Agreed. I have read numerous statements that Cameron purposely opted for a film stock that would give high levels of grain. The movie was simply shot this way. I'm not all for excessive grain personally - I find it distracts from my viewing pleasure. I watched Alien the other day - great...
Sorry for the delay in replying to you guys. I've locked myself away for the past few days trying to digest all this new Alien material. I've now watched discs 1, 2, 5, 6, 8 and the deleted scenes from disc 7. The extras on disc 2 are awsome - this is a perfect documentary (wish Alien 3's could...
what a fantastic set - I've had it for 3 blissful days now, and I can't tell you how much quality work has gone into this set. So far, I have only viewed Alien 3 material (surprise) and it's is great stuff. Things I thought Iwould never see are now presented in all it's THX glory. The...
This is such a shame about the Alien 3 doc cuts. When I first read about this in the Bit’s book, I thought that maybe it was just minor cuts here and there – but not a whopping 30 minutes! To be quite honest, I for one wish the details of these cuts were never made public – it makes me depressed...
thanks for putting this into perspective for us Bill - another excellent post :emoji_thumbsup: :emoji_thumbsup: Just one last question for you Bill (honest!) - is there any deleted scenes/alternate takes included in the suppliments disc for Alien 3? I know much of the deleted material will...
originally they were all included (composite version) and the film was fully completed in post. Ridley decided to rethink this late in the process and decided to only include a few of the deleted scenes but at the same time remove some of the original footage to maintain the running time and...