Just watched Aliens last night, could see a few scenes where picture was soft and oversharpened, but for the rest, I thought it looked fantastic. It was so clear, I picked up a a goof with a prop towards the end when Hicks is in the pod and his IV bag has an expiration date for 1987.
I agree Nick 🤩🤩👍👍 you have those 2 elements in the picture but wow!! It looks amazing!! 🤣🤣 ill have to go and look at that! 👍👍 I thought the scene with Bishop on the floor, you could visibly see the hole cut in the floor when he reaches for Newt, but I didn't see it in this one 🤔 thanks for watching mate 🤩🤩👍👍
The hole has been fixed, as far back as the 2003 2-disc QUADRILOGY DVD, I think? Along with the marks on the observation window, when Ripley slams the chair against it. Screw Cameron and his “vision”. LEAVE THE FILMS ALONE, PLEASE? I’m dreading what he’ll be doing to his best film (imo) - THE TERMINATOR (1984).
@cyrusq5999 I remember that hole it was so 😱😱 when you saw it 🤣 but glad it's gone mate 👌👌 haha yeah the scratches I remember that one! I think Terminator could be one that will not benefit with an A.I upgrade 🤯 fingers crossed its a natural one 🤞🤞 but with Cameron anything could happen 😱😱😁👍👍
Great video John Alien is my all time favourite movie and the 4K is amazing. I saw that his film opening Day in1979’in Bournemouth 😎😎😎 I watched Aliens 4K last night and I was really impressed with the 4K😎
That's a cracking movie to have for your all time favourite Shaun 🤩🤩👌👌 wow, I would have loved to see it on the big screen mate!! 😁😁 the 4k of Aliens is definitely (in my opinion) a great watch 😊😊👍👍
Great timing with this video, I rewatched Alien on 4k last night and really enjoyed it. It looked fantastic! Looking forward to trying Aliens 4k. Thanks for the video!
Just for fun my top ten in no particular order 🥁 Jaws ,Alien ,saving private Ryan,the thing,edge of tomorrow,Oppenheimer,dune,the revenant,Spartacus,blade runner 2049 erm top 20
@paulhunt7621 yeah TOP QUALITY choices Paul 😁😁👌👌 when you get a 4k and put it on and it FULLY delivers!! There's no better felling mate 🤩🤩👍👍 thanks again for you list and it's a GOOD one!! 🫡🫡🤩🤩👍👍
Hi John, I've now watched both your Aliens videos after watching Aliens 4K myself, followed by a quick comparison with the bluray. I had a great time with the 4k and couldn't believe the sharpness of it. Btw, Aliens is one of my all-time favourite movies, so i was really looking forward to this. I've seen other reviews and comments about how it's been "ruined," but i don't agree. Keep up the great videos John. 👍👍
Hi Mark 😊😊👍👍 I hear a lot of people saying it's one of if not their favourite film of all time so it's great that you liked the presentation of it 😁😁👌👌 nah there's no way that Aliens was ruined and if the 4k isn't for them the older blu ray is available so everyone should be happy 🤔😊 thanks Mark mate 😁😁👍👍
Just watched aliens today. It looked fantastic to me. I personally didn't find Cameron's adjustments of this new scan a distraction at all. The only thing for was atmos felt a bit flat for me. But at same time its an older movie. Alien is incredible. Its my favourite. That 4k is the perfect representation of that incredible movie.
Yeah David I really wasn't distracted by the film at all mate, throughly enjoyed it! I don't have Atmos myself but I could hear a definite uptick on my speakers but interesting to hear the Atmos wasn't fully immersive 🤔👍 yeah as much as I liked Aliens, Alien is my favourite of the 2 for me as well David 🤩🤩👌👌 thanks again mate 😊😊👍👍
The picture quality on Aliens is just insane! I'll never get why people hate on this one. All the details that are now visible, that's what 4k is about for me anyways. But what really blew my mind was the new Atmos track. So much more immersiveness and the bass when the dropship goes down to LV-426 😱 stellar release for me 👍🏻
Yeah I did notice literally everything in those sets!! The details that popped out were nuts!! Never expected that 😵💫😁 I don't have an atmos set up but thought the audio sounded amazing personally on my set up 👌👌 cheers for the comment mate 😁😁👍👍
Great review. I agree. Alien is on of the best 4Ks I've seen. As for Aliens, I loved every second of it and I wanted to watch it over again right away.
Your the only person I have seen that keeps the reciepts like I do (and keeps titles for years unwatched) - I feel normal now.Alien looks great - almost too new but not in a fake way, just brand new.
Gotta keep them receipts if possible, it really surprised me how long ago it was that I bought Alien 😵💫😵💫🤣 it's fun to look at them and get a surprise at times, also gives you a good reference for these videos 🤔🤩👍 yeah we are totally normal for doing that NOPE 😁😁👌👌 yeah a bit like a version for the modern era 🤔 it doesn't actually affect my enjoyment at all mate 😁😁👌👌
Thanks Filmdirt 😁😁👍👍 I'm really surprised at the attention these Cameron 4ks have gotten and I hope that if A.I becomes a thing it won't take the jobs away from the amazing restoration teams on 4k releases mate 🤞🤞🤔🤔, cheers for watching 🤩🤩👍👍
Aliens is a film which must be presented in VHS format. It hides what needs to be hidden, it blends well with a lot of the monitor footage and it makes a lot of the props and sets look a lot more real.
I remember having Aliens on VHS not too sure of the scope of the one I had 🤔 it was a long time ago 😊 I agree with the miniatures looking more realistic in a lower definition 🤩👍
@@MondoChelloveckMovies I don't have a PC/the ability to edit but I'd love to see a video comparing the phenomenal acting and attention to detail in Aliens vs the cheap generic acting of Romulus. Ie Hudson showing convincing signs of PTSD, the undertones between Ripley and Hicks, the character developments, etc. Not to mention the set design and prop making. Thanks.
Evening John, excellent vid...you done well watching them back to back...i agree with what you said about Aliens,looks great,i could see a fine layer of grain but also the soft scenes but still think its a great disc...did a small review myself...I'm looking forward to watching The Abyss,i hear its the best of the 3 Cameron 4ks 😊
The soundtrack to alien has a whole backstop in itself....jerry goldsmith hated the fact a cue from a film years earlier was used along with your accurate telling of the other shining cue. I have unreleased goldsmith cues and a lot of them I agree didn't fit, but wow, alien has a great score and a bright light when retrospectively looking at this film. Love your stuff...excelsior sir
It was strange to hear this music after watching them both many times and not noticing till now 😵💫😵💫😁😁 so did Goldsmith only want his music in the movie Delboy? 🤔 the music is really fitting and very sinister at times! 👌👌 thanks a lot for saying that mate 🤩🤩 I watched the first part and the start of your video with Nige, really enjoying them Delboy! Thanks again mate 🤩🤩👍👍
@MondoChelloveckMovies such kind words. Thankyou. Never knew a person as high up as yourself, watching my little channel. Thankyou. Nige is very good to me and very encouraging for me to do better. Would love to interview you sometime if you are up for that. Yes, the score.....during editing, the decision was made to drop certain cues and replace them with some new ones but also strangely a previous goldsmith score from years back...again a horror. It's documented on the laserdisk special edition and on UA-cam. I think they wanted a different tone, but goldsmith hated it probably because he could only see the visuals in his head for the film it was intended for. Lol. Excelsior sir and thankyou.
