Disney is too shit scared of releasing a movie that could possibly devalue the alien licence, and so they release something like this, the cinematic equivalent of treading water. repackaging and rereleasing the same old stuff with a slightly different paint job. Its very sad that this is what cinema has been reduced to now. Someone needs to create some new licenses and have the balls to tell a cool and compelling story.
Hey Matt, have ya also watched the other guy named Matt on his review on this movie? 😲 He had it split up into like 2 videos (about an hour long each), and was basically just STOMPIN' this pile of trash all the way down into the deepest depths of HELL... And that shure ain't NO goddamn bullshit! He made some very clear and valid points about the way how the stupid-ass script was all messed-up, the poor acting and directing, the cheap-ass movie sets, and how the entire cast and crew was a JOKE. I think he may have also mentioned something about 'NUT-HUGGERS' or somethin'... Somethin' about all these sharp, claw-like things; hooked onto various nutsacks and then gettin' pulled or some kinda shit like that. Very emotionally-charged, heart attack inducing shit! 😳
Sounds just like the critics in 1979 "Word for Word" and they are now Eating Crow . . . I have already see it 3 times, Once in IMAX . . . Life is good in the Alien Universe!
spot on. I laughed out loud when they were removing the micro chip from the android in the same way you remove a sim card from a smartphone. And there all in their early twenties and they can confidently pilot and navigate interstellar spacecraft like they've been doing it for years. just laughable.
@@delonthomas48you guys can never be pleased NEWS FLASH the old actors are lame and rude the budget a bunch ANOTHER NEWS FKASH the original alien had all new actors
The homage to alien 3 was the most egregious. They used a similar music theme from Alien 3 when Ripley was falling into the fire. They yoinked that music and regurgitated it for when the weird ass human hybrid was falling into the planets rings. They also didn't credit that original composer... It's a damn shame. That music was a brilliant theme for Ripley's death and had absolutely nothing to do with what was happening here.
Which is odd, because they did credit composers Harry Gregson-Williams (Prometheus,) Jerry Goldsmith (Alien) and James Horner (Aliens). The score for Romulus does quote bits of the Aliens and Prometheus scores (the Prometheus quote happens when they're discussing the black goo in the lab). I didn't notice the Alien 3 quote but it seems very odd that they'd do that, then not credit it as they did the others. Was it maybe a quote of Aliens or Alien instead? Or is that why they're crediting Wagner? I think Horner did use bits of Wagner, so perhaps that's why. It's slightly complicated.
@@nickhawthorne2602 They didn't use Goldenthal's melodies verbatim but some phrases were obviously copying without copying. Which is also weird, because why utterly ruin it if you could have just re used it like the other themes. I have a suspicion that the rights to the Alien 3 soundtrack might not be fully owned by the studios or Goldenthal dissaproved. His work has been yoinked before for the movie 300 and it was settled in a lawsuit.
@@SecessionStudios Ugh, complicated. Anyway, I was too busy being mildly horrified by the awfulness of the writing. I really don't get why people love this movie. This is a spoiler, butr suddenly it goes from face hug to chest burst in ninety seconds? And that's not the worst of it.
I saw the film last week and I also don't understand why it has been getting praise. Makes me question the taste of those people and wonder if they even saw the other movies. I had to get out AVP and rewatch it the other night to see if it is as bad and its not. Romulus is definitely the worst of the series for me and Im sure I would not like it better from second watch.
@@standinsilenceI don't think it's the worst in the series. That's putting you up against some seriously bad films. I think people are giving it a huge pass for having it's heart in the right place, which it sort of does. It makes big mistakes but they are isolated and don't completely invalidate the whole plot. Someone could make some fairly basic script changes and make this into something way better.
I walked out of this movie after about 40 minutes. I’m glad you pointed out how young the characters were - definitely an attempt at audience capture. Right from the opening shots, which were a variation of the ship in Alien awakening, I thought this could be interesting then there were suddenly a few quick edits and that atmospheric opening was dumped and the world-building bit started, with the terrible dialogue and then that was quickly dumped and they went up in the ship and so it went on, just introducing one derivative idea after another without developing it and then jumping to something else. It felt like buying a burger and finding it’s made of cardboard. Your review was quite generous, I thought and I’m surprised Ridley Scott endorsed the film.
Good call, bro! BTW, have ya also watched Matt's review on this movie? 😲 He had it split up into like 2 videos (about an hour long each), and was basically just STOMPIN' this pile of trash all the way down into the deepest depths of HELL... And that shure ain't NO goddamn bullshit! He made some very clear and valid points about the way how the stupid-ass script was all messed-up, the poor acting and directing, the cheap-ass movie sets, and how the entire cast and crew was a JOKE. I think he may have also mentioned something about 'NUT-HUGGERS' or somethin'... Somethin' about all these sharp, claw-like things; hooked onto various nutsacks and then gettin' pulled or some kinda shit like that. Very emotionally-charged, heart attack inducing shit! 😳
Alien Romulus sucks. It is basically just Ghostbusters Afterlife or any other legacy sequel. Bunch of kids running around playing with old movie memorabilia. Blows.
Totally agree, it was “The Force Awakens” of the Alien franchise. By the way “Alien 3.” Is my favorite, it’s very under appreciated, it’s like the “Goth little sister” of the original movies, dark, edgy, desperate, claustrophobic, hopeless, and it has a somewhat “happy ending”…. Come at me, I’m ready!!!!
@AlteredStatesNoiseMaker Alien 3 is my favorite as well. It's sense of bleak nihilism is unmatched. Fincher created the perfect atmosphere and ending to encapsulate such a dreadful concept as the Alien storyline.
They need to do another "Aliens" type of movie in the same vein as the first "Gears of War" game. A squad of jacked Colonial Marines getting chased by and battling Xenos and other fools. Firefights should be similar to Michael Manns "Heat". No CGI, all practical bruh.
My man, this review is spot on. I just came from the theater and was wondering if anyone else felt this way. I was checking my watch halfway through the film. I did like the throwback 70's set design look, but not much else. The only way out of this hole for the Alien franchise is to do an adaptation of "Isolation". They would probably fuck that up as well. I love Alien, Aliens and Prometheus. Not much else in this franchise.
Yea the writing was fucking terrible. Like the guy stops to answer his sister in a room surrounded by face huggers while trying to sneak by them. Or leaving the pregnant girl who is already bleeding out from being impaled to take care of herself so the main girl can go back down to save a android who already will not be allowed on the other planet. And a area that literally was just full of aliens and face huggers. Dumb as fuck. Really disappointed. It looked good and was shot well but the writing was just god awful.
You’re absolutely right! Alien crew was an interesting set of people… truckers in space. Romulus crew… TikTokers in space. Dialogue was weak too, and at times cringeworthy, quoting iconic lines from previous films. It was a disappointment.
I wish we'd stop getting fanfic reboots of tired IPs. We need new, original stories and films but studios seem averse to that concept and it shows. People need to stop giving money to mediocre stuff.
I came out from the theater empty-handed. I was disappointed, and not fulfilled inside. I was hoping... I was hoping this movie would give me the long awaited Alien fulfillment. But it didnt. Sadly.
Face huggers were seen in aliens as rabid meele units. They did not have the capacity for that sort of depth to lurk, track, etc. That was the xenomorphs jobs to do all that, not the face huggers.
