Alien

Ottimo box per i fan di alien

Recensito in Italia il 19 novembre 2023

I quattro dischi contengono le versioni estese con scene sottotitolate, eccellente la qualità in alta definizione. ottima la grafica dei menu all'interno e ottimi i contenuti extra. il pacco è arrivato in una busta di plastica con il cofanetto blu-ray, all'interno di una busta di plastica trasparente sigillata.
sono soddisfatto sia dell'imballaggio che del cofanetto blu-ray.

Una scelta molto sofferta ... ma forse definitiva

Dambar65

Recensito in Italia il 29 dicembre 2015

Prevalentemente colleziono SteelBook, ma nel caso di saghe come questa spesso mi oriento anche verso i Cofanetti.

In questo caso, avendo già cambiato quattro edizioni,ero molto indeciso ma alla fine non ho resistito.

Si tratta di un edizione sicuramente fuori dall'ordinario e graficamente diversa da tutte le altre attualmente in commercio, ispirata ai bozzetti originali di H.R. Giger, il creatore di Alien.

Non mi soffermo sul dettaglio dei contenuti perché stavolta Amazon ha realizzato una scheda del prodotto molto accurata, anzi semplicemente perfetta.

Vi do invece la mia opinione, da collezionista, sui contenuti e sulla qualità degli stessi.

Il cofanetto esterno è realizzato in un cartoncino troppo sottile secondo me; inoltre è completamente chiuso, con l'apertura a linguetta nella parte superiore; il rischio di usura degli angoli e di deformazione del box è purtroppo abbastanza realistico; il foglio illustrativo con trama e scheda audio/video attaccato sul retro si può staccare facilmente, in modo da rendere il cofanetto pulito e senza scritte inutili..

Le cartoline contenenti i bozzetti originali alloggiano dentro una busta lettera nera in cartone rigido e con chiusura abbastanza affidabile.

Le riproduzioni delle locandine cinematografiche dei 4 film sono bellissime, in formato A5 ma ovviamente molto delicate; occhio quando le srotolate per vederle intere.

Il fumetto di Alien (ristampa ovviamente) è a colori, in inglese e più che gradevole (non è una novità in quanto già presente in un altra edizione più economica).

La cover interna è purtroppo un Amaray in plastica blu contenente 6 BluRay; personalmente questo è il tipo di cover che meno sopporto e che concepisco soltanto nascosta e chiusa dentro un cofanetto; nelle edizioni da collezione dovrebbero proprio sparire ed essere sostituite quantomeno da un DigiBook o ancora meglio da uno SteelBook.

Insomma, per concludere, si tratta di un edizione assolutamente originale, dove Alien viene visto attraverso gli occhi del suo creatore.e i contenuti all'interno sono più che soddisfacenti.

Quindi ora potremmo finalmente rispondere alla domanda iniziale, cioè "è questa la versione definitiva?"
Si penso che possiamo proprio dirlo .. è quella definitiva ... almeno per me .. forse ...

Sperando di esservi stato utile auguro a tutti una splendida visione.