@delboy3k1 hey no problems mate 🤩 no channels are big here, all equal Delboy 😊😊👍👍 never knew all that about the music 🤔🤯🤩 its a fascinating tale!! 🤔😊 it is probably a strange movie to picture as its nothing like anything else before!! 😱👍 yeah Nige is a great guy! So much fun and I don't think I would be as interesting as he was Delboy 🤔😵💫🤣🤣 👍👍
I watched the aliens 4k a few days ago. I thought it looked really good, and I’d known all about the negativity around it. However I thought the sound was really flat, no ooomph to it at at all. I had to check my sub hadn’t been accidentally turned off! The scenes with lots of wind and rain on lv426 just sounded front heavy with zero bass. I have a 5.1.2 set up and other discs sound amazing!
That's a shame about the sound Tom, my soundbar and sub are out of action at the moment so I have my TV speakers as reference, it sounded really wide and bassy on there but it's no comparison to an atmos set up 🤔😵💫 thanks for this info Tom 😁😁👍👍
Exactly the view I take. If I enjoy it that’s all that matters. I am a bit of a collector with about 800 UHDs. Alien and Aliens of course both great movies with fabulous picture and sound.
Thanks for watching Simon 🤩🤩👍👍 that's what it comes down to at the end of the day, I stick a film on and if it's good to me, then I'm happy 🤩🤩👍👍 I understand that not everyone likes the same things! I personally don't like motion smoothing but if someone else likes it then that's good as well 😁 horses for courses 👌 that's a large amount of 4ks Simon 😁😁👏👏 what do you think the best looking 4k is in your collection mate? I agree that Alien & Aliens are top drawer films 😁😁 cheers Simon 🤩🤩👍👍
@@MondoChelloveckMovies Tricky to single out one but it’s the old ones for me particulary if they were originally shot on 65mm or 70mm. Spartacus caused my jaw to drop when I first put it on, that’s probaby the best i’ve seen. Others of note, Lawrence of Arabia, Ten Commandments, Vertigo, Dark Knight, Top Gun Maverick, Jaws, Apartment, Casablanca, Dunkirk, Gladiator, The Fugitive, Pearl, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs. All in 4k, great movies with stunning pictures.
@simonmcpartlin6547 👏👏👏 you know your 4ks Simon!! 🤩🤩👍👍 I've got a fair few of these and I agree that the older 70mm prints are the best source to restore 👌👌 the information that can be pulled off them is unreal!!! So hats off Sir!!! I applaud your picks 🫡🫡🤩🤩👍👍
Hi John, Interesting hearing your thoughts as always on the transfers, this weekend i"m hoping to get "Aliens" the 4k upgrade, & i actually did purchase "Alien Covenant the other week " to plan a binge on the movies again, as the last few i"ve only seen the once, with the success of purchases in James Cameron"s movies of late onto 4K fans could wish for one more 🤔 "The Terminator" is got to be happening soon 🙏
The Terminator is getting worked on now Carlos 👍👍 hope it's a good one mate, got to be my favourite Cameron film 🤩🤩👍👍 I need to get Covenant too 🤔👍 I'm interested to hear what you make of the Aliens 4k Carlos 🤩🤩 I'm due a full run-through of them as well, especially as I've done the first 2 in quick succession 😁😁 cheers mate, see you on Monday 😊😊👌👌
Yeah it totally is 👌👌 I might have taken my eye off the ball with this movie but it seems to have come out all of a sudden 🤯😱😁 let me know your thoughts when you get it Mig 🤩🤩👍👍
I'm a bit mixed on the Aliens 4K myself. Apart from a few parts where the sharpening and detraining made the image look bit weird, in motion it looked good. However, it doesn't really look like a film made in 1986 anymore. It will probably still be my go to version from now on because I only like to keep one copy of the film and, unlike my copy of the old Blu-Ray, the 4K has all of the special features on it.
I agree that (apart from the 80's cheese factor) it pretty much looks like brand new movie Philip 👍 I'm trying out the blu ray from this set next and then the 4k will be my go to! Thanks for sharing your thoughts Philip 😁😁👍👍
I suspect the piece of music you're referring to is 'Dies Irae' the funeral dirge John. It gets even spookier if you look in to it, I tried to find out it's origin a few years back and couldn't as some sources put it somewhere around the 13thC and equally others claim it to be far older than that still. All the best and hope you are well.
Interesting Oktober 🤔🤔 it's crazy to think that songs like this could have been written so long ago!! And we still play them across the world to this day!! 🤯🤯 it's a memorable piece of music for sure mate!! 😁😁👏👏
Thanks mate, yeah not gonna bash it at all it's a great transfer in general and we'll worth picking up mate! Alien is a stunner in 4k yeah 🤩🤩👍👍 cheers for watching mate 😁😁👍👍
Awesome upload as always John😉🤣👍, was looking forward to your thoughts as of the conflicting reviews id heard about. I haven't watched many if I'm honest. I love both movies and like you I see Alien as a horror, but Aliens as more a action/sci-fi. I will definitely be picking up Alien. Think I'll wait for Aliens to hopefully get in a sale one day. Thanks to you and Rockgod2004 I have amassed a good amount of nasties so far. But my focus wains with so much good physical releases out there. Cheers and looking forward to the upcoming content 👍👊❤
Cheers Carl 🤩🤩👍👍 yeah Alien is a real horror movie for me as well and I think Aliens will be in a sale soon 🤔🤩👍 although I was in CEX today and they had the 4k in there for £30 so you could have got that one? 🤔🤬😬🤣 loads of nasties seem to be popping up which is great and yeah trying to get everything we want is mind bending Carl 😵💫😵💫🤣 cheers again Carl 🤩🤩👍👍
From what I've seen, I'll probably bag both of these simultaneously. This is because although both transfers are really good from what I've seen, Alien's looks much better with a transfer that look authentic and grimy. Aliens' use of AI is pretty noticeable in some areas and there are some shots where the actors look like wax figures.
Yeah Alien is definitely the best and most faithful transfer & Aliens has been tweaked for sure but for me its doesn't affect my enjoyment of the film Neb 😊😊👍👍 thanks for watching mate 👌👌
@@MondoChelloveckMoviesAlso, because I already own the 2011 Anthology release, which includes the love it-or-hate it Alien 3 and the bad comedy outclassed by its PS1 tie-in game Alien: Resurrection, I think these two 4Ks will double as nice complimentary pieces. On further Fox Monster movie purchase choices, I'm not buying Alien: Covenant because that movie is my least favourite of the lot... But I WILL pick up Prometheus, the first and slightly better of Ridley's two later Alien films. Prey and Predator I'm going for on 4K, alongside the Predator tetralogy set on Blu-Ray to compliment my Predator and Prey 4Ks, Alien: Romulus when it chestbursts onto home video because that film rocks... And the AVP movies. Those films are the worst, ESPECIALLY Requiem which makes Covenant look like Alien and Aliens, but unfortunately, curiosity is killing the cat.
@@MondoChelloveckMovies After bagging Alien's 4K, can confirm. Beautiful transfer with improved shadows and lights that add so much to the dreary atmosphere. I'm mainly buying these two and will download the fanmade 4K "Legacy Cut" of Alien 3 as compliments to my Alien Anthology blu-ray set, anyway, soooo.... I don't care that one of these transfers suffers from AI flaws.
