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Today, both the "Alien Anthology" and "Prometheus" Blu-rays are for sale in a bundle for just $19.99 at Amazon! What a fantastic deal! I must have spent at least $65 for both of them when they were first released! I strongly recommend both!
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Mr. Greg: Re: I picked up the Alien Anthology set a few months ago for the princely sum of £10...an absoluite steal - the "ALien" disc alone is well worth that price...it's a fantastic set - can not recommend it enough....
....and yes, I remember shelling out £15 or so at HMV Oxford Street for the Aliens SE VHS some years ago!
I hate to think of all the money I spent on the various incarnations of the "Alien" franchise, from individual VHS tapes to individual DVDs to the elaborate "Alien Quadrilogy" DVD set to the even more elaborate "Alien Anthology" Blu-Ray set, and I didn't mention here that I couldn't find my copy of the last, so, afraid that a visitor might have walked off with it, when Amazon had it months ago for about $20 I re-bought it. Plus I have a variety of soundtrack CDs that I've bought, so I have certainly paid my "Alien" dues, especially if we include "Prometheus," in which I bought the Blu-ray long before any sale, the elaborate picture book (PROMETHEUS: The Art Of The Film by Mark Salisbury), AND the soundtrack! At this point I'm about "Alien"-outed! NO-MAS, POR FAVOR! (Had to add the hyphen there, because the spell-check repeatedly refused to let me type m a s!!!)
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Greg: LOL. It's certainly an addiction! After reading the above, I went to my tall bookcase of DVD boxed sets and found that you were right ... so I changed my posting from "Alien Quadrilion" to "Quadrilogy." Some fan is going to get that as a nice present one of these days, just as I gave away the big "Planet of the Apes" collection of DVDs when I bought the elaborate Blu-ray boxed set. And the same for the "Star Trek" motion picture collection -- I have each of them on special 2-DVD sets (AND, before that, the single versions of each), but then bought the complete and comprehensive collection on Blu-ray. More sets to give away!
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CinemaScope:
Well, in the U.S. the original releases on VHS were pretty clear (and bright), and they got progressively even better, especially on Blu-ray. But I remember how wonderful the 2nd in the series, "Aliens," sounded with my audio system with its subwoofer ... when the salvagers burn out the door at the beginning and it clangs to the floor of Ripley's sleeping capsule, it was sooooooooooooo loud that it became my measure for future VHS releases. And I remember that, to my disappointment, the DVD of "Aliens" didn't shake my room like the VHS had done, which was very disappointing for me. But each movie is startlingly clear in the "Alien Anthology" boxed set of Blu-rays, and when that metal around the door is cut away in "Aliens" it makes quite a racket in surround when it hits the floor!
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Cinemascope:
When I first bought the "Alien Anthology" Blu-ray set, there were massive problems with it sometimes being unreadable by my usually quite dependable Samsung player, and while I had immediately downloaded new firmware whenever I was notified on the screen that it was available, I eventually gave up in the middle of "Alien3." But when I bought my elaborate Oppo BDP-103 all the movies -- finally! -- played just fine with it, which was a relief. (My Samsung also wouldn't play the "Fame" Blu-ray, but my #2 Blu-ray player from Panasonic, which I bought between the Samsung and the Oppo, played it fine.) Anyone else have problems with players unable to decode certain Blu-rays?
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