Thought that was a pretty universally known thing, people really don’t know jack s**t these days, it’s amazing what I hear a lot of these reactors say, and I’m just like, really dude?
That slience when we first see the offspring properly is insanely well shot, I think everyone and their mother got goosebumps seeing that abomination for the first time
ABSOLUTELY. lots of shots were amazing that way. That silence and the stare from the Offspring. Creepy AF. The shot where the ship rises through the clouds to the sun view was amazing in the theater too.
basically Ridley Scott wont allow any new Aliens movies that dont directly tie in or try to disregard his Prometheus movies. so the ending humanmorph alien was basically Ridley's contribution/tie-in to his movies that was required for Fede to make his movie.
I think it works really well to be honest As the final monster it is terrifying, dangerous/threatening And says something about the attempts to alter ourselves That we may become something less than human.
The writers really understood how dangerous the facehuggers could be, and using them as living hazards. They were able to give so much suspense in this movie. It was awesome to see the internal consistency with this movie as it applies to the whole franchise.
There were several brilliant scenes with the facehuggers emphasizing how the are intelligent, ruthless, and lethal. This was the first time I noticed that they had small spikes on the first part of their arms. This was a brutal feature that displayed how the parasitiods (Hook revealed their "scientific" name) were even more deadly.
Suspense????? Really it was so predictable, and copied scenes and one liners from the original. Can we get over using references from the old movies and give a fresh idea. Copy copy copy that's all movies are now now originality, no writing skills. No fresh ideas, just more of the same crap
They have a lot of alien isolation game easter eggs in here. The flares the save stations, Generators Stun baton, The android grabbing the leg And i'm sure there's more.
Canaries were used in coal mining all the way up until 1986 as early detectors of dangerous carbon monoxide levels because they have an extra air sac in their bodies, which allows them to get oxygen while inhaling and exhaling making them more sensitive to the fumes. The miners would listen to the birds singing, but if they stopped, they knew to get TF out of the mines. They are no longer used as we have modern electronic carbon monoxide detectors.
@@FarthestNormal ill have to search it up! I said the same thing when watching it in theatres & my boyfriend looked at me all crazy. It felt like too direct of a connection since he is THE asshole of the movie.
Birds, specifically canaries, are used by miners to detect toxic gas in mines. It gave birth to the idiom "canary in a coal mine" but we just say "red flags" these days lol
Rook was SUPPOSED to be a little off. He's a malfunctioning and damaged robot, who has been turned off for quite a while. The filmmakers confirmed this.
It made $350 million dollars against an $80 million dollar budget. Cailee Spaney turns into a badass character who is willing to do everything she can to help her friends survive the terrifying onslaught of the Xenomorph. They brought back Ian Holm with a mix of CGI and an animatronic puppet from Stan Winston's Legacy Effects. They were given permission to use his likeness from his estate for the movie. The Xenomorph at the beginning of the movie is the same one Ripley shot out of the airlock 20 years earlier.
Romulus is easily my top favorite of the franchise along with Alien and Aliens. I saw it twice in the theater and twice at home ( I saw Aliens 4 times in theater in 1986). The film is better each time as there is so many exceptional details in this work of art. I thought that the characters and their acting was fantastic. Cailee Spaney's range as Rain is magnificent as was David Johnsson's Andy. Rain was not only a badass she was smart every step of the way. The writing was so well done as there was character development creating people who we cared about and understood. I did not want any of them to die. The film truly deserves to be a commercial and critical hit. I personally think it should have made more domestically. However $350 million against an $80 million budget is a huge success. I went thru and calculated all of the films budgets and first theatrical profits as per adjusted inflation. Alien and Aliens were massive blockbuster hits. Romulus blew Covenant, 3, and Resurrection out of the water in less than a month. Bringing back "Ash" as "Rook" was brilliant. When I first saw him in the theater is took me back initially for a few seconds then I was on board. After seeing the film several times the addition of Ian Holm's character fits perfectly into the story. The use of practical effects and matching the technology of that time made the film far more believable in the series.
Cailee Spaney is an overnight Star. She has a very bright future as an actor. I guarantee you her agents phone hasn’t stopped ringing since the films release.
Great reaction! This was such an unexpectedly fun return to form that really captured what made the originals so good. Tiny clarification- 1:03:45 The Android on this station is the same model but a different character. The original synthetic from Alien is named Ash, not Rook.
I think the real horror is realizing that considering that all of the events of the Alien franchise are part of the same canon timeline, Weyland-Yutani (or at least some of its employees) was aware that the creatures described by Ripley that they strongly rebuked during her inquest indeed existed.
It is hinted that some of them were aware But after the Nostromo went missing they scrapped everything to cover their asses That's why the Yutanicexecs at the meeting with Ripley not only had no idea but had never explored the alien ship that they didn't know was there It was Burke using Ripley's coordinates that sent the colonists to "check it out"
They had to do the weird AI face on Rook because the original actor who played Ash died in real life but they added his face because he would have wanted to be a part of the movie if he were alive today. For being AI I think they did great.
The face was A.I but the rest was an actual puppet And they had a real actor doing an Ian Holm impression for the voice It also makes sense that Rook is a common model used by the company and noted for their loyalty.
