Bring me an Alien movie where the youngest person is at least 45 years old. Let them all be smart, resourceful, tuff, yet the Alien still takes them out. I am so sick of stupid young people!!
Just a cast with a few age marks on their faces. Sigourney Weaver and Veronica Cartwright looked like the youngest crew members in the original cast, but not as young as this new crew who's oldest member looks like they just got out of college and took the gig after reading the bad script because the economy is down.
You have 8 alien movies with old casts for gods sake Adults aren't smart, look at any alien movie, and tell me that all the cast members were flawless and smart.
@@assassinsa1 I agree. But the last act it wasnt shown in a good way. Pacing was off. They should have explored the shock and paranoia more and their options and what decisions to take, instead they shoe horned another movie into the last 30mins
I find amusing that a bunch of forced labor mine workers (slaves) have their own ship, more amusing is that the ship has interplanetary capabilities and said workers can leave the planet whenever they want it seems lol, their bosses/management don't seem to care
Leave where to ? They can't reach another star system without working cry pods. At best Weyland Yutani tracks them down within a week and brings them back addiing another couple of years to their contract.
David Giler and Walter Hill made a mess of the series with their pre-production ego trips during Alien 3. It's really sad how rebooting the series and returning to the original formula in the modern era meant allowing Ridley Scott to repeat their biggest mistakes.
@@vladpiranha You don´t know much I´m afraid, since Brandywine Productions (Walter Hill, David Giler, Gordon Carroll) thought that Alien 3 was a bad idea and didn´t want to make it. Fox management at the time did. If Alien is a better movie is because of the rewrites that DG and WH did.
@@BConehundredeight I realize now it was a statement on how the company "look after" their workers, give them antiquated health and safety mitigating measures over modern devices to detect toxic gases.
I never liked the Engineers, David the Android and their black goo story. Alien works when we don't know the origin of the xenomorphs. Their mysterious background made them scary. The derelict ship in Alien is creepy and it felt like the space jockey was a grotesque creature grown out of the chair simply to fly the spaceship. This was in line with HR Giger's nightmarish fascination with imagining creatures grown inside a machine just to be trapped inside that machine for all its life. Aliens started to move away from the horror and mystery. But Prometheus and Covenent screwed it up completely by giving the xenomorphs a back story
No they didn't. Ever read the several 'Obannon treatments? Not once is the Space Jockey referred as a human looking giant dude on a space suit, neither was it called a Engineer. The only idiot who said "I always thought it was a space suit" Was Scott to promote Prometheus. No one ever said such a thing. Not Obannon, not Geiger, no one @@KadeSmash
The original trilogy is good. All of them are good. Of course the original alien is the true masterpiece. After that trilogy ALL alien movies are ridiculous. They never should exist.
Would like to see an Aliens movie where the aliens just sit smoking cigarettes and watching the teens run around accidentally offing themselves in the process.
This film is going to age very poorly. I think once the dust has settled and people start to look at the plot and script more closely on rewatching, they will see it all falls apart very quickly.
Yeah. Happy to continue to live in a world where only 2 Alien(s) Movies Exist with just 2 Terminator and 2 Predator Movies. Its just a much happier and simpler world...
I knew we were in trouble with this movie when the reviews from Grace Randolph and John Campea and his dopey wife all said it was great! It is most definitely not
I liked 2010 Predators. The rest were meh *Edit* when I say "the rest were meh" I wasnt referring to the original 2 films. They were the best in the series
I completely agree with all points! I'm 50 and a massive Giger and Alien fan. Went to see this opening night hopeful but fearing garbage. Garbage won! I was seriously pissed by the end of this piece of trash,,, this is the ending, really? the worst alien ending by far. can't believe people are praising this piece of shlt
that engineer/xeno baby growing into a full adult in like 1 minute was a last minute script write ...not good ,,only good thing is that the move made money so maybe they can make something better in another 7 years
I seems that only people who lived in the era of 80s or at least 90s they do understand that this movie was garbage. People born after 2000 just cannot understand the those original movies. If someone likes this romulus he just cannot understand the original alien. They are in different universies.
Ridley Scott needs to be kept as far from the writing room as possible. Even with Alien 1979 he wanted to add some goofy stuff to the story that was thankfully rejected. Great director, terrible writer.
He bought into his own hype. Blade Runner 2 sucked. His aliens prequels suck. He hates Cameron's alien queen idea which is something that is like the backbone of every Alien novel, feels like he's jealous and petty because his humans turn into alien facehugger eggs was stupid and ended up cut.
@@bratkat130000dude out of all the things you could criticize Ridley for you went for ALL the wrong stuff. Also Blade Runner 2049 was great and wasn't directed by him, it was by Denis Villeneuve.
I watched Jeremy Jahns' review and he said it was awesome, but his review was spoiler free. I then went and watched a few reviews with spoiler sections that went over the latter half of the film, and holy crap does it sound dumb.
@@keiichi8191 "I watched a spoiler free review, and then I watched people summarize an action horror movie into words and am now giving my judgement on a movie I haven't seen"
@@spiderman-2416half these folks in the comments rely on other people’s opinions and use them as their own. It’s funny because these same folks criticize people who actually watched the film and say things like “Society is so dumbed down that trash is Like gold to the masses” but they fall into the same category of said “normies” because they latch onto echo chamber ideas without actually using their own critical thought. Normies don’t watch movies critically and the latter don’t actually use their own opinions.
@@jaworski105 so your argument is everybody else is the problem. ok buddy 🤣 og fans and casual audiences are appreciating this film. you haters are so stubborn
The main character is ALWAYS a girl. If I'm a male, and living in that universe, I'm staying away from astro anything because death is 100% guaranteed. lol
at least in previous movies the main characters were WOMEN, not a 5ft chick who looks 12. a shame they couldn't pick a more believable "strong female lead."
@@MoonDevoured Probably casted cailee for her resemblance to sigorney. Should’ve made her amanda ripley. But casting a tall woman doesn’t always work either suck as in terminator.
Agreed. It was a shocking film for so many reasons. It felt like someone asked an AI to write a script mixing Alien, Aliens, Resurrection and the last two no one cares about. Oh, and Scooby-Do. It really was that bad. A bunch of teenagers take their van to an old creepy mansion and the creepy caretaker (Rook) warns them of the nasty monsters. It was just dire.
@@Fiveash-Art I expect decent memorable characters. I can remember all the characters from 1 & 2. Hollywood seems to really struggle with developing memorable characters, they all seem so generic these days.
This movie was exactly what I expected. What I expected: ALL Children as actors: Check Illogical with everything: Check Everyone is an idiot: Check Jumpscares: Check Cringe recycling of everything: Check Only the girl survives: Check Pointless and forgetable: Check
According to IMDB, Alien: Isolation is a game based on Ripley's daughter, Amanda Ripley trekking out to find her mother. If that was the case, they should have used that theme as motivation to drive this film as well. Instead it is just a bunch of orphans who somehow can just lift off into outerspace using their own space shuttle that's been doubling as a doublewide trailer park, without clearance or a flightplan at the drop of a hat. They then board an abandoned science vessel that no other seasoned space pirates or salvagers bothered to investigate for 20 years.
The game was great as an _Alien_ story and as one of the best survival horror games ever made. Here's what I could find on the movie being inspiration for the game. From CBR The highly anticipated next installment in the Alien franchise, Alien: Romulus, has entered theaters. With a promise to return the franchise to its more horror-based roots, director Fede Alvarez took inspiration from not only Ripley Scott’s Alien and James Cameron’s Aliens, but also from Creative Assembly’s 2014 survival horror game Alien: Isolation. On the Inside Total Film podcast, Alvarez spoke about how the game influenced him and the movie. "Alien: Isolation was kind of what made me see that Alien could truly be terrifying and done well today. I played a few years after it came out. Don’t Breathe was coming out. Or was I waiting for Don’t Breathe to come out, and I was playing the game. That’s why, at the time, I was like, ‘F***, if I could do anything, I would love to do Alien and scare the audience again with that creature and those environments.’ I was playing, and realizing how terrifying Alien could be if you take it back to that tone.” There’s More Connections to Alien Isolation Alien: Isolation did more than influence the general tone of the movie. Elements of the game actually made it into the movie. In the first behind-the-scenes image from the set of Alien: Romulus, fans of Alien: Isolation might have spotted the Emergency Phone kiosk in the background. For those unfamiliar with the game, the Emergency Phone serves as a savepoint for players and usually precedes an encounter with the terrifying alien onboard the ship with you. This is something Alvarez took note of and even implemented in the movie. “The movie is set up in a way that every time something bad is about to happen, you will see a phone. In the game, every time you knew there’s a phone you’d go, ‘Fuck, I’m about to go into some bad set-piece.’ It’s the same thing here. You’ll see they’re planted strategically throughout the film. When you see the phone, it’s like: brace for impact.”
@@JacobPaul-ix7oc OK. So Mr. Alvarez admits, he was more concerned about riping off a video game, than creating a truly good stand alone film that would re-energize the franchise. Geez. Where do I sign up to get $80M to rehash someone else's work. I can do that!
