Lots of holes in there recollection of aliens so kinda confusing them. It’s set 37 years before aliens. The Romulus station had been drifting for 187 days after collecting the xenomorph, it took weyland 20 years to find the nostromo. The signal in the derelict was turned off in the flash back in alien isolation.
I feel like this movie needed to be successful for the health of the franchise. Which is why some things where played safe. I really enjoyed it overall, Like a solid 8/10.
I am not sure if this is a massive spoiler or not, but when the Alien is standing over Andy taunting the main characters to come get him is my favorite scene in the movie. It shows just how smart the Alien really is.
This movies greatest strength is revitalizing the franchise interest with young people. And that is worth gold when it comes to these 40 something year old franchises.
And that is the part people fail to realize. Most people around my age (late teens - early 20s) never saw the first 2 films, or vaguely remember them. This movie gave us that same feels people had in the 70s and 80s. And that is what they were mainly going for. Yes it may have some callback, but they complained with Prometheus and covenant, so they had to start with something familiar
@@Merry_Adventure Yes you are right, but it's an incredibly cynical approach, almost led by marketing. But that's the world that many young people have grown up in.
You guys keep saying the aliens wouldn’t know what a gun is. But in Aliens the queen knew what a flamethrower would do… thats why we had the queen , ripely stand off screen
Yeah that was dumb too, as was the raptors in JP3 at the end. It's always dumb when vicious creatures are anthropomorphized in their intelligence like that.
Tyler and Rain are not related, Tyler and Kay are the ones who are related. Tyler couldn't shoot the Aliens only hope to scare them, if he shot the acid blood would have melted through the final floor of the station. hence the reason Rain has the epiphany with the zero g when Andy makes the joke, so that she can kill the Xenomorphs without melting the floor at the bottom of the station. if Andy Shot he would have killed them all
I think the movie feeling familiar and samey is the best they could do. Cuz it’s what people wanted, people didn’t like covenant and Prometheus it felt too different from the franchise and what people wanted. Covenant tried to be that again while also being different but it didn’t really hit the mark very well. But this movie hits cuz it feels familiar it feels like the franchise we know. Like alien isolation it feels comfortable enough and safe enough. It’s good cuz it’s safe. If we got something totally crazy it wouldn’t be that well received
This is a bad excuse for creators with no imagination/creativity.... Prometheus has some cool ideas and scenes but the overall execution was not that great
I disagree somewhat with your comment. Prometheus and ALIEN Covenant did poorly because they were badly written and poorly conceived movies, not because they were "different". Prometheus couldn't decide if it was it's own thing or a prequel and was filled with bland characters and tries to be deep while coming off as shallow as a puddle. Alien Covenant happens only because all but four of the Covenant crew were brain-dead morons. I think with the right writer and director, you could do something different with this franchise and have it be well-received.
This movie was the first time in almost a decade I had been genuinely *scared* of a horror movie, and I LOVED IT! The scenes of trying to sneak past the facehuggers, shooting the Xenos in zero gravity, dodging past all of the acid blood in zero gravity, and then final scene of trapping and killing the *”Offspring”* as it was credited, all felt like something out of a top tier horror action game. I would love for the team at Capcom who made Resident Evil 4 remake to make an Alien horror/action game. *ALIEN IS BACK BABY!* However, I think these guys needed to do a rewatch of alien and aliens before they saw this movie because clearly they are forgetting big plot points. Such as the company didn’t know that there was a derelict ship with Xenomorphs on LV-426, the ship was alerted because it discovered an acoustical beacon, it only activated the Priority One directive once Ash told MU/TH/ER they found a Xeno. And they were too far away for the computer to send a signal to the company that they found the ship, someone destroyed that planet and the ship were lost. It wasn’t until Ripley came back and told the company about what happened on LV-426 that Burke then told Newts family to go to the coordinates where the Nostromo crew landed.
If Romulus scared you.. Everything must scare you in life. Romulus was so underwhelming and weak in Scare Factor. No tension in the film whatsoever. Watch Alien again. Came out in 1978 still effective to this day. This film was not Scary at all.
@@aaron11b88he's got to be trolling lol. I consider myself a big Alien fan & horror movies in general especially the classics. Friday the 13, Texas chainsaw massacre. Romulus is the best modern horror movie in years
I think many are missing that the Facehuggers were 3d printed and cloned in the lab. Also, the Black Goo has been tinkered with by the station so that's why the Alien growth stage is accelerated.
Addressing the tech arguement. In ALIEN 1979 and Romulus, we are dealing with blue collar workers. The tech on their ships would be more outdated as opposed to the advanced technology we see in Prometheus. This is Weyland's personally funded mission across the universe to discover the source of mankind. Of course they have the best of the best in technology at their disposal
What bothers me is the tech in Covenant. They have modern day rifles, walking around in ushankas on an alien planet, and using a modern day SATCOM antenna. I'm fine with using modern day things as a base, that's how the Aliens rifles were made, but when you just chuck stuff in there with no love or detail it really gives you a sense of the amount of care and detail the rest of the movie is likely to recieve
This reminds me of The Force Awakens, where it mostly played things safe and tried to rehash things in order to get goodwill from fans disappointed with the previous films. I'm just happy to have 3 good Alien movies.
The only real problem I had with the movie was using the late great Ian Holm as the face and voice of the android Rook. I would’ve much rather used an actual animatronic that looked like him but was too damaged from the acid blood to be instantly recognizable. I did love the clever naming of Rook though, just like Bishop. Because it shows that Weyland-Yutani think or both their androids and their human employees as nothing more than pieces on a game board, as disposable and easily replaceable things with no real value to them.
They should've made a rubber Michael Myers-style Ian Holm mask and put it over an animatronic head. It would've been cheaper, looked creepier, and be way less distracting
To be fair they reached out to the family to get permission to use his likeness Doesn’t excuse them doing this to begin with but the fact they actually asked and got the blessing is nice to know
People saying this movie is garbage is just hyperbolic nonsense. It’s like people can’t say something is a solid movie. It’s either best movie ever or total garbage
No, it's actually just a shittily written movie. There are so many plotholes and inconveniences because the characters act as dumb as possible... And then just overall bad writing like Weylan-Yutani trying to make superhumans to work at the mines when they already have disposable androids... The visuals and sound are very good to be fair, and there are some tense scenes. But most of them happen just because the characters are absolute fucking idiots. It is not a great movie.
