the best compilation to get. Got it a cheap price. Finished
watching the entire series again with renewed interest, this time
the director's cut of the set instead of the extended or theatrical
version
Alien - the director's cut is just awesome
Aliens - more extended scenes but nothing much here yet it
remains just as exciting and involving as the theatrical
version.
Alien 3- this one, the director's cut blows the first 2
movies out of the water. its almost 30 minutes longer and has CGI
version of the Alien added. The best disc in the set.. Its like
watching a whole new movie
Alien Resurrection - significant improvement with the director's
cut
Alien (1979)
Directed by Ridley Scott, When a mining ship Nostromo lands on a
desolated planet to investigate upon a suspected SOS signal, the
entire crew are unaware of extraterrestrial lifeforms residing on
the planet. Unbeknownst to everyone, this is the start of the
terror which would affect every member of the seven person
crew.Only one of the members, Lt Allen Ripley survives the ordeal.
Won Oscar. Another 11 wins & 18 nominations for Best story,
special effects, production and performance
Aliens (1986)
Directed by James Cameroon, 57 years after her ordeal with the
extraterrestrial creature from Nostromo, Ellen Ripley is rescued by
a deep salvage team during her hypersleep. When radio transmissions
from a mining and research facility colony, LV-426 that has
since settled on the alien planet suddenly stop, Ripley is offered
a chance to team up with a group of highly trained marines sent by
the US government on a rescue mission to the planet. Won 2 Oscars.
Another 15 wins & 21 nominations for outstanding special
effects , sound editing, production and story.
Alien 3 (1993)
Directed by David Fincher. After the last encounter on LV-426
and returning home to earth, Ripley crash lands on Fiorina Fury
161, a prison planet inhabited by the inmates of the planet's
maximum security prison which houses the worst psychopaths, serial
killers and rapists.Unfortunately, although the rest do not survive
the crash, a more unwelcome visitor does. When a "serial killer"
starts to turn up, Ripley discovers that a creature that is unlike
the previous ones encountered before is running lose on the
facility. With no weapons of any kind, and with aid being a long
time away, Ripley teams up with the prisoners to trap the creature
in a deadly game of hide and seek once and for all and in the
process discovers that there is one inside herself.Nominated for
Oscar. 3 wins & 16 nominations, 1993 BAFTA Film Award and 1993
MTV Movie Award Best Action Sequence chase through a
tunnel.
Alien Resurrection (1997)
Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 200 years later, due to vast
advances in cloning technology Lt.Ripley is cloned from the dead by
tissue samples on the USM Auriga, a research facility
floating in the outskirts of deep space for the purpose of
bioweapons research. The Alien creatures have been cloned along
with Ripley and kept in confinement. When a team of
interspace smugglers who supply illegal human specimens for
experiments arrive on the facility,they got more than they
bargained for when the creatures break loose.
Ripley, along with the crew of smugglers , must now escape from
the creatures. Along the way, Ripley discovers that the perilous
ship is hotwired to return to Earth with the creatures which
may result in the end of mankind. 4 wins and 14 nominations.
