I really hate the lack of Nuance regarding CGI. Because this isn't bad CGI, it's the uncanny valley effect it will never ever be right for that reason. Humans feature will never work whether it be CGI or Robotic. I do find it really lazy when TH-camr have talked about this but never acknowledge it. What's even more frustrating is you see the hybrid, you see the xenomorph, the ship. The background, the planets ,All great CGI which you ignore over the uncanny valley effect. I said this back in Antman 3 when everyone focused in modok, but ignoring the entire CGI world. Now I assumed you were from my generation. But maybe you're a younger . millennial. Because I tend to find gen z extremely superficial, what I mean by that is my generation grew up while CGI was developing. But we always looked past it because it was about the. Story, the performance. It's not just movies and TV shows it's gaming as well. Where people are ridiculously superficial and hyperbolic. This movie was enjoyable, it had a bit more world building , I hope we continue the story with these characters.
A very strange problem comes from this: When the powers that we are giving our primary attention to are the powers of nature, we can go from Greece to India and we can say in India, “He whom you call Indra, we call Zeus.” Alexander’s soldiers immediately understood who these Indian gods were and those who remained in Bactria as governors and rulers adopted the Indian deities without any violence done to their reverence to their own gods because these are the same gods with other names. In the sixth book of The Gallic Wars, Caesar discusses the local religion of the conquered Celtic Gauls, but he uses the Roman names for the gods, so we don’t know what Celtic gods he is talking about.11 This is known as syncretism, and it is the mode of most of the religions of the world. Hindus are enormous syncretists, and Buddhists had no problem with this either. The Egyptian priests were such syncretists that when the little villages along the Nile finally were incorporated into one great empire, the two realms of northern and southern Egypt, they couldcombine those local mythologies easily. So the great big mythology of Isis and Nephthys and Osiris are combined mythologies, but they cohere properly in mythological terms.
Andy also mentioned how he wanted a pet. I think this is a reference to Bladerunner and how animals are rare and how thats a whole part of the Bladerunner lore.
Maybe I'm just a big sissy, but I found that hybrid creature genuinely scary. I like when it first appears; there's no music and it's just chilling out, quietly staring at them and smiling. It was refreshing to actually be scared by something in a film
I'll definitely call Romulus a swooning love letter to the entire Alien universe. We get the first act of Alien, the action of Aliens, and the weird off the wall of Alien 3/Resurrection. The number of references and callbacks were really enjoyable for me. Some might call the first 30 minutes slow, but the world building of a WY colony is the type of expansion the Alien universe needs, lest it will get stale.
the respectful references were great but as this video stated, i wished it pushed the universe a bit more in the way Prometheus or Alien: Covenant did - it felt too dutiful to the original quadrilogy. also a problem with this film was the cast - there wasn't really enough time spent developing them as characters that i should care for, beyond Andy and Rain
The line towards the beginning of the movie about how the company has the safety of the workers as a top priority was pretty funny. I also thought using the alien blood as a way to blow a hole in the ship was a nod to the end of Alien Resurrection too.
@@HumanHamCube Seriously! My girlfriend and I were thinking that the pregnant woman was going to give birth to a crazy Xeno and have it wreak havoc in the colony for the 4th act
@DorisDay-lw4xsit takes place solely on Earth so xenomorphs will likely play a very tiny (if any) role. maybe it'll be like Halo and we'll get 2 action scenes in 8 episodes 😀
After my second viewing I noticed a lot more about David Johnsson's Andy character. The whole time when he has the chip implanted, everyone thinks he's a different person who took over or something. But I think he's actually the same person and completely aware the entire time. He chooses to betray Rain and prioritize the company because Rain planned on letting him die once they reach their destination. This is supported their conversation when she asks him why he left Kay, "How could you do that?" "Do what? Leave someone behind?" Along with a few other key moments. Realizing this made me appreciate the story much more. It really is a great film.
The "rock" at the beginning isn't a random rock it's actually the Alien from the first film, that's where the scientists got the samples from to start working with on the Romulus, you actually see it hung up in the lab and as the camera pans past it you see the harpoon still stuck in it that Ripley fired from the first movie.
But if the Alien woke up and killed everybody how did they have time to make eggs and face huggers bc u see there are scientists cocooned and really ur suppose to have a queen for eggs
@@Irishpkrwood Actually you are wrong on that, the Alien drones can turn a human into an egg, if there is enough "biomass" from the alien (nest) the human turns into an egg, either to born another facehugger drone, or a queen face hugger.
@@Irishpkrwood it didn't...at least not right away. they had time to make face huggers from alien DNA and do other experiments before something went awry
It was fine it looked like Bishop for the most part but I've been watching shitty special effects all my life I'm ok where they are nowadays. Born in 1972. Point is it looked well enough and felt like Bishop his dialogue was 100% Bishop. It did NOT take me out of the movie. Edit: As a some pointed out I meant Ash not Bishop. Getting old. LOL.
The human baby hybrid (nod to Alien Ressurection) has the likeness of the Engineer from Prometheus probably due to the black goo she injected herself in. I like to think it has a lot of DNA to the Engineers (probably way strong considering it can mutate rapidly)
@@CDee-if9og I think most nods were okay. The "Get away from her you..." nod though? Okay that one was forced. The baby hybrid abomination worked this time around unlike Resurection.
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@@wadimek116wasn’t that because of the Black Goo from Prometheus that Weyland was after on the station? There was a line about how it basically speeds up and advances evolution in life forms. And since the pregnant girl is the one who injects herself with it, and since the look of the hybrid seems to be a mixture of Human + Xenomorph + Engineer. My guess is the black goo combined with the foetus/embryo and turned into what we see on screen. The face looks just like an engineer’s head with it being a pale and bald head with the dark eyes and it being far taller than a regular Xenomorph which comes from a standard human.
@@TheFallofTheEleventhyeah but they need to explain the wall casing. The one that sprayed acid everywhere after the guy shocked it. It was damn full grown . Was that a rapid growth chamber or something
@@Max2nice my guess, and this is my own personal headcanon, yes that is exactly what it is. With how the Xenomorph seemingly use adapting, evolution and survival to their advantage, I would imagine that in certain situation a chestburster can quickly form itself a cocoon to gestate inside of. Sort of like how in expanded media such as the Comics and Games, a regular Alien can sometimes evolve itself into a queen in desperate times in order to try and continue the species.
@@holly3503 when the guy was tellin rain about the auto assist, I thought it was foreshadowing that she might need to kill the android because it locked on his head. But it wasn't.👍
What I was sort of wondering/hoping was that after Kay injected herself with the Black Goo, it would either mutate her (or the fetus, or both, horrifically) into what would become the Queen (or a progenitor) in Aliens. This Xenobaby that looks somewhere between the Newborn in Ressurections and an Engineer (making the creation/creator idea a chicken/egg paradox) was both unexpected and just…horrifying. The callbacks and references were fun, albeit a tad overdone (honestly it didn’t need them, especially the very direct ones like Andy quoting Ripley). Ultimately, well done to all in this film! 👏
2:25 I'M REALLY DISAPPOINTED HERE, PAUL. "UNBEKNOWNST TO THEM THE ALIEN WAS IN THE ROCK COCOON"? LOL. THEY KNEW EXACTLY WHAT IT WAS AND THAT'S WHY THEY WANTED IT.
Rook says that since the Nostromo incident Weyland had been searching for the wreckage and the Alien remains. 20 yrs of searching and Weyland find Big Chap 170 days before the events in Romulus. The ship that finds the cocoon is fully automated without crew so it had probably been out there searching the area for many years, maybe even the whole 20yrs before it finally finds the cocoon. The ship was in dormant/stand by mode till its sensors detect the cocoon and then after it brings the cocoon on board an automatic command protocol activates and it heads of to Romulus space station with the cocoon.
Small nitpicks... 1- why would the alien still be near the Nastramo at the beginning when it was pressure ejected? 2- If the skin of the space station is so thin, why do they have an armory of Kris vectors with ammo that can pierce its skin? 3- the super important space station research facility lost contact with the company 3 years ago while floating above a company world, and the company never sent a team?
@@mrsickukxx1332I know good and darn well you didn’t say Alien 3? You must have liked the unique atmosphere/setting of the prison planet? I have to admit it was “different”🙃
Bloody movie was so suspenseful the lady next to me (whom I didn't know) kept hitting and grabbing my arm. And I probably squeezed the armrests so hard I left dents. Awesome movie. Good breakdown as well Paul.
Yes, it was suspenseful! I felt like I did as a kid watching slasher movies. I think it was the group of young people fighting for their lives, with no help from authorities. And I was in awe at the scenes near the planet rings. It felt like I was watching a nature doc. I wanted to have a voiceover tell me about the size and speed of the rings! I guess I should have watched it in IMAX.
I love that the Offspring looked like an Engineer. Engineer DNA and black goo made humanity, so it makes sense that the xeno black goo and human dna made a super messed up Engineer looking monster. Also I loved seeing the saving port from Alien Isolation in the movie. When they were getting the guns you can see it in the background.
Best ending would be the baby looks normal first but slowly start to show alien characteristics and they end up taking the baby to human community. Would make an epic ending
Loads of Alien Isolation Easter eggs. The save points through the station. The wet floor signs. The flare used to distract the face huggers. The handles that are pulled to open doors. Basically, Alien Isolation was pushing buttons and pulling levers, and thus features in the final act when all the levers need to be pulled to eject the cargo section.
I could legit hear everyone in my cinema GASP when IT came on screen as it was born in that last act which in my opinion saved the movie because it tied a lot from the PROMETHEUS and COVENANT story and we got an answer to wtf Weyland corp/ David were trying to do the whole time
@@Andreasuprema so glad I took my friend to see this movie and I’m so happy they put that in at the end to give us some glimpse into the bigger idea Weyland and David conjured
I thought that kinda ruined the movie for me. We already knew what David was doing, it was explained. And mutant engineers just aren’t as visually scary (to me) as what we saw on screen for the previous 90 minutes. It took me out of it. That and the cast’s youth besides Andy. Hell, I rooted for (upgraded) Andy the whole time simply because he felt like the only adult in the room.
