Monroville said:
One thing that I was really tense over was those scenes I mentioned earlier regarding the last ALIEN dvd release (concerning the "Brett looking for Jonesy in the cargo room" and most of the Alien scenes - the prior had a copper wash over the entire image and most if not all of the Alien scenes had a desaturated blue wash over the image).
Thankfully, Ridley must have reconsidered these changes, as the copper and blue tints are gone, and ALIEN looks proper with a natural color timing.
Great! I really must get a hold of the blu-ray set after all, now you've confirmed that the more 'natural'-looking colour of the previous releases has been restored somewhat to the 'theatrical' cut of ALIEN. That's made my day! :)
Regarding the very interesting ALIEN REDUX:THE VIRTUAL WORKPRINT (alternatively known as ALIEN APPENDIX #2), I agree that the short shot of Kane's legs struggling violently was really neat. Pity it was cut from the final version. There's a few other really nice little shots that I wished Ridley had used in his 'theatrical' cut to begin with, including a brief couple from his 'Director's Cut', but there you go. And just to repeat that all the other ALIEN APPENDIX material can be accessed on the newly re-vamped Fanedit.org site by going into the Preserv heading on the home page, then going to the Artists section on the right-hand side that comes up. Remember to click on the 'Older Posts' that come up at the bottom of some of these featured faneditor's lists, as there's a lot more to be found on other pages.
And I note that Ridley Scott has moved from potentially doing 2 ALIEN prequels, to making something that only 'references' his original ALIEN in certain small ways. It will be interesting to see just what he has up his sleeve now with his 'PROMETHEUS' movie, and I wonder if the 'space jockey' is going to end up remaining a mystery after all...
http://www.deadline.com/2011/01/ridley-scott-directing-prometheus-for-fox-noomi-rapace-locked-while-angelina-jolie-and-charlize-theron-circling-2nd-female-lead/
I'm kinda nervous about the Angelina Jolie possibility, however...