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Rating:  - GET IT WHILE YOU CAN
While I got an obvious better deal on this now than I would if I bought it after the sale price, there is no denying that this set is worth some cash, especially if your an alien fan. It's a freakin' huge box set, and once you open it, it ________ stretches out like a mother________. It's basically all the two disc special editions crammed into one box, with a bonus disc. It's pretty big, but nicely done
The first movie, the one that I have pretty much only seen, is still a great movie, and still looks great. While it's not that shocking as it used to be (there is a great documentary), everything still looks great today, and it still is quite ahead of it's time, regarding the setting and everthing (maybe making a sci-fi movie is a great ticket to your movie aging better, eh?). The Alien still is a classic movie character, and it endures (on a side note, The Predator rules too. I got to see Alien Vs. Predator) today's jump in movie technology.
Even if you don't like some of the movies, the documentaries for each movie are awesome, and looking at all the sketches for every movie will give you something to do. I don't know when they will stop releasing this box set, but hopefully never. Despite it's size, it's packaged awesome, and will fit fine wherever you have it, for convience sake.
I'm fairly new to the series, so if your reading this and you a lucky enough to be reading this with the sale price, snag it. If anything, you get a lot more, and I think the two Alien movies are must haves, anyway. So order yours, like right now. You won't be sorry.
Rating: - Alien³
While lots can (and has) already been said about this set, I just want to reiterate one thing: the best part of this DVD is the restoration of Alien³.
Unfairly maligned on release mainly because it follows James Cameron's action-packed blockbuster Aliens, Alien³ is an intentional departure in tone from the previous chapter. Even if you don't like the film, I'd call such a dramatic shift in tone commendable by franchise standards -- it took balls to make Alien³, and on that basis alone, it's so much more interesting than a lot of cookie-cutter sequels.
The highlight here, which might have been trimmed out of the theatrical version (I hadn't seen any of them before I bought this set, and I haven't bothered to watch the shorter cut since then) is the raw performance by Sigourney Weaver. The change of pace electrifies her character, both in a great softer moment with the doctor played by Charles Dance, and during the action sequences (featuring the movie's biggest blemish, an awful-looking optical Alien effect), which swoop around the corridors of the prison planet in ways that will be familiar to fans of director David Fincher and his visual style.
Of all the things uncovered by the Alien Quadrilogy, the workprint version of Alien³ is the strongest, a breath of fresh air into a movie that already is one. It's dark, sure, but it is what it is, and taken as part of one of the most successful movie franchises of all time, what it is is worth a look, worth a re-evaluation, worth studying and eventually taking into account as an important chapter in a great series.
Rating: - aliens
the alien trilogy is my favorite of all sci-fi films and i'm so thankful to amazon for making it possible for me to purchase the whole set on dvd so that i can enjoy them with my grandson who is also an avid fan. thanks again. also i want to thank amazon for their outstanding customer service.when i realized that i should have received them in the mail(and had not), i called them and even though the records showed that they had been delivered, they promptly sent out another one. thanks again Amazon!!
Rating:  - great horror quadrilogy
Alien sequels were as good as the original. Sigourney Weaver is fabulous, perfect for this role. This is very good series of this genre. This genre is not my favorite but this is my favorite of the genre. Great CGI, very good script and cast. Very good direction by Ridley Scott and James Cameron. For horror buffs this is definitely 5 stars
Rating: - Buy It Two Times Baby!
I bought this set when it first came out. It was on sale lately and I bought again. Someday I'll open one of them.
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