I agree with many things you said here, but the one that hit home the most, it's the fucking lips smacking and disgusting noises that come from all around you when in the cinema, from people that think they are alone in the cinema (and yes I do have a serious form of misophonia, that I try to get over, but when that goes on, it's almost impossible to ignore and I am pleased I am not the only one feeling this stigma about cinema food and drink)
Ian Holm's CGI as Rook was intriguing, similar to AI David, Rook designed a strain of the black goo to help human colonist struggling with disease and environmental issues, pregnant Kay decides to inject rook's strain transforming her unborn fetus into a mutated engineer(Offspring)
Spot on review! I share many of the thoughts you expressed here, though I think the main difference is in the conclusion. Where you see no real future for the Alien franchise, I see a step in the right direction. A stumbling step, for sure, but at least one that’s turning away from the awful road Alien: Covenant was taking us down.
Alien and Aliens are my favorites. Aliens was a major influence on me, I bought started writing science fiction and joined the Marine Corps, both were terrible Ideas but I still love both of those films so much. They got the Marines in Aliens just right, they all fit military archetypes and they feel like people I would have served with. The equipment and uniforms are both familiar and exotic, like something from the Vietnam war that's been seriously upgraded. I love all The practical effects in Alien and aliens like how they used pieces of condoms for the alien drool and a million other things.
Thank you! I have the exact same opinion. The movie is really good but it doesn't add anything to the Alien mythos. It really does move backwards. I get that they wanted to "go back to basics" but I think they went overboard. The references didn't help. It looked like I was watching a remake r a reboot. Reminds me a lot of The Force Awakens. I don't mind the shot of the Xenomorph side by side with Rain like it was with Ripley but the Andy "Get away from the girl, you bitch." Felt so awkward. There was no reason for him to say "bastard". It really rubbed the wrong way. "See, audience. I made reference to thing you like, therefore you have to likes this movie!" Again, it was a good movie, but I'd rather have more Prometheus than Romulus. And yeah, the Offspring was fucking awesome!
I will never understand the blind praise im hearing for Romulus. Everyone is praising Romulus for exact same issues that they constantly trash Prometheus and Covenant. The characters are flat and forgettable. The writing for them is nonexistent most of the time. The acting is completely dispassionate... or talentless, however you want to look at it. I can remember Ripley obviously, Newt, Hicks, Dallas, Hudson, Parker, Ash and Bishop. I can even remember Clemens, Morris and 85, and I LOATHE Alien 3. I can remember Call, Johner, David, Shaw, Daniels, Vickers and Tennessee. I cant remember any of the s*** characters in Romulus. Not even the slow bk android. That said, they had the chance to give us a new, terrifying android. They didn't need Ian Holm. They just needed to find a British man that's a cross between Ash and Bishop. If you have the mutilated head and torso of a British android running around on its hands, trying to inject people with the black goo... that would be terrifying af. The fan service is completely inappropriate for a serious Alien film. Not even Resurrection stooped so low as to directly quote older, better movies in the franchise. As a fan, the "Get away from her you b****" line was completely insulting. How or why would they try to cheapen Ripleys glorious moment in Aliens?? This is how i rank the franchise: Aliens Alien Prometheus Alien Covenant Alien Resurrection AVP Alien Romulus Alien 3 AVP: Requiem
I have seen your comment 7 times lol. I liked Romulus but it wasn’t perfect. I give it a 7/10. The offspring is better than the newborn I don’t care fucking fight me
I found you again lol. I liked Romulus it has problems but those problems don’t make me hate it. Here’s how i rank the franchise with the AVP movies 1. Aliens 2. Alien 3. Romulus 4. Prometheus 5. AVP 6. Covenant 7. 3 8. Resurrection 9. Requiem
They should bring in a new set of colonial Marines as characters for a new film. Everyone loves watching a bug hunt, and alines v.s Marines pretty much writes it's own story, and the video games about it were all pretty decent. I think there's room for a gritty, bloody Aliens war movie. And for those who think should focus more on the horror aspect of the films, I agree completely, and I can tell you first hand that war is the most horrific and genuinely frightening things I've ever experienced and that was fighting other men, much less Aliens! I think the movies could swing away from the higher concept scifi and all the stuff from Prometheus, the Engineers are cool and stuff, but maybe not what all the fans want...I think a good portion of the fans would rather see an m41A 10mm pulse rifle blowing apart xzenos and showering stuff with acid blood!
