"I'll just pirate it, yo ho ho!" no you bloody won't, the pirates have rips of the crap blu-rays, who the hell still seeds DVD rips

Good luck sorting out a hundred different ALIENS 1986 torrents to figure out which are the AI-shitty ones and which are only the teal-shitty ones when half of them don't even mention whether they're the proper full length film or the crappy theatrical version where they cut out Ripley's entire daughter

Piracy won't help here, that was the whole point of the post

Rip your DVDs

SPACE YEAR 2057

🦝 Aw shit hon, our holocube of Aliens (1986) oxidised right in the third MPU core
🐈 oh no, can you just download us a copy?
🦝 sure lemme check the torrents

TWO HOURS LATER

🦝 Well I found the 2010's-era print that got turned teal 'cause that's what they were doing in 2010
🐈 oh god yeah everything from then looked so weird and mossy
🦝 yeah, and then I found one from the 20's that was during that godawful uncanny valley AI phase so that's no good either
🐈 yuck
🦝 I found one from the 2030's when they were doing the face swaps with living actors? Remember that? Some weird rights thing?
🐈 haha oh wow yeah that's a blast from the past
🦝 and that one has a CRT filter too. Anyway 2040's edition brought back the film grain but, well, y'know the 40's and film grain
🐈 oh yeah, MORE film grain
🦝 WAY TOO MUCH film grain, and the LCD filters yeah
🐈 yeah
🦝 anyway I found one from the early 50's with tails, apart from that it's half decent quality
🐈 well are the tails done tastefully at least or
🦝 I mean they changed a couple shots so the marines are using their tails to reload and apparently at some point Ripley goes "Thank God I have this big bushy squirrel tail" but apart from that
🐈 huh that's actually pretty restrained compared with a lot of tail remasters
🦝 yeah this might be the best of the bunch, shall we give it a go
🐈 sure I'll rehydrate us some popcorn

5 minutes later

🐈🦝 FUCKING THEATRICAL CUT

🦝 Hell with this I'm downloading the one from Tom's Tapes
🐈 oh yeah while you were getting the others I read on the video forum that the version that Tom Taped off the Telly in 1994 is the best one
🦝 right off I go

...

🦝 so apparently at some point in the 30's Tom's Tape got used as a basis for colour-grading the subsequent remasters which is how they got rid of the teal, and recently they actually put out a remaster of Tom's Tape in PAL regions
🐈 oh yeah? Ad breaks and everything?
🦝 Yeah, just as it was but with higher resolution
🐈 and tails obviously
🦝 obviously