Aliens (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
by James Cameron
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Actor: Carrie Henn, Lance Henriksen, Michael Biehn, Paul Reiser, Sigourney WeaverDirector: James Cameron
Brand: TCFHE
Writer: James Cameron
Producer: David Giler
Writer: David Giler
Producer: Gale Anne Hurd
Writer: Dan O'Bannon
Writer: Ronald Shusett
Writer: Walter Hill
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Anamorphic, Collector's Edition, Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 137 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-01-06
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
DVD Reviews of Aliens (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
DVD Review: Great for Aliens fans
Summary: 5 Stars
This is great for any fan of the original theatrical release of Aliens. The deleted scenes really add to the story. I appreciate having the full picture of what happened before the Marines arrived, and also having more info on Ripley's life.DVD Review: Replace suspense for action and you get ALIENS.
Summary: 4 Stars
This movie was not as suspenseful and had a lot more action than the first film. The alien was further explained through the queen. The story was well put together and the scene with Ripley's daughter really connected what Newt meant to her. It had a nice ending similar to the first one, but it was missing the suspense of the first film. I liked that there was more action but they should have kept the suspense element more prominently. The aliens looked a lot more realistic in this one which helped add to the believability of the film. About the same rating as the first simply because the action sequences were just simple and have been out done in years since, but the alien idea is still a unique one. The original holds up a bit better because suspense will always hold up where action sequences will be outdone with new technology. DVD Review: Every Bit As Good As The Original
Summary: 5 Stars
Let's just get it out in the open: Sequels, generally speaking, suck. They're contrived, redundant, unimaginative, and pitiful--mere superficial shells of the films that spawned them. However, there are exceptions to this incontrovertible, and ALIENS is one of them. This James Cameron (and who is more fitting to follow Ridley Scott in this sci-fi/horror series?) techno thriller is every bit as gruesome good as its predecessor; and because we have aliens (as in plural) almost jumping out of the hulls and hatches Cameron has more super gore to work with. Yeah, this is one fun flick.
We are re-introduced to Ripley (Sigourney Weaver), who, at fiftsomething years later (she's been sleeping in a vagabond spacecraft), finds herself quite alone and much disturbed from her own unique close encounter. (Weaver is, once again, fantastic.) She teams up with a hearty band of space marines (Hoo-raww!) and returns to the planet where all the fun first began--a planet now being colonized, only the settlers have all disappeared. Of course we know why they've disappeared, and once the marines realize what kind of a mess they're in the fun really begins. The supporting cast is great, including Michael Biehn, Lance Henriksen, Paul Reiser, and a young Bill Paxton as a wide-eyed, expletive-spitting marine. Cameron delivers suspense, special effects, and heart-pounding action by the boatload, including an ingenious battle between Ripley (inside a hydraulic lift) and the queen alien that's every bit of sensational. ALIENS is a true exception to the rule; yeah, sequels suck, but not this one.
--D. Mikels, Author, The Reckoning
DVD Review: A near perfect movie
Summary: 5 Stars
Aliens is one of James Cameron's finest, and one of the best movies ever made. This film is a wonderful blend of sci fi, horror, action, comedy and drama, seamlessly combined to make one near perfect movie. It's one you can watch over and over again and not get bored.
The film is also unique in that it is far superior to its original, Alien, which itself was a good sci fi horror movie. It's rarity for a sequel to surpass the original.
The film is perfectly cast, well acted, with great set design and special effects, a perfectly fitting musical score and an excellent plot.
The special edition has some dvd extras and adds 17 minutes of deleted scenes back into the film. My favorite extra on dvd's is the deleted scenes and to have them reedited into the film was a thrill. None of the scenes were bad, though I can see why some were deleted for timing or spacing reasons. Its especially fun on a movie like this to see the extra scenes, cause its a little more of the story you were never told. I personally thought the automatic gun scene should have been left in the original.
DVD Review: A respectable follow-up to an acknowledged classic
Summary: 5 Stars
This review is for the 2-disc collector's edition (I mention this because Amazon seems to be lumping all the reviews of various editions together...)
The plot of this film is covered in other reviews, so I shall skip that, except to say that even if you somehow don't know anything about the first film, the movie does a decent job of filling in the backstory, so it is possible for first-time viewers to pick up the story with little discomfort or confusion.
This is a respectable, well-done sequel. Where-as the first film is a tense horror film, this one attempts to up the ante by adding more aliens and more fodder for them to snack on; essentially this is an action film, though it does have some scary moments. It wears its influences from the original film on its sleeve, though, with everything from the moody film-noirish lighting to the automated countdown before a devastating explosion at the end.
This edition of the film offers the theatrical release as well as a director's cut, which is essentially 20 minutes of deleted scenes. Personally, I think they were deleted with wisdom by the execs, as they actually add very little but do take away from the pacing. Others may disagree, of course.
Disc two is an exhaustive documentary on the 'making of' that covers pretty much any and every aspect of the film that fans could possibly want to know.
Description of Aliens (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
In this action-packed sequel to Alien, Sigourney Weaver returns as Ripley, the only survivor from mankind's first encounter with the monstrous Alien. Her account of the Alien and the fate of her crew are received with skepticism - until the mysterious disappearance of colonists on LV-426 leads her to join a team of high-tech colonial marines sent in to investigate.Personally supervised by director James Cameron, this special edition includes scenes eliminated prior to the film's 1986 release which broaden the narrative scope and enrich the emotional impact of the film.
Aliens is one of the few cases of a sequel that far surpassed the original. Sigourney Weaver returns as Ripley, who awakens on Earth only to discover that she has been hibernating in space so long that everyone she knows is dead. Then she is talked into traveling (along with a squad of Marines) to a planet under assault by the same aliens that nearly killed her. Once she gets there, she finds a lost little girl who triggers her maternal instincts--and she discovers that the company has once again double-crossed her, in hopes of capturing one of the aliens to study as a military weapon. Directed and written by James Cameron, this is one of the most intensely exciting (not to mention intensely frightening) action films ever, with a large ensemble cast that includes Bill Paxton, Lance Henriksen, Paul Reiser, and Michael Biehn. Weaver defined the action woman in this film and walked away with an Oscar nomination for her trouble. --Marshall Fine
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