I could buy them being able to go a certain distance and track an unsuspecting host down. Makes them more efficient and terrifying but the facehuggers in Romulus are just ridiculous. They treat them almost like there own separate lifeform. One that can live after depositing its embryo. The movie totally breaks the lifecycle of the creatures. Like in the primary Alien franchise (1,2,3,4) it has to be latched on for quite a while to deposit the embryo. If you pull them off someone's face it will tear their scalp and face off with it. In both Alien and Aliens they make it crystal clear that taking it off is incredibly dangerous and complicated. These idiots just iced the tail and popped it off like a bottle-top. Then the chestburster is dancing across the deck 5minutes later. Wtf with adding temperature into the situation? It was just a dumb way to call back to the director’s previous movie. In the rest of the franchise they make the point that these creatures can attach to all sorts of different lifeforms. Not just ones with a human body temp. The idea of random thermolocation is just lazy. Its even worse here because the section the were in wasn't being warmed up so as soon as you open the blast door between the sections, the temp is gonna go down again. Nevermind, that they were just in a super heated room walking super carefully and the facehuggers had no problem getting all over them. And since when were they able to just be swatted away? It took three battle hardened Marines to get one off Ripley, these kids are shrugging them off like gnats. But then again this movie doesn't understand basic physics. The acid blood scene is mind-bendingly dumb. Like we've all seen liquid in zero g. It doesn’t just stop moving, it keeps going in the direction it’s headed in till it encounters another force. If anything, killing aliens in zero G would be 10x more dangerous. It would coat the hull and the kids. So her pirouetting through the acid clusters had my eyes rolling. What can you really expect, this movie is so stupid with its own logic how could we expect it to respect the franchise, let alone our observable reality.
Mate, this was funny! I laughed out loud several times! I subscribed mainly because I can't believe I have found another human I agree with, but another human who likes Alien 3 and Prometheus!!!😂 Best wishes from across an ocean brother, also I think we have the same hairdresser! 🇬🇧👽🇺🇲
I'm a huge Alien Fan, and i feel the same way you do! It was a great looking film, but the plot and characters kinda sucked. The ending was basically the same as Resurrection as well.
Thanks for your honesty, man. I just saw the film and didn't love it either. Not very original, just loud, over the top, and silly. I just wish it had a better script. The certain callback lines made my eyes roll. I thought the ending was ridiculous. Just because it's getting good reviews, doesn't mean it's good.
They ripped the most iconic shot from Alien 3 - the one where the xeno backs Ripley up against the wall, but doesn't attack. Thing is, there was a reason behind that scene in the story of Alien 3, but in Romulus it was just a thing that randomly happens...
At least in ressurections they basically came out the gate claiming in the movie it was intentional trash made thanks to studio pressure. Doesnt make it much better but at least it told you what it was.
I'm glad to see someone on YT who isn't afraid to be honest about this movie 😊 I saw it last week and at best it's just ok. While I don't think having an entirely young cast is a bad thing, it just didn't work at all this universe and just found most of them bland and forgettable. It's a shame cause I liked the plot but they've made so many missteps with this one - it's a shame
I think since these characters have no relevance to the Aliens universe, the xenomorphs should have won this time around. Make it bleak. Have them think they beat all the xenos just for their acid to fuck up the station and have them get sucked out or something. It would have been cool to have Rein or whatever her name is lose grip and float into the acid or something.
Its because its looks good, but it should look good. Its from disney. They give it propse for looking good from a multi billion company when it should be expected.
I genuinely appreciate your honesty man. Sometimes it’s hard going against the grain as the movie seems to be loved by the vast majority. That being said, I myself loved this movie. I wish you felt the same. It sucks to walk away from the theatre feeling disappointed. Been there many times. For me this movie just worked.. on almost every level. And I’m a big Alien and Aliens fan. Aliens is the goat. Then Romulus. Then Alien. I ranked Romulus slightly higher than Alien. I know I know. Blasphemy. But I’m just being honest like you.
Hey man, many praised the new Star Wars when they were released and now they see them for the crap they are, so there’s still hope for you. 😂 Seriously though, glad you enjoyed it. I’ve seen far worse, but this one was a letdown for me. Still hoping one day someone will take this franchise to new heights.
@@SludgeMan90You were trying to think of an homage to Alien 3. When the xenomorph catches Rain in the elevator shaft you get a shot where they are face to face which is a carbon copy of the shot from Alien 3 which has become the iconic still image of the whole franchise. I think it's the poster for Alien 3 in fact.
This film is a slasher. Instead of a car, they use a space shuttle. Instead of a cavin, it's a cargo ship. It justifies it's "intensity" by throwing over 30 different bad guys at you. There's not a single drop of Sci-fi in this movie. If anything, this felt like Alien's take of Jason X 😂
I agree with everything u said, I would have much rather gotten the story of WeyU recovering big chap and the story of them researching the black goo and big chap goin ham on the station!!! That would have been an actual expansion on the lore and not just a quick little bs story
Hated it - teen slasher with memberberry overload doing a Weekend at Bernies resurrecting a dead actor for no real reason and just retreading a lot of old beats/ground. Plus Ridley had to force his damn cr&ppy black goo rubbish in there again.
100 agree with you as we all sound like broken records. What you think of this. We need a NEW take! Some different Material. How about a male for a leading character then always a woman. No problem with a female but every alien movie.?? No Female can replicate Ripley's motherly characteristic skills in the alien franchise so we have nothing to lose on a male role. How about An xenomorph king at the end. Some different hybrid Aliens from animals like a Tiger xenomorph deadly to classic xenomorphs. At the end we have our male character going up against our king xenomorph as a Reference to the second alien movie. No CGI. Pure Chaotic scenes. claustrophobic scenes of bearly making it out. Like Jurassic park the scene with the raptors in the kitchen. Replace the raptors with xenomorphs. Thats what we looking for! Ps No alien scarier then a wife you didn't answer the phone for😂
@@naturalstate8539All great ideas honestly! I made a video on what direction I would have liked to see the franchise take. Check it out! Haha the wife loved this comment.
Fucken eh, I’m so glad I wasn’t the only one who thought it sucked. Met a few folks at the bar after who wouldn’t stop praising the film and I was just like - Please, it wasn’t even that good … 🤦🏻♂️
I'm still shocked looking at all these takes from movie review channels and horror outlets I respected. You can't make me believe for a second that these people are being intellectually honest about what they saw.
@@SludgeMan90They’re in the denial stage, just like Star Wars fans when Force Awakens premiered and the sequels that followed. And just as with Star Wars, they’ll fall off their horse and realize they’ve been duped. Give ‘em some time, they’re still high on the Kool-Aid. 😂
@@frankvee alot of them are part "creator programs" and other sponsors that represent these massive companies. Putting out honest reviews would mean less money\access.
1:43 To be honest I don't think it IS controversial anymore to enjoy Alien3, I see more people on comments saying they like it than dislike it! It's finally getting the love it deserves.
I fucking love that movie. Its atmosphere is unmatched, and I've been captivated since I first saw it. I personally prefer the theatrical release over the director's cut.
Here's a plot. The company is the real villain and the characters use the alien while trying to survive it as a means of liberating themselves from indentured servitude
I mean, it's already better than what we got. It was clear from the get-go that an original and story-driven movie was never the intent of Disney with this film, however, which is a shame. I have absolutely no doubt that anything that comes forward from this IP will be superficial trash, and until Disney dispenses the rights to this franchise, I am off the bandwagon.
@@SludgeMan90 your absolutely right man. What is the deal with all this member berry shit? I nearly rolled my eyes out head watching this shit. The Irony about this whole situation is that "alien" has become the exact b movie ridley was trying to avoid making in the first place. Side note you forgot to mention in your excellent review was the "floating acid blood scene" what a moment in cinema history eh?
@@dreal500 Exactly man! that it has! Thank you for your feedback, it wasn't really a review, it was just me ranting with heavy brain fog on the movie haha. Haha yeah the floating acid was truly a groundbreaking moment in the history of cinema that set an impossible bar to surpass, especially when the characters involved in traversing such an obstacle have the thickest plot armor ever made.
