LMAO off here. Some of you hate me for this review But most of you hate the film as much as I do. So high five to everyone who saw this garbage for the shallow, cash grab, rehash that it is. Lots of predictable deniers too saying "you're stuck in the past man". Wrong, my review of Furiosa this year was fairly positive ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Q9PK0zAwZhI.html I was also one of the few who had anything positive to say about Alien Covenant. Give me a great modern movie like Dragged Across Concrete, Upgrade, Nitram, Dredd, Brawl in Cell Block 99, Snowtown, Toy Story 4, The Master or Hereditary (all post 2010) and I'll give you a glowing review. Give me a turd like Alien Romulus and I'll call it for what it is, no shilling, no catering, no holding back. I'm stuck in GOOD MOVIES and intend to stay here. Whether you loved or hated the film, thanks for your comments, even the personal digs :)
'Stuck in the past' is probably the best option anyone can take when it comes to movies and music ect 😂 You gotta make this type of video into a more frequent series Rob
I respect the "argument" but seriously the sound camera work and music were very top notch. Were there major flaws sure? But I think plot needs to be separated from other elements - if you think the plot was poorly done. Fine but there were compensating factors. That said yes it was creatively ... somewhat limited.
I was struck by how poor the dialogue was and how shallow the conversations were from the offset, so even the initial premise of getting off the mining planet seemed implausible and the characters utterly flat. For me it felt like a B teen horror movie: the kids head off somewhere forbidden for the weekend and get picked off one by one while we yawn or chuckle at the wrong scenes.
In case you're living under a rock Romulus has generally positive reviews among both critics and audiences and is absolutely smashing it at the box office.
ALIEN RECYCLED would have been a better title for this film, I'm surprised cinemas didn't hand out Alien bingo cards before you entered so you can tick off all the call backs from the other movies, first person to shout House! gets a prize maybe? The Alien Isolation reference is interesting as that would have made a much better Alien loose on a Space station story than what we got (it has a much more compelling protagonist as well) so why not just adapt that? I was prepared to cut Alvarez some slack as it's obvious that Ridley Scott ran interference here, (hence all the prequel nonsense that's been included) but the news that he now wants to pitch a new AVP script to Disney has destroyed any credibility he might have had. ALIEN R.I.P.
@@davidnicholls5303 I'll admit I like AVP comics. But none of the movies have been stellar AVP2 was similar to Romulus. It was just safe carbon copy Predator. Robert Rodriguez's Predators was my favorite for Yakuza vs. Predator scene
Everyone slates alien 3.. but at least Alien 3 was an original idea. It wasn't a mish mash of the previous two movies.. Charles dance didn't say "get away from her you bitch" I just don't get modern movies.. I swear most movies and TV shows from the last 5 years have mostly been written by ai. Mostly...
I liked 3. In my head canon I consider it a stand alone as I liked the Dark Horse or whatever comics they were where Hicks survived and they expanded the in universe lore a bit.
The characters in Alien 3 were definitely memorable, some almost relatable and a few even sympathetic. I didn't hate Romulus but I felt nothing for the characters. The casting was very generic and diverse to appeal to a Gen Z audience. Alien did not have pretty people which made it feel real.
Alien 3 was not an original idea, they just took the first film and set it on a prison planet with one alien again. There was nothing original about it plot wise.
"And nobody saw Alien 4 so we can just reshuffle the scenes, CGI new actors faces on. yay, then the house in the Caymans will be paid off!" John Waters version of Alien starring Richard Simmons and Ru Paul would have been more serious.
Yeah I hated seeing people fleeing from a facehugger swarm in yet another movie. Di they really have to bring that one back, its been done to death already..
That humans have mastered interstellar travel, artificial gravity, and created sentient androids but are going into mines to die holding canaries is laughable on the face of it.
If anything, I think it's kinda reminiscent of our society and I found it pretty effective. AI is replacing art jobs but waiters and cashiers still exist. The irony of technological progress
@@juanote8943 The African and Oriental parts without capitalism, sure. And of course the dirty Hispanic criminal world of cartel human trafficking.. basically all the places without white individuals.
Either they do remakes, prequels, sequels or just make another disaster movie. Try counting how many _End Of The World_ movies they have spewed out in the last 20 years. 🤮
If you are sick of them, I am assuming you have seen many sequels, prequels, remakes... etc...to form this opinion. If not, your comment is valid at face, but don't you gotta experience something to say your sick of it? Anyhow..be well.
I have a less negative opinion of the movie but some things in it are simply indefensible. You mentioned the implausibility of big chap surviving a harpoon to the belly, being blasted with a rocket engine, and being left floating in space for 20 years. Then there’s the implausibility of finding the damn thing in the vastness of space. It’s more like a needle in an ocean rather than a hay stack - and I might be understating it. But there’s yet another angle that shows this part of the story to be absolutely bonkers: the company knew of the organism and knew where it was picked up. They could have gone directly to LV-426 without passing Go. Instead, they spent two decades combing the space to find something they didn’t even know was there. Stupid teenagers have nothing on Weybland Yudummy.
@darkwoods1954 it’s possible they could have produced the eggs by synthesizing the sample of the Alien they found. If they did indeed go to LV-426 and picked up eggs, why did Rook make such a big fuss of searching for the Alien and finally finding it after 20 years? Why was this shown on screen and nothing about the trip to LV-426 and fetching the eggs?
Yep, these were exactly the things I noted as well. Even worse: the "sarcophagus" thing containing Big Chap isn't just floating through space, it's in the wreckage of the Nostromo! The same Nostromo that was blown into tiny pieces by an enormous nuclear detonation tens of miles away in space from where Ripley finally blew the alien out of the airlock. And we're supposed to believe these items of space junk are bobbing around within metres of each other after 20 years of hurtling through the cosmos. And then there's the fact some lowly teenage miners are aware there's a derelict WT ship in orbit, but WT themselves who control the entire planet and its orbital traffic don't appear to be remotely interested in the fact a gigantic unaccounted space station of their own manufacture has appeared floating above. I thought Romulus was a bit of a curate's egg when I left the cinema, but the more time I've had to digest the details the more sloppy the writing gets.
Also Rook says he sent a message to tell the company to pick up the compound. Wasn’t there some kind of emergency warning in place or beacon/message sent out already, since the companies most important work was on that spaceship? They can find a black alien years later in the vacuum of space but the most important vessel just gets ignored floating above a populated planet. A bit ridiculous.
"The perfect organism. Its structural perfection is matched only by its hostility...its purity. A survivor - unclouded by conscience, remorse, or delusions of morality." - Ash
@@NotMorganFreeman. It’s obvious. The creature is amazing because of how it exists and what it can do. Fast rate of growth, stupidly durable and strong, and intelligent. That’s what makes it a fascinating creature.
