Movies ALIEN: ROMULUS ($42 Million Opening Weekend)

[Flower2dPeople]

How come it pissed you off?

I hate young people?

 

[Deleted member 53199]

I liked Prometheus and Alien: Covenant, i liked Prometheus more. I am going to see Alien: Romulus in cinema.

 

[Deleted member 110072]

I actually just saw Alien Covenant for the first time. It wasn’t as bad as people say it was. It wasn’t great. But it wasn’t bad.

I didn’t even really like Prometheus. I’m hoping for more on this one.

Both those prequels I feel are more messy than they are bad, neither has a very coherent script but I think you could argue the good stuff actually pushes Scott as a director more than better latter day films like The Martian.

I do appreciate that they arent happy to just be generic horror as well which this film looks like it will be? I feel thats really whats killed the genre that its basically only more straight forward slashers being made anymore, directors like Scott, Kubrick, Polanski, Parker or even John Carpenter don't make horror films anymore, at least not mainstream ones, the arthouse scene is better.

 

[SmilinDesperado]

I watched it last night and thought it was pretty great.
I don't have much to say about it as it is a pretty straight forward, solid action/horror movie. Good lead actress, and I especially liked the synthetic human robot they have her paired with. (they pretty much are the movie)
It was a good time, and a welcome addition to the Aliens filmography.

 

[ChosenOne]

I watched it last night and thought it was pretty great.
I don't have much to say about it as it is a pretty straight forward, solid action/horror movie. Good lead actress, and I especially liked the synthetic human robot they have her paired with. (they pretty much are the movie)
It was a good time, and a welcome addition to the Aliens filmography.

To me, it looks like they thought, 'lets just redo the 2nd movie but change out the cast'. That it is as close to carbon copy as can be.

And while that is a bad thing generally (just watch the prior), i think people are ready for a do-over.

 

[Reign Supreme]

Going tomorrow. I have no expectations I just hope it's entertaining.

 

[Nizam al-Mulk]

I watched it last night and thought it was pretty great.
I don't have much to say about it as it is a pretty straight forward, solid action/horror movie. Good lead actress, and I especially liked the synthetic human robot they have her paired with. (they pretty much are the movie)
It was a good time, and a welcome addition to the Aliens filmography.

Is it like a remake of the first movie?

 

[Halifax]

I watched it last night and thought it was pretty great.
I don't have much to say about it as it is a pretty straight forward, solid action/horror movie. Good lead actress, and I especially liked the synthetic human robot they have her paired with. (they pretty much are the movie)
It was a good time, and a welcome addition to the Aliens filmography.

Don't give me hope!

 

[europe1]

Both those prequels I feel are more messy than they are bad, neither has a very coherent script but I think you could argue the good stuff actually pushes Scott as a director more than better latter day films like The Martian.
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I get the impression Ridley wanted to make movies about a sentient android but the studios kept pushing him that it had to be an Alien movie, resulting in the mess.
More so in Covenant than Prometheus but still.

 

[Deleted member 110072]

I get the impression Ridley wanted to make movies about a sentient android but the studios kept pushing him that it had to be an Alien movie, resulting in the mess.
More so in Covenant than Prometheus but still.

Yeah I wouldnt be supprised, I don't think Scott as a director has the pull to be totally in control of really big films, the studio execs are always likely to get a big say on the script.

 

[SmilinDesperado]

Is it like a remake of the first movie?

Definitely a lot of the same vibes, but updated. It's enough of its own thing that makes it new and worth watching, imo. (a big part of that are the lead actors i think)

I havne't watched the original ones in years though, but, I enjoyed this for what it was without much thought about the previous ones.

 

[Protectandserve]

If it’s even just a decent re tread of stuff from the first and second movies I’ll be happy.

 

[Busgosu]

It was an entertaining entry in the saga; fairly well made and decently acted, but there were things that pissed me off a little bit:

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• Too much fan service with non-stop references, Easter eggs and specially CALL-BACKS. Seriously, other than "Game over man, Game over" I can't think of a well known line from the first two films that is not here...
• Bringing back Ian Holm was just... Idk, it just didn't seem right... And the cgi model looked weird af!
• Again, as in most lazy horror scripts, overreliance on people doing stupid things so the plot advances... Or just unexplicable like the pregnant girl injecting herself with the agent she knew nothing about.
• The ending was nuts and thrilling but, cmon, another multi race hybrid. Another Airlock ejection??