I believe it's mentioned in either books or Alien Isolation that Kane was a last minute replacement that the company chose to join the Nostromo - I think the idea that they were ALWAYS going to end up at the derelict from the set off
The human/engineer/xenomorph *”Offspring”* looked like every nightmare I’ve ever had rolled into one, cloned itself, fucked the clone, and then birthed THAT! Also I’m genuinely surprised that these guys didn’t love or at least really like this movie, especially since we’ve had best mediocre and at worst absolute garbage films since Aliens
I've been calling the Offspring the Slenderman. It felt very forced and unnecessary to me. It's actually surprising to me hearing so many people say they did like it. Different strokes I guess but I definitely understand the negative takes over the positive ones.
@@MegiddoTheImmaculateThey could have cut that entire segment and ended with the ship returning to the planet where the audience knows things will then go wrong but the characters don't. Felt gratuitous and unnecessary, Ridley Scott's fingerprints were all over it and I hate it.
@@MegiddoTheImmaculate the offspring felt natural to me because it is the end result of what happens when humanity tries to become gods. And the company is full of psychopaths that want to be gods.
My only complaint is towards the end when they are in the hive and Rain goes back for Andy. When she goes up the elevator they show tons of huggers and xenomorphs and when she goes back down they all have called a town meeting somewhere and like 95% of them are gone. The acid blood scene afterwords was totally sick though.
I’m surprised that they missed this but the biggest thing about the alien hybrid that got me was that it immediately attacked Andy. The other Xenomorphs ignored Andy since they don’t consider androids prey because of the body heat and stuff but the human hybrid had no problem identifying him and attacking him. This showed the human intelligence the hybrid had as well as the fact that it had human eyes which xenomorphs don’t have.
I agree with everything you said, but just wanted to point out that it having eyes has no correlation to it attacking Andy. Xenomorphs can still "see" despite not having obvious eyes; we see several PoV shots throughout the series, even in more recent films like Alien: Covenant.
The little jump scare near the end was pretty spot on! The xenomorph felt extra smarter this time around! all in all, I was more impressed than I initially thought!
I think the explanation I heard for why the tech looks so different in Prometheus is that since the characters are important scientists going on a mission important to Weyland, they ended up getting the most high tech ship and equipment for the mission. I still am not a huge fan of it myself, as it gives off huge Star Wars prequel vibes; were supposed to be back before the events of the original film but everything looks like modern futuristic when it should look like 70’s futuristic
The New Alien Human hybrid is sick af honestly was a HORRIFIYING scene, how the android slowly looks back and the music just STOPS and its completely quiet with the alien just staring at them is sooooooooo good
Actually that space station was only active for roughly 6 months until shit hit the fan so that space station didn't last long at ALL.... And the protagonists for some reason have the technology to ping that there is an abandoned ship/station but the corporation on the mining planet doesn't? Huh?
43:49 Wait!! I don’t think rain and Tyler were related!! I think Tyler and Kay were the relatives ones!! So that callback was a love bonding scene not an incest scene!! 😂
They arent. They used to be a couple. That guy spreads a lot of misinformation throughout this review. Especially the timeline shit. And his beef with why didnt they go to the original ship and get the eggs. Because if weyland yutani went, they would have grabbed all the eggs making aliens impossible to happen. Its not that hard to understand. There is no world where weyland is taking just a frw of those eggs. They'd take all to have as much test subject stuff as possible.
They weren't, he mixed the characters up. Ripley didn't coin the term xenomorph either. Gorman used it. Ripley only calls the Alien a Xenomorph in Alien 3 when they're sending a message to Wayland-Yutani and Aaron asks, "What do we call it?". Also, Alien 3 didn't turn Bishop into Wayland himself, that was Alien vs Predator. Alien 3 credits Lance Henriksen's character as Bishop II and he introduces himself as the one that designed the Bishop model, Wayland himself is never introduced in the original quadrilogy.
If Romulus was more like a modern day "Event Horizon" on the horror aspect, I would have liked it a lot better. Definitely needed to be more thrilling.
So a lot of the points you guys are making makes sense... for long time fans IMO. I'm also a long time fan but a lot of the ideas you're pitching for stuff like the hybrid being around most the movie I don't think would play for people who are newer to the IP who maybe know what a Xenomorph looks like and they wanted to see them cause some havoc. I think this movie since it's successful can be used as a launching platform to make more Alien movies and possibly go into some more complex ideas, but since they've felt most of their movies have been misses over the years similar to Star Wars Episode 7 they played it safe. It ultimately didn't work out for SW cause 8 and 9 were bad which retroactively made 7 worse cause all its merits were built on what was going to come after... this is a good first entry with things to get old fans in and start building a new fanbase as well to hopefully make more movies. Also I found out recently the Promethian hybrid was actually semi/mostly? practical. They got an NBA hopeful who was 7+ft tall and threw a bunch of makeup on him and probably used some CG to enhance it.
I felt like this movie was very much a Tribute film...nothing wrong with that, especially with so many misses in the franchise. What the franchise needed was a "hey, this is a good enough movie" and this movie pulls that off very well, along with the gorgeous camerawork, and good effects.
I loved the discussion guys, but I'm gonna be honest I find it funny how Simmons sat through this 2 hour film and not once through out didn't realize that Rain and Tyler from the get go were not remotely close to being related lol. The scene where your talking about them getting the pulse rifles I feel like is a huge nit pick cause literally how else are they supposed to explain to a character like Rain who has never used a gun before learn to use said gun? Again love you guys keep Shining on!
Did anyone else think that Isabela Merced’s character was gonna turn into the mother alien (or at least a pro type) since she took the serum and was still transforming after the birth?
The way I see this is, Wieland Yutani don't want to risk their own people by going blind into LV-426, Romulus-Remus was the first serious investigation on it but they lost all the data from there, so they finally decide that the best course is to colonize LV-426, they mention how expensive and problematic is to send humans to mining colonies, so in a way it makes sense that they try first to investigate the xeno that was already in space, at hand, instead to put a complete colonize operation that will taje time to do it or maybe both are happening at the same time, the investigation in Romulus and the first step of terraforming the planet (moon?)
The reason Prometheus looks so future tech compared to Alien is because Weyland spent $10 billion dollars to go to space and see the Engineers. It was an Expedition, they were on a mission. In Alien, Ripley and the Nostromo crew were just space truckers, theyvwere just hauling cargo and were the closest ones to LV426, so the conpany hailed them to go. They were just blue collar workers compared to the scientists and Weyland company men on Prometheus.
