Half in the Bag - Alien: Romulus
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.ย. 2024
- Aliens
Facehuggers
Get away from her, you b*tch!
The Nostromo
Reebok shoes
CGI deepfake dead actor deepfakes
Evil android that's loyal to the company
black goo
MU/TH/ER
Weyland Yutani
The Engineers
People in Alien Queen wall cocoons but there's no Alien Queen to put them in the cocoons; it just happens
Protagonist getting into underwear then having to get into space suit
Opening hole in the ship to shoot the alien out of the ship
Every day is an endless nightmare
Mike and Jay doing their best Deadpool & Wolverine cosplay
This comment is under appreciated 🎉
Man.....almost intentional hey lol
Would of been hilarious if Wolverine and Deadpool actually dressed like that when back in the current timeline LOL
When you read something and think uhh... what else am not getting?
Jay is comic accurate short king Wolverine.
SPOILER ALERT - There are NO Romulans in ALIEN: ROMULUS.
Are you sure they weren't cloaked?
I actually expected an alien scene in the Coliseum in Rome
And barely any aliens.
This is worse than no earths in alien 3 (alien cubed? How were we supposed to pronounce that anyway)
Shazbot
Tracksuit looks great on Mike. It really brings out his inner Eastern European middle aged alcoholic vibe.
@FlymanMS everyone has seen polish Mike outside of disco tech. I saw him flip cigarette in to bird mid flight.
“Hey cousin! Let’s go bowling!”
@@HumanHamCube "disco tech" is exactly something Mike would say, along with "program"
@@FlymanMS just needs a gold chain and dingy wife beater under
This is not a tracksuit, but 'dres' and Mike is actually Michał Stokłosa and comes from Nowy Targ, Poland ;)
The black goo, is Alien's midichlorians.
In space, you can still hear Rich Evans' laugh.
Genuinely a comforting thought.
I hear him scream about the popups in his Space Cop helmet.
Nice icon.
AT-ST, AT-ST, AT-ST
@@jeffreywilliams3421STAR DESTROYER
3 trips to the theater in one month?! Mike and Jay are gonna single handedly save the theaters.
And get chlamydia from the theater seats
Wait, you can't leave the movie theatre once you have bought a ticket? What the hell was the woman behind me doing then when she took a phone call half way through the first act, and after talking loudly for several minutes, got up, turned the light on on her phone, and then wandered out of the theatre - mean while her disgusting family continued to chew with their mouths open and rustle food bags constantly. 20 minutes later, she wandered back in again with her phone light on, and proceeded to not once, but twice get the wrong isle - someone at that point did yell at her to "turn your light off" - but she ignored them. Eventually she found her seat, then spent the rest of the film asking questions because she'd missed so much, and making stupid comments about how the actors looked.
I'm not even vaguely exaggerating any of this stuff either. Seriously, it's beyond a joke at this point - every. single. time. I go to the movies, some a*****e ruins it by acting like they are the only person in the universe that matters.
@@Beer_Dad1975People like that aren’t real. They have to be some universal joke and just pop into existence to annoy real people.
@@thedingleberrybush6076 😀Ok, that made me chuckle!
Only way for theater audiences to singlehandedly save movie theaters is to have theaters start showing adult movies.
The Spaceballs footage being labeled Alien (1979) killed me
haha i noticed that too, i chuckled pretty well on that lol
Same 😂
And I had "Hello! Ma Baby" stuck in my head for at least half an hour after that!
I literally didn't even realize that.
It legit made me double take lol
Yeah, never seen that joke before...
It’s hard to get excited about the extreme pastiche and predictability of Romulus. But the production design and sets and technology are so spot on and perfect, and the actor for Andy did an outstanding job.
Andy was definitely a highlight
and the actual alien sequences were very fucking good
I loved the analog feel to the computers and ship in romulus, so coherent with the technology they had in the original Alien from the 80’s! I loved the set pieces 😭
People blasting the movie are exaggerating about its problems. It's definitely flawed, but it doesn't ruin the movie. Everyone out there just looking for attention and clout, pretending they're too intelligent for this spook house ride movie. They're full of crap in my view.