@NebLleb as I said if you like the way it's presented then great 🤩🤩👍👍 it's very must down to personal taste, I'm very pleased with it myself, the "legacy cut" of Alien3 🤔 never heard of that before mate 🤔🤩 does it improve the film as its not one of my favourites in the franchise 🥴😁 thanks for watching and sharing your thoughts 🤩🤩👍👍
It's Sci-fi horror.. Science fiction (sometimes shortened to SF or sci-fi) is a genre of speculative fiction, which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life. It is related to fantasy, horror,
Cheers mate, yeah Sci-fi Horror definitely not straight forward Sci fi or horror, some people I know won't touch Alien because of it Sci fi side, I say if you love horror check it out 🤩🤩👍👍
Come on ease down! jk I'm glad you're happy with both the Aliens 4K and regular blu ray. I'm just gonna stick with the blu ray from the Anthology, I don't like the whole AI thing messing with the original presentation. I watched the blu ray recently and was also blown away at how good it looks😲
The so called directors cut of Alien is shorter than the theatrical cut. Ridley Scott considers the theatrical cut of Alien his preferred version and I couldn't agree with him more.
It's funny how that is George 🤔🤩 I do prefer the "directors cut" as I like that extra scene myself, but its not a game changer if its not there mate 🤔🤩👍
Hello John, interesting take on the 4k over bluray of Aliens, haven't watched my copy of it or Abyss yet. On another note have you seen the pre-order of Butcher, Baker, Nightmare maker on 4k, only £19.99 so a pretty fair price. Looks like Severin are starting to release their back catalogue of nasties for the UK. All the best, Glenn.
Hi Glenn 😁😁👍👍 do check out the blu ray to see what I mean about a middle ground in the picture 🤔👍 I've just heard about the 4k of Butcher, I thought it was just a blu ray!! Great price as well 🤩🤩 hope they do release all thier nasties in the UK Glenn!! That would be amazing 😁😁👍👍
I'm the same as you matey and fully agree Alien is horror and not sci fi thankfully.. lol those screenshots of Aliens look superb so definitely a set I'll look to get later on down the line matey 😎👍
if people were happy with the Bluray then why bother buying the 4k ? its obviously going to look sharper and fresher and brighter, ive owned all copies of it and i bought the 4k upon your recommendation and it looks absolutely superb! and exactly what i expected when buying a 4k
Thanks Truthfinder 😁😁👍👍 yeah good point mate, it's definitely a personal preference, if you like it great, if not, head over to the previous blu ray and everyone's happy.... the amount of videos that say its awful is unreal 🤯🤯 so it seems like a storm in a tea cup basically 😵💫😵💫🤩🤩👍👍 thanks again bud 🤩🤩👍👍
I pretty much like them all in various levels, maybe resurrection will be my least favourite of them all with a few crazy plot twists....but I would still watch it again 🤩🤩👍👍 cheers Steven 😁😁👌👌
@@MondoChelloveckMovies Yeah I think it's reasonable to suggest that if James Cameron presented the original unaltered version of Aliens (i.e. before he A.I. DNR'd it up the wazoo) as well in the package then I would have less complaints.
@JohnDavidSullivan I agree that Cameron should have had both options available and everyone would have been happy, I do get the feeling that Cameron is quite "my way or the highway" so he probably will never accept something as easy as that unfortunately John 🥴🥴🤩👍
I didn't see anything about the Alien day re-release unfortunately 🥴 I would have loved to see Alien at the Cinema 😁😁 so was Aliens also at the Cinema? 👍👍
@@MondoChelloveckMovies it was just Alien though I wish both. The new 4k picture and surround sound was just spectacular, especially the sound mix which I guess was mono back in the day. My screening was sold out!
@purefoldnz3070 yeah surprised Aliens wasn't shown more mate 🤔😊 I think I might have seen it at the Cinema back in the day 🤔🤔 but I'm unsure?? Yeah I rate this new version highly 😁😁👍👍
So checked out the audio on the blu ray and it's 5.1 DTS master audio and 4.1 Dolby surround (on the Theatrical cut only) so no atmos, but I'm hearing the atmos isn't that good so you might not be missing out on too much mate 🤔🤩👍
@OzzyMandias hmmm that's a tough one....I think they are fairly similar! Both are excellent 👌 I would say, yes get the new one in a sale in a couple of months and that will help if you think they are too close 🤔🤩🤩👍👍
I've been reading and watching so much controversy about the aliens 4k. I had to try it out, the first 2 alien films are both in my top 5 films of all time so it's a real big deal to me about watching it the best way possible. I can honestly say watching aliens 4k was an absolute blast. I will never get rid of my quadrilogy boxset which is a grail to my collection but il only ever watch the 4k disc for alien and aliens........ Mostly
There's tons of stuff online about this disc Stuart!! I've stayed away from 90% of it, so I wasn't influenced in anyway! Yeah I'm very much in the camp of this is my go to way to check out Aliens from now on, but I do want to give the new blu ray a shot as well 🤔😁👍 cheers Stuart 🤩🤩👍👍
Hi John. I’ve just got round to watching Aliens 4k. I agree with your views and overall thought it’s never looked better. Hope Alien 3 gets a 4k remaster. I always liked it even though it doesn’t generally receive much love . Enjoyed it more than Prometheus and Covenant. What do you reckon?
Hi Richard 😁😁👍👍 good question 🤔🤔 I probably think that Alien3 is about tied with those 2 but I need to rewatch the lot again after seeing the first one and Aliens so it might go higher on a rewatch! 🤔 bottom of the pile is the forth one 😬😬🤣🤣🤣👍👍👍
Film preservation is done for with all these comments praising the butchering of this film. It seems people, especially James Cameron, want a 45 year old film to look like it was shot on a smartphone. It makes a travesty of the work that specialists like Sony and Arrow in particular do to skillfully restore a film when all Disney have done is outsource it, shove the blu-ray through digital processing and call it a day. Its a good film but will people be so happy to pay 4K UHD prices for up scaled blu-rays when it becomes the norm?
I agree that I don't want the film restorers that do amazing things with getting the most out of an original negatives to be replaced by A.I Nick 👍👍 its an art form that is highly specialised 👏👏 personally I think Cameron and maybe Disney could take this route but the boutique labels putting out old horror cult movies will always stay away from it.....hopefully 🤞🤞🤩🤩 Cheers for commenting Nick 😁😁👍👍
Were the 2 horrendously amateurish back projection scenes in Aliens fixed in the new version? Those are the scene when the drop ship crashes behind Ripley and the other where the alien queens eggsack is exploding behind Ripley? I noticed recently that if you rotate the p in Ripley through 180 degrees that the new word spells ridley. Weird huh?
Hi David, those scenes don't seem to be "fixed" at all!! They stand out even more on the 4k!! I don't mind that in a way mate 🤔🤩 one thing I did notice that was when Bishop is on the deck and he grabs Newt you didn't see the glaring hole on the ground where he's sticking through, so that's been fixed possibly 🤔 hmmm that's a good spot there David!! Never thought that before 🤩🤩👍👍
I agree it's such a well made movie!! It can't be topped in the space horror genre!! I would love to stick it on for a youngster and ask them what year it was from!! Bet non would believe it was 1979 🤯🤯🤩🤩👍👍
I have no comments on quality of releases, but I’ve always thought of ”Aliens” as cheesy action; lots of explosions, noisy and those silly marines are not believable for one second. Entertaining, yes, but not a work of art like the first one. That one holds up so many years later and will continue to do so, I think.