@@steppingstonemediagroupllc Agree as it seems cailee spaeny was cast for her resemblance to sigorney weaver. So Rain is a space trucker with her trusty droid sidekick looking for clues of her mother’s list ship. Sad thing is from aliens, we know amanda never found ripley. Unless you time travel…
As a long-time Aliens fan, I detest what the modern movies have done to the lore. My headcannon lore fix: *0.* Having xenomorphs be engineered is stupid. They're clearly ambush predators that work best in tight spaces, not open battlefields. Plus, their egg longevity means you can never use that world again. You might as well build atop a field of nuclear landmines. Besides, the out of control bio weapon angle has been done to death, and the notion of nature doing it better is more in line with the powerlessness and fear of the original films. *1.* Let's go back to natural origins. Say Xenomorphs are native to a world that undergoes regular extinction cycles (perhaps its orbit takes it near an asteroid belt every few thousand earth years, or solar activity periodically increases to the point it causes intense, planetwide fires). The eggs last so long in order to wait for life to return. They incorporate the host form so they're always ready for new environments. Acid blood prevents vermin from eating the eggs before suitable hosts can re-evolve. This means that their homeworld can be anywhere, and if they haven't woken up yet in that cycle, you'd never know they were there. It also means they don't have to be part of a balanced ecosystem. They are apocalypse survivors whose only concern is to eliminate all threats and produce as many eggs as possible before the next apocalypse, which in turn gives them a reason to be so vicious. Sustainability isn't a factor for them because their eggs can wait for a wasteland to become lush again. All they care about is wiping out all threats at any cost. *2.* The Space Jockeys are experimenting with xeno DNA via the black goo, but xeno DNA is extremely good at reasserting itself, hence all the failures. *3.* David may think he created the xenomorphs in their "perfect" form, but all he actually did was strip away the Space Jockey tampering, thus allowing the original DNA to better assert itself. He's been patting himself on the back for something he has no idea he played no part in. ______________________________ *-- Potential Mini-Series Plot --* A garden world full of life. A xenobiologist's dream come true. So much variety! And beneath the surface, paleontologists find even more variety of extinct species in their excavations. Thanks to the apocalypse cycle, this world produces new species at ×10 the normal rate. The research opportunities are endless. But something is odd. The same "spike to the head" wound appears over and over on different species throughout the geologic columns, even through several apocalypse cycles. Eventually, they uncover a network of caverns, and deep inside, things start looking very different. There's more remains here than in the entire excavation, and the walls don't seem right. They discover fossilized nests with millions of eggs waiting. And since the next apocalypse is known to still be centuries away the humans had gone ahead and built numerous settlements on this world to exploit its research and resources (building massive infrastructure on a place about to go fubar would be stupid, Hollywood 😑, so no using that for an "explosive finish"). So, if the nests are planetwide, then each settlement is sitting on a time bomb. It's a world too good to be true, with biological resources beyond imagining, hiding its darkest secret just beneath its inviting exterior.
About 1. I like the idea of a ecosystem with cyclical extintion events. But the cause of those extinction events could be the xenos themselves. It goes like this: the xenos destroys all life bigger than a cat, then stay dormant for thousands for years because no more prey is available. When life returns to the zone, they end encountering the eggs at some point, and the cycle begins again.
0. Seeing xenomorphs as ambush predators is a flawed point of view. In what movie or game have you actually seen xenomorphs hunting and consuming prey, like predators do? Yeah, they probably have to sustain themselves of something, but it's clear that they are, actually, parasitic creatures, parasitoids, who absolutely NEED their victims as hosts in order to reproduce, because they can't mate with each other and produce the final stage of their reproduction cycle, which can become an adult. Just like parasitoid wasps can't survive without their arthropod hosts, xenomorphs can't survive without humans, engineers and whatnot. They don't hunt, kill and eat them, they use them as means of propagating their species.
Biggest issue I found with the plot was the entire presence of facehuggers on the Romulus. They were on the derelict ship on LV426 waiting for the colonists to begin terraforming. Also, the entire salvage mission to recover "Big chap" didn't make sense. Nobody knew about the creature to go and look for it in the first place.
Have to agree with you, LV426 would have made sense. Nostromo was vapourised, the alien wasn't on Nostromo anyway and wtf is with the sarcophagus it was inside? I think I saw symbols on it too, totally nonsensical.
First 30/35 minutes were really, really good. We were in the world of Aliens and Alien again both aesthetically and thematically. Then it falls off a fucking cliff as if they had used AI to come up with a script. It’s about 50% Alien, 30% Aliens, 10% Prometheus and 10% Resurrection with a smattering of Alien 3 and other sci fi films. Including the fucking DIALOGUE, lifted straight out of those films. Can no one actually write anything ORIGINAL anymore??? Hugely disappointed.
Nothing happened remotely until about the 41 minute mark. I forget exactly but i know for certain it showed past 40 min mark. There are slow burns and then there is this abomination of a script. The true horror of this movie.
The marketing and interviews surrounding this movie pointed to Alien Isolation in movie form. I did not expect a half assed mashup of Isolation, Resurrection and Prometheus
They don't make movies like they used to. Also, today's audiences are so dumb-downed that they will consider this mediocre, forgettable movie as a classic.
The moment you bring up literal alien lore established by Alien Aliens and ALIEN³ they all say stupid crap about being picky lol. ALIEN fans are all about logic and lore. Ridley has totally wrecked that with his black goo crap
I felt the same way about Deadpool and Wolverine, but fanboys including Thorias seemed to love that movie. Deadpool and Wolverine is *fan-service* and *nostalgia bait* the movie, and the antagonist of the movie is forgettable.
I like the idea of the Facehuggers being the main problem because the Xenomorphs are scary, but they're just another big monster.The Facehuggers, they are true threats cause they can jump on you out of nowhere.
I wanted to call this guy a hater but then I realised He was actually critical of the same things I was, however I was also critical of the bad deep fake for Rook. I rated it 7 out of 10.
@LemonsAndSalt69 you realize the first time we ever see a face hugger they eat through the glass of the crew members helmet. The scientist in the first movie makes mention of how they could use their acid as a defense mechanism
The only thing worth knowing is how the Alien cocoons itself to grow from the chest burster. But in Covenant it facehugged the captain, burst through the chest and became fully grow within minutes.
Yes because in Covenant the aliens were in raw form and accelerated by the black goo that David dropped on the planet. We know the black goo accelerates tissue breakdown and cellular multiplication by design. So that's why the turn around time was quick in Covenant.
@7:33 - This is the most honest review I have read in the past 24 hours. To say this film took a wrong turn in the third act, and then went completely off the rails in the last 10 minutes is the most accurate, and most polite way of stating the facts without condemning the entire film. Acts I & II were indeed headed in the right direction, but something went wrong in the third Act. It is almost as if a studio executive walked into the writer's room along with their 8-year old child at their side and said, "We need a giant monster at the end so we can sell some lunch boxes when the kids start back to school next week.... Isn't that right sweetheart?" [Update] It just occurred to me that this space station Romulus and Remus was large enough to house at least 30-50 scientists, but when the protagonists of the film arrive to pilfer cryopods, it only had 5.
Man, I am so with you here. I was so frustrated by the end of this. From the uncanny valley CGI to bring back a character, to the out of character lines that were simply pulled from previous films, to even recycling the climax of Resurrection...I was just depressed by the end of this, with the thought that all we have left is to recycle even the bad ideas.
I saw this yesterday. I enjoyed it, was entertained, but this review is absolutely the most accurate I’ve seen so far. Everything is spot on in Thorias’ good and bad of this film. I didn’t hate the movie, and will probably watch again at home someday, but it could have been much better especially towards the end. It’s the end that ruins it.
Right there with you buddy. This really is the only first review I’ve experienced that seems at all in line with what I witnessed on Thursday night. Also, forgive me if this has been commented on, but in the last 10 minutes was nobody else thinking oh my God, I’m watching a live action Dead Space now. Necromorphs, anyone?
@@markairey362tell me I am stupid all you want but I liked it but it wasn’t perfect. The deepfake was terrible, the black goo’s return ruined the movie, where its set makes aliens pointless, and most of the callbacks aren’t good.
I honestly like the movie, it had my attention the whole time, my only real complaint is it really wasn't that gory, hell Kane had a better reaction to a 42inch long parasite punching thru your ribs then that one chick did 😂
Scott forced that ending onto Alvarez to somehow connect Romulus to Prometheus and/or Covenant, because those two were supposed to be parts of a trilogy, but that will never happen after the flop of Covenant. So the credits to that ending goes to a desperate Scott, who does not have to end those miserable films now, and he now thinks that he succeeded. But he did not. He abused yet another movie, which started out promising. Sad.
Covenant did $37 million domestic opening which accounting for inflation is $47 million in today’s money. Romulus is being called a hit for doing a $40 million domestic opening. Why are there such obvious double standards?
@@danielwoods3563 I have no idea. I guess in the long run we'll see which does better - but your argument is valid! ;) Do you have figures for Covenant - what have it grossed so far since it premiered?
@@AbrasiousProductions Because they dont care anymore. They already did their thing - they KNOW they cant top what they managed to put once together, and they just say, fuck it! They are established, they are not driven by fame or money anymore. They got those already. They are ok with making forgottable movies - they wont be remembered for those, they will be remembered for their masterpieces. Yeah, ageing sucks...
The thing that piss me off and frustrated the hell out of me was the stupidity of the crew. They constantly was trying to save people that was attack and infected in front of their own eyes. Once those face huggers attach themselves to you it's a wrap. Other than that I enjoyed the film.
This movie truly sucks. Alien and Aliens only matter. You nailed my biggest peeve… the sped up face hugger to chest burst to full adult. Started with AvP. Also… if this is 20 years after the Nostromo, and the company knew about what Ripley did. Why did it take them 50 plus years to go back to lv 426 to explore the ship?
They didn't know what happened other then the transmission from Mother. They discovered the life signs of the cocooned Xeno and must not of known much about the aliens if they don't have a clue about there blood.
