For me the biggest flaw of Romulus was the lack of interesting characters. I hope the next one goes back to the original formula of "space truckers" run into a terrifying situation.
@@Kelticfury honestly, I couldn't stand the Bjorn character and the way he spoke. Compare that to the pure class of the well spoken actors that were in Alien.
From Romulus I got a feeling that Fede is very keen on tying loose ends and explain the not yet explained. So I wouldn't be surprised that he would show us that David is still alive and living on Yivarga 3 (or however you write it) or some other David tie in. If Fede manages to get Ridley Scotts approval that is. I assume he'll have the budget for the next movie after the succes of Romulus.
You might be right. Ridley is in talks currently regarding another Alien film but I'm not sure if it has anything to do with Fred's sequel. If it's anything to do with Alien Isolation or even as you say, David on Yvaga 🤔. That could be interesting and would tie up loose ends 👍
Great video! I finally got around to watching Alien Romulus recently, and I have to admit, I’m a bit disappointed. I guess I was expecting too much. I just couldn’t quite warm up to the new characters. 😅
Thanks pal. Yeah many would agree with you so you're not alone. I didn't mind the characters but felt it was all a bit rushed in it's final moments. Nothing will ever top the first two, which is a blessing and a curse haha! Take care buddy.
As a long time alien fan, 35 years at this stage.. I wish I could care about where it goes. They don't know how to write something new and or original for any of these franchises anymore. Despite the delusional nature of the reviews for it, Romulus was a copy paste of the other movies. They keep trying to replicate what made it so loved in the first place and rely on blind Fandom to just lap It up. There's a channel on UA-cam who did an amazing break down of this, if it want obvious already for romuless. Ridley Scott is long past his sell by date in the franchise and is just hanging around to keep his name attached to it. He's purely there now to attract the fan base.
@@Paul-rw6eu oh I'm fully aware of how creatively bankrupt the film industry can sometimes be, I agree. I wonder how much of this is because of a fear or incompetence on the level of studio bosses where they believe a film MUST cling on to the past and ride the nostalgia train. Or is it partially an issue with the wrong scripts being chosen based on this logic? I refuse to believe that wonderfully imaginative new stories are not being sent to them, so maybe they just care about box office numbers the majority of the time. Gotta feed the machine. If Ridley knocks it outta the park with Gladiator, I'll be excited for him making his own Alien movie again. But that doesn't mean it will be good, sadly.
Well said.. Original fan here who saw ALIEN opening week back in '79. So sad to see a classic science fiction film be reduced to this Z Grade generic garbage.
I guess that Ridley Scott’s influence was the cause of the copy & paste in Romulus. It was too much. Gentle hints like the Nostromo wreck was nice, the rest was like hammering nostalgia into the film.
@@Hoschie-ww7io I'm listening to Out of the Shadows currently. It's interesting so far and pretty well voiced. I'll try River of Pain next. I've never been someone too interested in all the non canon and I'm not a comic book fan but I should venture into these novels more.
It wouldn't surprise me that when the two get to the new planet, it's already overrun with xenomorphs. It will need to be a much different story to keep things interesting. But, black goo has to keep popping up. I really enjoyed Romulus personally. I do hope to see more of Weyland Yutani ... and yes the company commandos would be a nice touch to see again. Thank you for this update!
@@michaelg.1786 thanks for tuning in again 👍. The outfits and armour those commandos wore was quite imaginative, even if they looked like ice hockey players 😂. Some kind of militaristic event would be great for the sequel.
@@ENTERTAINtheDUDE Right on! I wonder if the commando outfits were some type of anti-acid protective armor? Otherwise it would be a bitch trying to get the outfits off when coming in contact with xenomorph blood!
@michaelg.1786 hehe! Good point. I also kinda laughed when editing the vid how Lance who played bishop shows up as Weyland wearing sunglasses in doors. What a badass 👌👌👌
I can't see a sequel working. I didn't like Alien: Romulus all that much, it has terribly weak writing and characters and was at best a 5/10 for me, though it did have some good moments and no doubt much of the visuals were fantastic. A sequel MUST have more xenomorphs and I don't see how they can possibly write more xenos into the sequel, they're gone, they were all on the station.. any attempt to write them into the sequel is going to feel very contrived, especially considering Fede Alvarez and his buddy will no doubt be the main writers again (terrible idea, neither of these two can write good sci-fi or good characters and dialogue). The way I see it, they're probably going to have to spawn a new creature from the black goo they're carrying or a face hugger was hiding onboard their ship. Both ideas are incredibly unimaginative. IMO it would be better to just forget Raine and Andy and tell a new story with a new director, but unfortunately Romulus has done so well, this crap is going to get milked. I'm willing to bet, the sequel will be just as bad if not worse than Romulus unless Alvarez takes a long time getting the script right AND hires a proper good writer OR he injects colonial marines into the story (i'm actually expecting him to do this, and it might be the only thing that saves it from being another completely mediocre movie). Either way, I'm not looking forward to it. Fede Alvarez just does NOT have the talent to make a great alien movie on par with the first two without a very, very good writer/script and top notch casting. I doubt anyone in the business even knows of a sci-fi writer that can match the likes of the late Dan O'bannon unfortunately, writers the likes of Damon Lindeloff certainly aren't in his league by a long stretch.
@@stateazure you're not alone in you're thoughts. Despite the strange and insanely high RT scores, most of the comments I get speak the same. I'm very curious to know what the Ridley Scott Alien project is. Maybe it has something to do with the sequel or perhaps it is HIS continuation. If we do get the same treatment again then I think I would definitely voice my opinion on it and share you're sentiments.
I appreciate Alien Romulus for thaking the movie franchise back to basics, Alien 1979 was acted out by a fairly unknown bunch of D Rated actors at the time, and probably should not have been as well received as it ended up being. Romulus did everything right, removed all A list actors, simplified the storyline, and made the movie for less than $80 million dollars, returning $280 million at the box office, hopefully they will do the exact same for a sequel and let it evolve over time instead of throwing even more money at it and bringing in big name actors, who add nothing to the story.
Well said. The budget aspect is the best way to go. Prey was an ok film, I liked it well enough, maybe the same as Romulus but looks what happens when they overspend... We get The Predator 2018 🤮
The next movie could easily connect the Prometheus/Covenant storyline with Alien/Romulus storyline by having the two intersect on Yvarga. Yvarga could be the planet David ended up on with his embryos and may have created a Queen kept in stasis. Raine and Andy could come across it as a hive has taken over the space port during the time they were in stasis while traveling (9 years) to Yvarga.
@@MasterMayhem78 if we find out soon that Fassbender has signed up for an Alien film, I think you might be right on the money there. As long as David hasn't become a Queen 😉 then that could be interesting 👍
What the sequel to "Alien: Romulus" be about is an exploration of the Remus module that wasn't explored of which maybe since the movie wasn't truly canon, then something way worst than what was explored in the Romulus module could've been in there.
@@mexic8l interesting but knowing that the whole station is obliterated anyways, makes it a bit worthless for me. Unless whatever is found there is moved off station before the events of Romulus? That could be cool.
@ENTERTAINtheDUDE about ur question "whatever is found in the Remus module was moved from the station b4 the events of the movie" for a second I thought that the cocoon that was shown at the beginning was what was moved, but then the cocoon wasn't what was moved as it was in the wrecked Nostromo spaceship and the modules were in a station called the Renaissance; so actually thinking about it just to make it a twist and thus I'd say kinda canon (in order for how I'm saying that the sequel could be about not to happen) the director of the movie shall get interviewed in a video of which either if it's not asked to him to say that the cocoon was what was moved from there or I don't know of which it's only me talking gibberish and nonsense.
That's good news. With a bit of luck, Ridley Scott will stay out of the writer's room this time. I really hope to get to see some more new stuff in this sequel. Maybe some of the criminal types from Alien 3 and 4, and not only the company and its 'disgruntled employees'.
@@Grogeous_Maximus my thoughts as well. I'd actually love to see another Aliens film with highly trained company spec ops going up against an infestation of these things. Of course, they gotta have their Hudson as well 😉
The AVP movie will most likely be a sequel to Romulus and Predator: Badlands and feature main characters from both movies. Not sure if there’ll be a standalone sequel to Romulus between now and then, but I’ll gladly watch all of them!
@wildbill9490 I think it's because the films are somewhat tacky to most people. If they created a masterpiece then I probably accept it. The same goes with the Bladerunner and Alien merge 👍
I assumed Yvarga was developed entirely separately from WY, IE a different group or conglomerate. Could be an interesting plot point for a sequel, but I can't say I trust Alrarez to do anything particularly original in a sequel after the copy/paste that was Romulus.
