Alien: Romulus is out on streaming now so here's my thoughts:
- It's certainly diverse - the only two white people in the film are c*nts and there's a genderless bald Asian girl pilot. I didn't think it was too nonsensically woke though.
It feels like they tried to capitalise on the success of the 2002 Disney+ Predator film Prey, but the story also got mangled with a generic "everyone dies to the monster one-by-one" storyline.
It's fun enough but also pretty dumb. Was this really the best Alien script that someone could come up with since Covenant?
It explains far too much. Alien films should leave more questions than answers, but this has long scenes early in the film in which the entire plot and lore is explained.
The Rook CGI is horrendous. I can't believe it made it into the final cut.
It could have been scarier and had more tension. Too much story happens and there's not enough of people just creeping around.
The spaceship crashing into the ice belt scene is cool.
I don't understand why they made an Alien film but the final boss is some shitty Voldemort rip-off.
Why are there levers in the cargo hold that let someone detach the cargo hold mid-flight? That would be suicide.
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There's another one???
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Do they bring up the engineers plot again?
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I don't know what that is but there's an android who basically just exists to explain as much lore as possible.
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Engineers are the aliens that created humans and xenomorphs.
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Oh not really no, this film is more about current-day scientists trying to do experiments with Xenomorphs.
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the black goo is in the movie
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Its visually referenced in the final fight with the half human/half xeno but not directly spoken about iirc
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Briefly, but it's more just monster chases girls through a spaceship until only one (the cutest one) is left, sweaty and in her underwater. All I really want from an alien movie, really
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I kinda liked the look of the weird hybrid thing at the end, other than that very forgettable movie
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Looks more like
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Found out that it was a costume instead of CGI
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Yeh he should have been much more in the shadows. We saw far too much of him.
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I've seen it at the theater and already can't remember it.
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Only reason I was considering watching it is cause Archie Renaux is fricking hot.
Is he shirtless at all in the film? Cause that's kinda a deciding factor or me having the movie run in the background while I do other things.
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No I'd say he's the least important of the main gang. His character is so irrelevant that I've already forgotten how he dies.
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Not watching. Thx bb.
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Are you r-slurred he's alive until the last like 20 min of the movie and is a part of every major scene in the movie except the final fight lol
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Well duh
Yeh but he doesn't do much he's always kind of background-y and he plays a very boring neutral role.
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Everyone in the movie plays a boring role except the alien tbf
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Yeh their android friend dude is the only character who threatens to do anything interesting (putting humanity first vs saving his friend) but then he forgets about it and it isn't mentioned again.
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He is not shirtless but he's in a lot of the movie but the movie is also very dark so
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this is disappointing after how shitty Covenant was. That movie was laughably bad.
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It's a very conventional horror with Alien trappings. I didn't mind how Rook was used for the plot, but I really dislike CGI-ing dead actors into movies so I wish they hadn't done that. They had a few groaners of memberberries with the callbacks.
But I thought it was an effective horror film. The use of the pregnant character was done well. The android's actor did better than I expected, and there was some good uses of the facehuggers and the tension that works well with an Alien film. Turning it into a conventional horror story might not preserve the mystique of an Alien film, but if it's better than Covenant, Prometheus, and the two vs. Predator films, then you have to take what you can get.
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