Adding some lines from Aliens, the airlocks and " resurrecting" Alien Resurrection is like watching " Laser Room" scene from Resident Evil over again...
@@HOLLASOUNDSMUSIC but in Alien Ash knew what was going on as it have read over the years. The company knew of the transmission. Some say Dallas was even in on it too. Mainly because they never quarantined Kane even after the face hugger died. Plus the whole black oil story is silly. I’ll stick with Alien and Aliens.
STATLER: "What was that movie we just watched?" WALDORF: "I think it was about aliens." STATLER: "I think it was MADE by aliens." BOTH: "Doh-hohohoho!"
Terrific review,the most accurate I've seen so far.I loved most of this movie,till about the last 20 minutes, then it just turned into a pile of crap.The ending was just insane.....
I agree with you. It was retreaded tire of a film whose main goal seems to have been to do an homage to each and every film in the franchise no matter how rotten except for AVP1 and 2. In order to do that, it was much too busy to develop the scares we remember from seeing Alien and Aliens in the theater. My wife, who never texts in theaters, whipped out her phone in the middle of it, and I was too uninterested in the movie to even bother to tell her to put it away even though the phone screen was reflecting in my glasses.
I post a comment relating to this film, and I get insulted for my opinion that it's a pile of feces. Thank you, for your honest review. I've said it before, and I'll say it again; Senile Scott strikes again! Eff this film!
Lot of overly sensitive people in these fandoms are quick to fire off insults when confronted with a dissenting opinion they have no real argument against.
@@thoriasunlimited4053 Especially when "woke" is thrown around so much and so many lazy "reviewers" (grifters) and people like them throw money at these people for no real thoughtful response. I mean if someone presented with a good faith argumeant about why they liked something I might think their standards are low, but ultimately perople can like what they like. I think MOS is hysterically aweful, but grovel and thinks it masterpiece. Uhmm whatver.
@Fiorwestcoast the black goo was genetically engineered from the face huggers DNA. Where did the huggers come from? I feel like the ending was supposed to be a queen a ridley said nope. Need to tie into the engineers.
Ridley Scott is on a trajectory to destroying his legacy, he just doesn't know when to stop. His tampering with Romulus, flops like Napoleon and *shudder* Gladiator 2, the one movie in which a sequel was most unnecessary.
unfortunately, this movie is gathering vast praise and if anything will only bolster his drive to continue wreaking havoc (even though I personally enjoyed Prometheus and Covenant)
Thank you for this homest review. I just cannot understand why popular opinion of this movie of opposite of yours but everything you said is thrue. I think also they made a mistake when they chose so young and pretty looking cast. They are not even avarage looking people bit all of them are cute looking. It feels like this is some totslly other genre than alien movie should be. But one good thing is that this movie propably made alien isolatiom sequel to be possible.
I liked it except for the following points: a) the highly sped up implantation/growth, b) the continued pregnancy in a STASIS pod, c) the end monster. I figured the station wasn't abandoned, but derelict because of the outbreak. With how fast the life cycle was shown in this it could've happened couple days prior. We've already seen the universe doesn't have warp or lightspeed travel, so journeys take years and reinforcements could've been on the way. I don't think they've ever demonstrated how fast interstellar communication is either, not that the company wants untrained personnel going up there messing with things, seeing stuff, and asking questions.
The problem with that "6 months period" for help to arrive falls on its face when a FRIGGIN WAYLAND YOUTANY planet was just there .. Am pretty sure a call to their mining planet would do the trick . "Mayday mayday" xenos outbreak asamble killteam.. done . Why call earth when you have a base just there ? .
Exactly. Everything was sort of ignored or neglected regarding the sensibility of the story. Not like the originals which although more obscure, were coherent to the extent that they were revealed. FTL travel is commonplace and so is FTL communication on par with it. @@juanausensi499
I felt exactly like what you said at 1:16. I was so excited about this. Watched it last Wednesday. Now, a few days later, all i can think is: i hope this is not the last in the Alien series and the next will come as soon as possible to forget about this one 🙁
There was a different cut. Scott came in and said it was wrong and made akverez re cut it. It's documented that Ridley messed thus up per an interview from alverez. He was getting jealous again, so he started putting in his philosophical cologne and messed it up
@@jamiefugazi6974 as well as that Engineer faced alien human hybrid. God, why does he keep hammering home his philosophical bullcrap?! Alien is not 2001! If he wants this type of stuff fine but make something original. Oh wait! He planned that for Prometheus but the studio forced him to make it connected to Alien. So I guess he wasn’t entirely to blame back then. But he’s not excusable now because he’s gained a ego ever since. Any sympathy was lost a long time ago. I feel bad for Fede instead because there’s probably a different version of this film that wasn’t tampered by Ridley Scott. This speaks reshoots.
Alien 3 should never be allowed to share the spotlight with the first two. It literally can’t even happen because they never explain how eggs could’ve even got on the pod. Everything from 3 onward is a hypersleep nightmare or nothing
@@Twentyand1 The egg got on board the ship because the screenplay says it got on the ship. There is literally no way an egg could have gotten on that ship.
@@Fiorwestcoast he snuck it on, got it off the drop ship and loaded onto the escape pod and made it back to the drop ship just in time for the queen to tear him a new one. Got it 😆
There is a story already practically written that I don't think people realize. Alien, Aliens, and Alien Isolation are the only ones I care about, but if they were going to make something for the franchise I'd like to see Newt's Tale. Weyland colonizing the planet then shipping in the colonists, scientist, engineers, security, and the blue color families etc. to Acheron (LV-426) many years after the Nostromo incident. Colonists slowly start disappearing mysteriously and members of their families. One by one the alien queen's horde grows building the large infestation that became Aliens. Someone had to catch those face huggers in the lab Berk laid out for Ripley and Newt. Who did it? Also ,these things were being studied. Who was studying them? The movie could be set up like a huge boring Weyland orientation video pitching to the best and brightest to work for Weyland off world,... why you can even bring your families to live among the stars and make a ton of credits working for The Weyand Corporation. So Rebecca, her brother and family mount up with their clever top blue collar construction leader Father and plant Operator Mom for a promotional opportunity or because the company staff is slowly turning up missing there and they need good replacements who don't ask questions. Colonist improvising weapons to fight, kids running to hide, Newt getting separated and cunningly outsmarting the Aliens until the Space Marines and Ripley arrive. Boom! now that's the Alien movie I want to see.
It was probably Scott that messed up the third act. Some filmmakers just cannot let it go. BTW, you wanna a good Alien movie, play Alien: Isolation or Alien: Resurrection.
I think when Tarantino was talking about some Directors should stop while they're ahead especially as they get old , I seriously think it's Rid Scott he was talking about
Ridley Scott is (inexplicably) the producer for all things alien at Disney. He is also producing the upcoming Alien Earth TV Series. This is despite him being on record as saying the Alien is "baked" as in done. You will notice that all alien films since prometheus have used his Scott Free studios to produce them tho. Cynic tho I am I think that is a main motivation for Ridley to keep producing films about a creature he thinks is overused. Yes Ridley deserves credit for creating the first Alien film. But that doesnt mean we and the franchise should be eternally beholden to him and his successive bad ideas.
Ridley has essentially ran the franchise into the ground. I'm dying to know what Cameron has to say. Especially with Ridley doing everything he can to replace the queen with black goo. Urgh.
@@Fiorwestcoast I agree. He needs to step back and allow somone who actually likes the creature with fresh ideas to step forward. I believe that cameron and ridley planned to make a sequel together prior to AVP, but the studio went AVP so it never happened. Would be interesting to hear Camerons take on the prequel series. I reckon they would have been a lot better with his involvement, hopefully.
@@frostie102wait he is producing alien earth. Which means the black goo……NO……NO!!!!!!!!!!! I still liked Romulus but the black goos return was unnecessary and not good
@@Xenomorph.king24 I agree. I think the black goo has become aliens plot mcgubbins that inexplicably explains almost anything the director wants it to. Best left out of future movies if possible.
Great review. You pointed out the most ridiculous things about this film very precisely. Xenomorphs' life cycle suddenly being like 10 minutes is what taken me aback first, too. Same feelings about the third act. And the casting. And of course the stupid "Resurrection part two" moment hahah. How could they have so much good base for this movie and then choose to copy the worst parts of worst movies in the series, for God's sakes LMAO
I am very honest with my reviews but I liked Romulus but I can understand why others wouldn’t like it. I had problems with this film and it made it a mixed bag.
I love a Xenomorph movie. But in Romulus once a Xenomorph bursts it's way out through the chest u cant have them grow/mature from 30 seconds to 10mins that's a fail right there. Plot was shit but it had good action/cgi. An adult Xenomorph takes within 1 hour to 24 hours to grow. On most occasions, it would take a few hours for a Xenomorph to grow up into a Queen, but sometimes, it would take a few days.
I just wish they could finally let this franchise rest and write something.brand new Otherwise, someday we'll get Alien 57 and it will be sold as once again "going back to its roots" How many films does it take before everyone realises it's the same story of alien monsters killing everyone?
Good review. You were spot on. Also, the movie wasn't scary with no chase scenes from the aliens. It would have been nice to have seen some brutality from aliens with their kills. The way crew members went out had no shock factor it didn't disturb you when you watched it. Aliens 2 nailed all the above with the deaths of the marines. Shame this movie had so much potential. A big letdown for me 5.5/10 not even close to Alien or Aliens 2. I even preferred Alien 3 over this movie.