Personally the last thing I ever want from an alien film is for it to tie up with ridley scott's gobbledygook from prometheus/covenant. The alien was scary because it was ALIEN and stood in for the unknowable horror of space. Being the result of a science project from a floppy haired robot is not scary or interesting.
The only thing that I was hoping for was to see Big Chap go bat shit after waking back up. Instead, he's just hanging there. At least the newborn is better than the one in Resurrection.
Yep genuinely terrifying and even "demonic", unlike the one from Resurrection which was a pathetic creature ( I mean inside the story itself - a pathetic and tragic creature).
how was the lumbering newborn-to-adult-in-2min better than the hybrid in Resurrection? at least the hybrid was more Alien than human, had a wider range of dare I say emotions, movements, and a far more gruesome (albeit kinda silly) death. This thing just lumbered around, sucked from a tiddy, and then fell through a hole
In the first movie it took 24h for a face-hugger to detach and another few hours for an alien to hutch. The 5min for all was exaggerated to a ridiculous degree. It really disturbed me. As well as aliens growing in minutes and the creature in the end growing from a foetus to an adult. Matter needs time to assemble… That was killing the well set mood
IMO, the second best movie after the original. A worthy sequel, done right. It has so many nods to previous events, and I just sat there smiling when they found the proto accelerant from Prometheus. Pure gold!
it wouldve been the biggest dark (german netflix series) plot twist if the baby was born as an engineer, making this break timelines of who created who 💀
Would like to point out some fascinating fetures I really enjoyed. First - we see some new, yet minor details about the xenomorph lifecycle: what happens in between a chestbuster and a full-grown alien. Second - a swarm of facehuggers, not sure if for the first time (AvP 2? Isolation?), yet quite spooky and realistic. The third - two synthetics interacting with each other, wish that was explored more. And, finnally, - that subtle "engineering thinking", often seen in anime and some videogames, when characters discuss how to solve a new technical challenge. That even gave me vibes of Geordy and Data from Star Trek!
Yeah! Good takes! It's the first time in a movie that they show a 'second' stage for transformation. So first chestburster 'larvae' stage, which then cocoons into that love sacc and from there emerges as a full grown xeno! I always wondered is there a cocoon stage or are they like growing from that larvael form and we'd possibly see some tadpolesque mini xenos! But now it's settled that there is a cocoon stage! Was watching an Alien vs Predator old school arcade run and even in that they have these sacks from which xenos emerge from! Did some of the other PC avp games have like these dwarf xeno growth stage? Never played those unfortunately!
@iiiBran I mean, I have to look at the broader picture right? 5.6.7 can be switched each other day. Its depends on what type of a mode i'm in. 😅 But the swimming xenos! 😍Especially the first frames of them coming!! It's insanely terrifying!
That’s tough; it’s tied with Prometheus for me. That movie was beautifully done and was the reason these sequels are still continuing. But Romulus was some great cinema.
I only had two(ish) issues with this movie: -Time management, it feels like the idea was to add tension through the imminent collision with the asteroid belt, but I never felt pressure from that, it was mostly a background thing, that forced the script into speeding the growth of the creatures. An alien that grows to 2 meters in the span of hours (4-5) would be reasonable to me(at least give it time to find matter to stuff himself with), they just had make the crew into doing something else like correcting the trajectory of the space station, or running a scan through the station to see if there was movement or other life sings on the ship (maybe foreshadowing the awakening hive) or salvage useful things for their new life. -The lack of something that made the movie different. To me it felt like they clamped together succesful scripts of previous iterations. I actually have what I could consider a third issue,being xenomorphs have way too much clear screen time. To me the best part of the original movie is the tone dictated by the unseen threat, we mostly get glimpses of it and it really helps to sell the innate fear of something alien. But this is much more of a me issue than a real critique, overall I found the movie entertaining and enjoyable , it defied my, quite frankly, low expectations, by being a good product that might get the franchise on the right tracks for the future. Sorry if i made some grammar mistakes and/or if my explanations are badly written, English isn't my mothertongue and lately I haven't had the chance to speak or write much.
I [alien fan who has seen most of the movies and a lot of supporting media] saw Romulous with my buddy [never seen an Alien movie] on the 20th, and his reactions to everything were absolutely hilarious. My favorite of his comments was describing the infant as "That Hills-Have-Eyes-lookin'-motherfucker."
@@gibsonthe9021 well in past movies when it was raised above the eggs it would stop them from hatching so I presume the robot moved it down so they would hatch and attack the new crew. My best guess at least
Soooo this is what I put together, the pregnant lady who injected herself with the black goo gave birth to a Engineer/alien. If the bio extract was taken from a Engineer instead of the parasite we might’ve seen the natural birth of a Engineer. Correct me if I’m wrong. I’ve seen the movie but the ending is the only thing that confuses me a little. The black goo is supposed to be the life in its primal unadulterated form which I think is a mistake; it came from the parasite because it was mentioned the parasite was bioengineered. Meaning It does contain the essence of life in its entirety but also what makes the aliens “alien”. If it had been extracted from a Engineer the result would’ve been different that’s why the alien Looked like a mix of the Engineer and had the tail , double mouth , back and other features of a Zenomorph. Somebody correct me if I’m wrong but I’m feeling spot on. I’ve seen the alien franchise and love the Prometheus movie.
Another thing which bothers me is that the pregnant woman after falling and totally wrecking her body when she wakes up from that her stomach moves violently but this is before she takes the goo injection; so what causes that movement? Her own pregnancy did not seem to be at a stage where the baby fetus could move like that and because she hadn't taken the goo yet that couldn't be the reason for that.. One theory a friend of mine had is.. and it's a little out there but let's see.. If during the time that she was unconscious a facehugger managed to do it's business it might have been the first stages of a chest burster growing and that could maybe enforce the idea that if there was a human fetus, a chest burster larvae and the engineer like black goo; maybe that's why the creature was a combo of an engineer and a xeno. Maybe the goo combined all 3? I do think though that in the beginning of the movie one of the xenomorphs ignored the pregnant lady because maybe human pregnancy messes up facehugger success? If that's the case then I don't know why a facehugger would go for her if the facehugger can also see it as a risk.. Confusing!
@@LINX29X92 IMAX has exclusive expanded 1.90:1 aspect ratio throughout. Imagine that on a 26.5m wide screen. The Dolby Cinema nearby is half that size.
It's the best Alien movie since Aliens. Its a ride and a half. Hearing the pulse rifle was a dream! Saying that though, considering they found Alien's Xenomorph encased in it's xenomorph beewax... does that mean that after "Aliens" there's a massive Queen Alien sized rock floating through space going unnoticed till it hits a planet?
I agree, aliens was my favorite. I wasn't too much of a fan of the original alien movie because it seemed like everyone in that movie died is stupid ways, but I know it's requires to watch that before watching aliens. Alien:Romulus was good up until the scene where the pregnant mother injected herself, other than that I thought the movie was great, just not the ending. Aliens = my fav Alien:Romulus =2nd fav
Absolutely awesome. They finally made a good one. It felt like a mixture of both Alien and Aliens. It hit all the right buttons and looked great. It also had the gross meter pegged. Not gore so much as just gross and slimy.
the end begs the question - how? usually, we do have a xeno coming out of a human. an engineer-looking thing means that Weyland had tempered with the patogen to the point when they may have separated the xeno from the engineer material??? so, David did manage to contact them successfully.
@@HumanHamCube who says he help, we don’t known yet his fate, but what they say is that we were able remake the black mutagen into what the Prometheus crew found
I almost walked out three times. The "get away from her, you b$_ch", line broke it for me... Decided to stay, then the combined the end of Prometheus with the end of Resurrection, and I just stopped and walked out. Good job Disney, you got my money. Good trick.
@@J.Panxerfully agree with you mate, really was not much of an original story told here. Was just a deformed baby of Isolation, Prometheus and Covenant.
The Hybrid was amazing. Made me feel real and genuine unease and terror for the first time in a sci-fi movie. Am I the only one that noticed that its legs/hips looked very odd, almost like they were dislocated or deformed in some way? Could've been an error, but my theory is that when Kay fell out of the ship when fleeing the Alien, the fetus inside her was either seriously injured or possibly even killed. This would explain why the Hybrid's legs/hips, and possibly other body parts I didn't notice were a bit disfigured.
14:56 - "Weyland-Yutani will likely try and get to her". How would they do that? Unless Rook or upgraded-Andy somehow contacted the company, they'd have no idea that the events of the movie even happened. The Romulus-Remus station is gone (not that there was any urgency for them to reclaim it in the first place), and WY doesn't even know Rain went off-planet.
One thing I don’t like is how the girl manage to kill an army of xenomorph with just a single rifle basically on auto drive….while in aliens years later (more advanced tech) a full squad of professionals with much more powerful weapons got their ass kicked….
THANK YOU! Like seems like the director said "fuck it I dont need to watch the other movies i totally got this!" Alright guys give the dudes in the alien costumes some weed.
Yeah, the auto aim was kind of crazy! It felt like the director liked the aim assisted M56 gun from Aliens and decided to splice the M56 with the pulse rifle! Maybe cause it was a high tech science lab ship maybe that's why they had this advanced stuff. The original pulse rifle would have sufficed for me! Would have made it more intense having her miss now and then!
To be fair the Xenos were in a bottle neck from the hallway they were in. The final fire fight the Colonial Space Marines were in were more spaced out with a lot of stuff in the way plus the Xenos had the elements of surprise from top & below. I didn’t care it was good to hear that pulse rifle sound on the big screen & in XD.
I just watched the movie and its 8/10 for me....I like the ending...it was fked up to a point of creeping me out.From the nods to the movies from style and even her sneakers while climbing down the ladder....One thing that i really didnt like and i think i cant explain is how fast they grow.....like its minutes from fetus to a 3 meter tall abomination. Other than that great movie.
Well yea the growth thing jumped the shark already in prometheus when that HUUUGE octopus monster jumped out after like what an hour after it was born?
