Alien (film) disguise imaginative poverty". In a 1980 episode of "Sneak Previews" discussing science fiction films of the 1950s and 1970s, critics Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert were critical of "Alien". Ebert called it "basically just an intergalactic haunted house thriller set inside a spaceship" and one of several science fiction pictures that were "real disappointments" compared to "Star Wars", "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", and "", though he did compliment the early scene of the "Nostromo" crew exploring the alien planet as showing "real imagination". However, the film later made it onto Ebert's "Great Movies" list, where he gave it
Alien 3 Alien 3 Alien 3 (stylized as "A"LIEN³) is a 1992 American science fiction horror film directed by David Fincher and written by David Giler, Walter Hill and Larry Ferguson from a story by Vincent Ward. It stars Sigourney Weaver reprising her role as Ellen Ripley and is the third film installment in the "Alien" franchise, preceded by "Aliens" (1986) and succeeded by "Alien Resurrection" (1997). Set right after the events of "Aliens", Ripley and an Alien organism (Tom Woodruff Jr.) are the only survivors of the Colonial Marine spaceship "Sulaco" escape pod's crash on a planet housing a penal colony