You also get a gallery of stills, and the inevitable collection of trailers, as well as a Blu-ray exclusive, the Weyland-Yutani archives. You get over 20 minutes in total, and it’s hard to complain too much about the content here. And maybe it would have been, but surely location is but one ingredient, and not the vital one? Fight To The Finish, meanwhile, is just over ten minutes, and documents the time pressure the Strauses were under to deliver their cut, and get the R rating that they craved.Ī trio of effects featurettes follow, and these are quite good, They talk about how the look of the alien was slightly changed for the film, putting together the homeworld of the predators, and – of course – the PredAlien hybrid that marks the opening shot of the film, and generates perhaps the only thing worth talking about in the film proper. Colin Strause, interestingly, talks about how he approached this film by trying to work out what would be scarier than the original Alien movie, and concluded bringing it to Earth is the logical step. The Preparing For War featurette, for instance, lasts just north of quarter of an hour, and nobody says a single thing that hasn’t been long-approved by the Fox marketing department. This is, of course, one larger documentary broken down into lots of bits to fill the menu screen up, but you do get a fair bit for your money. So chalk both commentary tracks up as successes of different sorts.Īlso on the disc is a long list of featurettes. They entertain a lot less as they do so, but you will get a lot of factual nuggets. These two are the effects maestros, and while they do try and flog their book to you at one point, in terms of cold information, they have a lot more to say than Messrs Strause, Strause and Davis. The second commentary, from Tom Woodruff Jr and Alex Gillis, is drier yet more informative. Why don’t you make a Batman movie without the suit next? That’d save a few quid. For instance, why doesn’t the Alien acid melt people this time round? Ah, that’s easy. They usually manage to drag you back down to earth though. But on the other hand, their enthusiasm for it still makes for an engaging track. Sometimes, though, you don’t know whether they’ve actually sit through the shambles of a movie they all managed to put together – the invitation to come round and meet the effects boys is one that one or two less enthusiastic recipients of the film may well choose to take up. ![]() ![]() Get them on special effects, clearly their forte, and they dig into far more detail, and the commentary suddenly has real merit and interest (love the anecdote about cutting all of Arnie’s dialogue from the original Predator, too). Whenever there’s a need to talk about filmmaking proper, it descends into a volley of ‘cool’, ‘exactly’ and stuff like that. It’s a fascinating commentary track, to be fair.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |