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Release Date: 02 December, 2003 Retail Price: $79.98 OUR Price: $56.58 You SAVE: $23.40! Cast: |
Alien Quadrilogy Reviews
Alien Quadrilogy.
This collection of the four Alien films plus the bonus features really puts you back into the sci-fi, thriller and horror roots that the Alien movies carry. What was seen through the human eye inside the theater in 1979 will now be known as a sci-fi and horror film icon. The movie that started it all with a handfull of frightened viewers made this movie what it is today. A movie icon. Four different directors showed their Alien visions by directing these movies. The last three showed their Alien vision to keep the franchise going into what it is known as today. Unfortunately after the final minutes of Aliens the franchise began to slow down. It was still okay to watch because once you have seen the first two you would want to know what happens next. Ridley Scott the director who started this franchise showed his vision for Alien. Alien is a compelling jaw dropping film that showed its roots for terror. After the start of franchises such as Friday the 13th or Nightmare on Elm Street comes the sequils. The sequils following Alien were made continuing such success Alien has made. Of course Alien is one of the movies that shows sci-fi's darker side. The story of seven crew members on a space ship heading towards earth who encounter an Alien cast away opening the door to terrifying science fiction shown in four films.
ALIEN-If there wasn't an Aliens this would be the best film in the franchise. Comes extremely close to being the best one. What started it all: The Alien, Ripley, and the suberb sci-fi terror. If you were to see all the other ones first without seeing Alien first you would be lost until you did see this one. Not criticizing anyone who has seen the others without seeing this one. As said comes extremely close to being the best. So close it gets 4.99.9 out of 5. Just needed another.1 to go.
ALIENS-The best one in the franchise. Over five decades later Ripley awakes from her sleep since the Alien wrecked havok on the Nostromo. There Ripley and a team of marines discover more Aliens and begin to fight to survive. Not everyone survives of course as known throughout other movies like these. Ripley protects a girl named Newt through this second round of Alien madness. More action contained in this movie than Alien in my belief. James Cameron did a very excellent job directing this and made this sequil as part of what he is known of. Being a master action and drama director.
ALIEN 3-So obviously what movie script writters, movie producers, and movie directors have on their minds when they make a third sequil in a franchise is to make it as good as the first two. Obviously it might not be as good as the first two (which Alien 3 wasn't as good as the first two) but mainly the ones making a third sequil want it to just not suck. Alien 3 did not suck but it was sort of close to not being good at all. From here they should have stopped the franchise unless they could come up with something better to add onto the franchise. What the script writter did was just make an excuse to just have Ripley be the only sole survivor of another round of Alien madness. But there were two others. Hicks and Newt. But maybe they were not meant to be in the setting that Alien 3 was in. Once I heard about this set not seeing the movies I saw the Alien 3 trailer. Sigourtney goes bald and I was thinking did she shave just because she wanted to? No. She shaved because they wanted to (the people behind the story of Alien 3). Crash an escape pod because of an Alien stowaway if you will but if Ripley survives shouldn't the others survive as well? The least favorite in the series.
ALIEN: RESSURECTION-After Alien's least successful film comes the second least favorite in the series. The reason why this was better than Alien 3 was because of its action. A very big dissapointment was to see Ripley become a clone. When they should have stopped after Aliens, they continued with the two worst additions in the franchise that were still okay. But if they were to have a third sequil then they should have stopped there. This was still better than the third release but a cloned Ripley made me dissapointed. The end of Alien 3 could have made a good end to the franchise in my opinion. Here the movie makers of this film semmed like they made the others especially the first one dissapear into the would of classics.
The bonus features help make this box set a must own for any Alien fans and not just the die hards.
The movie ratings:
ALIEN-4.99.9/5 The perfect start. Lives in the world of classics but never dissapeared.
ALIENS-5/5 The perfect sequil.
ALIEN 3-2.5/5 Not completely bad. Still okay but my least favorite
ALIEN: RESSURECTION-3/5 The second worst in the series. Still okay.
Overall this is the must have set for the Alien fan.
Can't they just re-release the frist two in a box set
My title says it all. The first two arr the only good ones. If the other two were done right, they would have been good, but they are not good at all. Just buy this for the first two.
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