We had great films every week in the 70-90s every week man. You’d go really enjoy it and have a meal beers etc. then go and see it again the next day as it was that good
I live near a city with a theater that plays midnight showings of old flicks. A few years ago, I got to see "Alien" there, and, yeah, it was epic! Perhaps you'll come across a similar opportunity.
The only reason this franchise is even still a thing is because of how original O'Bannon's take on the space alien movie premise was, and especially how uniquely beautiful Giger's designs were.
Agreed, but also Ridley Scott complemented that with a gloomy, gritty sci-fi noir aesthetic. One of the greatest accomplishments of the original Alien, (likely related to Giger) that few talk about, was the ambiguity surrounding the backstory, Alien. Engineers and human, that allowed the audience to create their own universe... They could dream up perhaps what kind of evolution, through eons and bizarre environments might create such fantastic beings. Then progressively as it is all spelled out for us... it loses its mystique and becomes dumbed down and backed in a corner.
I know people say movies made by committee are usually terrible, but in my opinion when the committee is made up of creatives like Scott, O'Bannon, Shusset, Giger, Hill, Giler, etc a movie can be fantastic. That's sort of what irks me about Ridley Scott claiming ownership of the franchise. He was no doubt an integral part, but by no means was it his baby alone.
Dan O'Bannon basically stole from John Carpenter's Dark Star. The better ideas came from Ronald Shussett and David Giler and Walter Hill. Also Ridley Scott's creativity.
@@MrCarpen7er How did O'Bannon steal from a movie he helped make? There was no facehugger or chestburster in Dark Star, those were solely his concepts, but you think an Alien movie without them would be fine? It was also his idea to have the creature based off of Giger's artwork, which might be one of the best ideas anyone has ever had for a sci-fi horror film?
No the only reason this franchise is still going is because most ppl LIKE THESE MOVIES. Funny that the only place I find ppl hating alien movies are the internet but most regular ppl find these movies totally fine. In the words of James Cameron "get out of your mom's basement"
I feel this weird vibe in the industry with movies like this and Matrix 4, where the first 20 minutes or so feel like its written by a different person, and then the rest is just regurgitated quotes out of context, that mean nothing to the people saying them, or hearing them, except the audience where it falls flat
@@octosalias5785 except matrix 4 was actually in and of itself a not so hidden critique of the industry shenanigans, while this just adopts the standard with no intention of making that same statement but simply regurgitate yet another homage-ridden movie
@@scaredlobstero I feel like that was intentionally self-criticizing of Matrix 4 as it was literally an investor advertisement for Unreal Engine. And thats true of many movies, like Pirates of the Caribbean and Avatar, to sell vfx and 3D technology
@@octosalias5785 I might be overinterpreting, you mean Matrix 4 is all part of a plot to portray movies and the movie industry in a particularly bad light so that audiences will finally switch to videogames , or that more simply put it was bad on purpose to highlights even more that impressive Unreal Engine 5 Matrix demo? I'm genuinely confused by your comment, tell me moar
@@scaredlobstero I mean that Matrix 4 has a tie-in advertisement for Unreal Engine 5 you can download featuring Keanu Reaves and Carrie-Ann Moss. Its highly likely thats the only reason the movie exists and then they hired one of the Wachowskis to write part of it
Three messages in this film - white men are racist, black men protect white women, women are more capable than men. Variations of these in like every movie now.
Three messages in this film - white men are racist, black men protect white women, women are more capable than men. Variations of these in like every movie now.
It's Hollywood chasing money. I have no problem with diverse casting, people seeing themselves represented on screen--but make no mistake, Hollywood is in *no way* "woke"--IT'S A FUCKING HUGE COG IN THE CAPITALIST MACHINE. And I think in 99% of big studio productions, the introduction of diverse characters is deeply, deeply cynical. If you can't be bothered with a book, Some More News did a great "Is Hollywood "Woke"?!" video. If you've got an hour, it's an interesting watch. And it's not "cultural Marxist propaganda". So don't be scared! Peace!
Couldn't agree more with your review, Rob! Saw it last night with two friends, and we were all left cold. Excruciatingly bland characters. Rehashing of lines/scenarios from previous films added nothing but the sense that the writer has no new ideas and no originality. Plot was vaporous: uninteresting, babyfaced wage-slaves take a spaceship to steal some cryopods from a derelict space station so they can fly off to a distant planet for a better life. Spacestation was filled with troublesome xenomorphs, and they all have a bad time, one squirting out a hybrid before expiring. One (and her android brother) survives and leaves an audio log entry at the end of the ordeal. 2 hours felt like 4 hours. My revelation half way through was, "There's so little going on here, I'll never need to see this movie again." If you haven't seen this movie, trust me - you're not missing anything. Life's too short to waste it on Alien: Romulus.
Hm, I'd say, some criticisms of you aren't thaaaaat valid. Picking one now. Make the characters have something going on, a handful of personal, individual traits... Not just their ethnicity or regional background. If that's all you saw in the characters, then I think you didn't want to see more in them. I'd argue: The different characters make different emotional vs rational decisions, which inform their characters. That conflict is introduced by the mining backstory where an android sacrificed people, by shutting down a gate, in order to save more lifes. It is then clearly highlighted by rook's statement, that humans take too long until they start acting rational in critical moments. So the asshole character with his English accent. What has he going on? - He hates androids because of their rationality - is aggressive - when in crisis he decides to do the emotional thing and tries to save his girlfriend, who might be infected and, thus, is a threat to all their life's. - in a mean sense of irony he does it by shutting a gate - leaving his friends behind and basically to die - which is exactly what happened to his parents, which made him hate androids. - also ironically, his girlfriend Navarro did the rational decision and wanted to keep a door closed, while her boyfriend and the leader were fighting for their lifes The protagonist had a lot of shit going on The android had a lot of shit going on The nice guy leader was the nice guy, brave leader, who didn't act rational but emotional and tried to save lifes despite the odds I only saw this movie once, but I believe one could get more out of this flick and it's characters than: it's all just diversity checkboxes.
Agreed. I saw this yesterday the ethnic make up of the cast didn’t even enter my head nor the did it make into the list of issues for the person I saw it with who hated it. To even notice this, let alone make it a talking point says a lot more about the reviewer and their sensitivities than the movie. Pretty disappointing to find another reviewer get brain rot from the ‘anti sjw/woke’ nonsense: it’s the easiest, lamest and least interesting way to approach a film. If I wanted than crap I’d watch drinker 🙄
Wonder how Rob saw Navarro who was female was in a heterosexual relationship with Bjorn was trans somehow? I guess buzzcut=Trans? So I guess Ripley in Alien 3 is trans now based off of her losing her more feminine hair?@@wephilips6651
@wephilips6651 funny you should mention The Critical Drinker because his review of this movie is more nuanced and less clouded by ”this must suck so all I notice are things that suck” than Ager’s.
