The green lieutenant was there expressly for the purpose of handicapping them in-universe. Note that it’s Burke that introduces Gorman as his pick of competent officer. The same Burke that explicitly sent colonists to check out the derelict uninformed, and that tries repeatedly to get live samples to take back to…

they aren’t space marines, they are colonial marines....they are ground forces...

I saw ‘Alien’ when I was 9 and ‘Aliens’ when I was 16 and those movies blew my mind. It could be that I was at the perfect age - and era - to watch them. As 70s / 80s movies go, they’re cultural milestones.

But that’s what makes it feel more “realistic” - things in the future aren’t going to be shiny and amazing, necessarily. Cameron was basically taking the very gritty and industrial vibe of the first movie (what a freighter boat would look like in space), and basically gave us his idea of what a business conglomerate…

Yes, that’s exactly the point. That was the entire point of Paxton’s amazing rendition of Hudson. He’s the epitome of the military mindset that’s gotten the US into so much trouble since WWII - overconfident, full of bravado, and an itchy trigger finger, but zero understanding of how the enemy actually works and…

More franchises need to ditch the need to have such a lockstep mentality to each chapter. We don’t need Ripley in every installment, we don’t need a Skywalker in every Star Wars, have a zombie chomp Rick Grimes and move on.

No. Alien3, is out right garbage. It’s still better than Prometheus and covenant, but garbage. Unlike Resurrection, it didn’t create fucking Serenity, so Alien3 gets no free rides!

Cameron has openly stated the Colonial Marines are analogous to the US in Vietnam, arrogantly over estimating how much their sheer firepower could do and underestimating an opponent to their peril.

The concept to Alien 3 has always intrigued and excited me. A lone woman, stranded on an all-male prison planet populated by convicted murderers and rapists who are trying to repent by forming a peaceful religious order - all pitted against one of the most horrifying creatures in cinematic history while they have no…

I’ve argued this previously but it’s relevant again: Alien3 could have been a great movie if it didn’t feature Ripley. It’s critical flaw was undoing the last act of Aliens. If Alien3 featured a different protagonist, solving her own mystery, but kept all the other major elements, people could have loved it on its own…