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I believe most of the reinserted stuff was present on the recent DVD as deleted scenes, though I'm not completely certain. An all new DVD box set (the awkwardly titled "Alien Quadrilogy") is coming out soon. I don't know what version of the film it will contain.
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There's something about the original release that's puzzled me for quite a long time. It has to do with the most important of the deleted scenes (and if you haven't seen it, don't worry; I'm not going to ruin it for you). My last college roommate and I once talked about the film (this was fall 1982, BTW), and he swore he saw that scene in the film when he saw it. To this day I still can't figure out how; I saw Alien in New York on a 70mm print, and it sure as hell wasn't in the version I saw. He said he saw it after it opened, so it couldn't have been in a preview.
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These are the scenes I've seen (back when Sci-i channel didint suck):
A scene showing an "infected" Tom Skarett begging ripley to kill him: she does- with the torch. (the Alien idea was more of a disease kind of thing than an animal back then) The studio thought this scene was a bit much.
A scene showing the last two crewmen getting killed (it's really cool because they walk right past the curled up alien several times before it breathes and they notice it slowly unfolding from fetal position and wlking toward them: this scene was ditched because you can tell the alien is either a prop or a guy in a suit).
A three or four minute scene of the crew aproaching the derilict spaceship (showing it's scale) and some more footage of Ridlry scott's kids walking arounf the "SpaceJockey". He filmed his young children in scaled down spacesuits because he felt the SpaceJockey was too small.
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I am looking forward to commentaries on Alien 3 like nobody's business, but I'd imagine Fincher, when approached, would have been all like: "I am sorry, but I've moved on now. I am teaching my trade to the youth. Fred, put that down. Where can I get a neat red cap?"
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I haven't actually seen Alien 3. Seen the other three, the first two being decidedly better than the last IMO. Are they releasing Director's cut versions of all the films?
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There is no way they could undo the damage of Alien Resurrection through adding some "Hitherto unreleased footage!!". I don't even think they have any, they probably finished it two weeks ahead of schedule. :-)
That movie is so much lower quality that it would be like doing a Director's Cut of Mimic (Scourge of the Drag-queen Cockroaches); no one cares. 2 minutes of F. Murray Abraham does not a blockbuster make.
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Aliens has already been done. And a good job they did too. Phalanx gun turrets, more backstory of Ripley's lost life back on earth due to her drifting in space, many little tidbits.
But they did right to leave out Vasquez' and Hudson's insights on Alien Hive Structure the first time around, it leaves more to the imagination...
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Oddly enough, the TV version of Aliens always included the bit with the Phalanx auto-turrets but only sometimes included the part about Ripey's kid and her sitting in the atrifical "park" on the space station.
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quote:Originally posted by Nim: Well this was interesting. What's so special about Alien� to you, Ultra?
I'd imagine, from Young Man Ultra's comments, that he mainly wants to hear Fincher explain away the less-that-positive reception the film got.
Which he can do quite easily, by saying two things.
1/ "Weaver wouldn't let me have guns."
2/ "It's a lot better than Resurrection though, isn't it? Isn't it? Eh?"
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The failure of Alien� is a four-spoked wheel, forever revolving in the grand ass of the universe; ($$$$$$$$ Wraith go to your room and put on a little light music instead)
$$$$$$$$$$$$ (I won't tell you again, young man)
� No sympathy for a bunch of inmates nor interest in their fate (half of them tried to rape Ripley, ffs)
� Killing off Ricks and Newt killed the link to the previous movie
� Ripley's immunity to the alien due to her pregnancy
� The most anticlimactic ending ever*
(*before "Sphere")
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