Thanks for your views Claes 😁😁👍👍 I definitely think Alien is the better movie for me and weill never age at all, Aliens is definitely of its time but I do love a good cheesy action film and this one is definitely that 🤩🤩👍👍
I just brought my copy from HMV today... I was disappointed by the image... I sat with my Blu-ray disc (2012) and watch my copy of the 4K Ultra HD and it's Blu-ray both discs have DNR'd to DEATH I will be taking my copy back tomorrow with the repciept and exchange for something else. I'm a DIE HARD fan of ALIENS but a disc pressed in 2012 still looks better then a disc pressed in 2024 is saying something ALIEN released by FOX looks stunning I can't lie... Thank GOD Fox released ALIEN, PREDATOR & PREDATOR 2 before this Disney take over. But I don't think it's Disney's fault on this occasion as James Cameron finalised this 4K... It's easy to tell a GOOD 4K restoration from their original camera negatives in 2024 but ALIENS... You know what the DEATH of physical media is? DNR What cancer to FILM DNR has become..... Your a good fellow, I love watching your reviews but what your old Blu-ray after watching this waxed 2024 pressed disc... £24.99 many fans are on the same page about this release... I tried to avoid their hate, but I now feel I'm in the same boat
Cheers Paul for your views mate 😊👍 I can see why people won't like this presentation 🤔👍 I did mention on the previous video about Aliens that the 2012 blu ray was really nice 😊😊 I don't like DNR and hope to god it doesn't become the norm Paul 🤞🤞🥶🥶 cheers again mate and thanks for the support 😊😊👍👍
Ya probs best boycotting any Cameron films in the future. I would have preferred a true film restoration myself, but I'm OK with this release, it's like another edition and I can choose depending on my mood.
I absolutely love both movies. The 4k of both are fantastic. The Aliens 4K is great. I don't know why everyone complains. Get used to it people. You're never going to get just a plain 4k transfer. Also the reason you can hear the same music is that the music composed to fit the film, was felt, by the producers, and director, not ro fit the movie. So they kept some of the music used to track the film (ie show it to test audiences and preparing effects) and ditched a lot of the composers original material for the film.
Cheers for watching mate 🤩🤩👍👍 yeah Aliens got loads of flak but I do think that if A.I had been kept a "secret" then I don't think there would be too many complaints 🤔😵💫🤣 I've heard (in the comments) similar stories about the soundtrack and why certain things were added and dropped, quite fascinating mate 🤩🤩👍👍
I think both aliens and abyss look and sound great,yeh I would have loved a film restoration but this was never happening with Cameron. Got mine from usa and the 2nd batch don't have stickers. True lies in the other hand was awful.
I've heard that the 4k of The Abyss is great but that True Lies is the lowest of them, yeah but I think apart from The Terminator and the redo of Terminator 2, I think there isn't any other movies of his to "remaster" Ian 🤔 oh yeah.......Piranha II 😵💫😵💫🤣🤣👍👍
I don't like what was done to Aliens on 4k. Worse than the grain removal is the sharpening. It looks unnatural. (I looks like that "Sharpen" filter in photo editing software.) It's not even consistent. Hair strands and reflected light in eyes looks overly crisp and bright compared to the rest of the face. It a shame this happened. But It's not about what we want; it's about James Cameron wants. We are just the little people who made him a billionaire.
We will never change Cameron as he has a "vision" he will always go to unfortunately so we are at his mercy when it comes to his films Gary 🤔 I find the blu ray to be more consistent if you wanted it that way Gary, it's a definite thing with Cameron that he loves messing around with the lastest tech! Cheers Gary 🤩🤩👍👍
The movie looks fine in 4K. I saw details I have never seen before. I understand why Cameron wanted to show this to the world. If you don’t like it don’t watch it :)
@gameindustryinsider6450 your right about the details mate 😊😊👍👍 I noticed the sets a LOT more and saw special effects in a different way 🤔😊 I agree there is always a different version to check out if the 4k is not to your taste 👍👍 cheers for watching mate 🤩🤩👍👍
The Abyss and Aliens look superb on my 12ft wide screen.Anyone who thinks otherwise should really look at the settings they have on their TV/projector.
I can imagine Stephen 🤩🤩👍👍 that's a good point as settings can really make a difference! Sometimes I get a strange look to a movie, then alter a setting and it looks amazing!! Lot to be said about that mate 🤔🤩🤩👏👏
Just watched Aliens last night, could see a few scenes where picture was soft and oversharpened, but for the rest, I thought it looked fantastic. It was so clear, I picked up a a goof with a prop towards the end when Hicks is in the pod and his IV bag has an expiration date for 1987.
I agree Nick 🤩🤩👍👍 you have those 2 elements in the picture but wow!! It looks amazing!! 🤣🤣 ill have to go and look at that! 👍👍 I thought the scene with Bishop on the floor, you could visibly see the hole cut in the floor when he reaches for Newt, but I didn't see it in this one 🤔 thanks for watching mate 🤩🤩👍👍
The hole has been fixed, as far back as the 2003 2-disc QUADRILOGY DVD, I think?
Along with the marks on the observation window, when Ripley slams the chair against it.
Screw Cameron and his “vision”. LEAVE THE FILMS ALONE, PLEASE?
I’m dreading what he’ll be doing to his best film (imo) - THE TERMINATOR (1984).
@cyrusq5999 I remember that hole it was so 😱😱 when you saw it 🤣 but glad it's gone mate 👌👌 haha yeah the scratches I remember that one! I think Terminator could be one that will not benefit with an A.I upgrade 🤯 fingers crossed its a natural one 🤞🤞 but with Cameron anything could happen 😱😱😁👍👍
Great video John Alien is my all time favourite movie and the 4K is amazing. I saw that his film opening Day in1979’in Bournemouth 😎😎😎
I watched Aliens 4K last night and I was really impressed with the 4K😎
That's a cracking movie to have for your all time favourite Shaun 🤩🤩👌👌 wow, I would have loved to see it on the big screen mate!! 😁😁 the 4k of Aliens is definitely (in my opinion) a great watch 😊😊👍👍
Great timing with this video, I rewatched Alien on 4k last night and really enjoyed it. It looked fantastic! Looking forward to trying Aliens 4k. Thanks for the video!
Nice one TK 🤩🤩 Alien looks amazing!! Really enjoyed it after a while of not seeing it! Yeah let me know what you make of Aliens mate 🤔🤩🤩👍👍
I put Alien up there with The Thing. Two old school sci-fi horror classics, and the 4k transfers of both are impeccable
Good call mate!! I like the realistic look of those movies, which makes then that more believable 😁😁👌👌 yeah The Thing looks amazing as well 🤩🤩👍👍
Maybe we should start a top 10 4k movies ?
Just for fun my top ten in no particular order 🥁 Jaws ,Alien ,saving private Ryan,the thing,edge of tomorrow,Oppenheimer,dune,the revenant,Spartacus,blade runner 2049 erm top 20
@paulhunt7621 yeah TOP QUALITY choices Paul 😁😁👌👌 when you get a 4k and put it on and it FULLY delivers!! There's no better felling mate 🤩🤩👍👍 thanks again for you list and it's a GOOD one!! 🫡🫡🤩🤩👍👍
@paulhunt7621 I'm sure I've done one Paul, might need to do a revised one? 😵💫😁👍
I really liked the transfer on both Alien & Aliens. The motion also looks smoother on Aliens with great clarity and detail. I'm very happy with it.
That clarity in Aliens looked incredible Mig 🤩🤩👌👌 love the details it throws up 🤔😁😁👍👍
I need to rewatch both of these myself in 4K.
