theres somethin in the wa ur If you enjoyed this video please leave a like! I dont want to deter anyone from enjoying the movie i just wish people watched the whole vid before disliking the vid
The movie deserved a little better, even tho i'm not fond at all of the meddling of ridley scott and the corporate suits with alvarez's creative world building, it is clear that alvarez was going for something very immersive in the 30 to 40 first minutes of the movie then you can see suits coming in with parody level references to former movies beginning with the android to really bad lines and puns related to former movies that push the later half in the caricatural , borderline parody area.
Genuinely, I was so thrilled by this movie. The best part was 100% when the Xenomorph said "I'm going to show you my Romulussy!" and did shockingly inappropriate things to our protagonist
I think the characters choices in the film were organic and Rain was smart. They didn’t try to make a new Ripley which was something I was nervous about. It’s been said a lot but I do agree it’s the third best alien film. The world building at the beginning too was great. You’re bound to get something the same, it’s an alien movie, but the way they handled it I see no issue that took me out of the experience. I think if you’re familiar with most of the alien media (especially the game) it’s a rewarding watch.
The movie deserved a little better, even tho i'm not fond at all of the meddling of ridley scott and the corporate suits with alvarez's creative world building, it is clear that alvarez was going for something very immersive in the 30 to 40 first minutes of the movie then you can see suits coming in with parody level references to former movies beginning with the android to really bad lines and puns related to former movies that push the later half in the caricatural , borderline parody area.
Am I the only one who really enjoyed this movie? I’m glad it went back to its horror roots. I just watched Aliens 1986 and just like before I wasn’t a fan. It lacked the horror. This movie brought the horror back. I really liked it.
I know some people like RedLetterMedia hated that that movie didn't do anything new or weird but I'm kinda happy they went back to basics with this one. And it makes sense considering it doesn't follow too long after the original. And it's not like the alien/hybrid concept was only in Resurrection. There's nothing wrong with having another hybrid and one that's generally creepy. I feel people will hate on it now but then years later, people will defend and act like there was nothing wrong with it. (Oh, so the Alien³ syndrome.)
At 0:06 in the video he said his answer. He enjoyed the movie. No need to watch anything more. It's all good, it's over, it's Done!!!! The end is near!!!!
The title really sums up perfectly the state of cinema right now I wish they were allowed to try new things instead of sequels and rehases of nostalgic things
Thank you man. This review hit home what I was missing from the film. I really enjoyed it seeing it in the theaters twice, but I couldn’t help but feel underwhelmed because I felt this movie should’ve been more. Solid review as always
i'll be watching this entire video after i see the film myself this weekend, but i just wanted to say i appreciate the videos you make a whole lot. i've seen a lot of people criticize you in the past and say you never make videos about movies you like, but to me it's clear there's a whole lot of passion and care behind what you do. criticizing something and expressing disappointment does not mean the entire project as a whole goes unappreciated or adored in some ways, and you've been able to express that dichotomy perfectly. your latest videos especially have been such a joy to watch and i'm glad the love you have for film has been so apparent in your recent work. keep doing what you're doing!
The only egregious pieces of nostalgia baiting was the cringe "get away from her you bitch" line and the Rook android, apart from those two things I gotta say this was the best Alien film since Aliens
Agreed, idk why Rook is there, they could have used any other android whose actor is still alive, there's not even a point to it since it's not Ash. Aside from that it's great.
I've been watching your videos since like 2018. I got my mom to buy me the pink nostalgia sweatshirt you had out YEARS ago. Your content is still just as addicting man!!! keep it up 😁😁
I actually really enjoyed the movie. Although I have only watched the first movie. I did think the beginning was a tad slow, but it gave the viewer a reason to care about the characters before they died. I think some should've lasted a tad bit longer, but it is what it is. I really love what they did with Andy, his character as a whole was intriguing the entire way through. I also liked the horror throughout, as it kept me kinda waiting for what's gonna happen next. Especially the last part (SPOILERS) with Kay and her baby, my face went from mostly neutral to a legit "WHAT THE FUCK" until the credits rolled. I thought it was a solid movie all the way through, and I'm kinda surprised so many people are so-so about the movie.
This movie turned out wat i expected Alien Covenant is probably the most interested ive been in this franchise since the first move, David is my favorite protagonist/antagonist but it was way to weird and off the beaten path for people, so of couse they'd go back to square one...
i have never seen an alien film, but i loved this movie. i went into the movie theater with the lowest of expectations thinking i would fall asleep at some point cause i'm not a fan of sci-fi movies at all but i was at the edge of my seat throughout the whole film and after leaving the theater i felt motivated to watch the old films so i guess that's a win for the franchise. maybe to people with higher expectations and more knowledge of the franchise this movie could be disappointing? i don't know, what i do know is that i loved the movie and i don't think i have enjoyed watching a movie so much in a while!
Nah man, that character is literally a plot character from the extended universe from Alien, people are actually mad that his wife didnt got the money after letting people use his image with CGI and animatronics to archieve said acting. The movie is literally a love letter to Alien fans, even has the Alien isolation phone booths everytime an action scene will play out, just like how in Isolation you have phone booths to save before and after shit goes down. The point of Romulus is that Human life doesnt matter, its show from the corporation to the cosmic horror of the universe, wich is kinda the same of the first movie. I understand the point of recycling dead actors like nothing (very ironic with the theme of this movie about human life not mathering) but i think saying its wasted potential its too much.
I think he means that nothing new was achieved with this movie. It just put a mosaic of different elements like the coldness of alien, the actions of aliens, prison planet of alien 3, the human carcass of alien 4, and ideas from prometheus and covenant. I too feel like I liked the characters more than the movie itself especially Andy. I just really wish they let ridley make his engineers movie tbh So thematically the romulus is sorta empty.
It makes sense when you know the behind the scenes decision for these films. Ridley Scott came back to add new stories to the franchise. Disney didn't like that idea, so they told him to just stick with the original "formula" for these films, when he was trying to tell more stories, and forced to make a copy of the original, with a few different things. So in short it's just kinda lame knowing they're too scared to try actual new things.