I agree this feels like I was watching two movies that were Frankenstined together. I felt more tension watching them blast into space through the turbulent planetary atmosphere than I did when they were confronting multiple xenos
The pathogen is independent of queens or drones, the alien is just an expression of the pathogen, this thing can transform and evolve into anything that can continue its path of destruction, so is not fix’d to a fenotype (alien drone, queen or whatever it wants to evolve)
@@jellowrock That's Ridley Scott's dumb addition from Prometheus and Covenant. I think most people were going into Romulus hoping it was retconning those two films out of existence, along with the magic "it can do anything" black goo that sometimes creates xenomorphs with a distinct lifecycle and social hierarchy, but also other times for some reason creates squid monsters and contortionist zombies and vagina snakes and spore mushrooms while also making dead alien heads reanimate and explode but also disintegrates them if they're alive.
@@keiichi8191 all that you just described is what I loved about Giger and Scott work, take a look on the necronomicon book from Giger, or his art, I rather have this that the dumb idea of a planet called “alien prime” when aliens have always existed
My friends and I talked about the incredibly truncated xenomorph metamorphosis and we concluded that it was because of Weyland-Yutani genetic manipulation.
I cannot make this clearer: EVERYTHING he says is fucking on point. Everything I loved and hated about this movie he has nailed in less than 13 minutes.
When it comes to cinema in recent years for this particular franchise, Prometheus was the better choice with how they handled their approach (not the best, but was very pleasing) to the series of Alien saga. Let me first start off by saying I was highly anticipating this film to capture exactly what I was looking forward to. Biggest waste of money and a major letdown (they should’ve just released this on the sci-fi channel or Netflix). Some People in the theater act like it was something phenomenal and Horrifying, and I was becoming less entertained by the minutes looking at my watch waiting for this piece of shit to be over. Certain moments caught my attention, but it wasn’t good enough. Alien Covenant was better than this…AVP was more entertaining imo, and I hated that movie. Even ALIEN 3 gets more credit than this shit! I’m not gonna be one of the ones Dissecting the whole entire series with how this installment crashes, but what a complete joke. This was Disney tier, teenage drama bullshit! Fede Álvarez is pretty hype with he’s following, and I will never go see any of those works again that come from this guy. Thank you for turning this into a dead ending experience. I have never been so bored in my entire life of viewing cinema. BORING!!!
My favourite part was when an alien saved Rain from falling to certain death. Then preceeds to wanna kill her. Yes, this actually happens in the movie.
@@AEGISDEFENSE Hold, no. Intimidate into not moving, yes. At the time it caught her, there was nothing suggesting that not letting her go splat was a better choice even if you gave it truly human level intelligence or even a computer given a list of priorities.
@@AbrasiousProductions There was a facehugger nearby, the Alien was holding Rain so the facehugger could impregnate her because yknow... Xenos still need to reproduce, which they cant do if someone is dead. There's literally a shot of a facehugger crawling to Rain, dont listen to people that don't understand the movie, if you like the Alien franchise, go see it.
@@John-fk2ky The thing that suggests not letting her go splat was a better choice was the facehugger? whatre you talking about? The Xeno needed her alive to reproduce, man.
I like your review. I’ll have to say that many times I wanted to laugh at how lame the movie was. I restrained myself because I didn’t want to upset the audience around me who might be trying to enjoy it. Basically, it did suck and it did so badly. One of my biggest complaints was that with all the hype surrounds the title, absolutely nothing interesting about the space station was developed. I mean nothing! That and all the things you mention plus many many many others make this poor film total garbage. As far as I’m concerned it does not exist in the Alien cannon. I’ve erased it from the lore completely. The beauty of the original film was the fact that the monster was literally beyound understanding. Now it really is just a “bug hunt” and even Aliens suffers due to making the creature more and more understandable. What part of “acid for blood” did these idiots forget about? Nothing could have that acid for blood and make any kind of sense in our world. This movie just ruins the mysteries more and more and more. Sadly disappointed!
Bring me an Alien movie where the youngest person is at least 45 years old. Let them all be smart, resourceful, tuff, yet the Alien still takes them out. I am so sick of stupid young people!!
Isn’t this the only Alien film with a young cast? Aren’t they mostly middle aged in all of the other ones?
Just a cast with a few age marks on their faces. Sigourney Weaver and Veronica Cartwright looked like the youngest crew members in the original cast, but not as young as this new crew who's oldest member looks like they just got out of college and took the gig after reading the bad script because the economy is down.
Put yourself in this situation with all of those emotions and confusion as to wtf you just saw. Now tell me you'd make good decisions
You have 8 alien movies with old casts for gods sake
Adults aren't smart, look at any alien movie, and tell me that all the cast members were flawless and smart.
@@assassinsa1 I agree. But the last act it wasnt shown in a good way. Pacing was off. They should have explored the shock and paranoia more and their options and what decisions to take, instead they shoe horned another movie into the last 30mins
I find amusing that a bunch of forced labor mine workers (slaves) have their own ship, more amusing is that the ship has interplanetary capabilities and said workers can leave the planet whenever they want it seems lol, their bosses/management don't seem to care
Leave where to ? They can't reach another star system without working cry pods. At best Weyland Yutani tracks them down within a week and brings them back addiing another couple of years to their contract.
@@godkingThat is your justification? Can tell you are a sheep to hollywood.
@@godkingWY can't even track down their trillion dollar space station
Scott's ego is a bigger monster than the xenos.
Ridley Scott went up his own ass years ago.
David Giler and Walter Hill made a mess of the series with their pre-production ego trips during Alien 3. It's really sad how rebooting the series and returning to the original formula in the modern era meant allowing Ridley Scott to repeat their biggest mistakes.
@@vladpiranha You don´t know much I´m afraid, since Brandywine Productions (Walter Hill, David Giler, Gordon Carroll) thought that Alien 3 was a bad idea and didn´t want to make it. Fox management at the time did. If Alien is a better movie is because of the rewrites that DG and WH did.
I liked prometheous... sorry owo
@@CalcioFan4Ever prometheus is a guilty pleasure of mine. I think it is objectively a bad movie, but I still like it.
They invented artificial gravity on space craft, still take canaries down to the mines...
Word!!
@@BConehundredeight I realize now it was a statement on how the company "look after" their workers, give them antiquated health and safety mitigating measures over modern devices to detect toxic gases.
@ALLROY240 Yeah, that makes sense.
Oh for sure, bird seed @@lunarvvolf9606
anachronistic technology is what makes sci-fi great
I never liked the Engineers, David the Android and their black goo story. Alien works when we don't know the origin of the xenomorphs. Their mysterious background made them scary. The derelict ship in Alien is creepy and it felt like the space jockey was a grotesque creature grown out of the chair simply to fly the spaceship. This was in line with HR Giger's nightmarish fascination with imagining creatures grown inside a machine just to be trapped inside that machine for all its life. Aliens started to move away from the horror and mystery. But
Prometheus and Covenent screwed it up completely by giving the xenomorphs a back story
Cliche comment but okay
You realize they had set these things up in the very first movie ya?
@@KadeSmash
If that is true (and I have my doubts about that) that does not mean it was a good idea
@@davidthomas3826 tell you what, I literally just uploaded a 1979 Alien fan trailer I made. Judge for yourself
No they didn't. Ever read the several 'Obannon treatments? Not once is the Space Jockey referred as a human looking giant dude on a space suit, neither was it called a Engineer.
The only idiot who said "I always thought it was a space suit" Was Scott to promote Prometheus. No one ever said such a thing. Not Obannon, not Geiger, no one @@KadeSmash
RIDLEY LET IT THE FUCK GO! THAT ALIEN CREATOR SHIT JUST ISN'T GOOD!
That’s just headcanon that fans made up to get mad about
Alien 3 actually captured the claustrophobic horror of the original very well.
Ridley done fucked up with the black goo/David/ Engineer BULLCRAP.
I hated it at first but 3 really grew on me.
Nah, that stuff is good.
@@762Super
I like the shift from Aliens to Alien 3 - I can see why it seems to polarise opinion though.
The original trilogy is good. All of them are good. Of course the original alien is the true masterpiece. After that trilogy ALL alien movies are ridiculous. They never should exist.
Would like to see an Aliens movie where the aliens just sit smoking cigarettes and watching the teens run around accidentally offing themselves in the process.
Its not an alien movie but if you want to see that, just watch Tucker & Dale vs. Evil.
@@dawsonherrick1318 Dude that movie rocks so hard. Best recommendation.
They should be smoking space weed.
Yes, I can visualize that scene, where they're watching the teens from a distance, silently shaking their heads...
Eli Roth could direct that.
This film is going to age very poorly.
I think once the dust has settled and people start to look at the plot and script more closely on rewatching, they will see it all falls apart very quickly.
It's is going to age extremely well.
@@ulfingvar1if so then people are just ignorant and silly
Yeah. Happy to continue to live in a world where only 2 Alien(s) Movies Exist with just 2 Terminator and 2 Predator Movies. Its just a much happier and simpler world...
Best comment ever, period.
I knew we were in trouble with this movie when the reviews from Grace Randolph and John Campea and his dopey wife all said it was great! It is most definitely not
Shut up you grandpa
I liked 2010 Predators. The rest were meh
*Edit* when I say "the rest were meh" I wasnt referring to the original 2 films. They were the best in the series
@@DOG-mm3sgThat's the rule. OG and 1 sequel. Because after 2 treatments it becomes formulaic. We know what's going to happen, etc.