@@wephilips6651 If its his sensitivities then its the normal human response that is intelligent and informed. The purpose of a good movie is to immerse you into another world, when you even get a glimpse of annoying, irrational everyday politics of our world it destoys or damages the immersion. The difference is that you either embrace it or you were distracted by other stuff. People subconcioussbness at least notices this stuff. And asian plus a black. That is race cheeckboxes. + the black guy is the android, most of this population in aliens is wester, i.e. white, you want to sell androids, so why make him black?! Because either they are racists or you are an idiot and dont know how free market works. This was a minor thing to me, because other nastiness is much more obvious. The GenZ cahracters are out off palce and are capable of nothing but whining, screaming and are dull and incompetent, no one wants to see that.
That was awesome. Thank you. I can't believe it. First Alien movie I'm not going to see. Hated Prometheus. Hated Alien Ccovenant. Liked 3 but hated the unnecessary deaths of Newt and Hicks. Fortunately, I wrote a short story where Ripley is seeing a psychologist where she discusses a recurring nightmare where she's stuck on a planet that is a custodian to convicted inmates. And an Alien. Ripley discovers it is trauma induced by the power of Elite males, who want to control society as they see fit. That's right, I turned it into a fever dream where trauma is stored in the recess of her sub- conscious. Of course, Newt and Hicks are alive. Peace.
@@obeewankenobi sorry but dune 1 was ok dune 2 was totally stupid all threat and tension gone - poor film making. Denis couldnt hold a candle to Sam peckinpah, Scorsese de palma etc etc. Wes Anderson’s is ok but daft as fcuk about as much tension as acolyte
@@leapsplashafrog like most of those guys. whats acolyte...hahaha? denis-enemy, arrival, and that awesome hairstyle commercial, c'mon, guys gotta start somewhere. he paid his dues. i think dune 2 is equal to kubricks spartucus reason. what u think? no control ending, is like no way! OB
THANK YOU! I feel like I'm the little kid in the story of the Emperor's New Clothes, screaming how terrible this film was while everyone else is saying, "Best Alien film since the originals!" ... I had my two Gen-Z'ers with me and they were bored. We actually left the theater about an hour into Romulus.... And I saw nothing that was a nod to Alien Isolation. Alien Isolation is 1,000 times scarier than Romulus could ever hope to be. As my son said when we left the theater: "It sucked. My heart didn't race at all."
Just a quick pre-watch comment; I find it weird that no one makes any films about literally everything else that happens in the "Alien" universe. You could make so many epic stories about Seegson, Weyland-Yutani or even what the society is like in a broad sense. Instead they just produce "Stupid People Getting Killed by the Xenomorphs Story #2090"
Weyland-Yutani know about the Alien. Since the first movie. I want to know what their plans are with that creature. But they gave us another cheap slasher/action movie without any story. I also want to know what will happen with David. Its insane to end a trilogy after the second movie. Thats just cruel.
It's interesting to ponder an "Alien" expanded universe, but to be honest, you'd either be shoving the Alien in there when it isn't necessary to keep the thematic connection or else telling dystopian stories that have nothing at all to do with it and thus don't necessarily need to be set in that same continuity.
Yeah I remember he was the only one who gave a negative review to Blade Runner 2049 while everyone else was raving. I had to watch it three times because I couldnt believe how bad it was, I thought I was missing something.
I have watched many of your reviews and often found them quite insightful. I have not seen Romulus, but now I almost feel I need to so I can form my own opinion whether it is actually worse than Prometheus and Covenant. Those two movies were so stupid that I felt actually insulted by them.
Somehow, Big chap survived....along with a massive chunk of Nostromo with lettering to show it is in fact The Nostromo in case you thought it was space trash.
It isn't implausible that it cocooned itself to go into stasis. But where did all the extra mass for the resin come from? This was one major plot hold in Alien: how did the alien grow so big without consuming anything? (To be fair, in Alan Dean Foster's novelization, I think it raided the food supplies. Then again, in the end it exploded from the pressure differential when blown into the vacuum of space.)
While I can’t say I hated these recent films you have reviewed, I’d also be lying if I said I was satisfied. Big budget filmmaking no longer supports the original, thought provoking, masterful art of the not so distant past that so many yearn for in their films. This video, and other recents including your Longlegs review, feels more like a genuinely angry response to what feels like is never ending mediocre onslaught of modern big budget productions. This is not him hating for clickbait this is a true reaction that I cannot be mad at. Alien: Romulus and Longlegs left so much to be desired withholding them from being anything worth dissecting and analyzing.
When I saw it, it did not 'move' me as much as Alien 1. I partly agree with you. Script writing is an art, Story Telling is an art, and this story could have been told better.
@MetalsirenIXI Nope.. 3 and 4 are beyond weak.. But they aren't crammed with diversity box ticking and moronic dull characters that do stupid things. The best films remain Alien, Aliens, Prometheus.. Covenant though the latter two have issues the plot is excellent the premise and ideas are interesting.. There's nothing to grab onto with Romulus it's just another lazy movie that steals from better films in the series.. Nothing original present. Then there is the way it's shot.. Ugly.. Very poorly colour balanced as well. Performances extremely poor to boot. Alien 3 doesn't have bad performances.. It's biggest sin is the messing of the plot coming from Aliens and the boring pace. Resurrection aka 4 is artistically excellent it has great sets and visual effects. CGI is dated though. It's just a bit to goofy for it's own good but it's plot ideas are solid and it deals more with the corporations efforts with the Alien.. Which is interesting and not heavily explored. Romulus as I said adds nothing.. It actually ruins things.. The Aliens don't need to eat now?. They are invincible in space?.. They find it in the void of space... Dumb dumb dumb immediately lost the audience with such a stupid setup. Activist garbage throughout the film as well.. Muh 'racism'.. Yeah get that out of this IP.. We've had a 'diverse cast in Alien since the start.. Everyone is on the same level it's the future.. So to push of muh racism is cleared done to cause division and push a particular worldview which I outright reject and resent. No Alien film has be angry because even watching it. But I could tell it was going to be terrible off the trailers.
@@MetalsirenIXI No it wasn't... are you drunk...? lol I agree; 3 and 4 are certainly nowhere close to being master pieces, but they're far beyond Romulus.