You can see Ripley`s escape pod in one of the hanger`s of the space station and in the end as the space station is being destroyed by the rings you can see it being ejected in the background. So the company was gaslighting her in the beginning of Aliens when they were doing her debriefing (the execs in the room may not have known about it, but the company knew).
@@0ddkid7 You can see her ship in the Hanger bay and later being ejected during the station`s crash into the asteroid field (when the camera pans out during the crash, you can see the ship in the bottom right of the screen)
Except they never explored the planet again afterwards My guess is cannon wise Is that after the Nostromo and the loss of the Romulus and Remus space station Those members of the company who knew scrapped the whole project To cover up their involvement in significant loss of personnel, projects and equipment And they wiped the slate so no one else was aware... Until Ripley informed Burke and Burke ordered the colonists to check it out.
Hey. That is not the Nostromo. That ship blew up. Remember Ripley blew it up and Ash as well the Android. The android Ash was dismembered. They also burned him with a blow torch. In the beginning of this movie you will see a piece of the Nostromo floating in space.This android is Science officer Rook. He is the same design as Ash. But it isn't Ash.
If any of you are wondering about who the father of Kay's baby, the director said it was Bjorn. That adds another level of ick and scumbagness to him since they are cousins.
Prometheus is important to every Alien franchise because the origins of how the Xenomorphs was made. The vials called Prometheus Fire is from Prometheus and also it's dna of the Xenomorphs. That pathogen makes abominations of all living things. Must see Prometheus of how it started the chaos of the Alien franchise and why the Androids are acting up too. It is Weyland and his own android who was like a son to him, David started all of this for bringing the chaos.
I don't mind the ending feels like a mix of Prometheus and alien resurrections newborn alien....it was genuinely disturbing. It's my 3rd fav in the franchise.
trivia time! - When Tyler, Bjorn, and Andy tour the reactivated Renaissance station, Wagner's "The Entry of the Gods into Valhalla" from "Das Rheingold" is heard over the introductory audio explaining the station being named after Romulus and Remus. This ties back to Alien: Covenant (2017), when Peter Weyland first activates David and asks him to play Wagner, choosing "The Entry of the Gods into Valhalla." - In the background of several shots, the emergency telephones that function as save stations from Alien: Isolation (2014) can be seen. Much like the game, they're typically a sign that something terrible is about to happen. Tyler also brings along a set of signal flares similar to the ones Amanda can find in Isolation, and even uses them to distract some facehuggers due to the heat of the flare like how Amanda can use them to distract the xenomorphs aboard Sevastopol. - In an interview on TH-cam, Fede Alvarez described his idea on the significance of the biomechanical aspect of the Xenomorph coming from it's adaptability as it evolves during its gestation phase, absorbing parts and energy of the environment around where it cocoons itself in order to be able to excel within those surroundings, and in a used, dark industrial future, it would naturally lean towards a mechanical appearance to thrive within it. (also why it shows to have electricity runing thru it's skull bc bjorn tried to kill it before it was fully born, show casing you can indeed give it additional traits) - One notable design element in the film is the pulse rifle, which merges features from the original Alien (1979) flamethrower and the Aliens (1986) pulse rifle. This hybrid design reflects the film's intent to blend elements from both movies, creating something familiar yet new to reflect that this film takes place between those two movies. The auto-aim feature is not a completely new addition to Alien lore: in the Special edition of Aliens, Pvt. Hudson already mentioned an "independently targeting particle beam", and the Smart Guns carried by Vasquez and Drake use infrared-assisted targeting systems that can automatically detect enemies. It can be assumed that Rain's auto-aim pulse rifle is an early precursor to those weapons. - Aileen Wu, Fede Alvarez and film promos confirm that Navarro is Bjorn's adopted sister. According to the cast preview I'm Radio Times, "She was taken in by Bjorn's family on Jackson's Star and now thinks of Bjorn as a brother." This means the film features a trio of sibling pairs, which ties into the underlying myth of Romulus and Remus, and the two halves of the Renaissance station (named for the myth). Álvarez has said sibling relationships are a key theme in the film. - The Offspring was portrayed by the former Romanian college basketball player Robert Bobroczkyi. Speaking with Collider, Fede Álvarez explained that he didn't want to create a CG creature and had to find the right person for the role. After learning about Bobroczkyi, the director sent an email to the 7'7 basketball player asking him if he would like to be in an Alien movie, which Robert was very excited about. The Offspring was mostly done using make-up, with the exception of the creature's tail which was CG. - The chestburster scene was done practically. - the movie poster literally spoils who the first victim is lmao
Hell yesss. I feel like i wanted more sneaking around + alien in it, in the middle part before it went crazy near the end. That being said still a top 3 alien movie ever
The canary is for the mines, miners use them to alert them if there is toxic air down there. Have y’all never heard of a canary in a coal mine? It’s a pretty universally known thing
1. Andy is technically stolen property As rain's dad found him thrown into a trash dump, and rebuilt him from there So they can't just take him in 2. Upgrades are probably very expensive and these miners don't seem to make much.
