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About as average as average can get. The “get away from her you bitch” call back line was also cringey and dumb as it hasnt actually happened yet.
Movies ALIEN: ROMULUS ($42 Million Opening Weekend)
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I thought this movie was going to be much more simplistic like Alien. I didn’t think they’d try to throw in all the lore from Prometheus and Alien: Covenant.
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Same!
until I saw the black goo 
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Box office update:
Alien: Romulus opened at No. 1 at the U.S. box office with$45.1 $42 million and $108.2 million worldwide start. The film has a 81% critics' score and 87% audience score, and received a B+ CinemaScore.
Alien: Romulus opened at No. 1 at the U.S. box office with
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Alien Isolation is a masterpiece and obviously ain't getting a sequel unlike all the usual dogshit that gets endless sequels.
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Its not even getting optimized to be played on modern consoles with modern resolution & framerate.
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I liked the movie, it reminded me on original Alien... the atmosphere and feeling, but actors didn't belong in this movie.
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I thought it was a good movie. The only issue I had was with the deep fake and the Ripley callback line. I like how they were young because it made it more believable on why they did what they did to be free. I would rate it 8/10 right behind Alien and Aliens.
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I enjoyed Alien Romulus, but it would have been better if it'd just been a straight up Alien Isolation movie (with the addition of Andy, and less cupboard hiding).
The world-building and storytelling in that game are absolutely first class.
The problem is that there was zero character building to justify any of those things.
Oh, he would go back for the girl because it’s his pregnant girlfriend? Lol. Except it was his sister, not his girlfriend. I don’t blame you for not knowing, because there was zero relationship established between the two either way. The only way you’d know is maybe one line where they say so, but no actual interaction between them. I’m glad he died for being so dumb, maybe that’s what they were going for.
Going back for the robot, again, is weak. Maybe if they showed her as a little girl, seeing her family die, and the robot is there for her. MAYBE. But no, they just say it in a throwaway line. Then the robot spends half the movie disregarding her life for the sake of the goo mission. If anything, at that point, she should recognize that this isn’t her family, it’s a fucking robot that does as it’s programmed, it doesn’t actually care for her.
Compare these to Ripley, who goes back to save a helpless real human being little girl Newt, who she establishes a maternal bond with throughout the movie. Do you see the difference?
It’s still very conveniently hand wavy regarding the space station. Hm, maybe Weyland Corp just decided to let the ship with “THE VITAL TO THE FUTURE OF HUMANITY’S SPACE EXPLORATION MISSION” that happens to also have a “HIGHLY DEADLY PERFECT ALIEN SPECIES”, just float off into a very slow destruction, with no one monitoring it. These 5 young inexperienced people from the mining colony do more monitoring and salvage than.. the rest of the Weyland presence on the mining colony? These kids were able to board, infiltrate, and salvage cryo pods, and even retrieve the important-to-humanity black goo, but Weyland couldn’t get some of his more experienced mining colony members to attempt the same thing, equipped with knowledge of what they were up against? Or at least keep an eye on the station to make sure no one else attempts to unleash the deadly alien species? C’mon.
Going back for the robot, again, is weak. Maybe if they showed her as a little girl, seeing her family die, and the robot is there for her. MAYBE. But no, they just say it in a throwaway line. Then the robot spends half the movie disregarding her life for the sake of the goo mission. If anything, at that point, she should recognize that this isn’t her family, it’s a fucking robot that does as it’s programmed, it doesn’t actually care for her.
Compare these to Ripley, who goes back to save a helpless real human being little girl Newt, who she establishes a maternal bond with throughout the movie. Do you see the difference?
It’s still very conveniently hand wavy regarding the space station. Hm, maybe Weyland Corp just decided to let the ship with “THE VITAL TO THE FUTURE OF HUMANITY’S SPACE EXPLORATION MISSION” that happens to also have a “HIGHLY DEADLY PERFECT ALIEN SPECIES”, just float off into a very slow destruction, with no one monitoring it. These 5 young inexperienced people from the mining colony do more monitoring and salvage than.. the rest of the Weyland presence on the mining colony? These kids were able to board, infiltrate, and salvage cryo pods, and even retrieve the important-to-humanity black goo, but Weyland couldn’t get some of his more experienced mining colony members to attempt the same thing, equipped with knowledge of what they were up against? Or at least keep an eye on the station to make sure no one else attempts to unleash the deadly alien species? C’mon.