Yes, where does all the mass come from? The chestburster would have to eat more than a 100kg of biomass to covert it into the cocoon plus its fully-grown Xenomorph form. Even an alien cannot generate matter out of thin air. Well, okay - it could inhale LOTS of air… 🤔
The Baby Mutating into the Huge thing in Seconds could have easily be solved. Leave the Birth scene out. Rain takes some time to get into her Pot (take a Shower first) Then she Finds her being a sucked out clump of meat. So that Thing has the Matter and Time to grow.
I really dug it overall but...and I know people will hate me now, but I think I liked Prometheus a bit more if I am being honest. Need to give this a rewatch before I am 100%. Still a good time and the last act was a blast!
I like Prometheus and Alien Covenant Better. But I like dark fantasy stories better than I like action films. Prometheus and Covenant are full of mythology, history and mystery whereas most of the alien films were survival sci-fi horror.
Prometheus is definitely better, when Fifield is mutated outside of Prometheus, and Elizabeth Shaw getting a C Section were some of the most intense scenes ever lol
I will go with the name Prosópus(pl.Prosópi) from πρόσωπος(prosopos) from deletion of ancient greek πρόσωπος αγκαλότης (prósopos ankalótes) meaning-facial armbender(or hugger)
@@whitestorm7331 ummmm, prosopos ankalotes doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue. Maybe the Latin Amplectaris, which means embrace or hug? Or maybe pretentious back-and-forth like that is why it doesn’t have a name and it’s just called a face hugger?
Can someone answer some questions for me: 1. Why is Andy put in cryo sleep at the end? He's an android, he doesn't need to sleep, I think. 2. If the vials are so precious for the company, why isn't like a 100 company ships looking for it? And how come a group of teenagers managed to find it (first)? 3. You see a huge ass space station floating in space, coming towards your planet, and nothing is done about it? Government or the company is not sending anyone out to explore? 4. This one just bothered me, when rain said to Andy "Do what you wish to do". He is an android, he has no wishes, he is a robot. There were multiple instances where it wouldn't make sense to talk to him in a certain way, since everyone knows he's a robot. Maybe these are stupid question, but I can't find the answers :)
No, these are not stupid questions, these are some very good questions! When I saw how close that station was to the planet my immediate initial reaction was a question; how is that thing out there just drifting and floating so close to a planet, AND NO BODY IS BOTHERED BY IT? Where are the rescue ships, or the right authorities or whatever the hell such things are called in the future 😂 dealing with a fucking drifting space station ffs?! How the hell can a ship with a couple of teens get so close to it, let alone dock onto it and then just roam around freely inside??? Right? Wth? This momentum from the get go kinda was a deal breaker to me tbh... At this point I was like 'is this movie gonna be like this all over...?' (thank god turns out it wasnt mostly. Mostly...) And then yeah, you are making some more good points like Andy's hypersleep and others that I cant explain either. Hopefully someone else can... :/
@@samardzicemir Yeah, anyways, Im giving it a second chance tomorrow, got my tickets prepurchased already for two screenings. I just knew I had to give this one two-goes. ;) Maybe some of those questions will be answered after a second watch. ;) If so, Ill get back here and let ya know, buddy. ;)
1. It was because he was damaged, Ripley did the same thing putting bishop into cryo sleep at the end of Aliens cause he was damaged too. 2. Probably because they already know that its infested with Aliens and they know no one could make it. 3. It was only in a question of hours that the Station was going to explode because of the collision with *THE RINGS* not the planet which is what happened in the movie so there was no problem. Also, the company is the one which ruled both the station and the colony so the “government” of it probably would already know but they didnt receive any orders to go there, it would kill their entire colony so it wouldn’t make any sense. 4. In the whole movie you can clearly see that Rain doesn’t see Andy as a Robot or an unreal being. She’s told that many times throughout the movie but she keeps refusing it, she literally grew up with him. I hope I answered all of your questions and doubts! :) you’re welcomee
Honestly...sounds like a bunch of nostalgia instead of an individually good story. "Let's put all the best parts of Alien, Aliens, Alien3 and Resurrection with the non-B.S. parts of Prometheus/Covenant, throw it in a blender and hope for the best."
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I liked a lot about this movie. So I'll just mention what I didn't like: My Main issue with this movie is that the Scorched Xenomorph kinda does too little. It's on the cover of all the posters and it's in the merch but it really doesn't do a lot. And I feel like the movie burns through characters too quickly for it to really have a moment to do more. Very quickly after the chestbursting scene it's already hatching from the cocoon. It immediately takes out Bjorn with its acid. From here I was expecting it to stalk Kay for a while until they would later reunite at the door but that all happened very fast. After it takes away Kay it sits outside the room when they get the pulse rifles. And then the next scene there's so many of them and the movie immediately turns into Aliens. I was really hoping for some time for there to be some encounters with Scorched before so many other Xenomorphs got involved. You sorta get that with the elevator scene but Andy quickly kills it and delivers one of the more cringe dialogue callbacks: "Get away from her... You bitch." The deepfake effect for Rook looked terrible. Was it cool to see an android like Ash again? Yes. Was it needed? No. It is an effect that you really gotta push yourself to ignore because of how much it stands out. Another dialogue callback that I did not like was: "I can't lie to you about your chances, but you have my sympathies." Atleast I can excuse this one because it is the same model of android. But still. Showing what happened to the rat and then Kay injecting herself immediately let us know exactly what was gonna happen. I think it would've been way more interesting if we didn't know and instead when she was in labour we'd find out that she injected herself when she'd turn her head. Overall I still feel very mixed on the movie simply because of how little the Xenomorphs actually do. Suppose I was hoping for the crew to go through a bit of an Alien Isolation situation with Scorched before stumbling upon the hive. I think the movie needed maybe 30 more minutes. I'll have to watch it again to know how I truly feel because there's some excellent things about this movie. But also some lows.
I though the baby died near the xenomorph egg which I though was from the asian girl from facehugger not able to fully grow it as they took it off too early with cryo? And xenomorphs were already long there before they got there, hence why they were so many but otherwise I mainly hated how quickly they transformed when in original movies it took hours for the burst to happen not 10 minutes or less, I hate the unrealistic 46 minutes time they got to get it all done before explosion which isn't realistic as their new at the ship lol.
absolutely loved the movie but I couldn't take the hybrid at the end seriously because he reminded me of the spider professor on the crappy '90s Lost In Space movie with Gretchen Weiner in it
My overall opinion was that the film was okay, and from a technical standpoint, solid. But I didn't really see the point to it ultimately. Which is pretty much what I expected, in that they played it safe with a heavy reliance of nostalgia and spot the callbacks. First half was like Alien, the second more Aliens (then goes a bit Prometheus/Reserrection for the climax). There was also quite a bit too much of 'tell rather than show' going on I felt.
It’s the best alien film in 40 years the point of it is to enjoy films. It’s a breath of fresh air in Hollywood today to have a film this well made and gorgeous looking.
Re the "Rock Cluster". "Unbeknownst to them something else came aboard with that though...". Unbeknownst? Really? The computer screen indicates they secured an asset. The "shell" shown remaining reveals they cut the Xenomorph out quite precisely. It's possible they weren't sure what they were bringing on-board but they'd obviously scanned it, so I'd be surprised if they didn't know what to look for and then secured the "rock" (cocoon)
@@neardark77 If they brought it directly onto a purpose built space ship divided in half just for aliens, pretty clear they knew what they were expecting.
@@neardark77 Continuity issue for sure. Also seems that Rook (the broken android) implies that the first dead alien we see hanging in the roof is the original one as it 'caused them a lot of trouble'. So they shot it, it melted the floor and Rook in half. Then the other scientists re-engineered the DNA to make face huggers while leaving the mess in place.
The movie started very strong until the first face hugger victim and was still okish with hints of greatness after that. When the 3rd act kicked in after the escape from the station I heard several loud sighs in the cinema and noone left the theater with enthusiasm and praise. The ending did not work in Alien: Ressurection and I found it even worse here. The hybrid was not scary or cool in any way. When I heard about standing ovations after test screenings, those people either might never have seen an alien movie or were only shown parts of it. It just feels like noone got a good idea where to go with the series, as the aliens themselves in this movie do not feel scary anymore and whenever sb. got an idea where to go with the franchise it ends up in a turd. The visuals and sound design were great though (minus the hybrid)
I just felt like a 6 man crew going against idk 8 aliens was wild! The aliens seemed way to zen snd not even primal. If the kids were all smart but just unlucky it be better but we seem to have the same cast every movie and im just done with it. The other movies at least progressed some cool lore, this one didnt.
Simple because they want to see the exact same mob is as they saw in 79 but will also bitch if a movie is too similar. You also aren’t allowed to introduce new kinds of aliens in an alien movie.
Alien 3 is the true trilogy and closure to the Ripley trilogy. And it forever will be. Romulus is no where near 3 and I’ll have a “friendly” (it’s just a movie)debate on that. To me it’s Alien Romulus: The Force Awakens.
@@themcadamsminute8494 I have not seen Alien³ but i dislike it for giving ripley a downer ending (from clips i've seen). I understand that not every story needs a happy ending, but it feels distasteful knowing that after all the hell she suffered, losing her friends on the nostromo, and her daughter from cryosleep and then, only for her to find new companions in hicks and daughter figure in newt, only for it all to be ripped away from her and being burnt to a crisp alone in some prison planet. Why make me care for Ripley, her loneliness and struggle to survive only to end it with her losing to the xenomorph before dying alone?
It was so bad. Aliens now develop in 2 minutes flat to full form. Face huggers only need 2 minutes to implant now and can be disrupted and removed but still achieved their goal in the first 2 minutes? 1 woman was able to take out hiw many fully grown xenomorphs with 1 mag? Yet 30 odd years later a squad of marines cannot seem to achieve the same level of accuracy as a random girl? Yeh it was a fun movie but it was a waste in my opinion. Why not just finish the story they started with prometheus?