Last hour of this movie is nothing but endless references, memberberries and nostalgia slop. It's like Disney executive board made a checklist and then movie was done around that list. It's a shame because first 45 minutes were pretty solid. But it's just nostalgia baiting garbage at the end. Just like Force Awakens repurposes the New Hope, this movie is like a recyclement center cobbled together all previous Alien movies. It's probably enough to get enough positive synapses from people who are OK with having the same old slop but in a few years it won't be remembered kindly. So yeah I guess that's enough for a "summer horror movie", I expected an actual new, fresh Alien movie. This wasn't it.
Man I love your videos and I think you are truly brilliant when it comes to film analysis, but I think this film is much more than you give it credit for. I won't explain it because you are intelligent enough to understand the movie, but Alien: Romulus is a film that provides horror and subtext without shoving it down your throat. Your criticisms of Fede Alvarez are unbelievable coming from someone as intelligent as you are.
@@collativelearning I just think the film has an interesting message about illegal immigration and the process in America. Along with a Hitchcock-like way of creating suspense by introducing elements of suspense. I liked the previous two Ridley Scott films in the franchise, but I feel this film had a daft hand when it comes to creating horror and covering the themes oppression that have been present in Alien since the beginning.
@@collativelearningthat's the point. You see nothing anymore but Anti-SJW lies, you are as bad as the SJWs themselves. You say for this commentator you are not hearing much sense here but that's just your hypocrisy and nostalgia bias.
You're saying what the famous 1970s director William Friedken said a few years ago - that movies today are not grounded in gravity, in physical reality. He meant that literally, but also in general. In 1977 he released a movie called "Sorcerer" about Americans getting their jeeps stuck in the mud in a monsoon in a South American country, a character study rooted in a basic real life problem and which meant a lot to him. It happened to be released the same week in May as a little weird movie called Star Wars, which blew up out of nowhere within days, and his film was dead. I think the fuddy duddies who were criticizing the success of the Star Wars movies even at the time as giving license to a more childish mentality might have been right all along.
Friedkin was great and hysterically funny in interviews but a raving narcissist so most of the films from him post 1973 were turkey's. A good example of a director who was useless without a great script.
I absolutely agree, except for me it was about 98.5% garbage, not just 90%. The worst part is cgi Ian Holm and him calling the Aliens "Xenomorphs", which never happened before (no it doesn't happen in "Aliens"). It's a fan term used in comics, video games and by people who don't know anything about the movies. Except now they "reimagined" "Aliens" into Gorman probably knowing what he was talking about. The Aliens look like crap. The actors are too young, which is extremely untypical of the series. They change the Alien universe by stuff like "they can see your body heat". I actually like Prometheus and Covenant, but Romulus is definitely worse than Alien Resurrection even. James Cameron already turned the "perfect organism" into mere cannon fodder in "Aliens" but now their strength and acid blood don't even matter in theory because you can just turn off the gravity and shoot them. Why would anyone even be scared of them? They can't do anything! 7:20 "If it bleeds we can kill it" The Alien doesn't bleed in the first movie, only the facehugger does. Ash said you can't kill it, so that's what the first movie established. All the other movies simply broke that rule and to me at least, aren't even to be considered canon. 7:40 "The Alien can eat" How do you know that? It doesn't eat in Alien or Aliens.
Yeah I was being generous suggesting 10% of the film wasn't boring lol. The adult alien in the first film did bleed. ripley shot it with the harpoon gun and acide blood splashes out from the wound into the vaccuum of space. They didn't try to kill it on accoun tof the blood. As for Ash saying you can't kill it, I never thought that was a statement of literal invincibility like Superman has, but rather that Ash didn't want them to kill it. He was still protecting it so was trying to demotivate them. I think it's implausible to say the alien doesn't eat. It's got a mouth, teeth and a basic humanoid figure. All animals have to devour something for nourishment, otherwise where do they get their energy from?
@@collativelearning " ripley shot it with the harpoon gun and acide blood splashes out from the wound into the vaccuum of space" i just watched it again and i'm not sure i agree. just before she does that you see there's some sort of dust flying around in the ship, maybe it's just that. i don't see anything yellow. also i'm not sure it would make sense: the ship doesn't get damaged by the acid? "They didn't try to kill it on accoun tof the blood." They only said that about the Facehugger, not the Alien. "where do they get their energy from?" probably true, whatever.
@@collativelearning "As for Ash saying you can't kill it, I never thought that was a statement of literal invincibility like Superman has, but rather that Ash didn't want them to kill it." Yeah, i'm probably the only one who sees it that way. The idea that you can't kill it just makes the thing so much more "alien" and mysterious. To me a huge part of what makes that movie so great is that you know so little - who knows what's going on with that thing? Everything seems possible.
@@collativelearningSpeaking of the Alien eating Rob, do you have any theory as to what the Alien eats in the first movie? It seems to grow from a new born to an adult sized Alien seemingly in just a matter of hours in the the first Alien film? Always baffled me :/
@@Zatzzo It was pretty obvious in the first film the alien, like its facehugger parent, had acid for blood. That's why they were hoping to eject it out the airlock. That's why ripley didn't just shoot it in the head with the harppon while it was asleep. And that's why nobody ever questioned the second movie for the aliens having acid blood or the novelization. It's built into the entire franchise froim the beginning. When she shoots it in the stomach all the air and debris had already been sucked out the ship. That's it's blood we see from the stomach. It didn't damage the ship because the alien eas flung backwards into space from the impact.
This was like hannah montana vs the alien. The colony had terra forming tech but couldnt spot a ship In lower orbit. It was the Goonies on Xanax. 1 note the whole way. New World Order trash. 1 star.
@@roberttrefcer86 you can only find ships if you look for them Why should a slave mining planet scan its orbit ? I can buy it. Have a mining planet and run it cheap. Suppress people, suppress equipment - let them live like peasants What you need to scan a sky for ?
@@erroneous6947 even better they should have had a unit of colonial marines using the group as bait, then coming in and kicking ass. Way too much to ask from the new world order babies. Instead we got shit and all we can do is scoop it up.
Saw it yesterday with my 14-year-old daughter. I scored the movie 0 out of 10. Daughter scored it 4 out of 10. "ALIEN: TEENS IN SPACE" is insultingly, soullessly bad.
