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Title: Alien: Resurrection - The Novelization by A. C. Crispin, Joss Whedon ISBN: 0-446-60229-9 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 December, 1997 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.69 (16 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: You'll need this one
Comment: The movie? What can I say? It was O.K.
However, for this latest entry in the Alien series you better read this book before renting the video or you will be confused indeed. I'm surprise the other people on this message board haven't mention this. It's so good to read a novel that explains something that for some reason coouldn't be place on film. I've never heard of A.C. Crispin before, but he obviously knows what he's doing.
Rating: 4
Summary: Ripley is back!
Comment: I'm sure all true ALIEN-philes already bought and read this book! But perhaps you're not one of these guys, so I'll tell you what I think about this novel! Of course, this novel tells the story of the movie in a much more detailed way - which is a really good thing, I think (To be quite honest, I had to read this book to be finally able to understand the causal chains of some of the dialogues in the movie!). In my opinion the development of the relationship between Ripey and Call is the highlight of this book! It's much better described than in the movie. But I also felt some scenes quite differently when I saw "ALIEN: RESURRECTION" at the cinema than A.C. Crispin writes in the book (But I felt the samy way about Alan Dean Foster's first three "ALIEN"-novels, by the way.). But I'm an ALIEN-phile which means I still love this book! My suggestion for you would be: watch the movie first (because that's the REAL thing!), then read the book, and finally make up your own idea!
Rating: 2
Summary: An above average novelization, but flawed
Comment: Most novelizations of films are little more than breathless descriptions of what happened on screen. They had more of a place years ago when people did automatically buy videos or DVDs, and once your favorite film left the cineplex, you might not see it again for years...so the novelization would let you "relive" the film. That's not necessary anymore, so the only function they can have is to fill-in information that might have been left on the cutting room floor.
A.C. Crispin makes a sincere effort with "Alien Resurrection", and it doesn't read too badly. It does fall short of a real novel in it's dramatic structure and characterization. She makes a token attempt to fill in backgrounds, even first names, for characters who in the film often are killed off before we get a chance to know them. (Personally, I think this is a flaw in the movie, as we can't possibly care about the death of a character we have barely been introduced to.)
Since the novelization came out at virtually the same time as the film was released, I am guessing that it had to be written before viewing the finished film and that it is largely based on older versions of the script and maybe rough cuts of the movie. There are numerous deviations from the finished film, none of them cosmically important but if you enjoy certain bits of dialogue -- especially some of the very humorous throw-away lines -- it is disconcerting to see them stated differently or clipped or just dropped entirely.
What I was hoping for WAS that the novelization would fill in some of the critical information gaps in the film -- especially Call's motivation in joining the smuggler crew of the Betty and heading out to the Auriga to destroy the alien breeding experiment. This is confusingly told in the film. If Call is so concerned about the Betty crew, why doesn't she do something to prevent them from ever kidnapping the cryo-sleepers BEFORE they reach the Auriga? Why does she allow all the cryo-sleepers to be impregated and killed? Wouldn't it have been simpler for her to have joined the crew of the Auriga and sabotaged the experiement from within the military? Anyways, I will have to live with the ambivalence (or Joss Whedon's slightly wobbly, undercooked script) because the novelization provides no real answers.
Still, most novelizations I have read are complete and utter dreck and this one definitely is not. I think it's a serious attempt to create a companion piece to the film. I just wish the author had stuck with the details a little more clearly.
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Title: Aliens: A Novelization by Alan Dean Foster, James Cameron, David Giler, Walter Hill, Dan O'Bannon ISBN: 0446301396 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: June, 1986 List Price(USD): $3.95 |
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Title: Alien 3: The Novelization by Alan Dean Foster, Vincent Ward, Larry Ferguson, David Giler, Walter Hill ISBN: 0446362166 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: June, 1992 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title:Alien - The Director's Cut (Collector's Edition) ASIN: B00011V8IQ Publisher: Fox Home Entertainme Pub. Date: 06 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $26.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $22.12 |
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Title: Aliens: Book One by Mark Verheiden, Mark Nelson, Willie Schubert, Randy Stradley ISBN: 156971164X Publisher: Dark Horse Comics Pub. Date: August, 1992 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The Female War : Aliens, Book 3 by STEVE PERRY, STEPHANI PERRY ISBN: 0553561596 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 July, 1993 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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