Sounds gross but when I was in labour and had just delivered my little girl, my other half cut the chord but the bit that was left attached to the inside of my belly button was still there. No one tells you how they remove it but it was just like this movie in all it's gory detail, my midwife did it while I was having skin to skin. With no warning at all just reached her hand up there and pulled it out hard, then she just left it on a tray table right next to my bed it as the grossest thing ive ever seen in my life, the pain was horrific il never forget that moment and this movie just put me right back in that moment
This is the first time I have ever heard that the umbilical cord gets yanked out after birth - count me horrified because holyyyyyy I cannot believe people choose to have multiple kids 😳
@@georgia9183 same I stopped after that, maybe it's not the norm but it's certainly how my midwife did the job. Enough to put me off going back I felt the pain even through the epidural and my stomach has never been the same since
@@KBearsReact it kind of went over my head in the moment as it was during first ever skin to skin with my baby but il remember the pain of it till the day I die but once at home I realised just how brutal it was thank god for the epidural can't imagine how bad the pain would have been without it considering how much I could feel with it
Saw this in theatres when it came out, personally i enjoyed this movie, you get a mix of story, character building, emotional attachment, anger, fear, disgust, the music is great, the shots are great, the acting is on point specially the Androids! The balance between the two of you is hilarious, Cody talks while Bridgette is quite, Cody has a look of fear while Bridgette has a look of disgust, the subtle dirty jokes, makes for entertaining reactions! Thanks guys! ❤
I finally got around to watching the film! This was a great reaction, I really hope you watch more of the franchise. Just a sidenote, at the end you mentioned her body floating in space by Ripleys. Her ship and body was actually found by the company before this. Her spaceship is actually onboard the Romulus and you can see it in a background shot.
The actor who plays the human-xenomorph hybrid in the 2024 movie Alien: Romulus is Robert Bobroczkyi, an ethnic Hungarian former college basketball player from Romania. With 2.31 m (7 ft 7 in).
the prequels are actually very good the explore themes that have always been with the alien franchise. I think they’re very interesting movies but they’re not for everyone. People wouldn’t argue they’re bad movies though
Only 3 and 4 really are called bad, but they even have their fans (like me, i love them all). The prequels have gotten a resurgence of love after this movie came out.
@@emosam07 prequels personally are some of my fav alien movies! I think 3 is a lil boring but i think alien 4 is quite fun! Personally im glad alien is such a strong franchise it doesn’t dip in the same way nightmare on elm street or halloween dips
I think that scene with the bird cage was referring to in the past when miners used canary birds as an alarm clock to check methane levels when they're digging. If the canary fell silent and died that's time to bail out!
Thank you for taking the time to create your reaction post. You are one of the few "first time watching" channels that the reviews are actually viewing the film for the first time. I saw the film in the theaters twice and your review is like watching the film again. Bravo. Plus you have fantastic senses of humor. Brilliant. Watch Prometheus as it is the "beginning" of the story. Don't waste your time with Alien: Covenant, Alien 3, or Alien Resurrection.
The scariest thing about that Engineer Xenomorph hybrid, was it's still growing, so in the third act all of that was in it's infant form. I think in the first Prometheus movie there was a mural about some giant Xenomorph in the ship of the Engineers. I think it would've been like that creature depicted in that mural!
The bird is for the old canary in the coal mine trick. See if the bird can breathe without falling over since their lungs are super sensitive to gas or fumes.
There is a Fan Cut for this filme. That edition has less references to the other films, less CGI face and less endings, its called "Alien Romulus [Edição-CSJ]".
From the moment we see the face hugger on the screen it’s just straight up tension injected into your veins. I was on the edge of my seat the entire time. Especially when we seen that giant sack gestating. Also Bjorn pissed me off in that moment. He pushed Kay away and then did something so insanely stupid. And he DIDN’T. THINK. TOO. ROLL. AWAY!!!
The newborn looked like a deformed alien, it had an awesome design, the offspring looks like an abomination, something that shouldnt exis, its a walking nightmare
Great reaction! One of the better entries into the franchise, really entertaining, gross and everything youd expect from this kind of movie. Again, great reaction. Btw regarding the bird, i assume someone on your patreon explained the whole canary in the coal mine? It would die if there wasnt enough oxygen or dangerous gases, carbon monoxide...etc, and theyd know to leave immediately
This movie was soooooo good along with you’re reactions! NGL yall ain’t seen Prometheus or covenant but damn you gotta see cause of how good Andi” was you have to see “David”
You guys should definitely watch Prometheus, it does give some insight into what is going on what the black goo is and such It ties pretty well into this movie
Alien is such a great franchise!! I definitely think y’all should watch Alien: covenant next. The xenomorph design is by far one of my favorites in that movie!
You guys had so many innuendos locked and loaded for this one lol ...but thats kindve the point of Gigers work isnt it? Beyond the bio mechanical fusion is the uncomfy macabre erotica. Such great creature design even 45+ years later.
You guys really need to watch Prometheus, and Alien Covenant. It will help explain some of the lore, and "black goo" origins and adaptations/mutations/functionality. This movie is awesome in that it basically references everytbing from previous Alien IP, mainly the movies, but even including the Alien: Isolation game.
I just watched this film last night and have strong opinions about it. lol Excited to see your reactions and hear what you thought about the film, especially the characters.
