The Alien Legacy

Starring:Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt, Ian Holm, Yaphet Kotto, Bolaji Badejo, Helen Horton, Eddie Powell, Carrie Henn, Michael Biehn, Lance Henriksen, Paul Reiser, Bill Paxton, William Hope, Jenette Goldstein, Al Matthews, Mark Rolston
Director: Ridley Scott, James Cameron, David Fincher
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Product Type: DVD

Customer Reviews:

1 for DVD conversion - 5 for the story.......2007-06-12

Even as a former agnostic and now one of the Christian faith, I am still intrigued by this movie and its suggestion of the aliens and their involvement with Earth. To say any more would be a big spoiler.

I watched this movie years ago and still enjoy it today. Yes, it has a bit of cheesy acting. However, it is a good story overall. The alien ship, the alien library, the Earth scientists trying to figure out how the ship works, etc. It is all interesting to watch. This sums up my 5 stars for the story.

The major disappointment is the DVD conversion. I bought a DVD of the first attempt at converting The Final Countdown to DVD. This is even worse than that was - and it was pretty bad. There is no attempt to clean up the picture or 'crisp up' the colors. Even the sound is a bit muffled that I had to turn up the volume on my laptop to hear it.

If you are DVD movie buff - especially of movies from the late 1970's and 1980's - this is one for your collection. If you are not a big fan, you may want to hold off. A company finally got a hold of The Final Countdown, cleaned it up and released an excellent DVD. I am hoping that the same happens with Hangar 18 some day / month / year / decade.

hanger 18 holds true.......2007-05-28

Dispite the fact that it has been over twenty years since I saw this movie,I would still give it a good rating.I was disappointed with the quality of the dvd all together.The sound was just as bad and hard to understand sometimes.I had the volune of my t.v. set to over 48 to be able to hear the dialogue.But enough bad points about the movie,On to the good points!The story still holds through the twenty plus years since it's release.The characters are somewhat two-dimensional,but the story itself is good enough to keep your interest through and through.The effects are typical 80's along with the sound effects.The twist about the president being a non ufo believer was a good add on to the whole of the story.Darren Mcgavin was... well Darren Mcgavin,need I say anymore?He brought his ususual character and colorfullness to this movie and it showed.Robert Vaughn plays his typical character that has good intentions gone bad.Gary Collins,plays the good guy wrongly accused along with his fellow astronaut,James Hampton.There were certain points in the movie when I thought I was watching Apollo and Starbuck from the REAL Battlestar Galactica( Not that abomination on the sci-fi channel!!!)in conversation.It also reminded me at certain points of Capricorn One without O.J.Simpson (Thank God!).If you decide to buy this movie be ready to be disappointed by the audio and video transfer quality.The story and action from it however,will make up for the down side of the movie.There are some scenes in the motion picture that leaves one to wonder how close is this movie in relation to the 1947 Roswell incident,Anyone care to comment?Overall,Hanger 18 holds true to the whole of the plot and story line.

HANGAR 18.......2007-02-20

This movie is one of the few sci-fi movies which is still one of the best
movies to come out way back, it still has the interest in the subject of
UFOs, and is a must movie to have in your collection of sci-fi films.
to me Hanger 18 is one of the classic's which has a host of stars,the late
Darren McGavin and another great actor Robert Vaughin, the dvd runs for
Approx.97min. and still is very good value for money.
a must have.

This movie is so realistic it is a deffinate must see........2007-01-19

This movie is so realistic that I find it difficult to adequately describe it. This movie is a work of fiction to my understanding, but after watching this movie I really do believe that the veiwer also will agree that this is how the government operates and this could actually happen and be for real.

hangar 18 purchase.......2007-01-03

the service and shipping of this item was quick and professional. the quality was as described. they did a wonderful job

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GREAT GIFT FOR ALIEN FAN!
Great
LIKE THE REVIEWERS SAID BELOW, BUY THE ALIEN QUADRILOGY
I've got the quadrilogy but not the legacy.
What can be said about this classic series ...

The Alien Legacy
Starring: Tom Skerritt , Sigourney Weaver , Veronica Cartwright , Harry Dean Stanton , and John Hurt
Director: Ridley Scott , James Cameron , and David Fincher
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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An interesting feature of Alien, Aliens, Alien 3, and Alien Resurrection, worth watching together if only for the chance to see how different directors handle essentially the same idea. The results are decidedly mixed. Ridley Scott's Alien is the most traditional of the bunch, essentially a haunted-house picture set on a space freighter, where a monster is picking off crew members one by one. James Cameron's Aliens is the all-out adrenaline bath, a pulse-pounding action thriller from start to finish. It plays a little like a Western in outer space, where the settlers are waiting for a cavalry that never comes--and the Indians are acid-veined aliens. And David Fincher's Alien 3 is the rock-video version, in which substance and storytelling are sacrificed to editing and imagery, as the aliens attempt to take over a space penal colony. --Marshall Fine

Customer Reviews:

GREAT GIFT FOR ALIEN FAN!.......2007-04-05

Bought this for my husband as he loves the Alien's movies. He loved the gift set and enjoyed watching all the DVD's!