Romulus is my first Alien movie and I loved it!! Afterwards I had me and my bf sit down and watch the original Aljen from 1979 and I loved it just as much. We’re working on watching Aliens right now and I’m liking what I see from it. From what I’ve heard though, some of the newer movies aren’t so good, but I did really enjoy Romulus a lot.
one bit of 'the audience needs to be spoonfed the information to understand whats going on' that PISSED me off i laughed in the theatre was in the beginning when the temperature is going up and the characters are taking their jacket off - we see them sweating, we see the literal dials of the temp readings increase, and yet one of them still said "wow, it's getting really hot in here" with no other conversation!! what a pointless little moment. but yes, i'm glad you feel this way, it makes me feel less crazy. i saw it with a bunch of my pals, and most of them LOVED it, one was more in alignment with you. i enjoyed it, i thought it was a good follow up to the first movie (tho i've only ever seen alien and aliens), the set design and overall design aspects of the film were outstanding, enough of the movie had me tense, and the finale was really horrifying. but ian holm's likeness being used was strange and upsetting. the characters being teenagers and doing dumb teenager things and then being confused about why everything was going wrong really irked me. there weren't any 'new' things the xenomorphs and facehuggers were doing, really, so i wasn't terribly interested in a lot of the chase scenes until kay's baby creature. i thought maybe the writers had this twist/creature as an independent horror idea and didn't get funding for that story, so they attached it into an alien franchise movie they did get money to make. also, tw i suppose - a main theme i read in the original alien movie was about sexual violence, particularly about how terrifying rape is to men / the total disregard of gender 'power' and the threat of losing bodily autonomy. this film touched the surface of doing the inverse and i don't think it worked very well. with the only facehugger victim being female, the one british kid forcibly inserting an electric rod into the (distractingly) yonic egg womb thing to kill the xenomorph, motherhood as the catalyst for kay's death, rain trying to sway andy's mercy by revealing kay's pregnancy, it felt like once again a horror movie has perpetrated the sexual violence onto the female-ness of the movie and was really off-putting. sorry this is so long, oops. great video, i love hearing your thoughts :)
I watched alien Romulus recently with my girlfriend and afterwards we rewatched the older movies because I didn’t remember them that well. I then noticed all of the nostalgia in the movie and thought it was pretty cool at first but After awhile I honestly wish the movie did more, I knew from the beginning that it was going to go off the same movie beats as the first one and it still was just a rehash of alien a fun one but still a rehash. I hope there’s another movie coming out and I would just love them to do more
It's not super well known, because of Disney, but Ridley Scott had an entirely different vision, wanted to show new things and more stories sith the engineers. Disney said no, and that he had to make a very similar film to the original, because they need nostalgia bait instead of something that they'd think won't sell. This movie only exist because Disney is a coward to not let Ridley cook
Honestly these are valid points of this movie, like I get what people in the comments say but these points definitely make sense on why you feel a little disappointed in this movie, like AI dead guy in a movie could definitely leave a sour taste in one’s mouth
Really thoughtful and insightful writing, i can tell you’re passionate about it and this was a superbly thoughtful critique! Appreciate you and your channel and hope you’re doing well 🙏 (your Aftersun review on letterboxd makes me cry every time, such a beautiful and special film)
I saw it coming. This movie was supposed to be another reiteration of the same formula. You can change the setting, modernize the concept but it's still the same story all over again. They need to go to Alien's original planet and keep exploring the Engineer lore.
Apart from the (way too many) callbacks, they managed to nail the atmosphere and flair of Alien, something that we havent seen since Alien 2 all those years ago. They even went so far to go back to having retro futurism in the movie, unlike Prometheus and Covenant, who both felt out of place technology wise. With the film being the second highest grossing Alien movie, I hope we see a sequel in the near future, that keeps what they did right here, but tone down the callbacks to a minimum. (I also hope they get a more adult cast again; while I did enjoy the cast of this movie and think they integrated why they are so young perfectly into the story, its still evident that they wanted to do a "teenage horror" movie)
Alien, Aliens, & Alien Romulus. My top 3 Alien movies. Each I like for different reasons. They all tell different stories with different moods. But Romulus I actually really enjoyed a lot.
The first movie of any legacy sequel/reboot always plays it safe. If it does well, they do crazy stuff in the sequel. Star wars, any horror reboot, etc
As someone who watched this as their first alien movie I do wanna say the callbacks didn’t feel too forced except for the line when falling down the elevator and shoting the alien. Maybe some other small things, but it was mainly that because it felt so out of nowhere and without any real buildup.
As someone who’s seen two alien movies (Alien 1 and Romulus) I really liked Romulus. Ian Holm being the android doesnt bother me because I genuinely didn’t realize it was him when I was watching it. I think Romulus was awesome
summed my thoughts up perfectly with this, the core roots of the franchise being a tense and suspenseful horror flick with an underlying narrative of corporate apathy is such a rich subject matter that its crazy that they just rehashed most of the sequels, whilst half baking all of the concepts in them into some ridiculous break-neck rollercoaster of the alien universe. going back to truckers in space forced to die due to a company's lack of care for their wellbeing is incredibly relevant today, and alien romulus kind of dipped its toes into that idea with this films opening, but then it jsut fell back into the same old shit.
I think that a bit of the setting gets lost due to the background of the viewer. I'm from a 3rd world country and this movie hit like a truck, wanting to have a better life struggle every day against systems that actively want you dead, and the destruction of your dreams is something that this movie captured amazingly
Man if the movie kept the same vibe it had for the first 40ish minutes it would’ve been godly. It would’ve essentially gave us an Alien Isolation movie, which is something I think the franchise needs. From Aliens onwards the franchise became straight action and the Xenomorphs weren’t scary. Or the movies tried to rewrite what the Xenos are outright with the prequels (which I for one despised). In regard to Romulus I liked it, it broke the streak of garbage or meh movies we’ve been getting. I just wish it chilled on the callbacks and instead of jumping from set piece to set piece it gave more development for the characters.