Resurrection was a silly movie, but still better than this one. Weaver was great as Clone Ripley. The rest of the crew reacting to her being a weird alien clone was believable. There were tons of memorable moments in the film, even if memorably weird.
You couldn’t even remember if the girl was his girlfriend or his sister. I bet you can’t remember a single one of their names either. I sure couldn’t, even an hour after I watched the film.
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You didn't say that and how would you know you didn't pay attention!
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Whilst I definitely enjoyed the movie, I'm not entirely sure on how "good" I think it was.
As a spooky spaceship/monster horror movie on it's own, it was mostly fine.
As an Alien movie, I have some major issues.
Visuals were great. I loved the atmosphere, and the way most things looked and felt. Nailed the retrotech environment.
The creepiness is a highlight as well.
The Alien itself was good for the most part, though I felt oddly unsatisfied with the kills and didn't like the general behaviour at all. I prefer silent stalking ambush predator, not berserker steamroller. Same applies for the facehuggers. I did like the addition of the Alien nest/cocoon element, thought that was fine and made sense.
As a whole the movie felt like it moved way too quickly for me.
First half to 2/3rds was pretty damn good, but after that is a toss up.
The more I thought about it the worse things got.
If you go in blocking out all knowledge of previous Alien films (except maybe Prometheus and Covenant) it's fine and you'll probably have a good time, but if you're scrutinising it as an Alien movie it falls apart pretty quick.
I hate the way they get the Alien in the first place, which makes less and less sense the more you think about what they're actually saying happened.
I hate that this also effectively obsoletes the events that lead to the entire plot of Aliens...
They made many poor decisions in terms of where to take the story that they had already laid out. Plenty of good elements or potential that they then went the wrong way with.
They played the "evil company" completely wrong IMO. They made the company too smart/powerful and dumb/absent at the same time, when they could have easily had it walk a comfortable middle road.
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After watching, here's a story outline I would have liked to see and that I think would have made a better "Alien" movie (which also contains more details on some of my complaints).
As a spooky spaceship/monster horror movie on it's own, it was mostly fine.
As an Alien movie, I have some major issues.
Visuals were great. I loved the atmosphere, and the way most things looked and felt. Nailed the retrotech environment.
The creepiness is a highlight as well.
The Alien itself was good for the most part, though I felt oddly unsatisfied with the kills and didn't like the general behaviour at all. I prefer silent stalking ambush predator, not berserker steamroller. Same applies for the facehuggers. I did like the addition of the Alien nest/cocoon element, thought that was fine and made sense.
As a whole the movie felt like it moved way too quickly for me.
First half to 2/3rds was pretty damn good, but after that is a toss up.
The more I thought about it the worse things got.
If you go in blocking out all knowledge of previous Alien films (except maybe Prometheus and Covenant) it's fine and you'll probably have a good time, but if you're scrutinising it as an Alien movie it falls apart pretty quick.
I hate the way they get the Alien in the first place, which makes less and less sense the more you think about what they're actually saying happened.
I hate that this also effectively obsoletes the events that lead to the entire plot of Aliens...
They made many poor decisions in terms of where to take the story that they had already laid out. Plenty of good elements or potential that they then went the wrong way with.
They played the "evil company" completely wrong IMO. They made the company too smart/powerful and dumb/absent at the same time, when they could have easily had it walk a comfortable middle road.
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After watching, here's a story outline I would have liked to see and that I think would have made a better "Alien" movie (which also contains more details on some of my complaints).
The plot point about stealing tech to escape the mining colony was a good one, but horribly underdone and well short of potential.
Dumb bullshit that makes no sense in this plot point as shown in the movie:
I like the overall idea of the "escape colony" plot point, but think that and the evil company/derelict space station/alien infestation should all have been combined into the same thing.
