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Excellent Sci-fi film. The premise of this movie is that Sigourney Weaver must go back to the original planet where her deceased crew made first contact with the Alien, this time with a troop full of marines. This is a great movie that has classic Cameron action sequences and special effects, but also a frantic and claustrophobic atmosphere. All of the acting is well done, namely Sigourney Weaver, Paul Reiser, Bill Paxton, and the little kid. The Alien Queen at the end still looks AWESOME. Quick warning, though, this is the SPECIAL EDITION, and that means you CAN ONLY CHOOSE THE DIRECTOR’S CUT, not the theatrical version. This may make a difference because about 17 minutes of footage are added, mostly for good reason, but occasionally it is unnecessary and/or slightly damaging to the suspense. My advice to you is RENT THE DVD first, just to make sure you like the new version and extra footage, and buy it later. In case you were wondering, most of the restored footage has to do with the colonists early on and some pretty cool sentry machine guns about 2/3 through. In my opinion, either version is great, too bad they didn’t include both!
Cameron did the smart thing with Aliens–go in a completely different direction from Ridley Scott’s film and create something unique that still had his signature on it. In fact, Cameron already had a story he had written with the same basic premise–it just didn’t have Ripley nor did it have the Aliens from the film series. He adapted it and made it work for this terrific 5 star sequel.
This is essentially the same version that was released in the Alien Quadrilogy boxed set back in late November. Here’s the deal; this picture quality isn’t a huge step up from the previously available DVD. Cameron was very happy with the high definition transfer made in 1999 and, besides tweaking it a bit when it comes to compression artifacts, this isn’t a whole lot different looking or sounding.
The big difference is the commentary track from Cameron and various cast and crew members. This is kind of a slice and dice commentary. You get Cameron one minute, the main cast (with the curious exception of Paul Reisner and Weaver), producer Gale Anne Hurd and make up/creature effects wizard Stan Winston. It’s a terrific commentary track and there isn’t a lot of dead space so clearly this approach will work for most fans of the film. If you wanted to hear Cameron the entire time, well you’re out of luck.
The extras are pretty indepth including Cameron’s original story treatment and every from pre to post production footage and information. It’s a great package. I should warn you, though, that this is not an anamorphic movie. It wasn’t shot that way (in fact a lot of Cameron’s early features weren’t shot in anamorphic widescreen because of the difficulty of lighting the optical effects among many other things but you’ll hear more about that in the commentary section). So this is presented in its original 1.85:1 widescreen ratio but not in a anamorphic format.
There are some minor compression issues. Since Aliens was shot on film stock that was very grainy (it was a new film stock and you’ll notice a lot of films from the time with a similar look). It actually enhances the feel and look of the film capturing the Vietnam era references that Cameron was making with the film. So it was grainy before and still looks that way.
Using a format called Extended Branching allows both versions of the film to be on the same dual layered DVD at the same time and saves disc space. I noticed a comment about the lack of a DTS soundtrack. My understanding is that Cameron was very happy with the sound on the original release and had no desire to fiddle with this version.
All in all a terrific version of the movie. The packaging is probably going to be better here as the Quadrilogy had a fold out accordian format which I hate.
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