In the early days of mining canaries were carried around in case there were any cases of poison gas. When or if the canary dropped dead that was the miners warning to gtf out. True story.
When I first went to see this in the theatres, it was up to the part when the chestburster scene happened, and then the power went out due to a severe thunderstorm. Due to that, they fast forwarded it to the latest part we stopped at.
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my prediction is there's gonna be aliens in this
You're gonna want to sit down for this
Hooo you were right!!! How did you Know?
Who are you who are so wise in the ways of prophecy?
My prediction is people are gonna die.
😂😂😂😂@@TheNeonParadox
The abomination xeno was played by a real person no cgi he’s a 7’7 basketball player
Came to comment this, his name is Robert Bobroczkyi. When I discovered this after watching the movie, it made me even more unsettled.
There was still CGI used.
Now the original had no CGI, hence why several scenes look so funny.
8:30 Canary in a coal mine - used to warn miners about deadly gas pockets in the mines because the caged bird would die first.
We saw used in Arrival too
@ssotkow we still use it today in mines as well
Thought that was a pretty universally known thing, people really don’t know jack s**t these days, it’s amazing what I hear a lot of these reactors say, and I’m just like, really dude?
I've not seen one reactor know the bird thing. Not in Arrival, or in this. @@codyt821
I am surprised how many people dont know this
That slience when we first see the offspring properly is insanely well shot, I think everyone and their mother got goosebumps seeing that abomination for the first time
in that moment the guy next to me started watching Tik Toks on his phone -,- Still a great moment tho
ABSOLUTELY. lots of shots were amazing that way. That silence and the stare from the Offspring. Creepy AF. The shot where the ship rises through the clouds to the sun view was amazing in the theater too.
Funnily enough the director confirmed the douche cousin is the father, making him more of a creep
oh dang
Wouldnt this make the girl a creep as well since she also knowingly slept with her cousin?
Bjorn is the dad? Holy crap that is gross
No wonder the baby looked like _that._
Miners used canaries as detectors for poisonous gasses. It used to be a common practice
Yes, birds are much more sensitive, if they die, run!
@@donizetebelinato2808 you're really supposed to pull out when they pass out. They aren't supposed to die, but that obviously happens.
You beat me to it. I was going to say birds are common practice among miners.
Thats true
I love that Cody caught that little dig of Andy saying "What? Leave someone behind?" Rain should've been the one to tell him not jack@ss Bjorn.
I was gagged when he said that in the theaters 😭
I just re-watched the film with my husband and we loved that dig back at Rain. Brilliant.
The alien hybrid baby was actually a person that was walking around it wasn't CGI
basically Ridley Scott wont allow any new Aliens movies that dont directly tie in or try to disregard his Prometheus movies. so the ending humanmorph alien was basically Ridley's contribution/tie-in to his movies that was required for Fede to make his movie.
I think it works really well to be honest
As the final monster it is terrifying, dangerous/threatening
And says something about the attempts to alter ourselves
That we may become something less than human.
The writers really understood how dangerous the facehuggers could be, and using them as living hazards. They were able to give so much suspense in this movie. It was awesome to see the internal consistency with this movie as it applies to the whole franchise.
There were several brilliant scenes with the facehuggers emphasizing how the are intelligent, ruthless, and lethal. This was the first time I noticed that they had small spikes on the first part of their arms. This was a brutal feature that displayed how the parasitiods (Hook revealed their "scientific" name) were even more deadly.
@@dwleroy fking nightmare creatures lol
Suspense????? Really it was so predictable, and copied scenes and one liners from the original. Can we get over using references from the old movies and give a fresh idea. Copy copy copy that's all movies are now now originality, no writing skills. No fresh ideas, just more of the same crap
They have a lot of alien isolation game easter eggs in here. The flares the save stations, Generators Stun baton, The android grabbing the leg And i'm sure there's more.
Canaries were used in coal mining all the way up until 1986 as early detectors of dangerous carbon monoxide levels because they have an extra air sac in their bodies, which allows them to get oxygen while inhaling and exhaling making them more sensitive to the fumes. The miners would listen to the birds singing, but if they stopped, they knew to get TF out of the mines. They are no longer used as we have modern electronic carbon monoxide detectors.
We still use them in Colorado and Alaska
I'm willing to bet bird seed is cheaper than those devices. And this is W-Y we're talking about. It makes sense that they went back to the bird.
The way they pay homage to the original film while adding new flairs is masterful.
They also brought back the black goo from Prometheus, which still has the worst side effects you could ever imagine
@@mckenzie.latham91 I still might inject myself with it if I could just to see what would happen.
Also the cousin is the dad. Basically you had it right when you guys mentioned it and said “I don’t know what life’s like on that colony”
Was this confirmed somewhere ?
@@0ddkid7 Fede Alvarez confirmed it yes
@@FarthestNormal ill have to search it up! I said the same thing when watching it in theatres & my boyfriend looked at me all crazy. It felt like too direct of a connection since he is THE asshole of the movie.
@@0ddkid7 yeah what gives it away is the scene when Kay stumbles on the cocoon and they look at each other for a very long time
@FarthestNormal I thought so aswell, but I wrote it off as familial.