I love Alien and Aliens. But the other films have been disappointing to poor and this is the same. A couple of good sequences but I had many issues with Romulus. SPOILERS: - The ending slenderman man thing was not for me. I prefer the xenos as simply a terrifying species, not a product of the black goo/giver of life stuff from Prometheus/Covenant. - The hideous CGI Ash! If it was a quick cameo where his face was half in shadow then fine but when he became a main character and the CGI was in bright light it took me out of the film. - Why is it now only 5 - 10 mins for a chestburster to be implanted/grow/emerge. In all other films it's taken at least several hours. - Similarly, how stupidly quick can the chestburster cocoon itself and grow in the sack on the wall into a full grown xeno? Seemed like minutes. - Again, how did the stupid thing at the end grow from a baby to an 11 foot xeno/engineer hybrid in a matter of minutes? - Why could the characters leave the mining planet with no questions asked with a spaceship I'm guessing belonging to the company? - Why were they the ONLY ones to notice a massive derelict spaceship? - Why does the android say the "you bitch" line? It's a callback to an event in the future which makes no sense. Also an android wouldn't say that. Would make more sense for him to make a dad style joke as that was his thing. - The pulse rifles here are better than the pulse rifles in Aliens with their auto aim. So they downgraded their weapons in Aliens? - Why does the Alien in the elevator shaft just scream at the main girl? Other than to give a cool looking shot? Aliens rip you apart/cocoon you asap. The only exceptions have been in Aliens when the Queen told a few xenos to back off as Ripley threatened her eggs and Alien 3 due to Ripley having a Queen inside her. - The facehugger hallway scene was cool in concept but they'd have been dead even without the radio call giving them away. They raise the temperature to mask themselves but are told don't make noise or even sweat. How are they not going to sweat when the temperature is raised that much? - How many people were on that derelict ship? They would be kept to minimal crew for costs but there seemed to be LOADS of xenos. They showed a few cocooned bodies but nowehere near the number of xenos. In Aliens/Hadley's Hope there are over 100 xenos because it's a terraforming station & it states the population being over 100 (can't recall the exact number). I just didn't like the film but the majority of people seemingly do which is cool. Just stating my reasons for my opinion.
U nailed it, and that mixed alien looked whack, resurrection wins From favorite to Didn't Like Aliens Alien Resurrection Prometheus Alien Alien3 Romulus Covenant
Actually the characters are Gen Theta if the movie takes place in 2142 if they're in their early 20s. But from our Millennial perspective they're Zoomers. And we hate Zoomers 😡
Thanks for the heads up man.. i cant ever trust movies franchises anymore cauae they feel like hour long commercials playing it safe and spoodfeeding the fans.. Love your honesty and intent. With you 💯
In addition to the many things this film ripped off of Alien movies, the one guy's reason to hate synths is the exact same reason Will Smith hates robots in I, Robot. They also kept the 70s ascetic, which was already done quite well in Alien: Isolation.
@@SludgeMan90 It was a little different in I, Robot. Smith hated robots because he was trying to rescue a little girl from a sinking car and a robot calculated that doing so would lead to his death, so the robot drug him from the water.
Enjoyed this mate 👊 off the cuff from the heart. I did the same. I’d say the throw back to alien 3 is when the Xeno caught Rain and the. Did the alien growl at her . 🤦
I agree. The movie doesn't know what it is. I think Fede took the route of doing "his version" after a certain point because he probably knew he couldn't match Alien. I think he tried too hard to match the first one, that made him overshoot his vision. Characters had too much script time, I think there were alright but just too much boring talking.
A 13 year old fan boy wrote. He clearly doesnt have the guts to push boundaries and challenge the audience. Hes got to play it safe with references that worked in far better movies in the past
Sucks is too strong a sentiment for me but I was disappointed for sure. The cast was bland asf. They had to reduce Andy to a literal puppy dog in order to engender some emotional bond for his relationship with Rain. Original quadrilogy showed characters trying to make plans to counter the aliens and bad stuff would keep happening to challenge them. Romulus characters seemed to advance through the plot thru sheer dumb luck. And the insane plot armor for Rain - did...did the xenomorph tenderly catch Rain as she was falling down the elevator shaft to her death?
@@practicalphotography1235 Haha, that's around the time I was ready to leave the cinema, but for the sake of having a genuine discussion on this movie, I suffered through it. The worst part about this film is that it did not feel like an alien movie, just like The Force Awakens did not feel like Star Wars. This just felt like watching a Disney formula with an alien skin. Sigh, whatever. the classics are the classics, and they will remain that way. I just hope they don't beat this to death now like they have Star Wars.
Totally agree! Bad story, terrible cast, dumb, full of plot convenience moments, no psicological terror, no suspense, the Marilin Manson alien at the end is laughable, boring and dumb dialogs, cringe easter eggs, uninteresting characters. I don't like AVP movies but those deseve an Oscar compared to this trash.
Alien Romulus Overrated Garbage given a pass just like Prey because its from Disney. Boring cast same tired old crap and Alien for the tik tok generation full of Gen Z children
@@kosmique prey was fucking terrible, the predator was turned into a generic movie monster and spent the 1st half of the movie slaughtering defenceless animals then every confrontation it had was instigated by the predator walking out the woods an revealing itself over and over again despite being cloaked, the predator was able to go from laying flat on its back and fighting off 4 men with guns with ease to go and lose all its strength in a fight with a 100lb women doing crouching tiger hidden dragon style wire work.
I torrented and watched this movie or rather skimmed through it as fast as I could, so in about half an hour or so, with handheld camera in a movie theater pov and online casino advertisement overlays in the video. And evven then I felt like I got my money stolen. Starring kids in this was a huge mistake. Lead cast was boring I did not carr about a single one of them. The deep fake looked AWFUL. You'll know what I mean by that. The ending was dumb. Aliens got so little screen time. Decisions by tiktokers were abysmal regarding survival. Alien life cycle is rewritten and sped up so ot grows to full in like a minute if not less after bursting. So many problems in this movie.
You sound just like the critics in 1979 "Word for Word" and they are now Eating Crow . . . I have already see it 3 times, Once in IMAX . . . Life is good in the Alien Universe!
3 goddamn times in a week since its release? You must really love this fucking movie holy shit. What is it about this film that has you so hooked? I literally think its one of the worst movies I have ever seen on cinema.
@@SludgeMan90 Some guys just like a certain type of Sci-Fi Thriller, that another guy dose not. . .and I can Respect & understand your perspective if you hate ROMULUS . . . But when I watch ROMULUS, it takes me to a whole new Universe of Cinematic joy, pain and excitement for 2 hours, that you can't put into words. . . . . . I saw "ALIEN" 3 times opening weekend in 1979 too . . .
@@beautifulportland9592 If you can't put into words why this movie was good while others can easily put into words why this movie was bad, then there's more reason to believe this movie was bad than there is in favor of it being good.
Back in the late 70s early 80s it was unusual to have a female protagonist and to spend alot of money on a horror movie. Period. O'bannon knew he had a great idea with an alien bursting out of a chest.. The problem is that 7 movies later they need a second good idea. The magic of the original alien movie can't be replicated and unfortunately Ridley has irreversibly damaged his masterpiece with his continued sequels.
I fell asleep halfway through, having spent a lot of money to see it at a decent venue. It felt like Alien(s)-by-numbers. I was told by fellow moviegoers afterwards that I should have stuck it out, because all the good stuff is crammed into the final third. I agree that the characters were boring and lacked depth, and the dialogue was lazy, but can't form an overall opinion without watching it again.
Despite some positives like the set designs and practical Alien effects, as an actual film it just didn't work. Started off well on the Jackson's Star Colony and i wanted to see more of that world but as soon as it became a "Best of" Alien movies, it went downhill very fast. The dialogue was actually embarrassing at times and the fact they included the "Get your hands off her" line just summed up how devoid of ideas this film was.
This movie sucked so bad. Not scary or tense at all. However, what is scary the audience score. It means our standards as a general audience are getting super low. Hopefully, Noah Hawley's new show will wake people up. Cuz Romulus is trash.