The male actor who is the brother of the pregnant lady. (Yes i forgot their names. I only watched it a couple days ago.) is the actor who plays in Shadow and Bone. I recognized him immediately! Anyways I personally liked this movie. Had me on the edge of my seat the entire time, and the scenes were INTENSE! I give it 4/5 stars. ❤Great storyline, great actors, great cinematography, great atmosphere. Some of it i didnt like were some of the choices, including Andy just letting a pregnant woman *almost* die…. 😢
Great video! From the beginning to the end, these are my thought exactly on the movie. There is one thing, however, that bothered me even more than CGI Ian Holm spouting exposition: the Xenomorph completing its whole lifecycle in about half an hour. This has been the standard since Alien vs. Predator and I hate it with the force of a thousand suns: not only because it contradicts the original movies, but also because it treats the audience like they have no patience or attention span and kills the suspense and anticipation. I don't see this mentioned often, so I wonder sometimes if I'm the only one that hates the accelerated alien lifecycle so much!
My least favourite part was when they show Kay using the serum on herself. They already cut away from her before just looking at it, debating it and leaving it up to audiences for interpretation, but then they just show it anyway? Why? Now the final act surprise isn’t a surprise lol. That just screams test audiences who were too dumb to get what was happening.
I agree with your opinion. I knew she was going to take it. I thought something horrible would happen. Like magbe shed turn into a deformed alien + human hybrid and Rain would have to kill her. That would be so tragic! But then the baby becoming the alien + human hybrid was my next guess and that was a horrifying outcome. Plus, they hinted that the serum was a horrible mistake when they panned over to the mouse in the cage being horribly disfigured! I was like oh sht! Dont take the serum!!
Oh man i really loved this movie though... I really thought the movie was absolutely thrilling from the sound design to the direction and the music! Am I crazy 🥲 That scene where everything goes quiet and all we hear is her chilling scream was AMAZING!!
There's truly so little about this movie that isn't good, but the shadow those parts cast over the rest of the movie is so large it brings so much good stuff down with it. The focus on the facehuggers as a horror vehicle was thrilling. The opening stuff on the ground of a colony planet works so well. The characters were fine. The horror set-pieces were all solid to great. The aliens were genuinely freaky. The last act was peak weirdo shit. But, lord, CGI faces bring such a void presence to legacy sequels. A black hole snake-eating-tail creative choice that sucks so much good will out. And all the dialogue call-backs? What the fuck. Those characters don't know why they're saying these things!! It's bafflingly vacuous. Your idea of it being Andy fucking rules. I would've also accepted a version of David/Walter. But, in any case, Ash/Rook was so, so not the move.
Unfortunately, i completely agree with everything youve said. I really wanted to love this film. The practical facehuggers, the set design (which they absoutely nailed), i thought the new stage between chestbuster and full xenomorph was done pretty well and ticked the right HR Giger boxes. But the uncanny valley Rook took me out of it a bit, and if they had stuck with "Get away from her" i could have taken that as a nice nod. The last 2 words were just so jarring to hear from that character that had no reason to say them though. If anything, from the director of Evil Dead 2013, i thought they held back on the gore to be fair. I would have guessed thats likely Disney, but having seen Deadpool and Wolverine, they didnt hold back much there. Though i can appreciate its a different tone. Nice to see facehuggers getting the spotlight, but i agree, the film was weighed down a bit too much with having to try and link to every other Alien film. I think with a few small edits it could have been a much better end product. That said, still had fun with it, same as you, just wish it had been closer to its potential.
why can't people just listen to someone else's opinion disliking a video without even watching it because you personally enjoy the movie is so ridiculous, art is subjective
Some commenters really put this on the corner of their phone and open tiktok for real 😭 He gave this movie a 3 star and complimented it bruh is it not good enough for yall title readers??
i like a slower chest burster sequence. so many of the new films really fail to play with that constant underlying anxiety about when its finally gonna burst out, and that was also disappointing to me.
While I'm not saying I necessarily agree with the choice to have his likeness in the movie, The director asked the estate and they said yes. Specifically his wife said he loved the character of Ash in particular.
I think a lot of creators really expected most people to not enjoy this movie based on the amount of content I’ve seen of them claiming this movie was lacking or uninspired or a disappointment and the subsequent backpedaling when general audiences celebrate it.
***spoiler alert*** Only problem I had with it was the opening scene where they recover the original alien from the wreckage of the Nostromo. If any wreckage would have been left it certainly wouldn't be floating together in a fixed location - it would've been blasted in a million different directions following it's self destruction and would still be flying through space. Ripley also piloted the escape craft away from the point of detonation, and when she shot the alien out of the airlock you see it get blasted apart by the thruster. Yet somehow we're supposed to believe it cocooned itself to be easily recovered at the impossible wreckage? Really lazy setup.
I agree with everything you said but honestly I completely forgot about all of that the second that girl gave birth to the human alien boy. I love that long boy very much and in fact I wish he would have killed the main character and won the movie. He is my favorite long little guy
The setup and the pace of the movie is the elephant in the room here filled with the dull and boring cast is like the nail on the coffin beside all of that everything is good and worth watching
The movie started great with the backstory of youngsters in a worker colony, then it had its cool slasher and thrilling moments, but yeah - shallow characters, pastiche upon pastiche and uhhh ending with a "final boss". I do love the aesthetics of Alien universe, but Romulus clearly had a identity issue. Ended up giving it a 3/5.
Not everything has to be a mind blowing masterpiece. I appreciate getting something thrilling and fun in the franchise since there was a chance that this franchise would be 6ft under. All these YT reviewers are trying so hard to be though-provoking that they're not even having fun watching movies anymore.