Birds, specifically canaries, are used by miners to detect toxic gas in mines. It gave birth to the idiom "canary in a coal mine" but we just say "red flags" these days lol
I'm just suorised no one ever INFERS the use of the bird. No even tries to guess the use. They just go "huh?" and move on.
@@SubterrelProspector *surprised
Rook was SUPPOSED to be a little off. He's a malfunctioning and damaged robot, who has been turned off for quite a while. The filmmakers confirmed this.
Seems to be an excuse to cover that awful cgi job
@@thedeepfriar745 Not an excuse, it's FACTS. Not CGI, it's deepfakes.
@@thedeepfriar745 Not an excuse, a FACT.
@thedeepfriar745 do you expect 2091 cgi in film made in 70s thats takes place same period with 2024 cgi, its just movie
@@thedeepfriar745 For the most part it was a physical puppet. Fede Alvaerz showed it a tiny bit in one of the behind the scenes snippets.
I love the title cause “Ew” applies to so many things in this universe😂
16:27 Fede Alvarez actually confirmed that Bjorn is Kay’s baby daddy 💀💀 lmfaooo
so incest is a thing on that colony wow💀💀😭
I mean, it's a thing here,now, why wouldn't it be there?
Yeah, you can actually hear banjos playing when he plops out
@@kokobop8138I mean, the population of Jackson's Star is like 2000- something. It be like that.
@@kokobop8138 Also, Bjorn was dating Navarro, who was his adoptive sister. Twang twang, yall.
not even the mother loved that thing "Get it away from me 😫"
yeah, it took that personally and instead of sucking on titties, it went for the kill.
Fede Alvarez actually said he has an AVP pitch and would love to co direct it with Dan Trachtenberg who directed Prey
"Just running to the gas station, we'll be back!" Nice try, dad.
It made $350 million dollars against an $80 million dollar budget.
Cailee Spaney turns into a badass character who is willing to do everything she can to help her friends survive the terrifying onslaught of the Xenomorph.
They brought back Ian Holm with a mix of CGI and an animatronic puppet from Stan Winston's Legacy Effects. They were given permission to use his likeness from his estate for the movie.
The Xenomorph at the beginning of the movie is the same one Ripley shot out of the airlock 20 years earlier.
They also got a British actor to do tools voice and he does an amazing Ian Holmes impression.
Romulus is easily my top favorite of the franchise along with Alien and Aliens. I saw it twice in the theater and twice at home ( I saw Aliens 4 times in theater in 1986). The film is better each time as there is so many exceptional details in this work of art.
I thought that the characters and their acting was fantastic. Cailee Spaney's range as Rain is magnificent as was David Johnsson's Andy. Rain was not only a badass she was smart every step of the way. The writing was so well done as there was character development creating people who we cared about and understood. I did not want any of them to die.
The film truly deserves to be a commercial and critical hit. I personally think it should have made more domestically. However $350 million against an $80 million budget is a huge success. I went thru and calculated all of the films budgets and first theatrical profits as per adjusted inflation. Alien and Aliens were massive blockbuster hits. Romulus blew Covenant, 3, and Resurrection out of the water in less than a month.
Bringing back "Ash" as "Rook" was brilliant. When I first saw him in the theater is took me back initially for a few seconds then I was on board. After seeing the film several times the addition of Ian Holm's character fits perfectly into the story.
The use of practical effects and matching the technology of that time made the film far more believable in the series.
Cailee Spaney is an overnight Star. She has a very bright future as an actor. I guarantee you her agents phone hasn’t stopped ringing since the films release.
This isn't the first time there's been a Xenomorph/human hybrid. But honestly I like this one better.
This movie was so good. I really hope they make a sequel with Rain and Andy.
They are making sequel. In the work
I hope they got sucked into a time warp and some how they meet up with David and stop him or something. lol
I’d love to see them back too. I hope Fede does it again. There’s never been a multiple director of them aside from Scott.
Garbage copy , no originality, just copy scenes and one liners from the original. It was crap film from Disney in control
Prometheus was important to watch this film but not alien Covenant. They are both really fun to me though
facts
Agreed
What's interesting is I don't think they've ever shown before the actual metamorphosis from Chestburster to Xenomorph.
Great reaction! This was such an unexpectedly fun return to form that really captured what made the originals so good. Tiny clarification- 1:03:45 The Android on this station is the same model but a different character. The original synthetic from Alien is named Ash, not Rook.
I think the real horror is realizing that considering that all of the events of the Alien franchise are part of the same canon timeline, Weyland-Yutani (or at least some of its employees) was aware that the creatures described by Ripley that they strongly rebuked during her inquest indeed existed.
It is hinted that some of them were aware
But after the Nostromo went missing they scrapped everything to cover their asses
That's why the Yutanicexecs at the meeting with Ripley not only had no idea but had never explored the alien ship that they didn't know was there
It was Burke using Ripley's coordinates that sent the colonists to "check it out"
They had to do the weird AI face on Rook because the original actor who played Ash died in real life but they added his face because he would have wanted to be a part of the movie if he were alive today. For being AI I think they did great.
The face was A.I but the rest was an actual puppet
And they had a real actor doing an Ian Holm impression for the voice
It also makes sense that Rook is a common model used by the company and noted for their loyalty.