14:45 Wait..what? So an unidentified space hulk just shows up in the sky. They take a rocket to it and go inside an unidentified, airles and no gravity space of unknown origin? Alien aside, thats a stupid idea. The hulk itself is an unknown death trap. Then you managed to get inside and not tear your enviro suits up on the many jutting edges...then there is the issues of debris inside the hulk that could fly lose and smah you... on and on...and then...what if something was active on it, like traps, explosives or the hulk itself was radiated and you went inside it and fried instantly. THe space hulk and no envrio controls, right? So their sun was frying the hulk to frying tempratues when you walked in it, so you would roast alive in it... and the hulk is STILL moving.. its nt just sitting there waiting for you. What IS this???
Just my opinion: If somebody wants to make an Alien film wich tries to be survival sci-fi horror, and sci-fi action the same time, it won't work. You will get a movie like AvP or Romulus. The zero gravity scene I swear was a mere trauma 4 me. The Alien is one of my favourite movie monster. Sure it must be defeat in a way or another. But I think it deserves much better like that scene. Helplessly floating and to be shoot to diced meat by a so called "heroine", who doesn't even know how to aim (so give her a rifle wich aim instead of her...come on!!!). They disgraced the Alien. Sooo yes...Agree. This movie sucks. Thanks a lot Mr. Alvarez. Hope you will get away from the franchise in the future.
Sorry i totally love this installment the Alien franchise...a worthy follow up to A1 and A2 in particular..brought back many fond memories of the movies...glad theres hope for future sequels after this installment!
Hey bro, have ya also watched Matt's review on this movie? 😲 He had it split up into like 2 videos (about an hour long each), and was basically just STOMPIN' this pile of trash all the way down into the deepest depths of HELL... And that shure ain't NO goddamn bullshit! He made some very clear and valid points about the way how the stupid-ass script was all messed-up, the poor acting and directing, the cheap-ass movie sets, and how the entire cast and crew was a JOKE. I think he may have also mentioned something about 'NUT-HUGGERS' or somethin'... Somethin' about all these sharp, claw-like things; hooked onto various nutsacks and then gettin' pulled or some kinda shit like that. Very emotionally-charged, heart attack inducing shit! 😳
@@SludgeMan90 No go, bro... I am unable to post the link nor the name of the channel, cuz Jevvtube is so INSECURE that they feel the need to constantly delete my replies you you! Sorry, bro!
We only saw the actual Aliens in a scene lifted from Aliens. It was literally like walking through a haunted house. And I don't mean that in a good way
The last act being ripped STRAIGHT from Alien was egregious. The movie should've been 1h20m-1hr30 mins tops. The Prometheus monster makes no sense because theres no David, and theres no explanation in how Weyland Yutani is aware of any of this. Alien and Aliens imply Weyu is only interested in making Xenos a weapon or exploiting them in some way that benefits them financially. Only high execs even *think* they may exist in Aliens. Deepfake Ian Holm should have been Michael Fassbender so they could finally wrap that up and we dont have to suffer Ridley Scott's poorly thought out prequel ideas.
There was a script worthy in saving the franchise and it got green lit to production but then got shut down by Mr. Scott. Blomkamp had Sigourney and Biehn on board and excited as it was going in a fresh direction but No! And here we are. Alien! Romul-Kiss-My-Ass.. WTF!
I totaly agree with you these characters were just untalented kids who can't act and the script is absolutely uninspiring the dialogues complete garbage and childish. When I saw this movie I asked myself if this movie was a travesty on purpose it's simply too bad. And the call backs were implemented like an insult to all previous movies like when the android said "Get away from her bitch" I mean saying this to random xenomosph who was dead on the floor I was like wtf? I'm a big fan of this franchise and this is the reason why I'm infuriated by this movie it's an insult to all previous iterations. This movie is audio visual feces let's be honest about it.
Last hour of this movie is nothing but endless references, memberberries and nostalgia slop. It's like Disney executive board made a checklist and then movie was done around that list. It's a shame because first 45 minutes were pretty solid. But it's just nostalgia baiting garbage at the end. Just like Force Awakens repurposes the New Hope, this movie is like a recyclement center cobbled together all previous Alien movies. It's probably enough to get enough positive synapses from people who are OK with having the same old slop but in a few years it won't be remembered kindly. So yeah I guess that's enough for a "summer horror movie", sorry I expected an actual new, fresh Alien movie. This wasn't it.
I would also add not so good green screen cgi. I guess they cannot do proper interiors anymore. Aliens also look worse than 20+ years ago, wtf. But yeah, the plot and the stupid characters... 🤮. Btw, nice ringtone🦴
You see this movie the same way I see "Rise of Skywalker". I thought AR was good. Better than everything after "3 assembly cut" . The Stick engineer was crap though.
Disney is too shit scared of releasing a movie that could possibly devalue the alien licence, and so they release something like this, the cinematic equivalent of treading water. repackaging and rereleasing the same old stuff with a slightly different paint job. Its very sad that this is what cinema has been reduced to now.
Someone needs to create some new licenses and have the balls to tell a cool and compelling story.
Hey Matt, have ya also watched the other guy named Matt on his review on this movie? 😲
He had it split up into like 2 videos (about an hour long each), and was basically just STOMPIN' this pile of trash all the way down into the deepest depths of HELL... And that shure ain't NO goddamn bullshit!
He made some very clear and valid points about the way how the stupid-ass script was all messed-up, the poor acting and directing, the cheap-ass movie sets, and how the entire cast and crew was a JOKE.
I think he may have also mentioned something about 'NUT-HUGGERS' or somethin'... Somethin' about all these sharp, claw-like things; hooked onto various nutsacks and then gettin' pulled or some kinda shit like that.
Very emotionally-charged, heart attack inducing shit! 😳
Sounds just like the critics in 1979 "Word for Word" and they are now Eating Crow . . . I have already see it 3 times, Once in IMAX . . . Life is good in the Alien Universe!
It’s the Force Awakens of Alien
It should’ve been called Gen-Z in space.
spot on. I laughed out loud when they were removing the micro chip from the android in the same way you remove a sim card from a smartphone. And there all in their early twenties and they can confidently pilot and navigate interstellar spacecraft like they've been doing it for years. just laughable.
That’s EXACTLY what I was afraid of. 😑
or TikTokers in space
@@delonthomas48you guys can never be pleased NEWS FLASH the old actors are lame and rude the budget a bunch ANOTHER NEWS FKASH the original alien had all new actors
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It definitely does suck, same old shit
Tik tokkers in space.. Lol
DEAD MOTHERFUCKERS in space... 💀
The homage to alien 3 was the most egregious. They used a similar music theme from Alien 3 when Ripley was falling into the fire. They yoinked that music and regurgitated it for when the weird ass human hybrid was falling into the planets rings. They also didn't credit that original composer... It's a damn shame. That music was a brilliant theme for Ripley's death and had absolutely nothing to do with what was happening here.
Which is odd, because they did credit composers Harry Gregson-Williams (Prometheus,) Jerry Goldsmith (Alien) and James Horner (Aliens). The score for Romulus does quote bits of the Aliens and Prometheus scores (the Prometheus quote happens when they're discussing the black goo in the lab). I didn't notice the Alien 3 quote but it seems very odd that they'd do that, then not credit it as they did the others. Was it maybe a quote of Aliens or Alien instead? Or is that why they're crediting Wagner? I think Horner did use bits of Wagner, so perhaps that's why. It's slightly complicated.
@@nickhawthorne2602 They didn't use Goldenthal's melodies verbatim but some phrases were obviously copying without copying. Which is also weird, because why utterly ruin it if you could have just re used it like the other themes. I have a suspicion that the rights to the Alien 3 soundtrack might not be fully owned by the studios or Goldenthal dissaproved. His work has been yoinked before for the movie 300 and it was settled in a lawsuit.