Just saw it at the cinema, only thing i really didnt like is how they weakened the xenomorph, she kills a bunch of them with a single gun. In Aliens they are elite soldiers and they can barely kill some :/
I see the hybrid as representing Romulus. I’m not good at explaining but I will try, in the original story Romulus and Remus where brothers and Romulus killed Remus out of jealousy. And the black goo taking over and killing the original baby (Remus) and creating the hybrid (Romulus) makes a lot of since to me. Another reason I call the hybrid Romulus is because I feel like he needs a name. More about Romulus is that I love how he took all of humanities worst and most evil traits, and looks more human. It’s kind of like a dark reflection of humanity. And the first time I saw him I got chills. I feel like this is the scariest xeno because of all of that, and when it was smiling sent shivers down my spine, it seemed and probable was that Romulus enjoyed killing and making others suffer. Seriously, Romulus is an insane monster of an alien.
There were definitely good parts to the movie, but ultimately I wasn’t super satisfied. Many liken it to ‘Rogue One’ for the Alien franchise, but I’d say it’s more like ‘The Force Awakens’, in the sense that it essentially rehashed old plot/story beats as a way of trying to rekindle old fans. Yes, Prometheus was somewhat flawed; but ultimately it did something different and deeply expanded the alien series Mythos. On the other hand, this is an Alien movie that simply combines plot points/story beats from Alien, Aliens, and Alien Resurrection, and from a creative standpoint, that’s not amazing. The director likened aspects to Alien: Isolation, but we already have that, just like we have Alien, Alien2 etc. we don’t need it again, tell a creatively different story with the universe.
The idea that they were all teens from broken homes was unique, and that alien cocoon thing was new. But you're right, it's basically bits and pieces from the qudroligy.
@@kahmaal14 oh yeah for sure, I’m not saying there weren’t ANY unique aspects. It’s just, it’s not enough, it’s more like a tiny sprinkling of new over the old majority. There were a few new things in The Force awakens too, buts still, beat-for-beat it was just A New Hope - And with this movie, story-wise, it’s just the Quadrilogy + Isolation Rerun. The director was very open about how they wanted to return to the old movies, and was quite dismissive of the more broadly creative stuff like Prometheus. Ultimately this movie was a hollow nostalgia fest, with a few positives hiding in there.
Anyone notice that the second-half of “Alien Romulus” is canonically a soft prequel for the “Speices Franchise”? Fast birth, metamorph, second jaw, urge to breed, same alien features
I don't even follow this channel and your thumb nail is a huge spoiler. I believe in conquences in life...and this is not a threat...but one day ..when you least expect it ..someone will approach you ..someone you never met or even knew existed.... I won't spoil what will happen next.
Watched the film today at home, its kind of love letter to original 1979 Alien. enjoyable, however last act was weird. 😂 didn't like that. otherwise enjoyable
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I really hate the lack of Nuance regarding CGI. Because this isn't bad CGI, it's the uncanny valley effect it will never ever be right for that reason. Humans feature will never work whether it be CGI or Robotic. I do find it really lazy when TH-camr have talked about this but never acknowledge it. What's even more frustrating is you see the hybrid, you see the xenomorph, the ship. The background, the planets ,All great CGI which you ignore over the uncanny valley effect. I said this back in Antman 3 when everyone focused in modok, but ignoring the entire CGI world.
Now I assumed you were from my generation. But maybe you're a younger . millennial. Because I tend to find gen z extremely superficial, what I mean by that is my generation grew up while CGI was developing. But we always looked past it because it was about the. Story, the performance. It's not just movies and TV shows it's gaming as well. Where people are ridiculously superficial and hyperbolic.
This movie was enjoyable, it had a bit more world building , I hope we continue the story with these characters.
Them grabbing that rock was Not unbeknownst to them they got that rock for the alien i think rook and ash were in communication somehow
A very strange problem comes from this: When the powers that we are giving our primary attention to are the powers of nature, we can go from Greece to India and we can say in India, “He whom you call Indra, we call Zeus.” Alexander’s soldiers immediately understood who these Indian gods were and those who remained in Bactria as governors and rulers adopted the Indian deities without any violence done to their reverence to their own gods because these are the same gods with other names. In the sixth book of The Gallic Wars, Caesar discusses the local religion of the conquered Celtic Gauls, but he uses the Roman names for the gods, so we don’t know what Celtic gods he is talking about.11 This is known as syncretism, and it is the mode of most of the religions of the world. Hindus are enormous syncretists, and Buddhists had no problem with this either. The Egyptian priests were such syncretists that when the little villages along the Nile finally were incorporated into one great empire, the two realms of northern and southern Egypt, they couldcombine those local mythologies easily. So the great big mythology of Isis and Nephthys and Osiris are combined mythologies, but they cohere properly in mythological terms.
Andy also mentioned how he wanted a pet. I think this is a reference to Bladerunner and how animals are rare and how thats a whole part of the Bladerunner lore.
I came for the Ryan Aery’s Mum jokes
Maybe I'm just a big sissy, but I found that hybrid creature genuinely scary. I like when it first appears; there's no music and it's just chilling out, quietly staring at them and smiling. It was refreshing to actually be scared by something in a film
Least scary element in the film for me.
The baby/hybrid reminded me of the tall guy in Big Fish. Clunky and asymmetrical.
I agree, it was creepy. But I felt sorry for it… yes I’m a bit odd
I agree. I found it scary too.
Maybe I'm so used to seeing the xenomorph, that baby creature really creeped me.
discount Voldemort.
I'll definitely call Romulus a swooning love letter to the entire Alien universe. We get the first act of Alien, the action of Aliens, and the weird off the wall of Alien 3/Resurrection. The number of references and callbacks were really enjoyable for me. Some might call the first 30 minutes slow, but the world building of a WY colony is the type of expansion the Alien universe needs, lest it will get stale.
I thought it was slow, but it felt good once it got started. The big bang started with nothing, after all.
the respectful references were great but as this video stated, i wished it pushed the universe a bit more in the way Prometheus or Alien: Covenant did - it felt too dutiful to the original quadrilogy. also a problem with this film was the cast - there wasn't really enough time spent developing them as characters that i should care for, beyond Andy and Rain
Yeah also the first move start slow
@@ck-hi1yu seeing as theyre the only survivors, i figured thats kinda the point
The line towards the beginning of the movie about how the company has the safety of the workers as a top priority was pretty funny.
I also thought using the alien blood as a way to blow a hole in the ship was a nod to the end of Alien Resurrection too.
This movie made me hunger for more of the universe.. Same as the first.. And the second movie
The colony world building was the best part. I expected the 3rd act to take place there. I was disappointed.
@@HumanHamCube Seriously! My girlfriend and I were thinking that the pregnant woman was going to give birth to a crazy Xeno and have it wreak havoc in the colony for the 4th act
Same here! Makes me want to do an Alien movie marathon all films!
despite incorporating more from Prometheus by the end
@DorisDay-lw4xsit takes place solely on Earth so xenomorphs will likely play a very tiny (if any) role. maybe it'll be like Halo and we'll get 2 action scenes in 8 episodes 😀
Anyone else think that the absolute silence at the beginning was a reference to the marketing line “in space, no one can hear you screaming” ?
Totally, when the camera was approaching to the hull I was specting to hear a big scream as soon as it entered the ship
100%
That was my first thought!
YASS!! I explained that to my husband! This movie was like a tribute love letter to the first.
Is no like 20 mins before theres even a line spoken in the first?
that baby xenomorph at the end was the most nightmare fuel-filled and horrendous looking thing i have ever seen
you should watch Men (2022) then
@@MoonDevoured reviews for the movie seem kinda mixed though, I'll watch it anyways thanks
I actually liked it, it was a revamped version of the newborn from that god awful alien resurrection
But like howd it grow sooo fast
Right?
that baby human xenomorph thing was fucking horrifying i gasped wtf
I knew what was coming cause I love Prometheus but almost threw up 🤮🤢 when I actually saw it really disturbing, great movie
Me as well!
Looked like they stuck an enginnee head on the newborn. Bad.
When i saw it yesterday, it's almost identical to an Engineer.
The smile
The first 2 frames when IT is in the hallway is fucking 10/10! I was: "WTH!?? Is that fucking thing??" 🤯🤣😅
Yea that fucker was creepy as hell. 10/10 monster reveal.
Nightmare fuel!!!!
The audience audibly gasped at this moment for me 😂
@@unfinest it looked like a big vagina and it killed the guy which was hilarious whole film
Was one big vagina
Yessss I was like holy shiiii 🤯🤯🤯
(Andy)David Jonsson geta a fucking 10/10!! Man that switch up is crazy!!!!!
my favorite character from the movie.
His acting was real good, twitchy - made you feel that he wasn’t human.
ABSOLUTELY AGREE
I will take Jonsson’s Andy any day over fassbender’s whatever the hell
@@wentzr I might be bias but Fassbender's David is definitely my favourite. Although I really loved Andy.
After my second viewing I noticed a lot more about David Johnsson's Andy character. The whole time when he has the chip implanted, everyone thinks he's a different person who took over or something. But I think he's actually the same person and completely aware the entire time. He chooses to betray Rain and prioritize the company because Rain planned on letting him die once they reach their destination. This is supported their conversation when she asks him why he left Kay, "How could you do that?" "Do what? Leave someone behind?" Along with a few other key moments. Realizing this made me appreciate the story much more. It really is a great film.
Ahh, this is Brilliant. I totally missed this!
The "rock" at the beginning isn't a random rock it's actually the Alien from the first film, that's where the scientists got the samples from to start working with on the Romulus, you actually see it hung up in the lab and as the camera pans past it you see the harpoon still stuck in it that Ripley fired from the first movie.
So, I would definitely call that "beknownst" 😂
But if the Alien woke up and killed everybody how did they have time to make eggs and face huggers bc u see there are scientists cocooned and really ur suppose to have a queen for eggs
@@Irishpkrwood Actually you are wrong on that, the Alien drones can turn a human into an egg, if there is enough "biomass" from the alien (nest) the human turns into an egg, either to born another facehugger drone, or a queen face hugger.
@@Irishpkrwood it didn't...at least not right away. they had time to make face huggers from alien DNA and do other experiments before something went awry
Thank you. I was wondering about that (if any) connection.