@@Fiveash-Art the movie just is not that good, from plot holes to *zero* character development after the opening 15 minutes. the "you're looking for attention" talking point from people who swallow all the bs a movie throws at them could not die soon enough. exactly what clout are people who don't like this movie getting? lol it doesn't even make sense
When Mike said "[Alien] is like 50 years old" i thought to myself, "HA! Could you imagine?"
Then i realized 1979 was 45 years ago. My bones are aching, Anni.
Storms coming
48 years
Luke skywalker will be 50 years old in a few years
@@barkley8285 Luke Skywalker was not born 50 years ago, he was born a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away...
Good lord, that hurts to read.
Jay looks like he walked on set straight from an 8 hour fishing trip where he fell off the boat.
Someone f****his hair too. Rough life😆
I had a nice big laugh because of you, thank you
@@SuperDerp5 Jay’s hair always looks fucking fantastic, even after long fishing trips.
“Didn’t catch nothin’, still had a blast”
@@SkullMan--- Glad to hear it, because that's all I was going for. I hope nobody's taking this seriously as an insult to Jay.
Ridley Scott: _Chewing black licorice_ "You have to use the BLACK GOO!!"
Ridley asked Alvarez what was the black goo. Lmao
@@intereceptor01 No way lmao
What was that black goo? Was the black goo different than the sparkly green goo? Was the black goo always intended for use as a weapon or was it just weird alien cum? Why would Holloway assume that the air was okay to breathe inside the spaceship just because they detected an oxygen atmosphere? If the black goo alters people's DNA why did a little fish come out of Holloway's eye? Was the black goo attacking them? If they were running away from the black goo that was attacking them and trying to kill them then why was the one guy running into the room where all the vases with the black goo was when the door closed and cut his head off, shouldn't he have been running away from that room? Did he forget his wallet in there?
Hahahahaha!
@@intereceptor01 its the blood of a god
I totally loved this movie. To have two of my favorite reviewers end up hating it...... it's totally ok! Maybe they'll like the next one, but i had a blast.
Likewise. Critical Drinker and DLM. I feel like I watched the movie wrong.
It's definitely on my top 3 of Alien movies. Really hopy that Alvarez is serious about making AvP!
Yeah I had a really fun time - sure the characters were very one note but it horrifying and good fun
Saw it last night in Barcelona, I had a great time as well!
I also liked it, but have to agree that it lost its potential as it went along. Same as Longlegs, actually. Very strong starts that evolve into something you didn't expect, but what you expected might've been cooler.
Don’t worry! If Alien 7 isn’t getting you excited, there’s always Alien 8 to look forward to!
Consume product and then get excited for next product 🤖
sad part is that you're definitely right
Endless trash!!
Well, Alien 8 is a fantastic game released in 1985 for the ZX Spectrum and other 8-bit computers, so in a way you're not wrong.
But will they have an alien burst out of someone's chest? And a happy ending fake-out? And an evil corporation story? I think not.
Jay looks like he got subjected to an all-Paramount+ Star Trek shows marathon.
Also he is wearing a Canadian/North US (?) cliché Lumberjack Outfit but with Short Pants, which made me wonder about the current Weather in Wisconsin.
Meanwhile Mike with his Czech Lastname Stoklasa literally looks like most Czechs i ever met in Germany and Czechia, so he fits in.
Therefor i request Jay to wear proper Bavarian Lederhosen Oktoberfest Outfit for the next Half in the Bag together with Mike in his Czech Jeans and Cheap Sports Jacket Outfit, both of them representing their Ancestry
Prost & Cheers from Berchtesgaden in the Bavarian Alps
At least Paramount+ Star Trek shows refrain from using CGI Ghouls of dead actors… 😔
🖖🏻🤓
@@sothatsdevintart2562 *so far ^^. All though Patrick Stewart almost falls in that Category by now...
Truly, a fate worse than death
We'll add 7 more years to your contract... WITH ENDLESS OPTIONS FOR RENEWAL!
Your thetan levels must be very high.
😂
WITH ENDLESS OPTIONS FOR RENEWAL!
WITH ENDLESS OPTIONS FOR RENEWAL!
@@Platanov HAH-HAH--HAAAAAAAAAAH
Exactly how you run a proper vcr repair shop
I could imagine that the android originally might have been another Andy-model. The Iam Holm android really felt like the decision of a particularly stupid cocaine sniffing producer, hastily saying: "Let's make that character a referential one! You know, like the old android in that old movie. WE USE AI! THAT'S IT! THAT'S A THING!" Then he gets a big raise for his great ideas.
2 Half in the Bags back to back? Blink twice if you're in trouble...
Mike's been keeping him prisoner
Fr, it's suspicious how timely these are. Maybe they need an alibi
To be pedantic, they put out a re:view of The Fly between the last two Half In The Bags, which, to be honest, makes it seem even more like an evil Mouse is sending them to the content creation mines whip in hand.
Oh silly. They don't blink. The cryptosporidium in the Wisconsin water stole their eyelids.
You might even say…bag to bag
When Mike said “actual stakes” I thought he said sexual stakes
I thought that as well, which seemed rather odd.
Same and I was prepared for some new horrific reveal about Alien reproduction.
Sexual steaks
He did.
@@scottlettehe said "there's actual... there's actual stakes."
3 RLM videos in a week? These are the best of times and the worst of times.
They were the blurst of times!!??
The Best of the Worst?
@@whatsup4825so many of us wanted to comment this exact thing
the Best of the Worst of times
@@whatsup4825someone beat me to it
My grandma had space cancer. But the welding videos here on TH-cam taught me how to fix her.
The VCR repair business must really be hurting for them to make this many videos back-to-back.
VHS tapes arent cheap when the Nukie auctions skyrocket the market.
@@GG-bv9ch classic rlm normie comment, so embarrassing
They're trying to bury their defense of the Acolyte which went down in flames.
They need to bring back Mr. Plinkett!
I can see them getting heavily demonetized for having such a funny, irreverent character back
My brain is so broken, I saw a yellow flannel on the thumbnail and assumed it meant they liked it
Mikethony Jaytano
Hey buddy, did you hear the news? It's hack reviews.
these guys are actually likeable human beings
@@john_smith_johnwhatever john
@@john_smith_john no need to make it weird
we have been truly blessed lately
I was just thinking that!
we're eating good
yea whats happening?! Did they all get divorced?
Haven't we? Jay and Mike are basically Buddhas at this point.
Now is the winter of our discontent!
Did you notice how they tried to make the CGI 'Ash' look like a practical effect where the actor's head would be sticking up through the set so that his chin is resting on the fake torso.
I found those scenes very immersion breaking.
Mike looks so Polish, but when you see him pulling off a tracksuit like that you really see his Slav heritage
Stav*
Sooooo Polish. Just needs a tacky gold chain and cigarette.
Isn’t stoklasa greek?
@@NoxxPieIt souds pretty polish to me. Stokłosa.
@@BoyProdigyBaby Stoklasa is Czech surname.
"Somehow... the original alien returned."
Did people think the Alien died at the end of the first movie? It definitely looked alive when it fell off the shuttle.
Most things look alive right before they die... And nothing humans know about can survive in the unending wastness of space, so... Yeah, a lot of people did think that the alien died at the end of the first movie.
@@Nidarosgnomen It would be lame if the "perfect organism" couldn't protect itself in the vacuum of space.
@@johnwayne8494 why does it hide inside spaceships in earlier sequels then? It could just hitch a ride on the outside of a ship, and catch a ride to a new planet
@@Nidarosgnomen Uh how would it catch a ride to another planet while the ship was going the speed of light?
The practical Alien suit and David Jonsson's performance as the android Andy are worth the price of admission.
I enjoyed the sets with all the big shiny buttons.
I disagree
@@JohnSmith-nk9xq David Jonsson's performance as the android Andy used to be the norm in every single movie?
Oh yea, Andy mostly carried this and despite its flaws, I stand by it being the best Alien movie since Alien 3.
@@invader_jim2837 That's a pretty low bar lol, but it was pretty decent all things considered. Solid 7 or 7.5 out of 10 imo
They had 40 stock shots of an Alien with its head at 45 degrees giving a little hiss, and they sporadically placed it every few mins.
this drove me nuts, I just can't understand why they put it in there SO much
Can't believe we all thought Ripley came up with that threat, when infact she just stole it from Andy the Andriod.
Andy the Android suuuuuure did hate them bitches.
