Movies ALIEN: ROMULUS ($42 Million Opening Weekend)

If you have seen ALEN: ROMULUS, how would you rate it?

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Rain and Andy stole the show, great characters even by the standards of the first two movies. Andy in particular is a franchise highlight, Jonsson's performance was fantastic and the character is great, I cared more about him and found him more interesting than not only everyone else in the movie but even more than almost everyone in all the previous Alien movies. Dude carried a lotta the movie and not only that, he essentially played two characters and was great at both AND had a great arc.

I couldn't be arsed to give a shit about the rest but it's not due to bad performances, it's due to them not being developed enough at the start, we're just not given much reason to give a shit.
 
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Adamant said:
I appreciate that they at least tried to make it look like an Alien movie. That being said, the story was pretty shite. Action was meh. Horror was meh. There was certainly a lot of gross-out moments, but other than that....meh. And why does the cast look they just graduated high school? Why does Hollywood insist on casting so young? It's not realistic.

Way too much CGI. So many effects that could have been done practically were done as CGI, and a lot of it didn't look great. CGI facehuggers looked like shit. The CGI xenos looked like shit.

The Ash look alike, the CGI'd face.....

....was some of the worst CGI I've seen in years. It looked atrocious.

The last 1/3rd of the movie had me like:
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I hate the damn dogshit prometheus movies. They are an insult to the Alien franchise. Why the fuck did they include the black goo and what was basically a fucked up alien/engineer hybrid??? Ugh, they need to ignore those atrocious dogshit movies outright and pretend like they don't exist.

It also doesn't make sense how this movie takes place AFTER Alien, and there's still the black goo bullshit and the engineer. Why?? That shit wasn't in Alien. It wasn't in Aliens. It wasn't in Alien 3. It wasn't in Alien 4. It wasn't in AvP. WHAT THE FUCK.

The callbacks were godawful and WAY too on the nose. It reminded me of the dreadful Blumhouse Halloween movies. Cringe at its most painful.

As a big fan of Alien/Aliens/Alien Isolation....... this started to get things back on track, but then fucked the track altogether. 3.5/10 at best, and I'm being way too generous at that.

Ended up leaving the theater like:
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Bottom line: Fuck this movie.
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Not enough sweaty beefcakes for old boy here.
 
It was good, not great. The main protagonists were developed really well and incredibly likable. The action was great, they turned some cliches on their head, it was beautifully shot, some fan service but not too much, crowd I saw it with was cheering, clapping, screaming, a lot of fun.

Very safe but a movie I’ll definitely revisit.
 
A lot of people are pissed off about the Ian Holm deepfake. It definitely sucked and took me out of the movie just by how fake it looked, but it’s consistent with the alien universe. Synthetics are mass produced. God awful execution though.
 
Pretty good overall, would have liked more use of sound playing tricks with the viewer and a bit more random background visual teases. Alot of gross moments that had my theater cringing, been a while since I've seen someone covering their face during a movie and someone sitting by me was thoroughly grossed out but couldn't look away lol.

The Andy character was memorable and the rest for the most part were on par with a Slasher type movie. As others have said that liked it, a safe entry for the most part, could have been very solid of they ended the movie about 10 minutes earlier.
 
deviake said:
Rain and Andy stole the show, great characters even by the standards of the first two movies. Andy in particular is a franchise highlight, Jonsson's performance was fantastic and the character is great, I cared more about him and found him more interesting than not only everyone else in the movie but even more than almost everyone in all the previous Alien movies. Dude carried a lotta the movie and not only that, he essentially played two characters and was great at both AND had a great arc.

I couldn't be arsed to give a shit about the rest but it's not due to bad performances, it's due to them not being developed enough at the start, we're just not given much reason to give a shit.
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David Jonsson is the whole reason i’ll be going to see Romulus. loved him in Rye Lane
 
I couldn’t help but think of Fede’s Evil Dead and I think while it’s similar in how he handled the source material, this was a big step up for him. Not only in franchise but in execution. The space scenes especially were excellent.

Stop expecting these new movies to be classics or blowing the formula out of the water. What’s done already in this franchise is about the best of what we’re going to see. Call it a victim of the precedent set but it was a nice tie up to what they’ve tried to do with the previous films and felt about as fresh as they could without alienating them.

Sorry for some there aren’t more sweaty marines.
 
Busgosu said:
Good review!
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I agree with Mike and Jay a lot but I thought they’re being a little too cynical. There’s a lot to like here and they definitely did. The fan service they mention wasn’t overkill imo, I don’t think most people would notice much of it.
 
deviake said:
I know it's all opinions yada yada but I think the people complaining about the CGI outside of Rook are seeing phantoms. The effects were the highlight of the movie and there were loads of practical effects so I've no idea what they're talking about. The sound and special effects were absolutely masterful. I'd go so far as to say that it's an objectively bad complaint.
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Yeah, I feel like I'm sitting in a room of CGI experts or something that are seeing something that my amateur eye can't see. I have no idea what people are talking about with the effects complaints. The sound and visuals were great.
 
wendelbudwhite said:
Wasn't a fan

there was no need for ash/rook/Ian holm. Pointless fan service. Just let actors fucking die Jesus. Really pissed me off story wise it doesn't

.in general there was way to much fan service . " Get away from her you bitch" etc

. Wtf was with the Groth rate of the Xenomorph. The asian chick bearly had the face hugger on her then the embryo births within no time. Then the fucking full size alien is cooked and ready to go in no time.