Thank you for sharing your rights, John.
Cheers Cheekster, really happy to check these out after a long time now seeing them 🤩🤩👍👍
Hi John, I've now watched both your Aliens videos after watching Aliens 4K myself, followed by a quick comparison with the bluray. I had a great time with the 4k and couldn't believe the sharpness of it. Btw, Aliens is one of my all-time favourite movies, so i was really looking forward to this.
I've seen other reviews and comments about how it's been "ruined," but i don't agree.
Keep up the great videos John. 👍👍
Hi Mark 😊😊👍👍 I hear a lot of people saying it's one of if not their favourite film of all time so it's great that you liked the presentation of it 😁😁👌👌 nah there's no way that Aliens was ruined and if the 4k isn't for them the older blu ray is available so everyone should be happy 🤔😊 thanks Mark mate 😁😁👍👍
Just watched aliens today. It looked fantastic to me. I personally didn't find Cameron's adjustments of this new scan a distraction at all. The only thing for was atmos felt a bit flat for me. But at same time its an older movie.
Alien is incredible. Its my favourite. That 4k is the perfect representation of that incredible movie.
Yeah David I really wasn't distracted by the film at all mate, throughly enjoyed it! I don't have Atmos myself but I could hear a definite uptick on my speakers but interesting to hear the Atmos wasn't fully immersive 🤔👍 yeah as much as I liked Aliens, Alien is my favourite of the 2 for me as well David 🤩🤩👌👌 thanks again mate 😊😊👍👍
2 fantastic movies and both 4 k uhd Blu-rays looked gorgeous on my setup 😍
Yeah they are great quality I feel Stuart 😁😁👍👍
Great review, thanks! Looking forward to Terminator in August.
Cheers mate 🤩🤩👍👍 me too 👌 hope it's a good transfer and not fiddled about with too much 🤞🤞😁😁👍👍
The picture quality on Aliens is just insane! I'll never get why people hate on this one. All the details that are now visible, that's what 4k is about for me anyways. But what really blew my mind was the new Atmos track. So much more immersiveness and the bass when the dropship goes down to LV-426 😱 stellar release for me 👍🏻
Yeah I did notice literally everything in those sets!! The details that popped out were nuts!! Never expected that 😵💫😁 I don't have an atmos set up but thought the audio sounded amazing personally on my set up 👌👌 cheers for the comment mate 😁😁👍👍
Great review. I agree. Alien is on of the best 4Ks I've seen. As for Aliens, I loved every second of it and I wanted to watch it over again right away.
Cheers mate, that's exactly how I felt after watching these again 😁😁👌👌
Your the only person I have seen that keeps the reciepts like I do (and keeps titles for years unwatched) - I feel normal now.Alien looks great - almost too new but not in a fake way, just brand new.
Gotta keep them receipts if possible, it really surprised me how long ago it was that I bought Alien 😵💫😵💫🤣 it's fun to look at them and get a surprise at times, also gives you a good reference for these videos 🤔🤩👍 yeah we are totally normal for doing that NOPE 😁😁👌👌 yeah a bit like a version for the modern era 🤔 it doesn't actually affect my enjoyment at all mate 😁😁👌👌
Good assessment, I reviewed the films recently on my channel and enjoyed your take on the technicals! 👍
Thanks Filmdirt 😁😁👍👍 I'm really surprised at the attention these Cameron 4ks have gotten and I hope that if A.I becomes a thing it won't take the jobs away from the amazing restoration teams on 4k releases mate 🤞🤞🤔🤔, cheers for watching 🤩🤩👍👍
Aliens is a film which must be presented in VHS format. It hides what needs to be hidden, it blends well with a lot of the monitor footage and it makes a lot of the props and sets look a lot more real.
I remember having Aliens on VHS not too sure of the scope of the one I had 🤔 it was a long time ago 😊 I agree with the miniatures looking more realistic in a lower definition 🤩👍
@@MondoChelloveckMovies I don't have a PC/the ability to edit but I'd love to see a video comparing the phenomenal acting and attention to detail in Aliens vs the cheap generic acting of Romulus. Ie Hudson showing convincing signs of PTSD, the undertones between Ripley and Hicks, the character developments, etc. Not to mention the set design and prop making. Thanks.
@SmokeNGunsBBQ it would be an interesting video to see for sure mate 🤔😊👍
Evening John, excellent vid...you done well watching them back to back...i agree with what you said about Aliens,looks great,i could see a fine layer of grain but also the soft scenes but still think its a great disc...did a small review myself...I'm looking forward to watching The Abyss,i hear its the best of the 3 Cameron 4ks 😊
Hi Marty did you get The Abyss mate? Yeah Aliens was fine for me Marty 🤔😁 yeah it's not 100% perfect but i enjoyed it 😁😁👍👍
@MondoChelloveckMovies Yeah I got The Abyss, did a review of it too 😁
@MadMartysMovieReviews-gv6hk I'll have to check them all out Marty as I'm interested to see your thoughts bud 🤩🤩👍👍
The soundtrack to alien has a whole backstop in itself....jerry goldsmith hated the fact a cue from a film years earlier was used along with your accurate telling of the other shining cue. I have unreleased goldsmith cues and a lot of them I agree didn't fit, but wow, alien has a great score and a bright light when retrospectively looking at this film. Love your stuff...excelsior sir
It was strange to hear this music after watching them both many times and not noticing till now 😵💫😵💫😁😁 so did Goldsmith only want his music in the movie Delboy? 🤔 the music is really fitting and very sinister at times! 👌👌 thanks a lot for saying that mate 🤩🤩 I watched the first part and the start of your video with Nige, really enjoying them Delboy! Thanks again mate 🤩🤩👍👍
@MondoChelloveckMovies such kind words. Thankyou. Never knew a person as high up as yourself, watching my little channel. Thankyou. Nige is very good to me and very encouraging for me to do better. Would love to interview you sometime if you are up for that. Yes, the score.....during editing, the decision was made to drop certain cues and replace them with some new ones but also strangely a previous goldsmith score from years back...again a horror. It's documented on the laserdisk special edition and on UA-cam. I think they wanted a different tone, but goldsmith hated it probably because he could only see the visuals in his head for the film it was intended for. Lol. Excelsior sir and thankyou.
@delboy3k1 hey no problems mate 🤩 no channels are big here, all equal Delboy 😊😊👍👍 never knew all that about the music 🤔🤯🤩 its a fascinating tale!! 🤔😊 it is probably a strange movie to picture as its nothing like anything else before!! 😱👍 yeah Nige is a great guy! So much fun and I don't think I would be as interesting as he was Delboy 🤔😵💫🤣🤣 👍👍
I watched the aliens 4k a few days ago. I thought it looked really good, and I’d known all about the negativity around it. However I thought the sound was really flat, no ooomph to it at at all. I had to check my sub hadn’t been accidentally turned off! The scenes with lots of wind and rain on lv426 just sounded front heavy with zero bass. I have a 5.1.2 set up and other discs sound amazing!
That's a shame about the sound Tom, my soundbar and sub are out of action at the moment so I have my TV speakers as reference, it sounded really wide and bassy on there but it's no comparison to an atmos set up 🤔😵💫 thanks for this info Tom 😁😁👍👍
You are correct regarding the sound.
They missed the boat with a poor Atmos mix.
Exactly the view I take. If I enjoy it that’s all that matters. I am a bit of a collector with about 800 UHDs. Alien and Aliens of course both great movies with fabulous picture and sound.