@@SecessionStudios Ugh, complicated. Anyway, I was too busy being mildly horrified by the awfulness of the writing. I really don't get why people love this movie. This is a spoiler, butr suddenly it goes from face hug to chest burst in ninety seconds? And that's not the worst of it.
I saw the film last week and I also don't understand why it has been getting praise.
Makes me question the taste of those people and wonder if they even saw the other movies.
I had to get out AVP and rewatch it the other night to see if it is as bad and its not.
Romulus is definitely the worst of the series for me and Im sure I would not like it better from second watch.
@@standinsilenceI don't think it's the worst in the series. That's putting you up against some seriously bad films. I think people are giving it a huge pass for having it's heart in the right place, which it sort of does. It makes big mistakes but they are isolated and don't completely invalidate the whole plot. Someone could make some fairly basic script changes and make this into something way better.
I walked out of this movie after about 40 minutes. I’m glad you pointed out how young the characters were - definitely an attempt at audience capture. Right from the opening shots, which were a variation of the ship in Alien awakening, I thought this could be interesting then there were suddenly a few quick edits and that atmospheric opening was dumped and the world-building bit started, with the terrible dialogue and then that was quickly dumped and they went up in the ship and so it went on, just introducing one derivative idea after another without developing it and then jumping to something else. It felt like buying a burger and finding it’s made of cardboard. Your review was quite generous, I thought and I’m surprised Ridley Scott endorsed the film.
Good call, bro!
BTW, have ya also watched Matt's review on this movie? 😲
He had it split up into like 2 videos (about an hour long each), and was basically just STOMPIN' this pile of trash all the way down into the deepest depths of HELL... And that shure ain't NO goddamn bullshit!
He made some very clear and valid points about the way how the stupid-ass script was all messed-up, the poor acting and directing, the cheap-ass movie sets, and how the entire cast and crew was a JOKE.
I think he may have also mentioned something about 'NUT-HUGGERS' or somethin'... Somethin' about all these sharp, claw-like things; hooked onto various nutsacks and then gettin' pulled or some kinda shit like that.
Very emotionally-charged, heart attack inducing shit! 😳
They shoot aliens from the bridge. Andy says "look you missed one!" Like aliens when newt screams behind you!
Yeah, this stuff doesnt work.
Alien Romulus sucks. It is basically just Ghostbusters Afterlife or any other legacy sequel. Bunch of kids running around playing with old movie memorabilia. Blows.
Totally agree, it was “The Force Awakens” of the Alien franchise. By the way “Alien 3.” Is my favorite, it’s very under appreciated, it’s like the “Goth little sister” of the original movies, dark, edgy, desperate, claustrophobic, hopeless, and it has a somewhat “happy ending”…. Come at me, I’m ready!!!!
@AlteredStatesNoiseMaker Alien 3 is my favorite as well. It's sense of bleak nihilism is unmatched. Fincher created the perfect atmosphere and ending to encapsulate such a dreadful concept as the Alien storyline.
I love how bleak it is. Not sure why people criticize that aspect. In a universe where that mf exists, it shouldn't be all rainbows.
@randywhite3947 I am telling you, I fucking love that movie.
The theatrical cut was weak. Assembly cut was good
They need to do another "Aliens" type of movie in the same vein as the first "Gears of War" game. A squad of jacked Colonial Marines getting chased by and battling Xenos and other fools. Firefights should be similar to Michael Manns "Heat". No CGI, all practical bruh.
This ☝
@@dperish Get that dude from that Jack Reacher show to play one of the marines, he would be a perfect fit.
Boring.
The Queen is still flying through space. That would be interesting
So from one boring shit to another
Alien Awakens. A "Best Of' done by talent show contestants.
My man, this review is spot on. I just came from the theater and was wondering if anyone else felt this way. I was checking my watch halfway through the film. I did like the throwback 70's set design look, but not much else.
The only way out of this hole for the Alien franchise is to do an adaptation of "Isolation". They would probably fuck that up as well.
I love Alien, Aliens and Prometheus. Not much else in this franchise.
Id rather watch Ben Hur again
Yea the writing was fucking terrible. Like the guy stops to answer his sister in a room surrounded by face huggers while trying to sneak by them. Or leaving the pregnant girl who is already bleeding out from being impaled to take care of herself so the main girl can go back down to save a android who already will not be allowed on the other planet. And a area that literally was just full of aliens and face huggers. Dumb as fuck. Really disappointed. It looked good and was shot well but the writing was just god awful.
You’re absolutely right! Alien crew was an interesting set of people… truckers in space. Romulus crew… TikTokers in space. Dialogue was weak too, and at times cringeworthy, quoting iconic lines from previous films. It was a disappointment.
I wish we'd stop getting fanfic reboots of tired IPs. We need new, original stories and films but studios seem averse to that concept and it shows. People need to stop giving money to mediocre stuff.
I came out from the theater empty-handed. I was disappointed, and not fulfilled inside. I was hoping... I was hoping this movie would give me the long awaited Alien fulfillment. But it didnt. Sadly.
Face huggers were seen in aliens as rabid meele units. They did not have the capacity for that sort of depth to lurk, track, etc. That was the xenomorphs jobs to do all that, not the face huggers.
I could buy them being able to go a certain distance and track an unsuspecting host down. Makes them more efficient and terrifying but the facehuggers in Romulus are just ridiculous.
They treat them almost like there own separate lifeform. One that can live after depositing its embryo. The movie totally breaks the lifecycle of the creatures. Like in the primary Alien franchise (1,2,3,4) it has to be latched on for quite a while to deposit the embryo. If you pull them off someone's face it will tear their scalp and face off with it. In both Alien and Aliens they make it crystal clear that taking it off is incredibly dangerous and complicated. These idiots just iced the tail and popped it off like a bottle-top. Then the chestburster is dancing across the deck 5minutes later.
Wtf with adding temperature into the situation? It was just a dumb way to call back to the director’s previous movie. In the rest of the franchise they make the point that these creatures can attach to all sorts of different lifeforms. Not just ones with a human body temp. The idea of random thermolocation is just lazy. Its even worse here because the section the were in wasn't being warmed up so as soon as you open the blast door between the sections, the temp is gonna go down again. Nevermind, that they were just in a super heated room walking super carefully and the facehuggers had no problem getting all over them.
And since when were they able to just be swatted away? It took three battle hardened Marines to get one off Ripley, these kids are shrugging them off like gnats.
But then again this movie doesn't understand basic physics. The acid blood scene is mind-bendingly dumb. Like we've all seen liquid in zero g. It doesn’t just stop moving, it keeps going in the direction it’s headed in till it encounters another force. If anything, killing aliens in zero G would be 10x more dangerous. It would coat the hull and the kids. So her pirouetting through the acid clusters had my eyes rolling.
What can you really expect, this movie is so stupid with its own logic how could we expect it to respect the franchise, let alone our observable reality.
The film was a total let down. Juveniles in space, alien looked naff. Much prefered the original 1,2,3
Mate, this was funny! I laughed out loud several times!
I subscribed mainly because I can't believe I have found another human I agree with, but another human who likes Alien 3 and Prometheus!!!😂
Best wishes from across an ocean brother, also I think we have the same hairdresser! 🇬🇧👽🇺🇲
I'm a huge Alien Fan, and i feel the same way you do! It was a great looking film, but the plot and characters kinda sucked. The ending was basically the same as Resurrection as well.
Member berries 4 return of that scene you love.
Thanks for your honesty, man. I just saw the film and didn't love it either. Not very original, just loud, over the top, and silly. I just wish it had a better script. The certain callback lines made my eyes roll. I thought the ending was ridiculous. Just because it's getting good reviews, doesn't mean it's good.
