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If all of this weren't enough - really, can you stand it? - The ALIEN Quadrilogy includes a ninth bonus disc, available only in the set. (Each of the above two-disc ALIEN sets will be made available separately in January 2004). Since the whole box is only $99.95, is it worth it to pick it up for the bonus disc? Well, it is sorta good, sorta dull, so if you are a hardcore fan, go for it. If not, you're probably only going to buy ALIEN and ALIENS anyway…
First off, we have a Bob Burns featurette, Aliens in the Basement, a 16-minute look at Burns' collection of all things ALIEN. A fascinating guy, but a bit much. Also here is a gallery of Dark Horse comic covers involving those cute little extra-terrestrials Weaver loves so much. But is this really necessary? Then we get a bunch of more stuff broken down, film by film.
An odd inclusion is the 60-minute documentary Alien Evolution, which rehashes much of the information already found on this set, but in a more easily-digestible version. Also included is a bland but cute promotional EPK featurette from 1979, and a Q&A with Ridley Scott filmed at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood earlier this year. And in a very nice touch, included is what appears to all of the text-based material included in the 1992 LaserDisc box set that was a benchmark for its time. Much of this is now-antiquated stuff, but what a nerd's paradise!
ALIENS fans can look forward to, again, the complete LaserDisc text archive, and that is about it. The bonus extra for ALIEN 3 is also weak. There is an Advance Documentary that is just a lame EPK featurette, even more humorous because we all know what happened to that film. It runs a whopping 3 minutes. And ALIEN Resurrection is also sparsely represented with, well, nothing at all.
Rounding it out is a gallery of trailers and TV spots. ALIEN: a teaser and trailer (in 1.85:1 anamorphic and 2.0 stereo) and two TV spots. ALIENS: a teaser, two domestic trailers and an international trailer (all in full screen only) plus a single TV spot. ALIEN 3: five theatrical trailers (all in 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen and Dolby 5.1) and seven TV spots. And ALIEN Resurrection: a theatrical trailer and teaser (in 1.85:1 anamorphic and 2.0 stereo) and four TV spots.
