Alien which cut is better

It was their hope that I would see fit to include several of the deleted scenes we had restored in order to give moviegoers additional incentive to see the film in theaters. Upon viewing the proposed expanded version of the film, I felt that cut was simply too long and the pacing completely thrown off. After all, I cut those extra scenes out for a reason back in However, in the interest of giving the fans a new experience with Alien , I figured there had to be an appropriate middle ground.

View source. History Talk 0. Do you like this video? Play Sound. After all, I cut those scenes out for a reason back in However, in the interest of giving the fans a new experience with Alien, I figured there had to be an appropriate middle ground. I chose to go in and recut that proposed long version into a more streamlined and polished alternate version of the film.

For marketing purposes, this version is being called "The Director's Cut". It suggests that the filmmaker has finally overcome the interference of heavy-handed studio executives, and that the film has been restored to its original, untampered form.

Such is not the case with Alien: The Director's Cut. It's a completely different beast. Kane pulls out and sets down a weapon of some kind while investigating the alien eggs. Also included in the Director's Cut is a scene where the crew listen to the alien signal and discuss the nature of the planet just before they prepare to land. Scenes trimmed or deleted in the 25th Anniversary Edition: The camera panning right towards Dallas before he goes into the hallway to talk to Mother.

After Ash losses contact with Dallas and crew after they walk into the Derelict ship, the last shot looking back at Ash's face is cut. The shot looking at Dallas climbing up the Space Jockey. Some shots of Kane being lowered down into the Egg Chamber are trimmed.

The shot of Ash leaving the Medical room after talking with Ripley. Dialogue between Ripley and Dallas discussing Ripley's distrust in Ash is cut. The beginning shot of Ripley, Parker, and Brett searching down the corridor for the Alien. The shot with Ripley saying 'Open the Door. The last moments of Brett soaking his face. After the crew discusses the Vent plan, the shot of the Nostromo traveling through space is cut.

The whole scene with Dallas talking to Mother on how he should neutralize the Alien. Some shots of Dallas crawling down the vent are trimmed.

The shot of Parker going to refuel the Flame-throwers. Ripley going to talk to Mother just shows her walking to the door instead of getting the key. Shots of Ripley leaving the Mother Chamber. The sequence where Ripley, Parker, and Lambert walking through the hallway has been trimmed. Ripley preparing the shuttle has been trimmed. Certain shots of Ripley running through the corridors after the self-destruct has been activated have been trimmed.

Effects, and Sound Effects changed in the 25th Anniversary Edition: While Ripley is contacting traffic control now, the last shot of the Nostromo in space now has a star field where there was just a Black Background.

The Alien Transmission and the keyboard button sound effects are much different from the original deleted scene. The shot of the Nostromo rolling 92 degrees to port now features a star field to the left of the planet where there was just black.

When Ripley comes to visit the sick bay, Lambert attacks her hysterically. Then, almost immediately, Dallas lambastes her for trying to lock them out of the ship. Who in the hell knows what thing is? The theatrical cut tries to present Ripley as a supporting character until Dallas meets his untimely end, albeit one well characterised. It also, and I think effectively, contrasts the stoic Ripley with the hysterical Lambert, as two different feminine characters.

So, with that in mind, the scene seems to exist just to clarify that situation. Still, I think it makes for a nice inclusion, as it makes explicit a lot of the stuff that was heavily implicit.

The second major scene is the one that most fans of the series seem to pay attention to, when Ripley discovers what can only be described as a nest in the cargo bay. It looks like the creature is trying to make eggs out of Dallas and Brett.

It was, after all, made first and deleted from the film. You might be interested in our reviews of the other films in the Alien series:. In the theatrical version, when Ripley decides to lock Dallas and the others out of the ship, she comes off almost villainous.

She coldly and dispassionately decides to keep a possibly dying crew member in inhospitable conditions against the urgings of her commanding officer—the person who receives top billing and is the most sympathetic, thereby assuming the mantle of the protagonist in the minds of the audience.

This is a great psych-out, because by the end of the film, our allegiance is to the person portrayed as the human antagonist early on. By changing the scene, it sets Ripley up as the protagonist far sooner than the original does. As for the egg scene, other than a curiosity of seeing more of the life cycle, it brings back Dallas, thereby giving his character closure.

I always thought that he was cocooned in order to be impregnated, like Kane, and that Brett was just used as food, not to be actually turned into an egg as most people now say. I guess that confusion was good enough reason to cut the scene.

Fair points. I never really missed Dallas.