Aliens (1986) 4K UHD Blu-ray Review! 

@MovieGuy365 Adam, would you say it is worth getting the Aliens on 4K when the price drops to around the $15 - $20 mark (the newer supplementals seem interesting), or just keep the Aliens Blu-ray from 2012? Maybe one day Arrow, or another boutique label, will get a turn at releasing it on 4K, with a better result! Thanks for your review 😊

@robbies273secondhat-trick7 I’d say wait for a deal if you’re on the fence.

@@MovieGuy365 Last question 😁 How does the Blu-ray, that comes with the new 4K, compare with the 2012 version? Would I be right to assume some tinkering has been done, so visually it now differs? Thanks in advance.

@@robbies273secondhat-trick7got it on 4K already lol 😂 bro 😎

@@DevilFan669Have you watched it yet? Is it an improvement on the 2012 blu-ray (or the blu-ray that was included in the Alien Anthology boxset) to your eyes? 😊

Brilliant actor loved him in weird science 💩

He died 7 years ago...

Agreed, simply stunning remastering by Cameron & his team,….I really don’t care what Purist think about FILM GRAIN, I bought a Samsung 85inch & a Panasonic 4K player so I can see these films with little to no film grain😂😂😂😂…and Abyss, True Lies & Aliens all deliver perfectly….Abyss & Aliens is dam near as good as Avatar 1 & 2 for me….Thx’s Cameron 🎥🍿

@@popnfresh2928 How did it take for you to get? I ordered the abyss on from Amazon 3/12 and still don't have an estimated ship date :(

I agree! What I do is I take an x-acto knife to veeerrryyy carefully pick up a corner of the sticker and very carefully peel it off. Any sticky residue that remains, a little bit of rubbing alcohol on a q-tip usually takes care of it, with minimal/no damage if you are careful.

They certainly are. Someone posted on Reddit a way to get them off if you are interested in looking that up.

Use a little heat. Hair dryer should be fine. That way it's no chemicals. But yes rubbing alcohol is tried and true. But it can eat through the art if scrubbed a bit. I've had bad experience with other foiled slips.

Slipcovers are annoying and a waste of time!!

Hair dryer.

That will never happen.

While I do think she is really good in this series, she's also a nepotism beneficiary that probably never would've gotten this and other roles if her dad wasn't a TV executive with a lot of connections. So, mixed feelings about the idea of her getting an Oscar for it.

@@nicodimus2222 Same could be said about a lot of Stars, whose kids have gone into Acting! Michael Douglas, Jamie Lee Curtis, Gwyneth Paltrow etc. None of them would last as long as they have, if they didn’t have the Talent to back it up! All Oscar Winners!

@@nicodimus2222 There is a lot of nepotism in the movie industry, and it has been since the beginning.

@@slimdude2011 Maybe so. I still think it's worth pointing out, as well as observing the performances themselves as objectively as possible. I didn't completely trash Weaver...in fact, I was complimentary of her in this series.

Demons, and the less good but still watchable, Demons 2, are both available on 4K (by Arrow Video). At least they are in the UK. Hope that helps 😊

@@robbies273secondhat-trick7 Yes it does help, because I'm going over to Amazon to check and see. I know that there's a Demons 1&2 blu ray combo version that I already own, but I'd love to see what the first Demons would look like in 4k. Anyway... Thanks for the info.

They were both released together by synapse films in 4K in the US. I imported the arrow of the first film from the UK though.

@@VIDEOgameDROME Yeah...I found them on Amazon, but they're out of stock for the 4K blu ray version. I'll keep checking back from time to time to see if I can catch them in stock.

I'm in the same boat with my copy as well. I should have just gotten it at Walmart

@@32lilbruce same here, now they’re all gone and greedpigs are selling them off on eBay. I saw one guy selling the Oppenheimer steelbook on there for $1200 and it made my blood and piss boil 🤬

It won't be a problem. The only reason this occurred is because Disney's supply chain dropped the ball on the number of units they produced (in error). Paramount and others wouldn't have made the same mistake.

@@ScruffyWarlord that’s good to know, I was ready for the worst when I got the delay notice. Thanks for the heads up!

