 Alien Quadrilogy
#255 posted by Vigil on 2003/10/31 13:39:53
Here's a long, long list of extras.
Alien:
Bob Burns Alien Collection
Ridley Scott Q&A
Theatrical Trailer A
Director's Cut Trailer
TV Spots
Aliens:
"57 Years Later: Continuing the Story" Featurette
"Preparing For Battle: Casting and Characterization" Featurette
"Two Orphans: Sigourney Weaver and Carrie Henn" Featurette
"Building Better Worlds: From Concept To Construction" Featurette
"Bug Hunt: Creature Design"
"The Risk Always Lives: Weapons And Action" Featurette
"The Power Of Real Tech: Visual Effects" Featurette
"Beauty And The Bitch: Power Loader vs Queen Alien" Featurette
"The Final Countdown: Music, Editing And Sound" Featurette
"Aliens Unleashed: Reaction To The Film" Featurette
"This Time It's War: Pinewood Studios" 1985 Featurette
Multi-Angle Pre-Vis Animatics with optional Commentary
Interview With James Cameron
James Cameron Interview/Film Footage
James Cameron Intro to Extended Version
International Trailer
Domestic Trailer
TV Spots
Easter Egg: "The Boy And His Power Loader"
Alien 3:
The Making Of Alien 3
Alien 3 Advance Featurette
Theatrical Trailer A
Theatrical Trailer B
Theatrical Trailer C
Theatrical Trailer D
Theatrical Trailer E
TV Spots
Alien Resurrection:
The Making Of Alien Resurrection
Theatrical Trailer
TV Spots
Additional Supplementary Disc:
"Alien Evolution" BBC Documentary
"The Alien Legacy" Documentary
Alien Quadrilogy Trailer
Alien Legacy Trailer
 Oh, Yeah
#256 posted by Vigil on 2003/10/31 13:40:32
And the source was http://www.dv-depot.com/ for all of you who want to know.
 Hulk
#257 posted by nitin on 2003/11/04 07:46:33
just saw this and my god is it disappointing. It's very slow to start off with (which isnt really a bad thing per se) and takes itself way too seriously. And when it finally gets going, its too hard to enjoy because of the crappy and utterly fake FX. I heard before that the hulk looked bad but even the other FX shots could use a lot more work.
Good points - funky 'comic book' style editing which actually works rather than being distracting. Too bad the direction is not as inspired as the editing.
Also saw Back to the future and the first sequel for the first time. The first one's pretty cool, I was worried it might look dated and cheesy but I didnt enjoy the second one too much (too much Biff IMHO).
 The Matrix Revolutions
#258 posted by R.P.G. on 2003/11/05 13:03:37
meh. Unimpressed. Should have quit after the first movie while they were still ahead.
Several scenes felt way too long. It seemed to alternate between taking itself too seriously and having too much cheese. Unlike the previous movies, there weren't even any cool fight scenes to pique my interest. There wasn't any tension, and it seems the lead characters finally realized that they were going to survive, and thus stopped trying to dodge bullets. The ending was overly happy.
On the plus side, I noticed several religious and philosophical bits that are open to analysis. Half-way through the movie we discover that Trinity and Neo are not invulnerable, but it wasn't soon enough to stop me from successfully predicting the ending; although the ending still had a few surprises.
Uh, I don't mean to be overly negative, but I was indeed quite disappointed. There weren't even any hot chicks at the theatre to sit next to.
 RPG
#259 posted by DaZ on 2003/11/05 13:30:16
Thanks for the info, and I was worried while reading your post that you would give away lots of stuff but you didn't, yay!
Im seeing it on friday, we'll see...
 Hmm
#260 posted by nonentity on 2003/11/05 19:08:51
Revolutions; Cool action, although it all went a little Dragon Ball Z at the end :)
Plot was god awful, so were the last two, but this ignored a lot of previous plot as well.
I prefered it to the 2nd one, mainly since it was a lot more stylish and it had mecha :)
Oh, and the CG was better.
#261 posted by - on 2003/11/05 22:00:29
agree with dragon ball z comment... kept expecting neo to start charging up power and release hyper goku hadoken at smith...
overall, i think it makes the second 2 movies into a decent futuristic scifi film. first movie is definatly the best, and I'm not sure how I feel about it tying into the sequels.
there were too many things that I felt were left hanging in the film's plot and it feels like everything was just thrown together to quickly wrap it up. an example, as it's pretty common knowledge the actor playing the original oracle died part way thru filming, her explination why here apperance is differant seemed lacking in an acual answer...
BUT! I still feel all the action scenes were excellant, and there's nothing absolutly WRONG with dragon ball z-ish things in a live action film, and the mecha battle with robots was awesome. Again, it's an excellant sci-fi film, but I miss alot of the 'bullet time' matrix fighting that had really defined the series.
I feel that the three films will be remembered as a great trilogy, with the first being very awesome, and the next two being a good supplement, but not have the same magic. I'll definatly be buying all three when they eventually come out on a DVD boxset.
 Scampie
#262 posted by R.P.G. on 2003/11/05 23:14:52
I think part of the problem with missing pieces in the plot is that some info in The Animatrix and Enter the Matrix was not included in the movie. There were several bits explained more fully in the game (the Oracle's shell, and how the Logos got downed for example).
 Revolutions
#263 posted by Vigil on 2003/11/07 15:36:07
Just saw this one. I thought it was worth the price of the ticket (7.5 EUR), and, in the end, I actually liked it, though I loathed the start.
The gunfight is one of the worst I have ever seen, but the kung fu was pretty nice. In Reloaded, I think it was just the other way around. Oh, well...
Still, lacked all the innovative stuff that the first part had, and, yes, the plot was crap, and, yes, Keanu Reeves still can't act, and to top it off he was, at times, even worse than usual in this movie.
 I Liked It
#264 posted by pushplay on 2003/11/08 03:29:06
lacked all the innovative stuff that the first part had
That's what makes it a sequel and not just a movie with a suspiciously familiar title.
 Hard Boiled
#265 posted by nitin on 2003/11/08 07:37:39
I just got this on DVD the other day, does anyone know what the native language is? I hate watching dubbed stuff. The options are : cantones, mandarin and taiwanese.
 Nitin
#266 posted by - on 2003/11/08 08:52:45
Amazon.com lists Cantonese and English as the 2 availible audio tracks on the Criterion edition dvd, so I assume Cantonese is the original language.
#267 posted by Vigil on 2003/11/08 10:43:50
That's what makes it a sequel and not just a movie with a suspiciously familiar title.
I was talking mostly about cinematography. If they could've just recycled some of it from the first part, I would've been happy, but no, they just had to leave it all out.
 More Of Everything
#268 posted by megaman on 2003/11/08 19:59:33
 Fuck Me
#269 posted by megaman on 2003/11/08 20:01:21
looks like the wachossojgsoigjosp(i dont care for their fucking spelling) bros try to impress me with like 1 mio instances of everything at once in one picture, in one frame. sad that it just doesnt work.
 Nitin:
#270 posted by metlslime on 2003/11/08 21:52:04
just pick a language you can't understand, and then turn on subtitles in one you can. You'll be too busy reading to see if the lips match the soundtrack.
 Revolucion
#271 posted by H-Hour on 2003/11/09 10:15:15
Better than I expected it to be. More absurd things that were never explained. A hell of a lot more cheesy shit. And, winner of the Most Pointless Line Ever Award:
"Neo, I believe."
 Of Hard-Boiled And Men
#272 posted by Vigil on 2003/11/09 13:23:55
The Cantonese soundtrack, while sounds pretty good, doesn't really look like the lips sync with anything. It's not that uncommon (from what I've seen) that the Woo films of that time look like they could've used some more time in post-production.
 OOH.
#273 posted by Snagglegrass on 2003/11/13 17:53:06
Got my Naked Lunch Critereon Collection DVD today! It's a two-disc set, one with a brand-spanking new digital transfer, and commentary from director David Cronenberg and lead Peter Weller, and the second with the customary Critereon Supplements, which include William Burroughs reading extracts from the original novel, and oodles of making-of stuff. I'm a happy camper for the weekend!
 :o
#274 posted by - on 2003/11/13 18:23:21
forgot all about that coming out! I'll have to pick it up this weekend. Will go good next to my Fear and Loathing dvd :D
 Revolutions
#275 posted by GibFest on 2003/11/15 15:38:50
I just saw it the other day and it wasn't what I expected, for a start there is a total lack of kung fu and with all those smiths at the end and he only fought one of them (although the punch through the rain was pretty sweet). Will there be a 4 or was that just to lead you to believe there would be one?
 Mulholland Drive
#276 posted by Breaker Breaker on 2003/11/15 18:28:03
saw it the other day. omigod what a load of pointless bs, an excuse for softcore lesbianism. lynch has an interview with some french guy and cannes press conference on the dvd - just rambles on about pointless crap nothing to do with the actual question. makes you realise the movie never will make sense.
what was alright was donnie darko. and i got audition, which was boring as hell until she cut his leg off. highlight of the movie.
just to sound lame, i enjoyed long time dead last night :P surprisingly slightly scary.
kill bill rocked too, though it should never have been chopped into 2, and instead shortened for theatres and release the long version on dvd instead.
 Since When Does Softcore Lesbianism
#277 posted by metlslime on 2003/11/15 18:33:35
need an excuse?
 Saw Bound The Other Day
#278 posted by nitin on 2003/11/15 18:45:12
and it proved three things :
- it's not just the matrix movies, the wachowskis' dialogue writing skills in general are just above George Lucas'.
- they know how to direct a movie when the script is reasonably tight and not self indulgent.
- what metl said.
Oh, and I did enjoy it quite a lot once the actual caper started. But some of the stuff before that was tedious due to the extremely trite dialog.
 More Ramblings
#279 posted by nitin on 2003/11/15 19:11:06
glengarry glen ross - more of a play than a film, but the weak direction made it even more so. Still, it has some pretty awesome acting from Lemmon and Pacino and one of the funniest cameos ever by Alec Baldwin.
italian job - enjoyable heist movie with some cool stunts and a novel way of stealing the loot. Not even remotely resembling the cool 1969 Michael Caine version apart from the inclusion of using minis to carry the stolen loot.
nurse betty - pretty good, but eneven and patchy overall. Reasonably funny, Chris Rock & Morgan Freeman steal the show but the other actors are good too.
the crow - saw it again and I have to say it looks dated. Sure, the visual prowess is still there, but Dark City did it much better later on. And the action scenes look pretty ordinary comparative to today's stuff.
identity - liked it up until the big twist which sucked IMHO. No clues given about it at all except one or two strange happenings which could have really led to any conclusion. The second twist was more conventional and more predictable. Well made up until about the 75 min mark.
big trouble in little china - heavily recommended, and maybe I just dont get it, but I couldnt care too much about it. Sure it has some nice humor and knows it's cheesy but I couldnt really get into it.
Lawrence of Arabia - lucky to see it for the first time on a projector, it looks fucking amazing! And a pretty good film to go with the spectacular visuals. Favorite shot has to be of the whirling dervishes along with the mirage when Omar Sharif's character first appears.
good, bad & ugly - I normally dont like westerns but reasonably enjoyed this one, probably because the style and coolness overcome the rest of the deficiencies. Good stuff.
Anyway, enough for now.
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