360 reviews
Sales Rank: 2294

Format: Dts Surround Sound, Anamorphic, Box Set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dvd-video, Widescreen, Dolby, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Number Of Items: 9
Running Time: 145
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 6 x 2.5

MPN: 024543098478
UPC: 024543098478
EAN: 0024543098478
ASIN: B0000VCZK2

Theatrical Release Date: July 18, 1986
Release Date: December 2, 2003
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

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Product Description
Four movies tracing Ripley's battle against a deadly alien.
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Media Type: DVD
Artist: ALIEN QUADRILOGY
Title: ALIEN QUADRILOGY
Street Release Date: 10/17/2006
Domestic
Genre: HORROR

Amazon.com essential video
The Alien Quadrilogy is a nine-disc boxed set devoted to the four Alien films. Although previously available on DVD as the Alien Legacy, here they have been repackaged with vastly more extras and with upgraded sound and picture. For anyone who hasn't been in hypersleep for the last 25 years, this series needs no introduction, though for the first time each film now comes in both original and "special edition" form.

Alien (1979) was so perfect it didn't need fixing, and Ridley Scott's 2003 director's cut is fiddling for the sake of fiddling. Watch it once, then return to the majestic, perfectly paced original. Conversely, the special edition of James Cameron's Aliens (1986) is the definitive version, though it's nice to finally have the theatrical cut on DVD for comparison. Most interesting is the alternative Alien 3 (1992). This isn't a "director's cut"--David Fincher refused to have any involvement with this release--but a 1991 work-print that runs 29 minutes longer than the theatrical version, and has now been restored, remastered, and finished off with (unfortunately) cheap new CGI. Still, it's truly fascinating, offering a different insight into a flawed masterpiece. The expanded opening is visually breathtaking, the central firestorm is much longer, and a subplot involving Paul McGann's character adds considerable depth to story. The ending is also subtly but significantly different. Alien: Resurrection (1997) always was a mess with a handful of brilliant scenes, and the special edition just makes it eight minutes longer.

The Alien Quadrilogy offers the first and fourth films with DTS soundtracks, the others having still fine Dolby Digital 5.1 presentation. All four films sound fantastic, with much low-level detail revealed for the first time. Each is anamorphically enhanced at the correct original aspect ratio, and the prints and transfers are superlative. Every film offers a commentary track that lends insight into the creative process--though the Scott-only commentary and isolated music score from the first Alien DVD release are missing here.

Each movie is complemented by a separate disc packed with hours of seriously detailed documentaries (all presented in full-screen with clips letterboxed), thousands of photos, production stills, and storyboards, giving a level of inside information for the dedicated buff only surpassed by the Lord of the Rings extended DVD sets. A ninth DVD compiles miscellaneous material, including an hourlong documentary and even all the extras from the old Alien laserdisc. "Exhaustive" hardly beings to describe the Alien Quadrilogy, a set that establishes the new DVD benchmark for retrospective releases and looks unlikely to be surpassed for some time. --Gary S. Dalkin

Customer Reviews: Read 355 more reviews...

5 out of 5 stars

Youv'e never seen Alien like this! August 13, 2008
If you love the "Alien" movies you will want to purchase this complete
set. The alternative movie features provides a greater selection and enhanced viewing, creating another dimension to the series.

The picture quality is excellent. A must for ALIEN fans....

5 out of 5 stars

Simply The Best!!! July 31, 2008
The Alien saga is the best there is, even better that Star Wars, Matrix, Harry Potter, Lord of The Rings, you name them. There is one thing that bugs me, in Alien 1 at the very begining, there is a huge petrified Alien sitting while holding a big gun! who is he? There's gotta be an explanation of how everything started. If they were to create another film, they should go way back and come out with a story of how everything started. For what I understand their native planet was destroyed and migrated to other planets wiping off everything on their path. I hope to see this coming anytime soon.

5 out of 5 stars

GET IT WHILE YOU CAN July 24, 2008
While I got an obvious better deal on this now than I would if I bought it after the sale price, there is no denying that this set is worth some cash, especially if your an alien fan. It's a freakin' huge box set, and once you open it, it ________ stretches out like a mother________. It's basically all the two disc special editions crammed into one box, with a bonus disc. It's pretty big, but nicely done

The first movie, the one that I have pretty much only seen, is still a great movie, and still looks great. While it's not that shocking as it used to be (there is a great documentary), everything still looks great today, and it still is quite ahead of it's time, regarding the setting and everthing (maybe making a sci-fi movie is a great ticket to your movie aging better, eh?). The Alien still is a classic movie character, and it endures (on a side note, The Predator rules too. I got to see Alien Vs. Predator) today's jump in movie technology.

Even if you don't like some of the movies, the documentaries for each movie are awesome, and looking at all the sketches for every movie will give you something to do. I don't know when they will stop releasing this box set, but hopefully never. Despite it's size, it's packaged awesome, and will fit fine wherever you have it, for convience sake.

I'm fairly new to the series, so if your reading this and you a lucky enough to be reading this with the sale price, snag it. If anything, you get a lot more, and I think the two Alien movies are must haves, anyway. So order yours, like right now. You won't be sorry.

5 out of 5 stars

Alien July 10, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

While lots can (and has) already been said about this set, I just want to reiterate one thing: the best part of this DVD is the restoration of Alien.

Unfairly maligned on release mainly because it follows James Cameron's action-packed blockbuster Aliens, Alien is an intentional departure in tone from the previous chapter. Even if you don't like the film, I'd call such a dramatic shift in tone commendable by franchise standards -- it took balls to make Alien, and on that basis alone, it's so much more interesting than a lot of cookie-cutter sequels.

The highlight here, which might have been trimmed out of the theatrical version (I hadn't seen any of them before I bought this set, and I haven't bothered to watch the shorter cut since then) is the raw performance by Sigourney Weaver. The change of pace electrifies her character, both in a great softer moment with the doctor played by Charles Dance, and during the action sequences (featuring the movie's biggest blemish, an awful-looking optical Alien effect), which swoop around the corridors of the prison planet in ways that will be familiar to fans of director David Fincher and his visual style.

Of all the things uncovered by the Alien Quadrilogy, the workprint version of Alien is the strongest, a breath of fresh air into a movie that already is one. It's dark, sure, but it is what it is, and taken as part of one of the most successful movie franchises of all time, what it is is worth a look, worth a re-evaluation, worth studying and eventually taking into account as an important chapter in a great series.

5 out of 5 stars

aliens June 25, 2008
the alien trilogy is my favorite of all sci-fi films and i'm so thankful to amazon for making it possible for me to purchase the whole set on dvd so that i can enjoy them with my grandson who is also an avid fan. thanks again. also i want to thank amazon for their outstanding customer service.when i realized that i should have received them in the mail(and had not), i called them and even though the records showed that they had been delivered, they promptly sent out another one. thanks again Amazon!!