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Summary: Great Horror Treat!
Review: If I were alone in a snowbound farmhouse (or New York City apartment building) on a windy, freezing night, Alien would be among the three horror flicks I would have stacked up to watch. Its atmosphere is phenomenal, like you really are in a very real beaten up old spaceship. I love the way the people smoke cigarettes. In space, you don't have to worry about a health nazi peering over your shoulder. The monster is terrifying and I liked even better than Sigourney Weaver, her sidekick, Veronica Cartright. She's like your next door neighbor. As to the other all-time favorite horror flicks: John Carpenter's The Thing, which can still scare the pants off of you; The Mummy's Ghost (l943) which stars the most dazzling starlet to ever appear in a horror flick, Ramsey Ames; and Abbott and Costell Meet Frankenstein--that unique abberation of a genuinely shock flick and a comedy classic. What more could you ask for? I would try to cram in two more classic horror flicks: The Brides of Dracula, starring that wonderful old Shakesperean actress, Martita Hunt, and Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man.
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Summary: Simply Incredible!!!
Review: I've seen this movie countless times before, but never like this. The transfer is magnificent. This is the first DVD in my collection where I actually looked at ALL of the bonus features. The menus are the best I've seen since "Blade."The movie itself is already a classic. The only movie to actually make me feel like I was in space besides "2001: A Space Odyssey." Forget the other three. But this one's a "must own."
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Summary: Brilliant!
Review: This was a really well-written book, not like most awful movie and TV novelizations these days. I'm guessing it was written before that turned into mass market industry. Alan Dean Foster is actually a real writer, with real talent, so this book is worth reading even if you've seen the movie- In fact it will tell you a lot more stuff not told, or only briefly mentioned in the movie, and you get to know the other characters better, besides Ripley.
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Summary: This is what DVD is all about.
Review: The menu and graphics designs are really cool. The logic designs makes the navigation fun and easy on the disc. I have seen Alien many times before, but never with the picture quality like this. Just watching the trailers again gives you the creeps. With all of the value added features you get a lot for your money. Fox deserves a very well done on.
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Summary: AWSOME!
Review: This is the best science fiction movie ever made! Sure, you got 60's style plot, but what I always wanted and never got was good acting, suspense, and stuff that's scary as hell! I mean, I've seen this flick 500 times a week and I'm still scared out of my mind when I watch it! Buy this video even if you have never seen it, because if you like to be scared, this one will scare you! The only movie I can even compare is John Carpenter's Thing or maybe Dean Koontz's Phantoms but that's it! Even those don't have the same amount of menace as this one does! I love H.R. Giger's alien monster, I love the set, the suspense, and I work hard to find a movie that has the same type of monster, one that stands in shadow and that you don't even know is there until it's face is inches from yours and in seconds your eaten alive. A monster that you can't run fast enough from! I mean, God, in all the other series of movies I have ever seen, the characters can always escape, no problem. But in Alien, if it gets in the same room, your dead.
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Summary: ONE OF THE SACARIEST MOVIES OF ALL TIME
Review: One of the scariest movies around this is the first and by far the best of the alien films. Weaver steaks the show with the films' face off climax. a movie you can watch again and again.
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Summary: 20 Years old and it seems brand new
Review: Seeing this movie with DVD clarity and with widescreen is like seeing the movie for the first time. I've seen it on cable and tape before, but this new version blows those away. The movie is fantastic in any format, but the transfer to DVD is among the best I've seen. If you want to have nightmare for a few nights, this is the movie to get - a true timeless classic that gets better with age. The DVD extras are pretty neat, too. All A+ material.
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Summary: Often duplicated but never equaled
Review: What makes Alien a great film is that it took the idea of haunted houses, a fear dating back centuries, and put it in the future. Many of us can relate to this idea; our parents or friends telling us to stay away from 'that' particular house, and with every step closer we would become more and more nervous at what horrors awaited inside. And to make this even more effective, the film takes 'everyday' characters, people we could have known, and puts them into this horrifying situation. Very suspenseful stuff. The specs on the DVD itself are superb. There are many extras including an isolated score, production stills, great 3d interactive menus, outakes and deletions, and even an audio commentary with Scott himself. All in all, with its groundbreaking sets, intense situations and great performances, Alien is a must have DVD.
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Summary: Alien DVD brings a smile to my face
Review: When the first round of Fox DVDs were released, I was upset. Sure, the sound features were cool, but I want deleted scenes and audio commentaries. Those are the features tha make people want to buy DVDs. With the release of Alien DVD, I found myself shocked by the wonderful features it offered. The DVD took a great film and made it greater. I really enjoyed the commentaries. They were informative and fun to listen to. The deleted scenes also added a great deal of insight that I was surprised about. Even though I had seen the directors cut on a rare Laserdisc from Japan, I still enjoyed this segment because it was on DVD. Well worth the buy. A must for any Sci-Fi DVD collector. For other great DVDs, I suggest Armageddon: The Criterion Edition, Good Will Hunting Collector's Edition, Robocop: The Criterion Edition, and Lethal Weapon 4.
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Summary: Believe all of the accolades
Review: I have only a little to add to the many right-on assertions made below concerning this film's enduring excellence. The DVD package here is fantastic--lovely widescreen formatting which makes a serviceable stab at providing the full scope of the director's meticulously orchestrated shots,the drop-you-dead score isolated, previously deleted scenes, which, if not exactly missed, are still very fun to see, and, my personal favorite, an over-dub of Ridley Scott's commentary which runs the length of the film and provides meaningful insights into story-telling decisions, text and sub-text, and numerous bits of movie-making magic. Love it.
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