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Onofrio Pace

Per amanti del genere

Recensito in Italia il 5 novembre 2018

Non voglio fare una recensione dei film, ho la versione in DVD (del 2015) costata quasi il doppio, e ne ho approfittato per il prezzo, molto competitivo. Rispetto all'altra versione, ovviamente come da foto, è possibile "contemplare" il fumetto (in inglese) e una serie di "card" o cartoline.
Per chi non ha mai visto "tutti" i film, ed ovviamente piace il genere, un pò horror un pò Sci-Fi, consiglio vivamente questa versione per l'ottimo rapporto qualità - prezzo.
Questa versione non aggiunge nulla a quella in mio possesso, a parte ovviamente il fumetto e le "card". I quattro dischi, ovviamente in Blu-ray, dovrebbero dare quel "quid" in più, ma per esperienza personale e documentata su studi universitari, vedasi "A/D and D/A converter" sono da verificare la qualità intrinseca.
Tralasciando questo, abbiamo:
- DISCO 1 - ALIEN (in versione cinematografica originale del 1979 e la Director's Cut del 2003);
- DISCO 2 - ALIENS (in versione cinematografica originale del 1986 ed Edizione Speciale del 1991);
- DISCO 3 - ALIEN3 (in versione cinematografica originale del 1992 ed Edizione Speciale del 2003);
- DISCO 4 - ALIEN La clonazione (in versione cinematografica originale del 1997 ed Edizione Speciale del 2003);
- FUMETTO ALIEN THE ILLUSTRATED STORY (la storia "fumettata" a colori del primo Alien). Libretto edito dalla Titan Books e stampato in Cina! Buona qualità della carta, lucida, ma le didascalie, in certe pagine, sono minuscole e molto striminzite. A mio avviso più adatto per visionare che per leggere;
- N° 8 CARDS o cartoline illustrate, tratte dai disegni originali di H.R. Giger.
In definitiva, una collezione per appassionati del genere.

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Nicola

Cofanetto

Recensito in Italia il 25 febbraio 2023

Bel cofanetto, ricco di contenuti esclusivi. ho riflettuto molto prima di prenderlo, ma poi mi hanno convinto le stampe all'interno. Molto curato nel design, qualità BD dei film.
Un must per gli appassionati che non vogliono spendere il doppio per avere anche la testa di Alien da tenere sul comodino :D

Una raccolta "non" completa

Stefano B.

Recensito in Italia il 26 agosto 2022

Purtroppo ho la brutta abitudine di visionare i prodotti in ritardo e accorgermi che non sono proprio come me li aspettavo. La collezione comprende tutti e 4 i film (ci mancherebbe) ma quanto costava inserire un quinto disco bonus con qualche extra e rendere il tutto veramente completo? E' vero che ogni capitolo comprende versione cinematografica e alternativa, ma non è nulla di esclusivo, in quasi tutte le raccolte precedenti i dischi sono i medesimi.
La differenza sostanziale è data dalla confezione e dal materiale cartaceo (che non so quanto possa indurre all'acquisto) il fumetto è realizzato da due grandi artisti del settore, vale da solo circa 15 euro, ma è in inglese, le cartoline sono simpatiche, ma restano solo delle semplici cartoline. Se non siete interessati agli extra potrebbe essere la vostra raccolta definitiva, per me non lo è.

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Des éditions comme il n'en existe plus

Recensito in Francia il 27 ottobre 2023

En pénurie de coffrets Alien face au rachat de la FOX par Disney, il reste heureusement quelques trésors cachés dans les travées d'Amazon ! Et ces blu-rays reprennent l'intégralité des merveilles réalisées même après les films. Pour être plus clair, il existe des versions cinéma et versions longues (ou alternatives selon le film) et voici ce qu'il s'est passé pour chaque film :
- Alien, le huitième passager (1979) : restauration époustouflante, valable pour les quatre films, je n'y reviendrai donc pas. En 2003, sort une version alternative avec des scènes en moins, d'autres en plus. Je ne sais pas de qui vient l'idée mais quelqu'un a eu le génie de faire doubler les scènes manquantes par les comédiens d'origine (ou presque) et cela ne s'entend même pas dans le mixage final, couplé pourtant à la bande-son de 1979, soit 24 ans plus tôt ! (N'est-ce pas Les dents de la mer ? Il est revenu ? ou autres Jackie Chan ?). Concernant la version, je vous dirige directement sur la version cinéma, avec cependant le regret de ne pas avoir la scène de dispute entre Ripley et la navigatrice (la gifle est d'ailleurs réelle), qui ajoutait de la tension utile.
- Aliens, le retour (1986) : là c'est en 1992 que sort la version longue, avec cette même fabuleuse idée de doubler seulement les parties manquantes. Je vous ordonne de regarder la version longue et de mettre la version cinéma aux oubliettes.
- Alien 3 (1992) : en 2003, lors de la sortie de la version longue, on conserve toujours cette idée géniale de doubler les parties manquantes mais dans la pratique, c'est bien moins réussi. Certains changements sont obligés suite à des décès de comédiens, d'autres sont inexplicables. La qualité n'est bien sûr pas le problème, mais ces changements (parfois dans la même phrase car la scène avait été coupée en plein milieu à l'époque !) sont audibles et on peut avoir ce réflexe de secouer la tête car on aurait manqué quelque chose. Outre cela, je vous conseille fortement la version longue !
- Alien la résurrection (1997) : en 2003, on parlera plus d'une version alternative que longue, avec 7 minutes de plus toutefois, c'est cette dernière que je vous conseille, malgré cette vilaine introduction, qui est beaucoup plus sobre et efficace dans sa version cinéma.