@@mckenzie.latham91 crazy. Cause it sounded just like him.
I was so confused reading this, because I didn't understand what Weird AL had to do with this movie. Guess that edible kicked in! 😅
@ too funny 😄
28:56 the scream here actually gave 70s horror vibes
You can see Ripley`s escape pod in one of the hanger`s of the space station and in the end as the space station is being destroyed by the rings you can see it being ejected in the background. So the company was gaslighting her in the beginning of Aliens when they were doing her debriefing (the execs in the room may not have known about it, but the company knew).
Omg if that’s true that’s craaaaaaazy 😂
Was this confirmed somewhere? I wanna know more.
@@0ddkid7 You can see her ship in the Hanger bay and later being ejected during the station`s crash into the asteroid field (when the camera pans out during the crash, you can see the ship in the bottom right of the screen)
Brilliant. I am going to go back and re-watch that part of the film to see it. That makes a lot of sense in the realm of the story.
Except they never explored the planet again afterwards
My guess is cannon wise
Is that after the Nostromo and the loss of the Romulus and Remus space station
Those members of the company who knew scrapped the whole project
To cover up their involvement in significant loss of personnel, projects and equipment
And they wiped the slate so no one else was aware...
Until Ripley informed Burke and Burke ordered the colonists to check it out.
I'm so nerdy that when Romulus and Remus was mentioned I thought "Uh.. Star Trek reference!"
Hey. That is not the Nostromo. That ship blew up. Remember Ripley blew it up and Ash as well the Android. The android Ash was dismembered. They also burned him with a blow torch. In the beginning of this movie you will see a piece of the Nostromo floating in space.This android is Science officer Rook. He is the same design as Ash. But it isn't Ash.
I love that the human alien they got a really tall person to play it
Miners use canaries to detect toxic fume levels, age old practice
My goal for the rest of the year is to get you guys to watch “Smile 2” and “The Substance” idc what the cost is but I will
If any of you are wondering about who the father of Kay's baby, the director said it was Bjorn. That adds another level of ick and scumbagness to him since they are cousins.
The way most of the crew treat Andy is, i feel, like a representation of mistreatment of autsitic people
All I can think about with the fossil in the beginning is how in pokemon all you need is the fossil to bring them to life 😂
Prometheus was a bit different compared to other Aliens but I still enjoyed it
Prometheus is important to every Alien franchise because the origins of how the Xenomorphs was made. The vials called Prometheus Fire is from Prometheus and also it's dna of the Xenomorphs. That pathogen makes abominations of all living things. Must see Prometheus of how it started the chaos of the Alien franchise and why the Androids are acting up too. It is Weyland and his own android who was like a son to him, David started all of this for bringing the chaos.
While it is it also doesn’t make any sense at the same time
Yeah, the end of this ties heavily into Prometheus
You two need to see Prometheus to under the impact of the "black goo" and the Engineers' plan (the original beings)! That will help you understand.
Ive watched 5-10 reactions already and instantly clicked on your guys😂 since dahmer in 2022 love ur channel yo
🛑 FACTOID 🛑 Countdown voice is Sigourney Weaver
whhaattttt?!?! That's so cool!!!
I don't mind the ending feels like a mix of Prometheus and alien resurrections newborn alien....it was genuinely disturbing.
It's my 3rd fav in the franchise.
37:46 i actually agree with Andy here. That xenomorph was clearly waiting for em to open the door. They open that door all dies.
60-40 is really really bad in that situation lol!!
trivia time!
- When Tyler, Bjorn, and Andy tour the reactivated Renaissance station, Wagner's "The Entry of the Gods into Valhalla" from "Das Rheingold" is heard over the introductory audio explaining the station being named after Romulus and Remus. This ties back to Alien: Covenant (2017), when Peter Weyland first activates David and asks him to play Wagner, choosing "The Entry of the Gods into Valhalla."
- In the background of several shots, the emergency telephones that function as save stations from Alien: Isolation (2014) can be seen. Much like the game, they're typically a sign that something terrible is about to happen. Tyler also brings along a set of signal flares similar to the ones Amanda can find in Isolation, and even uses them to distract some facehuggers due to the heat of the flare like how Amanda can use them to distract the xenomorphs aboard Sevastopol.
- In an interview on TH-cam, Fede Alvarez described his idea on the significance of the biomechanical aspect of the Xenomorph coming from it's adaptability as it evolves during its gestation phase, absorbing parts and energy of the environment around where it cocoons itself in order to be able to excel within those surroundings, and in a used, dark industrial future, it would naturally lean towards a mechanical appearance to thrive within it. (also why it shows to have electricity runing thru it's skull bc bjorn tried to kill it before it was fully born, show casing you can indeed give it additional traits)
- One notable design element in the film is the pulse rifle, which merges features from the original Alien (1979) flamethrower and the Aliens (1986) pulse rifle. This hybrid design reflects the film's intent to blend elements from both movies, creating something familiar yet new to reflect that this film takes place between those two movies. The auto-aim feature is not a completely new addition to Alien lore: in the Special edition of Aliens, Pvt. Hudson already mentioned an "independently targeting particle beam", and the Smart Guns carried by Vasquez and Drake use infrared-assisted targeting systems that can automatically detect enemies. It can be assumed that Rain's auto-aim pulse rifle is an early precursor to those weapons.
