So, in my opinion, the original "Alien" was successful, because Cameron dutifully followed the "haunted house" theme. "Aliens" was successful, because it switched to a "military/horror sci-fi" and did it head long including sending the actors playing the Marines to a several-week long boot camp and having a military advisor on board. Aliens III switched back to purely horror genre and it had a problem by summarily killing off 3 of the main surviving characters. Prometheus had a GREAT promise (and I did like it) completely given up by the Covenant. It's the shifts in the narrative and dispensing with likeable characters that is a weak part of the franchise. Which, obviously, is not quite applicable in Romulus.
1. We don’t believe it tried to send any political messaging, which is definitely a bonus. 2. For the most part, yes. It leans on an understanding of Prometheus. 3. Prometheus and the first film get the most “references”, with Prometheus taking more center stage, we believe.
@@hollywood_impact Excellent! It's finally time to maybe go back to be making entertaining movies without "Da Message" in a style of the 1980s. Generally, I am against "rebooting" successful movies and franchises declining because of bad sequels. Just fix what you screwed up and keep going.
@@hollywood_impact I can understand a reboot if the original material was good, but a movie was bad or not faithful to the original material (like Starship Troopers). I would love to see Starship Troopers following the spirit of the Heinlein's book. But to reboot the originally excellent movies just to put new actors in it is just dumb.
I’m excited to see it! Covenant was mid, and Prometheus was interesting, but I’ve heard plenty of good things about this one!
For sure check it out! Is better than most of the other films (besides the first two, of course).
So, in my opinion, the original "Alien" was successful, because Cameron dutifully followed the "haunted house" theme. "Aliens" was successful, because it switched to a "military/horror sci-fi" and did it head long including sending the actors playing the Marines to a several-week long boot camp and having a military advisor on board. Aliens III switched back to purely horror genre and it had a problem by summarily killing off 3 of the main surviving characters. Prometheus had a GREAT promise (and I did like it) completely given up by the Covenant. It's the shifts in the narrative and dispensing with likeable characters that is a weak part of the franchise. Which, obviously, is not quite applicable in Romulus.
We like your in-depth thoughts about the franchise!
main Questions - 1.was it woke in any way? 2. did it fit into the cannon? 3. Did they pay any homage to other movies in the main cannon movies?
1. We don’t believe it tried to send any political messaging, which is definitely a bonus. 2. For the most part, yes. It leans on an understanding of Prometheus. 3. Prometheus and the first film get the most “references”, with Prometheus taking more center stage, we believe.
@@hollywood_impact Excellent! It's finally time to maybe go back to be making entertaining movies without "Da Message" in a style of the 1980s. Generally, I am against "rebooting" successful movies and franchises declining because of bad sequels. Just fix what you screwed up and keep going.
Agreed! Plus, people should start focusing on more original titles over reboots.
@@hollywood_impact I can understand a reboot if the original material was good, but a movie was bad or not faithful to the original material (like Starship Troopers). I would love to see Starship Troopers following the spirit of the Heinlein's book. But to reboot the originally excellent movies just to put new actors in it is just dumb.