OAO Alien: Directors Cut Thread

[Blue Bacchus 0]

I had never seen Alien before but I had seen Aliens, Alien3 and Resurrection. For the 70s I guess it was a great horror flick but I was more bored with it than anything. Guess I should've seen the flicks in order

[NoCalMike 0]

yer crazy, Alien was fucking great.

[kkktookmybabyaway 0]

A lot of people like this film, but I never cared for it -- I liked the second one a lot better.

 

One thing I didn't like about it was:

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When the black guy (my favorite character) basically gave his life for that dumb woman the chance to escape and she just sat there and cried.

Oh, and what was so different about the director's cut?...

[Blue Bacchus 0]

KKK I just wanted to

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Slap that dumb bitch for just standing there

 

So I agree with you wholeheartedly.

[Youth N Asia 0]

I haven't seen the directors cut...but I didn't get the same boner for the original that everyone else did. I thought it was a little slow

[TheOriginalOrangeGoblin 0]

Alien doesn't hold a candle to Aliens.

[NoCalMike 0]

The first Alien was kind of meant to be "slow" though. I mean in Aliens, there is no mystery to the plot. We know where the Aliens are, and we are gonna send in a bunch of guys with big guns to kill 'em all....(well with a few twists mixed in).

 

The first Alien was more of a horror movie then action movie. Not to mention Ridley Scott & James Cameron are completely different styles.

[Lil' Bitch 0]

Oh, and what was so different about the director's cut?...

 

I got this off another website's messageboard.

 

Just saw the director's cut of Alien in the theatre tonight.

 

(Toronto, Grande Theatre)  Attendance was sparse, maybe 10-15 people in the theatre, kinda disappointing.

 

So, what caught my eye?  I have seen Alien several times and I think I could provide a good synopsis of what seemed to be different here

 

To begin, the film transfer looked great, dark and eerie where it needed to be and more colorful in places where I don't remember it being so..

 

Extra stuff I saw different (or at least I think is different.  Cut me

some  slack, just got back from the movie and haven't had a chance to compare it to my DVD yet. ;P

 

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1.)HUD's on bridge still had vector based graphics, but more colorful. Looks like they may have enhanced it.   2.)Brief added/extended shots within the derelict. (not sure about this, but it seemed different to me. Anyone else care to comment?)   3.)Ripley/Lambert confrontation scene added back in(Lambert gives ol' Ripley a smack across the head and is then restrained by Parker)   4.)Definitely a new quick scene!! Just before the alien drops down behind Brett for the kill, you see a quick half frontalbody shot of the alien, with its' head down, hanging/swinging in the chains. Very cool. Most definitely CGI.   5.)The Dallas airduct scene seemed slightly longer. I was kinda hoping Ridley Scott was going to try and add in the footage where after Dallas disappears, the remaining crew still try to lure the alien into the airlock only to be thwarted by Ash setting of a klaxon alarm, thereby frightening the alien away. Methinks there wasn't enough footage for this to be possible.   6.)Ripley finds Dallas and Brett cocooned. This was very interesting. This scene was definitely shorter than the deleted scene on the DVD. However the beginning of the scene seemed longer.   In brief, Ripley descends the ladder into the "nest" see's Dallas and Brett. Brett's shot seem longer and I believe they added a bit of an embellishment here. You see Brett's cocoon twice, the second time you see him, you can see a huge dripping pile of brown ooze flowing out of his mouth and down the partial cocoon that his is in.   What made this scene shorter is that Dallas only pleads once or twice to "kill me" and Ripley does not hesitate as she does in the DVD cut. She aims a few flame bursts towards Dallas and Brett, looks back at them and then heads back up the ladder.   7.) Lambert, Parker die. This scene seemed longer, with possibly different camera angles. (again not sure, but my gut tells me different) Not too much new here. Was hoping for a more explicit scene with Lambert. I guess what Ridley was trying to imply by her screams were too risque for him to reveal in film. (i.e horny alien)   8.) Ripley heads to the Narcissus. This scene looked cleaned up. She turns the corner and the alien bounds up from it's crouched position.   9.) Ripley blasts the alien with the engine blasts. This was definitely touched up, but oddly not more thoroughly. Right after Ripley shoots the alien with the harpoon gun, the alien still looks kind of "man in a suitish" However, when the alien tries to climb into the engine cowl, he doesn;t blast into little bits as in the original. The whole body remains intact and is slowly charred and engulfed in the afterburners. You see the body come closer to the top right of the screena and then finally drift out of sight.