Do you know there is a Alternative Cut for this movie named "Alien Romulus [Edição-CSJ]", that edition has less references to the other movies, less deepFake and less endings.
The actress that plays Rain is also one of the main characters in Pacific Rim Uprising. She's the one that plays the pilot of the smaller, rolly polly Jaeger.
Ash was the same in alien, he was a droid programmed as a science officer who was put there by the company not just some random trucker droid, also xenomorphs were shown to react to threats in aliens they back off when she threatens the eggs.
This is what we needed in the Alien franchise. Get rid of the jump scares and spooky-action alien scenes and bring it back to basics: make the ship the true horror and make the alien invisible. Not having the alien in every scene and focusing the suspense on the space station was perfect. All the references from past movies were fun and even though some of the scenes were predictable the execution was fun to watch. The only scene that I rolled my eyes at and leaned over to tell my friend "well, that was convenient" was a scene where shit hits the fan and a shuttle ship magically lands in the docking bay. lol The set builds were beautiful, the practical effects were a blessing, and the lighting and sound were on point.
You must have watched a different film as the Xeno consistently showed up in this film. There were literally no scenes you just described Once the Xeno births you see him and more the whole film. "Not having the alien in every scene and focusing the suspense on the space station was perfect" .. What suspense? Where was it?
Where was the Horror? This film? Your joking right? ... Alien thats Horror this wasn't even close. It could have been so good, Should have been like Alien Isolation. Thats the closest thing to Alien for Space Horror we've ever gotten. This film wasn't even comparable.
As someone who only seen alien and aliens i really enjoyed it. It i think it made me appreciate orphan of kos way more compared to other people who've seen the other movies
Well if they did the queen, it wouldn't have been a unique surprise, would it? It kind of would've made the "greatest hits" feeling EVEN more prevalent, like we can't even come up with a cool new crazy alien variant and we're just gonna do Aliens
In comparison Prometheus has budget of 130$ million and alien covenant about 97-111$ million so it amazes me what they were able to do in this movie with 80$ million
It's not just a safe film. It's a celebration of the legacy, with most callbacks landing. With the introduction of a particular element, there is some potential for new lore development should any writer want to go there. It's a lot like Tekken 8 in this way lol.
As a mechanic for 25 years and huge alien fan i can say if you want reliable shit it has to be mechanical simple tech to hold up on a working environment. Touchscreens and t9ns of modules fail period.
To take a franchise everyone is passionate about and make a fun movie that is enjoyable and does the original justice, is a feat in itself. I did not like all the decisions made but it was made by fans and people who love the franchise. The parts that were call backs were more homage than fan service expect for that one line. A return to form and thank you Fede for making the Xenomorphs scary and cool again.
I’ve really come to respect Fede Alverez for his works in general, but this film was golden. I have similar thoughts and feelings to what’s been said, and overall I’d rate Alien: Romulus as third best in franchise with a solid 8/10. Alverez wanted to honor the franchise and I think he did a great job, could’ve done with less of the “fan-service” lines. I didn’t like the hybrid stuff, but seeing why Alverez did it, I respect it and him. For me this was the Alien film we needed for a while. Leaving the mystery in the dark. Where it belongs. Alverez did not touch the derelict, did not mention David and didn’t go philosophical. The derelict has no connection to David, so he didn’t plant those eggs, and he did *not* create the xenomorphs. He simply *recreated* them. The film hit all the notes honoring the franchise acknowledging previous entries, the good and bad. This *felt* like an Alien film. I do like the attention to detail that isn’t outright stated. For example: the station is listed as abandoned. Why is that? Could W.Y. possibly want to hide a research station? Yes. The lack of military response? Well, the settled systems are young, I doubt the colonial marines could rapidly respond to such a situation with a station in decaying orbit. That subtleness to the story while not just spelling things out. Very nice. Is it the perfect film? No, by no means. But I consider it far superior to the likes of Prometheus or Resurrection. A very nice addition to the franchise. Little heavy on the fan service side, but not bad. As I said, I consider this third behind the first two at a solid 8/10. A must watch for any Alien fan. Just an opinionated fan.
Not sure if it was discussed. Andy was like, "Hey, here are some guns" and only gave one to the hero and warned the clip only has so many bullets. Why not arm multiple people or pull the clips from other guns for added ammo?
The arms locker where he pulls those from only has 2 pulse rifles which each of the remanining human characters take, it's odd there are no extra magazines stowed there too but whatever.
Really enjoyed the movie. Share some of the guys criticisms. Only writing to clarify that the guy that Simms kept saying was Rain's brother is actually Rain's ex. He's the brother of the pregnant woman.
I rewached the first two Alien movies before I went to see Romulus and I feel like that was a mistake. Maybe if i had also watched the bad Alien movies that would've gave me more of an appreciation for Romulus, but it's a 6/10 for me.
Does avp have nothing to do with alien? Weyland dies on the pyramid steps in like 2004 and then dies again in prometheus in almost the years 2100, 2090 something. Whats up with that?
So the pulse rifle scene is still a romantic bonding moment in this movie. Rain and Tyler are not related. They had a previous romantic relationship hinted at earlier in the film. Kay, the pregnant girl, is Tyler’s sister. However Kay does have an incestious relationship with their cousin Bjorn. When Rain references her brother she’s talking about Andy
16:19 Problem is people who are in their early twenties like myself also watched Alien and Aliens, so the whole Aliens greatest hits situation is not lost on us, and it is not a positive. They should've gone for something new, and i feel like that might've been the original vision because the movie feels quite refreshing at some points
Also I haven't seen Alien/s in years and I only got one callback (that line...which yeah was forced). So definitely feels like it's aimed at people like me.
It was good it had its typical alien movie act for act and going in, not knowing where in the alien timeline it is kept it interesting. I wish they would adapt some of the audible books into theatre form I would love to see a Noot movie where the aliens took over the planet just because damn it involved the influence of the yutani power over the colonies and military.
I actually personally preferred this over Aliens, I LOVE the return back to Horror. I absolutely LOVE Aliens but I like it as a horror/action. Alien should have dread and despair all over it. Personally it would go Alien, Romulus, Aliens. The AI visual was a really bad call but ignoring that it's really good. Also I think the Aliens being scared of the guns might have been a slight reference when Ripley threatens to kill the eggs in front of the queen. They recognise danger regardless of what form it might be in so are hesitant to blindly rush in and attack. Like waiting for them to open the door and realising it's not going to happen they analyse the situation before making their decision to finally attack.
it's the Jurassic World of the Alien franchise. At least Alien 3 and Resurrection did something interesting stylistically, Romulus was just throwback after throwback to the point it was laughable.