Hopefully they will push it out to you alot sooner than they (Amazon) tells you…I was told April 4th for my pre-orders,…then next day, Amazon said, Abyss is being delivered that day & then True Lies & Aliens, can a day later….so fingers crossed for you….All 3 Movies are stunning 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

Who cares about your age ?

@@MrCarpen7er Is that the only question that come to you after reading 3 paragraphs of explanation?

​@@SteviesCornerRU-vidChannelIt's just how people are today, brother. Shallow, one dimensional and obtuse. I'm 51 myself and just watched the 4K last night.

I'm 42 and I think it looks amazing I would of appreciated slighty more grain . This is no where close to predator or T2 bd that most people are defining it to be

What scene is that?

@@gilbertrios5283 lol.. If u have never seen the full uncut version?! You are in for a treat 😊

@@moonfuzz8444 you talking about the sentry auto machine guns? Yes I've seen the extended cut and yes it's as Cameron describes it in the opening as "40 miles of bad road"

@@gilbertrios5283 argh a quote from the film Near Dark by Bill paxton, great lil film and directed at the time by Cameron wife.. Now ex wife.. Sry I don't agree the extra footage is really good imo but I will say there is one scene that does make me cringe abit in the extended cut and sadly again it involves bill paxton when he's in the drop ship bragging about their protection for Ripley and the nukes on board..! That scene they could have left out!

@@moonfuzz8444 you misunderstood me, I think the extended cut is the shit! And the 40 miles of bad road refers to how much more insane the extended cut is to the theatrical cut. The extended cut is the way to go no doubt and yes the sentry gun scene is killer good!

Yeah, looks like an AI-generated image (whether it was or not!).

The “word” which has not been confirmed one way or the other. If and when that has been verified, I’ll make a note in the pinned comments.

The "word" is the bird. Could also be BS.

​@@jctai100 According to another review I watched, and the same question was asked, that it is indeed a native 4k transfer. I didn't do any research myself but, personally, I think it looks amazing. Like it came out last year instead of the 80's.

There's scratches in the same spots as the old Blu-ray so they didn't even bother to scan it in at 4K. It's also missing sound effects like the ramp closing when Spunkmeier is about to take off.

@@VIDEOgameDROME Really, I heard Titanic is missing audio to!

the 4k image on Aliens is literally horrible. Seek out some more information and maybe some images of how it looks yourself before going anywhere near it.

Alien 4k was my first 4k experience and it blew me away. Aliens 4k looks incredible. The details are so awesome it looks like it was released last year.

@@tedmetalhead6177 Every pixel of that Aliens "4k" is literally just fake AI generated detail. Like in reality that is unquestionable and objective. The subjective part is whether this fake image is successful and many professionals and videophiles can see that it looks awful. But some less familiar with film and how things are supposed to look are being tricked by the sharpness of the fake image. It is to be expected tbh, these are some of the biggest titles to hit 4k so of course the more general consumers are picking this up and saying hey looks sharp thats cool. They probably have their TVs still set to Vivid LOL

@@tjdw5251 men!!!!! Perfect comment!!!! +1

@@tjdw5251 Lol, I love Aliens (and still happy with the older 1080p blu-ray) so I'm worried that I'll agree with you, but I still want to see this new release with my own eyes! I'll probably wait until it's cheaper then give it a try, but I'm not getting rid of the older discs.

It’s not that they want “more” grain, they just want the grain that was there not removed. All film has grain and grain is detail. When you remove grain you remove detail. That’s like taking your favorite painting and removing the brushstrokes from it. So basically Cameron has scrubbed the grain away and then used A.I. to film in the gabs and over-sharpened the images to compensate. Plus the colors do t look right imo.

Grain is not detail in itself, it is noise in front of the details, an artifact of the film medium. That said denoising is very hard and removing grain noise usually results in a smeared, vaseline looks because the algorithms have no idea what is true detail and what is just noise. Denoisers have gotten more intelligent and better over time though and Aliens is a decent example of it but denoising will always be trade off. A cleaner image vs some true detail getting lost. *edit When I said Aliens look decent I was only referring to the denoising. Otherwise it is an atrocity and an example of lazyness. They didn't even do a proper 4k scan, they used the same assets they got when they did the bluray version and just upscaled it. It is not even in real HDR, it is just SDR in HDR container. Really, I could just watch my 1080p rip from my HTPC and use my graphics cards Nvidia Super Resolution and SDR to HDR upscaler features and get similar results. Probably even better as far as HDR is concerned even if the effect is just faked.