- Aileen Wu, Fede Alvarez and film promos confirm that Navarro is Bjorn's adopted sister. According to the cast preview I'm Radio Times, "She was taken in by Bjorn's family on Jackson's Star and now thinks of Bjorn as a brother." This means the film features a trio of sibling pairs, which ties into the underlying myth of Romulus and Remus, and the two halves of the Renaissance station (named for the myth). Álvarez has said sibling relationships are a key theme in the film.
- The Offspring was portrayed by the former Romanian college basketball player Robert Bobroczkyi. Speaking with Collider, Fede Álvarez explained that he didn't want to create a CG creature and had to find the right person for the role. After learning about Bobroczkyi, the director sent an email to the 7'7 basketball player asking him if he would like to be in an Alien movie, which Robert was very excited about. The Offspring was mostly done using make-up, with the exception of the creature's tail which was CG.
- The chestburster scene was done practically.
- the movie poster literally spoils who the first victim is lmao
Hell yesss. I feel like i wanted more sneaking around + alien in it, in the middle part before it went crazy near the end. That being said still a top 3 alien movie ever
The movie was too short and the casting is really good ! I would have liked 2 hours or more 🥹
@@nickkyie5820 hopefully we see the directors cut someday! Ridley Scott made Fede Alvarez to trim it down 😫 Idk how much they cut from it
@@ville1345 Hopefully ! Can't wait for it to happen !
The canary is for the mines, miners use them to alert them if there is toxic air down there. Have y’all never heard of a canary in a coal mine? It’s a pretty universally known thing
I immediately started singing "we love the company" when Andy said that😂😂 great reaction guys
I love how the android's name is Andy. Andy the Android.
The Star Trek nerd in me hears/sees the word Romulus and thinks about Romulans.
I love the full on freakyness of the Offspring. I hate it but I love it 😀 And this movie kicks butt!
Rain should have upgraded Andy a long time ago back at the colony. It seemed super easy, barely an inconvenience.
Love the pitch meeting reference
Soo they were just going to give them an updated rom for Andy ? Lol
@@TranquilAshes umm yeah
1. Andy is technically stolen property
As rain's dad found him thrown into a trash dump, and rebuilt him from there
So they can't just take him in
2. Upgrades are probably very expensive and these miners don't seem to make much.
I love how stupld alien fans is,the same fanbase who hate prometheus and covenant when they didn't even know the story
Sounds gross but when I was in labour and had just delivered my little girl, my other half cut the chord but the bit that was left attached to the inside of my belly button was still there. No one tells you how they remove it but it was just like this movie in all it's gory detail, my midwife did it while I was having skin to skin. With no warning at all just reached her hand up there and pulled it out hard, then she just left it on a tray table right next to my bed it as the grossest thing ive ever seen in my life, the pain was horrific il never forget that moment and this movie just put me right back in that moment
This is the first time I have ever heard that the umbilical cord gets yanked out after birth - count me horrified because holyyyyyy I cannot believe people choose to have multiple kids 😳
@@georgia9183 same I stopped after that, maybe it's not the norm but it's certainly how my midwife did the job. Enough to put me off going back I felt the pain even through the epidural and my stomach has never been the same since
holyyyyy that's terrifying!
@@KBearsReact it kind of went over my head in the moment as it was during first ever skin to skin with my baby but il remember the pain of it till the day I die but once at home I realised just how brutal it was thank god for the epidural can't imagine how bad the pain would have been without it considering how much I could feel with it
@WelshAmethystGirl087 😬😬😬
Saw this in theatres when it came out, personally i enjoyed this movie, you get a mix of story, character building, emotional attachment, anger, fear, disgust, the music is great, the shots are great, the acting is on point specially the Androids!
The balance between the two of you is hilarious, Cody talks while Bridgette is quite, Cody has a look of fear while Bridgette has a look of disgust, the subtle dirty jokes, makes for entertaining reactions! Thanks guys! ❤
I finally got around to watching the film! This was a great reaction, I really hope you watch more of the franchise.
Just a sidenote, at the end you mentioned her body floating in space by Ripleys. Her ship and body was actually found by the company before this. Her spaceship is actually onboard the Romulus and you can see it in a background shot.
This is the third best in the franchise. I really like this movie
Me Too I hope they would do a sequel between Aliens And Alien 3
@@brandonrobinson529hope it doesn’t end up like last Jed
So predictable and copy's scenes and one liners. They can't be original or fresh with ideas.
@@phillipsalaises2782 your just hater that hate on everything new.
The actor who plays the human-xenomorph hybrid in the 2024 movie Alien: Romulus is Robert Bobroczkyi, an ethnic Hungarian former college basketball player from Romania. With 2.31 m (7 ft 7 in).
You should definitely get to Prometheus eventually..it's a great movie.
Love all the practical effects
The practical effects are the best part of the film
the prequels are actually very good the explore themes that have always been with the alien franchise. I think they’re very interesting movies but they’re not for everyone. People wouldn’t argue they’re bad movies though
Only 3 and 4 really are called bad, but they even have their fans (like me, i love them all). The prequels have gotten a resurgence of love after this movie came out.
