Amazon Cyber Monday Blu-ray Deal for Thursday

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For today only as part of Amazon’s Cyber Monday Week Sales you can pick up the Alien Anthology for only $40.99 (or $10.25 per film). This was my favorite Blu-ray set of last year, you get all four Alien films, great video, audio, and special features on associated with each film plus two discs of additional special features including some of the best film documentaries ever made.  Each film features both the original theatrical cut and some kind of Director’s Cut or Extended Cut.  I prefer the original cut of Alien, the Director’s Cut of Aliens, and the theatrical cut of Alien Resurrection.  You might have noticed I didn’t mention Alien 3; the reason for that is that I wanted to make special mention to the fact that I think Assembly Cut of Alien 3 is one of the best alternative cuts of any film I’ve ever seen.  Alien 3 was a troubled production and eventually the film was taken away from director David Fincher (Fight Club) in post production and his vision of the film was lost.  The alternative cut of Alien 3 in this set restores over 30 minutes of footage that completely changes the tone of the film and is vastly superior to the theatrical cut.  I love Alien and Aliens but the Assembly Cut of Alien 3 is worth the purchase price of this collection alone.  This is one of the premiere Blu-ray sets available and I can’t recommend it more highly enough especially at this price point.  

• 1979 Theatrical Version
• 2003 Director’s Cut with Ridley Scott Introduction
• Audio Commentary by Director Ridley Scott, Writer Dan O’Bannon, Executive Producer Ronald Shusett, Editor Terry Rawlings, Actors Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton and John Hurt
• Audio Commentary (for Theatrical Cut only) by Ridley Scott
• Final Theatrical Isolated Score by Jerry Goldsmith
• Composer’s Original Isolated Score by Jerry Goldsmith
• Deleted and Extended Scenes
• MU-TH-UR Mode Interactive Experience with Weyland-Yutani Datastream

 
Disc 2: ALIENS

• 1986 Theatrical Version
• 1991 Special Edition with James Cameron Introduction
• Audio Commentary by Director James Cameron, Producer Gale Anne Hurd, Alien Effects Creator Stan Winston, Visual Effects Supervisors Robert Skotak and Dennis Skotak, Miniature Effects Supervisor Pat McClung, Actors Michael Biehn, Bill Paxton, Lance Henriksen, Jenette Goldstein, Carrie Henn and Christopher Henn
• Final Theatrical Isolated Score by James Horner
• Composer’s Original Isolated Score by James Horner
• Deleted and Extended Scenes
• MU-TH-UR Mode Interactive Experience with Weyland-Yutani Datastream

 
Disc 3: ALIEN 3

• 1992 Theatrical Version
• 2003 Special Edition (Restored Workprint Version)
• Audio Commentary by Cinematographer Alex Thomson, B.S.C., Editor Terry Rawlings, Alien Effects Designers Alec Gillis and Tom Woodruff, Jr., Visual Effects Producer Richard Edlund, A.S.C., Actors Paul McGann and Lance Henriksen
• Final Theatrical Isolated Score by Elliot Goldenthal
• Deleted and Extended Scenes
• MU-TH-UR Mode Interactive Experience with Weyland-Yutani Datastream

 
Disc 4: ALIEN Resurrection

• 1997 Theatrical Version
• 2003 Special Edition with Jean-Pierre Jeunet Introduction 
• Audio Commentary by Director Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Editor Hervé Schneid, A.C.E., Alien Effects Creators Alec Gillis and Tom Woodruff, Jr., Visual Effects Supervisor Pitof, Conceptual Artist Sylvain Despretz, Actors Ron Perlman, Dominique Pinon and Leland Orser
• Final Theatrical Isolated Score by John Frizzell
• Deleted and Extended Scenes
• MU-TH-UR Mode Interactive Experience with Weyland-Yutani Datastream