I completely agree with all points! I'm 50 and a massive Giger and Alien fan. Went to see this opening night hopeful but fearing garbage. Garbage won! I was seriously pissed by the end of this piece of trash,,, this is the ending, really? the worst alien ending by far. can't believe people are praising this piece of shlt
that engineer/xeno baby growing into a full adult in like 1 minute was a last minute script write ...not good ,,only good thing is that the move made money so maybe they can make something better in another 7 years
I agree with you on ending I was like really they give us this same old s**t for ending movie is so unoriginal even as homage to remake
I seems that only people who lived in the era of 80s or at least 90s they do understand that this movie was garbage. People born after 2000 just cannot understand the those original movies. If someone likes this romulus he just cannot understand the original alien. They are in different universies.
Ridley Scott needs to be kept as far from the writing room as possible. Even with Alien 1979 he wanted to add some goofy stuff to the story that was thankfully rejected. Great director, terrible writer.
He bought into his own hype. Blade Runner 2 sucked. His aliens prequels suck. He hates Cameron's alien queen idea which is something that is like the backbone of every Alien novel, feels like he's jealous and petty because his humans turn into alien facehugger eggs was stupid and ended up cut.
@@bratkat130000dude out of all the things you could criticize Ridley for you went for ALL the wrong stuff. Also Blade Runner 2049 was great and wasn't directed by him, it was by Denis Villeneuve.
This, x1000. He has absolutely no idea how to craft a narrative. So much evidence of this over a 50 year career, yet his ego won’t let him admit it.
I feel like this man was watching the same movie I watched. So many reviewers saw something else.
I watched Jeremy Jahns' review and he said it was awesome, but his review was spoiler free. I then went and watched a few reviews with spoiler sections that went over the latter half of the film, and holy crap does it sound dumb.
@@keiichi8191 "I watched a spoiler free review, and then I watched people summarize an action horror movie into words and am now giving my judgement on a movie I haven't seen"
@@pachinkomachine7347 Thats Average modern movie gowers for you🤣
@@spiderman-2416half these folks in the comments rely on other people’s opinions and use them as their own. It’s funny because these same folks criticize people who actually watched the film and say things like “Society is so dumbed down that trash is Like gold to the masses” but they fall into the same category of said “normies” because they latch onto echo chamber ideas without actually using their own critical thought. Normies don’t watch movies critically and the latter don’t actually use their own opinions.
We can all disagree.
This is the most accurate review of the film I have found. Other reviewers present the story as though they are paid promotions.
or youre all just in the minority
@@PNOYY literally. Most people like this film.
@@solo6396 most people don’t seem to have a brain and settle for average because it’s better than what came before. It’s a bad movie.
@@jaworski105 ok. So what exactly would you have done to make this movie “good” since you’re so smart and don’t settle for average.
@@jaworski105 so your argument is everybody else is the problem. ok buddy 🤣 og fans and casual audiences are appreciating this film. you haters are so stubborn
The main character is ALWAYS a girl. If I'm a male, and living in that universe, I'm staying away from astro anything because death is 100% guaranteed. lol
at least in previous movies the main characters were WOMEN, not a 5ft chick who looks 12. a shame they couldn't pick a more believable "strong female lead."
@@MoonDevoured Probably casted cailee for her resemblance to sigorney. Should’ve made her amanda ripley. But casting a tall woman doesn’t always work either suck as in terminator.
Ah... the incels. Surprised it took this long.
@@Rob774 Ah ... the person randomly throwing around the ad hominen insult. Surprised it took this long.
You have issues. If you wanted to be taken seriously by this comment of yours than you have failed.
Alien: Romulus
Script writer: ChatGPT
Exactly
The Ian holm stuff was strange AF (Rest in peace)
@@jamiefugazi6974 maybe he was gay for him and missed him.
That was some serious uncanny valley stuff. Looked really distracting.
@@UndeadNerdT800 it made me nearly physically ill
Yep. I found it very insulting to the actor. Used a prop for the fans, that’s it.
So cringe. It makes me fuckin hate this movie with a passion.
One of the worst digital recreations I've ever seen. Very disrespectful.
Agreed. It was a shocking film for so many reasons. It felt like someone asked an AI to write a script mixing Alien, Aliens, Resurrection and the last two no one cares about. Oh, and Scooby-Do. It really was that bad. A bunch of teenagers take their van to an old creepy mansion and the creepy caretaker (Rook) warns them of the nasty monsters. It was just dire.
not gonna lie a swarm of face huggers scrambling out of a doorway like that is fucking terrifying, especially with their spider like appearance
This guy is full of crap. The movie was a lot of fun.
It sucked
@@funghoul9124 What'd you expect? Stanley Kubrick? .. It's a spook house ride with the Alien in it. 😂
@@Fiveash-Art I expect decent memorable characters. I can remember all the characters from 1 & 2. Hollywood seems to really struggle with developing memorable characters, they all seem so generic these days.
@CyrilSneer123 -- Yep!! And the way these characters are written, should insult everyone's intelligence!!
This movie was exactly what I expected.
What I expected:
ALL Children as actors: Check
Illogical with everything: Check
Everyone is an idiot: Check
Jumpscares: Check
Cringe recycling of everything: Check
Only the girl survives: Check
Pointless and forgetable: Check
yup
Alien Isolation was apparently a massive inspiration for the movie's direction. And you can honestly tell, for better and for worse.
According to IMDB, Alien: Isolation is a game based on Ripley's daughter, Amanda Ripley trekking out to find her mother. If that was the case, they should have used that theme as motivation to drive this film as well. Instead it is just a bunch of orphans who somehow can just lift off into outerspace using their own space shuttle that's been doubling as a doublewide trailer park, without clearance or a flightplan at the drop of a hat. They then board an abandoned science vessel that no other seasoned space pirates or salvagers bothered to investigate for 20 years.
The game was great as an _Alien_ story and as one of the best survival horror games ever made.
Here's what I could find on the movie being inspiration for the game.
From CBR
The highly anticipated next installment in the Alien franchise, Alien: Romulus, has entered theaters. With a promise to return the franchise to its more horror-based roots, director Fede Alvarez took inspiration from not only Ripley Scott’s Alien and James Cameron’s Aliens, but also from Creative Assembly’s 2014 survival horror game Alien: Isolation. On the Inside Total Film podcast, Alvarez spoke about how the game influenced him and the movie.
"Alien: Isolation was kind of what made me see that Alien could truly be terrifying and done well today. I played a few years after it came out. Don’t Breathe was coming out. Or was I waiting for Don’t Breathe to come out, and I was playing the game. That’s why, at the time, I was like, ‘F***, if I could do anything, I would love to do Alien and scare the audience again with that creature and those environments.’ I was playing, and realizing how terrifying Alien could be if you take it back to that tone.”
There’s More Connections to Alien Isolation
Alien: Isolation did more than influence the general tone of the movie. Elements of the game actually made it into the movie. In the first behind-the-scenes image from the set of Alien: Romulus, fans of Alien: Isolation might have spotted the Emergency Phone kiosk in the background. For those unfamiliar with the game, the Emergency Phone serves as a savepoint for players and usually precedes an encounter with the terrifying alien onboard the ship with you. This is something Alvarez took note of and even implemented in the movie.
“The movie is set up in a way that every time something bad is about to happen, you will see a phone. In the game, every time you knew there’s a phone you’d go, ‘Fuck, I’m about to go into some bad set-piece.’ It’s the same thing here. You’ll see they’re planted strategically throughout the film. When you see the phone, it’s like: brace for impact.”
@@JacobPaul-ix7oc OK. So Mr. Alvarez admits, he was more concerned about riping off a video game, than creating a truly good stand alone film that would re-energize the franchise. Geez. Where do I sign up to get $80M to rehash someone else's work. I can do that!
The subtle efforts to make that game canon are the only thing that really saved this film for me.
@@steppingstonemediagroupllc Agree as it seems cailee spaeny was cast for her resemblance to sigorney weaver. So Rain is a space trucker with her trusty droid sidekick looking for clues of her mother’s list ship. Sad thing is from aliens, we know amanda never found ripley. Unless you time travel…
As a long-time Aliens fan, I detest what the modern movies have done to the lore.
My headcannon lore fix:
*0.* Having xenomorphs be engineered is stupid. They're clearly ambush predators that work best in tight spaces, not open battlefields. Plus, their egg longevity means you can never use that world again. You might as well build atop a field of nuclear landmines. Besides, the out of control bio weapon angle has been done to death, and the notion of nature doing it better is more in line with the powerlessness and fear of the original films.
*1.* Let's go back to natural origins. Say Xenomorphs are native to a world that undergoes regular extinction cycles (perhaps its orbit takes it near an asteroid belt every few thousand earth years, or solar activity periodically increases to the point it causes intense, planetwide fires). The eggs last so long in order to wait for life to return. They incorporate the host form so they're always ready for new environments. Acid blood prevents vermin from eating the eggs before suitable hosts can re-evolve. This means that their homeworld can be anywhere, and if they haven't woken up yet in that cycle, you'd never know they were there. It also means they don't have to be part of a balanced ecosystem. They are apocalypse survivors whose only concern is to eliminate all threats and produce as many eggs as possible before the next apocalypse, which in turn gives them a reason to be so vicious. Sustainability isn't a factor for them because their eggs can wait for a wasteland to become lush again. All they care about is wiping out all threats at any cost.
*2.* The Space Jockeys are experimenting with xeno DNA via the black goo, but xeno DNA is extremely good at reasserting itself, hence all the failures.
*3.* David may think he created the xenomorphs in their "perfect" form, but all he actually did was strip away the Space Jockey tampering, thus allowing the original DNA to better assert itself. He's been patting himself on the back for something he has no idea he played no part in.