Thanks for watching Simon 🤩🤩👍👍 that's what it comes down to at the end of the day, I stick a film on and if it's good to me, then I'm happy 🤩🤩👍👍 I understand that not everyone likes the same things! I personally don't like motion smoothing but if someone else likes it then that's good as well 😁 horses for courses 👌 that's a large amount of 4ks Simon 😁😁👏👏 what do you think the best looking 4k is in your collection mate? I agree that Alien & Aliens are top drawer films 😁😁 cheers Simon 🤩🤩👍👍
@@MondoChelloveckMovies Tricky to single out one but it’s the old ones for me particulary if they were originally shot on 65mm or 70mm. Spartacus caused my jaw to drop when I first put it on, that’s probaby the best i’ve seen. Others of note, Lawrence of Arabia, Ten Commandments, Vertigo, Dark Knight, Top Gun Maverick, Jaws, Apartment, Casablanca, Dunkirk, Gladiator, The Fugitive, Pearl, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs. All in 4k, great movies with stunning pictures.
@simonmcpartlin6547 👏👏👏 you know your 4ks Simon!! 🤩🤩👍👍 I've got a fair few of these and I agree that the older 70mm prints are the best source to restore 👌👌 the information that can be pulled off them is unreal!!! So hats off Sir!!! I applaud your picks 🫡🫡🤩🤩👍👍
Hi John,
Interesting hearing your thoughts as always on the transfers, this weekend i"m hoping to get "Aliens" the 4k upgrade, & i actually did purchase "Alien Covenant the other week " to plan a binge on the movies again, as the last few i"ve only seen the once, with the success of purchases in James Cameron"s movies of late onto 4K fans could wish for one more 🤔 "The Terminator" is got to be happening soon 🙏
The Terminator is getting worked on now Carlos 👍👍 hope it's a good one mate, got to be my favourite Cameron film 🤩🤩👍👍 I need to get Covenant too 🤔👍 I'm interested to hear what you make of the Aliens 4k Carlos 🤩🤩 I'm due a full run-through of them as well, especially as I've done the first 2 in quick succession 😁😁 cheers mate, see you on Monday 😊😊👌👌
Watched 4k Alien few months ago love it not seen 4k Aliens yet
Let me know what you think of it when you see it Andy 😁😁👍👍
@@MondoChelloveckMovies will do mate 👍
Looking forward to your Crow 4k review. Not long till release 😉👍
Can't wait for this Mig!! Wanted to pick it up for years, but been waiting for a 4k for sooooo long haven't we 😱😱🤩🤩👌👌
@@MondoChelloveckMovies absolutely the same. Cannot wait. Bonafide classic. Hmv just posted mine. Nice and early for once 😅🤞
Yeah it totally is 👌👌 I might have taken my eye off the ball with this movie but it seems to have come out all of a sudden 🤯😱😁 let me know your thoughts when you get it Mig 🤩🤩👍👍
I'm a bit mixed on the Aliens 4K myself. Apart from a few parts where the sharpening and detraining made the image look bit weird, in motion it looked good. However, it doesn't really look like a film made in 1986 anymore.
It will probably still be my go to version from now on because I only like to keep one copy of the film and, unlike my copy of the old Blu-Ray, the 4K has all of the special features on it.
I agree that (apart from the 80's cheese factor) it pretty much looks like brand new movie Philip 👍 I'm trying out the blu ray from this set next and then the 4k will be my go to! Thanks for sharing your thoughts Philip 😁😁👍👍
I suspect the piece of music you're referring to is 'Dies Irae' the funeral dirge John. It gets even spookier if you look in to it, I tried to find out it's origin a few years back and couldn't as some sources put it somewhere around the 13thC and equally others claim it to be far older than that still.
All the best and hope you are well.
Interesting Oktober 🤔🤔 it's crazy to think that songs like this could have been written so long ago!! And we still play them across the world to this day!! 🤯🤯 it's a memorable piece of music for sure mate!! 😁😁👏👏
Cool, balanced review. Alien definitely looks great on 4K. Yet to pick up Aliens - though it’s high on my list.
Thanks mate, yeah not gonna bash it at all it's a great transfer in general and we'll worth picking up mate! Alien is a stunner in 4k yeah 🤩🤩👍👍 cheers for watching mate 😁😁👍👍
@@MondoChelloveckMovies You’re welcome👍. Shall definitely pickup, I just wish a complete 4K Boxset was available.
Awesome upload as always John😉🤣👍, was looking forward to your thoughts as of the conflicting reviews id heard about. I haven't watched many if I'm honest. I love both movies and like you I see Alien as a horror, but Aliens as more a action/sci-fi. I will definitely be picking up Alien. Think I'll wait for Aliens to hopefully get in a sale one day. Thanks to you and Rockgod2004 I have amassed a good amount of nasties so far. But my focus wains with so much good physical releases out there. Cheers and looking forward to the upcoming content 👍👊❤
Cheers Carl 🤩🤩👍👍 yeah Alien is a real horror movie for me as well and I think Aliens will be in a sale soon 🤔🤩👍 although I was in CEX today and they had the 4k in there for £30 so you could have got that one? 🤔🤬😬🤣 loads of nasties seem to be popping up which is great and yeah trying to get everything we want is mind bending Carl 😵💫😵💫🤣 cheers again Carl 🤩🤩👍👍
From what I've seen, I'll probably bag both of these simultaneously. This is because although both transfers are really good from what I've seen, Alien's looks much better with a transfer that look authentic and grimy. Aliens' use of AI is pretty noticeable in some areas and there are some shots where the actors look like wax figures.
Yeah Alien is definitely the best and most faithful transfer & Aliens has been tweaked for sure but for me its doesn't affect my enjoyment of the film Neb 😊😊👍👍 thanks for watching mate 👌👌
@@MondoChelloveckMoviesAlso, because I already own the 2011 Anthology release, which includes the love it-or-hate it Alien 3 and the bad comedy outclassed by its PS1 tie-in game Alien: Resurrection, I think these two 4Ks will double as nice complimentary pieces.
On further Fox Monster movie purchase choices, I'm not buying Alien: Covenant because that movie is my least favourite of the lot... But I WILL pick up Prometheus, the first and slightly better of Ridley's two later Alien films. Prey and Predator I'm going for on 4K, alongside the Predator tetralogy set on Blu-Ray to compliment my Predator and Prey 4Ks, Alien: Romulus when it chestbursts onto home video because that film rocks... And the AVP movies. Those films are the worst, ESPECIALLY Requiem which makes Covenant look like Alien and Aliens, but unfortunately, curiosity is killing the cat.
@@MondoChelloveckMovies After bagging Alien's 4K, can confirm. Beautiful transfer with improved shadows and lights that add so much to the dreary atmosphere. I'm mainly buying these two and will download the fanmade 4K "Legacy Cut" of Alien 3 as compliments to my Alien Anthology blu-ray set, anyway, soooo.... I don't care that one of these transfers suffers from AI flaws.
@NebLleb as I said if you like the way it's presented then great 🤩🤩👍👍 it's very must down to personal taste, I'm very pleased with it myself, the "legacy cut" of Alien3 🤔 never heard of that before mate 🤔🤩 does it improve the film as its not one of my favourites in the franchise 🥴😁 thanks for watching and sharing your thoughts 🤩🤩👍👍
It's Sci-fi horror..