Nice vid! I liked the film quite a bit, the only truly abysmal parts for me were the shitty CGI on rook and the beginning of the film. Everything else I was quite fond of . I also follow u on Letterboxd 🙏🙏🙏
If I took a woman to see Romulus she probably wouldn’t wanna go out with me anymore because the film is isn’t good. Alien was a FILM to see I’m sure. No spoilers in the trailer. It wasn’t recycled from past films and it had genuinely frightening aspects of the synthetic’s suspicious behavior and the alien’s appearance and unknown nature. Romulus does nothing but annoyingly add stupidity to the franchise. The lab scene. The end scene. The plot. The way characters die it’s all just so silly and can’t be taken seriously and it’s NOT FRIGHTENING. IT IS NOT GOOD LOL
Had only ever seen the first Alien movie as it started as a horror movie then evolved into an action sci fi franchise much like Terminator. So I never got into the movies like. I did take my 16 yo sister to this movie and we both really enjoyed it as the standalone cosmic horror film, so I don't care so much for lore. Even at that I could tell that the one android was resurrectiom CGI which I also didn't like, sick movie though for any newcomer.
I watched this having not watched any other of the alien movies and I enjoyed myself but it didn’t till me with the dread I expected and some of the dialogue was cringe. I didn’t feel any jeopardy and the fact someone who had never been into space before was able to survive all that
To me, thought movie was good, but I just hate the ending. I'm sure not many mind it, but I just don't like the black goo, I hate it, the final creature yes is scary but at the same time I just want the aliens, nothing special, no black goo, just xenomorphs.
I enjoyed Rook and the fact he looked like Ash, I don't see anything wrong with that, he looked like a damaged waxey android that very much resembled Ash, no big deal. What annoyed me was the stupid alien human hybrid, it was an awful idea in Alien Resurrection and just as awful in Romulus. There were sooo many plot holes in this film, but not quite as bad as Prometheus.
The movie was great!!! but it had a weird direction with fan service-y dialogue and characters????? And imo trying to fit the "black goo" was, bad. Although the offspring was very disturbing ngl it was fun to experience that I love Alien 1979, so... this new entry didn't do it for me, but i like it.
Thank you so much for agreeing with me on this that this movie is honestly underwhelming. Since I watched it, I've seen so many tiktoks about how this movie was so good, and the ending was terrifying, and I was just like... really? I've never watched an alien movie before, so I didn't know about the callbacks, or even what to expect, but this movie wasn't really scary and was a lot more of an action movie than I expected. I did still enjoy it, and the cinematography was absolutely gorgeous, but I never really found it more than entertaining. I did also give it three stars, but if I knew about the callbacks, I'd be tempted to lower it as well.
you say you want to give the film the recognition it deserves, but then nitpick it to death bro. If maybe 1 total minute of nostaglia/fanservice in a 120 minute experience pulls you out of the movie then idk maybe modern movies just aren't for you
1:16 couldn't have said it better myself. As someone who grew tired of the generic space expedition (ft. Xenomorphs) that've been getting slopped out since 1992 i huffed up this genuinely horrific and exhilarating encore from a Xenomorph. Simply so to speak it's like a dlc to a multiplayer horror game you have hundreds of hours in that makes it scary again. I don't give a significant amount of shits towards other people's opinions but im just saying everyone else from what i hear likes the film too so ya
Alot of your observations are spot on. For myself, I found the film poorly developed narrative wise andoverall lacking a strong central focus. I found the film boring .
The pointless soapboxing trying to imply that animating a face is "morally indefensible" is just bizarre. Going by the information in this video the family of the actor were in support of the choice. But you think you have more of a right to restrict someone's likeness than that family, for no reason other than *you* aren't comfortable with someone else's death not having *enough* impact on art? Which is also wild to imply that somehow death restricting the possibilities of art is somehow a moral "given" and that nobody should ever consider otherwise?? I get that over the top critique is the gimmick of the channel and it's usually entertaining, but surely there was more to make fun of in the movie without having to invent a moral panic on top of it lol
theres somethin in the wa ur
If you enjoyed this video please leave a like! I dont want to deter anyone from enjoying the movie i just wish people watched the whole vid before disliking the vid
they pu somehin init
better than "Dude, it looks like there's something lurking in that water! Dude, that's radical!"
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That’s cool! still gonna disagree with you.
The movie deserved a little better, even tho i'm not fond at all of the meddling of ridley scott and the corporate suits with alvarez's creative world building, it is clear that alvarez was going for something very immersive in the 30 to 40 first minutes of the movie then you can see suits coming in with parody level references to former movies beginning with the android to really bad lines and puns related to former movies that push the later half in the caricatural , borderline parody area.
Genuinely, I was so thrilled by this movie. The best part was 100% when the Xenomorph said "I'm going to show you my Romulussy!" and did shockingly inappropriate things to our protagonist
Yeah I really felt that
@@hollowman7168 the same way the protagonist felt it ig😬
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Just as Geiger intended
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Having handsome squidward as the final boss made this movie epic
I think the characters choices in the film were organic and Rain was smart. They didn’t try to make a new Ripley which was something I was nervous about. It’s been said a lot but I do agree it’s the third best alien film. The world building at the beginning too was great. You’re bound to get something the same, it’s an alien movie, but the way they handled it I see no issue that took me out of the experience. I think if you’re familiar with most of the alien media (especially the game) it’s a rewarding watch.
Which game? Alien isolation?
@@trueromani7262 yes isolation!
The movie deserved a little better, even tho i'm not fond at all of the meddling of ridley scott and the corporate suits with alvarez's creative world building, it is clear that alvarez was going for something very immersive in the 30 to 40 first minutes of the movie then you can see suits coming in with parody level references to former movies beginning with the android to really bad lines and puns related to former movies that push the later half in the caricatural , borderline parody area.
Am I the only one who really enjoyed this movie? I’m glad it went back to its horror roots. I just watched Aliens 1986 and just like before I wasn’t a fan. It lacked the horror. This movie brought the horror back. I really liked it.
I really enjoyed it too. I know it had some recycled things from the original, but I felt it had enough twists and situations to make it feel fresh.
