Blu-ray solidified my favorite movie of all-time last night
by Kyle at: Tue, 14 Jun 2011
Aliens.
That simple (and completely brilliant) title brings back some of the best memories of my childhood. I had almost every single action figure that Kenner put out. Even those reboots of the Gorilla, Panther and others a few years after the first run. They were the exact same as their original counterparts but had different coloring.
Now I proudly display the McFarlane Alien Queen on top of my tall book case and marvel at how amazingly detailed that replica of my favorite movie monster ever is.
I got the Alien Anthology Blu-ray set for Christmas last year and hadn’t take the time to watch anything from it until last night. Aliens has long been my favorite my movie, with the Special Edition only taking it to a new level of awesome. I figured it couldn’t get much better with HD but I was so wrong. The detail was just incredible and, thankfully, the additional resolution didn’t make things look chintzier or lamer…in fact, it made everything look SO much better. Thanks to the beautiful work of Stan Winston, HD has turned Aliens into an even more real experience.
I caught myself quoting along and, in some cases, ahead of the movie. I can’t get enough of it and I believe it will forever be my favorite James Cameron movie and, without a doubt, my personal favorite.
And seeing it again for the first time in a few years has only gotten me MORE excited for Gearbox’s upcoming Aliens: Colonial Marines. A game that has been criminally delayed for 3 years now. But if it means that more attention to detail was given and this game ends up being half as good as the previews make it seem as well as half as good as the movie that inspired it, it will be the greatest Aliens-based game ever made. It’s such a shame that such an amazing franchise has had such a poor showing.
I will forever standby my claim that Aliens is the best in the series. I don’t consider any movie after it to be part of canon and it pisses me off to no end the that brilliant work of Mark Verheiden in the Aliens Vol. 1-3 comics was completely ignored by FOX when they greenlit Alien 3. The story MV came up with was absolutely brilliant and while Vol 3: Earth War was a bit rushed and weak (and featured some atrocious artwork) the overall story was fantastic and where the series should have gone. Hopefully Colonial Marines rights many of those wrongs and, hey, maybe someday it’ll get a franchise reboot (starting with the end of Aliens) like Batman did.
And the fact that has-been Ridley Scott is going back to make two prequels to Alien worries me at the best. I swear to God, if Russel Crowe is in either of those movies…
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