There's a fine line between callbacks and references and original material and the movie does great when it wasn't lifting plot and scenes from the previous movies. The alien lifecycle is way too fast and setting a time limit only hurt the pacing. I will say it's nice to have the Alien franchise back in the spotlight because this universe is too small not to continue. On a side note, it's nice to see the acid blood slow down when it hits organic material. Since Aliens there has been a theory that it eats through inorganics quickly, but slows when it hits blood and such. Which is why Hudson doesn't lose an arm like the guy does in AVP and Hicks gets his armor destroyed but the acid doesn't kill him despite hitting his face arms and torso. Romulus does good. Showing the acid needing more splashes to do serious damage. AVP just went full r-tard on it.
Respect to all opinions.. but I had a similar convo with friends (some of which are hardcore lore junkies since the 80s).. when it comes to lore, deep cuts, tech, plot... A LOT of it makes more sense than I realized upon first viewing. Love or hate the movie, it took the source material, supplemental stuff, and Ridley's later excursions as gospel.. I really respect that.. in the age of lazy crap made by ppl that genuinely don't like what their working on.
Giving this a b is CRAZY …. Solid A… there was a lot of nit picking with this review … for example the xenomorphs weren’t just born they had been in the ship the whole time so they knew what a gun was … also point a gun at a predator irl IS a sign of aggression and animals recognize that so an alien hive mind species absolutely would see that as a threat… as for the barley impaled pregnant lady she literally crawled to the ship it’s not like she just ran 😂 Simmons is CRAZY NEGATIVE btw alien hybrid was AMAZING something out of the mind of aphex twin
The runtime for this movie should have been 2H 15 Mins. Alien Romulus is an Entertaining movie but felt very rush. No breathing space, so to speak.. It would be cool to see the characters plan their strategies to escape and have abit of a downtime.
Tbh I wish they retconned Prometheus. It had interesting ideas, they just didn’t land with me. That final abomination got a great reaction from me and everyone else in the theater I attended, but the Xenomorphs and Facehuggers felt like an afterthought. Also like the guys I prefer the Aliens being bugs and not this bio weapon that were created by the space jockeys. All n all I did like the movie it broke the streak of either horrible or just meh movies we’ve been getting. My biggest takeaway is that we need an Alien Isolation in movie form, the first 40ish minutes were god like.
I didn't watch through the whole review yet so I dont know if it was talked about or not here (will watch it in full later). But something that felt really bad was how poorly Rook was made using CGI.
Well in short, if the movie plays it too safe and just copy paste the original movies it will succeed financially but fans will complain, if the movie explores the universe and strays too far from the original movies it will fail and fans will complain but if we have a middle ground movie trying something classic while connecting the dots in the time line but not expanding on the universe it will succeed but fans will still complain, I love the alien fanbase....
They deepfaked Ian Holm’s face onto an animatronic, and had a voice actor do an impression of him without using AI, while I agree I doesn’t look good, ash and rook are both Wey-Yu scuence officers, it would be unnecessary to make rook a secret bad android cause we’d immediately be suspected of him being a villain, love the review and I get yall opinions while some things were mixed up on the characters and the story, but I LOVED this movie as a longtime alien fan
*spoilers* Fun fact the offspring (human xenomorph) at the end of the movie is played by Romanian basketball player Robert Bobroczkyi. yes. hes that tall irl
I consider myself a big alien fan & horror movies in general. Movies like Friday the 13, texas chainsaw massacre... I thought Romulus was great! I loved it! Atmosphere at its finest
I have never seen the first 3 movies. Resurrection was the new one when I was little, and I thought it was kinda cool, but it didn't hold up years later when I tried to watch it again. The robot David was insufferable to me, my least favorite thing about the last two, which I did not like. Avp movies were alright, probably the only decent thing I've ever seen from the series, if those count. Either I'm watching the wrong ones, or I just don't get it. I may rent this later.. Anyway thanks for the review, great to see you guys doing these again!
Lots of holes in there recollection of aliens so kinda confusing them.
It’s set 37 years before aliens. The Romulus station had been drifting for 187 days after collecting the xenomorph, it took weyland 20 years to find the nostromo. The signal in the derelict was turned off in the flash back in alien isolation.
I feel like this movie needed to be successful for the health of the franchise. Which is why some things where played safe. I really enjoyed it overall, Like a solid 8/10.
I am not sure if this is a massive spoiler or not, but when the Alien is standing over Andy taunting the main characters to come get him is my favorite scene in the movie. It shows just how smart the Alien really is.
This movies greatest strength is revitalizing the franchise interest with young people. And that is worth gold when it comes to these 40 something year old franchises.
Another FU from Disney to the people who love the franchise and have followed it for decades.
And that is the part people fail to realize. Most people around my age (late teens - early 20s) never saw the first 2 films, or vaguely remember them. This movie gave us that same feels people had in the 70s and 80s. And that is what they were mainly going for. Yes it may have some callback, but they complained with Prometheus and covenant, so they had to start with something familiar
@@Merry_Adventure Yes you are right, but it's an incredibly cynical approach, almost led by marketing. But that's the world that many young people have grown up in.
@@Merry_Adventure BTW this is probably the most sensible reply and opinion i've come across..Nice one.
@@adriandenton6637 thx
Actually it was 56 million because of it's tax incentives on 30%
it was filmed in Hungary, Budapest so the budget is actually a lot less!!!
I dont remember Ripley "coming up with the term Xenomorph". Wasn't it the lieutenant who called it that in Aliens?
Exactly
You guys keep saying the aliens wouldn’t know what a gun is. But in Aliens the queen knew what a flamethrower would do… thats why we had the queen , ripely stand off screen
Yeah that was dumb too, as was the raptors in JP3 at the end. It's always dumb when vicious creatures are anthropomorphized in their intelligence like that.
Tyler and Rain are not related, Tyler and Kay are the ones who are related. Tyler couldn't shoot the Aliens only hope to scare them, if he shot the acid blood would have melted through the final floor of the station. hence the reason Rain has the epiphany with the zero g when Andy makes the joke, so that she can kill the Xenomorphs without melting the floor at the bottom of the station. if Andy Shot he would have killed them all
When you see the movie once and decide to make a review
Orphan of Kos
Looked just like him 😂
It's very much an Alien movie, and a Fede Alvarez movie at the same time. I love it. Easily the best modern Alien movie.
*Aliens .. It was nothing like Alien.
