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Follow Alien's lead
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11/17/02 06:43 PM
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I was watching the Alien Saga special on AMc a few days ago, and it came to me that the Aliens franchise was in a similar state as The Godfather is in now. Two megablockbuster first movies (Alien, Aliens) a lackluster threequel (Alien 3) and a much acclaimed and original fourth (Alien: Ressurection) The people behind Aliens decided to reclaim the films status by making a fourth, because the third was not well recieved. They got a whole new writer for the treatment and director than the other three and bam you have yourself a hit movie. They also enlisted the services of a bunch of acclaimed character actors. Even though Godfather and Alien are two very different movies, I think if they used this method at making a fourth it could work, just a thought.
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Re: Follow Alien's lead
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11/24/02 12:52 AM
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Actually, the general opinion is that the 4th Alien's movie was the worst of the whole saga.
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Re: Follow Alien's lead
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I've always heard that the worst Alien was definately the third, as it was hyped to be something that it wasn't. i've seen all the Alien movies, and I feel the same way. Reserection really played to certain human insecurities, and thus was good in its own right.
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Re: Follow Alien's lead
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11/27/02 12:51 AM
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Originally posted by Zasa: I've always heard that the worst Alien was definately the third, as it was hyped to be something that it wasn't. i've seen all the Alien movies, and I feel the same way. Reserection really played to certain human insecurities, and thus was good in its own right. There's many reasons why I feel this movie is the worst but the biggest is because Ripley is not herself anymore. Instead of the strong, real heroine we have followed through the films, she becomes a goofy, unemotional, one note character that we can no longer identify with. Originally posted by The Italian Stallionette: This probably has been posted before, and perhaps I should know this, but has there ever been any other movie sequel that did as well (or maybe better) than the first or is GF the first??
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Terminator 2 and the recent Harry Potter sequel, just to name a couple. And depending on who you speak to, Die Hard 2 and 3, Wes Craven's New Nightmare and the Lost World: Jurassic Park may also fall under the same list.
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