That CGI was pretty rough on Rook but I still enjoyed the cameo
yeah it was wild, took me out but still enjoyed the movie
More than rough
I liked that it was like this.. just like the first movie 😇
They should have used a practical rubber mask on a plastic skull. Could have been way more effective and scary.
It was fine it looked like Bishop for the most part but I've been watching shitty special effects all my life I'm ok where they are nowadays. Born in 1972. Point is it looked well enough and felt like Bishop his dialogue was 100% Bishop. It did NOT take me out of the movie.
Edit: As a some pointed out I meant Ash not Bishop. Getting old. LOL.
The human baby hybrid (nod to Alien Ressurection) has the likeness of the Engineer from Prometheus probably due to the black goo she injected herself in. I like to think it has a lot of DNA to the Engineers (probably way strong considering it can mutate rapidly)
Don't they all grow /mutate rapidly 😅 . But it was obviously stronger thought we were gonna see it fight a normal one
@@mr.joshua8664 Having "nods" to the previous Aliens movie was absolutely awful.. "Get away from her...." Garbage stuff.
@@CDee-if9og🤡🤡🤡
@@CDee-if9og I think most nods were okay. The "Get away from her you..." nod though? Okay that one was forced. The baby hybrid abomination worked this time around unlike Resurection.
100% it was an engineer-esque xenomorph. The black goo was even called "prometheus 5"
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I'm still pissed they canceled Raised by Wolves after 2 seasons.
I dropped a 👍 and 2 comments 👍
Please tell me that the picture you showed regarding the newborn hybrid baby isn’t exactly what that is, because that thing ain’t scary at all! 😂😭
@@brandonebrye6016it IS EXACTLY IT! But that pic do'nt do it favors,it is creepy in the film
@@leonefurlan137 Did you enjoy the movie?
@@brandonebrye6016 totally
The jump scare as she's getting pulled back into the ship got me
Definitely one of the best ones
Got me good!
I expected it to appear again and still jumped
The term ‘Andy’ was used by Philip K Dick to describe Androids, so the name is also a nod to Blade Runner
You're like a clock, I just left the movie. It's more than solid and respectful with a pinch of fresh blood.
Hybrid was weak dude what you talkin about
@iiiBran Yet it grew full size in two minutes
@@wadimek116wasn’t that because of the Black Goo from Prometheus that Weyland was after on the station? There was a line about how it basically speeds up and advances evolution in life forms. And since the pregnant girl is the one who injects herself with it, and since the look of the hybrid seems to be a mixture of Human + Xenomorph + Engineer. My guess is the black goo combined with the foetus/embryo and turned into what we see on screen. The face looks just like an engineer’s head with it being a pale and bald head with the dark eyes and it being far taller than a regular Xenomorph which comes from a standard human.
@@TheFallofTheEleventhyeah but they need to explain the wall casing. The one that sprayed acid everywhere after the guy shocked it. It was damn full grown . Was that a rapid growth chamber or something
@@Max2nice my guess, and this is my own personal headcanon, yes that is exactly what it is. With how the Xenomorph seemingly use adapting, evolution and survival to their advantage, I would imagine that in certain situation a chestburster can quickly form itself a cocoon to gestate inside of.
Sort of like how in expanded media such as the Comics and Games, a regular Alien can sometimes evolve itself into a queen in desperate times in order to try and continue the species.
Foreshadowing when “Rain” holds her hand up to the light and her hand shadow looks like a facehugger! 🤨
🤨
@@serious261 They could've done a bit more with the Androids fear of being decommissioned. But yeah lots to analyse from a film studies point of view.
That’s what I thought too. Literal fore-shadowing. 👍🏻
@@holly3503 when the guy was tellin rain about the auto assist, I thought it was foreshadowing that she might need to kill the android because it locked on his head. But it wasn't.👍
What I was sort of wondering/hoping was that after Kay injected herself with the Black Goo, it would either mutate her (or the fetus, or both, horrifically) into what would become the Queen (or a progenitor) in Aliens.
This Xenobaby that looks somewhere between the Newborn in Ressurections and an Engineer (making the creation/creator idea a chicken/egg paradox) was both unexpected and just…horrifying.
The callbacks and references were fun, albeit a tad overdone (honestly it didn’t need them, especially the very direct ones like Andy quoting Ripley). Ultimately, well done to all in this film! 👏
Hhhh
I was hoping something would happen like this also. I thought after the fetus was defeated she would have to deal with a mutated Kay.
Same… missed chance the queen is awesome
The get away from her line was jarring but I didn't mind the gun lesson one
2:25 I'M REALLY DISAPPOINTED HERE, PAUL. "UNBEKNOWNST TO THEM THE ALIEN WAS IN THE ROCK COCOON"? LOL. THEY KNEW EXACTLY WHAT IT WAS AND THAT'S WHY THEY WANTED IT.
Agree, they wanted the Xeno, they knew they were picking it up, and of course all went to shit.
They said thats what they were looking for. "We've finally found it"
@@EdwardGaydosIII I must've missed it🫡
Rook says that since the Nostromo incident Weyland had been searching for the wreckage and the Alien remains. 20 yrs of searching and Weyland find Big Chap 170 days before the events in Romulus. The ship that finds the cocoon is fully automated without crew so it had probably been out there searching the area for many years, maybe even the whole 20yrs before it finally finds the cocoon. The ship was in dormant/stand by mode till its sensors detect the cocoon and then after it brings the cocoon on board an automatic command protocol activates and it heads of to Romulus space station with the cocoon.
Short version: They were looking for it, they just didn't think it was still alive
Small nitpicks...
1- why would the alien still be near the Nastramo at the beginning when it was pressure ejected?
2- If the skin of the space station is so thin, why do they have an armory of Kris vectors with ammo that can pierce its skin?
3- the super important space station research facility lost contact with the company 3 years ago while floating above a company world, and the company never sent a team?
I thought it was a few months but the question still remains-why was no one sent
Agree. 3rd best Alien film. Will watch again.
4th for me.
@@Saffron-sugar what is your 3rd?
Definitely in the top 3. It's definitely an almost perfect homage to the first 2 films.
4th for me too. Alien-Aliens-Alien3-Romulus
@@mrsickukxx1332I know good and darn well you didn’t say Alien 3? You must have liked the unique atmosphere/setting of the prison planet? I have to admit it was “different”🙃
Bloody movie was so suspenseful the lady next to me (whom I didn't know) kept hitting and grabbing my arm. And I probably squeezed the armrests so hard I left dents. Awesome movie. Good breakdown as well Paul.
Yes, it was suspenseful! I felt like I did as a kid watching slasher movies. I think it was the group of young people fighting for their lives, with no help from authorities.
And I was in awe at the scenes near the planet rings. It felt like I was watching a nature doc. I wanted to have a voiceover tell me about the size and speed of the rings! I guess I should have watched it in IMAX.
Had the lady sitting next to me so that during our screening of cocaine bear. Honestly cracked me up 😆
That’s when you know it’s a great movie. Had a stranger do that to me in Blair Witch Project.
Awesome movie 😂 ? Are you marvel fan
And you didn't propose to her after the movie ended?
Andy are you okay?! Are you okay?! Are you okay Andy?!
One of the best covers of the original song is done by ALIEN ant farm 😂
You've been hit by, you've been struck by, a smooth xenomorph!!
Omg, now I know this reference! Hahaha
@@erv_fedorayikes
Haha nice 😂
Was her Cousin the baby daddy?? Said he was just some asshole and he looked like he was gonna kiss her when he saved her.
I thinks its heavily implied after that scene
That's definitely what happened.
I thought it was just me😂the tension was crazy
I love that the Offspring looked like an Engineer. Engineer DNA and black goo made humanity, so it makes sense that the xeno black goo and human dna made a super messed up Engineer looking monster.
Also I loved seeing the saving port from Alien Isolation in the movie. When they were getting the guns you can see it in the background.
Just finished watching the movie today and the homage to the past Alien movies is fantastic.
Just finished watching. I'm SEATED for the next film! I've always loved the franchise. They went resurrection/prometheus in the end and holy shit 🔥🔥🔥
Best ending would be the baby looks normal first but slowly start to show alien characteristics and they end up taking the baby to human community. Would make an epic ending
Loads of Alien Isolation Easter eggs. The save points through the station. The wet floor signs. The flare used to distract the face huggers. The handles that are pulled to open doors. Basically, Alien Isolation was pushing buttons and pulling levers, and thus features in the final act when all the levers need to be pulled to eject the cargo section.
I could legit hear everyone in my cinema GASP when IT came on screen as it was born in that last act which in my opinion saved the movie because it tied a lot from the PROMETHEUS and COVENANT story and we got an answer to wtf Weyland corp/ David were trying to do the whole time
Everyone in the theater I was also gasped and everyone went either NOPE or HELL NO when THAT thing appeared lel
Truly a disturbing moment xd
@@Andreasuprema so glad I took my friend to see this movie and I’m so happy they put that in at the end to give us some glimpse into the bigger idea Weyland and David conjured
I thought that kinda ruined the movie for me. We already knew what David was doing, it was explained. And mutant engineers just aren’t as visually scary (to me) as what we saw on screen for the previous 90 minutes. It took me out of it. That and the cast’s youth besides Andy. Hell, I rooted for (upgraded) Andy the whole time simply because he felt like the only adult in the room.
Personally the last thing I ever want from an alien film is for it to tie up with ridley scott's gobbledygook from prometheus/covenant. The alien was scary because it was ALIEN and stood in for the unknowable horror of space. Being the result of a science project from a floppy haired robot is not scary or interesting.
I should not have been suprised that Ash was the bad android here also.
Technically he’s just following David’s orders
@@johnny05100the companies orders 😂
@@halomultiplayermomentsPeter Weyland
The only thing that I was hoping for was to see Big Chap go bat shit after waking back up. Instead, he's just hanging there. At least the newborn is better than the one in Resurrection.
Was hoping Big Chap being the final boss. There’s a fan theory of it moulting into a queen. It is a shame really.