I know some people like RedLetterMedia hated that that movie didn't do anything new or weird but I'm kinda happy they went back to basics with this one. And it makes sense considering it doesn't follow too long after the original. And it's not like the alien/hybrid concept was only in Resurrection. There's nothing wrong with having another hybrid and one that's generally creepy. I feel people will hate on it now but then years later, people will defend and act like there was nothing wrong with it. (Oh, so the Alien³ syndrome.)
alien romulus is literally the 1986 movie. same plot, same recipe
You're not the only one. It's a really fun back-to-basics Alien movie, though a lot of people are mad about the nostalgia/fan service.
It’s a great movie, loved it a lot. 3rd best alien film out of the franchise. Characters actions made sense and the story unravelled organically.
Alien Romulus was absolutely incredible.
At 0:06 in the video he said his answer. He enjoyed the movie. No need to watch anything more. It's all good, it's over, it's Done!!!! The end is near!!!!
Obviously not the case, which we can easily gauge from the title of the video.
The title really sums up perfectly the state of cinema right now
I wish they were allowed to try new things instead of sequels and rehases of nostalgic things
The irony of seeing a Mega Corporation in Disney getting their hands on the Xenomorph and then weaponizing it is not lost on me.
wouldn’t having two andy’s not make sense since his specific android was designed for the mines???
Thank you man. This review hit home what I was missing from the film. I really enjoyed it seeing it in the theaters twice, but I couldn’t help but feel underwhelmed because I felt this movie should’ve been more. Solid review as always
i'll be watching this entire video after i see the film myself this weekend, but i just wanted to say i appreciate the videos you make a whole lot. i've seen a lot of people criticize you in the past and say you never make videos about movies you like, but to me it's clear there's a whole lot of passion and care behind what you do. criticizing something and expressing disappointment does not mean the entire project as a whole goes unappreciated or adored in some ways, and you've been able to express that dichotomy perfectly. your latest videos especially have been such a joy to watch and i'm glad the love you have for film has been so apparent in your recent work. keep doing what you're doing!
I really needed to hear this thank you
@24FramesOfNick you are an awesome person and we love you!
the "get away from her " call back def had me going 'yeah okaaaayyyyyy we get ittttt'
The only egregious pieces of nostalgia baiting was the cringe "get away from her you bitch" line and the Rook android, apart from those two things I gotta say this was the best Alien film since Aliens
Agreed, idk why Rook is there, they could have used any other android whose actor is still alive, there's not even a point to it since it's not Ash. Aside from that it's great.
I've been watching your videos since like 2018. I got my mom to buy me the pink nostalgia sweatshirt you had out YEARS ago. Your content is still just as addicting man!!! keep it up 😁😁
I actually really enjoyed the movie. Although I have only watched the first movie. I did think the beginning was a tad slow, but it gave the viewer a reason to care about the characters before they died. I think some should've lasted a tad bit longer, but it is what it is.
I really love what they did with Andy, his character as a whole was intriguing the entire way through. I also liked the horror throughout, as it kept me kinda waiting for what's gonna happen next.
Especially the last part (SPOILERS) with Kay and her baby, my face went from mostly neutral to a legit "WHAT THE FUCK" until the credits rolled.
I thought it was a solid movie all the way through, and I'm kinda surprised so many people are so-so about the movie.
You think the beginning is slow when you’ve watched the original?
@@RedDeadDepressionist well known 1979 slow burn character depth while Romulus did same but lacks outside Andy & Rain.
I love listening to you, Nick!
isolation still reins supreme in my head as the best alien sequel.
Wtf your saying it was great
This movie turned out wat i expected Alien Covenant is probably the most interested ive been in this franchise since the first move, David is my favorite protagonist/antagonist but it was way to weird and off the beaten path for people, so of couse they'd go back to square one...
no,, no..y- you don get to,,,,. you dont get to do that ,,,
Loved when the Facehuggers said: ,,It’s FaceTime baby!“
i have never seen an alien film, but i loved this movie. i went into the movie theater with the lowest of expectations thinking i would fall asleep at some point cause i'm not a fan of sci-fi movies at all but i was at the edge of my seat throughout the whole film and after leaving the theater i felt motivated to watch the old films so i guess that's a win for the franchise. maybe to people with higher expectations and more knowledge of the franchise this movie could be disappointing? i don't know, what i do know is that i loved the movie and i don't think i have enjoyed watching a movie so much in a while!
Nah man, that character is literally a plot character from the extended universe from Alien, people are actually mad that his wife didnt got the money after letting people use his image with CGI and animatronics to archieve said acting.
The movie is literally a love letter to Alien fans, even has the Alien isolation phone booths everytime an action scene will play out, just like how in Isolation you have phone booths to save before and after shit goes down.
The point of Romulus is that Human life doesnt matter, its show from the corporation to the cosmic horror of the universe, wich is kinda the same of the first movie.
I understand the point of recycling dead actors like nothing (very ironic with the theme of this movie about human life not mathering) but i think saying its wasted potential its too much.
I think he means that nothing new was achieved with this movie. It just put a mosaic of different elements like the coldness of alien, the actions of aliens, prison planet of alien 3, the human carcass of alien 4, and ideas from prometheus and covenant. I too feel like I liked the characters more than the movie itself especially Andy. I just really wish they let ridley make his engineers movie tbh So thematically the romulus is sorta empty.
This is exactly how I’ve been feeling finally put into words, thank you!
I dont really watch horror films but ive seen mostly good reviews. But damn nick didnt fw it like that, thats tough
It makes sense when you know the behind the scenes decision for these films. Ridley Scott came back to add new stories to the franchise.
Disney didn't like that idea, so they told him to just stick with the original "formula" for these films, when he was trying to tell more stories, and forced to make a copy of the original, with a few different things.
So in short it's just kinda lame knowing they're too scared to try actual new things.
Critics have become so out of touch with the general audience. You’d think this movie was as bad as jack and Jill the way y’all carrying on lol.
I swear lol I enjoyed the movie because it was actually good. I’ve learned to just watch movies myself without the voice of critics
Are you talking about Nick? Because it has an 80% on RT which is relatively high to the two before it
shitsake I know right?
