ALIEN ROMULUS | Piling On the Stupidity | REVIEW
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- This movie had real potential to be great. What happened?!
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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.
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: Romulus
Script writer: ChatGPT
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.
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.
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.
the bird is cheaper than sparing the funding to ensure a safer work environment.
Oh for sure, bird seed @@lunarvvolf9606
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.
The Ian holm stuff was strange AF (Rest in peace)
Gotta be Ridley
@@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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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 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.
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
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…
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??
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.
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
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 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.
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.
Yup, agree with everything you said. Very disappointed with this film.
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!
Your overall assessment of this film is spot on.
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 💯
Ridley must have put Ash in that. Thats CGI was fucking terrible.
@@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.
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
A fine line between Homage and Formage’😂
Xeno du fromage. 👽🥚🧀
Fromage*
DUUUNN , DUN DUN ,
DUN DUN DUN DUUUUUNNNNNNN ! ! 🎓🥼
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 😂
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Special effects were great but wow what an awful movie. The aliens were non-existent and that 3rd act was just a retread of the new born in resurrection
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 feel like they should have just adapted alien isolation rather than talking inspiration from it to make its own thing... Still decent movie.
This review freaking nailed it!
The casting department hilariously went and put a live action Ellie from the last of us 2 in this movie with the new pregnant Dina from season 2 to make up for Druckmann sticking with Bella Ramsey.
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.
This movie is trash , the director must think the audience is stupid by presenting such garbage. Feel sorry for the actors who tried their best but who were handicapped by a ridiculous script .
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.
The origin of the alien was as welcome as midichlorians
Totally agree it went to shit in the third act. The fucking cabbage patch alien ruined the whole thing
the only worst thing about Alien franchise is "Ridley Scott"
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...
Just give me A HAUNTED HOUSE IN SPACE, none of this hybrid SMILING alien shit, this movie is hot garbage honest to god
The problem with the movie is you don't really care much about the characters, some are flat out annoying. Rooks obsession with Xenomorphs makes no sense, why not use androids to colonise planets instead.... Secondly if Andy's character is strong enough to hold up an entire falling lift, I'm pretty sure he could have fought off that one deformed human Xenomorph at the end without being one shotted on the first hit with a simple slap.
Why are you yelling?
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
This is a stupidly accurate review. Virtually every thgought I had about this film has been expressed.
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
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My interpretation of the Xenomorphs is that the engineers didn’t fully create them and rather they were a extinct species that the engineers reversed engineered the crystal fossils into biological weapons and unknowingly resurrected their race. It’s kinda poetic a Xeno in Romulus became the very thing that brought it back from extinction in the first place. Although I still dislike the Prometheus and covenant movies. But yeah, the Xenos aren’t 💯 confirmed in their backstory so their mystery isn’t ruined. Their homeworld is said to be called Xenomorph prime where they survived by “mating” with other species until there were none remaining thus why they went extinct for a long time and their acid blood turned into the black goo. That’s my theory. Because the engineers and David creating the aliens is a stupid idea and ruins the whole franchise imo. Aliens not just existing takes away from the scariness. Horror is ruined over explained.
They’re about stealing your joy and replacing nostalgia with modern era bullsht. Proceed with caution
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
alien, blade runner, the exorcist, 2001, conan the barbarian, mad max...masterpieces that could never be duplicated
There's a cool Aliens game where you command a squad of marines. Felt like how I remember the first movies.
Alien Isolation
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I LOVED THE MOVIE… but he’s not wrong.
This is the review of the movie I saw. Not sure why everybody fawned over this.
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?
@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!"
Let's be honest, it's a remake of Alien (one) with a few dumb adaptations, and a modern day casting quota. It's an appalling film, and indicative of action/sci-fi cinema the past twenty years. My advice, save your energy and rewatch Alien (one).
agree 100%
I did NOT like the finale in Romulus... Just disgusting...
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 🙁
"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
I agree with you 100%. That’s exactly what I feel about this movie. Word by word.
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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.
Maybe there'll be a director's cut that leaves out all the callbacks and has a different ending. Great review.
All you dudes out there don't know what a good movie is excluding this guy who thinks he's a credic get a real job
When the woman who gave birth at the end it should have been ridley Scott's face, where are the adults with what is called a brain ,electrocute an alien with acid for blood very clever 🤔
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Me and my friend kept screaming at the characters. There should only be one "guy that makes the obviously shit decision" not the entire main cast. But I like that the did "do their homework " as you said without the identity politics.
TOTALLY AGREE !!!!!!!!!!!!!! with You! i hated to "2nd ending"
If you've seen Napoleon 2023...you know why.
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.
How many kills did an adult xenomorph have in this film?
Just one right??? 🤣
Awesome review! Can always count on you to discuss the complicated :) so many reviews are black and white but with your reviews/breakdowns we get the full picture! 🎉
Thanks. I always try to cover everything, the good and the bad.
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.....
Oh yeah, good choice on the thumbnail. Perfectly captured your feelings haha
You know, it was a solid year for horror movie releases this year. I swear every single one ive seen was ruined by its third act.
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 😆
Ridley Scott only did 1 alien movie.
"...even tho I should have known better, I started getting my hopes up..." haha, you're a crackup.
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????
The intelligence shown by Ripley's character is sorely missed. Instead, we have a childlike Rain & her android brother/ pal.
Thank you for the honest review. You brought up many of the problems I have with the film. Pruno
I think there is a cut version of the queen origin but Ridley Scott said goo and hybrid is more important . Thanks Ridley ! (Dude I was being sacastic )
Yes cause Scott hates what Cameron did in Aliens. He has been trying to undo that ever since.
My friends and I talked about the incredibly truncated xenomorph metamorphosis and we concluded that it was because of Weyland-Yutani genetic manipulation.
Unfortunately everything I've heard about Romulus agrees with this review. Beautiful but dumb.
I’ve seen it twice. Thought the CGI’d character could have been done with practical effects. Also thought the final boss was better executed than the final boss in Resurrection. This guy calling people annoying, obnoxious, and the ‘a-hole character’ is hilarious because he all those things combined.
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.
There is a short interview with Ridley Scott on TH-cam. He says the original Alien Romulus was much longer. He got to see an early preview of the movie, and he wrote a whole bunch of notes down, and gave it to the director (Fede Alvarez), who must have gone back to cut, shorten, and reedit some of it. That's probably what you noticed and experienced about the ending.