Yep genuinely terrifying and even "demonic", unlike the one from Resurrection which was a pathetic creature ( I mean inside the story itself - a pathetic and tragic creature).
how was the lumbering newborn-to-adult-in-2min better than the hybrid in Resurrection? at least the hybrid was more Alien than human, had a wider range of dare I say emotions, movements, and a far more gruesome (albeit kinda silly) death. This thing just lumbered around, sucked from a tiddy, and then fell through a hole
In the first movie it took 24h for a face-hugger to detach and another few hours for an alien to hutch. The 5min for all was exaggerated to a ridiculous degree. It really disturbed me. As well as aliens growing in minutes and the creature in the end growing from a foetus to an adult. Matter needs time to assemble… That was killing the well set mood
IMO, the second best movie after the original. A worthy sequel, done right. It has so many nods to previous events, and I just sat there smiling when they found the proto accelerant from Prometheus. Pure gold!
@DorisDay-lw4xs Seen it to death... hasn't really aged that well in my opinion.
it wouldve been the biggest dark (german netflix series) plot twist if the baby was born as an engineer, making this break timelines of who created who 💀
Charlotte 😂
@@KuvaCzardas yesssss, that was a trip of a reveal
It is partly engineer though
In Aliens Covenant ( 2017) showed there was already a pre existing colony of Engineers. Timeline was way before Alien Romulus.
Would like to point out some fascinating fetures I really enjoyed. First - we see some new, yet minor details about the xenomorph lifecycle: what happens in between a chestbuster and a full-grown alien. Second - a swarm of facehuggers, not sure if for the first time (AvP 2? Isolation?), yet quite spooky and realistic. The third - two synthetics interacting with each other, wish that was explored more. And, finnally, - that subtle "engineering thinking", often seen in anime and some videogames, when characters discuss how to solve a new technical challenge. That even gave me vibes of Geordy and Data from Star Trek!
Yeah! Good takes! It's the first time in a movie that they show a 'second' stage for transformation. So first chestburster 'larvae' stage, which then cocoons into that love sacc and from there emerges as a full grown xeno! I always wondered is there a cocoon stage or are they like growing from that larvael form and we'd possibly see some tadpolesque mini xenos! But now it's settled that there is a cocoon stage! Was watching an Alien vs Predator old school arcade run and even in that they have these sacks from which xenos emerge from! Did some of the other PC avp games have like these dwarf xeno growth stage? Never played those unfortunately!
exactly
We got two synthetics interacting literally in the last movie
The 'My Alien list' is now:
1. Alien
2. Aliens
3. Alien: Romulus
4. Prometheus
5. Alien³ (Assembly cut)
6. Alien: Covenant
7. Alien: Resurrection
AvP movies?
@iiiBran I mean, I have to look at the broader picture right? 5.6.7 can be switched each other day. Its depends on what type of a mode i'm in. 😅
But the swimming xenos! 😍Especially the first frames of them coming!! It's insanely terrifying!
Cmon resurrection was way better than the latest series of prometheus style wank.
Edited comment and still with mistakes maybe „convenient” 💀
That’s tough; it’s tied with Prometheus for me. That movie was beautifully done and was the reason these sequels are still continuing. But Romulus was some great cinema.
I only had two(ish) issues with this movie:
-Time management, it feels like the idea was to add tension through the imminent collision with the asteroid belt, but I never felt pressure from that, it was mostly a background thing, that forced the script into speeding the growth of the creatures. An alien that grows to 2 meters in the span of hours (4-5) would be reasonable to me(at least give it time to find matter to stuff himself with), they just had make the crew into doing something else like correcting the trajectory of the space station, or running a scan through the station to see if there was movement or other life sings on the ship (maybe foreshadowing the awakening hive) or salvage useful things for their new life.
-The lack of something that made the movie different. To me it felt like they clamped together succesful scripts of previous iterations.
I actually have what I could consider a third issue,being xenomorphs have way too much clear screen time. To me the best part of the original movie is the tone dictated by the unseen threat, we mostly get glimpses of it and it really helps to sell the innate fear of something alien. But this is much more of a me issue than a real critique, overall I found the movie entertaining and enjoyable , it defied my, quite frankly, low expectations, by being a good product that might get the franchise on the right tracks for the future.
Sorry if i made some grammar mistakes and/or if my explanations are badly written, English isn't my mothertongue and lately I haven't had the chance to speak or write much.
I [alien fan who has seen most of the movies and a lot of supporting media] saw Romulous with my buddy [never seen an Alien movie] on the 20th, and his reactions to everything were absolutely hilarious. My favorite of his comments was describing the infant as "That Hills-Have-Eyes-lookin'-motherfucker."
The blue light. Seemed to be hiding something we didn’t see
@@gibsonthe9021 well in past movies when it was raised above the eggs it would stop them from hatching so I presume the robot moved it down so they would hatch and attack the new crew. My best guess at least
Soooo this is what I put together, the pregnant lady who injected herself with the black goo gave birth to a Engineer/alien. If the bio extract was taken from a Engineer instead of the parasite we might’ve seen the natural birth of a Engineer. Correct me if I’m wrong. I’ve seen the movie but the ending is the only thing that confuses me a little. The black goo is supposed to be the life in its primal unadulterated form which I think is a mistake; it came from the parasite because it was mentioned the parasite was bioengineered. Meaning It does contain the essence of life in its entirety but also what makes the aliens “alien”. If it had been extracted from a Engineer the result would’ve been different that’s why the alien Looked like a mix of the Engineer and had the tail , double mouth , back and other features of a Zenomorph. Somebody correct me if I’m wrong but I’m feeling spot on. I’ve seen the alien franchise and love the Prometheus movie.
Bjorn was also the babys daddy given its anger issues !
@@colinthedogfromspaced9365 lmao You’re right; dude was a dickhead. Andy should of let him fall through the hole in the floor😂
@@colinthedogfromspaced9365 Yopp he should of fell in that hole…if only Andy had the upgrade sooner lmao
Another thing which bothers me is that the pregnant woman after falling and totally wrecking her body when she wakes up from that her stomach moves violently but this is before she takes the goo injection; so what causes that movement? Her own pregnancy did not seem to be at a stage where the baby fetus could move like that and because she hadn't taken the goo yet that couldn't be the reason for that.. One theory a friend of mine had is.. and it's a little out there but let's see.. If during the time that she was unconscious a facehugger managed to do it's business it might have been the first stages of a chest burster growing and that could maybe enforce the idea that if there was a human fetus, a chest burster larvae and the engineer like black goo; maybe that's why the creature was a combo of an engineer and a xeno. Maybe the goo combined all 3? I do think though that in the beginning of the movie one of the xenomorphs ignored the pregnant lady because maybe human pregnancy messes up facehugger success? If that's the case then I don't know why a facehugger would go for her if the facehugger can also see it as a risk.. Confusing!
but in Romulus laboratory they experimented and modificated the black goo, so: anything could happen, right?
Watching this in Dolby Cinema then IMAX with Laser GT on the UK’s widest screen. Can’t wait… 😎
Thank you Paul.
Enjoy it mate
Hey Paul when are you gonna be Definition again
@@heavyspoilers 🤩👍🏻🙏🏻
Movie should be seen in Dolby
@@LINX29X92 IMAX has exclusive expanded 1.90:1 aspect ratio throughout. Imagine that on a 26.5m wide screen. The Dolby Cinema nearby is half that size.
It's the best Alien movie since Aliens. Its a ride and a half. Hearing the pulse rifle was a dream! Saying that though, considering they found Alien's Xenomorph encased in it's xenomorph beewax... does that mean that after "Aliens" there's a massive Queen Alien sized rock floating through space going unnoticed till it hits a planet?
I agree, aliens was my favorite. I wasn't too much of a fan of the original alien movie because it seemed like everyone in that movie died is stupid ways, but I know it's requires to watch that before watching aliens.
Alien:Romulus was good up until the scene where the pregnant mother injected herself, other than that I thought the movie was great, just not the ending.
Aliens = my fav
Alien:Romulus =2nd fav
Disagree
"annie are you ok?" smooth criminal
Absolutely awesome. They finally made a good one. It felt like a mixture of both Alien and Aliens. It hit all the right buttons and looked great. It also had the gross meter pegged. Not gore so much as just gross and slimy.
the end begs the question - how? usually, we do have a xeno coming out of a human. an engineer-looking thing means that Weyland had tempered with the patogen to the point when they may have separated the xeno from the engineer material??? so, David did manage to contact them successfully.
David knew everything about the engineers from studying them in alien covenant
@@dianailieva3309 why would david help the company? I always figured he looked down on humans and wouldnt want them possessing his work
@@HumanHamCube who says he help, we don’t known yet his fate, but what they say is that we were able remake the black mutagen into what the Prometheus crew found
Also remember that humans base DNA is from the Engineers.
@@HumanHamCube he is the company
Hoping for some good 1-liners, but will never compare to Hudson (Bill Paxton 🙏) in Aliens
I almost walked out three times. The "get away from her, you b$_ch", line broke it for me... Decided to stay, then the combined the end of Prometheus with the end of Resurrection, and I just stopped and walked out. Good job Disney, you got my money. Good trick.
@@J.Panxerfully agree with you mate, really was not much of an original story told here. Was just a deformed baby of Isolation, Prometheus and Covenant.
@@spindu yep, and bloody worked fantastically imo.
The Hybrid was amazing. Made me feel real and genuine unease and terror for the first time in a sci-fi movie.
Am I the only one that noticed that its legs/hips looked very odd, almost like they were dislocated or deformed in some way? Could've been an error, but my theory is that when Kay fell out of the ship when fleeing the Alien, the fetus inside her was either seriously injured or possibly even killed. This would explain why the Hybrid's legs/hips, and possibly other body parts I didn't notice were a bit disfigured.
14:56 - "Weyland-Yutani will likely try and get to her". How would they do that? Unless Rook or upgraded-Andy somehow contacted the company, they'd have no idea that the events of the movie even happened. The Romulus-Remus station is gone (not that there was any urgency for them to reclaim it in the first place), and WY doesn't even know Rain went off-planet.
Solid addition to the series loved it
One thing I don’t like is how the girl manage to kill an army of xenomorph with just a single rifle basically on auto drive….while in aliens years later (more advanced tech) a full squad of professionals with much more powerful weapons got their ass kicked….