Another new Alien sequel would need to break out into new, solid, terratory. Nothing bad about linking to previous events, characters or places. But, the emphasis should be on two things: A Great Story and A Premise that justifies that story. Much like the Alien Isolation you mentioned, I would really love to see a movie adaptation of at least some aspects of that story arc. I did not play the game, but watched a film playthrough and it was bloody amazing! Much better than anything we got since Alien Resurrection. I miss out Prometheus and Covenant as I do not seriuously consider them legitimate Alien stories but have to live with the fact that they are there so the best I can come up with is that they exist in the Alien Universe as a side-shoot. Alien Ridiculous, on the other hand broke the trust completely and while the techno stuff was good the rest was very amaturish. It was a badly written story, shallow script and the acting / actors left much to be desired. Let's hope they can improve. How hard can it be? I mean there are thousands of threads all interesting to consider as follow ups and delve deeper into the potential of the core story of Alien / Aliens. As you said, exploring WY shinanigans (sp) and a possible clash between the Colonial Marines vs WY mercenaries on the one hand and a fully infested teraformed world with a Queen Xenomorph, hybrids, eggs, and facehuggers would be nice to imagine? I do not want to see mentally challenged assumptions and chestbursters incubating from facehuggers in mere 3-4 minutes and a lanky humanoid alien-engineer hybrid with a psychopathic grin and a metabolic rate that exceeds logic - with or without black mumbo jumbo stuff.
Alien Ridiculous 🤣🤣 You know, part of telling a great story is allowing it to breathe. Some of these films are so rushed because they just gotta throw everything in that we have seen before. If they made another Alien film with just one alien, then I'd be happy. Allow a 24-hour gestation period, have the thing run off and hide for 48 hours while the crew become more panic-stricken and then carefully have them be eliminated one by one in a mature fashion. We don't wanna see any more of this creature being reduced.
@@ENTERTAINtheDUDE Totally on the same wavelength here. It just feels so much painted with the same brush that everything comes from Hollow Wood (pardon the pun) is so vacuous and shallow - hollow wold be very apt.
Great video mate! I tend to agree with everything youve said, i think that this sequel is going to be somewhere better than romulus, more ambicious, at least on plot and charachter development. Probably Fede being 100% on the project, as well Ridley, will play a major role on the film, so lets hope that everything gets on its way. btw, its quite a surprise for me to see people pointing out some unnecesary lines from Romulus. In brazilian portuguese, my language, we didnt had these lines and the dub was superb. Guess the dublators leveled up my experience lol
@@danavp-q7l oh wow! So perhaps the translation improved the film 🤣. I still enjoyed the film as it had some thrilling moments and the horror at times was well done. But there were just a few things that pulled me out of the film. Fingers crossed with the sequel 🤞. Thanks for watching dude
@@ashscott6068 I can bet you that fantastic scripts are sent to them but I can also put money on the fact that money is all they sometimes think about. Casuals probably make up the large portion of cinema goers and sadly, those people dictate how films are made occasionally. This should never be the case with a franchise like Alien, although it has many times now.
@@ENTERTAINtheDUDE I don't think they're even allowed to open scripts they haven't requested off writers who are in the union. They probably get given to the lawyer and locked in a safe like unsolicited music demos do, so nobody can claim the company stole their idea
It was a great movie.. Probably needed a larger cast & more death scenes but it was better than Alien Covenant. They couldn't even add the neomorph vs Protomorphs fight which took me out of the movie.
@@BallinOutOfControl08 I agree it was better than covenant, even if Fassbender is vastly superior actor to any of the Romulus cast. The xenomorph scenes in covenant were way too reliant on CGI. The protomorphs were a real highlight however. I guess the protomorphs were all killed before before the xenos showed up right?
@@Neuromancer_2k77 I can't remember how long after Alien that Isolation took place. I know Romulus is 20 years after and we even see Ripley's shuttle in Romulus, twice! Once in a hanger and the we see it eject at the same time the corbelan does as the station is destroyed.
@@ENTERTAINtheDUDE Alien Isolation is 15 years after Alien and Romulus is 20 years after, so yeah - my idea doesn't work. But still Rain and Amanda could meet. Also, I know the sequel of Isolation is in development, so there may be some references.
@@Grogeous_Maximus good question. It's got to be Elizabeth Winstead who was in The Thing 2011 prequel and 10 Cloverfield Lane. Great actress and looks like Sigourney to some degree.
Alien: Earth has my attention now. I still hope the series can focus on the Xenomorphs and not stray away from them making up stupid stuff no one asked for as they go.
@@Lokazana yeah, it's funny, I just can't imagine how they are going to present the story in the series. I have to assume, like any series, it will focus heavily on human drama with a whiff of sci fi and slow reveals of the Alien universe we are used too. I'll definitely be doing weekly reviews on each episode. Cannot wait 👍
What's the point? It'll be another greatest hits like Romulus. Maybe the next Ripley replacement will be Lassie. We've had the little girl Mary Sue, so what's left?
@@Randy_Batswinger I'm gonna maintain my optimism until Alien Earth series arrives. Fingers crossed and buttocks clenched lol. I share your thoughts though, I just try to stay positive for the purpose of the channel in the hopes we get something great one day.
It will be interesting to see Rain and Andy arrive at Yvaga, maybe a Weyland Yutani squad arrive to retrive the black goo, assuming they arrive there at all and don't go off course.
I'm surprised that most people still criticize the latest Alien movies as trash, not innovative, a Z-grade movie. You guys don't understand how hard it is to make a movie. Since Alien 1979, which has existed because of various influences and has become a classic movie until today, Alien Romulus chose to go back to the original Alien 1979, but you still see it as a copy & paste movie, while before this you would blame Prometheus. It's not an Alien movie, it's not a good movie, it's just some kind of movie. When Alien Covenant goes back to being Alien, you still criticize it. Alien Romulus has become the most well-reviewed movie since Aliens, which I agree with without praising at all. Creating characters like never before in the franchise under the original approach, Alien Romulus is a smart challenge and is on the right track more than any film since Aliens. If you think Alien Romulus is a copy & paste garbage movie, it means that you also hate Alien Isolation. Because Alien Romulus and Alien Isolation chose to go a similar path. If you're sure, I'd like you to try to find funding to negotiate with the studio to direct it yourself. Let's see how well you can do it.
I do wonder how well received Isolation would be if it was directly transformed into a film, scene for scene. I guess movies are more criticised because they are considered the highest form of story telling. Glad you enjoyed the film though 👍
@@foetaltreborus2017 The problem is that they have already created this engineer mythology now. Otherwise I might agree with you but I think some things need correcting. Maybe they can introduce some new idea that simultaneously retains some mystery to the beings?
@@ENTERTAINtheDUDE maybe the engineers visit the other planet to retrieve the goo but there's an xenomorph outbreak due to experiments made on black goo.Get the battle we was teased in covenant film poster
@@ENTERTAINtheDUDEthe advantage they have got is it's in space and can do whatever they like in effect which shouldn't interfere with the other films timeline.Thing is ,is going to lead to an all out action film if say colonial marines Vs xenos Vs engineers or another horror/thriller like Romulus
A very interesting video, thank you. Let's hope any forthcoming AVP movie is nixxed before it gets close to production. All that series has ever done is interfere with the production of the Alien movies themselves. Directors don't like competition from their storyline and AVP has never added anything new. What I'd like too see - somehow - is the Space Jockey returned to its rightful place in the cosmic horror scheme of things. Yes, I know Sir Ridley ballsed it up once, but there is a comic-book thread that introduced a pre-engineer race, much older than them, called the Mal 'Akak (don't quote me on the spelling). The Space Jockey was a member of this race and they looked more like the Space Jockey physically, not a humanoid in a bio-suit. Is such a movie possible? It's not for me to say but that's what I want lol.
@@CMDR_Verm now you're talking 👍 If a movie could ever be made about the race of beings first shown to us in Alien as a fossil, almost. It should incorporate much from H R Ginger. I don't know how the story or comics depicted them but they should be larger, more ancient and certainly a civilization of biomechanics much like how Ginger first presented in his drawings. You could go very dark and sinister with this direction, I think. But it would have to incorporate humans, otherwise, it would be wrong to only have them in the story. Especially as they probably don't speak any human language haha! Thanks for watching pal 👍
@ yeah, all the remakes, prequels, sequels of the 80s movies made in 2000s every and each of them I went to see, I always said never again on my way out of cinema. Yet, here I am once again complaining about how much Romulus sucked. I really should just stop
@ENTERTAINtheDUDE Oh mine, you speak my mind. Ridley Scott has been clearly jealous of the huge success of Cameron's Aliens and has been refused to link any of his prequels and Romulus to Aliens, and yet, he extracted many elements from Aliens to Romulus such as sound effects, score and even style. Scott is annoying and petty
Yeah, I've seen the RT scores which surprised me. Like I said in the vid, didn't hate it but the issues did pull me out. Fingers crossed with future projects.
I get the copy and paste, but I still enjoyed it despite. We haven’t gotten really anything remotely close to the original 2 so I take for what it is and loved it overall.