Ça s'arrête là et c'est parfait. Même si personnellement je m'arrête aux deux premiers Alien, qui se suffisent à eux-deux. Un coffret d'un beau bleu qui restera longtemps dans ma collection.

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Zofia Kupska

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Recensito in Svezia in data 19 febbraio 2022

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Rogesama

Alien Anthology 6 blu-ray set

Recensito in Messico il 24 dicembre 2017

La Alien Anthology de 6 blu-ray es casi perfecta y tiene un verdadero valor coleccionable debido a su alta calidad tanto en el material incluido en cada disco como por la excelente manufactura de esta edición.

La caja está fabricada a manera de libro y carece por completo de plásticos ya que todo está hecho de un cartón grueso y de buena calidad. La impresión es perfecta y el arte está realmente bien cuidado poniendo varias de las escenas más icónicas de cada filme en las "hojas" correspondientes. Además de que la impresión de las pastas duras del libro como su "case" o funda de cartón están impresas con un acabado que parece cromo iridiscente, el cual le da un acabado muy premium. Y hablando de la funda, ésta trae adherida en la parte trasera una hoja con las especificaciones técnicas y de contenido de cada disco. Dicha hoja se puede retirar cuidadosamente para dejar al descubierto un huevo de xenomorfo que igualmente es icónico de la saga. Quizá el único punto negativo de todo el empaque sería que para sacar cada disco hay que ser muy cuidadoso para no maltratar el espacio que lo contiene.

Sin embargo, lo realmente importante son los filmes. Las 4 películas vienen en un blu-ray cada una contando con dos versiones a elegir: la versión original que se proyectó en cines o la versión del director o una versión especial, según sea el caso. La calidad de la imagen es Full HD y cuentan tambien con salida de audio en 5.1. Incluso vienen dobladas al español latino por si prefieren verlas así en lugar de con el audio original, sin embargo algo que hay que tener en cuenta es que la versión extendida suele tener dos doblajes en la misma película, lo cual rompe la inmersión. Esto es debido a que utilizan el doblaje que se realizó originalmente y para las escenas que se agregaron posteriormente en la versión especial o del director, se usó un doblaje diferente. También es posible ver los filmes con los comentarios de los directores, productores, escritores y actores involucrados en cada película así como con dos opciones de banda sonora en caso de ser elegible.

Además de los 4 discos de las películas, se incluyen 2 discos más con varias horas de material extra que son muy jugosos en cuanto a anécdotas y datos curiosos sobre cada filme, así como imágenes y documentales que muestra la evolución que ha tenido la franquicia.

Sin lugar a dudas, esta es una edición que no debería de faltar en la colección de los fans del xenomorfo y que incluso puede llegar enamorar a quienes apenas comiencen a acercarse al universo de Alien.

