Great video John Alien is my all time favourite movie and the 4K is amazing. I saw that his film opening Day in1979’in Bournemouth 😎😎😎 I watched Aliens 4K last night and I was really impressed with the 4K😎

Just watched Aliens last night, could see a few scenes where picture was soft and oversharpened, but for the rest, I thought it looked fantastic. It was so clear, I picked up a a goof with a prop towards the end when Hicks is in the pod and his IV bag has an expiration date for 1987.

I put Alien up there with The Thing. Two old school sci-fi horror classics, and the 4k transfers of both are impeccable

I really liked the transfer on both Alien & Aliens. The motion also looks smoother on Aliens with great clarity and detail. I'm very happy with it.

I've been reading and watching so much controversy about the aliens 4k. I had to try it out, the first 2 alien films are both in my top 5 films of all time so it's a real big deal to me about watching it the best way possible. I can honestly say watching aliens 4k was an absolute blast. I will never get rid of my quadrilogy boxset which is a grail to my collection but il only ever watch the 4k disc for alien and aliens........ Mostly

Great review. I agree. Alien is on of the best 4Ks I've seen. As for Aliens, I loved every second of it and I wanted to watch it over again right away.

Hi John, I've now watched both your Aliens videos after watching Aliens 4K myself, followed by a quick comparison with the bluray. I had a great time with the 4k and couldn't believe the sharpness of it. Btw, Aliens is one of my all-time favourite movies, so i was really looking forward to this. I've seen other reviews and comments about how it's been "ruined," but i don't agree. Keep up the great videos John. 👍👍

Great timing with this video, I rewatched Alien on 4k last night and really enjoyed it. It looked fantastic! Looking forward to trying Aliens 4k. Thanks for the video!

I need to rewatch both of these myself in 4K. Thank you for sharing your rights, John.

Evening John, excellent vid...you done well watching them back to back...i agree with what you said about Aliens,looks great,i could see a fine layer of grain but also the soft scenes but still think its a great disc...did a small review myself...I'm looking forward to watching The Abyss,i hear its the best of the 3 Cameron 4ks 😊

Just watched aliens today. It looked fantastic to me. I personally didn't find Cameron's adjustments of this new scan a distraction at all. The only thing for was atmos felt a bit flat for me. But at same time its an older movie. Alien is incredible. Its my favourite. That 4k is the perfect representation of that incredible movie.

2 fantastic movies and both 4 k uhd Blu-rays looked gorgeous on my setup 😍

Awesome upload as always John😉🤣👍, was looking forward to your thoughts as of the conflicting reviews id heard about. I haven't watched many if I'm honest. I love both movies and like you I see Alien as a horror, but Aliens as more a action/sci-fi. I will definitely be picking up Alien. Think I'll wait for Aliens to hopefully get in a sale one day. Thanks to you and Rockgod2004 I have amassed a good amount of nasties so far. But my focus wains with so much good physical releases out there. Cheers and looking forward to the upcoming content 👍👊❤

Hi John, Interesting hearing your thoughts as always on the transfers, this weekend i"m hoping to get "Aliens" the 4k upgrade, & i actually did purchase "Alien Covenant the other week " to plan a binge on the movies again, as the last few i"ve only seen the once, with the success of purchases in James Cameron"s movies of late onto 4K fans could wish for one more 🤔 "The Terminator" is got to be happening soon 🙏

Good assessment, I reviewed the films recently on my channel and enjoyed your take on the technicals! 👍

Exactly the view I take. If I enjoy it that’s all that matters. I am a bit of a collector with about 800 UHDs. Alien and Aliens of course both great movies with fabulous picture and sound.

I suspect the piece of music you're referring to is 'Dies Irae' the funeral dirge John. It gets even spookier if you look in to it, I tried to find out it's origin a few years back and couldn't as some sources put it somewhere around the 13thC and equally others claim it to be far older than that still. All the best and hope you are well.

hi john good vid mate the first two alien movies are the best good to see you doing well tc steve

Great review 😊

I watched the aliens 4k a few days ago. I thought it looked really good, and I’d known all about the negativity around it. However I thought the sound was really flat, no ooomph to it at at all. I had to check my sub hadn’t been accidentally turned off! The scenes with lots of wind and rain on lv426 just sounded front heavy with zero bass. I have a 5.1.2 set up and other discs sound amazing!

Looking forward to your Crow 4k review. Not long till release 😉👍

Great review, thanks! Looking forward to Terminator in August.

I'm a bit mixed on the Aliens 4K myself. Apart from a few parts where the sharpening and detraining made the image look bit weird, in motion it looked good. However, it doesn't really look like a film made in 1986 anymore. It will probably still be my go to version from now on because I only like to keep one copy of the film and, unlike my copy of the old Blu-Ray, the 4K has all of the special features on it.

Your the only person I have seen that keeps the reciepts like I do (and keeps titles for years unwatched) - I feel normal now.Alien looks great - almost too new but not in a fake way, just brand new.

The soundtrack to alien has a whole backstop in itself....jerry goldsmith hated the fact a cue from a film years earlier was used along with your accurate telling of the other shining cue. I have unreleased goldsmith cues and a lot of them I agree didn't fit, but wow, alien has a great score and a bright light when retrospectively looking at this film. Love your stuff...excelsior sir

The picture quality on Aliens is just insane! I'll never get why people hate on this one. All the details that are now visible, that's what 4k is about for me anyways. But what really blew my mind was the new Atmos track. So much more immersiveness and the bass when the dropship goes down to LV-426 😱 stellar release for me 👍🏻

The Shining music or sound is on Aliens too.

Watched 4k Alien few months ago love it not seen 4k Aliens yet

agree on all points, good job

Goiod review John.