.I'm probably in the minority here because I think aliens introduced some really annoying Xenomorph law. With that said having Xenomorphs run straight into gunfire makes them come off as retarded not the perfect organism, animals know better than that.it takes away all the horror of them imo

. The remaking basically of the end of resurrection with the balck goo newborn mark 2 down to how it died. The newborn was in resurrection was a far better creature design

. Autistic android annoyed me
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the growth rate of the xeno was established as extrmelry rapid back in Alien. Pops out of Kanes chest and then barely anytime later Brett finds shedded skin and gets tail-faced.

Personally i dug the Holm angle. I get the deep fake complaints. But having him fit perfectly with what they were doing with the synth themes. I was really surprised how cool that whole story element was.
 
it looks a bit too clean, a problem with a lot of remakes and spin offs. Trailer looks good but an obvious rehash of what worked before. I'm not into this insertion of random space/mythology names into the titles implying it's got some rich mythos as opposed to a well executed space marine v monster slasher flick that it always was. If they want to fix the series they need to mx it up a bit, e.g always wanted to see the Aliens being utilised in a combat situation on earth, like a war move- black hawk down meets aliens sort of thing. The Aliens aren't really a mystery any more and we need a new reason to be intimidated by them,
 
Bob Gray said:
the growth rate of the xeno was established as extrmelry rapid back in Alien. Pops out of Kanes chest and then barely anytime later Brett finds shedded skin and gets tail-faced.

Personally i dug the Holm angle. I get the deep fake complaints. But having him fit perfectly with what they were doing with the synth themes. I was really surprised how cool that whole story element was.
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it was rapid but no where near as rapid as in Romulus come on. You left out the whole actual incubation period of Kane getting face hugged on the derelict, getting carried back to the nostromo being in the med bay for some time and then waking up then going to have some food. The Asian chick had it on for minutes .That's all before the chestburster which after it runs away and some time seems to take place before Brett finds sings of it, granted maybe I miss interpreted how much time passes between the birthing of the chest burster and then Brett encounter.

It was just cheap fan service imo and probably a waste of budget that could have been used elsewhere. I really don't think having a random actor play a different model of droid would have effected the sythn theme as you put it at all, having a shitty CGI ash really didn't help that part of the story at all

This isn't directed at you but I just also thought how the fuck did big chap survive getting burned by the thrusters of the lifeboat. If you go off canon of aliens fire definitely hurts/kill them, though I'm pretty happy to disregard aliens canon.

All in all I stand by that it was a visually stunning but nothing but fan service SPOILER]
 
PBAC said:
it looks a bit too clean, a problem with a lot of remakes and spin offs. Trailer looks good but an obvious rehash of what worked before. I'm not into this insertion of random space/mythology names into the titles implying it's got some rich mythos as opposed to a well executed space marine v monster slasher flick that it always was. If they want to fix the series they need to mx it up a bit, e.g always wanted to see the Aliens being utilised in a combat situation on earth, like a war move- black hawk down meets aliens sort of thing. The Aliens aren't really a mystery any more and we need a new reason to be intimidated by them,
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I would really enjoy a Colonial Marines focused movie, set a few years after the the events of Aliens. One where the Marines are aware of the xenomorphs and deployed to take them on.
 
Fede is a very solid director. The material just isn’t always great. I feel like he’s one of the more interesting filmmakers working in horror currently though.

Protectandserve said:
I would really enjoy a Colonial Marines focused movie, set a few years after the the events of Aliens. One where the Marines are aware of the xenomorphs and deployed to take them on.
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Yeah, that would be good.

the fact that it didn’t already happen, given how broadly-loved Aliens is, seems shocking.

I have to say that I often compared Terminator franchise to the Alien franchise in that I saw it as two all-time classics to start with, followed by a bunch of mediocre (at best) entries.

That said, I think Alien is a better franchise overall. Even the misfires of the alien series seemed more enjoyable to me than the worst Terminator films. And I think there is still mileage you can get out of that series. With the Terminator movies, they keep going back to the well of cyborg sent back in time and someone having to protect someone. The one time they deviated from that set up, they delivered the dull Salvation.
 
I was kind of excited for this but the only people I see rating it really high are the guys who give everything 8/10 or above.
 
Protectandserve said:
If they had adapted the PC game it would have been legit. Or even as an HBO Max series.
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Yeah, unless there's licensing issues I don't get how the studio hasn't put 2 & 2 together.

Predator = Popular

Aliens = Popluar/Iconic

AvP games = Loved by the fans and are set around the timeline of Aliens. Pulse rifles, marines, drop ships and all that. People love that shit. One could draft up a story for it pretty quick. It doesn't have to be Citizen Kane.
 
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