Editing Alien (section)

==Alien 3==
The third film is skubby for a variety of reasons, the biggest of these being that the director decided to kill off some of the better parts of Aliens, such as Corporal Hicks and Newt. Additionally something that grates on people is the lack of guns in the film, which was a choice to theoretically make the film more terrifying and capture the feel of unarmed humans versus alien of the first film (which also lacked guns), which would have made sense if it wasn't on a prison planet. Plus there was little suspense as everyone knew who the hero was and what an alien would do and so instead of horror it became a formulaic 'Xenomorph kills skinheads until hero kills it'. After expanding both the setting, scale and arsenal in the 2nd film this nothing new back to basics approach didn't cut it with most viewers. 

A lot of the problems with the third film came from executive meddling. [[Derp|As Fox choose a release date long before selecting a director, writers and even the concept itself.]]. This was also David Fincher's first time in the directors chair. As both James Cameron and Ridley Scott were working on other projects at the time. With the two producers changing shit they didn't like for no reason.

Today, the Assembly Cut is considered superior to the theatrical release. Along with the shittyness of the films released after Alien 3, the film is now seen in a better light.