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*-- Potential Mini-Series Plot --*
A garden world full of life. A xenobiologist's dream come true. So much variety! And beneath the surface, paleontologists find even more variety of extinct species in their excavations. Thanks to the apocalypse cycle, this world produces new species at ×10 the normal rate. The research opportunities are endless. But something is odd. The same "spike to the head" wound appears over and over on different species throughout the geologic columns, even through several apocalypse cycles. Eventually, they uncover a network of caverns, and deep inside, things start looking very different. There's more remains here than in the entire excavation, and the walls don't seem right. They discover fossilized nests with millions of eggs waiting. And since the next apocalypse is known to still be centuries away the humans had gone ahead and built numerous settlements on this world to exploit its research and resources (building massive infrastructure on a place about to go fubar would be stupid, Hollywood 😑, so no using that for an "explosive finish"). So, if the nests are planetwide, then each settlement is sitting on a time bomb. It's a world too good to be true, with biological resources beyond imagining, hiding its darkest secret just beneath its inviting exterior.
YES
Nobody’s reading this long ass bullshit dude. Your a bore
About 1. I like the idea of a ecosystem with cyclical extintion events. But the cause of those extinction events could be the xenos themselves. It goes like this: the xenos destroys all life bigger than a cat, then stay dormant for thousands for years because no more prey is available. When life returns to the zone, they end encountering the eggs at some point, and the cycle begins again.
I ain't reading all of that...
(I read all of that)
0. Seeing xenomorphs as ambush predators is a flawed point of view. In what movie or game have you actually seen xenomorphs hunting and consuming prey, like predators do? Yeah, they probably have to sustain themselves of something, but it's clear that they are, actually, parasitic creatures, parasitoids, who absolutely NEED their victims as hosts in order to reproduce, because they can't mate with each other and produce the final stage of their reproduction cycle, which can become an adult. Just like parasitoid wasps can't survive without their arthropod hosts, xenomorphs can't survive without humans, engineers and whatnot. They don't hunt, kill and eat them, they use them as means of propagating their species.
Biggest issue I found with the plot was the entire presence of facehuggers on the Romulus. They were on the derelict ship on LV426 waiting for the colonists to begin terraforming. Also, the entire salvage mission to recover "Big chap" didn't make sense. Nobody knew about the creature to go and look for it in the first place.
Have to agree with you, LV426 would have made sense. Nostromo was vapourised, the alien wasn't on Nostromo anyway and wtf is with the sarcophagus it was inside? I think I saw symbols on it too, totally nonsensical.
First 30/35 minutes were really, really good. We were in the world of Aliens and Alien again both aesthetically and thematically. Then it falls off a fucking cliff as if they had used AI to come up with a script. It’s about 50% Alien, 30% Aliens, 10% Prometheus and 10% Resurrection with a smattering of Alien 3 and other sci fi films. Including the fucking DIALOGUE, lifted straight out of those films. Can no one actually write anything ORIGINAL anymore??? Hugely disappointed.
Newborn
Nothing happened remotely until about the 41 minute mark. I forget exactly but i know for certain it showed past 40 min mark. There are slow burns and then there is this abomination of a script.
The true horror of this movie.
The marketing and interviews surrounding this movie pointed to Alien Isolation in movie form.
I did not expect a half assed mashup of Isolation, Resurrection and Prometheus
This movie is the jurassic world of the alien franchise.
Member berries and call backs with mostly forgettable characters.
Or a force awakens if you will
Both, well put.
No way, it's not "That bad" Romulus was cool, acceptable. May not be amazing as the first two, but it was good. Jurassic World was just so wrong.
They don't make movies like they used to. Also, today's audiences are so dumb-downed that they will consider this mediocre, forgettable movie as a classic.
Bingo!!!
Yeah everyone is super hyping this and when you offer criticism, it’s always “why can’t just enjoy it ugh” umm because it’s dumb writing.
You nailed it! Society is so dumb that all great franchises that were great in the past have to be diluted so they can digest it.
The moment you bring up literal alien lore established by Alien Aliens and ALIEN³ they all say stupid crap about being picky lol.
ALIEN fans are all about logic and lore. Ridley has totally wrecked that with his black goo crap
It was SO BAD.. a Xenomorph caught a girl falling down an elevator shaft WITH IT’S TAIL.. WTF??
Your overall assessment of this film is spot on.
Finally a legit review that addresses the stupidity in this movie. I really wanted to love this film but it fell short in so many ways
Disappointing to say the least! 🤦🏼♀️
I felt the same way about Deadpool and Wolverine, but fanboys including Thorias seemed to love that movie. Deadpool and Wolverine is *fan-service* and *nostalgia bait* the movie, and the antagonist of the movie is forgettable.
It's really disappointing. With a better script, I think Fede Alvarez could've delivered a banger film.
I like the idea of the Facehuggers being the main problem because the Xenomorphs are scary, but they're just another big monster.The Facehuggers, they are true threats cause they can jump on you out of nowhere.
Facehuggers that can crash through glass, and jump thirty feet? It’s overkill.
@@LemonsAndSalt69the main character had already smashed the glass up with a pipe before they crashed through…
I wanted to call this guy a hater but then I realised He was actually critical of the same things I was, however I was also critical of the bad deep fake for Rook. I rated it 7 out of 10.
And they have forced intercourse with your mouth
@LemonsAndSalt69 you realize the first time we ever see a face hugger they eat through the glass of the crew members helmet. The scientist in the first movie makes mention of how they could use their acid as a defense mechanism
The only thing worth knowing is how the Alien cocoons itself to grow from the chest burster. But in Covenant it facehugged the captain, burst through the chest and became fully grow within minutes.
Actually 37 seconds
Yes because in Covenant the aliens were in raw form and accelerated by the black goo that David dropped on the planet. We know the black goo accelerates tissue breakdown and cellular multiplication by design.
So that's why the turn around time was quick in Covenant.
@7:33 - This is the most honest review I have read in the past 24 hours. To say this film took a wrong turn in the third act, and then went completely off the rails in the last 10 minutes is the most accurate, and most polite way of stating the facts without condemning the entire film. Acts I & II were indeed headed in the right direction, but something went wrong in the third Act. It is almost as if a studio executive walked into the writer's room along with their 8-year old child at their side and said, "We need a giant monster at the end so we can sell some lunch boxes when the kids start back to school next week.... Isn't that right sweetheart?"
[Update] It just occurred to me that this space station Romulus and Remus was large enough to house at least 30-50 scientists, but when the protagonists of the film arrive to pilfer cryopods, it only had 5.
Ridley Scott demanded "More cowbell!"
It started great and ended bad. I don't even want a sequel to it because of how it ended... but we'll get one.
Man, I am so with you here.
I was so frustrated by the end of this.
From the uncanny valley CGI to bring back a character, to the out of character lines that were simply pulled from previous films, to even recycling the climax of Resurrection...I was just depressed by the end of this, with the thought that all we have left is to recycle even the bad ideas.
I saw this yesterday. I enjoyed it, was entertained, but this review is absolutely the most accurate I’ve seen so far. Everything is spot on in Thorias’ good and bad of this film. I didn’t hate the movie, and will probably watch again at home someday, but it could have been much better especially towards the end. It’s the end that ruins it.
Oh boy... that ending... yeesh... smh
Its a disney movie. It was meant to be horrible.
This is a stupidly accurate review. Virtually every thgought I had about this film has been expressed.
Right there with you buddy. This really is the only first review I’ve experienced that seems at all in line with what I witnessed on Thursday night. Also, forgive me if this has been commented on, but in the last 10 minutes was nobody else thinking oh my God, I’m watching a live action Dead Space now. Necromorphs, anyone?
Finally! A movie reviewer who uses his eyes, ears and brain! This movie was absolute horseshit from start to finish!
Be careful Ridley will set the black goo on you lol
@@Fiorwestcoast 🤣
@@markairey362tell me I am stupid all you want but I liked it but it wasn’t perfect. The deepfake was terrible, the black goo’s return ruined the movie, where its set makes aliens pointless, and most of the callbacks aren’t good.
I honestly like the movie, it had my attention the whole time, my only real complaint is it really wasn't that gory, hell Kane had a better reaction to a 42inch long parasite punching thru your ribs then that one chick did 😂
Yup, agree with everything you said. Very disappointed with this film.
Scott forced that ending onto Alvarez to somehow connect Romulus to Prometheus and/or Covenant, because those two were supposed to be parts of a trilogy, but that will never happen after the flop of Covenant.
So the credits to that ending goes to a desperate Scott, who does not have to end those miserable films now, and he now thinks that he succeeded.
But he did not. He abused yet another movie, which started out promising.
Sad.
Covenant did $37 million domestic opening which accounting for inflation is $47 million in today’s money. Romulus is being called a hit for doing a $40 million domestic opening. Why are there such obvious double standards?
@@danielwoods3563 I have no idea. I guess in the long run we'll see which does better - but your argument is valid! ;)
Do you have figures for Covenant - what have it grossed so far since it premiered?
why do directors always wanna destroy their early works of art in later years? could never be me.. ever.
What is your source for this? Or is this just what YOU came up with?
@@AbrasiousProductions Because they dont care anymore. They already did their thing - they KNOW they cant top what they managed to put once together, and they just say, fuck it!
They are established, they are not driven by fame or money anymore. They got those already.
They are ok with making forgottable movies - they wont be remembered for those, they will be remembered for their masterpieces. Yeah, ageing sucks...
The thing that piss me off and frustrated the hell out of me was the stupidity of the crew. They constantly was trying to save people that was attack and infected in front of their own eyes. Once those face huggers attach themselves to you it's a wrap. Other than that I enjoyed the film.
This movie truly sucks. Alien and Aliens only matter.