Science fiction (sometimes shortened to SF or sci-fi) is a genre of speculative fiction, which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life. It is related to fantasy, horror,
Cheers mate, yeah Sci-fi Horror definitely not straight forward Sci fi or horror, some people I know won't touch Alien because of it Sci fi side, I say if you love horror check it out 🤩🤩👍👍
Come on ease down! jk I'm glad you're happy with both the Aliens 4K and regular blu ray. I'm just gonna stick with the blu ray from the Anthology, I don't like the whole AI thing messing with the original presentation. I watched the blu ray recently and was also blown away at how good it looks😲
The Blu Ray is really decent version DJ 🤩🤩👍👍
The Shining music or sound is on Aliens too.
That's right mate 😁😁👍👍
Goiod review John.
Cheers Mark, thanks for watching and glad to watch this now 🤩🤩👍👍
The so called directors cut of Alien is shorter than the theatrical cut.
Ridley Scott considers the theatrical cut of Alien his preferred version and I couldn't agree with him more.
It's funny how that is George 🤔🤩 I do prefer the "directors cut" as I like that extra scene myself, but its not a game changer if its not there mate 🤔🤩👍
Hello John, interesting take on the 4k over bluray of Aliens, haven't watched my copy of it or Abyss yet.
On another note have you seen the pre-order of Butcher, Baker, Nightmare maker on 4k, only £19.99 so a pretty fair price. Looks like Severin are starting to release their back catalogue of nasties for the UK.
All the best, Glenn.
Hi Glenn 😁😁👍👍 do check out the blu ray to see what I mean about a middle ground in the picture 🤔👍 I've just heard about the 4k of Butcher, I thought it was just a blu ray!! Great price as well 🤩🤩 hope they do release all thier nasties in the UK Glenn!! That would be amazing 😁😁👍👍
Great review 😊
Cheers Tetsuo 😁😁 thanks for watching mate 🤩🤩👍👍
hi john good vid mate the first two alien movies are the best good to see you doing well tc steve
Hi Steve 🤩🤩👍👍 yeah totally agree with you there mate 😊😊👌👌 thanks again Steve 🤩🤩👍👍
I'm the same as you matey and fully agree Alien is horror and not sci fi thankfully.. lol those screenshots of Aliens look superb so definitely a set I'll look to get later on down the line matey 😎👍
Yeah Marcus 🤩🤩👌👌 definitely a Horror film mate 😁😁👏👏 if you do pick up Aliens I'd be interested to see what you think of it mate 🤔😊👍
if people were happy with the Bluray then why bother buying the 4k ? its obviously going to look sharper and fresher and brighter, ive owned all copies of it and i bought the 4k upon your recommendation and it looks absolutely superb! and exactly what i expected when buying a 4k
Thanks Truthfinder 😁😁👍👍 yeah good point mate, it's definitely a personal preference, if you like it great, if not, head over to the previous blu ray and everyone's happy.... the amount of videos that say its awful is unreal 🤯🤯 so it seems like a storm in a tea cup basically 😵💫😵💫🤩🤩👍👍 thanks again bud 🤩🤩👍👍
@@MondoChelloveckMovies I'm looking to buy ALIEN on 4k this weekend, have you viewed it in 4k and if so does it look really good like ALIENS ?
@truthfilter Alien is astounding in 4k mate!! One of the best ever 👌👌👌
@@MondoChelloveckMovies awesome I'm looking forward to getting it and chilling out this weekend, take care buddy
Let me know what you make of it, personally I think you will love it, turn off the lights..... total darkness 👽😁😁👍👍
agree on all points, good job
Cheers Jason 😊😊👍👍 thanks for watching mate 🤩🤩👍👍
I liked alien 3 and alien resurrection as well john..even the 2 alien vs predator movies!
I pretty much like them all in various levels, maybe resurrection will be my least favourite of them all with a few crazy plot twists....but I would still watch it again 🤩🤩👍👍 cheers Steven 😁😁👌👌
I saw alian at the cinema when it first came out it's a top film I've got the blu ray box set
I bet that was an incredible experience Brian 🤩🤩👏👏 would love to see it on the big screen 🤔🤞🤞😁 that blu Ray boxset is essential mate 🤩🤩👍👍
Alien looks fantastic. Aliens on the other hand...
🤩🤩 your right about Alien John 👍👍 I think Aliens is diversive 🤔😁😁👍👍
@@MondoChelloveckMovies Yeah I think it's reasonable to suggest that if James Cameron presented the original unaltered version of Aliens (i.e. before he A.I. DNR'd it up the wazoo) as well in the package then I would have less complaints.
@JohnDavidSullivan I agree that Cameron should have had both options available and everyone would have been happy, I do get the feeling that Cameron is quite "my way or the highway" so he probably will never accept something as easy as that unfortunately John 🥴🥴🤩👍
I just watched the Alien 4k on the big screen with Alien day re-release. Its the only proper way to see it really.
I didn't see anything about the Alien day re-release unfortunately 🥴 I would have loved to see Alien at the Cinema 😁😁 so was Aliens also at the Cinema? 👍👍
@@MondoChelloveckMovies it was just Alien though I wish both. The new 4k picture and surround sound was just spectacular, especially the sound mix which I guess was mono back in the day. My screening was sold out!
@purefoldnz3070 yeah surprised Aliens wasn't shown more mate 🤔😊 I think I might have seen it at the Cinema back in the day 🤔🤔 but I'm unsure?? Yeah I rate this new version highly 😁😁👍👍
Hi, nice thoughts Mate, if I bought the Blu Ray disc only from somewhere, how much of an Audio downgrade would it be from the 4K Atmos?
Good question, I didn't check to see what the audio options are for the blu ray.... but I'll check it out and get back to you mate 🤩🤩👍👍
So checked out the audio on the blu ray and it's 5.1 DTS master audio and 4.1 Dolby surround (on the Theatrical cut only) so no atmos, but I'm hearing the atmos isn't that good so you might not be missing out on too much mate 🤔🤩👍
@@MondoChelloveckMovies thanks for that but do you think it's a worthwhile upgrade on the older Blu Ray which I already have?
@OzzyMandias hmmm that's a tough one....I think they are fairly similar! Both are excellent 👌 I would say, yes get the new one in a sale in a couple of months and that will help if you think they are too close 🤔🤩🤩👍👍
@@MondoChelloveckMovies Thanks for your time, very useful
Just pre order a nightmare on elm Street 4k special edition collector's set steelbook 😊
That's a great set to get Gary 🤩🤩👍👍
I've been reading and watching so much controversy about the aliens 4k. I had to try it out, the first 2 alien films are both in my top 5 films of all time so it's a real big deal to me about watching it the best way possible. I can honestly say watching aliens 4k was an absolute blast. I will never get rid of my quadrilogy boxset which is a grail to my collection but il only ever watch the 4k disc for alien and aliens........ Mostly
There's tons of stuff online about this disc Stuart!! I've stayed away from 90% of it, so I wasn't influenced in anyway! Yeah I'm very much in the camp of this is my go to way to check out Aliens from now on, but I do want to give the new blu ray a shot as well 🤔😁👍 cheers Stuart 🤩🤩👍👍
Hi John. I’ve just got round to watching Aliens 4k. I agree with your views and overall thought it’s never looked better. Hope Alien 3 gets a 4k remaster. I always liked it even though it doesn’t generally receive much love . Enjoyed it more than Prometheus and Covenant. What do you reckon?
