Stea Aliens [4K UHD]

Excellent movie @ an excellent price

This is an outstanding action film. Weaver plays such a strong lead. It's the best of the Alien series in my opinion.

The best action movie of the 80’s. With smoking (unfortunately). As anybody reading this already knows, it’s really a story of redemption, of Ripley regaining the family and friends she lost originally. Cameron for all his hardness actually has a soft heart and likes happy endings and this film definitely ends has that. All subsequent Alien films (a bit like Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein) are curios and can be safely ignored. Especially ignore the die hards who say Alien3 is a troubled but actually brilliant film because it was directed by Fincher and written on the hop whilst being made and stars a vast number of classical British actors. That doesn’t excuse the fact it’s terrible. And it’s the best one of all the subsequent movies! Daniels not suspecting that Walter could be David? Ripley and Bishop not thoroughly checking the Sulaco for any alien eggs? Ripley AND a dog impregnated by by just one facehugger? Come on, the producers and writers were taking us for fools! And you get die hard’s who have to invent all sorts of convoluted reasons to explain it! No, there’s just no getting away from it. Alien and Aliens were totally brilliant, the rest don’t count. And I’ve seen them all and WANTED them to count, but it just doesn’t work. I may have strayed somewhat from my original thoughts on Aliens….. I guess Alien3 still winds me up 30 years later with the fact that it has major plot holes and killed Newt. Off screen! The bastards…

Quite possibly my favourite film of all time. Superb sequel to Ridley Scott’s classic Alien. See it asap.

I think this film is better than the original.

Sometimes I forget that this film was made in 1985. The only thing that reminds me is seeing how young the cast are, and the fact that a small 1% of the special effects are now by modern standards a little worse for wear and also the fact that CGI has not been lavished on it. But honestly, this film, and in many ways it's predecessor too, could have been made last year, that is just how fresh and up to date they remain for me and it's many fans. Alien took the film world by storm in 1979, straight of the back of Star Wars success. In fact, Ridley Scott, on seeing the great Star Wars, was so influenced that he thought to himself "I want to be making movies like that". And hence he made a masterpiece as influential, successful and as different as Star Wars that has lived on to become a corner stone in sci-fi horror history. A young director called James Cameron who initially found fame with his debut movie "The Terminator" decided to take up the challenge of a sequel to Alien, but he did not want to copy the original. He had a grander vision that would see an army of these Alien creatures battling against the Human race. Cameron was aware that the Vietnam war was still a hot topic in the US at the time, so he took his influence from the nature of the two sides of the war, the US war machine with all of it's technology and equipment fighting and an enemy that was not technically advanced, that knew the land, how to use the environment, used basic weapons and tactics to their advantage, thus negating most of advanced technology and mobility the US army claimed was superior. He applied that idea to this film and it worked so very well in that it made the Alien race seem all that more dangerous and lethal by removing most of the technology that would have made us superior. He thankfully treated the Alien race just as they were seen in the first movie, extremely hostile and only concerned with survival and reproduction, it could have been so easy to have portrayed them evil in intent, for myself, this portrayal still leaves a little ambiguity as to whether they are or are not truly intelligent beings. The making of this movie was not easy, there were many problems with the cast, Director and British crew clashing due to differences in the way the USA and UK workers did there job. Stories of sackings that ended in strikes until the sacked members were bought back onto set, a lighting director who correctly did his job on the atmosphere processor scenes but was heavily criticised by Cameron for not achieving the pitch black look he wanted. There are tales of Cameron being driven to distraction by the UK workers frequent tea breaks, Lance Henriksen's distaste of being called "Lovey" and "Darling" by a unit director that nearly ended in a fight, the need to find another actor to play Hicks after the original actor pulled out (thanks the lord the excellent Michael Bien took the role) and finally the hostility the main "Marine" cast members felt about having to go through 6 weeks of military training by Cameron who wanted his troops to look and work together like troops and finally Al Mathews, a retired Marine Sergeant and the real deal "disarming" a fellow actor who pointed a prop gun at him in jest. The DVD comes in a very nice metal tin with clear plastic centre that holds both disks. The print is beautifully clear, and sound quality is great. You get two versions of the movie here, the original theatrical release and the extended version that includes scenes edited out of the original release simply to save time and you can choose either version on the initial menu. The special features disk, whilst not being as all encompassing as the Blu ray release, is packed with information for us geeky knowledge lovers. So go on, have a treat, load up the pulse rifle, tune up the motion tracker and turn up the surround to watch the movie that was once described as such "Watching this movie was like driving 10 miles of rocky road". Enjoy

I don’t remember renting or buying this movie as I’ve saw it about 20 times granted it’s the special edition

Although Aliens is very different to Alien it is still an excellent film full of great special effects, action and a believable cast. The creature design and third act is also iconic. The 'space marines' are mostly cannon fodder (or alien fodder) but their characters are well cast and sufficiently different from each other - a great mix of sensible and ridiculous. I've seen this film many times over the last 4 decades and although watching it makes me feel old I'd be happy to watch it again - the last time was with my daughter on our film night(s). I have to suffer through awful films to wait for my turn to educate her with the classics. This is definitely one of the classics and she rated it highly. Although the subsequent Alien films are of questionable quality compared to the first two they're all watchable and entertaining, however if I had to pick my favorite it would probably be this one.

100 % OK Goede verzending en besteld item beantwoorde volledig aan de beschrijving van de verkoper ( uiterst tevreden ) :-):-):-)

El bluray no cuenta no nada diferente a las diversas ediciones de esta película en el mismo formato o incluso en dvd (de dos discos), ya que vienen el corte teatral y el del director. Lo relevante es la presentación vistosa que tiene, la cual va desde una caja dura que resguarda la película, así como diversas postales con imágenes conceptuales del film, un booklet con arte de las criaturas (de hecho viene usado en el cómic "Aliens: Estadilldo", de Dark horse. Yo en lo personal compré esta edición porque "Aliens" es una de mis películas favoritas de todos los tiempos y debida a que con la adquisición de 20th Century Fox por parte de Disney, las películas que distribuía irán desapareciendo. Si eres un acérrimo fan de la saga "Alien", la compra vale la pena porque es un precio accesible (a mi me costó $320) y porque dentro de poco quedará descatalogada.

Chegou no prazo, a edição é linda,os cd também, contém extras muito divertidos, só é uma pena não ter em português, mas isso não me incomoda tanto. Extremamente satisfeito

What can I say? It’s aliens. One of the best if not the best action movie of all time. It’s just an awesome movie. It’s aWhat can I say? It’s aliens. One of the best if not the best action movie of all time. It’s just a awesome movie. It’s a fantastic creature feature. It’s an awesome military drama. It’s a fun horror movie.

Nonostante il film abbia circa quaranta anni il master in 4k e' pulito e senza sganature, il lavoro che hanno fatto e' incredibile. Per quanto riguarda il film nulla da dire è un capolavoro del cinema assieme al primo film e' tra gli alien più belli. Questa versione a 3 dischi poi e' il meglio che un appassionato di alien può volere tra extra e le due versioni del film, quella originale dell' 1986 e quella estesa riveduta da Cameron con 17 minuti in più ( purtroppo solo sottotitolati e non doppiati in italiano).