Lets milk that cash cow for all it's worth. Then we'll just milk it some more in our never ending, creatively bankrupt quest to destroy great movies with garbage like Romulus. It's pretty clear they are trying to reboot the franchise with a new Ripley because hey, the Alien IP has to have an obligatory female protagonist. The black goo is a direct lift of the Purity virus from the X Files. Senile Scott couldn't even be bothered to change the colour. And Romulus is just a fan service slasher in space built on an utterly ridiculous pretence that the alien survived being fried in the shuttles thruster after she purged the engines no less (purging is the equivalent of applying a fighter jets afterburners) and it was located 20 years later floating in space in its magic anti decompression cocoon. You know, just in case it gets ejected from a spaceship and gets picked up for one more rampage.Ripley had a distress beacon and was a lot larger object. But it still took 57 years to find her by accident. And how did the company know the alien was ejected from a shuttle? I swear its fan fiction written by a 9 year old. And doubly stupid in that there was still a spaceship full of samples on LV-426. But no, gotta do something dumb just to hammer home this is connected to ALIEN and bring the original xenomorph back from the dead so we can create face huggers from it....eh??....wtf!!. As I;ve said all along its all just make it up as you go along bs now. Why are we trying to perfect humans when we have created Replicants to do the dirty/hard work?...DOH!! Funny how Aliens are a dime a dozen these days too. In the original film it was an ancient unknown organism that had never been encountered before. Now they are suddenly wherever you go lol! She'll discover aliens in the next part and we are supposed to believe all this was happening while Ripley was in hyper sleep and before Aliens. Remember Ripley being de briefed in Aliens? And the Company execs not believing her story about a a creature with concentrated acid for blood. That gestates inside a host and has not been discovered in over 300 surveyed worlds.The dumb shits who wrote Romulus forgot about that I suppose.Funny. All these supposed hardcore alien fans who really don't know shit lol. But zoomer Ripley was off fighting the good fight the whole time unbeknown to Weylan(d) Yutani....lmfao! Yet they somehow knew Ripley ejected an alien into space...eh??? I could now sit here and give you example after example of why this movie not only disrespects the original movie, Ripleys legacy and all she achieved.Why its just another curb stomp to all that made the original film great.Why its brain dead Chat GPT fan service. Who cares about a bunch of zoomers in space. Its a sad reflection on what people think is a good movie these days as well.Look at the story and its a shitty retelling of Resurrection. Scott just had to incorporate his rip off X Files black goo into the story. Even the Aliens are a hybrid of Gigers Alien and the Resurrection velociraptor aliens that looked like space lizards lol. Alien died in the early 90's. Let it go. Just let it go. Try something new.
Very interesting thoughts buddy. The X-Files comparison brings back so many great memories. They did a really good job in the show with that backbone storyline of the alien conspiracy with the black virus. It does feel weaker as it has been presented in the Alien franchise now.
@@ENTERTAINtheDUDE The make any plot you want black goo is no comparison. It’s a direct theft. Why Chris Carter has not come forth to sue Scott into oblivion is beyond me. The fact they still want to flog this alien horse shows just how pressed for creativity they really are. Next we’ll have a cocooned Queen fall to Earth in its heat shield protected cocoon and start laying eggs. Budget Ripley will come in guns blazing and save the day while the evil bumbling company in their infinite stupidity fail to secure any samples again while conducting tests on samples they’ve secured and only certain company reps know about in this convoluted cluster fuck of a franchise that means nothing anymore. They brought Ripley and now the Alien back from the dead. Pretty sure some douche will target the Queen next. Cocooning in space opens the door for all kinds of stupidity. It’ll be more non sensical alien flavoured slop like Romulus. This is just another in a long line of IP’s that have been systematically destroyed by stupidity and hubris. They seem to be on some kind of mission to destroy anything good from the 70,’s 80’s or 90’s
Love your Alien videos! Regarding the sequel, I can already smell how they're gonna tie it into Aliens. I bet you it's gonna be colonial marines again, and there will be some familiar last names returning, like Hicks dad, who also served in the army. There's no way Fede can help himself, if Romulus was any indication. That said I'd I'd much rather get that kind of connection than more lame throwback quotes. It's oddly ironic that by desperately trying to please the hardcore Alien fans with those quotes, they accomplished the exact opposite. Casual viewers wouldn't care either way. This made me think that the studio has no clue who who their fanbase is and what they want, but that can't be true? But then again, the we also got the Resurrection throwbacks...😂 The cringy moments in this film took it from a solid 8-9 out of 10 to a 7 for me. As a true Alien fan, you can't not get bothered by it lol. I would love to see Fede respond to this criticism, and I hope he promises to not do it in the sequel 🤞
@@techstacker5361 yeah he did speak in an interview about how Ridley requested extra content and some aspects in the film were never there originally but who knows. I agree with you 💯 on the cringe moments as I am also one hell on an Alien fan 😉 Part of me hopes we'll get a more militarised sequel, similar to Aliens but again I agree with you, they don't need to connect everything by reviving old characters in the family connect route. Hick's dad as you say haha! I wouldn't put it pass them... Thanks for supporting my channel buddy. I always remember the people that do so and it's only my Alien vids that get views for some reason 🤔. At least they are super fun to make being an Alien nerd like yourself 😎. Take care
Average film. It made money, so it figures Disney would want another one made. It's Hollywood, so it's all about making money for shareholders, least we forget.
Alien Romulus sequel ain’t happening, not until 2030 anyways. but we can all look forward to Ridley Scott returning to the Alien universe and give everybody the 3rd and 4th entry to his long delayed Prometheus trilogy.
@@skyrimwarrior you think that might come first? I wouldn't mind seeing the continuation of Covenant imo. If it looks a bit shite when we start seeing the promotion stuff then I'll be honest 👍
@@AReallyLongAndUnremakableUser if Gladiator 2 is decent enough then I would say no. His The Last Duel film was also quite impressive btw. But maybe he should be done with Alien.
@@ENTERTAINtheDUDEthat’s because the script was written by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon. Just like most movies Ridley does. Ridley is massively overrated and is basically a glorified cinematographer.
That's interesting, you think he still has that Weyland coding in him from the chip switching? I could almost turn this into a theory video but I don't wanna steal your idea haha!
The theme throughout most of these movies shows how unchecked capitalism, led by the rich, leads to dystopia. Just something to ponder, especially *these* days.
@@_Omega_Weapon that would make a nice quote! I'm not sure if you're referencing individuals in reality or the deep state haha! But, your point is understood my friend. Often, art can imitate life and reality, going hand in hand. Alien is a cautionary tale indeed.
@@justinklenk I feel like that could have made it a thrilling idea but for me it kinda feels a bit bland and bordering lazy writing when we learn that the goo can just effortlessly bring to life these perfect specimens in a lab or potentially create superhumans, which was the companies plan in Romulus. It takes much of the mystery away from the Alien because the goo keeps popping up in 3 films so far that don't have much of a conclusion, it feels a bit frustrating. Hopefully they'll correct some of these issues in the next one 🤞🤞. Just my thoughts anyways 😉
@ENTERTAINtheDUDE Right on, thanks, just wondering. I'd seen it as a techno-natural invention so elegantly powerful and profound that its instantaneous action upon any DNA would legitimately provide the genesis for all such kinds of novel horrific scenarios... But that can also be read (or downright employed) as a license to get lazy with those profound implications and possibilities. Because it certainly seems like a substance far, far from our knowledge, ability and capacity to control it. (But I do like the notion that we would devote our ambitions to trying to learn from it - ultimately with our disastrous misunderstanding of how advanced a bio-weapon it absolutely insists on being; resisting our feeble attempts to modify and restrain its fully-intended results. Perhaps a worthy metaphor for the unspeakable travails we'll face with our gene-editing ambitions, pursued with our deeply flawed ways and means.)
For alien Romulus sequel, given how easy and dangerous it is to kill off both Rain and Andy, I would say just let both of them live a peaceful life after what they have been through, and focus on making another alien Romulus prequel instead where fans of the franchise get to see every protagonist die and what happened to the station would be the right direction, just in my opinion.
That would be cool to see but something completely new and fresh would please me more. I would really love a dark story regarding the engineers but with more of a H R Giger vibe. Biomechanical nightmares etc 👍
@@edinpandzic5838 maybe the TV series will provide that needed change. I know they are going to explore ai and consciousness but hopefully it won't copy and paste David's story.
Give me a damn aliens movie where the aliens are actually aliens and eat people like everyone including the main cast, I want another deep blue sea surprise get an actor like Samuel L Jackson eating in the first few seconds How about just have a movie where the aliens eat everybody and they win there is no surviving big actors they all get awesome brutal death scenes
@@tankprohp I think they gotta bring in the big guns next film. Marines or company private forces to tackle a large Alien infestation. As you say, make the creatures the real killers, just like they should be 👍
Romulus was a terrible movie, you could see the practical fx on screen, like the wheels from the facehugger scene cuz they were all remote control cars and you can actually see them kind of funny, The legs don't match movement there was no care taken at all More effort was needed this is truly pathetic And the fact that during the elevator scene first of all the Android was never strong enough to hold up an entire elevator!!!!!! This is in between aliens one and two pretty sure Androids didn't get stronger in that time frame, second of all why when the alien caught her falling down the elevator shaft didn't it eat her!!!! It puts her gently on the ladder you can see her hands reaching for it are you effing kidding me😂😂😂😂😂😂 and then the last scene in the movie is a recreation of Resurrection just with an engineer, and is basically a Men in Black 2 reference to every other film that was before it, garbage movie, with nostalgic references not even good ones not even going to go into Ash being reused and how horrible that looked, forced in with Gen z forgetable characters
@@tankprohp oh god! When Andy catches the hydraulic door, I forgot about that. Why are the androids getting stronger every film. Remember when Ash was overpowered by two people? I understand your point mate. The Alien caught Rain in the shaft because of the facehugger nearby but I think the slow motion didn't help inspire any fear for the audience at all. Andy also became Captain America at the same scene.
