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"Beautiful Monsters" is the story of the "Alien" and "Predator" film franchises. Each film is chronicled through analysis and extensive background information, and the themes and influences examined through articles. In addition, all the spin-off books, comics and computer games are detailed. This is your one-stop guide for everything relating to two of cinema's most popular and enduring creations.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Nice, but more detailed research would have been nice...,
By Cpl Hicks (London United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Beautiful Monsters: The Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to the Alien and Predator Films (Paperback)
I'm a big Alien(s) and Predator fan (one of the few that actually liked AvP!), so from the outset I'll say that my review is coloured by that. This book is a really nice adition to a serious collector's collection: it goes into a fair degree of detail on each film, with notes on the original scripts (and ideas that even preceded those) and a short 'essay' on each movie. I found all of this very interesting and some of the detail was new to me - being that I am a serious fan, that in itself is unusual! However, this is where the criticism also comes in. The author - although clearly vey enthusiastic about the subject matter - either makes a number of basic mistakes or just plain doesn't know some of what he is writing about. Ripley wasn't resurrected 300 years after her death; Weyland-Yutani hadn't surveyed 300 star systems. These kind of details (that most fans will notice straight away!) made me question some of the veracity of some of the author's sources...! Other than that, a really nice book which I enjoyed a great deal.
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This review is from: Beautiful Monsters: The Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to the Alien and Predator Films (Paperback)
This is a wonderful book for complete anoraks only, but we wanted some Giger illustrations, so sadly had to return the book for an alternative.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Interesting but flawed,
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This review is from: Beautiful Monsters: The Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to the Alien and Predator Films (Paperback)
I completely agree with the review of this book written by Cpl Hicks. As a long-standing, indeed fanatical, follower of the "Alien" series, I think this is a very good addition to the body of work on these great movies. Having said that, I did notice a number of egregious factual errors which, as a nit-picker of note, annoyed me more than a little and made me wish the author had checked his facts a little more thoroughly. Overall though, it's engagingly well-written and the author's enthusiasm for the subject really comes across, and I'd have no hesitation in recommending this one for fans of the films.
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