While this was by no means a masterpiece of genre cinema, I disagree with you in that Alien: Romulus did a lot of things right: 1. From a screenwriting stance, there was competent use of set up and payoffs, Chekhov's Gun, and raised stakes with diminished options, and revealing characters through their choices. 2. I didn't mind the acid blood anti-gravity scene like you did, because it was set up early. Yeah, the physics aren't perfect if you stop to think about it, but neither does the science behind the genetic engineering, nor explosions making sound in space (sound needs a medium like air to travel through) either. We as the audience sign a contract with the film makers to suspend disbelief - especially with sci-fi and fantasy - as long as the science obeys the internal logic of the story world. 3. I also didn't mind the pulse rifles. It stands to reason that Weylan-Yutani, being the type of corp that it is, would have weapons on their facilities and, if they did have weapons, they'd be weapons established in the cannon. Pulse rifles are established cannon. Pulse rifle weapons are not fan service any more than light sabres making a return in every Star Wars film released after Episode 4: A New Hope. It just makes sense. 4. Back to suspension of disbelief. In regards to what you called box checking with the characters: I find it interesting that people can suspend their disbelief with the concept of aliens in space - and alien/human hybrids (we can't even make chimp/human hybrids when our genomes are almost 99 percent identical) - yet the idea of a crew with an androgenous Asian girl, a kid with a cockney accent, ect. in space in the exact same story is a sticking point as too unrealistic and jarring? I didn't even notice, which is to say that the backgrounds of the actors didn't add to the story nor did it take away from the story. I've enjoyed your content since the beginning yet never commented. Thanks for uploading. Interesting discussion.
4. I don't think that's his point. After all the original 2 films had Ambiguous gendered females, older character actors that looked like genuine workers, black actors obviously and reversing gender stereotypes (senior Weyland yutani females, female engineers, strong female soldier etc etc) I believe its the obvious use of those characters and the stereotypical writing and behaviour that's makes them 1 dimensional
@@eldictator1 Thank you for the counter argument. If that was his point, you articulated it far more arftully than he did. I just don't think that's what he meant, so while I still disagree with Rob, I agree with your take: the problem isn't the physical characteristics of the crew, the problem is weak character development on the screenwriting level that gives the characters a lack of dimension. The problem with the characters isn't external. The problem is internal. It'd be the same problem if the crew were the standerd four heterosexual white guys and a token woman/black guy/alien/whatever ripoff of "Star Trek" or "Star Wars", but poorly written with tropes. "Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" is a great example of diverse characters (who mostly aren't even human!) that works. LotR flips it by following a cast of characters including elves, hobbits, and dwarves, with humans (Aragorn, Gandalf) as the token minorities (albeit hetreosexual white males), It works because of great character development at the screenwriting level. However, the main reason the LotR Amazon TV show got well-deserved pushback from fans about its ethniclly-diverse elves was because of poor writing. Of course some fans would complain no matter how good the writing is, but you can't please everyone. So while, the "Alien"Romulus" execution of its characters' wants, needs, fears, secrets, tragic flaws, ect. could be stronger, their culture, gender, neighborhood they're from (obstensibly working-class London?), race, youth in themselves are irrelevant. The horror genre is notorious for weak side-character development. When it's done right, you get rare masterpiece like "The Silence of the Lambs" (Buffalo Bill, Hannibal Lechter, Clarice Starling), or "The Shinning".
There is no way that they would find a speck of organic material floating in space. Over time, the alien would have been inside a ball of ice. Movies are now made for a dumb worldwide audience. For this reason, movies, for now, are dead. The best work is now being done on American and European television. For example, movies in the 70's were great. Television scripts from most dramas in the 70's were silly and sappy.
You need water to create ice, where does this mystery water come from to freeze the alien? I guess you have found a way to source water from the EMPTINESS of space that NASA hasn't found 🤷. Maybe in this fake scenario of yours a comet flew by and froze it?
@@michealarchangel637 I agree with you. However, the frozen gas does not have to be water. It could be the acid in their blood that freezes. We need an expert here to explain the 100 ways they would never find a speck of organic material in the vastness of space and to tell us the probabilities of this. 🙂
One thing I did think was really cool about the hybrid alien at the end is that it was a real guy in the suit. He's a kid in his 20's a former basketball player who's over 7 feet tall.
@@custardgannet4836 I grew up on that film as a kid so I naturally love Alien 3 as well! I love them all tbh especially Romulus, deffo want to see it again!
The fact that Alvarez relies so heavily on the Idiot Plot makes me wonder if that's precisely why Scott chose him over Blomkamp. I mean look at Prometheus and Covenant. Scott relied on his characters being complete morons for the plot to work.
He didnt. Watch those movies again. Everyone acts within reason. The closer we get is the colonists from Covenant not having hazmat suits while on the planet. But, why would they wear them? The planet natural biosphere didnt infect anyone. It was the eggs, which were pretty much traps. I dont expect for something to burst out of my asshole if I get covered in pollen.
@@mk-ultramags1107 Poor Blomkamp, so much promise after District 9, Elysium.. then Chappie and it's all downhill (but I LOVE Die Antwoord). Panos Cosmatos would have made an interesting sequel.... Alvarez has nothing up his sleeve, he is paint by numbers.
@@mk-ultramags1107 I may not entirely agree with that notion, but I will say, if you're right, and there is always a chance, it's but another example of "shit trickles down".
@@ravensthatflywiththenightm7319 the characters were actually quite smart in how they approached things They differed in how the reacted in a crisis. Some acted emotional and some rational But the group as a whole had smart ideas throughout.
Highlights of the utterly stupid shit in this movie: -"Andy" the android is magically fixed every time he's damaged with a wondrous turn-key like he is a wind-up toy -Ian Holmes face is extremely poorly recreated with atrocious cgi purely for nostalgia bait -the Facehuggers being blind due to heat scene shows them being so obviously moving around on remote control wheels, just gliding around on the ground -The prototype Pulse Rifles have 450 rounds of ammo in a single magazine, and autotargeting wobble stocks lmao, not to mention that the sights seem to be targeting based on thermal signatures, which was established in ALIENS that the xenomorphs don't show up on -the lifecycle of the xenomorph is rushed to an absurd point of going from implanted to chestburster to fully grown in under an hour, gaining mass just magically from out of nowhere -The pregnant girl just randomly injects herself with an unknown substance for the lulz so she can make a monster baby that, for some unknown reason, becomes a hybrid of Engineer and xenomorph, wtf? Oh, and it also just magically gains mass out of nowhere, growing to absurd proportions in a matter of moments This should have stayed as a direct to streaming film, but apparently there's a significant enough portion of people out there shilling for it to confirm the zombie apocalypse, as they must be brain dead stupid to not see the egregious level of disrespect and downright inattention to canon that is passed off in this movie. Bad fanfiction at best, the actors are pretty much all cardboard cutouts with the thoroughly unimaginatively named "Andy" the android being the one exception.