THANK YOU! Like seems like the director said "fuck it I dont need to watch the other movies i totally got this!" Alright guys give the dudes in the alien costumes some weed.
Yeah, the auto aim was kind of crazy! It felt like the director liked the aim assisted M56 gun from Aliens and decided to splice the M56 with the pulse rifle! Maybe cause it was a high tech science lab ship maybe that's why they had this advanced stuff. The original pulse rifle would have sufficed for me! Would have made it more intense having her miss now and then!
Well they were MARINES, and Marines get some of the oldest gear irl.
To be fair the Xenos were in a bottle neck from the hallway they were in. The final fire fight the Colonial Space Marines were in were more spaced out with a lot of stuff in the way plus the Xenos had the elements of surprise from top & below. I didn’t care it was good to hear that pulse rifle sound on the big screen & in XD.
That last bar of ammo lasted a long time. Especially when Andy unloaded during the forced 'you bitch' line. It was a drone, not a queen even.
I just watched the movie and its 8/10 for me....I like the ending...it was fked up to a point of creeping me out.From the nods to the movies from style and even her sneakers while climbing down the ladder....One thing that i really didnt like and i think i cant explain is how fast they grow.....like its minutes from fetus to a 3 meter tall abomination. Other than that great movie.
Well yea the growth thing jumped the shark already in prometheus when that HUUUGE octopus monster jumped out after like what an hour after it was born?
@@Six_GorillionI mean that's always been a thing in the alien movies. The chestburster comes out and then a few moments later it's fully grown.
Yes, where does all the mass come from? The chestburster would have to eat more than a 100kg of biomass to covert it into the cocoon plus its fully-grown Xenomorph form. Even an alien cannot generate matter out of thin air. Well, okay - it could inhale LOTS of air… 🤔
The Baby Mutating into the Huge thing in Seconds could have easily be solved. Leave the Birth scene out. Rain takes some time to get into her Pot (take a Shower first) Then she Finds her being a sucked out clump of meat. So that Thing has the Matter and Time to grow.
Movie fell for me when she goes Rambo and kills 6 aliens and floats around the acid with pulse rifle thrusters
Man the Engineer looking hybrid had SO much going on lore wise
Was i the only one bothered with the fact they had so many exact quotes form previous films? I mean slip one in sure but i felt there were too many.
I really dug it overall but...and I know people will hate me now, but I think I liked Prometheus a bit more if I am being honest. Need to give this a rewatch before I am 100%. Still a good time and the last act was a blast!
Prometheus is smart storytelling and this one is a great thriller .
I agree with you!
I like Prometheus and Alien Covenant Better. But I like dark fantasy stories better than I like action films.
Prometheus and Covenant are full of mythology, history and mystery whereas most of the alien films were survival sci-fi horror.
@@Saffron-sugaryou explained that perfectly i agree 100% i love the world building and story telling in Prometheus and Covenant
Prometheus is definitely better, when Fifield is mutated outside of Prometheus, and Elizabeth Shaw getting a C Section were some of the most intense scenes ever lol
Always find it interesting your breakdowns come out on the same day films hit the (free) streaming sites. Good job on knowing you audience.
What site do you use
@@braidenburnitt2945 mostly google
What site ?
123 movies it's on there
@@jjeffries8831 please tell me you're not my ex whom I Introduced to that site about 10 years ago.
Pauls in the Gym !! I see you brother 💪🏾
This was the perfect Last of Us/ Dead Space movie. We got Ellie fighting a necromorph in the end.
As a big fan of Monkey News; it was good to see that after Logan, Stephen Merchant managed to get another role in a film.
Don’t forget that Alien and Bladerunner share the same universe 🧐
And Terminator.
Wait…..what?
Also Jurassic Park this is all happening in Allen dream while he's on the plane
And Shrek.
And Firefly (look at the top center of the sights of the anti-aircraft gun Mal is firing in the first episode).
I wish they came up with a canon name for the “face huggers” lmao
I will go with the name Prosópus(pl.Prosópi) from πρόσωπος(prosopos) from deletion of ancient greek πρόσωπος αγκαλότης (prósopos ankalótes) meaning-facial armbender(or hugger)
@@whitestorm7331 ummmm, prosopos ankalotes doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue. Maybe the Latin Amplectaris, which means embrace or hug?
Or maybe pretentious back-and-forth like that is why it doesn’t have a name and it’s just called a face hugger?
Face fkrs?
@@kweenadafool 🤣🤣
Can someone answer some questions for me:
1. Why is Andy put in cryo sleep at the end? He's an android, he doesn't need to sleep, I think.
2. If the vials are so precious for the company, why isn't like a 100 company ships looking for it? And how come a group of teenagers managed to find it (first)?
3. You see a huge ass space station floating in space, coming towards your planet, and nothing is done about it? Government or the company is not sending anyone out to explore?
4. This one just bothered me, when rain said to Andy "Do what you wish to do". He is an android, he has no wishes, he is a robot. There were multiple instances where it wouldn't make sense to talk to him in a certain way, since everyone knows he's a robot.
Maybe these are stupid question, but I can't find the answers :)
No, these are not stupid questions, these are some very good questions!
When I saw how close that station was to the planet my immediate initial reaction was a question; how is that thing out there just drifting and floating so close to a planet, AND NO BODY IS BOTHERED BY IT? Where are the rescue ships, or the right authorities or whatever the hell such things are called in the future 😂 dealing with a fucking drifting space station ffs?! How the hell can a ship with a couple of teens get so close to it, let alone dock onto it and then just roam around freely inside??? Right? Wth? This momentum from the get go kinda was a deal breaker to me tbh... At this point I was like 'is this movie gonna be like this all over...?' (thank god turns out it wasnt mostly. Mostly...)
And then yeah, you are making some more good points like Andy's hypersleep and others that I cant explain either.
Hopefully someone else can... :/
@@tamastarczy6262 yes, same, it brought me out of the movie so fast :) same thoughts as you :)
@@samardzicemir Yeah, anyways, Im giving it a second chance tomorrow, got my tickets prepurchased already for two screenings. I just knew I had to give this one two-goes. ;) Maybe some of those questions will be answered after a second watch. ;)
If so, Ill get back here and let ya know, buddy. ;)
1. It was because he was damaged, Ripley did the same thing putting bishop into cryo sleep at the end of Aliens cause he was damaged too.
2. Probably because they already know that its infested with Aliens and they know no one could make it.
3. It was only in a question of hours that the Station was going to explode because of the collision with *THE RINGS* not the planet which is what happened in the movie so there was no problem. Also, the company is the one which ruled both the station and the colony so the “government” of it probably would already know but they didnt receive any orders to go there, it would kill their entire colony so it wouldn’t make any sense.
4. In the whole movie you can clearly see that Rain doesn’t see Andy as a Robot or an unreal being. She’s told that many times throughout the movie but she keeps refusing it, she literally grew up with him.
I hope I answered all of your questions and doubts! :) you’re welcomee
Doesn't she say "do what's best for us"?
Love the beard mate!
Perfect review!!!
Honestly...sounds like a bunch of nostalgia instead of an individually good story. "Let's put all the best parts of Alien, Aliens, Alien3 and Resurrection with the non-B.S. parts of Prometheus/Covenant, throw it in a blender and hope for the best."
That’s exactly what it was . A homage film of all the best part of the original(s) and a few fan conspiracy theories in a 2 hour film
Alien Wars: The Rise of Alien
And it fucking worked.
Bunch of fan service and a weird twist that I don’t know if I enjoyed, doesn’t really make sense
Nailed it
I’m not tryna hate I love this channel and your recaps - does anyone else find this one really hard to follow? I have to keep going back
Are you high? Because that could have something to do with it.
yeah, same here.
Yeah same here. For someone who loves the franchise, I'm not sure why he's sounding like a robot. Why was he in such a hurry?
Same here!
@@Vince01 he’s create an android version for himself. This is it. He’s actually on holiday and the Azores.
Paul, like this comment.
ok
@@heavyspoilers Paul, send me money
@@captnwinkle😂😂
I have production questions...
1. How do you get your clips so early?
2. How do you get around copyright issues? 2b. Are all your clips under 10 seconds?
New subscriber and love the videos!
Always able to count on your Work. Thanks as usual man
They should’ve called the movie “ALIENATED”
Well the next one will be Alien 8 ....
I liked a lot about this movie. So I'll just mention what I didn't like:
My Main issue with this movie is that the Scorched Xenomorph kinda does too little. It's on the cover of all the posters and it's in the merch but it really doesn't do a lot.
And I feel like the movie burns through characters too quickly for it to really have a moment to do more. Very quickly after the chestbursting scene it's already hatching from the cocoon. It immediately takes out Bjorn with its acid. From here I was expecting it to stalk Kay for a while until they would later reunite at the door but that all happened very fast. After it takes away Kay it sits outside the room when they get the pulse rifles. And then the next scene there's so many of them and the movie immediately turns into Aliens.
I was really hoping for some time for there to be some encounters with Scorched before so many other Xenomorphs got involved. You sorta get that with the elevator scene but Andy quickly kills it and delivers one of the more cringe dialogue callbacks: "Get away from her... You bitch."
The deepfake effect for Rook looked terrible. Was it cool to see an android like Ash again? Yes. Was it needed? No.
It is an effect that you really gotta push yourself to ignore because of how much it stands out.
Another dialogue callback that I did not like was: "I can't lie to you about your chances, but you have my sympathies." Atleast I can excuse this one because it is the same model of android. But still.
Showing what happened to the rat and then Kay injecting herself immediately let us know exactly what was gonna happen. I think it would've been way more interesting if we didn't know and instead when she was in labour we'd find out that she injected herself when she'd turn her head.
Overall I still feel very mixed on the movie simply because of how little the Xenomorphs actually do. Suppose I was hoping for the crew to go through a bit of an Alien Isolation situation with Scorched before stumbling upon the hive. I think the movie needed maybe 30 more minutes. I'll have to watch it again to know how I truly feel because there's some excellent things about this movie. But also some lows.
Exactly!! Ripley called it a "bitch" because she knew she was the mother, the female of the hive. But here?? smh in dissappointment and cringe.