Hi Richard 😁😁👍👍 good question 🤔🤔 I probably think that Alien3 is about tied with those 2 but I need to rewatch the lot again after seeing the first one and Aliens so it might go higher on a rewatch! 🤔 bottom of the pile is the forth one 😬😬🤣🤣🤣👍👍👍
Film preservation is done for with all these comments praising the butchering of this film. It seems people, especially James Cameron, want a 45 year old film to look like it was shot on a smartphone. It makes a travesty of the work that specialists like Sony and Arrow in particular do to skillfully restore a film when all Disney have done is outsource it, shove the blu-ray through digital processing and call it a day. Its a good film but will people be so happy to pay 4K UHD prices for up scaled blu-rays when it becomes the norm?
I agree that I don't want the film restorers that do amazing things with getting the most out of an original negatives to be replaced by A.I Nick 👍👍 its an art form that is highly specialised 👏👏 personally I think Cameron and maybe Disney could take this route but the boutique labels putting out old horror cult movies will always stay away from it.....hopefully 🤞🤞🤩🤩 Cheers for commenting Nick 😁😁👍👍
Were the 2 horrendously amateurish back projection scenes in Aliens fixed in the new version? Those are the scene when the drop ship crashes behind Ripley and the other where the alien queens eggsack is exploding behind Ripley?
I noticed recently that if you rotate the p in Ripley through 180 degrees that the new word spells ridley. Weird huh?
Hi David, those scenes don't seem to be "fixed" at all!! They stand out even more on the 4k!! I don't mind that in a way mate 🤔🤩 one thing I did notice that was when Bishop is on the deck and he grabs Newt you didn't see the glaring hole on the ground where he's sticking through, so that's been fixed possibly 🤔 hmmm that's a good spot there David!! Never thought that before 🤩🤩👍👍
The 4k just looks much better. I saw details that the blu ray never could.
Yeah I really agree with you there William 🤩🤩👌👌
The director's cut of Alien is actually shorter!
Yeah Keith, it's mad that and it always catches me out that one 😵💫🤩🤩👍👍
Such a fucking shame we never got the abyss have u imported it john 😕
I know 🤬🤬 I haven't imported it yet Paul, but definitely will at some point mate 😁😁 are you importing it Paul? 👍👍
Yes mate gonna order it from wow HD had a few bits from them before the warriors on arrow and that😊
Alien is probably the greatest film ever made. Hard to believe it was made in 1979
I agree it's such a well made movie!! It can't be topped in the space horror genre!! I would love to stick it on for a youngster and ask them what year it was from!! Bet non would believe it was 1979 🤯🤯🤩🤩👍👍
I have no comments on quality of releases, but I’ve always thought of ”Aliens” as cheesy action; lots of explosions, noisy and those silly marines are not believable for one second. Entertaining, yes, but not a work of art like the first one. That one holds up so many years later and will continue to do so, I think.
Thanks for your views Claes 😁😁👍👍 I definitely think Alien is the better movie for me and weill never age at all, Aliens is definitely of its time but I do love a good cheesy action film and this one is definitely that 🤩🤩👍👍
I just brought my copy from HMV today... I was disappointed by the image... I sat with my Blu-ray disc (2012) and watch my copy of the 4K Ultra HD and it's Blu-ray both discs have DNR'd to DEATH I will be taking my copy back tomorrow with the repciept and exchange for something else. I'm a DIE HARD fan of ALIENS but a disc pressed in 2012 still looks better then a disc pressed in 2024 is saying something ALIEN released by FOX looks stunning I can't lie... Thank GOD Fox released ALIEN, PREDATOR & PREDATOR 2 before this Disney take over. But I don't think it's Disney's fault on this occasion as James Cameron finalised this 4K... It's easy to tell a GOOD 4K restoration from their original camera negatives in 2024 but ALIENS... You know what the DEATH of physical media is? DNR What cancer to FILM DNR has become..... Your a good fellow, I love watching your reviews but what your old Blu-ray after watching this waxed 2024 pressed disc... £24.99 many fans are on the same page about this release... I tried to avoid their hate, but I now feel I'm in the same boat
Cheers Paul for your views mate 😊👍 I can see why people won't like this presentation 🤔👍 I did mention on the previous video about Aliens that the 2012 blu ray was really nice 😊😊 I don't like DNR and hope to god it doesn't become the norm Paul 🤞🤞🥶🥶 cheers again mate and thanks for the support 😊😊👍👍
Ya probs best boycotting any Cameron films in the future. I would have preferred a true film restoration myself, but I'm OK with this release, it's like another edition and I can choose depending on my mood.
I'm intrigued to see if anyone else goes down this A.I route or is it just Cameron Ian? 🤔 cheers for watching mate 🤩🤩👍👍
@@MondoChelloveckMovies I enjoy your video mate.
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I absolutely love both movies. The 4k of both are fantastic. The Aliens 4K is great. I don't know why everyone complains. Get used to it people. You're never going to get just a plain 4k transfer. Also the reason you can hear the same music is that the music composed to fit the film, was felt, by the producers, and director, not ro fit the movie. So they kept some of the music used to track the film (ie show it to test audiences and preparing effects) and ditched a lot of the composers original material for the film.
Cheers for watching mate 🤩🤩👍👍 yeah Aliens got loads of flak but I do think that if A.I had been kept a "secret" then I don't think there would be too many complaints 🤔😵💫🤣 I've heard (in the comments) similar stories about the soundtrack and why certain things were added and dropped, quite fascinating mate 🤩🤩👍👍
I think both aliens and abyss look and sound great,yeh I would have loved a film restoration but this was never happening with Cameron. Got mine from usa and the 2nd batch don't have stickers.
True lies in the other hand was awful.
I've heard that the 4k of The Abyss is great but that True Lies is the lowest of them, yeah but I think apart from The Terminator and the redo of Terminator 2, I think there isn't any other movies of his to "remaster" Ian 🤔 oh yeah.......Piranha II 😵💫😵💫🤣🤣👍👍
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I don't like what was done to Aliens on 4k. Worse than the grain removal is the sharpening. It looks unnatural. (I looks like that "Sharpen" filter in photo editing software.) It's not even consistent. Hair strands and reflected light in eyes looks overly crisp and bright compared to the rest of the face. It a shame this happened. But It's not about what we want; it's about James Cameron wants. We are just the little people who made him a billionaire.
We will never change Cameron as he has a "vision" he will always go to unfortunately so we are at his mercy when it comes to his films Gary 🤔 I find the blu ray to be more consistent if you wanted it that way Gary, it's a definite thing with Cameron that he loves messing around with the lastest tech! Cheers Gary 🤩🤩👍👍
Stop ripping it and watch it for a great movie it is
The movie looks fine in 4K. I saw details I have never seen before. I understand why Cameron wanted to show this to the world. If you don’t like it don’t watch it :)
@gameindustryinsider6450 your right about the details mate 😊😊👍👍 I noticed the sets a LOT more and saw special effects in a different way 🤔😊 I agree there is always a different version to check out if the 4k is not to your taste 👍👍 cheers for watching mate 🤩🤩👍👍
Yeah needs to be put to bed on UA-cam now, everyone knows the history either enjoy it or don't watch it 😵💫🤩 I agree Edward 😊😊👍👍
The Abyss and Aliens look superb on my 12ft wide screen.Anyone who thinks otherwise should really look at the settings they have on their TV/projector.
I can imagine Stephen 🤩🤩👍👍 that's a good point as settings can really make a difference! Sometimes I get a strange look to a movie, then alter a setting and it looks amazing!! Lot to be said about that mate 🤔🤩🤩👏👏