The Alien Legacy

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Summary: LIKE THE REVIEWERS SAID BELOW, BUY THE ALIEN QUADRILOGY
Review: This is an OK set, but the Alien Quadrilogy is FAR better. The Alien Quadrilogy is a nine disc set, with two versions of all four movies, and they are the theatrical version, and the director's cut (Alien only) or special edition (Aliens, Alien 3 and Alien Resurrection) of each film. And there is about 50 hours of special features. It's $74.99 at Amazon.

This Alien Legacy set contains only one version of each film and they are the theatrical versions of each film (except for Aliens).

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Summary: I've got the quadrilogy but not the legacy.
Review: Alien: A classic. story: starts out, the crew of a commercial
starfrieghter are awoken from their hypersleep when the ships
A.I. reads that their is a S.O.S. coming from a strang planet.
They set their ship down the planet. Ship crashes they are stranded. They find a derilict ship, they go down to investigate.
One of the crew members that is lowered into a hole doesn't responed. They pull him up. they find a parasite attached to his
face. They cant get it off they try cut it. Acit comes out. Eats
throught floor. Thing seems to come by itself and die.
crewmember regains concousness,seems to be fine.
They eat dinner, he starts to thrash out like a crazy person
a Alien comes bursting out his chest escapes
in the labyrinth of the Nostromo, sheds its skin grows big
kills all the crewmembers except for. Ripley escapes, blows up
ship, finds out alien is on shuttle blows it out of the airlock.

Aliens: A classic: Story: Ripley upon blowing the nostromos
engines escaping in the shuttle, the Narccassis, blowing
the monster out of the airlock, she goes in hypersleep.
But, she ends up not being found for 57 years. A deep salvage
team finds her, brings her and her cat Jones to a space
station they revive, she finds out how long that she has been
out their. She has a meeting with Van Lewen and his Co-workers
to discuss why she blew the Nostromo's engines. She
tells them that a xenomorph was involved but no one believes
her when she says that their is hostile life on LV-426.
To her shock she finds out that 20 years after the nostromo's
engines blew people had started colonizing LV-426, and other
planets. She tries to warn Van Lewin by saying that they
could be in danger. But he doesn't listen. While she is
in her apartment Burke, and luitenent Gorman knock on her
door to tell her that they've lost contact with
a colony on LV-426, and that her so-called "xenomorph" may
be involved. He says that if she goes in with the marines
then her liscence as a flight officer will be granted back to
her. She goes in with the Marines. They find one survivor
wich is a little girl named Rebecca Jordon, but her nickname is
"Newt." They ask her what killed her family, but she is
too traumatized to tell. They explore the atmosphere proccesser.
Find a nest, aliens come out, kill most of the marines, they
try to evacuate, a alien gets on the dropship. Dropship crashes.
They must blow up the colony, they do, Ripley, Bishop, Hicks, and
Newt escape, only when they escape the queen attaches herself
to their ship, she lays an egg(but that wont be revieled till Alien 3...it a queen facehugger in the egg) They blow the queen
out of the airlock. They think its all over. They go in hypersleep.





Alien 3 Also a Classic. Story: Newt, Hicks, Bishop, And Riply
are in hypersleep, the egg that the queen laid erlier has
hatched a queen facehugger is lose on the Sulaco. It jumps out
pokes a hole Newts cryo tube, cuts itself. Acid leaks
out, starts an electrical fire, the queen attaches itself to
Ripley's face. Computer automatically ejects theire tubes into
an escape pod. face hugger hops out. Hides somewhere in the pod.
The pod detaches from the USS Sulaco. Pod lands on Fury 161,
wich is a penal colony filled with rapists and murderers.
Pod hits the ground, a saftey support crashes through Hick's
cryo tube, his head gets splattered and smashed.
What leaks through a whole in Newts cryo tube. She drowns.
Bishop Gets smashed to bits. Alien facehugger lays embreyo inside
dog, bursts out dogs chest. Prisoners have no weapons.
They lure into the lead. kill it. ripley sacrafices herself.
and that is enough!