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一石二鳥

各作品のつながり

Recensito in Giappone il 8 gennaio 2024

4作品をまとめて通して見ることで、改めて作品ストーリの重みが、伝わって来ました。
　最後は、すごい恐怖を超えて、なんだか笑ってしまいました。連続で見ると夢に出てくるので、DVDを一時停止して休みながら、1本ずつ日を変えて見ましょう。好きな人は、まとめて見てください。

Austin

A hassle free version of the Quadrilogy

Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 26 dicembre 2010

Well what's there to say about this latest Alien box set that hasn't already been said. I got it shortly after I told myself I wasn't going to get it thanks to an Amazon one day sale that made it cheaper than what I had originally paid for Alien Quadrilogy (Alien/ Aliens /Alien 3 /Alien Resurrection) and it seemed quite worth it at that point.
I was a bit disappointed after my viewing of the second film, not with the film it's self but with the quality of the transfer. Aliens was really buggy and had lots of flicker and grain, I don't really mind the grain and I can't figure out if the flickering is a problem with my display set up or with the actual transfer I'm guessing it's the former since I haven't seen any other complaints about it but honestly I was expecting a little bit better treatment for arguably the biggest film in the franchise. The DVD version on the Quadrilogy set didn't have any of this flickering in the darker scenes and holds up just about as well under scrutiny. Like I said, I don't mind grain in a film that's better than 20 years old but I've yet to find a reason for this weird flickering it does. Since I'm more fond of the theatrical version of Aliens as opposed to the extended version I was thinking maybe they were lazy and just used an old transfer for the theatrical and remastered the extended for Blu-Ray but upon viewing that version all the same problems are present. I've adjusted every possible setting and I can't get rid of this flicker, it's not a huge deal it's just kinda distracting. James Cameron mentions in the commentary some technical aspects of the film stock used for this film that was far to technical and involved for me to understand without a degree from film school but what little I could glean from the director mentioned something to the fact that the film used was very prone to grain and other problems, so I think that explains away some of the problems with this transfer. There's only so much the remastering process can do, I guess.
The sound on this film has always been one of the standout parts of the movie and it gets a really nice treatment in the HD 5.1, there's lots of subtle sound effects that are mixed to perfection and simplified enough so that even if you don't have a big whopper of a sound system it still sounds great on your regular TV output. This is usually something I'm concerned with since I watch movies mostly late at night and don't wanna keep the neighbors up listening to Alien Queens screeching.
This is one of the all time great sci-fi films and it's James Cameron at his best, in my humble opinion I just wish Fox would have spent a little money restoring it for this particular release. I'd also like to mention that it has one of the most entertaining commentary tracks I've ever heard and if I'm not mistaken it won some kind of DVD award back in '03

Ok the evaluation of the Aliens disc is over so I'm sure 75% people stopped reading that's why I went ahead and started with the second movie instead of the first.
Alien, is a fantastic looking transfer it looks totally new. If Sigourney Weaver weren't running around looking like a doe-eyed teenager through the whole film I'd think it came out this year. I mean someone put some serious work into this, although this transfer is not exclusive to this disc, it's the same one used from the Quadrilogy set. If you remember the film was released back into theaters shortly before or after the Quad set came out, I can't remember exactly but I know the film was restored from the ground up for this anniversary event this Blu-Ray just features the highest possible quality of that particular transfer/remaster. The sound is as good as I've ever heard for this particular film, I've noticed a lot of little sound effects and even been able to discern some words out of the muttering a lot of the characters did in the film without having to crank my sound system up to 40 (it only goes to 30) just to make out what they're saying. I guess that has something to do with the HD audio as opposed to the now standard 5.1 mix. I've watched both versions although I'm more fond of the theatrical version again.

Alien 3, is a sharp looking film, seeing it in high def brings a new appreciation to the beautiful sets and art direction, at least it did for me and I've seen this movie a million times... Alien 3? You know the one with the Alien eating all the baddie baldies that no one cares about and holy cow Ripley has also become a baddie baldy and oh no there's a Alien in her too what should we too, how about we all commit suicide by alien just because we hate the company that much. I admit it's not the greatest film in the world but it does have some shining moments here and there. I like it, I still think it was a solid sci-fi flick if only for the mood it created and taking the established Alien series staple of a "used future" to the most extreme of extremes. David Fincher is one of my favorite directors because he seems to pay extra attention to the atmosphere subtle background noise can create and in the HD 5.1 mix it really comes out. Also concerning the sound, people who've already bought the Alien Quadrilogy will be happy to know that all the audio in the "Workprint" version has been fixed and it plays just like a normal movie instead of something Fox stole back from the internet and slapped on a DVD.
The picture on this film is quite crisp and sharp looking I don't have any complaints about the visual or sound on this disc. It may in fact be the best looking film in the whole set if you can stand the unbelievable crap of the story of the film, it's a pleasure to look at though and exceptionally sound designed.