Great.......2005-09-30

I received the dvds in a timely manner and they look great. I have not had time to watch them yet. I'm waiting for a cold day when I can watch them all.

LIKE THE REVIEWERS SAID BELOW, BUY THE ALIEN QUADRILOGY.......2004-10-27

This is an OK set, but the Alien Quadrilogy is FAR better. The Alien Quadrilogy is a nine disc set, with two versions of all four movies, and they are the theatrical version, and the director's cut (Alien only) or special edition (Aliens, Alien 3 and Alien Resurrection) of each film. And there is about 50 hours of special features. It's $74.99 at Amazon.

This Alien Legacy set contains only one version of each film and they are the theatrical versions of each film (except for Aliens).

I've got the quadrilogy but not the legacy........2004-09-01

Alien: A classic. story: starts out, the crew of a commercial
starfrieghter are awoken from their hypersleep when the ships
A.I. reads that their is a S.O.S. coming from a strang planet.
They set their ship down the planet. Ship crashes they are stranded. They find a derilict ship, they go down to investigate.
One of the crew members that is lowered into a hole doesn't responed. They pull him up. they find a parasite attached to his
face. They cant get it off they try cut it. Acit comes out. Eats
throught floor. Thing seems to come by itself and die.
crewmember regains concousness,seems to be fine.
They eat dinner, he starts to thrash out like a crazy person
a Alien comes bursting out his chest escapes
in the labyrinth of the Nostromo, sheds its skin grows big
kills all the crewmembers except for. Ripley escapes, blows up
ship, finds out alien is on shuttle blows it out of the airlock.

Aliens: A classic: Story: Ripley upon blowing the nostromos
engines escaping in the shuttle, the Narccassis, blowing
the monster out of the airlock, she goes in hypersleep.
But, she ends up not being found for 57 years. A deep salvage
team finds her, brings her and her cat Jones to a space
station they revive, she finds out how long that she has been
out their. She has a meeting with Van Lewen and his Co-workers
to discuss why she blew the Nostromo's engines. She
tells them that a xenomorph was involved but no one believes
her when she says that their is hostile life on LV-426.
To her shock she finds out that 20 years after the nostromo's
engines blew people had started colonizing LV-426, and other
planets. She tries to warn Van Lewin by saying that they
could be in danger. But he doesn't listen. While she is
in her apartment Burke, and luitenent Gorman knock on her
door to tell her that they've lost contact with
a colony on LV-426, and that her so-called "xenomorph" may
be involved. He says that if she goes in with the marines
then her liscence as a flight officer will be granted back to
her. She goes in with the Marines. They find one survivor
wich is a little girl named Rebecca Jordon, but her nickname is
"Newt." They ask her what killed her family, but she is
too traumatized to tell. They explore the atmosphere proccesser.
Find a nest, aliens come out, kill most of the marines, they
try to evacuate, a alien gets on the dropship. Dropship crashes.
They must blow up the colony, they do, Ripley, Bishop, Hicks, and
Newt escape, only when they escape the queen attaches herself
to their ship, she lays an egg(but that wont be revieled till Alien 3...it a queen facehugger in the egg) They blow the queen
out of the airlock. They think its all over. They go in hypersleep.

Alien 3 Also a Classic. Story: Newt, Hicks, Bishop, And Riply
are in hypersleep, the egg that the queen laid erlier has
hatched a queen facehugger is lose on the Sulaco. It jumps out
pokes a hole Newts cryo tube, cuts itself. Acid leaks
out, starts an electrical fire, the queen attaches itself to
Ripley's face. Computer automatically ejects theire tubes into
an escape pod. face hugger hops out. Hides somewhere in the pod.
The pod detaches from the USS Sulaco. Pod lands on Fury 161,
wich is a penal colony filled with rapists and murderers.
Pod hits the ground, a saftey support crashes through Hick's
cryo tube, his head gets splattered and smashed.
What leaks through a whole in Newts cryo tube. She drowns.
Bishop Gets smashed to bits. Alien facehugger lays embreyo inside
dog, bursts out dogs chest. Prisoners have no weapons.
They lure into the lead. kill it. ripley sacrafices herself.
and that is enough!

What can be said about this classic series ... .......2004-08-24

OK the 4 discs in this set are great ..... They had been digitally remastered THX sound and the video is better than the first disks that came out with the individual movie .... BUT .... if you are an aficionado of both the Alien series and of video DVD's then don'y buy this set but kick out double the bucks to buy the 2003 Alien Quadrilogy .... There are tons of new sceneces on that set AND most importantly all the movies were reworked and are BRIGHTER CRISPER and well just plain unbelievable ....

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The Alien Legacy [Region 2]
Starring: Dan O'Bannon , Ronald Shusett , Ridley Scott , John Mollo , and Ian Holm
Director: Michael Matessino
ProductGroup: DVD
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