I just watched alien romulus and I thought it was really frustrating. What happened to the lethal face huggers and the older, experienced crew of spaceships that got paid like shit by the company?
Now they are hitting face huggers left and right with sticks, and people just get up after having one over their face.
I didn’t feel like I cared about the characters. They were actually quite unlikeable. I really miss Ripley. She had enormous amount of character, strength and intelligence. What did we get in this movie? They are all super generic.
Just disappointed. How about you guys?
I thought it was a very good movie, sure it doesn’t match the original one, but only a very few do.
This felt like an homage to the first one in many ways. There were some questionable decisions from the characters sure. But I felt, the movie was saved by the main character and her helplessness. Ripley was a badass for sure. She is still IMO the best female character in a SciFi movie, but seeing a normal person attempting to survive when all her friends was getting killed left right and centre was good (had a Predator vibe to it).
Also this movie added a ton of lore. The mutating power of Prometheus Fire, Alien-Human Hybrid and speaking of that scene, it was really well executed, just when I thought the movie was going to end, nope. Like when the Alien-Ripley fight in the Pod.
Overall I felt really satisfied with the film and its better than most of the sequels getting released these days. Also two good films in the Alien-Predator franchise back to back [Prey (2022)]?
No, I didn’t like it much either. Some interesting ideas, but I think I’m starting to actively despise soft-reboots, which too much of Romulus is. I don’t want to be reminded of a better movie with a more iconic lead, and I don’t have the same nostalgia fetish that a good chunk of audiences seem to have.
I wasn’t a giant fan either it started well enough but lost me and brought me right into the stupid movies when they brought back the stupid alien goo that makes silly aliens again.
Why the heck can’t they just let the Alien be the Alien and not a silly hybrid dorky looking thing.
I enjoyed it for what it was. Maybe it helped that I saw it on the big screen. It’s difficult to bring new life into what is now the ninth in the series. But overall, I thought it was decent, but not great.
I did think Prey was a fantastic chapter to the Predator series and I saw that at home. That’s how you reboot a franchise.
I just finished it. The fan service ruined it for me, the lines from other movies, the shots recreated, whole sequences plundered.
I wanted an Alien movie, not an expensive piece of fan art.
Also the CG on the Rook character was hilarious. How on earth did that make it into the movie?
