2003 Director’s Cut with Ridley Scott Introduction.Meaning, you might want to send in an email asap. Also, I will definitely pick one winner from today. I'd really like to hook up some true fans. You can help your chances by writing one paragraph saying why you love this franchise. Once the giveaway ends, I’ll read over all the entries and randomly pick out winners. This giveaway will be open until November 5th at noon Pacific Time and is only open to residents of the United States. If you’d like to get be entered for a free copy, what you need to do is email your name and address and say ALIEN QUADRILOGY GIVEAWAY in the headline. The set also includes two versions of each film and over four hours of previously unreleased exclusive material such as original screentests of Sigourney Weaver prior to filming the original ALIEN, unseen deleted scenes, thousands of still photographs from the Fox archives, the previously unseen original cut of “Wreckage and Rage: The Making of ALIEN3,” and much, much more. I've taken this from a Fox press release:įor the first time ever, the studio has united the material from every home video release of the ALIEN saga including the 1991/1992 laserdisc releases, the 1999 “Legacy” release and 2003’s groundbreaking ALIEN QUADRILOGY release into one complete Blu-ray collection. Trust me, you want to own this:īefore going any further.here's the reason to own this edition. Find more by Ron at his blog, Subtle Bluntness, and daily at Shaktronics.However, while most of you will have to buy this box set, a few of you can get it for free! That's because thanks to Fox Home Video, we've been given 3 copies to giveaway to some of our readers, so hit the jump to see how to enter and you can also look over all the extras that are included in this release. Ron Hogan is still a big fan of greasy space monsters. I’m not an easy person to please, but Fox generally does the job. Fox is up there with Criterion, in my opinion, when it comes to putting out a great, fully-loaded DVD. I wish more studios would show the same care in putting together their collector’s edition DVDs. It’s a nice little touch, but the little things are important when you want to assemble a great-looking wall of movies. It’s a printed slip sheet that you can peel off so as to have a better-looking DVD case. One great touch is that the backing of each DVD, the part with all the information about the release on it, isn’t actually the back of the DVD. If you’re a fan of Aliens, this is probably the edition you want if you don’t already have the Quadrilogy or the Alien Legacy DVD boxed sets. It looks better when the scenes are darker, but it’s still a little fuzzy. It’s harder to make and keep brighter footage clean, no matter how much care you put into restoring the film. That’s not a knock on the DVD, but more than likely a reflection of the relatively brighter lighting Cameron used, especially in the earlier scenes of Ripley at the space station and the troop transport. One issue with this transfer is that, for some reason, it’s grainier than the Alien transfer was. In addition to the 1986 theatrical cut, which is the one I’ll be watching, it contains the 1991 Director’s Cut with 20 minutes of restored footage, full-length commentaries by basically the entire cast and crew for both editions of the movie (the list of people is literally two full lines of tiny type on the back of the DVD case), an introduction from James Cameron, multiple behind-the-scenes featurettes, still photos, and the original story treatment by Terminator Titanic himself, James Cameron. This is another fully-loaded double DVD set, as is befitting one of the best action movies ever made. If you haven’t seen it, you’re missing out on what is one of the best alien shoot-em-up movies in history, with excellent performances by the ass-kicking Sigourney Weaver, the cool Michael Biehn, the unexpected Paul Reiser, Bill Paxton, and Lance Hendriksen. This film, like Alien before it, probably doesn’t need any set up. When those colonists disappear, the Colonial Marines are sent in with the only person with any first-hand experience of dealing with the xenomorph, Ellen Ripley. ![]() The Company dumbly decides to colonise the planet discovered in the original Alien. James Cameron’s Aliens picks up where the original Alien left off, only it’s 57 years later due to the problematic nature of interstellar space travel and hypersleep technology.
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