Alien 3 Blu Ray projected
Watched this and Alien resurrection back to back yesterday and currently half way through disc 5 which is the 1st disc of special features, and it's a riveting watch with hours of documentaries starting from Alien and working all the way through to resurrection.
So alien 3 takes another turn and plot twist, Mr Fincher at the helm and it's got enough blood and gore to satisfy the grue lovers, such as myself. It's set on another unforgiving planet/landscape, it's again cold, windy and just down right miserable. If that's not enough, it's also set with a full male cast ( apart from ripley) who just happen to be prisoners for hideous crimes, rape, murder etc etc, and as you can imagine, these inmates haven't laid eyes upon a female for years.
The premise ain't to bad at all, this is never going to be my favourite entry in the series but it works as a, beasty feature, the dark settings on location, another theme of tunnels and airducts that run through all the films in the series, it probably the eeriest way for the Alien to crawl and pop up at any of the several entry points in each location. It adds a level of concealment in the dark shadows, we all know what's there and as the film moves along, it seems to become more common and less terryfying as the kill tally tots up.
I rather enjoyed Charles dance in this, an unassuming well spoken, pretty much cliche Englishman who also seems to have a soft spot for Ripley. Bishop, hicks and newt play parts in this, purely for continuation purposes, but this in essence is another story of survival, kill the Alien or be killed, there is a slight twist to the story which I won't mention if any of you fancy watching this for the 1st time.
PQ, no THX certification on this but it still looks rather nice, yes the CGI on the Alien is ropey at times, but some close ups reveal plenty if detail and finchers keen eye for lighting. Close ups of the Charles dance in the med lab look great, colours are natural and the setting is believable, there's a look the prison for most part that pretty much look.likes it lit by candles, like a gold/yellow hue, especially in the darkened tunnels, but no complaints here.
SQ is a decent dts-hd track, there's enough going on in the surrounds to lend to ambient noises of the prison, a very mechanical feel if that makes sense, no huge set piece explosions here, feels s bit strange after watching the bombastic Aliens, but there's plenty of bone crunching and blood curdling noises to satisfy.
So as I've said, i.watched resurrection straight after and will put my thoughts up later, but as a stand alone film, Alien 3 while not a patch on the 1st or 2nd, really ain't that bad.