Advantages: 2-Discs for more Information Disadvantages: Old Time Not Very Updated on Technology
In 1979, the first Alien film was released and was directed by Ridley Scott which was the only film to be directed by him in the Alien Legacy.
The first of what would four of the Alien adventures, saw Ellen Ripley's (Sigourney Weaver) ship Nimstromo heading back to Earth, but on the way home they recieve an SOS call from a planet nearby. They head down to the planet, land and some crew members explore the planet, well what they coud see. The crew ... ...cave and explored in there. While they were in there the ship's computer displayed a message saying the call for help they thought it was was not that, it was a warning message. The people down didn't know so when they saw a colony of eggs, they didn't know what they were getting their selfs into. Watch the film to know more.
As it is a 2 disc set the film is all on the 1 disc, the original theatre version and the new updated longer film. While, ...
TommiG 04.09.2005
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: helpful Review of Alien (Director's Cut) (Special Edition) (Wide Screen) (DVD)
Advantages: Cool effects, good storyline, scary. Disadvantages: This is not the director's cut
Alien follows the story of a group of deep-space miners who are sent off-course to investigate a distress call from what turns out to be an alien ship. Subsequently, a creature manages to get on board the ship - I won't spoil it by saying how - and starts hunting the crew. It's all deeply traumatizing stuff, especially when to take in the fact that creature itself was designed by famously wierd artist H. R. Giger. The cast all put in sterling performances, ... ...any of them die. Believe me, you'll be on edge of your seat for this one. At least, you would be if you bought this DVD. The trouble is, I can't recommend it, despite all I've said so far.
Why? Because while this DVD is labelled as a director's cut, it is in fact nothing of the sort. Ridley Scott even goes so far as to state this on the DVD. The original version of the film, which is also included on the DVD, is the director's cut, the way Ridley ...
DoctorNemesis 07.07.2006
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By transplanting the classic haunted house scenario into space, Ridley Scott, together ... more
with screenwriters Dan O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett, produced a work of genuinely original cinematic sci-fi withAlienthat, despite the passage of years and countless ...
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By transplanting the classic haunted house scenario into space, Ridley Scott, together ... more
with screenwriters Dan O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett, produced a work of genuinely original cinematic sci-fi withAlienthat, despite the passage of years and countless ...
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When the crew of the space-tug Nostromo answers a distress signal from a desolate planet, ... more
they discover a deadly life form that breeds within a human host. And so the horror begins - a horror which will end the lives of six crew members and alter the l...
Production Year: 1979 - Science Fiction - Director: Ridley Scott - Original Language: English - Classification: 18 years and over - Starring: Sigourney Weaver, John Hurt, Tom Skerritt, Harry Dean Stanton, Ian Holm, Yaphet Kotto, Veronica Cartwright
Production Year: 2007 - Science Fiction - Director: Francis Lawrence - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Alice Braga, Charlie Tahan, Dash Mihok, Will Smith, Salli Richardson, Willow Smith
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