Hopefully we don't get a sequel, it looked great sound was spot on, the acting was meh and the story was lazy AF. For the love of god someone write the story of LV426 before the Marines arrive and pre Ripley's hearing. Action movies are just blockbuster excuses for a fast buck, write a proper bloody story with proper character archs and no cliche cinema tropes. Scot has screwed this franchise into the ground even after Resurrection pissed on the grave. As bad as Alien 3 is viewed atleast it ties things up before they butchered it for toy sales and fast bucks. I could care less about any of the new characters or planets. They have to finish up the story of weyland and David to close out Ridley's mess for the sake of story continuity. Romulus was a lazy reboot and pretty much wrapped it's story up in a nice bow unless anyone cared about any of the forgettable characters, hell I have seen Romulus twice and I can't remember a single character's name.
Usually I would say the blowback from fans is enough to dictate the next film but Romulus has outstanding reviews 🤔. I had fun enough at the cinema but there were enough issues to make me roll my eyes. I just love the universe too much to give up on it. Hopefully the TV series will be good enough and future films.
They’re already working on a sequel. Why was it lazy aside from call backs? The outpost about to be crashed into the rings was new, on top of them working on Prometheus goo and cloning being done on face-huggers, new lore. The film remains 9/10 and looking forward to the sequel. Rain and Andy were great characters.
@@elroymartinezjr Already working on a sequel. . . .there we go the hype train, quick while Alien earth is due in next winter and a new game has recently released. The reason it was lazy was because everything they did has already been done before in the same franchise. Trapped in a room with facehuggers. A person does stupid things because they hate Androids. Ship marked as their escape option gets destroyed / damaged because of alien. Android goes haywire and is secretly on a mission to keep a specimen at any cost. Ship they are on is on some kind of countdown until it's doomed. Do we need to point out anymore ?
@@hutzdani87 it’s all done differently. Rook isn’t the same as Ash in how it was handled. The count of the ship to impact versus blowing up was handled different. And so on and so forth. Nothing lazy about thinking of how to go about things differently. I’ll be expecting the next film gladly.✌️
Oh please gods, nooooooooooooooo! How to continue killing a franchise with bad ideas. Alien/Aliens and I’m good. Though I can take A3 (Directors) and Resurrection as a side quest. AvPs, Prom/Cov crap and this new stuff can disappear into a quantum singularity!
Alien 3 was hauntingly vivid for me when I was young. It had a soundtrack that evoked feelings of sadness for Ripley as she had been through so much but was alone with her memories as all the others had perished who once shared in her survival. It could have been a much better film but it affected me in a way that I'll never forget and that is a good sign in a film.
I would like technical and craft acumen of Romulus is applied to a future set of installments focused on ALIEN ISOLATION and ALIENS DEFIANCE. I don't care about engineers or goo but I care a lot about Rain, N-D, Amanda Ripley, Pfc. Zula Hendricks, and the rogue Davis combat android.
@@ENTERTAINtheDUDE Unfortunately, no. It is not a good read--it's a PHENOMENAL READ and does quite a bit to fill out and expand the verse successfully linking several of the OBannon original concepts with the ALIEN ISOLATION and first two films. And of course, I love the Zula character, the Davis character and the discussion of AI and love.
Don't get your hopes up for alien Romulus sequel. They (Disney Fox - franchise killers which destroyed star wars/MCU/Indiana Jones & indoctrinating pedo/LGBTQ propaganda to children) will ruin and messed it up in alien Romulus 2 - critical & financial failure this killing the Franchise the third time. Look what happened to the amazing Spider-Man 2, matrix resurrection, Halloween sequel to Halloween 2028, Jurassic world 2, terminator genisys & dark fate,
@@logannelson1807 you're not wrong mate, sadly. I'll never walk away from this franchise, even if Disney does indeed take it well and truly down that path, but I'll be angry for sure. Not to get political or anything but we're seeing the first light of some positive changes in the western world, so who knows, maybe these woke companies will feel some opposing pressure on a different level soon. Saying that, you'd think with the amount of money they've lost so far, that would be reason enough to change their ideological stance a wee bit???? Fingers crossed dude 😎
As much as I enjoyed seeing Andy and Rain together, bringing them back would not have the same impact. I'd rather see new characters or an adaptation of Isolation, which would somehow bring Ripley back to the saga. I have zero interest in another AvP.
@@marcelo78 unless they do a straight up adaptation of isolation starring Amanda Ripley, I think Romulus was the closest to isolation we might get. Whatever they do next, it certainly needs to include a much larger cast I would say.
@@John-tc9gp it definitely looked great but annoying many modern films don't or perhaps aren't allowed the freedom of expression the classics were once given. I'm a firm believer that there is too much process manufacturing in getting films made these days if that makes sense?
PMSFLOL...frkn *Alien* fanboys, eh? (no dramas, lol I'm one myself!) 😮 So there's thes 2 moovees - similar yet diff - both pristine in ther own way...but then came a thurd(sic), an after that we all stop counting cos ul never beat perfection, right? Sounds like *Star Wars* fans of a certain demo (Urs Truly 54yrs xp = insight 🦉), can't abide nowt post-OT cos... reasons. Yeh so if *Romulus* is nothin but Kool-Aid, then I'm happy to drink up, cos imvho (an I've re-watched it 6x) it's got everything else beat since '86. Oh, but I hear u cry "Member Berries!!! Lousy deepfakes!!! Plot contrivances!!! Black Goo!!! Yada.* WTF??? Is that best y'all got?" "But...but look! Rook's lips were a fraction outta sync!!" 🥱🥱 Do me a solid, okay? Quit *taking fukn notes fer yer toob cast an jus frkn WATCH THE MOOVEE LIKE A REAL PERSON* Nuff sed.
@@donvancu I can't argue with you there but every now and then I am surprised by something special. I also gave up on anything Star Wars but Andor was fantastic.
For me the biggest flaw of Romulus was the lack of interesting characters. I hope the next one goes back to the original formula of "space truckers" run into a terrifying situation.
@@Kelticfury honestly, I couldn't stand the Bjorn character and the way he spoke. Compare that to the pure class of the well spoken actors that were in Alien.
Loved it. 🎉my 3rd favorite Alien movie. Aliens, Alien and Romulus
Glad you loved it buddy
Same. There's only 3 Alien movies and only 3 Star Wars movies as far as my canon goes
How on earth you jump from alien and aliens to this garbage there is literally no relation lol
@@Grogeous_Maximus Alien 3 was so underrated but it very hard to ignore that CGI these days 😞
There's no cgi alien in Alien3 its a rod puppet. @@ENTERTAINtheDUDE
From Romulus I got a feeling that Fede is very keen on tying loose ends and explain the not yet explained. So I wouldn't be surprised that he would show us that David is still alive and living on Yivarga 3 (or however you write it) or some other David tie in. If Fede manages to get Ridley Scotts approval that is. I assume he'll have the budget for the next movie after the succes of Romulus.
You might be right. Ridley is in talks currently regarding another Alien film but I'm not sure if it has anything to do with Fred's sequel. If it's anything to do with Alien Isolation or even as you say, David on Yvaga 🤔. That could be interesting and would tie up loose ends 👍
Great video! I finally got around to watching Alien Romulus recently, and I have to admit, I’m a bit disappointed. I guess I was expecting too much. I just couldn’t quite warm up to the new characters. 😅
Thanks pal. Yeah many would agree with you so you're not alone. I didn't mind the characters but felt it was all a bit rushed in it's final moments. Nothing will ever top the first two, which is a blessing and a curse haha! Take care buddy.
As a long time alien fan, 35 years at this stage.. I wish I could care about where it goes.
They don't know how to write something new and or original for any of these franchises anymore.
Despite the delusional nature of the reviews for it, Romulus was a copy paste of the other movies.
They keep trying to replicate what made it so loved in the first place and rely on blind Fandom to just lap It up.
There's a channel on UA-cam who did an amazing break down of this, if it want obvious already for romuless.
Ridley Scott is long past his sell by date in the franchise and is just hanging around to keep his name attached to it. He's purely there now to attract the fan base.
@@Paul-rw6eu oh I'm fully aware of how creatively bankrupt the film industry can sometimes be, I agree. I wonder how much of this is because of a fear or incompetence on the level of studio bosses where they believe a film MUST cling on to the past and ride the nostalgia train. Or is it partially an issue with the wrong scripts being chosen based on this logic? I refuse to believe that wonderfully imaginative new stories are not being sent to them, so maybe they just care about box office numbers the majority of the time. Gotta feed the machine.
If Ridley knocks it outta the park with Gladiator, I'll be excited for him making his own Alien movie again. But that doesn't mean it will be good, sadly.
Well said.. Original fan here who saw ALIEN opening week back in '79. So sad to see a classic science fiction film be reduced to this Z Grade generic garbage.
I guess that Ridley Scott’s influence was the cause of the copy & paste in Romulus. It was too much. Gentle hints like the Nostromo wreck was nice, the rest was like hammering nostalgia into the film.
