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Alien Quadrilogy DVD!
Posted: 2003-12-04 12:00am
by zombie84
I just got this yesterday! Fuck!! I havent been on the internet for almost 48 hours because i've spent almost every waking hour watching this 9-disk collection--over 50 fucking hours of bonus material.
Excellent, excellent stuff--rare on-set footage, interviews, outtakes, deleted scenes, multi-angles, storyboards, scripts, photos, screen tests, effects footage, commentary tracks...the list goes on. And each film is presented in both the theatrical versions and the special director/extended cuts.
I just got through the Alien 3 Workprint version, and while i have a version of the bootleg of this already, watching it with all of the scenes edited in--some of them never seen anywhere--complete with completed special effects, music and sound, it really creates a totally different film. Some stuff i preferred the theatrical cuts--the new Ox-burster isnt quite as effective as the dog-burster in the original--but it is an immensly richer film. I have always loved it and its great to see it get the treatment it deserves.
Anyway, everyone who loves sci fi, DVD and the Alien series will defintily have to check this set out--it truely is the most extensive DVD set ever made.
Posted: 2003-12-04 12:15am
by Spanky The Dolphin
MSRP is $100 USD, but most are selling it for about $75. Quite a steal when you consider the disc count.
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Posted: 2003-12-04 12:30am
by neoolong
Bad pun. Bad pun. Go sit in the corner.
Posted: 2003-12-04 01:31am
by DPDarkPrimus
Going on my Christmas list.
Posted: 2003-12-04 01:52am
by Laird
You guys in the states are getting ripped off,I picked mine up on Tuesday for 85.96 Canadian + Taxes was 95 bucks total.
Posted: 2003-12-04 01:57am
by Spanky The Dolphin
That's only $10 USD less than the US price, so it's not so bad.
At least you got screwed in the taxes department. I can get it for $78.70 USD, with 5% sales tax.
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Posted: 2003-12-04 02:13am
by neoolong
Amazon had it for 69.99 with no tax.
Posted: 2003-12-04 02:25am
by DPDarkPrimus
neoolong wrote:Amazon had it for 69.99 with no tax.
But what was the S+H?
Posted: 2003-12-04 02:34am
by neoolong
DPDarkPrimus wrote:neoolong wrote:Amazon had it for 69.99 with no tax.
But what was the S+H?
Since it's more than 25 dollars, there is no shipping and handling.
You haven't bought anything from Amazon have you?
Posted: 2003-12-04 02:36am
by Spanky The Dolphin
DP's mom doesn't do online shopping.
Posted: 2003-12-04 02:39am
by DPDarkPrimus
Spanky The Dolphin wrote:DP's mom doesn't do online shopping.
My dad is warming up to the idea.
Once I get a job, I hope I will do it myself.
Oh, what am I saying? If I get a PayPal account, my entire income is gone. I'll just have my dad order stuff for me, and I pay him.
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Posted: 2003-12-04 02:43am
by Rye
IT comes out on the 8th over here, i ordered it ages ago, it costs £50...so if someone else could be bothered converting that, we'll see how much i'm getting ripped off compared to canada too.
Posted: 2003-12-04 02:53am
by neoolong
Spanky The Dolphin wrote:DP's mom doesn't do online shopping.
Then why bother asking about S&H?
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Posted: 2003-12-04 02:55am
by Spanky The Dolphin
Perhaps so that he can mooch on us to order it on his behalf.
But considering the HobbyLink Japan debacle, that'll be a long time coming...
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Posted: 2003-12-04 03:28am
by Robert Treder
DP, I thought you were like 19 years old...was I mistaken?
Oh, and to keep this from being completely off-topic, I'm kind of bummed that I'm going to eventually buy this just for Alien and Aliens, since I thought that Alien³ and Alien Resurrection sucked. But buy it I will.
Posted: 2003-12-04 03:37am
by Spanky The Dolphin
Uts is 19, while DP is only 17.
Posted: 2003-12-04 03:41am
by Robert Treder
Oh, I probably mixed the two up. My bad.
Posted: 2003-12-04 03:44am
by Admiral Valdemar
Getting it for Xmas since I got Indy for my birthday. Can find it for $65US somewhere, I know I've seen it.
Although we all know the first two films are the only real justification for the purchase, the third was good, but too edited and the fourth was practically unrecogniseable as a related film.
Posted: 2003-12-04 03:51am
by neoolong
Robert Treder wrote:DP, I thought you were like 19 years old...was I mistaken?
Oh, and to keep this from being completely off-topic, I'm kind of bummed that I'm going to eventually buy this just for Alien and Aliens, since I thought that Alien³ and Alien Resurrection sucked. But buy it I will.
They're going to release the separate movies later.
Posted: 2003-12-04 03:52am
by Spanky The Dolphin
Yeah, it's just that the Quadrilogy set has the extra ninth disc that has all the miscelanious extras.
Posted: 2003-12-04 03:56am
by Admiral Valdemar
I downloaded a damn cool Aliens trailer parody off AMV.org using footage from Blue Gender the other day.
Posted: 2003-12-04 04:33am
by neoolong
Spanky The Dolphin wrote:Yeah, it's just that the Quadrilogy set has the extra ninth disc that has all the miscelanious extras.
So you have to weigh the value of each. The cheaper price for only two movies, or the extra disc, and the extrac movies.
Posted: 2003-12-04 05:09am
by MKSheppard
Uhm, why the fuck should I care? I already own the Aliens Quadrulogy
from a few years back, whats so fucking special about this platinum-triple
edition?
Posted: 2003-12-04 05:10am
by Spanky The Dolphin
Nearly fifty hours of extras, including thousands of images?
You can read the full, in-depth 10-page review here:
http://www.thedigitalbits.com/reviews3/alienquad00.html
Posted: 2003-12-04 05:54am
by Admiral Valdemar
MKSheppard wrote:Uhm, why the fuck should I care? I already own the Aliens Quadrulogy
from a few years back, whats so fucking special about this platinum-triple
edition?
If you already have it and bought other variations of it, your problem. I waited until they had a set like this, just like I'll wait for the Star Wars DVD set and how I waited for an Indy DVD set etc.
The ones getting ripped off here are those that already bought a set prior to this one and want the new version now.