Star Wars EPIII Teaser released

[Bouncing Zabaglione Bros.]

Mariner & Bouncing:

As for going back to save Newt, it could have been some other reason as well, that's easy. For instance, the switch which will release whatever explosive material needed to start the chain reaction, or whatever blah. If Newt wasn't there, the movie could have been the coolest, scariest thing ever. This way it is only almost the coolest, scariest thing ever

Everyone would be saying how stupid it was because they have a military ship in orbit and they have to go into the reactor to flip a switch in order to blow it up?

Plus remember the reactor was damaged during the original scout mission. They idea was that everyone wanted to get off the planet because the reactor was going to blow anyway, they had no dropship handy, yet Ripley went back into the reactor to find Newt. You had to have a pretty strong reason to do that, and Ripley going back to rescue her substitute-daughter rings a lot more true than a lame "we must manually blow up the <whatever> and save the planet, despite the fact we have a fully armed assault ship in orbit."

Really, I'm no fan of kids in adult films, but Cameron really did it well with Aliens, and in doing so managed to give the characters some real depth and understandable motivation for doing what they are doing. It's just a real pity that all this character development was cut from the theatre release, so only the fans who have seen the director's cut actually know why going back to rescue Newt actually rings true in the film.

 

[RussSchultz]

The full story in Aliens also helps Aliens3 make more sense and not suck so bad.

 

[Mariner]

Talking about 'sucking bad': Alien Resurrection 8)

 

[Gollum]

Just got back from watching AvP in the theater.

I went to see it fully expecting a barely average action flick with some alien action, one that's probably not trying very hard to do the original franchises justice. I was willing to give it the benefit of the doubt as its supposed to be more of a comic/action/B-movie take on the series.

But even accepting that, some stuff was very hard to swallow (an entire eggs -> Facehugger -> Chestbuster -> Alien lifecycle in like an hour?) and some scenes were downright insulting (not going to spoil anything, but beware the ending!).

Overall I've seen worse though and found myself jumpy and twitching in my seat more than once - which is a good thing I suppose - so it isn't a complete failure. As long as you watch it fully aware that this is neither Alien 5 nor Predator 3, you could get some entertainment out of the flick. Don't take this as a reccomendation though, it is by no means a "good" movie, just not complete and utter crap...