How to Fix Alien Romulus
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- Опубліковано 18 вер 2024
- Following our review of Alien: Romulus (Directed by Febe Alvarez and staring Cailee Spaeny, David Jonsson and Isabella Merced) we have decided to re-write the plot of this show and let you know how this could have been fixed.
Join the discussion and comment on our thoughts.
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The first step to fixing it is for the writers to actually watch the first 2 movies. Not just clips of "the cool parts" on UA-cam.
Also, if they can reverse engineer an alien into black goo, how come they aren't just fusing humans with androids to make them better?
Their tech and science is apparently God tier.
Good points, and interesting idea about fusing humans and androids - thanks for the comments
The coloney is in the middle of nowhere so even with a distress signal they would be waiting months, there is a line in the movie which covers this. However other scavangers from the planet would have been nice.I do wish all the callbacks where removed and no mention of crappy black goo. Raine should have died at the end and Andy slowly drifts towards the new planet where he wont be accepted.
Interesting. But Andy is programmed to take care of Raine, so if she dies... I guess he would just "turn off".
Yes you have a point about the time it takes to get anywhere in space, which unfortunately is often forgotten to help move the story along. Agree with the call backs though, they needed to drop a lot of those.
Someone 'locked away' on the space station would be a little bit too 'Newt' for me. I didn't have any issues with the overall premise, though. It was just the execution that was slightly off. Like, they could have spent an hour on world building and setting up the encounters with the aliens. That would have been fine, and put it closer to the original (two) movies. This movie was a bit too formulaic. It was very similar to Resurrection in overall plot structure in my view.
The plot especially reminds me of the end of Alien 1. When Ripley, Parker and Lambert want to escape the Nostromo aboard the Narcissus, they must first stock up on refrigerant gas.
Hadn't really thought about the Newt connection but can see what you mean. We thought it would be good to have a surprise alien bursting without knowing it.
9:00 I would have put an elderly character too, in the role of the pilot. Like "don't worry, everything is fine, I'll take care of everything" and I would have made him die first, that way the young people find themselves "abandoned".
Agreed - think that would have been a good way to raise the panic.
The offspring was definitely a step in the right direction , the entire film should've focused on more original concepts like that..
The Ledward 's unique infection via living spores through the ear canal and the birthing of the neomorph back burster scene set the bar pretty high in Alien Covenant..
So I was expecting Fede to really go nuts with his creativity, creating original and interesting concepts.. But he chose to give us a mid tier chest burster scene instead..
We weren't too happy with the offspring side of things, too freaky and moving it to the lore of Prometheus and Covenant. Thanks for the comments
24:00 This idea reminds me of Alien Covenant, when Daniels crushes an alien with a giant claw.
Yeah, slightly - we were thinking some other way than just ejecting it out of a spaceship and trying to draw on her experience.
I would love to collaborate with you guys and share some ideas one day.
Cheers man - will have to have look at your channel - thanks for watching
What bothers me with the idea of the cocoon during the growth of the chestbuster is that we have never seen one in the other films, although logically, we should have...
In Alien 3, you can see the xeno growing during the scene of the guy being cut up by a big fan, but it's quick and dark. The alien is covered in secretion, the walls around him too and he seems to be writhing in pain. Then he spits acid in the face of the approaching man.
I prefer the symbolism of the hole with the secretion than simply a vagina stuck to the wall...^^
And I much, much, much prefer the death with the fan than the absolutely ridiculous death of Bjorn.
Yeah I wasn't too sure about the cocoon thing - I thought they grew and shed their skins a bit like a snake.
I think it would have made more sense if the alien's cocoon had crashed on the planet. More coherent than finding it in space... So, the young people could have taken advantage of the panic to leave and collect refrigerant gas on their planet. There is no refrigerant gas on their planet? Weird.
Good point about the refrigerant gas - perhaps that was too well guarded and they wanted to try their luck on an abandoned space station. Thanks for all the comments