Alien: Romulus

[utxmike05 1825]

Solid flick! 

Edited August 16 by utxmike05

[smuggs 9311]

^^^ You might want to get that checked out. I had to take a 10 day course of Valtrex the last time my penis looked like that.

[LonghornSean 3910]

Dug it. Very familiar feeling but enough of a twist on stuff we’ve seen before in the franchise to keep it fun.

 

A lot of references and call backs, some subtle, some not.

[Sbbruin 21588]

Headed there in a couple of hours.  Looking forward to it.

[LTbear 4080]

Fun ride 

[Deej 76197]

On 8/15/2024 at 11:01 PM, utxmike05 said:

Solid flick! 

 

[wutang75 431]

“Shockingly good” is a solid description.

[futureman 22352]

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that shit at the end is the stuff of nightmares

 

[Buzzrock 14785]

I loved it. I guess it’s getting some shit for too much fan service but fuck it I had a good time. The only thing I didn’t love was

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Everything after the pregnant girl gets pulled back out of the cryopod. I thought it was enough to have the reference to A3 where the xeno wouldn’t touch her because she was pregnant. But introducing the alien goo that way was kinda meh for me. 

 

[hobbes2702 12533]

What an awesome fucking movie.

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But for real. I thought it was pretty much great. Reminded me of his evil dead remake. Just to the point and awesome. 

Edited August 18 by hobbes2702

[atomheartbevo 89015]

I thought it was weird they brought in Chris Evans as the Human Torch, but whatever, it's still Aliens.

[GoPokes83 2236]

I have a lil bit of an issue. I enjoyed the movie, very solid entry and storyline. But… While I understand that the ships are built on what 1978 thought 2120-something technology would be, but with even the current touch screen and 4k tech on cell phones I found the VHS with tracking issues styles of the monitors and Apollo style lights and punch buttons distracting along with the constantly glitching lights everywhere. I can’t imagine what will be standard in another 100 years, but I can surely say it won’t be that. As I say it’s certainly probably just me. Still loved the movie though.

[utxmike05 1825]

8 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

I thought it was weird they brought in Chris Evans as the Human Torch, but whatever, it's still Aliens.

Actually the movie could have used some fire.  Lots of freezing and not any flame throwing.

[crash_davis 23050]

dammit, looks like I have to watch this movie.

[crash_davis 23050]

On 8/14/2024 at 8:57 PM, hobbes2702 said:

Here’s the only thing you need to know about how stupid Prometheus is…

This death scene was absolutely stupid on its own. But added to the whole sequence before this of her scrambling to barely make it to the escape pod off the ship only to be killed because she doesn't know how to run to the right or left, this may be the stupidest shit ever written in any movie. 

Why save her from the ship only to die 2 mins later from this shit?

Edited August 19 by crash_davis

[Herpa Derpa 6089]

8 hours ago, GoPokes83 said:

I have a lil bit of an issue. I enjoyed the movie, very solid entry and storyline. But… While I understand that the ships are built on what 1978 thought 2120-something technology would be, but with even the current touch screen and 4k tech on cell phones I found the VHS with tracking issues styles of the monitors and Apollo style lights and punch buttons distracting along with the constantly glitching lights everywhere. I can’t imagine what will be standard in another 100 years, but I can surely say it won’t be that. As I say it’s certainly probably just me. Still loved the movie though.

Future technology cannot be accurately depicted in the present because our current minds are incapable of imagining the advancements yet to come and don't fully understand those which came before.

[Buzzrock 14785]

I have a lil bit of an issue. I enjoyed the movie, very solid entry and storyline. But… While I understand that the ships are built on what 1978 thought 2120-something technology would be, but with even the current touch screen and 4k tech on cell phones I found the VHS with tracking issues styles of the monitors and Apollo style lights and punch buttons distracting along with the constantly glitching lights everywhere. I can’t imagine what will be standard in another 100 years, but I can surely say it won’t be that. As I say it’s certainly probably just me. Still loved the movie though.

I really appreciated that they kept the retro-future look. Romulus takes place between Alien and Aliens on the fictional timeline, so it would have been weird to put modern tech in this one.

I know they put more modern looking tech in the prequels but for some reason that doesn’t bother me. Maybe because I see those films as outliers.

[PilotsError 2255]

I imagine any spaceship would get tore up quickly, regardless of how high tech it is.  A ship held together with duct tape and old VCRs actually makes a lot of sense.  

