[Klaustrophobia]

maybe he meant Aliens as in the group of Alien movies... 

[Scourge of Ages]

maybe he meant Aliens as in the group of Alien movies... 

Two movies isn't exactly a group

[Nuke]

am i a bad person for actually liking alien 3?

[Klaustrophobia]

i liked 3 just as much as the others.



...which is to say not very much.

[Mikes]

am i a bad person for actually liking alien 3?

Yes, you are a bad person Nuke

[perihelion]

But that isn't why he's a bad person.

I liked Alien 3 as well.  Not as much as the previous 2, but... oh heck, I'll admit it.  I thought it was funny as hell. 

I'll also second the nomination for 2010.  The style is a massive departure from that used in 2001, but I enjoyed it a lot more.

[Nuke]

granted its not the best alien movie and they did a lot of things wrong (horrible special effects for example). but it was a good premise. any further alien and alien vs predator spinoffs were just kinda making it into a generic horror/action/scifi franchise. didnt really do anything new at that point, and didnt care about the previous backstories (resurrection tried and failed horribly). they are still watchable if you dont take them too seriously.

[General Battuta]

Interesting fact, a lot of the 'terrible CGI' people point to in Alien 3 is actually puppet work!

[Gray113]

Don't know if this has been touched on before but CGI versions of creatures (especially Giger's xenomorth) just look plain wrong. The Xenomorth was far scarier when it was a guy in a suit.

[Gray113]

And Alien 3 was a pretty ok movie by the standards of the genre, It just fails in comparison to the earlier movies.

Alien vs Predator on the other hand was dire.

[headdie]

I liked the first AvP, the second... yer it was not good

[Sarafan]

I never liked Alien 3 but I couldnt stop laughing after seeing on the making of what they originaly wanted for Alien, since it comes from a dog they thought to made the size of a dog and they even filmed a part of a dog in a Alien costume running around, it was hilarious.

[The E]

The part that surprised me was that Alien 3 was surprisingly decent even though its production was a complete mess.

[karajorma]

Alien 3 works as a stand-alone movie.


As a continuation of the original story it suck balls. Surely someone would have noticed the alien queen dragging two massive eggs up to the dropship. And even that is a plothole since Ripley blew them all up.

[Black_Yoshi1230]

I'm gonna go on a limb here and say The Fifth Element.

Sadly, a decade or two from now, I'm probably only going to remember Alien 3 as the one with the guy being shredded by the fan (I have the Editing Room's "Alternate Endings" to thank for that).

Interesting fact, a lot of the 'terrible CGI' people point to in Alien 3 is actually puppet work!

Ahh, practical effects. Fun times.

[Nuke]

i kinda miss old skool movie magic. things like cg explosions and the like look really bad, as compared to the fuel bombs that they used to use.

[deathfun]

I'm gonna go on a limb here and say The Fifth Element.

Implying it wasn't mentioned before in this thread

...Which baffles me. I second this movie suggestion

[FUBAR-BDHR]

OK had to go and use and old PC to pull up my VHS movie database from college.  Only have 641 movies (too bad for magnetic decay).  Some more titles that weren't bad:

Howard the Duck
Short Circuit
Dreamscape
Close Encounter of the 3rd Kind
The Abyss
Earth vs the Flying Saucers (if you want an old look you can see the wires one)
Innerspace
Westworld
Alien Nation
Critters
Cyborg
Blue Thunder (not sure if this counts the tech was probably already existed and really wasn't that sci-fi)
Deep Space
Deepstar 6
The Hidden
My Science Project
Colossus: The Forbin Project (I think this is the supercomputer one I couldn't remember before)
I come in Peace
The Final Countdown

[Veers]

Star Wars (Original Trilogy - The originals, not the recuts/edits from the 90s or 00s)
and
Space Battleship Yamato

...

[perihelion]

Oh yeah!  I can't believe no one's mentioned this one yet.
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension

I wanted to be a rockstar/scientist for YEARS after this movie came out.  The tongue-in-cheek references I didn't get until I watched it again later in life.