You nailed my biggest peeve… the sped up face hugger to chest burst to full adult. Started with AvP.
Also… if this is 20 years after the Nostromo, and the company knew about what Ripley did. Why did it take them 50 plus years to go back to lv 426 to explore the ship?
They didn't know what happened other then the transmission from Mother. They discovered the life signs of the cocooned Xeno and must not of known much about the aliens if they don't have a clue about there blood.
youre just a pretentious oldhead
Adding some lines from Aliens, the airlocks and " resurrecting" Alien Resurrection is like watching " Laser Room" scene from Resident Evil over again...
@@HOLLASOUNDSMUSIC but in Alien Ash knew what was going on as it have read over the years. The company knew of the transmission. Some say Dallas was even in on it too. Mainly because they never quarantined Kane even after the face hugger died.
Plus the whole black oil story is silly.
I’ll stick with Alien and Aliens.
It was good. Solid 3rd place in the franchise
COMPLETELY agree with your review. I've seen so many other reviews that made me think I was losing my mind about what I saw!
I hereby grant you the Statler & Waldorf Award for excellence.
WALDORF :
" do you know
the best part of the movie "
STATLER :
" what ? "
WALDORF :
" when it ended "
STATLER: "What was that movie we just watched?"
WALDORF: "I think it was about aliens."
STATLER: "I think it was MADE by aliens."
BOTH: "Doh-hohohoho!"
I'll wear that like a badge of honor.
Terrific review,the most accurate I've seen so far.I loved most of this movie,till about the last 20 minutes, then it just turned into a pile of crap.The ending was just insane.....
Prometheus and covenant deserve a proper sequel, a lot better then what romulus did
Sequels w/o Ridley Scott's involvement, so the scripts that right the wrongs with story logic and characterization.
Prometheus (let alone 'Covenant') is not even in a movie class where the word "deserves" in terms of a sequel, is earned
I agree with you. It was retreaded tire of a film whose main goal seems to have been to do an homage to each and every film in the franchise no matter how rotten except for AVP1 and 2. In order to do that, it was much too busy to develop the scares we remember from seeing Alien and Aliens in the theater. My wife, who never texts in theaters, whipped out her phone in the middle of it, and I was too uninterested in the movie to even bother to tell her to put it away even though the phone screen was reflecting in my glasses.
I post a comment relating to this film, and I get insulted for my opinion that it's a pile of feces. Thank you, for your honest review.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again; Senile Scott strikes again! Eff this film!
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Lot of overly sensitive people in these fandoms are quick to fire off insults when confronted with a dissenting opinion they have no real argument against.
@@thoriasunlimited4053 Especially when "woke" is thrown around so much and so many lazy "reviewers" (grifters) and people like them throw money at these people for no real thoughtful response. I mean if someone presented with a good faith argumeant about why they liked something I might think their standards are low, but ultimately perople can like what they like. I think MOS is hysterically aweful, but grovel and thinks it masterpiece. Uhmm whatver.
I agree with you 100%. That’s exactly what I feel about this movie. Word by word.
the only thing I did not understand about this movie is: why they decided AGAIN that merging alien with human is a great idea?
Or maybe how the big chap makes facehuggers? Or how the facehuggers now magically make black goo.
This film falls apart the more you think about it
Alien Romulus happens bewteen alien and aliens.
@Fiorwestcoast the black goo was genetically engineered from the face huggers DNA.
Where did the huggers come from? I feel like the ending was supposed to be a queen a ridley said nope. Need to tie into the engineers.
That was ridiculous. The ending was such a garbage it made me hate this film. And I even bought this movie online for 17 euros !!!
Started out good, went to eye roll territory about 30 min in. Also, who makes an elevator in a space station that relies on gravity????
Ridley Scott is on a trajectory to destroying his legacy, he just doesn't know when to stop. His tampering with Romulus, flops like Napoleon and *shudder* Gladiator 2, the one movie in which a sequel was most unnecessary.
Bro stfu the was an amazing entry to the franchise. You just hate it because it's not the first two.
@@CrimminalHEXXno we hate it because the goo still doesn't make sense
unfortunately, this movie is gathering vast praise and if anything will only bolster his drive to continue wreaking havoc (even though I personally enjoyed Prometheus and Covenant)
Great Point. Why make a "Gladiator 2"? 🙄The first Gladiator is fine. It's a great film all by itself.
Gladiator 2 will restore it. Watch and see
Thank you for this homest review. I just cannot understand why popular opinion of this movie of opposite of yours but everything you said is thrue. I think also they made a mistake when they chose so young and pretty looking cast. They are not even avarage looking people bit all of them are cute looking. It feels like this is some totslly other genre than alien movie should be.
But one good thing is that this movie propably made alien isolatiom sequel to be possible.
I liked it except for the following points: a) the highly sped up implantation/growth, b) the continued pregnancy in a STASIS pod, c) the end monster.
I figured the station wasn't abandoned, but derelict because of the outbreak. With how fast the life cycle was shown in this it could've happened couple days prior. We've already seen the universe doesn't have warp or lightspeed travel, so journeys take years and reinforcements could've been on the way. I don't think they've ever demonstrated how fast interstellar communication is either, not that the company wants untrained personnel going up there messing with things, seeing stuff, and asking questions.
Rook (Ash) said it takes 6 months for a quick transmission beam to get back to earth. And that’s their version of “quick”
So you hated it
The problem with that "6 months period" for help to arrive falls on its face when a FRIGGIN WAYLAND YOUTANY planet was just there ..
Am pretty sure a call to their mining planet would do the trick .
"Mayday mayday" xenos outbreak asamble killteam.. done . Why call earth when you have a base just there ? .
@@RAY-THE-WAY 6 months for a transmission seems a little ludicrous. In Aliens, they were expecting rescue in 17 days
Exactly. Everything was sort of ignored or neglected regarding the sensibility of the story. Not like the originals which although more obscure, were coherent to the extent that they were revealed. FTL travel is commonplace and so is FTL communication on par with it. @@juanausensi499
I felt exactly like what you said at 1:16. I was so excited about this. Watched it last Wednesday. Now, a few days later, all i can think is: i hope this is not the last in the Alien series and the next will come as soon as possible to forget about this one 🙁
There was a different cut. Scott came in and said it was wrong and made akverez re cut it.
It's documented that Ridley messed thus up per an interview from alverez.
He was getting jealous again, so he started putting in his philosophical cologne and messed it up
Ridley has ruined the Franchise
@@Fiorwestcoast yep 💯
@@jamiefugazi6974 as well as that Engineer faced alien human hybrid. God, why does he keep hammering home his philosophical bullcrap?! Alien is not 2001! If he wants this type of stuff fine but make something original. Oh wait! He planned that for Prometheus but the studio forced him to make it connected to Alien. So I guess he wasn’t entirely to blame back then. But he’s not excusable now because he’s gained a ego ever since. Any sympathy was lost a long time ago. I feel bad for Fede instead because there’s probably a different version of this film that wasn’t tampered by Ridley Scott. This speaks reshoots.
@@Fiorwestcoast Dan O'Bannon, the true Alien guy, turning in his grave.
Well, that explains a lot.
Alien 3 should never be allowed to share the spotlight with the first two. It literally can’t even happen because they never explain how eggs could’ve even got on the pod. Everything from 3 onward is a hypersleep nightmare or nothing
@@Twentyand1 The egg got on board the ship because the screenplay says it got on the ship. There is literally no way an egg could have gotten on that ship.
So how does the big chap make facehuggers now?? Bishop snuck that egg on. It would make more sense with that than face huggers from acid dna
i always assumed the queen somehow laid that egg as a last resort but yeah i see it being a stretch
@@LemonsAndSalt69 exactly 😆
@@Fiorwestcoast he snuck it on, got it off the drop ship and loaded onto the escape pod and made it back to the drop ship just in time for the queen to tear him a new one. Got it 😆
There is a story already practically written that I don't think people realize. Alien, Aliens, and Alien Isolation are the only ones I care about, but if they were going to make something for the franchise I'd like to see Newt's Tale. Weyland colonizing the planet then shipping in the colonists, scientist, engineers, security, and the blue color families etc. to Acheron (LV-426) many years after the Nostromo incident. Colonists slowly start disappearing mysteriously and members of their families. One by one the alien queen's horde grows building the large infestation that became Aliens. Someone had to catch those face huggers in the lab Berk laid out for Ripley and Newt. Who did it? Also ,these things were being studied. Who was studying them? The movie could be set up like a huge boring Weyland orientation video pitching to the best and brightest to work for Weyland off world,... why you can even bring your families to live among the stars and make a ton of credits working for The Weyand Corporation. So Rebecca, her brother and family mount up with their clever top blue collar construction leader Father and plant Operator Mom for a promotional opportunity or because the company staff is slowly turning up missing there and they need good replacements who don't ask questions. Colonist improvising weapons to fight, kids running to hide, Newt getting separated and cunningly outsmarting the Aliens until the Space Marines and Ripley arrive. Boom! now that's the Alien movie I want to see.
Oh yeah, good choice on the thumbnail. Perfectly captured your feelings haha
This review freaking nailed it!
This is the review of the movie I saw. Not sure why everybody fawned over this.
It was probably Scott that messed up the third act. Some filmmakers just cannot let it go. BTW, you wanna a good Alien movie, play Alien: Isolation or Alien: Resurrection.
Resurrection was garbage
I think when Tarantino was talking about some Directors should stop while they're ahead especially as they get old , I seriously think it's Rid Scott he was talking about
Maybe he was also talking about himself. Once upon a time was truly a dull film.