@@Hoschie-ww7io it was very convenient that the ships name was floating next to the alien 😉😉
I still believe that ‘River of Pain’ would be a satisfying Alien film.
@@Hoschie-ww7io I'm listening to Out of the Shadows currently. It's interesting so far and pretty well voiced. I'll try River of Pain next. I've never been someone too interested in all the non canon and I'm not a comic book fan but I should venture into these novels more.
@ in the mines it’s claustrophobic. Like in this alien short film.
The comedy continues 😂 what kind of hyper mutants they are going to bring this time 😂
It wouldn't surprise me that when the two get to the new planet, it's already overrun with xenomorphs. It will need to be a much different story to keep things interesting. But, black goo has to keep popping up. I really enjoyed Romulus personally. I do hope to see more of Weyland Yutani ... and yes the company commandos would be a nice touch to see again. Thank you for this update!
@@michaelg.1786 thanks for tuning in again 👍. The outfits and armour those commandos wore was quite imaginative, even if they looked like ice hockey players 😂. Some kind of militaristic event would be great for the sequel.
@@ENTERTAINtheDUDE Right on! I wonder if the commando outfits were some type of anti-acid protective armor? Otherwise it would be a bitch trying to get the outfits off when coming in contact with xenomorph blood!
@michaelg.1786 hehe! Good point. I also kinda laughed when editing the vid how Lance who played bishop shows up as Weyland wearing sunglasses in doors. What a badass 👌👌👌
@@ENTERTAINtheDUDE I'd forgotten that part! ❤️
I can't see a sequel working. I didn't like Alien: Romulus all that much, it has terribly weak writing and characters and was at best a 5/10 for me, though it did have some good moments and no doubt much of the visuals were fantastic. A sequel MUST have more xenomorphs and I don't see how they can possibly write more xenos into the sequel, they're gone, they were all on the station.. any attempt to write them into the sequel is going to feel very contrived, especially considering Fede Alvarez and his buddy will no doubt be the main writers again (terrible idea, neither of these two can write good sci-fi or good characters and dialogue). The way I see it, they're probably going to have to spawn a new creature from the black goo they're carrying or a face hugger was hiding onboard their ship. Both ideas are incredibly unimaginative. IMO it would be better to just forget Raine and Andy and tell a new story with a new director, but unfortunately Romulus has done so well, this crap is going to get milked. I'm willing to bet, the sequel will be just as bad if not worse than Romulus unless Alvarez takes a long time getting the script right AND hires a proper good writer OR he injects colonial marines into the story (i'm actually expecting him to do this, and it might be the only thing that saves it from being another completely mediocre movie). Either way, I'm not looking forward to it. Fede Alvarez just does NOT have the talent to make a great alien movie on par with the first two without a very, very good writer/script and top notch casting. I doubt anyone in the business even knows of a sci-fi writer that can match the likes of the late Dan O'bannon unfortunately, writers the likes of Damon Lindeloff certainly aren't in his league by a long stretch.
@@stateazure you're not alone in you're thoughts. Despite the strange and insanely high RT scores, most of the comments I get speak the same. I'm very curious to know what the Ridley Scott Alien project is. Maybe it has something to do with the sequel or perhaps it is HIS continuation. If we do get the same treatment again then I think I would definitely voice my opinion on it and share you're sentiments.
I appreciate Alien Romulus for thaking the movie franchise back to basics, Alien 1979 was acted out by a fairly unknown bunch of D Rated actors at the time, and probably should not have been as well received as it ended up being. Romulus did everything right, removed all A list actors, simplified the storyline, and made the movie for less than $80 million dollars, returning $280 million at the box office, hopefully they will do the exact same for a sequel and let it evolve over time instead of throwing even more money at it and bringing in big name actors, who add nothing to the story.
Well said. The budget aspect is the best way to go. Prey was an ok film, I liked it well enough, maybe the same as Romulus but looks what happens when they overspend... We get The Predator 2018 🤮
The next movie could easily connect the Prometheus/Covenant storyline with Alien/Romulus storyline by having the two intersect on Yvarga. Yvarga could be the planet David ended up on with his embryos and may have created a Queen kept in stasis. Raine and Andy could come across it as a hive has taken over the space port during the time they were in stasis while traveling (9 years) to Yvarga.
@@MasterMayhem78 if we find out soon that Fassbender has signed up for an Alien film, I think you might be right on the money there. As long as David hasn't become a Queen 😉 then that could be interesting 👍
What the sequel to "Alien: Romulus" be about is an exploration of the Remus module that wasn't explored of which maybe since the movie wasn't truly canon, then something way worst than what was explored in the Romulus module could've been in there.
@@mexic8l interesting but knowing that the whole station is obliterated anyways, makes it a bit worthless for me. Unless whatever is found there is moved off station before the events of Romulus? That could be cool.
@ENTERTAINtheDUDE about ur question "whatever is found in the Remus module was moved from the station b4 the events of the movie" for a second I thought that the cocoon that was shown at the beginning was what was moved, but then the cocoon wasn't what was moved as it was in the wrecked Nostromo spaceship and the modules were in a station called the Renaissance; so actually thinking about it just to make it a twist and thus I'd say kinda canon (in order for how I'm saying that the sequel could be about not to happen) the director of the movie shall get interviewed in a video of which either if it's not asked to him to say that the cocoon was what was moved from there or I don't know of which it's only me talking gibberish and nonsense.
Mirroring my thoughts exactly. Great video.
@@yetanotherreviewchannel thanks 👍
That's good news. With a bit of luck, Ridley Scott will stay out of the writer's room this time. I really hope to get to see some more new stuff in this sequel. Maybe some of the criminal types from Alien 3 and 4, and not only the company and its 'disgruntled employees'.
@@Grogeous_Maximus my thoughts as well. I'd actually love to see another Aliens film with highly trained company spec ops going up against an infestation of these things. Of course, they gotta have their Hudson as well 😉
The AVP movie will most likely be a sequel to Romulus and Predator: Badlands and feature main characters from both movies. Not sure if there’ll be a standalone sequel to Romulus between now and then, but I’ll gladly watch all of them!
Badlands sound great but I don't want any other universe to merge with Alien, sorry but it's too special for me 🙏
@@ENTERTAINtheDUDE why limit yourself? Alien or at least AVP is definitely canon to Predator, so why not vice versa?
@wildbill9490 I think it's because the films are somewhat tacky to most people. If they created a masterpiece then I probably accept it. The same goes with the Bladerunner and Alien merge 👍
I assumed Yvarga was developed entirely separately from WY, IE a different group or conglomerate. Could be an interesting plot point for a sequel, but I can't say I trust Alrarez to do anything particularly original in a sequel after the copy/paste that was Romulus.
@@birdie17uk a rival company with different morals would be an exciting addition to the franchise, love the idea 👍
Another new Alien sequel would need to break out into new, solid, terratory. Nothing bad about linking to previous events, characters or places. But, the emphasis should be on two things: A Great Story and A Premise that justifies that story. Much like the Alien Isolation you mentioned, I would really love to see a movie adaptation of at least some aspects of that story arc. I did not play the game, but watched a film playthrough and it was bloody amazing! Much better than anything we got since Alien Resurrection. I miss out Prometheus and Covenant as I do not seriuously consider them legitimate Alien stories but have to live with the fact that they are there so the best I can come up with is that they exist in the Alien Universe as a side-shoot. Alien Ridiculous, on the other hand broke the trust completely and while the techno stuff was good the rest was very amaturish. It was a badly written story, shallow script and the acting / actors left much to be desired. Let's hope they can improve.
How hard can it be? I mean there are thousands of threads all interesting to consider as follow ups and delve deeper into the potential of the core story of Alien / Aliens. As you said, exploring WY shinanigans (sp) and a possible clash between the Colonial Marines vs WY mercenaries on the one hand and a fully infested teraformed world with a Queen Xenomorph, hybrids, eggs, and facehuggers would be nice to imagine?
I do not want to see mentally challenged assumptions and chestbursters incubating from facehuggers in mere 3-4 minutes and a lanky humanoid alien-engineer hybrid with a psychopathic grin and a metabolic rate that exceeds logic - with or without black mumbo jumbo stuff.
Alien Ridiculous 🤣🤣 You know, part of telling a great story is allowing it to breathe. Some of these films are so rushed because they just gotta throw everything in that we have seen before. If they made another Alien film with just one alien, then I'd be happy. Allow a 24-hour gestation period, have the thing run off and hide for 48 hours while the crew become more panic-stricken and then carefully have them be eliminated one by one in a mature fashion. We don't wanna see any more of this creature being reduced.
@@ENTERTAINtheDUDE Totally on the same wavelength here. It just feels so much painted with the same brush that everything comes from Hollow Wood (pardon the pun) is so vacuous and shallow - hollow wold be very apt.