@11:53 Totally agree. Can you imagine a director like Kubrick doing something like that (not that he'd do a sequel anyway)? It usually just serves to undermine the film by pulling you out of the story and reminding you of the superior original.
people are allowing them to shove every piece of shit down their throats. I recently watched the original Alien, a frightening and visually fantastic masterpiece
At least Alien Isolation did some of its own stuff with the synthetics as well. That showroom section where you have to walk by the demo models, fully expecting one to pop to life and attack you? So freaking good. And it didn’t rely on fanservice to be a compelling moment.
Prometheus gave people things they hadn't seen before and words they hadn't heard before... And it was relentless panned so viciously that the franchise was nearly irreversibly damaged. I suppose thats why they just mined the fan favorites and rehased those with a fan service flick.
It's pretty crap how critics can with reviews influence what a series can be or not. If I wanted to watch the original Alien, I'd do just that. Thought Prometheus was great when I watched it in the cinema and still do now.
Yeah BUT Prometheus is part of a broader narrative he wants to tell. I don't think Ridley sees the narrative broken down into single movies. That's just his job to do that. In his mind it's kind of interesting to see what he's trying to explain. But he still hasn't made the bridge movie from covenant to Alien. David is the spine of this saga now. And it's interesting that Ridley has kept the android/company so intertwined within the narrative. To me. Prometheus and Covenant are building blocks in his narrative. To explain the androids power within this story and how he went so far as to create Aliens. As a way to get back at his own creators Ridley needs to drop a final classic to tie things up. Before his time is done..
Kane and the facehugger was part of the Alien story; lore building, tension, and false-sense of relief. Since, it's treated as an obligatory checkpoint holding back what the producers wanted to tell otherwise. Blame society's shortened attention span. According to the novelization and the graphic novel, the parasite embryo absorbs its host body where not even futuristic medical scanners can detect a difference in body weight. This was one of the reasons Kane was so hungry because lot of his body had been eaten/transmuted from the inside. If I remember correctly, there are graphic novels that point out victims of the facehugger have short term memory loss after regaining consciousness. They mingle out in the public when they "burst" spreading the Xenomorph further into the populous.
Funnily enough my Singaporean wife asked what gender she was, there absolutely was a considered choice to make her ambiguous. However a good androgynous character like Vasquez isn't obviously a tick box exercise but a well written and acted cool character
thats was so weird to hear him critque the movie for. not once where the characters race or ethnicity mentioned. and the "racism subtext", is a reading of the movie that is just not there.
Held off until I had been to see it before watching... Agree with everything you say! For me, Romulus was just totally soulless and void of any semblance of atmosphere.
Navarro was dressed just like Ripley in Alien 3. Guess that makes her code trans now? That criticism seems odd since Navarro had two character traits she was a mechanic and a pilot. The member berries were obnoxious, but I enjoyed having a fun time at the cinema with actually scary xenomorphs. That's just this 38yo old head fans perspective.
I was thoroughly stoned when i went to see alien romulus. The jump scare made me laugh. The movie was incredibly predictable even being stoned. Some parts of the movie had me wanting to yell "Get On With It!!" I think it would have been much better if they explored the themes surrounding Remus and Romulus.
I recently wrote a mini-essay about why Alien 3 is my favorite: What I love about it is how relatable Ripley is as someone suffering. Not only is she a traumatized survivor (just like the second one) but she’s so tired to her very bones. This is someone emotionally broken, who still gets up and makes it happen, because it’s the right thing to do. The movie is about overcoming depression, in the same way the second is about overcoming ptsd. I know this is a small thing (and I know she had just ran + the final act twist) but I love the part with her leaning in the mess hall doorway. To me, it’s more than just physical fatigue. As she tries to warn them, she’s about to collapse from the weight of everything that’s happened to her, and the crushing knowledge that she’s still not done yet. That’s how I’ve felt so many times in my life. “You’ve been in my life so long that I can barely remember anything else.” Finally, her sacrifice is one of the most moving things I’ve ever seen. To have the strength to say no, and to close the gate, when it would have been SO easy to say yes. With everything, she still kneels down, saint like, to comfort Morse when he’s shot. There’s no one tougher, or more noble, than Ellen Ripley.
I wrote a short story where Ripley is seeing her psychologist, talking about a recurring nightmare where she's trapped on a planet full of convicted male inmates. The meaning behind this trauma is about control, and blind power, where men are in control. Of course, this means Newt and Hicks survived, as they should've. Whoever thought of killing these characters off should be in a prison at the ass end of space, where no one can hear you scream.
@@josephdarkhelmet9494 it was largely disliked by fans, but objectively crucial to the final shape of ripley's character and response to tragedy with extraordinary nobility, it was her final test.
No, that alien is in the movie but they encounter many, that one is dead when the new cast arrive. Rob is on point with the stupidity of it surviving to be picked up a long time later though.
@@TheZaius spoilers btw: the ship the new cast break in to has a crew that got slaughtered by the one from Alien. Security killed it but not after it did a ton of damage. You see it's body in the movie.
@@MonkeyKingsformerroomate Wait, so, the alien from the first film ended up in another ship, slaughtered all of them but then was killed and then ejected from that ship?
@@TheZaius You're part right. The Xeno from Aliens slaughters the crew and gets gunned down by security using pulse rifles. We don't see that happen but we see it's body still in the ship. It's shot to hell, but it's there.
Think god someone on the internet agrees that Alien Romulus is TRASH. Everyone is loving this movie just like they did Dune 2 and Prey which were also trash. Its Disney recycled garbage marketed as something new. Soulless, mass-marketing insult to Alien fans. I went back to Alien to see the difference and they dont even compare. Pathetic
I just went and saw Alien Romulus last night and I'm sorry to hear that Rob Ager didn't like it. I didn't think it was amazing, but if you accept that it's really just a tribute to the Alien saga, I thought it was pretty solid. It's guilty of a lot of the same things that other modern Hollywood movies are guilty of: lack of originality, nostalgia bait, etc.
@@SurfbyShootin the cybernetic reptilian people from counter mars? I mean sure .. they a bit cold blooded but the cybernetic part is mean to make them better understanding emotions… maybe they run out of dobble AA batteries?
Not really. Actually those writers and directors are the idiots because they have not thought things through. They are not smart enough to not leave holes. The reason is that it is a MONEY-MAKING venture and they don't have time nor inclination to be air-tight. They need to make another movie next month so they can pay the mortgage on the house in the Caymans. There are VERY FEW movie makers interested in ART...... interested to SAY SOMETHING. Most are just working.