I'm the same as you matey and fully agree Alien is horror and not sci fi thankfully.. lol those screenshots of Aliens look superb so definitely a set I'll look to get later on down the line matey 😎👍

Hello John, interesting take on the 4k over bluray of Aliens, haven't watched my copy of it or Abyss yet. On another note have you seen the pre-order of Butcher, Baker, Nightmare maker on 4k, only £19.99 so a pretty fair price. Looks like Severin are starting to release their back catalogue of nasties for the UK. All the best, Glenn.

Just pre order a nightmare on elm Street 4k special edition collector's set steelbook 😊

Hi John. I’ve just got round to watching Aliens 4k. I agree with your views and overall thought it’s never looked better. Hope Alien 3 gets a 4k remaster. I always liked it even though it doesn’t generally receive much love . Enjoyed it more than Prometheus and Covenant. What do you reckon?

I saw alian at the cinema when it first came out it's a top film I've got the blu ray box set

The so called directors cut of Alien is shorter than the theatrical cut. Ridley Scott considers the theatrical cut of Alien his preferred version and I couldn't agree with him more.

It's Sci-fi horror.. Science fiction (sometimes shortened to SF or sci-fi) is a genre of speculative fiction, which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life. It is related to fantasy, horror,

Hi John Great review mate I've yet to see these classics on 4k. Still got the blu ray box set of the alien films and find the picture quality to be very good. Alien has always looked the best for me. Aliens has always looked a bit less in quality compared to the original (excellent film though) This is probably because it was filmed in a 1.85 ratio so not quite has good has the original which was film in the wider 2.35 ratio. Like the original Terminator which was also filmed in the 1.85 ratio this also looks not quite as good as Terminator 2 which again was filmed in the much wider 2.35 ratio. Alien and aliens are for me still the best in the alien series of films. Cheers John. 😊😊

Cool, balanced review. Alien definitely looks great on 4K. Yet to pick up Aliens - though it’s high on my list.

I liked alien 3 and alien resurrection as well john..even the 2 alien vs predator movies!

Hi, nice thoughts Mate, if I bought the Blu Ray disc only from somewhere, how much of an Audio downgrade would it be from the 4K Atmos?

The 4k just looks much better. I saw details that the blu ray never could.

I just watched the Alien 4k on the big screen with Alien day re-release. Its the only proper way to see it really.

Were the 2 horrendously amateurish back projection scenes in Aliens fixed in the new version? Those are the scene when the drop ship crashes behind Ripley and the other where the alien queens eggsack is exploding behind Ripley? I noticed recently that if you rotate the p in Ripley through 180 degrees that the new word spells ridley. Weird huh?

Alien looks fantastic. Aliens on the other hand...

The director's cut of Alien is actually shorter!

Alien is probably the greatest film ever made. Hard to believe it was made in 1979

I have no comments on quality of releases, but I’ve always thought of ”Aliens” as cheesy action; lots of explosions, noisy and those silly marines are not believable for one second. Entertaining, yes, but not a work of art like the first one. That one holds up so many years later and will continue to do so, I think.

I think both aliens and abyss look and sound great,yeh I would have loved a film restoration but this was never happening with Cameron. Got mine from usa and the 2nd batch don't have stickers. True lies in the other hand was awful.

Such a fucking shame we never got the abyss have u imported it john 😕

Any person praising how Aliens looks on UHD either has no taste or knowledge about the look of 35mm film.

I don't like what was done to Aliens on 4k. Worse than the grain removal is the sharpening. It looks unnatural. (I looks like that "Sharpen" filter in photo editing software.) It's not even consistent. Hair strands and reflected light in eyes looks overly crisp and bright compared to the rest of the face. It a shame this happened. But It's not about what we want; it's about James Cameron wants. We are just the little people who made him a billionaire.

Film preservation is done for with all these comments praising the butchering of this film. It seems people, especially James Cameron, want a 45 year old film to look like it was shot on a smartphone. It makes a travesty of the work that specialists like Sony and Arrow in particular do to skillfully restore a film when all Disney have done is outsource it, shove the blu-ray through digital processing and call it a day. Its a good film but will people be so happy to pay 4K UHD prices for up scaled blu-rays when it becomes the norm?

I just brought my copy from HMV today... I was disappointed by the image... I sat with my Blu-ray disc (2012) and watch my copy of the 4K Ultra HD and it's Blu-ray both discs have DNR'd to DEATH I will be taking my copy back tomorrow with the repciept and exchange for something else. I'm a DIE HARD fan of ALIENS but a disc pressed in 2012 still looks better then a disc pressed in 2024 is saying something ALIEN released by FOX looks stunning I can't lie... Thank GOD Fox released ALIEN, PREDATOR & PREDATOR 2 before this Disney take over. But I don't think it's Disney's fault on this occasion as James Cameron finalised this 4K... It's easy to tell a GOOD 4K restoration from their original camera negatives in 2024 but ALIENS... You know what the DEATH of physical media is? DNR What cancer to FILM DNR has become..... Your a good fellow, I love watching your reviews but what your old Blu-ray after watching this waxed 2024 pressed disc... £24.99 many fans are on the same page about this release... I tried to avoid their hate, but I now feel I'm in the same boat

I absolutely love both movies. The 4k of both are fantastic. The Aliens 4K is great. I don't know why everyone complains. Get used to it people. You're never going to get just a plain 4k transfer. Also the reason you can hear the same music is that the music composed to fit the film, was felt, by the producers, and director, not ro fit the movie. So they kept some of the music used to track the film (ie show it to test audiences and preparing effects) and ditched a lot of the composers original material for the film.

The Abyss and Aliens look superb on my 12ft wide screen.Anyone who thinks otherwise should really look at the settings they have on their TV/projector.