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Topic: Conflicted about the Blu-ray Alien Box Set
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Scott Jentsch
Phenomenal Film Handler
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Posts: 1061
From: New Berlin, WI, USA
Registered: Apr 2003
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posted 10-27-2010 10:48 AM
I'm a fan of the first two Alien movies, so it's a natural to want to have them on Blu-ray. Unfortunately, Fox has seen to it to box all four movies together and price it at $100 ($90 on Amazon). That's a lot of money for two good movies!
The reviews I've read of the box set make me want to pick it up, but paying what amounts to $45 per movie sets a pricing threshold that I am reluctant to cross. I've found it on sale this week for $80 at Ultimate Electronics, so that's a little better, but that's still $40 per movie, and I've never paid that much for a movie before. #3 and #4 are basically $10 catalog titles that I wouldn't buy even for $10, so that still puts the effective price of the other two movies at $30 each in my mind.
Netflix isn't showing any availability for getting the discs (probably because they don't want to spend that kind of coin either), so that option isn't available either.
The other alternative I have is to order from Amazon UK, with the end price being about $57 shipped. That's better, but I'm concerned with any substantial differences in the UK version. I don't care about the labeling on the discs, but I do care that they didn't replace any subtitles or captions, like they did with the Bourne UK box set (instead of "Paris, France" shown at the bottom of the screen as it was in the theater, they used the subtitling to enable different language replacement, which wasn't something I wanted to see in the movie itself).
It's ridiculous for the UK set to be so much cheaper than the US set, especially if the packaging and contents are not substantially different. I know that the UK packaging is accordion-fold instead of Digibook, but I don't consider that to be a difference that justifies the price delta.
I guess I should just quit being cheap and pick up the set locally, reward Fox for doing such a good job on the set (as to encourage such efforts for US releases in the future), and not complain, but the price forces me to hesitate.
Does anyone have either the US or UK box set, and can push me off the fence about this?
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Claude S. Ayakawa
Film God
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Posts: 2738
From: Waipahu, Hawaii, USA
Registered: Aug 2002
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posted 10-28-2010 01:03 AM
Joe,
The packaging is very sturdy and and I was impressed with it. If I had a choice between a plastic blue case and the package the ALIENS disc came in, I would still go with what I got with the discs. My discs were all scratch free and I do not feel there is any danger of accidently damaging the discs when I remove them from the hard paper sleeve.
Victor,
As far as I can tell, all of the special features that were on the DVD set were all ported over to the Blu-Ray along with a lot of new stuff that were created specially for Blu-Ray. Although expensive, if you enjoy the ALIENS films, the new BD set is worth the investment. As I had said, I watched only a few scenes from all four films and the picture quality and the sound is awesome and so much better than the DVD and laserdisc. The special features does not appear to be in HD but the picture quality is not bad..
By the way, next week will be aonther expensive week with THE SOUND OF MUSIC, TOY STORY 3, THE BRIDGE OVER THE RIVER KWAI, WHITE CHRISTMAS, THE PACIFIC and CHITTY, CHITTY, BANG, BANG.
I did not get BACK TO THE FUTURE but I did get APOCALYPSE NOW in the 3 disc special edition and you are correct, it is excellent.
-Claude
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