Romulus was kinda crap. A few really cool new ideas buried under a mountain of ‘member berries’. The more I think about it the less I like it. I was especially annoyed that it plays a little bit with the premise of siblings and antagonism but nowhere near enough to justify the allusions to a Roman myth. Is Romulus humans? Remus the Xenomorph? The Engineers the Shewolf? Or are the siblings Man and Android? That would make David Romulus and the Xenomorph Rome. It all seemed tenuous and contrived.
It was a very competently made film with a terrible script. We never get to know or care about the human characters, everything moves at a panicked rush of a pace once they arrive at the station, the plot is just a recycled hash of all the other films, the recycled dialogue is atrocious, and cashing in on a dead actor is super icky. I also really wanted to love this film but instead I spent most of the film re-writing it in my head, baffled at all the terrible choices made in the script. While there are aspects of the film that are superior to Alien 3 and Resurrection, the fact that it went the memberberry/soft-reboot route is so damning in my opinion that I think it automatically gets ranked below them. At least those films had the confidence to do something new.
I agree with much of what you say but Alien Isolation was an appalling game. Indeed, I don't think there has been a decent Alien Game since the Alien v Colonial Marines pc game back in the 90's. Prometheus and Covenant were 98% awful but they did at least have brief flashes of decent creativity.
Alien Resurrection is not universally regarded as the worst alien movie. I have yet to meet a single person that says Alien 3 is better than Resurrection. Alien Resurrection has serious problems with tone and pacing , like everything from the late 90's, but alien 3 is a steaming pile of dogshit, but also has serious problems with tone and pacing
I'm probably going to be shot down for saying this but Resurrection is my 3rd favourite Aliens film but I can't stand the hybrid Alien at the end. There is however plenty to like about the film and Jeunet did a creditable job. One thing that gets my goat about Alien films is the idea that each new Alien would take a form influenced by the host. Why? If it did that too often then it wouldn't remain, as Ash said, 'A perfect organism.' Could you imagine an Alien/Hippopotamus hybrid, or an Alien/Giraffe 🦒 hybrid or even more bizarrely, an Alien/Jabba the Hut mutation? Talk about an evolutionary cul-de-sac!
The thing about the hybrid is you aren’t supposed to like it. It’s supposed to make you deeply uncomfortable. It’s an abomination, it shouldn’t exist. That’s why the most disturbing part of the film is when it gets sucked through the window and it’s starts screaming in an uncanny valleyesque human voice. This is what the franchise has always been about and I don’t think there was a better way to do it
Seeing that rating go from an 4 star to a 2 and a half should be a lesson on not giving your money to Disney's member-berry movies they've been pumping out since they bought Lucasfilms, and to wait until a HD rip drops so you can either download or watch via screen share with someone. There's just as many talented new and upcoming film-makers who put just as much heart and soul into their passion project that deserve your money, that to see you sit and get duped by Disney's marketing scheme is kind of sad. I get it's like a beloved franchise. But please understand that by giving your money to those companies, you're only begging them to make MORE of these. Congratulations, the Alien series is going to fall into the same member-berry pitfall "Jurassic World Dominion" or "Rise of Skywalker" Great review, but do go out your way to go to more indie theatres then just flocking to whatever multi-plex cinema is playing whatever mainstream shlock they try to pump down audience's throats. Become immune to Hollywood propaganda.
