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It should have been a three because I agree with you (The isolated scores themselves are worth 2 stars in my book).I know it's subjective, but 2/5 for extras when the disc includes 2 audio commentaries, 2 versions of the film, a deleted scenes section - albeit one with just the scenes from the DC - 2 isolated scores and the text track on the Blu-ray?
That's a lot of bonus materials!
It should have been a three because I agree with you (The isolated scores themselves are worth 2 stars in my book).
I always find it difficult to assign a numerical value to special features when it’s primarily existing or carried over material. One the one hand, if the content is good, it’s good, but on the other hand, a reader who always owns the previous edition might feel that they’re not getting anything of value with older content that they already have.
Agreed, there’s no easy clean way to do it.
I tend to give releases points more for what’s included rather than when it was made, but I’ll dock a release a point if there’s relevant material from previous releases that could have been included but wasn’t. Basically, if you have to hold on to your old disc and the new one to have the complete extras, that’s when I’m more likely to be critical about it.
Depends on what's missing. Lose an audio commentary? Bad bad bad!
Lose a five-minute promotional featurette? Don't really care!
You've not experienced Alien until you've experienced it in glorious full-frameHate to be THAT guy, but the aspect ratio is incorrectly identified as 1.33:1 in the specs.
Sorry for the nitpick.
Also the audio is listed as being DTS-HD MA 2.0.You've not experienced Alien until you've experienced it in glorious full-frame
Thanks for the catch. It was one of the drop-downs on the review template that I somehow skipped over leaving the default option. Good eye!
Also the audio is listed as being DTS-HD MA 2.0.
I’ve not upgraded to a 4K display yet. I’m curious if the Blu Ray included in the set is an improvement over the Quadrilogy Blu Ray? Though I’ll pick this up for sure as I’m sure I’ll be 4K capable soon.
Speaking of the 4.1 track and the 5.1 track. What are they?There are several of the audio options available on this disc in that box above. The 2.0 shows up first on the template drop-down so shows up first in the box above and the 5.1 is listed right after it in the box. There isn't currently an option in the template drop-down for the 4.1 track.