, for quite some time, this movie ultimately could have been markedly worse, in the end. Considering the circumstances of which pertained to the production and development of this movie, it turned out perhaps markedly better and more salvaged than it otherwise realistically and reasonably could have instead turned out, in the end.

Yes, the workprint version is better but there were many mistakes made with the film.

Me too.

Same here

Resurrection had a great plot but terrible execution. The dialogue was pure garbage. And the original ending was supposed to be an epic battle on Earth with Ripley fighting a giant spider-like Xenomorph.

alien 3 is watchable, the 4th was tv movie claptrap.

As did me

Same here

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Same!

Agree. There are no guns or technology, it's the war of minds and instincts.

@@drememe6185 THIS, AlienS focussed so much on the survival of Bishop, Higgs and ESPECIALLY Newt; and in the first minutes of Alien 3 they kill off each of them except Ripley?!?!

suppose to be above the cryo tubes i think, but it wasn't there when they went to sleep. my only answers is a company ship, (same one later in the movie that Wayland was on) intercepted and boarded the Sulaco and planted the egg there, for it too open and infect one of the crew to kill off the survivors and make it look like an accident, a coverup. to keep them quiet of the events of aliens. or to try to make more aliens to get as bio weapons, though the creatures acid caused a electrical fire to jettison them them in an EEV, and crash on the prison planet, the company, get information from the sulaco of a queen being implanted in Ripley, so they change course of their ship to the prison planet to retrieve ripley and the queen. either that, or it was all a nightmare of Ripley in hyper sleep, explaining the mysterious appearance of the egg etc, meaning no egg was ever there. and the survivors are still alive.

Fire onboard = yeeting you out into space lol

I love it! It's very creepy and works effectively!

That's one way of looking at it. Most wanted a happy ending and felt betrayed when Hicks and Newt died.

@@1UpJohn Newt and Hicks dying set the tone perfectly for the film in my eyes, and the opening titles were phenomenal. They were great in Aliens together but I couldn't imagine them becoming a family unit taking on xenos. And if they had and they all made it out of the third film alive fhat would've been far worse imo

Apparently not! LOL

If I remember right, in the novelization the ship starts exploding so that's why the pods were sent off ship

Desde ese instante pudimos anticipar que la pequeña Newt no iba a acompañarnos en este capítulo

what do you mean?

Yo aún no supero que Newt nos dijera adiós en pleno inicio de la película, no era justo para la niña... aunque quizás hubiera sido víctima de los cromosoma YY si se quedaba viva :(

I agree. But maybe it was too dark? Too void of hope? That's the issue people had, especially considering how hopeful and victorious the ending of the 2nd film was.

Yes. Aliens was hard to beat. Alien 3 was also very depressing. Super dark and claustrophobic.

I am sure me and million other fans will disagree with you and tell you that Aliens is the best one

People can talk about which is best all day honeslty, but I say the original myself.

@@tomasdanhel5753 second movie.

It would have been better if at least they got killed during the movie with well deserved deaths, killing them right at the start was such a dick move and people are right to be pissed off about it

Yes. I think the film should have expanded more on this part instead of starting off on Fiorina 161.

Me too. They use this transition to the scary music on 80s on 8 on commercial breaks

Why the hell do they keep rejecting Niel Blomkamps ideas??? First Robocop and now i find out they did the same for aliens?

Yes, it was. And he denies ever being part of it. lol

No. There was one egg with a Super Facehugger. It implanted an embryo into Ripley and the ox/dog.

Thank you for your comment. I agree! I found Alien 3 to be very similar to the 1st film and I liked that. For those who would like a translation, this is what Thomas said: "I do not understand why Alien 3 is decried by so many fans ... It is on the level of the first two for me, in a different style, but this apocalyptic and desperate atmosphere fits perfectly into the Alien universe. The end is perfect because Ripley sacrifices herself to save humanity, which should definitively close the saga ... And this intro is great, the music, the flashes, the dramatic theme when the EEV detaches from Sulacco and leaves for Fury161 …"

I agree. I didn't like how the credits interrupted the flow. It was difficult to see what was happening when they broke up the sequence of events.

He didn't. Thank God Colonial Marines retcons it, and I accept it.

Well, the audience was given the hint in the opening but Ripley and everyone on Fury 161 didn't know.

Except it's Newt's crytube that's shown cracking, not Ripley's, regardless of that last shot of Ripley's tube - it's rather brief and if you don't watch closely you can actually miss the broken glass. In this final theatrical version of the film the intention was to fool the audience with these shots into thinking it's Newt who has an alien inside her, which is supposed to create tension and fear in the autopsy of Newt scene (you expect them to find an embryo inside her) and create interest in the story (you want to watch and see who really has it, even if you're guessing). This was a rather weak attempt at saving the film's loose plot with editing. Originally there was supposed to be another/different facehugger, a "super facehugger", carrying either two embryos (infecting both Newt and Ripley) or an embryo which could escape from a dying host's body (Newt after drowning). It's only the latter option which would fit in the film's final version, but it's an idea that was presented in an Alien3 comic book, and is never hinted upon in the film.

It could have easily been broken during the crash landing, because the overlay of the events happening over Ripley waking up implied to me that the events being shown had already happened and they were being shown after the fact.

Yes, there was a system in place that constantly checked the vital sign of those in the cryotubes. The x-ray scan you mentioned shows the Super Facehugger on Ripley's face.

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Pretty much! LOL

Tbh Load is better than St.Anger

it latched on newt, however, upon landing, Newt drowned and no longer being a good host to stay in, the Queen chestburster swimmed into Ripley's mouth and created a placenta.

@@Samuello2024 They invented the idea of a Super Facehugger. It's able to lay an egg in multiple hosts. The queen's way of ensuring the species survives.

@@1UpJohn Yes, im aware of this, however the things mentioned in my comics are from the Alien 3 Comic which explains it better.

a new design for something in a different movie isnt a plothole

@@frankmerker630 but they are supposed to be the same cryo chambers they went to sleep in at the end of aliens, this movie supposedly picks up right after aliens

The facehugger cut itself on the broken glass of the cryotube, allegedly.