@@emosam07 prequels personally are some of my fav alien movies! I think 3 is a lil boring but i think alien 4 is quite fun! Personally im glad alien is such a strong franchise it doesn’t dip in the same way nightmare on elm street or halloween dips
I think that scene with the bird cage was referring to in the past when miners used canary birds as an alarm clock to check methane levels when they're digging. If the canary fell silent and died that's time to bail out!
1:02:19 they definitely could’ve just introduced a different synthetic. Something new to us like Andy was
Thank you for taking the time to create your reaction post. You are one of the few "first time watching" channels that the reviews are actually viewing the film for the first time. I saw the film in the theaters twice and your review is like watching the film again. Bravo. Plus you have fantastic senses of humor. Brilliant. Watch Prometheus as it is the "beginning" of the story. Don't waste your time with Alien: Covenant, Alien 3, or Alien Resurrection.
The scariest thing about that Engineer Xenomorph hybrid, was it's still growing, so in the third act all of that was in it's infant form. I think in the first Prometheus movie there was a mural about some giant Xenomorph in the ship of the Engineers. I think it would've been like that creature depicted in that mural!
29:11 this aged like milk by the end
I liked the two lead actors playing Rain and Andy. The Ash part was weird.
ROOK is not Ash, but Rook is a common model used by the company
It makes sense that the company has more than one...
The bird is for the old canary in the coal mine trick. See if the bird can breathe without falling over since their lungs are super sensitive to gas or fumes.
There is a Fan Cut for this filme. That edition has less references to the other films, less CGI face and less endings, its called "Alien Romulus [Edição-CSJ]".
This movie is brilliant!! ❤
Rook looked more like an evil Mr Bean at times.
please watch the substance
From the moment we see the face hugger on the screen it’s just straight up tension injected into your veins. I was on the edge of my seat the entire time. Especially when we seen that giant sack gestating. Also Bjorn pissed me off in that moment. He pushed Kay away and then did something so insanely stupid. And he DIDN’T. THINK. TOO. ROLL. AWAY!!!
Intense??? Really ???? It was so predictable because it was scenes copied from the original and just a bad story.
2:41- Remnants of the NOSTROMO,
thanks to Ellen Ripley!!!!!😊
NICE REACTION ....What does the dog sticker in the corner mean?
The newborn looked like a deformed alien, it had an awesome design, the offspring looks like an abomination, something that shouldnt exis, its a walking nightmare
I love feeling like I'm showing a movie i like to my buddies. :)
Great reaction! One of the better entries into the franchise, really entertaining, gross and everything youd expect from this kind of movie. Again, great reaction.
Btw regarding the bird, i assume someone on your patreon explained the whole canary in the coal mine? It would die if there wasnt enough oxygen or dangerous gases, carbon monoxide...etc, and theyd know to leave immediately
the moment when the girl gives birth to the baby-alien is one of the best in the franchise
This movie was soooooo good along with you’re reactions!
NGL yall ain’t seen Prometheus or covenant but damn you gotta see cause of how good Andi” was you have to see “David”
You guys should definitely watch Prometheus, it does give some insight into what is going on what the black goo is and such
It ties pretty well into this movie
Alien is such a great franchise!! I definitely think y’all should watch Alien: covenant next. The xenomorph design is by far one of my favorites in that movie!
You guys had so many innuendos locked and loaded for this one lol ...but thats kindve the point of Gigers work isnt it? Beyond the bio mechanical fusion is the uncomfy macabre erotica. Such great creature design even 45+ years later.
That's why I love Prometheus it gets away from the traditional xenomorph and is more geared towards the AI and David's character
54:56 "Ok byyyeee" -- HAHAHAHAHA
"There's gonna be one of 'em, cryo sleep this whole time." LOL! I laughed at this. Oh you just wait. This movie was amazing in the theaters.
'THAT'S A DUMPSTER BABY" 🤣
You guys really need to watch Prometheus, and Alien Covenant. It will help explain some of the lore, and "black goo" origins and adaptations/mutations/functionality. This movie is awesome in that it basically references everytbing from previous Alien IP, mainly the movies, but even including the Alien: Isolation game.
How does Cody aways know what's gonna happen ? That's kinda suspicious 🤣
Rook was the same model synthetic than Ash was in the first movie, his face was heavy CGI as Ian Holm died 2020 so they couldn't do it better I guess.
I just watched this film last night and have strong opinions about it. lol Excited to see your reactions and hear what you thought about the film, especially the characters.
In the early days of mining canaries were carried around in case there were any cases of poison gas.
When or if the canary dropped dead that was the miners warning to gtf out.
True story.
this was so awesome to see in theaters
The cousin is the dad. Confirmed by Fede.
I loved your reaction!
Can you guys react to the show “From” it’s amazing and I think you both will love it!
Prometheus and Alien covenant explain the black goo. I had to go back and watch them and it made more sense
When I first went to see this in the theatres, it was up to the part when the chestburster scene happened, and then the power went out due to a severe thunderstorm. Due to that, they fast forwarded it to the latest part we stopped at.