It is 250 years after Ripley leaps to her death into the furnace to destroy the queen alien embryo inside her, and now there is a clone of Ripley (with some Alien genes: acid blood) running around.
Where did the cells to be cloned come from? She burned up in the furnace.
How does she have memories of the original Ripley? She knew of the now-defunct Company, a firm the contemorary researchers had little knowledge of.
Why did they wait 250 years to clone her?
Just don’t do it. This one can’t be reconciled. Like Highlander 2 just move on and pretend it never happened.
Science Fiction in the hands of the untrained is a dangerous thing.
This movie was a dream hallucination put out by Ripely while she was plummeting to her death. Aliens vs. Predator will be real only if it is cool, otherwise she is still daydreaming…
I think you mean cool only if it’s real, but I concur. I just choose to ignore the final five minutes of Alien III and pretend Ripley went back to Earth with Lance Hedrickson, had the alien embryo removed and went on to live a life of hedonistic pleasure (with a guy named Bryan, interestingly enough), with a brief interlude during which her cells were harvested for a future cloning project.
You forgot:
I thought they actually talked about that at some point in the movie, something about using cell samples taken from the living quarters at the smelting plant.
I’d go back to watch it to confirm this, but I know when I open the dvd cupboard and reach for it, my hand will magically alight on Aliens, and I’ll be unable to grab Resurection, much the same way you can’t force the positive poles of two magnets together.
Lots of places. She got into a good scuffle with some of the prisoners, stands to be a good chance that she got a minor cut or something. Could have had some on the needles, too. Or remains in the escape pod. If you really want to stretch it, shedded hair and/or skin cells (Which would probably not have full DNA, not sure on this, and would therefor help explain the “why did it take so long” bit.)
They explained it as a “genetic memory” or the like, from the alien DNA mixed in with hers.
Probably mostly just a “let’s make this take place way way later” idea. In-story, probably such things as political views against human cloning, and that the time when we’ll be able to make fully-viable, error-free human clones is still rather uncertain now, and was even moreso when the movie was made (I know, it’s not like it’s a REALLY old movie, but still). That, and it’s probably much more complicated making a clone of mixed partial human and alien DNA. Does seem to be quite a stretch, though not completely unreasonable.
I generally think of Resurection as being kinda the lowest of the series, but not really bad. Not good on the level of the first two, but probably about average as movies go, if not a bit better.
Doesn’t even come close to Aliens, of course 