[GreenspointTexas 9385]

Yall hyped this movie up too much. This movie is essentially Alien Resurrection. About 20-30% in, I thought this movie had promise. Soundtrack and acting, especially by David Jonsson as Andy was very good. But man. The last hour of the movie was a snoozefest and something we have seen a million times already

 

 

[LTbear 4080]

Minor thing that I really liked: as in the original Alien, when the light hit just right you could see the human skull behind the semi-translucent "visor" that makes the xenomorph's head. 

[SpiralOut 1796]

Thought the first 30 minutes was solid.  Seemed like it became paint by numbers after that.

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Someone gets chest-burstered.  Check.  Synthetic is really a corporate spy who is going to cause problems.  Check.  More aliens show up.  Check.  Acid blood is a problem.  Check.  Machinegun noise from Aliens.  Check.  Tell an alien to get away from her you bitch.  Check.  Add some stupid shit from the Prometheus/Covenant films.  Check.  Have a goofy looking hybrid at the end.  Check.  Have main character run around in her underwear.  Check.  Blast alien out of the ship.  Check.

 

[GreenspointTexas 9385]

55 minutes ago, SpiralOut said:

Thought the first 30 minutes was solid.  Seemed like it became paint by numbers after that.

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Someone gets chest-burstered.  Check.  Synthetic is really a corporate spy who is going to cause problems.  Check.  More aliens show up.  Check.  Acid blood is a problem.  Check.  Machinegun noise from Aliens.  Check.  Tell an alien to get away from her you bitch.  Check.  Add some stupid shit from the Prometheus/Covenant films.  Check.  Have a goofy looking hybrid at the end.  Check.  Have main character run around in her underwear.  Check.  Blast alien out of the ship.  Check.

 

This

[Buzzrock 14785]

4 hours ago, SpiralOut said:

Thought the first 30 minutes was solid.  Seemed like it became paint by numbers after that.

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Someone gets chest-burstered.  Check.  Synthetic is really a corporate spy who is going to cause problems.  Check.  More aliens show up.  Check.  Acid blood is a problem.  Check.  Machinegun noise from Aliens.  Check.  Tell an alien to get away from her you bitch.  Check.  Add some stupid shit from the Prometheus/Covenant films.  Check.  Have a goofy looking hybrid at the end.  Check.  Have main character run around in her underwear.  Check.  Blast alien out of the ship.  Check.

 

Sometimes fan service lands. It did with me. Deadpool not as much, for instance. 
 

After the shitshow that was Covenant I enjoyed this palate cleanser and all its callbacks. But I can understand why some didn’t. 

David Jonsson seems to be getting universal praise. I want to see him in more stuff. 

[Buzzrock 14785]

Some nerdy cinematography stuff 

 

[Davis Lane 5506]

I enjoyed it. 

The movie went back to its original basis, alien rapes whatever it can get its hands on. 

A ton of people like Aliens because of the action and such. 

But ol' what's his name didn't want to do another horror movie for the sequel. 

Thus a crappy franchise of movies was born that made a ton of money.

Anyway, Romulus had the creepy vibe about it like Alien did.

I was a kid when Alien came out and it scared the fuck out of me.

Romulus is my second favorite movie although that's not saying much given what has been put out there.

[CooterBrown 17735]

I would like to see an HBO or Apple series with the premise that an alien sample is retrieved and taken to that mining planet.  That was a world we need more time in and you could definitely build an awesome show of trying to contain the threat with a huge population of potential hosts.

Unfortunately, Disney owns the franchise and I would bet a lot of the worst fan service was their execs forcing it on the director.

 

[Buzzrock 14785]

I don’t really care for all the engineer stuff and the weird mutant/hybrid/alien/black goo stuff. I just want more atmospheric xenomorph scares with some action thrown in occasionally. 
 

That said if they could work out a (good!) story where David turns Daniels into the queen and spawns the whole race of xenomorphs after Covenant I’d watch that. 

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[Celery Man 20607]

I saw Prometheus in theaters before I ever saw the other Alien movies. And then I watched Alien and Aliens each once, and that’s the extent of my exposure to the Aliens franchise. I decided to see a movie today and picked this with no other advance knowledge about it - this was super fun. Enjoyed.

 

How did these little jabronis get a ship in the first place though? 

[mchookem 15539]

man this was enjoyable! saw it in our Harkins CineXL theater, sound was incredible. callbacks to all four of the first films.

i also loved how they kept the look and sounds of the originals, even the low camera angles from the first. i'd put it a solid third in the franchise. 