The movie overall is receiving positive reviews from critics, you’ll survive a TH-camr saying something slightly critical about a movie you like 🙄
This movie got an 80% from critics, the fuck are you talking about
Romulus is my first Alien movie and I loved it!! Afterwards I had me and my bf sit down and watch the original Aljen from 1979 and I loved it just as much. We’re working on watching Aliens right now and I’m liking what I see from it. From what I’ve heard though, some of the newer movies aren’t so good, but I did really enjoy Romulus a lot.
one bit of 'the audience needs to be spoonfed the information to understand whats going on' that PISSED me off i laughed in the theatre was in the beginning when the temperature is going up and the characters are taking their jacket off - we see them sweating, we see the literal dials of the temp readings increase, and yet one of them still said "wow, it's getting really hot in here" with no other conversation!! what a pointless little moment.
but yes, i'm glad you feel this way, it makes me feel less crazy. i saw it with a bunch of my pals, and most of them LOVED it, one was more in alignment with you. i enjoyed it, i thought it was a good follow up to the first movie (tho i've only ever seen alien and aliens), the set design and overall design aspects of the film were outstanding, enough of the movie had me tense, and the finale was really horrifying. but ian holm's likeness being used was strange and upsetting. the characters being teenagers and doing dumb teenager things and then being confused about why everything was going wrong really irked me. there weren't any 'new' things the xenomorphs and facehuggers were doing, really, so i wasn't terribly interested in a lot of the chase scenes until kay's baby creature. i thought maybe the writers had this twist/creature as an independent horror idea and didn't get funding for that story, so they attached it into an alien franchise movie they did get money to make.
also, tw i suppose - a main theme i read in the original alien movie was about sexual violence, particularly about how terrifying rape is to men / the total disregard of gender 'power' and the threat of losing bodily autonomy. this film touched the surface of doing the inverse and i don't think it worked very well. with the only facehugger victim being female, the one british kid forcibly inserting an electric rod into the (distractingly) yonic egg womb thing to kill the xenomorph, motherhood as the catalyst for kay's death, rain trying to sway andy's mercy by revealing kay's pregnancy, it felt like once again a horror movie has perpetrated the sexual violence onto the female-ness of the movie and was really off-putting.
sorry this is so long, oops. great video, i love hearing your thoughts :)
I watched alien Romulus recently with my girlfriend and afterwards we rewatched the older movies because I didn’t remember them that well. I then noticed all of the nostalgia in the movie and thought it was pretty cool at first but After awhile I honestly wish the movie did more, I knew from the beginning that it was going to go off the same movie beats as the first one and it still was just a rehash of alien a fun one but still a rehash. I hope there’s another movie coming out and I would just love them to do more
You're the only one who feels this way
not in the slightest lol
I dont agree with his opinion, but its HIS. I really enjoyed this movie, but I dont have to tell everyone to enjoy it too.
Unfortunately that's not the case. I loved it until the endless callbacks and cgi Rook took me the fuck out.
It's not super well known, because of Disney, but Ridley Scott had an entirely different vision, wanted to show new things and more stories sith the engineers. Disney said no, and that he had to make a very similar film to the original, because they need nostalgia bait instead of something that they'd think won't sell.
This movie only exist because Disney is a coward to not let Ridley cook
Absolutely not lol
I love how the trailers showed so much and even spoiled who the Synth was.
Honestly these are valid points of this movie, like I get what people in the comments say but these points definitely make sense on why you feel a little disappointed in this movie, like AI dead guy in a movie could definitely leave a sour taste in one’s mouth
Great video man!! Have loved your recent reviews!
Really thoughtful and insightful writing, i can tell you’re passionate about it and this was a superbly thoughtful critique! Appreciate you and your channel and hope you’re doing well 🙏 (your Aftersun review on letterboxd makes me cry every time, such a beautiful and special film)
I saw it coming. This movie was supposed to be another reiteration of the same formula. You can change the setting, modernize the concept but it's still the same story all over again. They need to go to Alien's original planet and keep exploring the Engineer lore.
Apart from the (way too many) callbacks, they managed to nail the atmosphere and flair of Alien, something that we havent seen since Alien 2 all those years ago. They even went so far to go back to having retro futurism in the movie, unlike Prometheus and Covenant, who both felt out of place technology wise.
With the film being the second highest grossing Alien movie, I hope we see a sequel in the near future, that keeps what they did right here, but tone down the callbacks to a minimum.
(I also hope they get a more adult cast again; while I did enjoy the cast of this movie and think they integrated why they are so young perfectly into the story, its still evident that they wanted to do a "teenage horror" movie)
Alien, Aliens, & Alien Romulus.
My top 3 Alien movies.
Each I like for different reasons. They all tell different stories with different moods.
But Romulus I actually really enjoyed a lot.
The first movie of any legacy sequel/reboot always plays it safe. If it does well, they do crazy stuff in the sequel. Star wars, any horror reboot, etc
As someone who watched this as their first alien movie I do wanna say the callbacks didn’t feel too forced except for the line when falling down the elevator and shoting the alien. Maybe some other small things, but it was mainly that because it felt so out of nowhere and without any real buildup.
I loved the part where the Alien shouted :
"It's Romulus Time !"
As someone who’s seen two alien movies (Alien 1 and Romulus) I really liked Romulus.
Ian Holm being the android doesnt bother me because I genuinely didn’t realize it was him when I was watching it.
I think Romulus was awesome
summed my thoughts up perfectly with this, the core roots of the franchise being a tense and suspenseful horror flick with an underlying narrative of corporate apathy is such a rich subject matter that its crazy that they just rehashed most of the sequels, whilst half baking all of the concepts in them into some ridiculous break-neck rollercoaster of the alien universe. going back to truckers in space forced to die due to a company's lack of care for their wellbeing is incredibly relevant today, and alien romulus kind of dipped its toes into that idea with this films opening, but then it jsut fell back into the same old shit.