They ripped the most iconic shot from Alien 3 - the one where the xeno backs Ripley up against the wall, but doesn't attack. Thing is, there was a reason behind that scene in the story of Alien 3, but in Romulus it was just a thing that randomly happens...
Disney made it poorly on purpose. Im glad to have avoided it.
Romulus cost $80 million, already made $290 million!
Insane!
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Ridley Scott should have been birthed out of Isabella Merced at the end of act 3 cause he is the true horror and abomination of this movie.
LOL that would have actually made the movie amazing and worth it to stick to the very end. I would have given it a 10/10 🤣
@@SludgeMan90 ROFLMAO
When rain's boyfriend gets mauled by the xenos, he shouts "is that all you got". Ripped right out of Alien 3.
Just like Gen-Z Matrix Resurrections, it was boring derivative trash
At least in ressurections they basically came out the gate claiming in the movie it was intentional trash made thanks to studio pressure. Doesnt make it much better but at least it told you what it was.
@@jackd6881 fair point
I'm glad to see someone on YT who isn't afraid to be honest about this movie 😊 I saw it last week and at best it's just ok. While I don't think having an entirely young cast is a bad thing, it just didn't work at all this universe and just found most of them bland and forgettable. It's a shame cause I liked the plot but they've made so many missteps with this one - it's a shame
I have the same opinion. Romulus is making me appreciate Covenant which I didn’t think possible
You and the Film Dirt channel are the only ones I saw that commented that the cast looked a little young, and the problems that brings!
I think since these characters have no relevance to the Aliens universe, the xenomorphs should have won this time around. Make it bleak. Have them think they beat all the xenos just for their acid to fuck up the station and have them get sucked out or something. It would have been cool to have Rein or whatever her name is lose grip and float into the acid or something.
Dude, I felt exactly like you did. Not sure how it's getting so many good reviews. Everything was so farfetched and not grounded in reality
Its because its looks good, but it should look good. Its from disney. They give it propse for looking good from a multi billion company when it should be expected.
Wish about the alien franchise was grounded in reality?
@@yurikendal4868 When not grounded in reality, it becomes less believable and less scary
I genuinely appreciate your honesty man. Sometimes it’s hard going against the grain as the movie seems to be loved by the vast majority. That being said, I myself loved this movie. I wish you felt the same. It sucks to walk away from the theatre feeling disappointed. Been there many times. For me this movie just worked.. on almost every level. And I’m a big Alien and Aliens fan. Aliens is the goat. Then Romulus. Then Alien. I ranked Romulus slightly higher than Alien. I know I know. Blasphemy. But I’m just being honest like you.
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I am happy you enjoyed it for what it was and got something out of it.
Hey man, many praised the new Star Wars when they were released and now they see them for the crap they are, so there’s still hope for you. 😂
Seriously though, glad you enjoyed it. I’ve seen far worse, but this one was a letdown for me. Still hoping one day someone will take this franchise to new heights.
@@SludgeMan90You were trying to think of an homage to Alien 3. When the xenomorph catches Rain in the elevator shaft you get a shot where they are face to face which is a carbon copy of the shot from Alien 3 which has become the iconic still image of the whole franchise. I think it's the poster for Alien 3 in fact.
you wont remember or quote this movie in ten years lad i can guarantee that much.
This film is a slasher. Instead of a car, they use a space shuttle. Instead of a cavin, it's a cargo ship. It justifies it's "intensity" by throwing over 30 different bad guys at you. There's not a single drop of Sci-fi in this movie. If anything, this felt like Alien's take of Jason X 😂
Just saw it some 5 hours ago. I didn't like it one bit.. The reasons are numerous. Them playing with gravity was the only creative and fun part of it
Damn...
This is the most accurate review I've found thus far...
Spot on throughout...
I agree with everything u said, I would have much rather gotten the story of WeyU recovering big chap and the story of them researching the black goo and big chap goin ham on the station!!! That would have been an actual expansion on the lore and not just a quick little bs story
I agree! That would've been a much more interesting movie.
Hated it - teen slasher with memberberry overload doing a Weekend at Bernies resurrecting a dead actor for no real reason and just retreading a lot of old beats/ground. Plus Ridley had to force his damn cr&ppy black goo rubbish in there again.
Kinda!!!! ? It sucks big time. Only the synthetic Andy stands out , the rest is utter rubbish
Best alien movie in the last 40 years.
Probably the best movie overall in the last 40 years. 🤣
Alien 3 and Prometheus were a million times better
@@edwardelric603 Alien 3 director's cut is my love
I'm honestly shocked at the Rotten Tomatoes score. This movie sucked ass man.
exactly what I thought, no unique characters, just didn't care about any of them.
Agreed, the characters are trash.
100 agree with you as we all sound like broken records. What you think of this. We need a NEW take! Some different Material. How about a male for a leading character then always a woman. No problem with a female but every alien movie.?? No
Female can replicate Ripley's motherly characteristic skills in the alien franchise so we have nothing to lose on a male role. How about An xenomorph king at the end. Some different hybrid Aliens from animals like a Tiger xenomorph deadly to classic xenomorphs. At the end we have our male character going up against our king xenomorph as a Reference to the second alien movie. No CGI. Pure Chaotic scenes. claustrophobic scenes of bearly making it out. Like Jurassic park the scene with the raptors in the kitchen. Replace the raptors with xenomorphs.
Thats what we looking for!
Ps
No alien scarier then a wife you didn't answer the phone for😂
@@naturalstate8539All great ideas honestly!
I made a video on what direction I would have liked to see the franchise take. Check it out!
Haha the wife loved this comment.
Fucken eh, I’m so glad I wasn’t the only one who thought it sucked. Met a few folks at the bar after who wouldn’t stop praising the film and I was just like - Please, it wasn’t even that good … 🤦🏻♂️
I'm still shocked looking at all these takes from movie review channels and horror outlets I respected. You can't make me believe for a second that these people are being intellectually honest about what they saw.
@@SludgeMan90They’re in the denial stage, just like Star Wars fans when Force Awakens premiered and the sequels that followed. And just as with Star Wars, they’ll fall off their horse and realize they’ve been duped. Give ‘em some time, they’re still high on the Kool-Aid. 😂
@@frankvee alot of them are part "creator programs" and other sponsors that represent these massive companies. Putting out honest reviews would mean less money\access.
this movie is nothing but fanboy service with no guts for originality
It has too many homages, but the execution is very original.
1:43 To be honest I don't think it IS controversial anymore to enjoy Alien3, I see more people on comments saying they like it than dislike it! It's finally getting the love it deserves.
I fucking love that movie. Its atmosphere is unmatched, and I've been captivated since I first saw it. I personally prefer the theatrical release over the director's cut.
Here's a plot. The company is the real villain and the characters use the alien while trying to survive it as a means of liberating themselves from indentured servitude
I mean, it's already better than what we got. It was clear from the get-go that an original and story-driven movie was never the intent of Disney with this film, however, which is a shame. I have absolutely no doubt that anything that comes forward from this IP will be superficial trash, and until Disney dispenses the rights to this franchise, I am off the bandwagon.
@@SludgeMan90 your absolutely right man. What is the deal with all this member berry shit? I nearly rolled my eyes out head watching this shit. The Irony about this whole situation is that "alien" has become the exact b movie ridley was trying to avoid making in the first place.
Side note you forgot to mention in your excellent review was the "floating acid blood scene" what a moment in cinema history eh?
@@dreal500 Exactly man! that it has! Thank you for your feedback, it wasn't really a review, it was just me ranting with heavy brain fog on the movie haha. Haha yeah the floating acid was truly a groundbreaking moment in the history of cinema that set an impossible bar to surpass, especially when the characters involved in traversing such an obstacle have the thickest plot armor ever made.
@@SludgeMan90hahahha! Keep doing your thing brother. Hopefully we are at the tail end of this shitty movie era.
