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Starring: Sigourney Weaver,  Carrie Henn,  Michael Biehn,  Lance Henriksen,  Paul Reiser, 
Directed By: James Cameron,  David Fincher,  Ridley Scott, 
Rated: R (Restricted)
Release Date: 1986-07-18
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Format: DTS Surround Sound,  Anamorphic,  Box set,  Closed-captioned,  Color,  DVD-Video,  Widescreen,  Dolby,  NTSC, 

Editorial Reviews and DVD Information about Alien Quadrilogy (Alien/ Aliens /Alien 3 /Alien Resurrection)

Product Description
Four movies tracing Ripley's battle against a deadly alien.
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Media Type: DVD
Artist: ALIEN QUADRILOGY
Title: ALIEN QUADRILOGY
Street Release Date: 10/17/2006
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Genre: HORROR

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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.

The Alien Quadrilogy offers the first and fourth films with DTS soundtracks, the others having still fine Dolby Digital 5.1 presentation. All four films sound fantastic, with much low-level detail revealed for the first time. Each is anamorphically enhanced at the correct original aspect ratio, and the prints and transfers are superlative. Every film offers a commentary track that lends insight into the creative process--though the Scott-only commentary and isolated music score from the first Alien DVD release are missing here.

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. --Gary S. Dalkin

Customer Reviews for Alien Quadrilogy (Alien/ Aliens /Alien 3 /Alien Resurrection)

Youv'e never seen Alien like this!
If you love the "Alien" movies you will want to purchase this complete
set. The alternative movie features provides a greater selection and enhanced viewing, creating another dimension to the series.

The picture quality is excellent. A must for ALIEN fans....Alien Quadrilogy (Alien/ Aliens /Alien 3 /Alien Resurrection)

Simply The Best!!!
The Alien saga is the best there is, even better that Star Wars, Matrix, Harry Potter, Lord of The Rings, you name them. There is one thing that bugs me, in Alien 1 at the very begining, there is a huge petrified Alien sitting while holding a big gun! who is he? There's gotta be an explanation of how everything started. If they were to create another film, they should go way back and come out with a story of how everything started. For what I understand their native planet was destroyed and migrated to other planets wiping off everything on their path. I hope to see this coming anytime soon.Alien Quadrilogy (Alien/ Aliens /Alien 3 /Alien Resurrection)

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.Alien Quadrilogy (Alien/ Aliens /Alien 3 /Alien Resurrection)

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.Alien Quadrilogy (Alien/ Aliens /Alien 3 /Alien Resurrection)

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!!Alien Quadrilogy (Alien/ Aliens /Alien 3 /Alien Resurrection)