@@Fzane-mn8fhThere are plenty of movies shot on film that look cleaned up while remaining true to the original material. All depends on the restoration/remastering process. Alien looks great. Aliens looks weird as hell.

Yes

same awful AI generated transfers. so no lol

What's a DVD?

Amazon is a safe bet for most Blu-rays and DVDs, or eBay for stuff no longer available new.

No both are in 4K.

I’m not gonna throw my Aliens Anthology sets away because Alien 3 and Alien Resurrection I have on blu ray but the first 2 Alien movies I have on 4K now lol 😂

@@DevilFan669same lol😅

I'm in Canada. I didn't know walmart would be selling i for that cheap. How was it so cheap?

@@ScruffyWarlord abyss and true lies were also 24.95

I haven't seen it at my walmarts, but I did see it at Mcnalley Robinson for 27.95 CAD

Got my copy already lol 😂 bro 😎

March 25 for me. You'll get one, the delays are annoying for sure.

The hero is the Alien Anthology blu-ray set.

not as bad as the transfer trust me

in that case, ez pass @@tjdw5251

That is a deleted scene and has never been included in either cut of the movie.

You can see things you couldn't see before because he used AI which makes guesses as to what it should be. The detail is computer-generated.

Nothing was scrubbed. The grain removal isn’t like normal DNR, it removed the grain filter and leaves the detail. The AI is used for colouration.

@@benpascall4297 I don't think you understand how grain works. It's not an 'extra layer' on top of another layer, it's part of the film. The AI was used to artificially insert detail that wasn't there. You should research this more. Saying 'nothing was scrubbed' is objectively false.

@@myzamau428 please don’t patronise me. I’ve been collecting physical media since VHS days and I know very much what grain is and am a massive fan and defender of it in film stock of all kinds. I also wouldn’t condescend Cameron, one of the modern worlds most achieved film makers to say that he also doesn’t understand what film grain is. At the end of the day, it’s the look he wants for HIS films, so accept it as his choice. I’ll defend film grain to the hilt when people complain about it. I have a degree in film and have a high end setup, including an LG G3 display. The AI hasn’t added anything which wasn’t originally there in the OCN. It’s removed the grain and changed the colour of the movie. If you’re trying to say it’s the same result as T2, I would hazard a guess that you don’t actually own this disc and are just another bandwagon jumper.

@@benpascall4297 If you had a degree in film then you'd have not posted what you originally said. You're also wrong on the AI not adding things that weren't there. That's not a guess, that's a fact. You aren't fooling anyone with an actual knowledge of how film works.

@@myzamau428 stfu - you don’t even own the disc. I don’t give a toss whether I convince you or not, you’re likely a 16 your old popping his spots into a mirror just regurgitating the same lines other people have on these forums. Leave film reviewing to the adults please. Bye bye. 👋

Exactly. Artificially grain!!!!!! Is a trash!!!!! Look faces something wrong!!!! No natural expressions!!!

yh, your opinion needs to be dismissed lmao Is this James Cameron?

I 100 percent agree! these guys that get off on grain are so strange

The problem is that the grain itself IS the film. That's what people don't understand. When you are removing grain you are removing the pixelage itself right out of the image. That's what you grain haters just don't see to get.@@tdg223

I agree to a point, so long as faces and stuff aren't taking on that waxy look - you know, to the point where people start looking like what you imagine an android might look like. A little bit of that with True Lies, but I personally think that the Aliens transfer is great. I loved it.

Not sure if you're trolling, but the grain is literally the picture, without it you're looking at bright light being shone through transparent film...

@@BL-ob9fn happy with the restoration looks cleaner an more detailed, could care leas if the grain is there or not

lol 😂 bro 😎 facts!!!

Grain is detail. What an ignorant comment.