@@SAVANTI711 No it was more like Alien than Aliens
I think the movie feeling familiar and samey is the best they could do. Cuz it’s what people wanted, people didn’t like covenant and Prometheus it felt too different from the franchise and what people wanted. Covenant tried to be that again while also being different but it didn’t really hit the mark very well. But this movie hits cuz it feels familiar it feels like the franchise we know. Like alien isolation it feels comfortable enough and safe enough. It’s good cuz it’s safe. If we got something totally crazy it wouldn’t be that well received
This is a bad excuse for creators with no imagination/creativity.... Prometheus has some cool ideas and scenes but the overall execution was not that great
i hated the characters in promethius and covenant
they were so dumb
I disagree somewhat with your comment. Prometheus and ALIEN Covenant did poorly because they were badly written and poorly conceived movies, not because they were "different". Prometheus couldn't decide if it was it's own thing or a prequel and was filled with bland characters and tries to be deep while coming off as shallow as a puddle. Alien Covenant happens only because all but four of the Covenant crew were brain-dead morons.
I think with the right writer and director, you could do something different with this franchise and have it be well-received.
@@SPACECOWBOY705are we forgetting that it tied the prequels in somewhat? like the black goo part at least added the the story.
@mikeyt708 metachlorians also added to the story lore of star wars. New ideas are not necessarily good ideas
Was curious if Max saw this film. Knew he named his daughter Ripley so I assumed he was a fan of the Alien IP.
This movie was the first time in almost a decade I had been genuinely *scared* of a horror movie, and I LOVED IT! The scenes of trying to sneak past the facehuggers, shooting the Xenos in zero gravity, dodging past all of the acid blood in zero gravity, and then final scene of trapping and killing the *”Offspring”* as it was credited, all felt like something out of a top tier horror action game.
I would love for the team at Capcom who made Resident Evil 4 remake to make an Alien horror/action game. *ALIEN IS BACK BABY!*
However, I think these guys needed to do a rewatch of alien and aliens before they saw this movie because clearly they are forgetting big plot points. Such as the company didn’t know that there was a derelict ship with Xenomorphs on LV-426, the ship was alerted because it discovered an acoustical beacon, it only activated the Priority One directive once Ash told MU/TH/ER they found a Xeno. And they were too far away for the computer to send a signal to the company that they found the ship, someone destroyed that planet and the ship were lost. It wasn’t until Ripley came back and told the company about what happened on LV-426 that Burke then told Newts family to go to the coordinates where the Nostromo crew landed.
If Romulus scared you.. Everything must scare you in life. Romulus was so underwhelming and weak in Scare Factor. No tension in the film whatsoever. Watch Alien again. Came out in 1978 still effective to this day. This film was not Scary at all.
@@SAVANTI711lmao alien was far less scarier than Romulus. The facehugger hallway scene had more tension than the whole movie
@@aaron11b88he's got to be trolling lol. I consider myself a big Alien fan & horror movies in general especially the classics. Friday the 13, Texas chainsaw massacre. Romulus is the best modern horror movie in years
@@SAVANTI711We get it, you only like old things
@@aaron11b88 Straight Cap. Even Max would call Bullshit on that.
Andy at one point says he wants to get an animal.
That’s a reference to do androids dream of electric sheep “bladerunner”
I think many are missing that the Facehuggers were 3d printed and cloned in the lab. Also, the Black Goo has been tinkered with by the station so that's why the Alien growth stage is accelerated.
Addressing the tech arguement. In ALIEN 1979 and Romulus, we are dealing with blue collar workers. The tech on their ships would be more outdated as opposed to the advanced technology we see in Prometheus. This is Weyland's personally funded mission across the universe to discover the source of mankind. Of course they have the best of the best in technology at their disposal
What bothers me is the tech in Covenant. They have modern day rifles, walking around in ushankas on an alien planet, and using a modern day SATCOM antenna. I'm fine with using modern day things as a base, that's how the Aliens rifles were made, but when you just chuck stuff in there with no love or detail it really gives you a sense of the amount of care and detail the rest of the movie is likely to recieve
This reminds me of The Force Awakens, where it mostly played things safe and tried to rehash things in order to get goodwill from fans disappointed with the previous films. I'm just happy to have 3 good Alien movies.
Hopefully they don’t go the same route Disney went with the following sequel trilogy movies lol
The only real problem I had with the movie was using the late great Ian Holm as the face and voice of the android Rook. I would’ve much rather used an actual animatronic that looked like him but was too damaged from the acid blood to be instantly recognizable.
I did love the clever naming of Rook though, just like Bishop. Because it shows that Weyland-Yutani think or both their androids and their human employees as nothing more than pieces on a game board, as disposable and easily replaceable things with no real value to them.
They should've made a rubber Michael Myers-style Ian Holm mask and put it over an animatronic head. It would've been cheaper, looked creepier, and be way less distracting
They used an actual actor who sorta looks like Ian but then used CG to make him look just like him lol. It was distracting nonetheless
To be fair they reached out to the family to get permission to use his likeness
Doesn’t excuse them doing this to begin with but the fact they actually asked and got the blessing is nice to know
@@kuribos Thats good! Sadly people act like they know the man more than his wife and family.
Rook bishop I didn't put that together nice
Correction at 31:00 Ripley doesn't coin the term xenomorph, it's actually Lieutenant Gorman in Aliens(2)
People saying this movie is garbage is just hyperbolic nonsense. It’s like people can’t say something is a solid movie. It’s either best movie ever or total garbage
No, it's actually just a shittily written movie. There are so many plotholes and inconveniences because the characters act as dumb as possible... And then just overall bad writing like Weylan-Yutani trying to make superhumans to work at the mines when they already have disposable androids...
The visuals and sound are very good to be fair, and there are some tense scenes. But most of them happen just because the characters are absolute fucking idiots. It is not a great movie.
I believe it's mentioned in either books or Alien Isolation that Kane was a last minute replacement that the company chose to join the Nostromo - I think the idea that they were ALWAYS going to end up at the derelict from the set off
The human/engineer/xenomorph *”Offspring”* looked like every nightmare I’ve ever had rolled into one, cloned itself, fucked the clone, and then birthed THAT!
Also I’m genuinely surprised that these guys didn’t love or at least really like this movie, especially since we’ve had best mediocre and at worst absolute garbage films since Aliens
I've been calling the Offspring the Slenderman. It felt very forced and unnecessary to me. It's actually surprising to me hearing so many people say they did like it. Different strokes I guess but I definitely understand the negative takes over the positive ones.