Idk who did that guest voiceover, but I'm sure they're amazing
Fuck I completely forgot to credit you in the video
You know their our of ideas when they have to use stuff from the Handsome Squidward movie. (I'm talking about Prometheus)
I gave Romulus a rewatch and I still liked it but it had problems
I agree with many things you said here, but the one that hit home the most, it's the fucking lips smacking and disgusting noises that come from all around you when in the cinema, from people that think they are alone in the cinema (and yes I do have a serious form of misophonia, that I try to get over, but when that goes on, it's almost impossible to ignore and I am pleased I am not the only one feeling this stigma about cinema food and drink)
Nice review
Ian Holm's CGI as Rook was intriguing, similar to AI David, Rook designed a strain of the black goo to help human colonist struggling with disease and environmental issues, pregnant Kay decides to inject rook's strain transforming her unborn fetus into a mutated engineer(Offspring)
Spot on review! I share many of the thoughts you expressed here, though I think the main difference is in the conclusion. Where you see no real future for the Alien franchise, I see a step in the right direction. A stumbling step, for sure, but at least one that’s turning away from the awful road Alien: Covenant was taking us down.
Alien and Aliens are my favorites. Aliens was a major influence on me, I bought started writing science fiction and joined the Marine Corps, both were terrible Ideas but I still love both of those films so much. They got the Marines in Aliens just right, they all fit military archetypes and they feel like people I would have served with.
The equipment and uniforms are both familiar and exotic, like something from the Vietnam war that's been seriously upgraded.
I love all The practical effects in Alien and aliens like how they used pieces of condoms for the alien drool and a million other things.
Thank you! I have the exact same opinion. The movie is really good but it doesn't add anything to the Alien mythos. It really does move backwards. I get that they wanted to "go back to basics" but I think they went overboard. The references didn't help. It looked like I was watching a remake r a reboot. Reminds me a lot of The Force Awakens. I don't mind the shot of the Xenomorph side by side with Rain like it was with Ripley but the Andy "Get away from the girl, you bitch." Felt so awkward. There was no reason for him to say "bastard". It really rubbed the wrong way. "See, audience. I made reference to thing you like, therefore you have to likes this movie!" Again, it was a good movie, but I'd rather have more Prometheus than Romulus. And yeah, the Offspring was fucking awesome!
I will never understand the blind praise im hearing for Romulus. Everyone is praising Romulus for exact same issues that they constantly trash Prometheus and Covenant.
The characters are flat and forgettable. The writing for them is nonexistent most of the time. The acting is completely dispassionate... or talentless, however you want to look at it.
I can remember Ripley obviously, Newt, Hicks, Dallas, Hudson, Parker, Ash and Bishop. I can even remember Clemens, Morris and 85, and I LOATHE Alien 3. I can remember Call, Johner, David, Shaw, Daniels, Vickers and Tennessee. I cant remember any of the s*** characters in Romulus. Not even the slow bk android.
That said, they had the chance to give us a new, terrifying android. They didn't need Ian Holm. They just needed to find a British man that's a cross between Ash and Bishop. If you have the mutilated head and torso of a British android running around on its hands, trying to inject people with the black goo... that would be terrifying af.
The fan service is completely inappropriate for a serious Alien film. Not even Resurrection stooped so low as to directly quote older, better movies in the franchise. As a fan, the "Get away from her you b****" line was completely insulting. How or why would they try to cheapen Ripleys glorious moment in Aliens??
This is how i rank the franchise:
Aliens
Alien
Prometheus
Alien Covenant
Alien Resurrection
AVP
Alien Romulus
Alien 3
AVP: Requiem
I have seen your comment 7 times lol. I liked Romulus but it wasn’t perfect. I give it a 7/10. The offspring is better than the newborn I don’t care fucking fight me
I found you again lol. I liked Romulus it has problems but those problems don’t make me hate it. Here’s how i rank the franchise with the AVP movies
1. Aliens
2. Alien
3. Romulus
4. Prometheus
5. AVP
6. Covenant
7. 3
8. Resurrection
9. Requiem
They should bring in a new set of colonial Marines as characters for a new film. Everyone loves watching a bug hunt, and alines v.s Marines pretty much writes it's own story, and the video games about it were all pretty decent.