The forth and final film, so far, Ridley Scott has a forward written onto this box set that mentions a prequel film, I've been hearing about one of those since Alien 3 so I'm not going to get my hopes up too high. This movie looks only slightly better on Blu-Ray then the DVD for a film this new I would have expected it to be a little more sharp in HD. Darius Khandji's photography comes out really nicely though. The sharp contrasts and deep dark blacks show up really nicely although mostly this film just seems brown, everything is brown in this movie, even the Aliens are brown! I can't tell if this version is any better than the DVD because honestly I don't know how many different ways there are to convey the color brown regardless of it's encoding. The space shots, the underwater scene all look pretty good though and like I said where there is a contrast between brown and another color it looks really nice. I won't even begin to get into how crap this movie is, but I will say this, it's probably got the most spins in my PS3 since I bought this set mainly because it's the easiest movie of the lot to pick up since there's not much of a story and it's not a very long film.
This film is a shining example as to why your director should speak the same language as the cast. Jean-Pierre Jeunet has made some fantastic French films this is his only "bad" film and not really a bad film but directing actors through an interpreter had to be quite a hindrance. I can barely give directions to the nearest gas station when someone interprets into Spanish for me so I don't even want to imagine what getting a performance out of an actor was like for him. Not the greatest film ever but I think it's watchable and at it's lowest points nowhere near as bad as either AvP film.

I was really wanting to type up a short review before I left for work tonight, but apparently I've gotten a bit verbose I apologize to anyone still reading I really am trying to be as concise as possible.
This is basically a Blu-Ray version of the previous Quadrilogy set with a few added features, mainly short videos and images here and there, as far as the BRD exclusives are concerned. All of the commentaries and virtually everything is from 2003 so basically Fox just double-dipped the material into a more expensive package. The biggest bonus is that it's not such a hassle to open and get a disc out, everything is contained in a simple little book that holds each disc in it's own page. All the special features from the Quad are contained on one disc while every other stitch of Alien related media is on the final disc.
A bit about the Blu-Ray exclusives; "Disc-Unbound" is a pretty cool idea, a six disc set that also features "Muther-Mode" where you can select a list of related features throughout the course of a film and then after the film pop in the related disc and play those selections. Kinda a cool idea it's just a shame this is all stuff I have seen a dozen times watching the Quad set. Also all the different audio tracks, subtitled commentaries so if you want to watch the movie with it's audio playing and just read the commentary, which is what I usually do is pretty neat. Isolated scores and on some films totally alternate isolated film scores are also neat in a fanboy way.

I gave this set 5 stars for being the perfected version of the old Quadrilogy set which was a 4 star set at best. But in the long run you're not getting much more than the Quad in sleek new packaging with some neat new little gimmicks.
I'd like to mention a bit about the packaging, I've never seen anything so sleek and well thought out with the fans in mind. Where with most box sets they just slap a bunch of discs in a generic box and ship it out and sell it to the public. This has got to be one of the most unique designs I've ever seen, it features a book like layout and each disc fits into it's own page with a double wide splash page between each disc. It's a dream compared to all the unfolding and dropping that came with the folding cardboard nine disc layout in the old Quad set.

In closing I'd like to mention that if you're looking for the most bang for your buck the old Quad set costs about what this one does and has just about everything this set has to offer minus some minor bonuses, I recommend it if you've got the cash but at the same time the frugal person in me would have probably just bought the Quadrilogy instead. I'm sure they'll release the movies in individual form sooner or later so if you really don't want the third and fourth films I'd just wait for that.

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