I've always been a defender of Alien3
and yeah, it's an ox that gets facehugged in the Assembly Cut (lol actually it's your mum). It's worth watching.

www.denofgeek.com/movies/alien-3-comparing-the-assembly-cut-to-the-theatrical-cut/
( Aardvark and so at last, I understood, Mon 2 Sep 2024, 9:24, archived)

maybe helps that I bought Alan Dean Foster's "novelization" before the film came out,
and it matched the assembly cut rather than the finished version. Also generally made the story and characters a hell of a lot more coherent than they ended up in the film.
(The Porcupine From Purgatory katsu revival trust, Mon 2 Sep 2024, 9:39, archived)

Actually yeah I had the novelisations of the first three films too, maybe that's why I like it.
Weirdest part of the books which sticks in my mind is when you get a couple of paragraphs about what Jonesy the cat is thinking when playing with a bit of string.
( Aardvark and so at last, I understood, Mon 2 Sep 2024, 9:50, archived)

I've still got those three books, it was all you had in them days before they released the films on sell-through VHS.
I just read that ADF did the novelisation for Covenant too, might get that for old time's sake.
(The Porcupine From Purgatory katsu revival trust, Mon 2 Sep 2024, 11:04, archived)

It's a pretty bleak film innit.
Wonder why they went with a dogburster rather than the ox.
(evening 'My stage name is DJ Teargas', Mon 2 Sep 2024, 9:41, archived)

Too difficult to film - you can't really train an ox
according to that article.
( garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Mon 2 Sep 2024, 10:01, archived)

For some reason, "you can't really train an ox" has put the "you wouldn't steal a car" anti-piracy ad music in my head.

(The Porcupine From Purgatory katsu revival trust, Mon 2 Sep 2024, 11:11, archived)

It does work
home oxing kills music
( garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Mon 2 Sep 2024, 11:59, archived)