I just watched alien romulus and I thought it was really frustrating. What happened to the lethal face huggers and the older, experienced crew of spaceships that got paid like shit by the company?
Now they are hitting face huggers left and right with sticks, and people just get up after having one over their face.
I didn’t feel like I cared about the characters. They were actually quite unlikeable. I really miss Ripley. She had enormous amount of character, strength and intelligence. What did we get in this movie? They are all super generic.
Just disappointed. How about you guys?
No, I didn’t like it much either. Some interesting ideas, but I think I’m starting to actively despise soft-reboots, which too much of Romulus is. I don’t want to be reminded of a better movie with a more iconic lead, and I don’t have the same nostalgia fetish that a good chunk of audiences seem to have.
I wasn’t a giant fan either it started well enough but lost me and brought me right into the stupid movies when they brought back the stupid alien goo that makes silly aliens again.
Why the heck can’t they just let the Alien be the Alien and not a silly hybrid dorky looking thing.
Because it was mutated from a human fetus.
I enjoyed it for what it was. Maybe it helped that I saw it on the big screen. It’s difficult to bring new life into what is now the ninth in the series. But overall, I thought it was decent, but not great.
I did think Prey was a fantastic chapter to the Predator series and I saw that at home. That’s how you reboot a franchise.
Prey was xlnt agreed, a sequel is coming, hopefully the same fresh approach is taken…
I just finished it. The fan service ruined it for me, the lines from other movies, the shots recreated, whole sequences plundered.
I wanted an Alien movie, not an expensive piece of fan art.
Also the CG on the Rook character was hilarious. How on earth did that make it into the movie?
The worst part is that all the original stuff in the movie is great but they didn’t have faith in sticking with it.
I thought it was a very good movie, sure it doesn’t match the original one, but only a very few do.
This felt like an homage to the first one in many ways. There were some questionable decisions from the characters sure. But I felt, the movie was saved by the main character and her helplessness. Ripley was a badass for sure. She is still IMO the best female character in a SciFi movie, but seeing a normal person attempting to survive when all her friends was getting killed left right and centre was good (had a Predator vibe to it).
Also this movie added a ton of lore. The mutating power of Prometheus Fire, Alien-Human Hybrid and speaking of that scene, it was really well executed, just when I thought the movie was going to end, nope. Like when the Alien-Ripley fight in the Pod.
Overall I felt really satisfied with the film and its better than most of the sequels getting released these days. Also two good films in the Alien-Predator franchise back to back [Prey (2022)]?
Not a great movie.
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That’s a very good analysis. I just really missed Ripley who felt like a full person, and it was obvious why she was respected in the first movie. Not only is she smart, she also refuses to follow authority by dumb leaders. Her humanity shows through the entire franchise, even when she becomes an alien hybrid!
Also the original movies wasn’t pure action. There was a lot of built up, and really believeable characters. What do we have in romulus? I don’t remember a single line.
Maybe this is what it’s like to become old. Viewing new movies which feels clearly inferior to the ones I watched growing up.
I was visually appealing
It actually made me think the originals were better. I remember all those scenes with the tunnels… Very scary and claustrophobic.
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I more just hated the writing and plot. Couldn’t they have said they were taking the androids backup system so as to explain them both cognitively functioning at a high level at the same time. The android should have immediately acknowledged his new directive instead of being told. Why does he say we for a hull breach killing them all especially when he just recently walked around without a space suit. Why is she putting the android in cryosleep? then the plot is so Cliché. oh the ship gets knocked around and back onto the station on the other end so you have to walk through and your invisible to them if your body temp is the same as the surrounding because they can’t see the android or tables or such ordinarily (maybe the android is hot or cold but unlikely the same temp as a human). It felt so much like a reboot made to be just different enough but the new young actess is the new ripley. The cryocompound is so frigging strong its cooling down a room one away from its bottle with sealed doors that they usually show in these kind of things as strong enough to protect you from a hull breach on the other side. It was alright but really nothing has been all that great since the first two and this one you really have to turn you brain off to enjoy.