It was horrible. I'm done with this franchise. It's completely dead and boring.
Rushed waste of time that was a Marketed con that suckered me into paying to see it. I should have known better.
Heard that they spent some 200+ million just on the marketing... Just goes to show how desperate they were!
I love Alien and Aliens. But the other films have been disappointing to poor and this is the same. A couple of good sequences but I had many issues with Romulus. SPOILERS:
- The ending slenderman man thing was not for me. I prefer the xenos as simply a terrifying species, not a product of the black goo/giver of life stuff from Prometheus/Covenant.
- The hideous CGI Ash! If it was a quick cameo where his face was half in shadow then fine but when he became a main character and the CGI was in bright light it took me out of the film.
- Why is it now only 5 - 10 mins for a chestburster to be implanted/grow/emerge. In all other films it's taken at least several hours.
- Similarly, how stupidly quick can the chestburster cocoon itself and grow in the sack on the wall into a full grown xeno? Seemed like minutes.
- Again, how did the stupid thing at the end grow from a baby to an 11 foot xeno/engineer hybrid in a matter of minutes?
- Why could the characters leave the mining planet with no questions asked with a spaceship I'm guessing belonging to the company?
- Why were they the ONLY ones to notice a massive derelict spaceship?
- Why does the android say the "you bitch" line? It's a callback to an event in the future which makes no sense. Also an android wouldn't say that. Would make more sense for him to make a dad style joke as that was his thing.
- The pulse rifles here are better than the pulse rifles in Aliens with their auto aim. So they downgraded their weapons in Aliens?
- Why does the Alien in the elevator shaft just scream at the main girl? Other than to give a cool looking shot? Aliens rip you apart/cocoon you asap. The only exceptions have been in Aliens when the Queen told a few xenos to back off as Ripley threatened her eggs and Alien 3 due to Ripley having a Queen inside her.
- The facehugger hallway scene was cool in concept but they'd have been dead even without the radio call giving them away. They raise the temperature to mask themselves but are told don't make noise or even sweat. How are they not going to sweat when the temperature is raised that much?
- How many people were on that derelict ship? They would be kept to minimal crew for costs but there seemed to be LOADS of xenos. They showed a few cocooned bodies but nowehere near the number of xenos. In Aliens/Hadley's Hope there are over 100 xenos because it's a terraforming station & it states the population being over 100 (can't recall the exact number).
I just didn't like the film but the majority of people seemingly do which is cool. Just stating my reasons for my opinion.
@@jeffwills Agree with everything you've wrote! Thanks for the thoughtful reply!
U nailed it, and that mixed alien looked whack, resurrection wins
From favorite to Didn't Like
Aliens
Alien Resurrection
Prometheus
Alien
Alien3
Romulus
Covenant
I feel you. Same here
I feel like it was the Alien universe’s version of Force Awakens.
Next Alien movie gonna be Alien AI.
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Collect a bunch of images from past Alien movies and let AI make movie out of it!
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Just saw it yesterday. It was fine i guess.
Never exciting never boring just mid all round.
Actually the characters are Gen Theta if the movie takes place in 2142 if they're in their early 20s. But from our Millennial perspective they're Zoomers. And we hate Zoomers 😡
Thanks for the heads up man.. i cant ever trust movies franchises anymore cauae they feel like hour long commercials playing it safe and spoodfeeding the fans..
Love your honesty and intent.
With you 💯
In addition to the many things this film ripped off of Alien movies, the one guy's reason to hate synths is the exact same reason Will Smith hates robots in I, Robot. They also kept the 70s ascetic, which was already done quite well in Alien: Isolation.
@@thomasloney612 lol didn't realize that.
@@SludgeMan90 It was a little different in I, Robot. Smith hated robots because he was trying to rescue a little girl from a sinking car and a robot calculated that doing so would lead to his death, so the robot drug him from the water.
if disney made it u know it ll suck,,its even worse than previous one whatever name it is
Enjoyed this mate 👊 off the cuff from the heart. I did the same. I’d say the throw back to alien 3 is when the Xeno caught Rain and the. Did the alien growl at her . 🤦
I agree. The movie doesn't know what it is. I think Fede took the route of doing "his version" after a certain point because he probably knew he couldn't match Alien. I think he tried too hard to match the first one, that made him overshoot his vision. Characters had too much script time, I think there were alright but just too much boring talking.
A 13 year old fan boy wrote. He clearly doesnt have the guts to push boundaries and challenge the audience. Hes got to play it safe with references that worked in far better movies in the past
Figured that. Memberberries galore
Sucks is too strong a sentiment for me but I was disappointed for sure. The cast was bland asf. They had to reduce Andy to a literal puppy dog in order to engender some emotional bond for his relationship with Rain. Original quadrilogy showed characters trying to make plans to counter the aliens and bad stuff would keep happening to challenge them. Romulus characters seemed to advance through the plot thru sheer dumb luck. And the insane plot armor for Rain - did...did the xenomorph tenderly catch Rain as she was falling down the elevator shaft to her death?
Just saw it. 6/10.
Damn, 6 out of 10 is a pretty solid score honestly. I'm glad you got something out of it.
@@SludgeMan90 I’m probably being too generous.
@@SludgeMan90 my brother fell asleep 20 minutes into the film
@@practicalphotography1235 Haha, that's around the time I was ready to leave the cinema, but for the sake of having a genuine discussion on this movie, I suffered through it. The worst part about this film is that it did not feel like an alien movie, just like The Force Awakens did not feel like Star Wars. This just felt like watching a Disney formula with an alien skin. Sigh, whatever. the classics are the classics, and they will remain that way. I just hope they don't beat this to death now like they have Star Wars.
@@SludgeMan90 they will
Totally agree! Bad story, terrible cast, dumb, full of plot convenience moments, no psicological terror, no suspense, the Marilin Manson alien at the end is laughable, boring and dumb dialogs, cringe easter eggs, uninteresting characters. I don't like AVP movies but those deseve an Oscar compared to this trash.
19:53 sums it up to Ridley and Disney perfectly.......
Alien Romulus Overrated Garbage given a pass just like Prey because its from Disney. Boring cast same tired old crap and Alien for the tik tok generation full of Gen Z children
@@kosmiquePrey was pretty mid.
@@thomas-son9281 yes but it was an original premise at least this moviw is just the greatest hits of the first 4 alien movies with gen z coat of paint
@@kosmique prey was fucking terrible, the predator was turned into a generic movie monster and spent the 1st half of the movie slaughtering defenceless animals then every confrontation it had was instigated by the predator walking out the woods an revealing itself over and over again despite being cloaked, the predator was able to go from laying flat on its back and fighting off 4 men with guns with ease to go and lose all its strength in a fight with a 100lb women doing crouching tiger hidden dragon style wire work.
I torrented and watched this movie or rather skimmed through it as fast as I could, so in about half an hour or so, with handheld camera in a movie theater pov and online casino advertisement overlays in the video. And evven then I felt like I got my money stolen. Starring kids in this was a huge mistake. Lead cast was boring I did not carr about a single one of them. The deep fake looked AWFUL. You'll know what I mean by that. The ending was dumb. Aliens got so little screen time. Decisions by tiktokers were abysmal regarding survival. Alien life cycle is rewritten and sped up so ot grows to full in like a minute if not less after bursting. So many problems in this movie.
You sound just like the critics in 1979 "Word for Word" and they are now Eating Crow . . . I have already see it 3 times, Once in IMAX . . . Life is good in the Alien Universe!
3 goddamn times in a week since its release? You must really love this fucking movie holy shit. What is it about this film that has you so hooked? I literally think its one of the worst movies I have ever seen on cinema.
@@SludgeMan90 Some guys just like a certain type of Sci-Fi Thriller, that another guy dose not. . .and I can Respect & understand your perspective if you hate ROMULUS . . . But when I watch ROMULUS, it takes me to a whole new Universe of Cinematic joy, pain and excitement for 2 hours, that you can't put into words.