Great video mate! I tend to agree with everything youve said, i think that this sequel is going to be somewhere better than romulus, more ambicious, at least on plot and charachter development. Probably Fede being 100% on the project, as well Ridley, will play a major role on the film, so lets hope that everything gets on its way.
btw, its quite a surprise for me to see people pointing out some unnecesary lines from Romulus. In brazilian portuguese, my language, we didnt had these lines and the dub was superb. Guess the dublators leveled up my experience lol
@@danavp-q7l oh wow! So perhaps the translation improved the film 🤣. I still enjoyed the film as it had some thrilling moments and the horror at times was well done. But there were just a few things that pulled me out of the film. Fingers crossed with the sequel 🤞. Thanks for watching dude
Romulus is sick. Yes it could of had more xenomorphs.
@@EFV2000 glad you liked it 👍 but the sequels needs a big improvement in my opinion 😉
Thought it was trash. The only sequel should be Aliens.
@@stevewright1539 I think Aliens is on par with T2 as the best sequels ever made.
Oh, for the love of God! PLEASE stay away from all popular franchises until someone in Hollywood remembers how to write!
@@ashscott6068 I can bet you that fantastic scripts are sent to them but I can also put money on the fact that money is all they sometimes think about. Casuals probably make up the large portion of cinema goers and sadly, those people dictate how films are made occasionally. This should never be the case with a franchise like Alien, although it has many times now.
@@ENTERTAINtheDUDE I don't think they're even allowed to open scripts they haven't requested off writers who are in the union. They probably get given to the lawyer and locked in a safe like unsolicited music demos do, so nobody can claim the company stole their idea
It was a great movie.. Probably needed a larger cast & more death scenes but it was better than Alien Covenant. They couldn't even add the neomorph vs Protomorphs fight which took me out of the movie.
@@BallinOutOfControl08 I agree it was better than covenant, even if Fassbender is vastly superior actor to any of the Romulus cast. The xenomorph scenes in covenant were way too reliant on CGI. The protomorphs were a real highlight however. I guess the protomorphs were all killed before before the xenos showed up right?
The movie will open with the Corbelan picking up Amanda Ripley after the end of Alien: Isolation....
@@Neuromancer_2k77 I can't remember how long after Alien that Isolation took place. I know Romulus is 20 years after and we even see Ripley's shuttle in Romulus, twice! Once in a hanger and the we see it eject at the same time the corbelan does as the station is destroyed.
@@ENTERTAINtheDUDE Alien Isolation is 15 years after Alien and Romulus is 20 years after, so yeah - my idea doesn't work. But still Rain and Amanda could meet. Also, I know the sequel of Isolation is in development, so there may be some references.
Who would you like to see playing Amanda?
@@Grogeous_Maximus good question. It's got to be Elizabeth Winstead who was in The Thing 2011 prequel and 10 Cloverfield Lane. Great actress and looks like Sigourney to some degree.
@@Grogeous_Maximus Andrea Deck
I think teh alien is pretty cool guy, he burst out of chest and doesn’t afraid of pulse rifle
@@KevinMurphy-kk6yz pretty gangster, huh? 😎
@@ENTERTAINtheDUDE bitches don’t know about alien acid blood!
Alien: Earth has my attention now. I still hope the series can focus on the Xenomorphs and not stray away from them making up stupid stuff no one asked for as they go.
@@Lokazana yeah, it's funny, I just can't imagine how they are going to present the story in the series. I have to assume, like any series, it will focus heavily on human drama with a whiff of sci fi and slow reveals of the Alien universe we are used too. I'll definitely be doing weekly reviews on each episode. Cannot wait 👍
What's the point? It'll be another greatest hits like Romulus. Maybe the next Ripley replacement will be Lassie. We've had the little girl Mary Sue, so what's left?
@@Randy_Batswinger I'm gonna maintain my optimism until Alien Earth series arrives. Fingers crossed and buttocks clenched lol. I share your thoughts though, I just try to stay positive for the purpose of the channel in the hopes we get something great one day.
It will be interesting to see Rain and Andy arrive at Yvaga, maybe a Weyland Yutani squad arrive to retrive the black goo, assuming they arrive there at all and don't go off course.
@@danielpeckham5520 god, I hope they don't drift for 57 years again 🤣🤣🤣. That would leap frog us past the events of Alien Resurrection lol.
@@ENTERTAINtheDUDEwhat??? Wasn't Resurrection like 200 years later after alien 3 confused lol.
@@jackmullin8962 ahh, you are correct. Sorry, I guess I've somehow managed to forget about that film 😉
@@ENTERTAINtheDUDE yeah same here lol, but weyland went back to fury 161 and got blood samples or Ripley blood on ice and attempted to clone her.
I'm surprised that most people still criticize the latest Alien movies as trash, not innovative, a Z-grade movie. You guys don't understand how hard it is to make a movie. Since Alien 1979, which has existed because of various influences and has become a classic movie until today, Alien Romulus chose to go back to the original Alien 1979, but you still see it as a copy & paste movie, while before this you would blame Prometheus. It's not an Alien movie, it's not a good movie, it's just some kind of movie. When Alien Covenant goes back to being Alien, you still criticize it. Alien Romulus has become the most well-reviewed movie since Aliens, which I agree with without praising at all. Creating characters like never before in the franchise under the original approach, Alien Romulus is a smart challenge and is on the right track more than any film since Aliens. If you think Alien Romulus is a copy & paste garbage movie, it means that you also hate Alien Isolation. Because Alien Romulus and Alien Isolation chose to go a similar path. If you're sure, I'd like you to try to find funding to negotiate with the studio to direct it yourself. Let's see how well you can do it.
I do wonder how well received Isolation would be if it was directly transformed into a film, scene for scene. I guess movies are more criticised because they are considered the highest form of story telling. Glad you enjoyed the film though 👍
Let the Alien derelict & space jockey remain the myth. ...
@@foetaltreborus2017 The problem is that they have already created this engineer mythology now. Otherwise I might agree with you but I think some things need correcting. Maybe they can introduce some new idea that simultaneously retains some mystery to the beings?
@@ENTERTAINtheDUDE maybe the engineers visit the other planet to retrieve the goo but there's an xenomorph outbreak due to experiments made on black goo.Get the battle we was teased in covenant film poster
@@kevisrev7529 there's definitely a few different options they could take, right?
@@ENTERTAINtheDUDEthe advantage they have got is it's in space and can do whatever they like in effect which shouldn't interfere with the other films timeline.Thing is ,is going to lead to an all out action film if say colonial marines Vs xenos Vs engineers or another horror/thriller like Romulus
Send them to Hadley's Hope before the shit comes down
@@paulgwilliam6323 people were living there 20 years before it went to shit, so it could line up 🤔
A very interesting video, thank you.
Let's hope any forthcoming AVP movie is nixxed before it gets close to production. All that series has ever done is interfere with the production of the Alien movies themselves. Directors don't like competition from their storyline and AVP has never added anything new.
What I'd like too see - somehow - is the Space Jockey returned to its rightful place in the cosmic horror scheme of things. Yes, I know Sir Ridley ballsed it up once, but there is a comic-book thread that introduced a pre-engineer race, much older than them, called the Mal 'Akak (don't quote me on the spelling). The Space Jockey was a member of this race and they looked more like the Space Jockey physically, not a humanoid in a bio-suit. Is such a movie possible? It's not for me to say but that's what I want lol.
@@CMDR_Verm now you're talking 👍 If a movie could ever be made about the race of beings first shown to us in Alien as a fossil, almost. It should incorporate much from H R Ginger. I don't know how the story or comics depicted them but they should be larger, more ancient and certainly a civilization of biomechanics much like how Ginger first presented in his drawings. You could go very dark and sinister with this direction, I think. But it would have to incorporate humans, otherwise, it would be wrong to only have them in the story. Especially as they probably don't speak any human language haha! Thanks for watching pal 👍
Lots of good points, both you guys.
Glad you like it. Please though, don't call the guy 'Ginger'', it's Giger. Now I can't get that out of my head!
@@CMDR_Verm haha! I blame my phone, whoops!
Stupid ---prone--- phone. 😢
Yeah, I’m sure it’s gonna suck and I’m sure I’ll watch it
@@fuuz642 they always manage to pull us in haha!
@ yeah, all the remakes, prequels, sequels of the 80s movies made in 2000s every and each of them I went to see, I always said never again on my way out of cinema.
Yet, here I am once again complaining about how much Romulus sucked.
I really should just stop
Should explain how LV426 was occupied by Alien queen.
@@ThePandacub69 some explanation on how a queen was possible would be interesting but I don't think Ridley ever appreciated the Queen.
@ENTERTAINtheDUDE Oh mine, you speak my mind. Ridley Scott has been clearly jealous of the huge success of Cameron's Aliens and has been refused to link any of his prequels and Romulus to Aliens, and yet, he extracted many elements from Aliens to Romulus such as sound effects, score and even style. Scott is annoying and petty
Sadly Romulus was a copy and paste regurgitation. Sadly the short sighted fan base with the attention span of a gold fish think it’s brilliant 😂
Yeah, I've seen the RT scores which surprised me. Like I said in the vid, didn't hate it but the issues did pull me out. Fingers crossed with future projects.
I get the copy and paste, but I still enjoyed it despite. We haven’t gotten really anything remotely close to the original 2 so I take for what it is and loved it overall.
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We will be seeing that in the Alien TV show coming next year. A woman has her consciousness transferred into a synthetic, I believe.