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Summary: What can be said about this classic series ...
Review: OK the 4 discs in this set are great ..... They had been digitally remastered THX sound and the video is better than the first disks that came out with the individual movie .... BUT .... if you are an aficionado of both the Alien series and of video DVD's then don'y buy this set but kick out double the bucks to buy the 2003 Alien Quadrilogy .... There are tons of new sceneces on that set AND most importantly all the movies were reworked and are BRIGHTER CRISPER and well just plain unbelievable ....

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Summary: Two Great, Two not so great, See spoilers below
Review: The first two movies are outstanding. Ridley Scott does a magnificent job on the first one. The first movie scares you because you are first introduced to the Aliens and the settings are incredible. The cast is good and you can't help wondering who will survive. Even though they only battle a single Alien they have very limited weapons. No assualt rifles, just flame guns they improvise with in their shop. Sigourney Weaver as Ripley the heroine is remarkable. If you don't like people being defenseless you may not enjoy this as much as Aliens. After all it is pretty much a smorgasbord for the Alien, and the crew is the menu. Ian Holm as the robot Ash is determined not to let Ripley kill the Alien.

The second movie, Aliens, on the other hand is riveting non stop action. James Cameron does a fantastic job of turning the tables a bit on the Aliens. Here the humans actually stand a chance of surviving because they come armed for bear. This is a detachment of Marines and not some mining expediton like the original. They aren't here to study, they are here to kick some serious Alien booty. My favorite of this series because I like survivors not going down without a fight. A good deal more insight into the Aliens and their method of reproduction. The fight between Lt. Ripley and the queen will keep you glued to your seat. Michael Biehn is a nice touch as Cpl. Hicks, a Marine with a heart. Lance Henriksen as the robot is great. He shows Ripley that some robots can be trusted.

The third movie was bit hard to take. Okay landing on a prison planet is interesting, but why kill off all but Ripley from the last movie? Even her cat that survived the first two. That's was a low blow indeed. I had become attached to the characters that survived the second movie, so that put a sour taste in my mouth right from the beginning. It seems they wanted to make it more like the first movie by only having defenseless quarry for the Alien again. Yum yum lots of defenseless prisoners for the Alien. Rather than have an Alien baby, Sigourney even takes her own life. How do you spell depressing?

In the fourth movie we find that Ripley is back because she has been cloned. They need her after all to mother a hybrid Alien. The humans are not quite totally defenseless but it is still pretty much another smorgasbord for the Alien. Ripley is pretty much a puppet for the military wanting to create a new weapon. So once again since the first movie the corporations want the Alien to survive even if it kills indescriminately. Once again she dies taking out the last Alien. Good effects, fair acting, lousy story.

Fans of the second movie may be a little disappointed in the new Alien vs. Predator movie released today. I went to see it since I loved the first two movies in this collection and the first two Predator movies. Fans of the first Alien movie will like it since it has plenty of suspense but there is not much of a chance of survival for the group that goes to investigate the temple. I was a bit disappointed because a couple of the people that I thought might be survivors don't make it. Only one does like in the first movie. I was also not happy about how a couple of the Predators seemed to fall victim so easily since considering their arsenal of toys, of which invisibility was rarely used, made it seem they wanted to show the Aliens tougher than what I think they are against a Predator.

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Summary: A must for Alien Fans
Review: Easily my favorite film franchise ever made.
A truly amazing quadrilogy.

Alien - The first installment in the series. It's a little on the slow side, and maybe even a little boring at times, but still a good movie none the less. It's sets up the rest of the series.
MAKE SURE TO WATCH THIS BEFORE THE OTHERS!
I saw 'Aliens' before this one, and it pretty much ruined this one for me. I knew what was going to happen.
But overall, still a good film.
Easily the scariest of the "Legacy".
Grade: C+

Aliens - The best film ever made. Period.
It's absolutely perfect and flawless.
I love this film.
The casting is great (Sigourney Weaver, Michael Biehn, Bill Paxton, Lance Henrikson, Paul Reiser, Carrie Henn, Jenette Goldstein - all perfect for their roles.), the directing is perfect (James Cameron), the special effects are visually stunning, and the story is one of the best ever written.
Grade: A+

Alien3 - An amazing follow-up to 'Aliens'.
A very different film then '