By this I mean, it should have gone like this:
I hated the whole setup of the company just recovering the actual fucking alien from the first movie. What happens after that? They get facehuggers, but how? Is it suggesting a return to the original (scrapped) "alien can reproduce on it's own" idea? Or is it supposed to a black goo thing?
And then the space station successfully having facehuggers, aliens, black goo (that definitely didn't need to be in the movie, but whatever) - they got it all. Doing it the way they did means the events of Aliens are completely redundant - and wrong, based on the knowledge they would have gained from the Romulus station.
Rant over. Far out, sometimes I hate how much I love Alien.
Dumb bullshit that makes no sense in this plot point as shown in the movie:
- Character asks to leave colony
- Told can't leave colony
- Character just leaves colony anyway
- Goes to space station in orbit that non one else knew about?
- Space traffic control is a thing in Alien universe, how do some kids in a space dump truck find it but no one else does?
- Speaking of, how do kids in dump truck who aren't allowed to leave just leave anyway?
- Space traffic control isn't like "hey space dump truck, you aren't authorised - why haven't you delivered your load yet, you're already overdue at collection"
- Work abusing mining colony that won't let people leave doesn't have measures in place to stop people from leaving in worker abusing mining colony owned space dump trucks?
- How does the super important alien research station become lost anyway? You think they just stopped caring about it?
- etc etc
I like the overall idea of the "escape colony" plot point, but think that and the evil company/derelict space station/alien infestation should all have been combined into the same thing.
By this I mean, it should have gone like this:
- Worker abusing mining colony is still the same. Show workers wanting to leave/escape, but can't. Show more resistance against security, unrest, violent incidents etc.
- Have a bigger group that are plotting an uprising/revolt, but don't really know what to do with it.
- Someone new joins the group, and tells them about a derelict spacecraft in orbit that they can escape to. Some people of the group are sceptical and don't trust new guy, but he convinces them as he has security access to a different area and was able to find this out.
- They stage a riot, steal a short range transport and escape to the derelict spacecraft.
- They get it working and manage to leave orbit. They set course for a safe haven years away, and then all entre cryosleep for the journey.
- Character wakes up after unknown length of time, discovers something isn't right. Some are still in cryo, others aren't in their tubes.
- Story plays out, it turns out the derelict spacecraft was planted there by the company and that it was carrying an egg/eggs. The "new person" in the group that encouraged them to escape was also a company plant and in on it the whole time. The ship/Mother is a quarantine science ship designed to learn about the alien from scratch, and is working against the survivors by actively trying to help the alien/s so as to observe their behaviour and life cycle.
- Movie is then survivors trying to escape from the hostile ship while stalked by alien/aliens.
I hated the whole setup of the company just recovering the actual fucking alien from the first movie. What happens after that? They get facehuggers, but how? Is it suggesting a return to the original (scrapped) "alien can reproduce on it's own" idea? Or is it supposed to a black goo thing?
And then the space station successfully having facehuggers, aliens, black goo (that definitely didn't need to be in the movie, but whatever) - they got it all. Doing it the way they did means the events of Aliens are completely redundant - and wrong, based on the knowledge they would have gained from the Romulus station.
Rant over. Far out, sometimes I hate how much I love Alien.
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Slight disagree
Whilst the life cycle shown in the first movie is indeed rapid, there is still a passage off time that occurs off screen. After the chestburster scene, the crew spend some time pulling together makeshift equipment for hunting it. Brett and Parker rig up the cattle prod, Ash does the same for the motion sensor. It doesn't say how long this takes and while it is still a short period of time, its very different to Romulus where we effectively see the entire life cycle from facehugger to full grown shown to us unbroken in real time
as taking barely a couple of minutes
Edit: Just remembered Kane's funeral takes place between the chestburster scene and Brett's death. I also think they might have cleaned the dining area during this time (I seem to recall seeing shots of this room shown again at later parts of the movie, but with no blood). Based on this, we can speculate a range of 30 minutes to 3 hours between chestburster to full grown.
Contrast this to Romulus
where the entire life cycle from facehugger attachment to full grown takes barely 5 minutes
The process has been gradually speeding up throughout each film, but this is some serious bullshit lol
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