Adam Tyner

Per Collider:

Josh Z

With that cover art, it's really like Cameron wants to slam the teal-and-orange in our faces.

TomOpus

Day 1. I don't mind teal in outer space. Sue me.

Why So Blu?

Decades in the making but yeah, let's focus on the cover art. They should just put these back in the vault.

milo bloom

I didn't really notice the colors on the artwork but I did notice how they put Ripley and Newt front and center in a very dramatic pose and I kinda liked it.

I've barely touched my Quadrilogy Blu-ray set, not sure if I'll upgrade to 4K for this one.

Meathead

Yes! Unless the reviews are unkind, Day One for me.

stvn1974

The hideous cover art is preparing you for the DNR on the disc.

TomOpus

The cover isn't the greatest but I don't watch the cover. As long as the spine has the movie's title, I'm good.

Josh-da-man

Aliens never had good key art to draw from anyway, like Alien did with that icon "egg" image.

All I remember is A L I E N S in blue letters on a black background or a posed photograph of Ripley and Newt.

Dan

Meathead

lol... that's why I'm waiting for reviews first.

HumanMedia

Normally I would be overjoyed about this and the Abyss. But I am more nervous about the vandalism of art that will kill the experience of viewing them.

Oh wait how about we get someone to draw heavy key lines over edges in the Mona Lisa and air brush the flat areas to smooth all of those cracks out. And lets bump up the saturation a bit as well. A bit of teal too, yeah people love that!
That way visitors to the Louvre will be able to see the painting better from the back of that crowded gallery room!

BTW without hearing anything about the new UHD of American Grafffiti, I sat down eagerly to watch it, the strange processed video look kept taking me out of the movie, and about half the way through I gave up, and I haven't sat back down to watch the rest.
DNR, contrast boosting, over saturation, and white crush on HDR conversions kills it for me. Destroys any suspension of disbelief.

OldBoy

So now this 30th Blu that came out a bunch of years ago is not the definitive edition? Will this new one have new extras? I mean the 30th was restored, I believe, and has a plethora of extras.

Josh Z

Nothing is ever definitive. That disc was released 13 years ago. A whole new video format capable of producing much deeper shades of teal and orange has launched in the meantime. Did you really think James Cameron was going to say, "Nope, we're never ever ever going to do anything more with this movie again, ever"? Not how capitalism works, dude.

lisadoris

After reading about all the issues with Terminator 2 4k, I'm going to read some reviews before picking this up. Fingers crossed that it looks as good as the Alien 4k.

Shooba

Terminator 2 had a lot of DNR so it would work well for the 3D re-release. That's why they wanted a crystal clear picture.

Since these releases are not being done with 3D in mind, the transfers should be done properly.

Josh Z

James Cameron has a long history of absolutely hating film grain. I have an old Widescreen Review article around here somewhere that goes into detail about what a mess he made of the Aliens Laserdisc video master because he was so unhappy that the movie's photography had come out too grainy for his liking. In the time between Titanic and Avatar, he was very enthusiastic about switching to digital photography because it finally allowed him to get rid of that horrible, horrible grain he hated so much.

L. Ron zyzzle

He got rid of those horrible horrible like-able characters too, amirite?

Shannon Nutt

I'm more worried about teal/orange color timing (when the original theatrical version was more blue/red) than some DNR - unless the DNR is as bad as T2, of course.

Josh Z

I fully expect both. The Aliens Blu-ray from 2010 was already smothered in teal in every single shot start-to-finish. He's not backing off that now. The new theatrical reissue trailer for The Abyss shows that one has the teal cranked up to maximum.

RocShemp

Meh. I'll wait for a UHD BD Tetralogy (I refuse to refer to it as a "Quadrilogy") Box Set, like we got on BD.

Josh Z

Don't hold your breath. The only reason we're getting Aliens on physical disc is because James Cameron pushed for it, along with these others. David Fincher doesn't like Alien 3 due to his bad experiences making it, and I don't think Jeunet has much attachment to Resurrection. Disney has no compelling reason to invest in re-releases of those. (Not to mention that neither are well liked in general by the fandom.)

Josh-da-man

Yeah, I'm really *meh* on Alien^3 and Resurrection, and can't say I'd have much interest in owning them in 4K UHD.

I'll probably pick up Aliens and The Abyss, teal abuse notwithstanding.

Josh Z

Sadly, both are very much in need of remastering. The Blu-rays for both were recycled from older masters at the time.

stvn1974

I will only get Alien3 if Michael Bien and Carrie Henn do a commentary track.