Twisters did the same thing...diverse cast with most of the cast just out of puberty.This creates a movie with no substance that justs floats around aimlessly and running on cliches.Thats the direction things seem to be going nowdays.I spend a lot of time just watching older movies in high def and HDR quality.Maybe that makes me a minority?
Someone in the comments here said there was nothing wrong with the cast.. As you say there was 'diversity" in the original 2 but they had substance and great writing, they were believable as a work colleague, friend or everyman. (After all they were space truckers and marines). Miners should absolutely not look like a Benetton advert and would be rough and ready
@@collativelearningThe New released movies I grew up with (in the late 80's/early 90's) were shot on film. Most digital stuff pales in comparison to even the most mediocre shot on film stuff from the late 80's/90's.
@@theendisthebeginningistheend I would say "honest". I don't always agree with them, but at least they explain why they have their opinion, which I can respect.
@@TheantitotalitarianmovementI think open cast mines are the way forward as you just use big machines to extract the thinh to be mined bit maybe that's not good for the story or dramatic scenes.
The "kids" in this movie were far more intelligent than anyone from Prometheus or Covenant. I don't see how you thought they were idiots, they seemed relatively rational considering the situation. I personally thought it was a fun Alien movie with a bit of fan service. I wasn't expecting a deep philosophical story or something as action-packed as the second movie. I just plain don't agree with your take.
This Timeline was much further into Space Traveling when Humanity learned to adapt more. The Prometheus team was sabotaged by Vickers to protest against her Father plans. Covenant was the first real deal Colony shipped out so they would all be very rough.
Exactly, if Rob is gonna complain about realism. There's plenty of unrealistic moments in covenant and Prometheus. Realism takes a back seat in 95% of movies. Entertainment is the main driver. I think he's upset there wasn't a 3rd continued movie after covenant 😅
Totally agree with you Sir....that's a honest review. What a disappointments of a movie. That's not cinema, it's a crab of nonsense things put together. Now I appreciate much more Prometheus & Covenant😅
Compared with other movies I have seen recently, Alien:Romulus was entertaining... sort of. In fact, compared with a lot of movies I have watched in the past few years, this film was a masterpiece. The constant references to to previous Alien films and how messy the story was borhered me. Instead of a nicely flowing story, it felt messy, like there was too much happening at once. I miss the rounded, more believeable characters of Alien and Aliens. I missed the slow build up before the more intense scenes. Watch Alien and Aliens and it's 30 to 45 minutes before the horror and action begin
I recall the first third of Romulus not being horror, instead showing us the mining colony & world building so I don't know where this criticism is coming from. Now once the action n horror finally does get going I will say the characters don't really get any breathing room after that & it's run from one section of the station to the next.
We didn't actually expect it to be good did we. Let's be fair, the only reasons great films and being "remade" to death is to destroy them and sell "the message".
I didn’t love Romulus, but I didn’t hate it. But it is no way near as good as Alien, which is my all time favourite movie, all categories. But this review is just exaggerated 🤷♂️ If you think about it, you can say more about the characters in this movie than you can about the characters in Alien. And the British bully doesn’t hate Andy because the skin of his color. It’s all about him being a synth and the story with his mother. Nothing to do with race. And the thing with the cgi. So because the movie has heavy on the cgi in the last third, the two previous thirds don’t matter? Just because you use some cgi in a movie doesn’t take away all the other fantastic practical effects they’ve done. And the whole part about parkour, and it being used unrealistic. Dude, it’s a movie about an Alien lifeform, in space, with androids… How does one crave realism in that???
Visuals were great... I thought the rest was dreadful and gimmicky. Bad writing, non memorable characters or their motivations, lack of any story, and absolutely cringeworthy jump scares throughout. Felt like the sound design was aiming for every random sound like doors opening/closing to be as loud as possible so it adds to the "scary" atmosphere. 2/10.
A film that starts well with a nice first act that introduces some good sci-fi world building and some decent characters. Unfortunately once the metaphorical shit hits the fan the movie starts getting worse and worse. Some really really silly plot contrivances, scenes that seem ripped right out of a video game (make sure you keep an eye on the goosebump meter!), a pointless CGI recreation of Ian Holm that looks absolutely fucking terrible, some awful foreshadowing (the android touched that random hook on a chain...remember that wink wink), the android breaking character to repeat Ripley's 'bitch' line...there's so much about it that is bad. Me and my friends started groaning about 30% in and in the end we were just openly laughing. This is a film made by people who seem to have absolutely no idea why people love the original Alien movies.
We need a Alien movie with its own identity whichthe Trailer indicated this would be instead its just rehashing a bunch of earlier shit even PROMETHEUS which it never should have had
OMG! Thank you, Rob. Romulus was soooo bad! Alvarez used every Alien cliche from previous films. Boring characters that I did give a damn about, Andy was (of course) the “magical negro” stereotype still used in films today. Some Fox executive told Alvarez that’s not an Alien film if there isn’t a scene where the female protagonist is holding a rifle while sweating! The film also lazily steals the story of the far superior video game Isolation, being set on a station that going crash or something. The girl pilot (20 minutes) before her death finds a X-ray device that she’ll use to watch a facehugger punch out of her. In Alien and Aliens, there was a lease some time that had to pass before the creature emerges-now that plop right out in a ten minutes or so. Then there was unconvincing use of CGI poor Ian Holm (RIP) as an Ash copy. The movie was embarrassing to me. And to add add insult to injury, it ends with blatant rip off (or if you prefer homage) of both Prometheus and Insurrection with another Xeno-Human hybrid. I can’t ppl who should know better liked this film!!!! The franchise should really take a break, maybe 10 or 15 years, maybe return with fresh new take on O’Bannon’s original Star Beast concept.
In the first Alien we send unwitting space truckers to pick up an alien life form. In the sequel, future people scour the vastness of space randomly hoping by chance they can find the ejected Alien rather then return to the egg site from first movie where without a doubt, with precise location coordinates, we know for sure from previous events will have an alien life form?
Yours and a few other RU-vidrs critiques are among the only ones I can trust. Even when I disagree, I can tell how passionate you guys are about filmmaking, the different genres, the hidden details behind every film and so on. I agree with much of your criticism. I did not think the film was awful though. The ideas it had weren't bad but the execution was poorly done. I found the film entertaining but that was because my hopes weren't too high to being with. I just wanted a good time and I got that when I went to see it with my mom. Alien and Aliens are two of the best in the science fiction genre. The movies, books and other lore that influenced it make it all better. However, films afterwards tried to recreate the formula of either the first or second one or, in Romulus case, both. And none were successful. Some of the storylines from dark horse comics and even those in the new canon do a greater job in carrying on the franchise and expand the universe even further (without taking away the mystery, horror or the action present in the first two films). Alien Isolation also did a great job with this. A much better film would have been adapting one of those storylines. But what done is done. We always have the first two classic to go back to, the films that partially inspired it like Planet of the Vampires, It came from outer space, and the books that influenced it as well like At the mountain of madness, and the aforementioned comics from dark horse and the recent ones that came after the movies.