I think that a bit of the setting gets lost due to the background of the viewer. I'm from a 3rd world country and this movie hit like a truck, wanting to have a better life struggle every day against systems that actively want you dead, and the destruction of your dreams is something that this movie captured amazingly
Man if the movie kept the same vibe it had for the first 40ish minutes it would’ve been godly. It would’ve essentially gave us an Alien Isolation movie, which is something I think the franchise needs. From Aliens onwards the franchise became straight action and the Xenomorphs weren’t scary. Or the movies tried to rewrite what the Xenos are outright with the prequels (which I for one despised). In regard to Romulus I liked it, it broke the streak of garbage or meh movies we’ve been getting. I just wish it chilled on the callbacks and instead of jumping from set piece to set piece it gave more development for the characters.
The male actor who is the brother of the pregnant lady. (Yes i forgot their names. I only watched it a couple days ago.) is the actor who plays in Shadow and Bone. I recognized him immediately! Anyways I personally liked this movie. Had me on the edge of my seat the entire time, and the scenes were INTENSE!
I give it 4/5 stars. ❤Great storyline, great actors, great cinematography, great atmosphere. Some of it i didnt like were some of the choices, including Andy just letting a pregnant woman *almost* die…. 😢
Exactly. At least Prometheus isn't a retread.
I’m convinced Hollywood heard us when we said we hated remakes so their solution was to pass those same remakes off a sequels.
Great video! From the beginning to the end, these are my thought exactly on the movie. There is one thing, however, that bothered me even more than CGI Ian Holm spouting exposition: the Xenomorph completing its whole lifecycle in about half an hour. This has been the standard since Alien vs. Predator and I hate it with the force of a thousand suns: not only because it contradicts the original movies, but also because it treats the audience like they have no patience or attention span and kills the suspense and anticipation. I don't see this mentioned often, so I wonder sometimes if I'm the only one that hates the accelerated alien lifecycle so much!
My least favourite part was when they show Kay using the serum on herself. They already cut away from her before just looking at it, debating it and leaving it up to audiences for interpretation, but then they just show it anyway? Why? Now the final act surprise isn’t a surprise lol. That just screams test audiences who were too dumb to get what was happening.
I agree with your opinion. I knew she was going to take it. I thought something horrible would happen. Like magbe shed turn into a deformed alien + human hybrid and Rain would have to kill her. That would be so tragic! But then the baby becoming the alien + human hybrid was my next guess and that was a horrifying outcome. Plus, they hinted that the serum was a horrible mistake when they panned over to the mouse in the cage being horribly disfigured! I was like oh sht! Dont take the serum!!
the alien hybrid reminded me of the SCP the Shy Guy
Oh man i really loved this movie though... I really thought the movie was absolutely thrilling from the sound design to the direction and the music! Am I crazy 🥲
That scene where everything goes quiet and all we hear is her chilling scream was AMAZING!!
There's truly so little about this movie that isn't good, but the shadow those parts cast over the rest of the movie is so large it brings so much good stuff down with it. The focus on the facehuggers as a horror vehicle was thrilling. The opening stuff on the ground of a colony planet works so well. The characters were fine. The horror set-pieces were all solid to great. The aliens were genuinely freaky. The last act was peak weirdo shit.
But, lord, CGI faces bring such a void presence to legacy sequels. A black hole snake-eating-tail creative choice that sucks so much good will out. And all the dialogue call-backs? What the fuck. Those characters don't know why they're saying these things!! It's bafflingly vacuous.
Your idea of it being Andy fucking rules. I would've also accepted a version of David/Walter. But, in any case, Ash/Rook was so, so not the move.
Unfortunately, i completely agree with everything youve said. I really wanted to love this film. The practical facehuggers, the set design (which they absoutely nailed), i thought the new stage between chestbuster and full xenomorph was done pretty well and ticked the right HR Giger boxes. But the uncanny valley Rook took me out of it a bit, and if they had stuck with "Get away from her" i could have taken that as a nice nod. The last 2 words were just so jarring to hear from that character that had no reason to say them though. If anything, from the director of Evil Dead 2013, i thought they held back on the gore to be fair. I would have guessed thats likely Disney, but having seen Deadpool and Wolverine, they didnt hold back much there. Though i can appreciate its a different tone. Nice to see facehuggers getting the spotlight, but i agree, the film was weighed down a bit too much with having to try and link to every other Alien film. I think with a few small edits it could have been a much better end product. That said, still had fun with it, same as you, just wish it had been closer to its potential.
why can't people just listen to someone else's opinion
disliking a video without even watching it because you personally enjoy the movie is so ridiculous, art is subjective
This movie was great and a fun viewing lol. It definitely deserves the watch
Some commenters really put this on the corner of their phone and open tiktok for real 😭
He gave this movie a 3 star and complimented it bruh is it not good enough for yall title readers??
i like a slower chest burster sequence. so many of the new films really fail to play with that constant underlying anxiety about when its finally gonna burst out, and that was also disappointing to me.
While I'm not saying I necessarily agree with the choice to have his likeness in the movie, The director asked the estate and they said yes. Specifically his wife said he loved the character of Ash in particular.
I think a lot of creators really expected most people to not enjoy this movie based on the amount of content I’ve seen of them claiming this movie was lacking or uninspired or a disappointment and the subsequent backpedaling when general audiences celebrate it.
***spoiler alert***
Only problem I had with it was the opening scene where they recover the original alien from the wreckage of the Nostromo. If any wreckage would have been left it certainly wouldn't be floating together in a fixed location - it would've been blasted in a million different directions following it's self destruction and would still be flying through space. Ripley also piloted the escape craft away from the point of detonation, and when she shot the alien out of the airlock you see it get blasted apart by the thruster. Yet somehow we're supposed to believe it cocooned itself to be easily recovered at the impossible wreckage? Really lazy setup.
