The Hitcher remake film

[Jock Strap]

Some directors have also started out in commercials. Ridley and Tony to name but two.
Ridley is considered a legend but if you think about it he's only really made two classics - Alien and Bladerunner.
But then that's two more than Tony.

[Pervert]

Since Alien came out before AIDS was given a name, it's an unlikely interpretation. If I were attempting to all wanky and studenty, and bearing in mind designer and artist H. R. Giger's body of work, I'd say it was more a representation of man's fear or/loathing of women.

Alien 3 wasn't brilliant, and I've never seen Fight Club, but I did think Seven was a powerful film.

[Jock Strap]

No, these people were saying the Alien in Alien 3 represented AIDS. It was a bullshit attempt to make this rubbish film appear deep.

Although I've heard that Ridley Scott's Alien could represent the male fear of penetration. I mean, John Hurt is penetrated by something which resembles a cock when it bursts out his chest.

[The Last Word]

I think it was fairly obvious there was an AIDS metaphor at work in Alien 3 on visual evidence alone: the hordes of bald, condemned men, the close-up emphasis on medical equipment/procedure etc. Having Ripley as an alien amongst them was a nice touch too.

Not a perfect film for sure, but it was a brave move and at least kept up the trend, later discarded, of making each Alien film relevant and different in both concern and approach. Aliens brought us '80s Reaganomics and parental issues (two mothers battle over a child), whereas the original, as Caractacus touched on, introduced the creature as something symbolic of the sexual tension within the crew (a monster of the id if you like), as well as giving us some interesting gender role reversal (a woman defeats the monster, a man gives birth).

Alien is a good example of how to update the past, here the American B-film SF of the fifties that at the time often exploited either fears brought on by the atomic age or communism. This is the reason so many of these remakes seem so redundant - the relevancy to modern audiences just isn't there.

(Wanky ex-film student over).

[Jock Strap]

They completely screwed up Alien3 for me right from the off. All the script drafts and different directors they went through.
The way to go was clearly signposted.
All they had to do was take the next logical step.
Look at Alien.........one scene - where Hurt finds the eggs - was the cue for the sequel. Lots of eggs there hence the next step was to have lots more aliens.
And there's a scene in Aliens which should have pointed the way for Alien3. When Ripley is getting grilled by the company bosses about what happened to the ship. She goes nuts and starts shouting at them about how all hell will break loose if the Aliens make it to Earth. There's your sequel. A mass invasion of Earth. I'm not sure but I think that's the route the comic books took with both Hicks and Newt surviving.
Instead they fucked around with ideas of glass planets, wooden planets...all sorts of shit.
Fucking bollocks.
And then the lame 4th movie hints at a sequel set on Earth fucking 2 movies too late.