Film #4 03/01/11 Alien 3

I have to apologise for not updating this sooner I am currently experiencing net related issues at home so a couple of days on I am finally getting to post this. Before heading into the film I have to pass on my condolences to the Postlethwaite family, if you haven't heard legendary actor Pete Postlethwaite passed away on the 4th of January. Postlethwaite only has a small role in Alien 3 but you can tell he is a classy actor who embodied a convicted man looking for redemption. He is such a huge loss and I know that whilst people talk about Usual Suspects when they think of Postlethwaite in the end The Town will be considered on of his best films, he is scary as hell.

Anyways on to the film at hand, Alien 3 is a somewhat misunderstood film in the Alien Quadrilogy. Obviously Alien and Aliens are both films that cast a huge shadow and there are certainly faults within Alien 3 but it's no where near as bad as some make it out to be. It's still claustrophobic just like Alien except the film is set underground as opposed to in space. It still has a lot of the tense hunt just like Aliens except instead of multiple aliens there is just one that has mutated.

There are rumours that the film was originally planned to be set on a man made planet made entirely of wood. It's a pretty wild idea and I would have loved to have seen a wooden Death Star. But what I'd love to have seen more would be today's Fincher making this film, this is his first feature film. Think what that means that his first film was making a sequel to one of James Cameron's most loved films, it's a big ask and in honesty it could have been so very much worse.

Obviously I still love the first two films so much more than Alien 3 but I believe honestly that this is a great edition to the Alien franchise.

Format: Bluray
Venue: My couch
Degrees of Separation: 3, from Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets there are only 3 degrees of separation and they are as follows. Richard Harris plays Dumbledore in HP2, he starred in Gladiator which was directed by Ridley Scott who also directed the first Alien film that starred Sigourney Weaver.