James Cameron too. They had their time. That time ended 15+ years ago.
alien, blade runner, the exorcist, 2001, conan the barbarian, mad max...masterpieces that could never be duplicated
Ridley Scott is (inexplicably) the producer for all things alien at Disney. He is also producing the upcoming Alien Earth TV Series. This is despite him being on record as saying the Alien is "baked" as in done. You will notice that all alien films since prometheus have used his Scott Free studios to produce them tho. Cynic tho I am I think that is a main motivation for Ridley to keep producing films about a creature he thinks is overused. Yes Ridley deserves credit for creating the first Alien film. But that doesnt mean we and the franchise should be eternally beholden to him and his successive bad ideas.
Ridley has essentially ran the franchise into the ground. I'm dying to know what Cameron has to say. Especially with Ridley doing everything he can to replace the queen with black goo. Urgh.
@@Fiorwestcoast I agree. He needs to step back and allow somone who actually likes the creature with fresh ideas to step forward. I believe that cameron and ridley planned to make a sequel together prior to AVP, but the studio went AVP so it never happened. Would be interesting to hear Camerons take on the prequel series. I reckon they would have been a lot better with his involvement, hopefully.
@@frostie102wait he is producing alien earth. Which means the black goo……NO……NO!!!!!!!!!!! I still liked Romulus but the black goos return was unnecessary and not good
@@Xenomorph.king24 I agree. I think the black goo has become aliens plot mcgubbins that inexplicably explains almost anything the director wants it to. Best left out of future movies if possible.
@@frostie102 I still liked Romulus tho but why bring him back. I was hoping Romulus be the last time we see the black goo
I watched just because it was a Alien franchise movie, but it was like a B movie 😑
Great review. You pointed out the most ridiculous things about this film very precisely. Xenomorphs' life cycle suddenly being like 10 minutes is what taken me aback first, too. Same feelings about the third act. And the casting. And of course the stupid "Resurrection part two" moment hahah.
How could they have so much good base for this movie and then choose to copy the worst parts of worst movies in the series, for God's sakes LMAO
Just give me A HAUNTED HOUSE IN SPACE, none of this hybrid SMILING alien shit, this movie is hot garbage honest to god
Unfortunately everything I've heard about Romulus agrees with this review. Beautiful but dumb.
it takes a lot to piss me off and this movie deserves an award, clap clap, good job!
Alien and Aliens are the best/only ones that are canon and Ridley Scott is his own worse enemy.
The 4th part I liked to some degree because it had some Firefly Serenity feeling ...
I LOVED THE MOVIE… but he’s not wrong.
The intelligence shown by Ripley's character is sorely missed. Instead, we have a childlike Rain & her android brother/ pal.
Best and most honest review I have seen so far.
I am very honest with my reviews but I liked Romulus but I can understand why others wouldn’t like it. I had problems with this film and it made it a mixed bag.
There's a cool Aliens game where you command a squad of marines. Felt like how I remember the first movies.
Alien Isolation
@@WheresWaldo05 Aliens Dark Descent
Been around for every alien film. Frickin loved this one. Each to their own.
The draw for me was the return of Big Chap; the original 1979 xenomorph. Unfortunately, it seems the monster is barely in the film.
I was disappointed big chap wasn't alive. I was hoping he would be the main Xeonomorph leading the others and badly scarred.
I'm going to follow this guy from now on - I got stung and believed other positive reviews of Romulus!
Glad I could help fix that.
TOTALLY AGREE !!!!!!!!!!!!!! with You! i hated to "2nd ending"
I love a Xenomorph movie. But in Romulus once a Xenomorph bursts it's way out through the chest u cant have them grow/mature from 30 seconds to 10mins that's a fail right there. Plot was shit but it had good action/cgi. An adult Xenomorph takes within 1 hour to 24 hours to grow. On most occasions, it would take a few hours for a Xenomorph to grow up into a Queen, but sometimes, it would take a few days.
Their are only three alien movies and they peaked at two. Change my mind.
Same with the Terminator franchise. Except for T3. That one sucked.
I just wish they could finally let this franchise rest and write something.brand new
Otherwise, someday we'll get Alien 57 and it will be sold as once again "going back to its roots"
How many films does it take before everyone realises it's the same story of alien monsters killing everyone?
Good review. You were spot on. Also, the movie wasn't scary with no chase scenes from the aliens. It would have been nice to have seen some brutality from aliens with their kills. The way crew members went out had no shock factor it didn't disturb you when you watched it. Aliens 2 nailed all the above with the deaths of the marines.
Shame this movie had so much potential. A big letdown for me 5.5/10 not even close to Alien or Aliens 2. I even preferred Alien 3 over this movie.
Your review is the best. I couldnt agree more. I had to come back and watch Aliens again to restore my faith.
I didn´t know about your channel. Good video, I agree completely. Subscribed.
I agree this feels like I was watching two movies that were Frankenstined together. I felt more tension watching them blast into space through the turbulent planetary atmosphere than I did when they were confronting multiple xenos
A fine line between Homage and Formage’😂
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Great review! I'm glad you're back and feeling better.👍
"homages"? Dude, the whole film is a mish mash of repurposed scenes from different Alien movies lol, it's bad
Yep. A movie with dangling keys lol
Well said! You adequately put to words how I was feeling since I saw it the other night.
The Alien that Ripley blew out of her ship was not a queen so how did they create facehuggers on Romulus??
The rock containing the Alien at the start, they prolly just took its DNA.
The pathogen is independent of queens or drones, the alien is just an expression of the pathogen, this thing can transform and evolve into anything that can continue its path of destruction, so is not fix’d to a fenotype (alien drone, queen or whatever it wants to evolve)
I believe it was David from Alien Convinent. He had a fuck ton of face huggers.
@@jellowrock That's Ridley Scott's dumb addition from Prometheus and Covenant. I think most people were going into Romulus hoping it was retconning those two films out of existence, along with the magic "it can do anything" black goo that sometimes creates xenomorphs with a distinct lifecycle and social hierarchy, but also other times for some reason creates squid monsters and contortionist zombies and vagina snakes and spore mushrooms while also making dead alien heads reanimate and explode but also disintegrates them if they're alive.
@@keiichi8191 all that you just described is what I loved about Giger and Scott work, take a look on the necronomicon book from Giger, or his art, I rather have this that the dumb idea of a planet called “alien prime” when aliens have always existed
So a better title for this would be:
“Another Teenage Alien horror movie”?
5/10 for me. Not bad, not good. Lots of good stuff, plenty of terrible, TERRIBLE stuff in there
My friends and I talked about the incredibly truncated xenomorph metamorphosis and we concluded that it was because of Weyland-Yutani genetic manipulation.
I cannot make this clearer: EVERYTHING he says is fucking on point. Everything I loved and hated about this movie he has nailed in less than 13 minutes.
When it comes to cinema in recent years for this particular franchise, Prometheus was the better choice with how they handled their approach (not the best, but was very pleasing) to the series of Alien saga.
Let me first start off by saying I was highly anticipating this film to capture exactly what I was looking forward to. Biggest waste of money and a major letdown (they should’ve just released this on the sci-fi channel or Netflix). Some People in the theater act like it was something phenomenal and Horrifying, and I was becoming less entertained by the minutes looking at my watch waiting for this piece of shit to be over. Certain moments caught my attention, but it wasn’t good enough. Alien Covenant was better than this…AVP was more entertaining imo, and I hated that movie. Even ALIEN 3 gets more credit than this shit! I’m not gonna be one of the ones Dissecting the whole entire series with how this installment crashes, but what a complete joke. This was Disney tier, teenage drama bullshit!
Fede Álvarez is pretty hype with he’s following, and I will never go see any of those works again that come from this guy. Thank you for turning this into a dead ending experience.
I have never been so bored in my entire life of viewing cinema. BORING!!!
My favourite part was when an alien saved Rain from falling to certain death. Then preceeds to wanna kill her. Yes, this actually happens in the movie.
Didnt it proper her up for a facehugger implantation? I recall a facehugger coming out of the piping while the Xeno was holding her.
@@AEGISDEFENSE
Hold, no. Intimidate into not moving, yes. At the time it caught her, there was nothing suggesting that not letting her go splat was a better choice even if you gave it truly human level intelligence or even a computer given a list of priorities.
what?... you have to be kidding me.
@@AbrasiousProductions There was a facehugger nearby, the Alien was holding Rain so the facehugger could impregnate her because yknow... Xenos still need to reproduce, which they cant do if someone is dead. There's literally a shot of a facehugger crawling to Rain, dont listen to people that don't understand the movie, if you like the Alien franchise, go see it.
@@John-fk2ky The thing that suggests not letting her go splat was a better choice was the facehugger? whatre you talking about? The Xeno needed her alive to reproduce, man.
I like your review. I’ll have to say that many times I wanted to laugh at how lame the movie was. I restrained myself because I didn’t want to upset the audience around me who might be trying to enjoy it. Basically, it did suck and it did so badly. One of my biggest complaints was that with all the hype surrounds the title, absolutely nothing interesting about the space station was developed. I mean nothing! That and all the things you mention plus many many many others make this poor film total garbage. As far as I’m concerned it does not exist in the Alien cannon. I’ve erased it from the lore completely. The beauty of the original film was the fact that the monster was literally beyound understanding. Now it really is just a “bug hunt” and even Aliens suffers due to making the creature more and more understandable. What part of “acid for blood” did these idiots forget about? Nothing could have that acid for blood and make any kind of sense in our world. This movie just ruins the mysteries more and more and more. Sadly disappointed!
Why are you yelling?