 

[40's]

6/10

Not terrible, not great.

 

[deviake]

It was... aight. Better than Brometheus and Covenant certainly, I'd say better than Alien 3 as well. Two of the characters make the movie, the rest weren't bad but weren't great. The latter half of the movie got kinda stupid. The whole thing was competent but lacked flavor, it needed some more going on. It relied on some stupid character decisions - not Brometheus level, movie breaking stupid but still.

Some good jump scares, good tension.

Edit: The music was good. Had the old school Alien flavor, like that old school "mystical" sorta sci-fi.

Aight/10. Decent. Not a franchise killer. I'd say it felt like a horror/slasher movie with the Alien.

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The last part of the movie was ridiculous. It was like a video game sequence.
The creature she birthed just wasn't that interesting.
The face huggers were a little much and their threat went on a little too long.
Ash, or "Rook" was should've just been a different android IMO.
I thought they could've done more with the colony, they were able to steal the ship too easily. Aside from that not making sense, them taking it being an issue would've made for a good plot point and some tension. Maybe someone comes looking for them, for instance.
I think the station should've gotten off a distress call, and perhaps another story beat would've been having to deal with Weyland's response team as well as the aliens.
Like I said, it was just missing that "something". It's like it needed a lot of little touches.

 

[TheSlothMan]

It only took 38 years, but they finally managed to make another good Alien movie, wow. It was nice having characters actually act like real people instead of full fledged retards like the characters in Prometheus and Covenant. Seriously, I wouldn't trust those morons enough to make me a PB&J sandwich let alone lead some kind of crazy science expedition in outer space, but I'm done talking about those shit shows.

There's still some plot contrivances and what not, but overall the writing is actually pretty good this time around. There's lots of little call backs to the first two movies, which I think were a tad unnecessary but I wouldn't say it detracted from the experience.

I also really dig the aesthetic and look of the movie. I wish they would have spent a bit more time on the colony as I was enjoying getting a look into how shitty it is to work for Weyland Yutani. The makers of the movie did a great job of matching what the technology looked like in the first two Alien movies too, so props for that.

Definitely worth a watch if you enjoy the Alien movies and have been holding out hope for an actual good one to get made in your lifetime. It's interesting that Predator and now Alien have finally managed to produce solid entries into their respective libraries after so many years.

 

[Bob Gray]

This would have been goddamn great if not for the last 20 minutes, which was garbage. Everything up till that point was done exceptionally well. I was especially impressed with how they developed the synthetic stuff.

At the end of the day, I wasnt expecting a classic. Just a genuine thrill ride in the Aliensverse. Thats exactly what I got , but that last 20 minutes really shit the bed. To the point where in future viewings I know exactly the minute where I will be turning the movie off and calling it over.

It certainly wasn't perfect, and some of the homages go way overboard. But it was all done well. Until that fucking last 20 minutes. wtf. I'd still have to call it good, because up that point everything was going so well. But it does really downgrade the movie overall.

 

[Err]

Movie was good, the 3rd best in the series after Alien and Aliens.

 

[Adamant]

Movie was good, the 3rd best in the series after Alien and Aliens.

That's what I've been hoping for. I see it tomorrow. But that shouldn't be hard. Alien and Aliens are masterpieces. The rest range from meh to dogshit. So there's a pretty big gap between 1/2 & 3-Covenant. A perfect slot for this to go.

 

[MDoza]

It’s apparently the impossible to write an Alien movie that doesn’t rely entirely on every character making nonsensical decisions.

I did enjoy the aesthetic and there were a few decent jumpscares, but far too many head scratching moments to keep the plot moving, and the last 20 minutes of the film were downright bad.

5/10
Middle of the pack Alien movie. I’d rank it behind 1, 2, and Resurection.

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-Since when are xenomorphs afraid of guns?

-Bringing back Ian Holm felt unnecessary, and the deepfake was terrible. It was looked like something out of Polar Express.

-The long boy human alien thing was silly. The film would have been better off with the main character and the other girl going into cryosleep. Knowing that the girl was pregnant and had taken the black goo would have been a solid cliffhanger.