I blame the dreaded Grisney influence
as soon as cgi ian holm showed up i groaned. i understand the sentiment, but why? this is exactly how i felt about the recent ghostbusters movies.
duh its for nostalgia
24 frames of rick
They MUST hand the reigns over to Niel blomkamp
I agree with everything you said but honestly I completely forgot about all of that the second that girl gave birth to the human alien boy. I love that long boy very much and in fact I wish he would have killed the main character and won the movie. He is my favorite long little guy
The setup and the pace of the movie is the elephant in the room here filled with the dull and boring cast is like the nail on the coffin beside all of that everything is good and worth watching
idk how this is worse than dp3
alien rhombus
The movie started great with the backstory of youngsters in a worker colony, then it had its cool slasher and thrilling moments, but yeah - shallow characters, pastiche upon pastiche and uhhh ending with a "final boss". I do love the aesthetics of Alien universe, but Romulus clearly had a identity issue. Ended up giving it a 3/5.
Not everything has to be a mind blowing masterpiece. I appreciate getting something thrilling and fun in the franchise since there was a chance that this franchise would be 6ft under. All these YT reviewers are trying so hard to be though-provoking that they're not even having fun watching movies anymore.
No I still said I had fun
DERS SUMFUH IN THE WATUH
please do generation loss: the founder’s cut (its on youtube)
Bringing back a dead actor using AI in a franchise where humans are so afraid to die that they'll travel space to find their maker is a bit ironic
Nice vid! I liked the film quite a bit, the only truly abysmal parts for me were the shitty CGI on rook and the beginning of the film. Everything else I was quite fond of . I also follow u on Letterboxd 🙏🙏🙏
i loved it ngl
Yes [insert Such Wasted Potential meme]
Can you finally make the Norm of the North 4 video please? I just want closure at this point 🤠
If I took a woman to see Romulus she probably wouldn’t wanna go out with me anymore because the film is isn’t good. Alien was a FILM to see I’m sure. No spoilers in the trailer. It wasn’t recycled from past films and it had genuinely frightening aspects of the synthetic’s suspicious behavior and the alien’s appearance and unknown nature. Romulus does nothing but annoyingly add stupidity to the franchise. The lab scene. The end scene. The plot. The way characters die it’s all just so silly and can’t be taken seriously and it’s NOT FRIGHTENING. IT IS NOT GOOD LOL
Absolutely agree with the bit about Andy. If he’d turned completely rogue and “evil” I would’ve loved that.
Will you do a video on diary of a wimpy kid Cavin fever
So glad writers copy and paste characters instead of making new original characters
This seriously just pissed me off lol
hey nick how are you doing
the movie was great unfortunately people are nitpicking this film to pieces.
IT WAS A LITTLE MID!!!
Had only ever seen the first Alien movie as it started as a horror movie then evolved into an action sci fi franchise much like Terminator. So I never got into the movies like.
I did take my 16 yo sister to this movie and we both really enjoyed it as the standalone cosmic horror film, so I don't care so much for lore. Even at that I could tell that the one android was resurrectiom CGI which I also didn't like, sick movie though for any newcomer.
The movie is good 👍 I suggest watching it if you like the alien movies
I watched this having not watched any other of the alien movies and I enjoyed myself but it didn’t till me with the dread I expected and some of the dialogue was cringe. I didn’t feel any jeopardy and the fact someone who had never been into space before was able to survive all that
It's sad that some people let stuff like this ruin a great movie for themselves.
To me, thought movie was good, but I just hate the ending. I'm sure not many mind it, but I just don't like the black goo, I hate it, the final creature yes is scary but at the same time I just want the aliens, nothing special, no black goo, just xenomorphs.
You are absolutely not the only one who feels this way
I enjoyed Rook and the fact he looked like Ash, I don't see anything wrong with that, he looked like a damaged waxey android that very much resembled Ash, no big deal. What annoyed me was the stupid alien human hybrid, it was an awful idea in Alien Resurrection and just as awful in Romulus. There were sooo many plot holes in this film, but not quite as bad as Prometheus.
The movie was great!!! but it had a weird direction with fan service-y dialogue and characters????? And imo trying to fit the "black goo" was, bad. Although the offspring was very disturbing ngl it was fun to experience that
I love Alien 1979, so... this new entry didn't do it for me, but i like it.
people loved the movie at first but now are shitting on it, its kinda sad honestly
I wish they used Bishop instead
Thank you so much for agreeing with me on this that this movie is honestly underwhelming. Since I watched it, I've seen so many tiktoks about how this movie was so good, and the ending was terrifying, and I was just like... really? I've never watched an alien movie before, so I didn't know about the callbacks, or even what to expect, but this movie wasn't really scary and was a lot more of an action movie than I expected. I did still enjoy it, and the cinematography was absolutely gorgeous, but I never really found it more than entertaining. I did also give it three stars, but if I knew about the callbacks, I'd be tempted to lower it as well.
So you didn't like it cuz it used AI and retreaded old ground? Aight
i enjoyed it, but....i agree
you say you want to give the film the recognition it deserves, but then nitpick it to death bro. If maybe 1 total minute of nostaglia/fanservice in a 120 minute experience pulls you out of the movie then idk maybe modern movies just aren't for you
no shot you just copy and pasted a dumbass inaccurate tweet LMFAOOO talk about irony
1:16 couldn't have said it better myself. As someone who grew tired of the generic space expedition (ft. Xenomorphs) that've been getting slopped out since 1992 i huffed up this genuinely horrific and exhilarating encore from a Xenomorph. Simply so to speak it's like a dlc to a multiplayer horror game you have hundreds of hours in that makes it scary again. I don't give a significant amount of shits towards other people's opinions but im just saying everyone else from what i hear likes the film too so ya
Alot of your observations are spot on. For myself, I found the film poorly developed narrative wise andoverall lacking a strong central focus.
I found the film boring .
The pointless soapboxing trying to imply that animating a face is "morally indefensible" is just bizarre. Going by the information in this video the family of the actor were in support of the choice. But you think you have more of a right to restrict someone's likeness than that family, for no reason other than *you* aren't comfortable with someone else's death not having *enough* impact on art? Which is also wild to imply that somehow death restricting the possibilities of art is somehow a moral "given" and that nobody should ever consider otherwise??
I get that over the top critique is the gimmick of the channel and it's usually entertaining, but surely there was more to make fun of in the movie without having to invent a moral panic on top of it lol