I really enjoyed it. Felt like I got off a rollercoaster when I left the theater - horror flicks don't really get me that feeling anymore or often these days
What really made the 1979 chest-burster scene work so well was 1. Nothing remotely like this had ever been put on film before. 2. The cast members were not told beforehand what was going to happen, so the reactions you see aren't scripted -- they're genuine expressions of shock and horror. 3. The creature and ancillary effects were all practical, and painstakingly created and executed. This didn't look at all cheesy, but genuinely, horrifyingly real.
God, I am sick to death of that tired old comment - ONCE AGAIN - the actors DID KNOW what was going to happen. Sigourney Weaver had said it was in the script. She even recalls John Hurt's scripted line "Nooooooo!" It's the sheer amount of gore and the violence of the effect they weren't aware of.
@@tulinfirenze1990 Well then. We're in complete agreement. The "gore and the violence of the effect" were what created the genuine reactions. Hope you get well soon.
I’m now only watching old classic films im watching different renowned directors only. Currently I’m watching Brian de palmas films. I recommend dressed to kill and body double so far
Fede Alverez did a magnificent job, and ill tell you why. It's very simple, new things were brought to the table. Gross disgusting things. Period. And yes all fans have the right to not like something. That's what makes us fans. But I have seen so much negative feedback on this movie, and that's disgusting.😢
@@collativelearning Appreciate you getting back to me Rob. 👍 you are correct. There could have been more improvement. In case you don't know I watch your content a lot. Very entertaining....
Jump scares do not a horror movie make. You want *horror?* How about... 1. The Exorcist -- girl upside-down crab walks down a flight of stairs. 2. The Ring -- dead girl climbs out of well and through viewer's TV screen. 3. The Blair Witch Project -- guy stands facing into corner of old building (you have to see it to believe it).
Romulus starts off with the stupidest plot whole in the universe. WY goes to so much trouble to get that one alien. But why? The spaceship is full of facehuggers. Those facehuggers cannot have came from that xeno because that one isnt a queen. So where did the facehuggers come from? If they got them elsewhere, why do you need to find that one specific xeno floating in space? Makes 0 sense. You got 10000 facehuggers that you can use to make 10000 xenos. And after all that trouble, WY didnt bother to come back to Romulus to get their precious cargo? They just abandoned it? That aside, the movie is boring from a script point of view. Its a rehash of all the tropes from all the first 4 movies cramped into one. Nothing in Romulus is new. Everything has been done before. Its so painfully formulaic and predictable. I actually loved Prometheus and Covenant. With all their flaws, at least they brought novelty and you didnt really knew where the plot was going. I honestly would've been much more interested in a continuation of David's story. That arc deserved to go full circle regardless of what conservative nerds want. I enjoyed Romulus, but only as a Redux of Alien.
There's no queen because Ridley Scott hated that idea. The original intent was for the standard xeno to be able to either produce the eggs themselves or transform cocooned lifeforms into them. The ideas was hinted at in the restored scene from the DC of Alien but never fully explained. If he stays involved, we will probably never see another queen again.
@@MrFurious176 hopefully we wont. The "hive" mentality feels wrong to me. I know xenos were somewhat inspired from the wasps. But those wasps that impregnate the victims are actually solitary
That's a very fair point. If they are scared because there are facehuggers in the ship, what is their plan to contain those, and full grown xenos, in their labs? Either WY wants the xenos or doesn't. You can't have it both ways. That's bad writing.
@@MrFurious176 Ridley Scott has every right to not like the Alien Queen. I adore her, but that's not important here. But what he doesn't have is the right to ignore her existence in a movie that tries so hard to connect to every other movie in the franchise.
Rob read my mind. I told my friend who saw Romulus with me "Atleast covenant was directed competently"referring to the visuals and entertainment for the eyes. Obviously this extends to Prometheus.
Haven't seen this, so I don't have my own opinion on this film. I am glad at least one voice out there doesn't pretend to like things just because the standard of modern movies have absolutely collapsed our expectations.
Been seeing this thing everywhere. Nowadays, a movie that's getting good press is not just good. It's the best. Like they told us that Longlegs was the best horror of the decade or it made people vomit or have higher Blood pressure. The pie is smaller and everyone's now scheming. No, thanks. I'll rather watch Texas Chainsaw Massacre or The Shining or whatever again.
Tbh I really don’t understand the hate with this film it’s no masterpiece but it’s a solid film I saw it day one and I saw it again yesterday this film is more than nostalgia bait it actually expands on the lore and answers some questions and the characters arent brain dead like in the prequels they actually make some smart decisions and seems like this guy was expecting something like alien or aliens but in reality those will never be replicated. Plus the sets are amazing there are details from the games and the origami movies it just seems like this guy was hating it from the first trailer and never expected anything less but to each their own but definitely recommend
I truly trust your reviews. I likewise watched Don't Breathe this week and it was pretty bad. No idea who would like it. Love Alien 1&2, despise the others. I expect Romulus is being over rated and is going to be bad. Won't pay to see it
Imagine if the pregnant Kay, not Rain, had unexpectedly turned out to be our "final girl," the way Ripley did in the original. Imagine if it was her standing over the last dead alien stowaway, and her wearing the Miraculous Medal around her neck earlier in the film had turned out to be a thematic hint of the triumph to come. "And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to bear a child, that he might devour her child when she brought it forth"; "Our Lady has already crushed his head". That would have been a movie for all time. It's the kind of edifying victory that "A Quiet Place" did so well.
With regards too your comment on bad protagonists making dumb decisions in Fede Alvarez movies . There was 1 scene that really killed it for me ! The scene where the pregnant girl is begging them too open the door too let her out despite them all knowing the alien was waiting for this too happen so it would kill them all . Our protagonist was begging the android too open the door despite knowing this ?!? Ripley in alien would have never been this dumb , we know that with the airlock scene and her standoff with Dallas . After that you just wanted her too get killed . I’m surprised you didn’t highlight the utter sheer stupidity of the protagonist in that situation
I think a movie such as Alien Isolation where hiding, keeping quiet, and evading one creature could be intense. Unfortunately, how many new things can we learn about the Xeno after 40+ years?
@@Josh-fp2qnYou'd need a smart audience for a smart movie. Sadly, the modern peanut gallery would be quickly bored with intilligent characters doing intilligent things like actual problem solving.