I know that reference!
@@MegiddoTheImmaculateThey could have cut that entire segment and ended with the ship returning to the planet where the audience knows things will then go wrong but the characters don't. Felt gratuitous and unnecessary, Ridley Scott's fingerprints were all over it and I hate it.
@@MegiddoTheImmaculate the offspring felt natural to me because it is the end result of what happens when humanity tries to become gods. And the company is full of psychopaths that want to be gods.
@@storiesfromtheabyss9808 THANK YOU! Finally, someone gets it
My only complaint is towards the end when they are in the hive and Rain goes back for Andy. When she goes up the elevator they show tons of huggers and xenomorphs and when she goes back down they all have called a town meeting somewhere and like 95% of them are gone.
The acid blood scene afterwords was totally sick though.
Does Simmons think rain and Tyler are siblings?
Simmons gets a ton wrong here. Many of his complaints are because he missed plot points in the movie.
I’m surprised that they missed this but the biggest thing about the alien hybrid that got me was that it immediately attacked Andy. The other Xenomorphs ignored Andy since they don’t consider androids prey because of the body heat and stuff but the human hybrid had no problem identifying him and attacking him. This showed the human intelligence the hybrid had as well as the fact that it had human eyes which xenomorphs don’t have.
I agree with everything you said, but just wanted to point out that it having eyes has no correlation to it attacking Andy. Xenomorphs can still "see" despite not having obvious eyes; we see several PoV shots throughout the series, even in more recent films like Alien: Covenant.
The little jump scare near the end was pretty spot on! The xenomorph felt extra smarter this time around! all in all, I was more impressed than I initially thought!
I think the explanation I heard for why the tech looks so different in Prometheus is that since the characters are important scientists going on a mission important to Weyland, they ended up getting the most high tech ship and equipment for the mission. I still am not a huge fan of it myself, as it gives off huge Star Wars prequel vibes; were supposed to be back before the events of the original film but everything looks like modern futuristic when it should look like 70’s futuristic
Kept watching and Max actually brings this up lol
The New Alien Human hybrid is sick af honestly was a HORRIFIYING scene, how the android slowly looks back and the music just STOPS and its completely quiet with the alien just staring at them is sooooooooo good
Actually that space station was only active for roughly 6 months until shit hit the fan so that space station didn't last long at ALL.... And the protagonists for some reason have the technology to ping that there is an abandoned ship/station but the corporation on the mining planet doesn't? Huh?
43:49 Wait!! I don’t think rain and Tyler were related!! I think Tyler and Kay were the relatives ones!! So that callback was a love bonding scene not an incest scene!! 😂
They arent. They used to be a couple. That guy spreads a lot of misinformation throughout this review. Especially the timeline shit. And his beef with why didnt they go to the original ship and get the eggs. Because if weyland yutani went, they would have grabbed all the eggs making aliens impossible to happen. Its not that hard to understand. There is no world where weyland is taking just a frw of those eggs. They'd take all to have as much test subject stuff as possible.
They weren't, he mixed the characters up. Ripley didn't coin the term xenomorph either. Gorman used it. Ripley only calls the Alien a Xenomorph in Alien 3 when they're sending a message to Wayland-Yutani and Aaron asks, "What do we call it?". Also, Alien 3 didn't turn Bishop into Wayland himself, that was Alien vs Predator. Alien 3 credits Lance Henriksen's character as Bishop II and he introduces himself as the one that designed the Bishop model, Wayland himself is never introduced in the original quadrilogy.
Yeah its true its the 3rd Alien movie 👍👍👍
Its a 8/10 for me i love it
I agree
Watched the film at Galaxy Theaters in DBOX format. Featured moving and vibrating chairs which were awesome during intense scenes
If Romulus was more like a modern day "Event Horizon" on the horror aspect, I would have liked it a lot better. Definitely needed to be more thrilling.
But she does not even know what the goop is or does. The brother and rain do. It did lead to the biggest abomination in alien ever.
So a lot of the points you guys are making makes sense... for long time fans IMO. I'm also a long time fan but a lot of the ideas you're pitching for stuff like the hybrid being around most the movie I don't think would play for people who are newer to the IP who maybe know what a Xenomorph looks like and they wanted to see them cause some havoc. I think this movie since it's successful can be used as a launching platform to make more Alien movies and possibly go into some more complex ideas, but since they've felt most of their movies have been misses over the years similar to Star Wars Episode 7 they played it safe. It ultimately didn't work out for SW cause 8 and 9 were bad which retroactively made 7 worse cause all its merits were built on what was going to come after... this is a good first entry with things to get old fans in and start building a new fanbase as well to hopefully make more movies.
Also I found out recently the Promethian hybrid was actually semi/mostly? practical. They got an NBA hopeful who was 7+ft tall and threw a bunch of makeup on him and probably used some CG to enhance it.
I felt like this movie was very much a Tribute film...nothing wrong with that, especially with so many misses in the franchise. What the franchise needed was a "hey, this is a good enough movie" and this movie pulls that off very well, along with the gorgeous camerawork, and good effects.
I left the theater wishing I had someone to talk to about this. Turned on stream and I was watching your review. Such a good listen good watch.
I loved the discussion guys, but I'm gonna be honest I find it funny how Simmons sat through this 2 hour film and not once through out didn't realize that Rain and Tyler from the get go were not remotely close to being related lol. The scene where your talking about them getting the pulse rifles I feel like is a huge nit pick cause literally how else are they supposed to explain to a character like Rain who has never used a gun before learn to use said gun? Again love you guys keep Shining on!
Did anyone else think that Isabela Merced’s character was gonna turn into the mother alien (or at least a pro type) since she took the serum and was still transforming after the birth?
She wasn't transforming in the end. She was leaking black goo instead of milk. Which her baby went to go feed on.
She wasn't transforming. She was leaking black goo instead of milk. That is why her baby went to go feed on, killing her in the process.
The way I see this is, Wieland Yutani don't want to risk their own people by going blind into LV-426, Romulus-Remus was the first serious investigation on it but they lost all the data from there, so they finally decide that the best course is to colonize LV-426, they mention how expensive and problematic is to send humans to mining colonies, so in a way it makes sense that they try first to investigate the xeno that was already in space, at hand, instead to put a complete colonize operation that will taje time to do it or maybe both are happening at the same time, the investigation in Romulus and the first step of terraforming the planet (moon?)