[Bateshorn 9596]

On 8/23/2024 at 7:37 PM, mchookem said:

man this was enjoyable! saw it in our Harkins CineXL theater, sound was incredible. callbacks to all four of the first films.

i also loved how they kept the look and sounds of the originals, even the low camera angles from the first. i'd put it a solid third in the franchise. 

This is my take, although I have a soft spot for Alien 3 because it’s David Fincher’s first flick even if he disowned it, and Charles Dutton goes damn hard.  Romulus has got the atmospheric’s in spades and some excellent jump scares/oh shit moments. They did a Good job of turning the creepy HR Giger factor to 11.

 

Glad I saw it in the theater instead of Deadpool.  This movie deserves a cinematography nomination for sure. 

 

[mdleast 8097]

Just saw it an really liked it.  Hope we get more like this further expanding the mythology 

[rage-a-holic 4256]

2 hours ago, Bateshorn said:

This is my take, although I have a soft spot for Alien 3 because it’s David Fincher’s first flick even if he disowned it, and Charles Dutton goes damn hard.  Romulus has got the atmospheric’s in spades and some excellent jump scares/oh shit moments. They did a Good job of turning the creepy HR Giger factor to 11.

 

Glad I saw it in the theater instead of Deadpool.  This movie deserves a cinematography nomination for sure. 

 

Check out the Special Assembly Cut if you haven't already

[hornmpa96 2541]

My son and I watched Alien and Aliens yesterday and then went to see Romulus today. It was great. They nailed the horror movie in space vibe from the Alien. David Jonsson was incredible as Andy. Looking forward to the Alien TV show coming out on Hulu next year.

[mdmost 42459]

Saw it last night. I enjoyed it but it did feel very familiar since it borrowed from each Alien movie. I didn't mind that necessarily, outside of the horrible repeat of the Aliens line that was horribly hamfisted. Andy was great. I didn't mind the other android except he should've been an animatronic or practical effect. The CGI looked off at times in an otherwise flawless CGI movie. It really felt like a movie set in the Alien universe. That said, everything felt massively accelerated. The time frame of the chest bursting was what 10 minutes? The original took a day I thought. Also the growth of the xenomorph was also rapid. Also, how did they create the face huggers? I thought those were hatched from eggs? Did they splice DNA off the xenomorph they recovered that then got loose? 

[Speedtrucker 2058]

Saw it last night. I enjoyed it but it did feel very familiar since it borrowed from each Alien movie. I didn't mind that necessarily, outside of the horrible repeat of the Aliens line that was horribly hamfisted. Andy was great. I didn't mind the other android except he should've been an animatronic or practical effect. The CGI looked off at times in an otherwise flawless CGI movie. It really felt like a movie set in the Alien universe. That said, everything felt massively accelerated. The time frame of the chest bursting was what 10 minutes? The original took a day I thought. Also the growth of the xenomorph was also rapid. Also, how did they create the face huggers? I thought those were hatched from eggs? Did they splice DNA off the xenomorph they recovered that then got loose? 

Rook said they were engineering the species dna to accelerate it even more than the “Engineers” had from Prometheus and Covenant

Which is why Rook showed them the snippet of the rat but left out that it grew out of control way too fast

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[Saint Tacky 1609]

I liked it. Glad my kids dragged me to see it in the theater rather than waiting for it to come out on TV

[rage-a-holic 4256]

On 8/22/2024 at 12:33 PM, Celery Man said:

I saw Prometheus in theaters before I ever saw the other Alien movies. And then I watched Alien and Aliens each once, and that’s the extent of my exposure to the Aliens franchise. I decided to see a movie today and picked this with no other advance knowledge about it - this was super fun. Enjoyed.

 

How did these little jabronis get a ship in the first place though? 

This. WTF. The average cast age for A:R is about 23; the average cast age for the original Alien was about 42.

Felt like "Space Goonies vs Aliens"

[Speedtrucker 2058]

 
How did these little jabronis get a ship in the first place though? 

This. WTF. The average cast age for A:R is about 23; the average cast age for the original Alien was about 42.
Felt like "Space Goonies vs Aliens"

These kids were basically scrap haulers and a short range pilot. I believe it was alluded to that they basically had the keys and “after hours” use of the rig. Like having keys to the company truck.

The Nostromo crew were actually a WY long-range commercial transport crew.

There for sure was a difference in the crews