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The definitive Alien collection

Advantages: Original and director's cut edition, flawless transfer, every extra you could want
Disadvantages: None

Of all movie monsters, the Alien has to be my favourite and this box set is an esential for anyone who has seen and loved any or all of the four pure Alien movies (dsicounting the Alien/ Predator crossover genre). Having been old enough to have seen the original Alien at the cinema I was pleased that the box set includes the original as well as the new updated and reditied versions of all four of the movies. There are also extras beyond belief and ...
...movies fear not. The redited Alien for example was lovingly crafted by original director Ridley Scott who correctly recognised that a modern cinema audience would find the original somewhat slow paced in places. He has also skillfully added back scenes removed from the original release which, on viewing, are essential to the plot and reveal new charater nuances and tensions that seemed strange and unexplained previously. This set was expensive when ...

petet66 06.11.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Alien Quadrilogy (Box Set) (DVD)

Be afraid...yet again!

Advantages: A brilliant scene underwater
Disadvantages: The CGI aliens are a poor relation to the costumes

The fourth installment in the Alien saga and in many ways a change from the original format. The original two films in particular had the air of suspense about them...you knew that aliens would be there....but we knew so little about them that we let our imaginations run wild! In this film the Aliens are bred on purpose, cloned from a resurrected Ripley (brilliantly played by Sigourney Weaver). The film uses the traditional costume for the Alien, ...
...resurrect her, they want the Alien and the technological and biological advances it will obviously bring. Lots of people I know didnt enjoy this film as it was such a step away from the tense suspense thriller elements of the first two and in some respects the third too. Me, I enjoyed it a lot. I like the pacey action feel to it and I loved what they had done with Ripley! The supporting cast are well chosen, especially Winona Ryder who plays the ...

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Review of Alien Resurrection (DVD)

Witness the Resurrection

Advantages: A Brilliant way to finish the Alien Quadrilogy
Disadvantages: Last of a Brilliant Legacy

...years after the climax of Alien 3, Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) has been resurrected on the USM Auriga. Now the Alien Queen has been taken out of her, however there is some Alien DNA still inside enabling her to do some Alien characteristics. The scientists on the ship are keeping the Aliens breeding them and recording any progress they make. Suddenly, the Aliens escape and begin their murdering rampage on a ship heading for Earth. The Queen then ...
...The last one in the Alien series was produced 18 years after the first Alien movie and you can tell the difference. The special effects are alot more realistic and improved. Also, the story is as good as all the others as well as the characters performances. I found the soundtrack of the film not very good at adding tension for the movie, but people have got different opinions on such things. These Alien DVD's are still pretty expensive if people ...

TommiG 06.11.2005 · Read full review
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Review of Alien Resurrection (Special Edition) (DVD)

Aliens 2 this ain't

Advantages: Stylish, intriging end to the franchise
Disadvantages: Ending feels rushed

...expecting the Marines to kick Alien butt will also be disappointed - in this film they actually manage to do the more believable thing and leg it - vacating as soon as possible rather than provide the Aliens with HostsRus. This Ellen Ripley is unsure who she likes less, the humans or the Aliens - ironically enough, it's left to a "Artificial person" to sway her. The scene where she discovers the earlier failed experiments is possibly the best in ...
...attempt to get inside the Alien (as opposed to the reverse) that the series really needs. Resurrection had some good things going for it - not least Jeunet as director - but it's a pity that Dan O'Bannon (Who wrote Alien) did not have more of a direct input. ...

dancomp 11.08.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Alien Resurrection (Special Edition) (DVD)

You Look Like a Radioactive Tampon

Advantages: Great Direction and Acting
Disadvantages: Too Slow for some

Moon reminds me a lot of those big weighty Sci-fi films of the seventies where it was all about atmosphere, storyline and your imagination rather than riotous special effects and wise cracking aliens. This film is utterly beguiling, its tense but strangely relaxing, all of these is down to two men, the director Duncan Jones and the star Sam Rockwell. This is Jones' first feature film and its an incredibly impressive debut, he eschewed using his father ...
...it is a really fantastic film which is a credit to him. Starring Sam Rockwell as Sam, the only worker on an automated lunar mining complex. He has been working on his own for nearly three years and nearing the end of his term in space he feels lonely, isolated and confused....as anyone would, I imagine. With only a droid, Gerty (Voiced by Kevin Spacey) for company, Sam is alone and starts to feel a world apart from Earth, he feels he is alone but ...

paulie1975 29.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Moon (DVD)