I LOVED it. Wanted to do a review but didn’t even know where to start haha
Keep the CHARACTERS. I liked rain and Andy
The reason Prometheus looks so future tech compared to Alien is because Weyland spent $10 billion dollars to go to space and see the Engineers. It was an Expedition, they were on a mission.
In Alien, Ripley and the Nostromo crew were just space truckers, theyvwere just hauling cargo and were the closest ones to LV426, so the conpany hailed them to go. They were just blue collar workers compared to the scientists and Weyland company men on Prometheus.
30 seconds into the video, just instantly wrong about the timeline😂
A series is coming called, Alien Earth which is set before everything on Earth
Do you know there is a Alternative Cut for this movie named "Alien Romulus [Edição-CSJ]", that edition has less references to the other movies, less deepFake and less endings.
The actress that plays Rain is also one of the main characters in Pacific Rim Uprising. She's the one that plays the pilot of the smaller, rolly polly Jaeger.
the crew that brought the brought the alien to sevastapol turned off the beacon when they found the ship so no one could come claim it instead of them
Ash was the same in alien, he was a droid programmed as a science officer who was put there by the company not just some random trucker droid, also xenomorphs were shown to react to threats in aliens they back off when she threatens the eggs.
This is what we needed in the Alien franchise. Get rid of the jump scares and spooky-action alien scenes and bring it back to basics: make the ship the true horror and make the alien invisible. Not having the alien in every scene and focusing the suspense on the space station was perfect. All the references from past movies were fun and even though some of the scenes were predictable the execution was fun to watch. The only scene that I rolled my eyes at and leaned over to tell my friend "well, that was convenient" was a scene where shit hits the fan and a shuttle ship magically lands in the docking bay. lol The set builds were beautiful, the practical effects were a blessing, and the lighting and sound were on point.
You must have watched a different film as the Xeno consistently showed up in this film. There were literally no scenes you just described Once the Xeno births you see him and more the whole film. "Not having the alien in every scene and focusing the suspense on the space station was perfect" .. What suspense? Where was it?
Where was the Horror? This film? Your joking right? ... Alien thats Horror this wasn't even close. It could have been so good, Should have been like Alien Isolation. Thats the closest thing to Alien for Space Horror we've ever gotten. This film wasn't even comparable.
@@SAVANTI711 I wasn't even scared or shocked once.
Everyone feels tough until the Orphan of Kos shows up
As someone who only seen alien and aliens i really enjoyed it. It i think it made me appreciate orphan of kos way more compared to other people who've seen the other movies
Well if they did the queen, it wouldn't have been a unique surprise, would it? It kind of would've made the "greatest hits" feeling EVEN more prevalent, like we can't even come up with a cool new crazy alien variant and we're just gonna do Aliens
I believe the director directly says his influence was Alien Isolation. I think he said he played it as well.
In comparison Prometheus has budget of 130$ million and alien covenant about 97-111$ million so it amazes me what they were able to do in this movie with 80$ million
It's not just a safe film. It's a celebration of the legacy, with most callbacks landing. With the introduction of a particular element, there is some potential for new lore development should any writer want to go there. It's a lot like Tekken 8 in this way lol.
I’d go resurrection at 3 then Romulus
Sounds like this is the Terminator 3 of alien movies.
Orphan of Kos making his acting debut.
Can't wait for the Bloodborne movie.
Given where the Alien franchise is at current with the latest movies, we needed some fan service and call backs.
As a mechanic for 25 years and huge alien fan i can say if you want reliable shit it has to be mechanical simple tech to hold up on a working environment. Touchscreens and t9ns of modules fail period.
Ok but where did you get that pulse rifle?
These movie reviews are truly goated
To take a franchise everyone is passionate about and make a fun movie that is enjoyable and does the original justice, is a feat in itself.
I did not like all the decisions made but it was made by fans and people who love the franchise. The parts that were call backs were more homage than fan service expect for that one line.
A return to form and thank you Fede for making the Xenomorphs scary and cool again.
You earned a sub! So happy I found this video.
I’ve really come to respect Fede Alverez for his works in general, but this film was golden. I have similar thoughts and feelings to what’s been said, and overall I’d rate Alien: Romulus as third best in franchise with a solid 8/10. Alverez wanted to honor the franchise and I think he did a great job, could’ve done with less of the “fan-service” lines. I didn’t like the hybrid stuff, but seeing why Alverez did it, I respect it and him.
For me this was the Alien film we needed for a while. Leaving the mystery in the dark. Where it belongs. Alverez did not touch the derelict, did not mention David and didn’t go philosophical. The derelict has no connection to David, so he didn’t plant those eggs, and he did *not* create the xenomorphs. He simply *recreated* them. The film hit all the notes honoring the franchise acknowledging previous entries, the good and bad. This *felt* like an Alien film.
I do like the attention to detail that isn’t outright stated. For example: the station is listed as abandoned. Why is that? Could W.Y. possibly want to hide a research station? Yes. The lack of military response? Well, the settled systems are young, I doubt the colonial marines could rapidly respond to such a situation with a station in decaying orbit. That subtleness to the story while not just spelling things out. Very nice.
Is it the perfect film? No, by no means. But I consider it far superior to the likes of Prometheus or Resurrection. A very nice addition to the franchise. Little heavy on the fan service side, but not bad.
As I said, I consider this third behind the first two at a solid 8/10. A must watch for any Alien fan. Just an opinionated fan.
Not sure if it was discussed. Andy was like, "Hey, here are some guns" and only gave one to the hero and warned the clip only has so many bullets. Why not arm multiple people or pull the clips from other guns for added ammo?
The arms locker where he pulls those from only has 2 pulse rifles which each of the remanining human characters take, it's odd there are no extra magazines stowed there too but whatever.
As someone who only seen max play alien isolation I had a great time It's actually tense and scary.
Ripley didn’t name the Xenomorph, Gorman did. But anyways I loved this movie and glad to see Alien back
Really enjoyed the movie. Share some of the guys criticisms. Only writing to clarify that the guy that Simms kept saying was Rain's brother is actually Rain's ex. He's the brother of the pregnant woman.
I rewached the first two Alien movies before I went to see Romulus and I feel like that was a mistake. Maybe if i had also watched the bad Alien movies that would've gave me more of an appreciation for Romulus, but it's a 6/10 for me.
Does avp have nothing to do with alien? Weyland dies on the pyramid steps in like 2004 and then dies again in prometheus in almost the years 2100, 2090 something. Whats up with that?
I also thought the movie was ok/decent.
Please do a yovideogames on:
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Joker 2.
