Alien Resurrection
Added 1/29/2010
Two hundred years after Ellen Ripley died trying to eliminate the Alien species, they brought her back from blood samples taken earlier. It took several tries, and un-fortunate failures to get it right, but they weren't interested in Ellen Ripley- they wanted the alien inside her; and they got it, but they got more than they bargained for. When the aliens grew smart, they broke out of their enclosures. When the crew tried to run, they killed them. And when the Queen's secret was revealed, it exposed a bizare DNA mix-up that left both Ripley and the queen's genetics intertwined; giving light to a new alien that could spell certain doom for Earth. This movie is an entertaining modern fairy tale, a horror action movie, a splatter for the masses. In these categories, it delivers.
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Alien Resurrection is awesome
Added 1/7/2010
This movie is so cool. And Sigourney Weaver is such a great actress. Winona Ryder is always great. I really liked this movie and I thought I was going to hate it.
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Greed. 'Twas the only reason to make this mockery of the storied Alien franchise. "Let's throw something together and link it to 'Alien'," studio executives must have been saying, "and soak up as much doe as we can until word-of-mouth kills it." And therefore ALIEN: RESURRECTION was made, with a disinterested Sigourney Weaver and enough nonsense to overrun a lunatic asylum--and a howler for an ending only too appropriate (the monster gets flushed away).
Following the last noble installment, it is now, like, 100, or 200, or something-hundred, years later; there is no Ripley--but there is a clone of her, merged with some DNA from the queen alien herself. So now Ripley is this ticked off superhuman with a perpetual smirk suggesting Weaver was under the impression ALIEN: RESURRECTION wasn't a serious offering, but satire. If only it had been. Of course, the alien itself has been cloned, and scientists are now breeding it as the ultimate military weapon--all under the foolish notion they can "control" this pesky acid-bleeder. A band of (yawn) smugglers comes aboard, the alien runs amuck, most of the snide military folks get their comeuppance, Weaver looks bored, then the nonsense ending. There. Just saved you some green.
Yes, there is a supporting cast; it looks just as ambivalent as this film's star. Winona Ryder wanders about with an irritatingly confused expression; she only changes it when she encounters Ripley, changing to an expression of wanton desire (if she and Weaver had liplocked maybe they could have salvaged some of this turkey). Brad Dourif is his usual creepy self, name me a movie Dan Hedaya has not been in, and Ron Perlman looks like the poster boy for halitosis. ALIEN: RESURRECTION is just awful, and in no way should be associated with the other three remarkable predecessors. When it comes to this final installment, heed the advice of George Carlin: "It's b/s. . .and it's bad for ya."
--D. Mikels, Author, The Reckoning
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Better with Time
Added 9/15/2009
I purchased this item (and the entire series) as a Collector's Edition because I was hesitant to buy the Quadrilogy (due to the rumored compression errors).
I'm rating this 4 out of 5 stars because of the packaging, which is a flimsy digipak.
A cardboard flap on the right holds the booklet inside the inner sleeve. The discs themselves snap into plastic cases glued to the back of the cardboard sleeve, which folds up like a letter that slides into the main case.
The biggest annoyance to the packaging is that the back of each sleeve is covered in a piece of artwork printed on a flimsy sheet of paper that's glued to the back of the it and held in place by a gob of adhesive. This actually came off when I tried to pull the DVD sleeve out.
As for playback, it wasn't flawless (to my immediate dismay). After 53:32, disc 7 skipped while playing the Special Edition of the movie. The DVD continued to spin in my player until I hit stop. I then re-loaded the disc and selected the same scene ("Ripley Comes Through"), let it play up to the same point, and never encountered the problem again. I actually played the scene three additional times without it skipping so I suspect it has something to do with how the DVD was mastered, because it seems like there's a slight jump at 53:33.
I hadn't seen this movie in a long time and it was better than I remembered, especially with the new 8 minutes of additional footage (which contains an alternate opening sequence and ending).
Disc Two seemed to play fine, as I watched about 6 of the documentaries. My favorite was "In The Zone: The Basketball Scene."
Despite the shoddy packaging, the 2003 cut of Alien Resurrection is well worth the purchase alone.
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Pretty Good
Added 9/4/2009
the movie was very interesting but i was disappointed about the ending... i was hoping for more alien action and the end just wasnt that great... other than that pretty good
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Alien Resurrection
Added 1/29/2010
Two hundred years after Ellen Ripley died trying to eliminate the Alien species, they brought her back from blood samples taken earlier. It took several tries, and un-fortunate failures to get it right, but they weren't interested in Ellen Ripley- they wanted the alien inside her; and they got it, but they got more than they bargained for. When the aliens grew smart, they broke out of their enclosures. When the crew tried to run, they killed them. And when the Queen's secret was revealed, it exposed a bizare DNA mix-up that left both Ripley and the queen's genetics intertwined; giving light to a new alien that could spell certain doom for Earth. This movie is an entertaining modern fairy tale, a horror action movie, a splatter for the masses. In these categories, it delivers.
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Alien Resurrection is awesome
Added 1/7/2010
This movie is so cool. And Sigourney Weaver is such a great actress. Winona Ryder is always great. I really liked this movie and I thought I was going to hate it.
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Greed. 'Twas the only reason to make this mockery of the storied Alien franchise. "Let's throw something together and link it to 'Alien'," studio executives must have been saying, "and soak up as much doe as we can until word-of-mouth kills it." And therefore ALIEN: RESURRECTION was made, with a disinterested Sigourney Weaver and enough nonsense to overrun a lunatic asylum--and a howler for an ending only too appropriate (the monster gets flushed away).
Following the last noble installment, it is now, like, 100, or 200, or something-hundred, years later; there is no Ripley--but there is a clone of her, merged with some DNA from the queen alien herself. So now Ripley is this ticked off superhuman with a perpetual smirk suggesting Weaver was under the impression ALIEN: RESURRECTION wasn't a serious offering, but satire. If only it had been. Of course, the alien itself has been cloned, and scientists are now breeding it as the ultimate military weapon--all under the foolish notion they can "control" this pesky acid-bleeder. A band of (yawn) smugglers comes aboard, the alien runs amuck, most of the snide military folks get their comeuppance, Weaver looks bored, then the nonsense ending. There. Just saved you some green.
Yes, there is a supporting cast; it looks just as ambivalent as this film's star. Winona Ryder wanders about with an irritatingly confused expression; she only changes it when she encounters Ripley, changing to an expression of wanton desire (if she and Weaver had liplocked maybe they could have salvaged some of this turkey). Brad Dourif is his usual creepy self, name me a movie Dan Hedaya has not been in, and Ron Perlman looks like the poster boy for halitosis. ALIEN: RESURRECTION is just awful, and in no way should be associated with the other three remarkable predecessors. When it comes to this final installment, heed the advice of George Carlin: "It's b/s. . .and it's bad for ya."
--D. Mikels, Author, The Reckoning
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