I didn’t like 3 as much as I remembered, but it’s not designed to be an enjoyable flick, as such.
I’m not a dog guy, but here’s something I’ve noticed: Dog movies tend to be snuff films. If there’s a dog in the movie, it gets it, maybe 2 of 3 times. If the movie is about a dog, odds are worse.
That’s kinda the pure genius of the GWC podcast: they opt to swerve toward whatever they’re interested in talking about, rather than be obsessed with not drifting from topic. Ossim.
Timing. They plan out the arcs so that certain ones fall in line with, say, a related movie coming out. I wouldn’t be surprised if they come back and pick up Resurrection and AvP later on.
According to what amounts to the original production cut (from the quadrilogy box set), a couple of interesting points. It’s this version I recommend to Sean.
The alien that terrorizes the prison was born from one of the oxen–NOT from a dog. There’s a whole scene where a pair of prisoners hang up the dead ox, wondering aloud what may have killed it. Just as they leave, one of them finds a spent facehugger. The “birthing” scene is mixed in with the memorial of the Newt & Hicks. The ox was changed to a dog in post-production back in the States. Perhaps someone knows why?
According to the script that Fincher shot, the Bishop we see in Alien3 is the REAL Bishop. He gets hit with the pipe/tool and, as we see dark red seeping from his dislodged ear, yells something like “I am not a droid!!” The theatrical edit does not reveal any of this and, of course, AVP presents its version.
And if it’s about a kid and a dog, it’s practically guaranteed. “Coming of age” movies kill more dogs than Michael Vick.
Somehow, I forget this simple truth, every time I watch a dog movie, particularly if it’s an overall funny movie. Marley & Me, My Dog Skip, that episode of Futurama where Fry finds his petrified dog – I’m sobbing like a little girl by the end of them.
Almost three.
Sonny Landham ran in Kentucky. Surprisingly, he didn’t win.
Interesting. Of course, “the real Bishop” from A3 could’ve been a distant offspring of the one we meet in AVP, so that’s still consistent if they ever put the scene back into a Director’s Cut DVD.
Just got to the part in the podcast where the crue talked about how the Alien cut itself to bleed acid through the ship’s hull. @1:33:00
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[li]stubbed its toe
[/li][li]cut itself shaving
[/li][li]shaving little mouth too
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Once I started breathing normally again, I had images of the Alien going about its everyday business before the said incident. Walking around in a towel. Watching ol’ episodes of ALF. Reading some romance novels. Brushing its teeth…and the little mouth’s teeth. Singing in the shower. Trying on different outfits in front of the mirror. Playing solitaire on the 8bit computer monitor. Sculpting.