Alien 3: 2003 Special Edition

[Dowly]

Stay the **** away from it!

Saw it last night and holy ****, how can something like that even exist?!

While it has 30 minutes or so extra footage, the sound on those are bad or the scenes change the feel of the movie entirely. (tho, there are some nice filler things)

Here's few comparisation thingies, so you know ****e it is. Spoilers naturally included for both special edition and normal alien 3 so dont read if you dont want to know the plot.




Right, first of all the alien doesnt born from a dog, but from an ox. That kinda sucks, because after Alien 3 a whole new category of dog aliens were introduced to the "lore" of the movies. Now, this leads to another problem, the stronger the host is, the stronger the alien will be. But as the rest of the alien footage was shot for it being an dog alien, it's movement etc. doesnt really fit on the whole ox thing. Also, the scene where the guy is cleaning the ventilation shaft was cut pretty badly so you wouldnt hear him calling out the dog he though was in the shaft.

Next the sound on some of the new scenes. You cant possibly understand how bad the quality is! You can hear the mic go on and off and the static behind it everytime someone speaks! It's AWFUL!

Ok, in this version, they actually caught the alien into the toxic waste shelter after the fire. Remember the guy who first saw the alien and was put into a jacket? Yeh, well, he thinks the alien is beautiful and convinces another prisoner to get him out of the jacket. Next the guy goes to the shelter, cuts the throat of the guard that is posted there and sets the alien free. HOW ****ING STUPID IS THAT!?

It seemed they saved the best for last; the ending scene. I though the scene was great with the queen bursting out of Ripley's chest while she was falling, but nooooo, now she just falls, no queen.


Those were few of the bigger things they changed in the movie and I shall repeat what I said in the beginning; STAY AWAY FROM IT!! It's not worth it even for the most hardcore fan.

Gah!

EDIT: Goddammit, I could've just copy & pasted what Wiki says, seems to be the same as I just said.

An alternate version of Alien³ (officially titled the "Assembly Cut") with over 30 minutes of additional footage was released on the 9-disc Alien Quadrilogy box-set in 2003. Director David Fincher was the only director from the franchise who declined to participate in the box-set release
The Assembly Cut has several key plot elements that differ from the theatrical release. The alien gestates in an ox rather than a dog, and one of the inmates discovers a dead facehugger which is visually different from those seen in the previous films. Some scenes are extended to focus more on the religious views of the inmates. Most notably, in the Assembly Cut the inmates succeed in their attempt to trap the alien, but it is later released by the disturbed inmate Golic. In this version, the alien Queen does not burst from Ripley's chest as she falls into the furnace.
Some of the audio in the Assembly Cut is of noticeably poorer quality, often during footage that was not included in the theatrical release. The lesser quality is attributed to the fact that ADR by the original actors was not recorded for this footage, since it had been cut from the film by the time the film was being dubbed.