You hit everything on the nose
I though the baby died near the xenomorph egg which I though was from the asian girl from facehugger not able to fully grow it as they took it off too early with cryo?
And xenomorphs were already long there before they got there, hence why they were so many but otherwise I mainly hated how quickly they transformed when in original movies it took hours for the burst to happen not 10 minutes or less, I hate the unrealistic 46 minutes time they got to get it all done before explosion which isn't realistic as their new at the ship lol.
ummm.....they didn't "unkowningly" grab a random rock that just happened to have the xeno in it. That whole part from 2:20-2:40 is totally off.
absolutely loved the movie but I couldn't take the hybrid at the end seriously because he reminded me of the spider professor on the crappy '90s Lost In Space movie with Gretchen Weiner in it
I was shook!!! This movie was incredible. Being a fan of Prometheus pays off!
My overall opinion was that the film was okay, and from a technical standpoint, solid. But I didn't really see the point to it ultimately.
Which is pretty much what I expected, in that they played it safe with a heavy reliance of nostalgia and spot the callbacks.
First half was like Alien, the second more Aliens (then goes a bit Prometheus/Reserrection for the climax).
There was also quite a bit too much of 'tell rather than show' going on I felt.
Man this movie was a masterpiece for current year hollywood.
Very fried opinion
@nein_face Can't say I get what you are driving at, old thing.
Would you prefer I relentlessly trashed it, or relentlessly gushed over it?
It’s the best alien film in 40 years the point of it is to enjoy films. It’s a breath of fresh air in Hollywood today to have a film this well made and gorgeous looking.
Re the "Rock Cluster". "Unbeknownst to them something else came aboard with that though...". Unbeknownst? Really? The computer screen indicates they secured an asset. The "shell" shown remaining reveals they cut the Xenomorph out quite precisely. It's possible they weren't sure what they were bringing on-board but they'd obviously scanned it, so I'd be surprised if they didn't know what to look for and then secured the "rock" (cocoon)
That immedidatly got my attention. It's like he just glazed over the spark notes of another spark notes of the script
Exactly. I'm pretty sure they say it's what they were looking for.
@@neardark77 If they brought it directly onto a purpose built space ship divided in half just for aliens, pretty clear they knew what they were expecting.
@@JJ-uy2sg Exactly what I'm saying. This guys video you've watched, that this comment was about, said it wasn't known to the crew.
@@neardark77 Continuity issue for sure. Also seems that Rook (the broken android) implies that the first dead alien we see hanging in the roof is the original one as it 'caused them a lot of trouble'. So they shot it, it melted the floor and Rook in half. Then the other scientists re-engineered the DNA to make face huggers while leaving the mess in place.
The movie started very strong until the first face hugger victim and was still okish with hints of greatness after that. When the 3rd act kicked in after the escape from the station I heard several loud sighs in the cinema and noone left the theater with enthusiasm and praise. The ending did not work in Alien: Ressurection and I found it even worse here. The hybrid was not scary or cool in any way. When I heard about standing ovations after test screenings, those people either might never have seen an alien movie or were only shown parts of it.
It just feels like noone got a good idea where to go with the series, as the aliens themselves in this movie do not feel scary anymore and whenever sb. got an idea where to go with the franchise it ends up in a turd.
The visuals and sound design were great though (minus the hybrid)
Wasn't a horror movie at all
Movie fell for me when she goes Rambo and kills 6 aliens and floats around the acid with pulse rifle thrusters
I just felt like a 6 man crew going against idk 8 aliens was wild! The aliens seemed way to zen snd not even primal. If the kids were all smart but just unlucky it be better but we seem to have the same cast every movie and im just done with it. The other movies at least progressed some cool lore, this one didnt.
@@captnwinklebro really repeating comments
I agree with your ranking! Best Alien film since 1986. They kept it simple, they kept the backstory light.
How can an alien fan not like this?
Simple because they want to see the exact same mob is as they saw in 79 but will also bitch if a movie is too similar. You also aren’t allowed to introduce new kinds of aliens in an alien movie.
9.5/10 for me. Perfect antidote to covenant n prometheus
definitely not.
@@bochabicha definitely yes.
Prometheus definitely doesn’t need an antidote and covenant isn’t as bad as you haters think.
@@bochabicha -nobody fucking asked you. Do one.
Ehhhhh I’d give it a 7/10, nostalgia bait weird and freaky but fun
Hell Yea! The Real Alien Trilogy is here
This feel like alien Romulus is alien 2
@@1326evolvedGodzilla it basically is
Alien 3 is the true trilogy and closure to the Ripley trilogy. And it forever will be. Romulus is no where near 3 and I’ll have a “friendly” (it’s just a movie)debate on that.
To me it’s Alien Romulus: The Force Awakens.
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I have not seen Alien³ but i dislike it for giving ripley a downer ending (from clips i've seen). I understand that not every story needs a happy ending, but it feels distasteful knowing that after all the hell she suffered, losing her friends on the nostromo, and her daughter from cryosleep and then, only for her to find new companions in hicks and daughter figure in newt, only for it all to be ripped away from her and being burnt to a crisp alone in some prison planet. Why make me care for Ripley, her loneliness and struggle to survive only to end it with her losing to the xenomorph before dying alone?
@@themcadamsminute8494agreed 3 was ballsy and definitive. Romulus was ALMOST a grreat movie.
I am completely stunned and overjoyed with how well it ties together the originals and prequels, I AM GOING TO SEE IT SO MANY TIMES!!!
It was so bad. Aliens now develop in 2 minutes flat to full form. Face huggers only need 2 minutes to implant now and can be disrupted and removed but still achieved their goal in the first 2 minutes? 1 woman was able to take out hiw many fully grown xenomorphs with 1 mag? Yet 30 odd years later a squad of marines cannot seem to achieve the same level of accuracy as a random girl? Yeh it was a fun movie but it was a waste in my opinion. Why not just finish the story they started with prometheus?
Don't forget the Species movies. They had the black goo before it was cool. Best thing about Prometheus is it solidified Species as canon.
Movie was a lot of fun!!!! Well made video mate!!!
“It mostly knocks it out of the park… mostly” nice
I see what you did there
Just saw it at the cinema, only thing i really didnt like is how they weakened the xenomorph, she kills a bunch of them with a single gun. In Aliens they are elite soldiers and they can barely kill some :/
Don't know what version of Aliens you watched that they "Barely kill some"
The xenos in this film are drones. The xenos in Aliens are warriors.
“Heavy spoilers mostly at night …mostly 😂”
I see the hybrid as representing Romulus. I’m not good at explaining but I will try, in the original story Romulus and Remus where brothers and Romulus killed Remus out of jealousy. And the black goo taking over and killing the original baby (Remus) and creating the hybrid (Romulus) makes a lot of since to me. Another reason I call the hybrid Romulus is because I feel like he needs a name. More about Romulus is that I love how he took all of humanities worst and most evil traits, and looks more human. It’s kind of like a dark reflection of humanity. And the first time I saw him I got chills. I feel like this is the scariest xeno because of all of that, and when it was smiling sent shivers down my spine, it seemed and probable was that Romulus enjoyed killing and making others suffer. Seriously, Romulus is an insane monster of an alien.
Just saw the film yesterday. Good stuff.👍
There were definitely good parts to the movie, but ultimately I wasn’t super satisfied.
Many liken it to ‘Rogue One’ for the Alien franchise, but I’d say it’s more like ‘The Force Awakens’, in the sense that it essentially rehashed old plot/story beats as a way of trying to rekindle old fans. Yes, Prometheus was somewhat flawed; but ultimately it did something different and deeply expanded the alien series Mythos.
On the other hand, this is an Alien movie that simply combines plot points/story beats from Alien, Aliens, and Alien Resurrection, and from a creative standpoint, that’s not amazing. The director likened aspects to Alien: Isolation, but we already have that, just like we have Alien, Alien2 etc. we don’t need it again, tell a creatively different story with the universe.
The idea that they were all teens from broken homes was unique, and that alien cocoon thing was new.
But you're right, it's basically bits and pieces from the qudroligy.
@@kahmaal14 oh yeah for sure, I’m not saying there weren’t ANY unique aspects.
It’s just, it’s not enough, it’s more like a tiny sprinkling of new over the old majority. There were a few new things in The Force awakens too, buts still, beat-for-beat it was just A New Hope - And with this movie, story-wise, it’s just the Quadrilogy + Isolation Rerun. The director was very open about how they wanted to return to the old movies, and was quite dismissive of the more broadly creative stuff like Prometheus. Ultimately this movie was a hollow nostalgia fest, with a few positives hiding in there.
I felt a better story would be what happened on Romulus/Remus after Big Chap was set free. Would love to see that mayhem. 😂
they should have used a new actor for Rook. Michael Fassbender would have made more sense
Michael Fastbender is great but it wouldn’t make sense because his character David was not in the Nostromo.
@@migmikko even Michael Emerson from Lost/Evil could have delivered a more compelling half broken droid
@@migmikko maybe they didn’t see the first alien?
@@Saffron-sugar you’re right
Anyone notice that the second-half of “Alien Romulus” is canonically a soft prequel for the “Speices Franchise”? Fast birth, metamorph, second jaw, urge to breed, same alien features
seen it yesterday loved it
I don't even follow this channel and your thumb nail is a huge spoiler.
I believe in conquences in life...and this is not a threat...but one day ..when you least expect it ..someone will approach you ..someone you never met or even knew existed....
I won't spoil what will happen next.
Watched the film today at home, its kind of love letter to original 1979 Alien. enjoyable, however last act was weird. 😂 didn't like that. otherwise enjoyable
Yea I felt the same way . Was it a engineer , xeno human hybrid
How did you see it at home?
@@aSimpleTailor LOL what a noob
“Babe let’s goooo”
Sorry,Babe Heavy Spoileys dropped a new video
My mouth was dropped when the offspring appeared for a good minute and a half.
ALIEN: ROMULUS is a return to the roots of the original ALIEN franchise. I highly recommend it!
I agree
I hate that they barely ever show the body of the xenomorphs