Max already said he had no excitement for next Beetlejuice and I don’t blame him
So the pulse rifle scene is still a romantic bonding moment in this movie. Rain and Tyler are not related. They had a previous romantic relationship hinted at earlier in the film. Kay, the pregnant girl, is Tyler’s sister. However Kay does have an incestious relationship with their cousin Bjorn. When Rain references her brother she’s talking about Andy
16:19 Problem is people who are in their early twenties like myself also watched Alien and Aliens, so the whole Aliens greatest hits situation is not lost on us, and it is not a positive. They should've gone for something new, and i feel like that might've been the original vision because the movie feels quite refreshing at some points
I really enjoyed the movie but maybe I'm just that thirsty for Bloodborne 2.
Also I haven't seen Alien/s in years and I only got one callback (that line...which yeah was forced). So definitely feels like it's aimed at people like me.
It was good it had its typical alien movie act for act and going in, not knowing where in the alien timeline it is kept it interesting. I wish they would adapt some of the audible books into theatre form I would love to see a Noot movie where the aliens took over the planet just because damn it involved the influence of the yutani power over the colonies and military.
I actually personally preferred this over Aliens, I LOVE the return back to Horror. I absolutely LOVE Aliens but I like it as a horror/action. Alien should have dread and despair all over it. Personally it would go Alien, Romulus, Aliens. The AI visual was a really bad call but ignoring that it's really good. Also I think the Aliens being scared of the guns might have been a slight reference when Ripley threatens to kill the eggs in front of the queen. They recognise danger regardless of what form it might be in so are hesitant to blindly rush in and attack. Like waiting for them to open the door and realising it's not going to happen they analyse the situation before making their decision to finally attack.
it's the Jurassic World of the Alien franchise.
At least Alien 3 and Resurrection did something interesting stylistically, Romulus was just throwback after throwback to the point it was laughable.
romulus was great. it elevates prometheus and covenent. but...
theres like, maybe 25 min of original footage in the second half
Im just glad it referenced Prometheus an over hated movie imo i hope they finish davids story
There's a fine line between callbacks and references and original material and the movie does great when it wasn't lifting plot and scenes from the previous movies. The alien lifecycle is way too fast and setting a time limit only hurt the pacing. I will say it's nice to have the Alien franchise back in the spotlight because this universe is too small not to continue.
On a side note, it's nice to see the acid blood slow down when it hits organic material. Since Aliens there has been a theory that it eats through inorganics quickly, but slows when it hits blood and such. Which is why Hudson doesn't lose an arm like the guy does in AVP and Hicks gets his armor destroyed but the acid doesn't kill him despite hitting his face arms and torso. Romulus does good. Showing the acid needing more splashes to do serious damage. AVP just went full r-tard on it.
Respect to all opinions.. but I had a similar convo with friends (some of which are hardcore lore junkies since the 80s).. when it comes to lore, deep cuts, tech, plot... A LOT of it makes more sense than I realized upon first viewing. Love or hate the movie, it took the source material, supplemental stuff, and Ridley's later excursions as gospel.. I really respect that.. in the age of lazy crap made by ppl that genuinely don't like what their working on.
Giving this a b is CRAZY …. Solid A… there was a lot of nit picking with this review … for example the xenomorphs weren’t just born they had been in the ship the whole time so they knew what a gun was … also point a gun at a predator irl IS a sign of aggression and animals recognize that so an alien hive mind species absolutely would see that as a threat… as for the barley impaled pregnant lady she literally crawled to the ship it’s not like she just ran 😂 Simmons is CRAZY NEGATIVE btw alien hybrid was AMAZING something out of the mind of aphex twin
Yes! I’ve missed these!!
The runtime for this movie should have been 2H 15 Mins. Alien Romulus is an Entertaining movie but felt very rush. No breathing space, so to speak..
It would be cool to see the characters plan their strategies to escape and have abit of a downtime.
Tbh I wish they retconned Prometheus. It had interesting ideas, they just didn’t land with me. That final abomination got a great reaction from me and everyone else in the theater I attended, but the Xenomorphs and Facehuggers felt like an afterthought. Also like the guys I prefer the Aliens being bugs and not this bio weapon that were created by the space jockeys. All n all I did like the movie it broke the streak of either horrible or just meh movies we’ve been getting. My biggest takeaway is that we need an Alien Isolation in movie form, the first 40ish minutes were god like.
I didn't watch through the whole review yet so I dont know if it was talked about or not here (will watch it in full later). But something that felt really bad was how poorly Rook was made using CGI.
Rain and Andy were superb.
Well in short, if the movie plays it too safe and just copy paste the original movies it will succeed financially but fans will complain, if the movie explores the universe and strays too far from the original movies it will fail and fans will complain but if we have a middle ground movie trying something classic while connecting the dots in the time line but not expanding on the universe it will succeed but fans will still complain, I love the alien fanbase....
They deepfaked Ian Holm’s face onto an animatronic, and had a voice actor do an impression of him without using AI, while I agree I doesn’t look good, ash and rook are both Wey-Yu scuence officers, it would be unnecessary to make rook a secret bad android cause we’d immediately be suspected of him being a villain, love the review and I get yall opinions while some things were mixed up on the characters and the story, but I LOVED this movie as a longtime alien fan
*spoilers*
Fun fact the offspring (human xenomorph) at the end of the movie is played by Romanian basketball player
Robert Bobroczkyi. yes. hes that tall irl
guy 🦜 in the middle.. let the other dude on the left talk ...😢
Imagine next Rain meet up with Amanda Ripney n joint together to fight WY stop their evil plan next
I consider myself a big alien fan & horror movies in general. Movies like Friday the 13, texas chainsaw massacre... I thought Romulus was great! I loved it! Atmosphere at its finest
Rain and Tyler are ex lovers not brother and sister lol so when he teaches her to use the rifle it's similar to the second film with lovers...
I agree with Max about Alien Isolation. It’s truly a horrifying experience lol VR sounds fucking bonkers for that game
I have never seen the first 3 movies. Resurrection was the new one when I was little, and I thought it was kinda cool, but it didn't hold up years later when I tried to watch it again. The robot David was insufferable to me, my least favorite thing about the last two, which I did not like. Avp movies were alright, probably the only decent thing I've ever seen from the series, if those count. Either I'm watching the wrong ones, or I just don't get it. I may rent this later..
Anyway thanks for the review, great to see you guys doing these again!
I hated the last 30 minutes that’s my only gripe. I didn’t like that hybrid monster