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The Alien Franchise

Kigan2006

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I was browsing around, kinda bored, and found no real thread about this.

Easily my favorite films are the Alien Quadrilogy. There is so much about them that makes them great. I regret never having the chance to watch any of them in a theater, especially the first.

Lately, with spare money I can scrape together, I'm starting to get into the books. I can't say anything about them yet, since I'm only starting.

Still, the moves reside safely at the top of my favorite movies list. I know them by heart because I've watched them so often. There are numerous things about them that are so great.


What does everyone here think of these movies?
 
ALIEN - Masterpiece. Top acting and top direction.

ALIENS - A non stop adreanaline rush featuring the best Sigourney performance as Ripley.

ALIEN 3 - Metaphysical issues slowed down the excitement.

ALIEN RESURRECTION - Visually exciting but poor scripted.
 
Alien is great
Aliens was AWESOME
Alien 3 kinda slowed down
Alien Resurrection was kinda weird at times

However, the ALIEN QUADRILOGY set is pretty cool, i have it, 9 discs, but worth it. The commentaries and special features are very interesting.
 
ALIEN QUADRILOGY

Disc 1-2: Alien Collector's Edition
Disc 3-4: Aliens Collector's Edition
Disc 5-6: Alien 3 Collector's Edition
Disc 7-8: Alien Resurrection Collector's Edition
Disc 9: Bonus Disc


The Alien Quadrilogy is a nine-disc boxed set devoted to the four Alien films. Although previously available on DVD as the Alien Legacy, here they have been repackaged with vastly more extras and with upgraded sound and picture. For anyone who hasn't been in hypersleep for the last 25 years, this series needs no introduction, though for the first time each film now comes in both original and "special edition" form.

Alien (1979) was so perfect it didn't need fixing, and Ridley Scott's 2003 director's cut is fiddling for the sake of fiddling. Watch it once, then return to the majestic, perfectly paced original. Conversely, the special edition of James Cameron's Aliens (1986) is the definitive version, though it's nice to finally have the theatrical cut on DVD for comparison. Most interesting is the alternative Alien 3 (1992). This isn't a "director's cut"--David Fincher refused to have any involvement with this release--but a 1991 work-print that runs 29 minutes longer than the theatrical version, and has now been restored, remastered, and finished off with (unfortunately) cheap new CGI. Still, it's truly fascinating, offering a different insight into a flawed masterpiece. The expanded opening is visually breathtaking, the central firestorm is much longer, and a subplot involving Paul McGann's character adds considerable depth to story. The ending is also subtly but significantly different. Alien: Resurrection (1997) always was a mess with a handful of brilliant scenes, and the special edition just makes it eight minutes longer.

Each movie is complemented by a separate disc packed with hours of seriously detailed documentaries (all presented in full-screen with clips letterboxed), thousands of photos, production stills, and storyboards, giving a level of inside information for the dedicated buff only surpassed by the Lord of the Rings extended DVD sets. A ninth DVD compiles miscellaneous material, including an hourlong documentary and even all the extras from the old Alien laserdisc. "Exhaustive" hardly beings to describe the Alien Quadrilogy, a set that establishes the new DVD benchmark for retrospective releases and looks unlikely to be surpassed for some time.
 
I've been saving for that edition for some time! I've only gotten to grab looks here and there on a friend's copy.

I'm such an Alien fanatic. One day, perhaps after job people stop harassing me about 'previous experience' and actually hire me, I'll have that set.


Basically, I look into each film and find the gem inside, even in Resurrection.

Alien and Aliens need no looking, but for some Alien3 and Alien: Resurrection need some looking. Yet I've found each, in a way, is a gem that will (hopefully) never be lost.

The extensive 9-disc edition is, from what I understand, truly unsurpassed and hopefully will help to keep Alien moving on through time as one of the all time greats.
 
Hmm... I wonder when they'll make another sci-fi movie as good as Aliens or Terminator 2... :(
All we get these days are CGI, bad acting, rubbish storylines with action sequences heavily influenced by the Matrix... :(
 
I don't think it can get as good as Aliens. Aliens is just too awesome.

You are right about the CGI, bad acting, etc. Too much of the same. Originality is dying fast.
 
Kigan2006 said:
I don't think it can get as good as Aliens. Aliens is just too awesome.

You are right about the CGI, bad acting, etc. Too much of the same. Originality is dying fast.
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Maybe James Cameron could actually reboot the sci-fi genre with his new film "AVATAR" in which stars Sigourney Weaver.

Bad thing is that it won't be at theaters until 2009.
 
Ugh, I hate knowing about potentially good movies so long before they come out. It can drive a person MAD! lol
 
My housemates and I actually watched the first two together in our house a few nights and then resurrection. We were all too lazy to get a copy of Aliens 3.

Awesome. Awesome to the maxx.
 
I Love All of the Movies!, The First Alien Is Easily My Favorite!!!!
 
The first is so different. The first builds upon the hopelessness that the crew of the Nostromo feels. You see little of the Alien, but the presence is overwhelming and takes it's toll on each of the crew members. Except, of course, for one. After all, he was there with the mission of getting the Alien. Even his actions contributed to the overall feel.

I've never seen anything to truly match it.
 
Aliens will always be my fav out of the films but I totally love them all. The scene with the chestburster from Alien is still terrifying to watch! The series is really dragging along now with AvP though, that film sucked. They don't make them like they used to :( Anyway I like this thread, it's made me want to watch all the films again :)
 
loppyears said:
Aliens will always be my fav out of the films but I totally love them all. The scene with the chestburster from Alien is still terrifying to watch! The series is really dragging along now with AvP though, that film sucked. They don't make them like they used to :( Anyway I like this thread, it's made me want to watch all the films again :)
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I just had to watch them again myself. I do that often...I just never tire of them! Well, except maybe AVP...it just doesn't compare to the others at all. But that's why I don't include it here, just the 4. Perhaps AVP Requiem will do better.
 
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