There might even be a colonial war happening on Yvaga 3 with the colonial marines and the separatists by the time Raine and Andy get there
I like the sound of that. Gimme more Colonial Marines please 😊
Lets milk that cash cow for all it's worth. Then we'll just milk it some more in our never ending, creatively bankrupt quest to destroy great movies with garbage like Romulus.
It's pretty clear they are trying to reboot the franchise with a new Ripley because hey, the Alien IP has to have an obligatory female protagonist. The black goo is a direct lift of the Purity virus from the X Files. Senile Scott couldn't even be bothered to change the colour. And Romulus is just a fan service slasher in space built on an utterly ridiculous pretence that the alien survived being fried in the shuttles thruster after she purged the engines no less (purging is the equivalent of applying a fighter jets afterburners) and it was located 20 years later floating in space in its magic anti decompression cocoon. You know, just in case it gets ejected from a spaceship and gets picked up for one more rampage.Ripley had a distress beacon and was a lot larger object. But it still took 57 years to find her by accident. And how did the company know the alien was ejected from a shuttle? I swear its fan fiction written by a 9 year old. And doubly stupid in that there was still a spaceship full of samples on LV-426. But no, gotta do something dumb just to hammer home this is connected to ALIEN and bring the original xenomorph back from the dead so we can create face huggers from it....eh??....wtf!!. As I;ve said all along its all just make it up as you go along bs now. Why are we trying to perfect humans when we have created Replicants to do the dirty/hard work?...DOH!!
Funny how Aliens are a dime a dozen these days too. In the original film it was an ancient unknown organism that had never been encountered before. Now they are suddenly wherever you go lol!
She'll discover aliens in the next part and we are supposed to believe all this was happening while Ripley was in hyper sleep and before Aliens. Remember Ripley being de briefed in Aliens?
And the Company execs not believing her story about a a creature with concentrated acid for blood. That gestates inside a host and has not been discovered in over 300 surveyed worlds.The dumb shits who wrote Romulus forgot about that I suppose.Funny. All these supposed hardcore alien fans who really don't know shit lol.
But zoomer Ripley was off fighting the good fight the whole time unbeknown to Weylan(d) Yutani....lmfao! Yet they somehow knew Ripley ejected an alien into space...eh???
I could now sit here and give you example after example of why this movie not only disrespects the original movie, Ripleys legacy and all she achieved.Why its just another curb stomp to all that made the original film great.Why its brain dead Chat GPT fan service. Who cares about a bunch of zoomers in space. Its a sad reflection on what people think is a good movie these days as well.Look at the story and its a shitty retelling of Resurrection. Scott just had to incorporate his rip off X Files black goo into the story. Even the Aliens are a hybrid of Gigers Alien and the Resurrection velociraptor aliens that looked like space lizards lol.
Alien died in the early 90's. Let it go. Just let it go. Try something new.
Very interesting thoughts buddy. The X-Files comparison brings back so many great memories. They did a really good job in the show with that backbone storyline of the alien conspiracy with the black virus. It does feel weaker as it has been presented in the Alien franchise now.
@@ENTERTAINtheDUDE The make any plot you want black goo is no comparison. It’s a direct theft. Why Chris Carter has not come forth to sue Scott into oblivion is beyond me.
The fact they still want to flog this alien horse shows just how pressed for creativity they really are. Next we’ll have a cocooned Queen fall to Earth in its heat shield protected cocoon and start laying eggs. Budget Ripley will come in guns blazing and save the day while the evil bumbling company in their infinite stupidity fail to secure any samples again while conducting tests on samples they’ve secured and only certain company reps know about in this convoluted cluster fuck of a franchise that means nothing anymore. They brought Ripley and now the Alien back from the dead. Pretty sure some douche will target the Queen next. Cocooning in space opens the door for all kinds of stupidity. It’ll be more non sensical alien flavoured slop like Romulus.
This is just another in a long line of IP’s that have been systematically destroyed by stupidity and hubris. They seem to be on some kind of mission to destroy anything good from the 70,’s 80’s or 90’s
Love your Alien videos!
Regarding the sequel, I can already smell how they're gonna tie it into Aliens. I bet you it's gonna be colonial marines again, and there will be some familiar last names returning, like Hicks dad, who also served in the army. There's no way Fede can help himself, if Romulus was any indication. That said I'd I'd much rather get that kind of connection than more lame throwback quotes.
It's oddly ironic that by desperately trying to please the hardcore Alien fans with those quotes, they accomplished the exact opposite. Casual viewers wouldn't care either way. This made me think that the studio has no clue who who their fanbase is and what they want, but that can't be true? But then again, the we also got the Resurrection throwbacks...😂 The cringy moments in this film took it from a solid 8-9 out of 10 to a 7 for me. As a true Alien fan, you can't not get bothered by it lol.
I would love to see Fede respond to this criticism, and I hope he promises to not do it in the sequel 🤞
@@techstacker5361 yeah he did speak in an interview about how Ridley requested extra content and some aspects in the film were never there originally but who knows. I agree with you 💯 on the cringe moments as I am also one hell on an Alien fan 😉
Part of me hopes we'll get a more militarised sequel, similar to Aliens but again I agree with you, they don't need to connect everything by reviving old characters in the family connect route. Hick's dad as you say haha! I wouldn't put it pass them...
Thanks for supporting my channel buddy. I always remember the people that do so and it's only my Alien vids that get views for some reason 🤔. At least they are super fun to make being an Alien nerd like yourself 😎.
Take care
The sequel will be combined into the the original promtheus sequel concept called paradise lost
Average film. It made money, so it figures Disney would want another one made. It's Hollywood, so it's all about making money for shareholders, least we forget.
@@markymark3572 I suppose, the way to think about it is, everyone now and then we will get a great film but it might take a few before we get lucky 😞
Alien Romulus sequel ain’t happening, not until 2030 anyways.
but we can all look forward to Ridley Scott returning to the Alien universe and give everybody the 3rd and 4th entry to his long delayed Prometheus trilogy.
@@skyrimwarrior you think that might come first? I wouldn't mind seeing the continuation of Covenant imo. If it looks a bit shite when we start seeing the promotion stuff then I'll be honest 👍
The alien franchise finished with ALIENS.
@@AReallyLongAndUnremakableUser if the TV show is a disappointment then I may just lose all hope.
@ENTERTAINtheDUDE Ridley Sccot needs to retire.
@@AReallyLongAndUnremakableUser if Gladiator 2 is decent enough then I would say no. His The Last Duel film was also quite impressive btw. But maybe he should be done with Alien.
@@ENTERTAINtheDUDEthat’s because the script was written by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon. Just like most movies Ridley does. Ridley is massively overrated and is basically a glorified cinematographer.
I watched most alien movies before watching Romulus excluding Alien resurrection and AvP and i liked Romulus better than Aliens.
Andy and rain left on a ship with the goo on it. Andy is going to turn rain into the queen xeno in Aliens. I got a crisp $100 bill on it
That's interesting, you think he still has that Weyland coding in him from the chip switching? I could almost turn this into a theory video but I don't wanna steal your idea haha!
@ENTERTAINtheDUDE I'm just saying I've been watching Alien content for 35 long spooky years and I know the patterns
@ENTERTAINtheDUDE you can steal it just credit me and shout me out
@@SecretSocietyofGoths If I use it, of course I would ❤️
The theme throughout most of these movies shows how unchecked capitalism, led by the rich, leads to dystopia. Just something to ponder, especially *these* days.
@@_Omega_Weapon that would make a nice quote! I'm not sure if you're referencing individuals in reality or the deep state haha! But, your point is understood my friend. Often, art can imitate life and reality, going hand in hand. Alien is a cautionary tale indeed.
@ENTERTAINtheDUDE Thanks. I'm definitely certain individuals, especially since I'm American.
You mentioned the black goo as a concept - did its introduction/presence rub you the wrong way?
@@justinklenk I feel like that could have made it a thrilling idea but for me it kinda feels a bit bland and bordering lazy writing when we learn that the goo can just effortlessly bring to life these perfect specimens in a lab or potentially create superhumans, which was the companies plan in Romulus. It takes much of the mystery away from the Alien because the goo keeps popping up in 3 films so far that don't have much of a conclusion, it feels a bit frustrating. Hopefully they'll correct some of these issues in the next one 🤞🤞. Just my thoughts anyways 😉
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Right on, thanks, just wondering. I'd seen it as a techno-natural invention so elegantly powerful and profound that its instantaneous action upon any DNA would legitimately provide the genesis for all such kinds of novel horrific scenarios... But that can also be read (or downright employed) as a license to get lazy with those profound implications and possibilities. Because it certainly seems like a substance far, far from our knowledge, ability and capacity to control it.
(But I do like the notion that we would devote our ambitions to trying to learn from it - ultimately with our disastrous misunderstanding of how advanced a bio-weapon it absolutely insists on being; resisting our feeble attempts to modify and restrain its fully-intended results. Perhaps a worthy metaphor for the unspeakable travails we'll face with our gene-editing ambitions, pursued with our deeply flawed ways and means.)
For alien Romulus sequel, given how easy and dangerous it is to kill off both Rain and Andy, I would say just let both of them live a peaceful life after what they have been through, and focus on making another alien Romulus prequel instead where fans of the franchise get to see every protagonist die and what happened to the station would be the right direction, just in my opinion.