I think there's room for a gritty, bloody Aliens war movie. And for those who think should focus more on the horror aspect of the films, I agree completely, and I can tell you first hand that war is the most horrific and genuinely frightening things I've ever experienced and that was fighting other men, much less Aliens!
I think the movies could swing away from the higher concept scifi and all the stuff from Prometheus, the Engineers are cool and stuff, but maybe not what all the fans want...I think a good portion of the fans would rather see an m41A 10mm pulse rifle blowing apart xzenos and showering stuff with acid blood!
Romulus was kinda crap. A few really cool new ideas buried under a mountain of ‘member berries’. The more I think about it the less I like it.
I was especially annoyed that it plays a little bit with the premise of siblings and antagonism but nowhere near enough to justify the allusions to a Roman myth. Is Romulus humans? Remus the Xenomorph? The Engineers the Shewolf?
Or are the siblings Man and Android? That would make David Romulus and the Xenomorph Rome. It all seemed tenuous and contrived.
It was a very competently made film with a terrible script. We never get to know or care about the human characters, everything moves at a panicked rush of a pace once they arrive at the station, the plot is just a recycled hash of all the other films, the recycled dialogue is atrocious, and cashing in on a dead actor is super icky. I also really wanted to love this film but instead I spent most of the film re-writing it in my head, baffled at all the terrible choices made in the script. While there are aspects of the film that are superior to Alien 3 and Resurrection, the fact that it went the memberberry/soft-reboot route is so damning in my opinion that I think it automatically gets ranked below them. At least those films had the confidence to do something new.
I agree with much of what you say but Alien Isolation was an appalling game. Indeed, I don't think there has been a decent Alien Game since the Alien v Colonial Marines pc game back in the 90's. Prometheus and Covenant were 98% awful but they did at least have brief flashes of decent creativity.
Alien Resurrection is not universally regarded as the worst alien movie. I have yet to meet a single person that says Alien 3 is better than Resurrection. Alien Resurrection has serious problems with tone and pacing , like everything from the late 90's, but alien 3 is a steaming pile of dogshit, but also has serious problems with tone and pacing
I'm probably going to be shot down for saying this but Resurrection is my 3rd favourite Aliens film but I can't stand the hybrid Alien at the end. There is however plenty to like about the film and Jeunet did a creditable job. One thing that gets my goat about Alien films is the idea that each new Alien would take a form influenced by the host. Why? If it did that too often then it wouldn't remain, as Ash said, 'A perfect organism.' Could you imagine an Alien/Hippopotamus hybrid, or an Alien/Giraffe 🦒 hybrid or even more bizarrely, an Alien/Jabba the Hut mutation? Talk about an evolutionary cul-de-sac!
The thing about the hybrid is you aren’t supposed to like it. It’s supposed to make you deeply uncomfortable. It’s an abomination, it shouldn’t exist. That’s why the most disturbing part of the film is when it gets sucked through the window and it’s starts screaming in an uncanny valleyesque human voice. This is what the franchise has always been about and I don’t think there was a better way to do it
Are you insane? Alien 3 is a masterpiece compared to Resurrection!
@@GeahkBurchillAgreed.
resurrection is more fun and entertaining but alien 3 is arguably the better overall film.
Seeing that rating go from an 4 star to a 2 and a half should be a lesson on not giving your money to Disney's member-berry movies they've been pumping out since they bought Lucasfilms, and to wait until a HD rip drops so you can either download or watch via screen share with someone. There's just as many talented new and upcoming film-makers who put just as much heart and soul into their passion project that deserve your money, that to see you sit and get duped by Disney's marketing scheme is kind of sad. I get it's like a beloved franchise. But please understand that by giving your money to those companies, you're only begging them to make MORE of these. Congratulations, the Alien series is going to fall into the same member-berry pitfall "Jurassic World Dominion" or "Rise of Skywalker" Great review, but do go out your way to go to more indie theatres then just flocking to whatever multi-plex cinema is playing whatever mainstream shlock they try to pump down audience's throats. Become immune to Hollywood propaganda.
Lovw strippin' guff
Was mid tbf
It's poo