. . . . . I saw "ALIEN" 3 times opening weekend in 1979 too . . .
@@beautifulportland9592 If you can't put into words why this movie was good while others can easily put into words why this movie was bad, then there's more reason to believe this movie was bad than there is in favor of it being good.
I loved the movie it was great had tension and suspense
Fantastic. I hope they keep making em just like this so you get to enjoy more awesome and quality cinema,
I wonder what you think of Dune.
I haaaaated it!
Back in the late 70s early 80s it was unusual to have a female protagonist and to spend alot of money on a horror movie. Period. O'bannon knew he had a great idea with an alien bursting out of a chest.. The problem is that 7 movies later they need a second good idea.
The magic of the original alien movie can't be replicated and unfortunately Ridley has irreversibly damaged his masterpiece with his continued sequels.
I fell asleep halfway through, having spent a lot of money to see it at a decent venue. It felt like Alien(s)-by-numbers. I was told by fellow moviegoers afterwards that I should have stuck it out, because all the good stuff is crammed into the final third. I agree that the characters were boring and lacked depth, and the dialogue was lazy, but can't form an overall opinion without watching it again.
I got that from the trailer ... McRomulus...
Despite some positives like the set designs and practical Alien effects, as an actual film it just didn't work. Started off well on the Jackson's Star Colony and i wanted to see more of that world but as soon as it became a "Best of" Alien movies, it went downhill very fast. The dialogue was actually embarrassing at times and the fact they included the "Get your hands off her" line just summed up how devoid of ideas this film was.
I liked it tell me grow up all you want but I liked it
I'm happy that you had a good time man!
Appreciate it. It’s a shame you didn’t
I give Romulus a 7/10 in my personal opinion
My problems with Romulus were rook, some of the callbacks, and the black goos return
You look like a skinnier version of Chris Evans (Captain America).
@@Pea_Otter I just wasn't infused with the super-soldier serum yet. If you happen to come by some, let me know🙏
I thought it was him in the thumbnail, lol.
This movie sucked so bad. Not scary or tense at all. However, what is scary the audience score. It means our standards as a general audience are getting super low. Hopefully, Noah Hawley's new show will wake people up. Cuz Romulus is trash.
14:45 Wait..what? So an unidentified space hulk just shows up in the sky. They take a rocket to it and go inside an unidentified, airles and no gravity space of unknown origin? Alien aside, thats a stupid idea. The hulk itself is an unknown death trap. Then you managed to get inside and not tear your enviro suits up on the many jutting edges...then there is the issues of debris inside the hulk that could fly lose and smah you... on and on...and then...what if something was active on it, like traps, explosives or the hulk itself was radiated and you went inside it and fried instantly. THe space hulk and no envrio controls, right? So their sun was frying the hulk to frying tempratues when you walked in it, so you would roast alive in it... and the hulk is STILL moving.. its nt just sitting there waiting for you. What IS this???
Just my opinion:
If somebody wants to make an Alien film wich tries to be survival sci-fi horror, and sci-fi action the same time, it won't work. You will get a movie like AvP or Romulus. The zero gravity scene I swear was a mere trauma 4 me. The Alien is one of my favourite movie monster. Sure it must be defeat in a way or another. But I think it deserves much better like that scene. Helplessly floating and to be shoot to diced meat by a so called "heroine", who doesn't even know how to aim (so give her a rifle wich aim instead of her...come on!!!). They disgraced the Alien.
Sooo yes...Agree. This movie sucks. Thanks a lot Mr. Alvarez. Hope you will get away from the franchise in the future.
Sorry i totally love this installment the Alien franchise...a worthy follow up to A1 and A2 in particular..brought back many fond memories of the movies...glad theres hope for future sequels after this installment!
great review! I also saw the movie in Budapest because I live here :D
Soooooo…xenomorphs can fossilize themselves?
Romulus was awesome !
@@Truthbetold1988 Glad you had a blast
it was good
@@jrod78415 nah.
Yes,As a long time Alien fan like myself this movie was Terrible ...not worthy to add to my Blu-ray collection
I just saw it... It was cheesy.
Hey bro, have ya also watched Matt's review on this movie? 😲
He had it split up into like 2 videos (about an hour long each), and was basically just STOMPIN' this pile of trash all the way down into the deepest depths of HELL... And that shure ain't NO goddamn bullshit!
He made some very clear and valid points about the way how the stupid-ass script was all messed-up, the poor acting and directing, the cheap-ass movie sets, and how the entire cast and crew was a JOKE.
I think he may have also mentioned something about 'NUT-HUGGERS' or somethin'... Somethin' about all these sharp, claw-like things; hooked onto various nutsacks and then gettin' pulled or some kinda shit like that.
Very emotionally-charged, heart attack inducing shit! 😳
can you link the channel? Ill check it out.
@@SludgeMan90 No go, bro...
I am unable to post the link nor the name of the channel, cuz Jevvtube is so INSECURE that they feel the need to constantly delete my replies you you!
Sorry, bro!
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The only thing I didn't like was the creatures, all the creatures, did they not have someone to quality check creatures, so disappointed
We only saw the actual Aliens in a scene lifted from Aliens. It was literally like walking through a haunted house. And I don't mean that in a good way
alien 3 and resurection
Alien 3 is king
Roger Corman films are more entertaining... It totally sucked!!! Great review💪
The last act being ripped STRAIGHT from Alien was egregious. The movie should've been 1h20m-1hr30 mins tops. The Prometheus monster makes no sense because theres no David, and theres no explanation in how Weyland Yutani is aware of any of this. Alien and Aliens imply Weyu is only interested in making Xenos a weapon or exploiting them in some way that benefits them financially. Only high execs even *think* they may exist in Aliens.
Deepfake Ian Holm should have been Michael Fassbender so they could finally wrap that up and we dont have to suffer Ridley Scott's poorly thought out prequel ideas.
It was just thoughtless trash, like a mass-produced squishy disgusting Bic Mac, and the masses loved it. fuck disney
There was a script worthy in saving the franchise and it got green lit to production but then got shut down by Mr. Scott. Blomkamp had Sigourney and Biehn on board and excited as it was going in a fresh direction but No! And here we are. Alien! Romul-Kiss-My-Ass.. WTF!
I totaly agree with you these characters were just untalented kids who can't act and the script is absolutely uninspiring the dialogues complete garbage and childish. When I saw this movie I asked myself if this movie was a travesty on purpose it's simply too bad.
And the call backs were implemented like an insult to all previous movies like when the android said "Get away from her bitch" I mean saying this to random xenomosph who was dead on the floor I was like wtf?
I'm a big fan of this franchise and this is the reason why I'm infuriated by this movie it's an insult to all previous iterations.
This movie is audio visual feces let's be honest about it.
Last hour of this movie is nothing but endless references, memberberries and nostalgia slop. It's like Disney executive board made a checklist and then movie was done around that list.
It's a shame because first 45 minutes were pretty solid. But it's just nostalgia baiting garbage at the end. Just like Force Awakens repurposes the New Hope, this movie is like a recyclement center cobbled together all previous Alien movies.
It's probably enough to get enough positive synapses from people who are OK with having the same old slop but in a few years it won't be remembered kindly. So yeah I guess that's enough for a "summer horror movie", sorry I expected an actual new, fresh Alien movie. This wasn't it.
I would also add not so good green screen cgi. I guess they cannot do proper interiors anymore. Aliens also look worse than 20+ years ago, wtf. But yeah, the plot and the stupid characters... 🤮. Btw, nice ringtone🦴
@@wyrmmaster9571 Layne would have been 57 years old today!
You see this movie the same way I see "Rise of Skywalker".
I thought AR was good. Better than everything after "3 assembly cut" .
The Stick engineer was crap though.