That would be cool to see but something completely new and fresh would please me more. I would really love a dark story regarding the engineers but with more of a H R Giger vibe. Biomechanical nightmares etc 👍
the problem with Alien movies is that they are literally all the same...same thing every time...
@@edinpandzic5838 maybe the TV series will provide that needed change. I know they are going to explore ai and consciousness but hopefully it won't copy and paste David's story.
Give me a damn aliens movie where the aliens are actually aliens and eat people like everyone including the main cast, I want another deep blue sea surprise get an actor like Samuel L Jackson eating in the first few seconds
How about just have a movie where the aliens eat everybody and they win there is no surviving big actors they all get awesome brutal death scenes
alien 3, but the crowd need heroes guns space family stuf etc
@@tankprohp I think they gotta bring in the big guns next film. Marines or company private forces to tackle a large Alien infestation. As you say, make the creatures the real killers, just like they should be 👍
Alien 3 thats the last alien we nees
@gabrielgabriel5177 the acting was phenomenal in that film. It even had Charles Dance 👌
Romulus was a terrible movie, you could see the practical fx on screen, like the wheels from the facehugger scene cuz they were all remote control cars and you can actually see them kind of funny, The legs don't match movement there was no care taken at all More effort was needed this is truly pathetic
And the fact that during the elevator scene first of all the Android was never strong enough to hold up an entire elevator!!!!!! This is in between aliens one and two pretty sure Androids didn't get stronger in that time frame, second of all why when the alien caught her falling down the elevator shaft didn't it eat her!!!! It puts her gently on the ladder you can see her hands reaching for it are you effing kidding me😂😂😂😂😂😂 and then the last scene in the movie is a recreation of Resurrection just with an engineer, and is basically a Men in Black 2 reference to every other film that was before it,
garbage movie, with nostalgic references not even good ones not even going to go into Ash being reused and how horrible that looked, forced in with Gen z forgetable characters
@@tankprohp oh god! When Andy catches the hydraulic door, I forgot about that. Why are the androids getting stronger every film. Remember when Ash was overpowered by two people? I understand your point mate.
The Alien caught Rain in the shaft because of the facehugger nearby but I think the slow motion didn't help inspire any fear for the audience at all. Andy also became Captain America at the same scene.
Hopefully we don't get a sequel, it looked great sound was spot on, the acting was meh and the story was lazy AF.
For the love of god someone write the story of LV426 before the Marines arrive and pre Ripley's hearing.
Action movies are just blockbuster excuses for a fast buck, write a proper bloody story with proper character archs and no cliche cinema tropes.
Scot has screwed this franchise into the ground even after Resurrection pissed on the grave.
As bad as Alien 3 is viewed atleast it ties things up before they butchered it for toy sales and fast bucks.
I could care less about any of the new characters or planets.
They have to finish up the story of weyland and David to close out Ridley's mess for the sake of story continuity.
Romulus was a lazy reboot and pretty much wrapped it's story up in a nice bow unless anyone cared about any of the forgettable characters, hell I have seen Romulus twice and I can't remember a single character's name.
Usually I would say the blowback from fans is enough to dictate the next film but Romulus has outstanding reviews 🤔. I had fun enough at the cinema but there were enough issues to make me roll my eyes. I just love the universe too much to give up on it. Hopefully the TV series will be good enough and future films.
They’re already working on a sequel. Why was it lazy aside from call backs? The outpost about to be crashed into the rings was new, on top of them working on Prometheus goo and cloning being done on face-huggers, new lore. The film remains 9/10 and looking forward to the sequel. Rain and Andy were great characters.
@@elroymartinezjr Already working on a sequel. . . .there we go the hype train, quick while Alien earth is due in next winter and a new game has recently released.
The reason it was lazy was because everything they did has already been done before in the same franchise.
Trapped in a room with facehuggers.
A person does stupid things because they hate Androids.
Ship marked as their escape option gets destroyed / damaged because of alien.
Android goes haywire and is secretly on a mission to keep a specimen at any cost.
Ship they are on is on some kind of countdown until it's doomed.
Do we need to point out anymore ?
@@hutzdani87 it’s all done differently. Rook isn’t the same as Ash in how it was handled. The count of the ship to impact versus blowing up was handled different. And so on and so forth. Nothing lazy about thinking of how to go about things differently. I’ll be expecting the next film gladly.✌️
They need to stop making them
If they make another 5 and one is amazing, I'll be glad they kept making films. I love this universe too much for it to just stop.
Oh please gods, nooooooooooooooo! How to continue killing a franchise with bad ideas. Alien/Aliens and I’m good. Though I can take A3 (Directors) and Resurrection as a side quest. AvPs, Prom/Cov crap and this new stuff can disappear into a quantum singularity!
Alien 3 was hauntingly vivid for me when I was young. It had a soundtrack that evoked feelings of sadness for Ripley as she had been through so much but was alone with her memories as all the others had perished who once shared in her survival. It could have been a much better film but it affected me in a way that I'll never forget and that is a good sign in a film.
Romulus was meh
Visually nice but story sucked and the ending was just crap
That's fair enough dude 👍
Sequel? No thanks
I would like technical and craft acumen of Romulus is applied to a future set of installments focused on ALIEN ISOLATION and ALIENS DEFIANCE. I don't care about engineers or goo but I care a lot about Rain, N-D, Amanda Ripley, Pfc. Zula Hendricks, and the rogue Davis combat android.
Is Aliens Defiance a good read? Is there an audio version of it like out of the shadows?
@@ENTERTAINtheDUDE Unfortunately, no. It is not a good read--it's a PHENOMENAL READ and does quite a bit to fill out and expand the verse successfully linking several of the OBannon original concepts with the ALIEN ISOLATION and first two films. And of course, I love the Zula character, the Davis character and the discussion of AI and love.
@@Stanlos thanks, I'll order the book 👍👍👍
@ENTERTAINtheDUDE There's a library edition with large presentation and great extras
Don't get your hopes up for alien Romulus sequel.
They (Disney Fox - franchise killers which destroyed star wars/MCU/Indiana Jones & indoctrinating pedo/LGBTQ propaganda to children) will ruin and messed it up in alien Romulus 2 - critical & financial failure this killing the Franchise the third time.
Look what happened to the amazing Spider-Man 2, matrix resurrection, Halloween sequel to Halloween 2028, Jurassic world 2, terminator genisys & dark fate,
@@logannelson1807 you're not wrong mate, sadly. I'll never walk away from this franchise, even if Disney does indeed take it well and truly down that path, but I'll be angry for sure. Not to get political or anything but we're seeing the first light of some positive changes in the western world, so who knows, maybe these woke companies will feel some opposing pressure on a different level soon. Saying that, you'd think with the amount of money they've lost so far, that would be reason enough to change their ideological stance a wee bit???? Fingers crossed dude 😎
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As much as I enjoyed seeing Andy and Rain together, bringing them back would not have the same impact. I'd rather see new characters or an adaptation of Isolation, which would somehow bring Ripley back to the saga. I have zero interest in another AvP.
@@marcelo78 unless they do a straight up adaptation of isolation starring Amanda Ripley, I think Romulus was the closest to isolation we might get. Whatever they do next, it certainly needs to include a much larger cast I would say.
Romulus sucked but looked great. A sequel will be GMO memberberries
@@John-tc9gp it definitely looked great but annoying many modern films don't or perhaps aren't allowed the freedom of expression the classics were once given. I'm a firm believer that there is too much process manufacturing in getting films made these days if that makes sense?
It’s better than Alien Resurrection, so I’d say it wasn’t all bad.
@MasterMayhem78 🤣
I am the only fan of ALIEN RESURRECTION
None of the new alien movies are nor can ever be better than alien resurrection
Sounds boring. No thanks.
PMSFLOL...frkn *Alien* fanboys, eh? (no dramas, lol I'm one myself!) 😮
So there's thes 2 moovees - similar yet diff - both pristine in ther own way...but then came a thurd(sic), an after that we all stop counting cos ul never beat perfection, right?
Sounds like *Star Wars* fans of a certain demo (Urs Truly 54yrs xp = insight 🦉), can't abide nowt post-OT cos... reasons.
Yeh so if *Romulus* is nothin but Kool-Aid, then I'm happy to drink up, cos imvho (an I've re-watched it 6x) it's got everything else beat since '86.
Oh, but I hear u cry "Member Berries!!! Lousy deepfakes!!! Plot contrivances!!! Black Goo!!! Yada.*
WTF??? Is that best y'all got?" "But...but look! Rook's lips were a fraction outta sync!!"
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Do me a solid, okay? Quit *taking fukn notes fer yer toob cast an jus frkn WATCH THE MOOVEE LIKE A REAL PERSON*
Nuff sed.
@@OrangePopAndBirthdayCake I will never just CONSOOOOM! 😉😎
Take your meds, son.
another cringe teen crap in space? no thx..Alien is gone like Star Wars...everything good from the past is gone...
@@donvancu I can't argue with you there but every now and then I am surprised by something special. I also gave up on anything Star Wars but Andor was fantastic.
Yep. It's like a systematic extermination of all that was good.