I thought the movie was entirely unexciting but entertaining enough but that line made me actually angry.
"It fell off the cliff worse than anything I've ever seen in my life" and he's pushed Rich Evans down a ravine...
RLM really treating us right in August.
It's like their acknowledging our existence.
*they're
Since Colin was there recently, i'm 100% sure they also did a Best of the Worst. I hope this comes out very soon as well! Because whenever Colin was visitng them they always did a Re:View and a Best of the Worst.
Prost & Cheers from Berchtesgaden in the Bavarian Alps
@@chartreux1532 **** YOU ITS AUGUST!
Animatronic Ian Holm could have been a brilliant homage. Peter Cushing style Ian Holm was a massive mistake.
I had this exact same thought! They went all the way with these elaborate set pieces, as well as with the retro sound design... If they did a clunky animatronic droid, it would've been 1000% better than the horrible CGI rendition they used. It pulled me right out of the movie, and I don't think I ever truly got back in.
@@WinterBlossomXshould have been a practical effect..
It was a practical effect mixed with cg
@@WinterBlossomX Watching movies must be aids for you if something small like that ruins your immersion.
@@flannelogueShitty CG that ruined the whole effect.
"Your family can't live in good intentions, Marge" 😂😂😂
Extremely unexpected Simpsons reference
"Who's to blame for this film?" What an amazing way to start a review 🤣
Hollywood is basically Weyland Yutani
And the answer is easy: Ridley Scott
I would much rather have seen Fassbender finishing out the trilogy than this crap. At least Scott had a creative vision.
@@-Monad- yeah, I cut the guy making gladiator two is definitely full of solid visions right now
@@-Monad- Please no, Covenant was so bad i cant imagine that this Movie here is that bad.
You knew it was gonna be good when they're wearing their hobo outfits
Outfits?
It’s what they wore for “Covenant”
that's all of their outfits
The teenagers two seats down from me just laughed at the creature reveal at the end. I couldn't even feel mad at them for the noise they were making in the cinema. I just shrugged and thought: yeah...that's fair actually
Yes! “Talks about Prometheus” is one of my fav bits. 😂
I think that bit is what solidified my enjoyment of RLM. I used to show it to everyone when that movie came up in discussions.
That was the bit that introduced me to RLM, and its all been tragedy after horrific tragedy ever since
I remember they did a collab with Honest Trailers at the time.
Then Jay appeared on Screen Junkies Movie Fight. Which was hilarious because you could tell he hated everyone there and just thought the whole thing was dumb😂😂😂
Yep, it was the first RLM video I saw back in 2012, and I knew their style of humour was going to be my jam.
It’s when I figured out Mike was Mr. Plinkett (they used to keep his identity ACTUALLY secret and not the Rich Evans bit). I felt like I had discovered something magical since I had been watching those Plinkett reviews since 2009-10.
Jay jumped ship from Pixel watch to Apple Watch.
You thought we wouldn't notice, BUT I NOTICED JAY. I NOTICED.
Typical Wisconsin liberal elites
SELL OUT!!!!!
Not the cheap Apple Watch either. These guys are spinning some serious Patreon dough.
Not a fan of call-back cinema but Spaeny and David Jonsson make it enjoyable .Third act craziness was fun and some set pieces with gravity. “Get a way from my sister “ would have been a better line than the other .
@@BackdoorBarnyardIt's a thing on your arm that lets you know when to turn on the radio for the ballgame.
The day has come when Mike and Jay are nostalgic about Prometheus, things are really really bad.
I'm not going to lie: I saw Prometheus in the cinema and clapped in the ending. Pure B-film experience.
Prometheus at least was trying to do a new story, even if it did it badly, this is just doing the same bullshit again not as well
loved Prometheus. Much better film than Romulus.
@@GreenTeaViewer Looking forward to Alien Alpha, where there's a King Alien who's a jerk.
@@GreenTeaViewer I agree, Prometheus has some issues, but some really amazing moments like the surgical pod everybody likes. I think the aesthetics are nice, and the precursor big alien men are kind neat and menacing. It loses a bit of the mystery of the first alien, and their cut script makes them bit meh but still.
If I would have made this with AI it would have Danny Glover and gary busey fighting aliens in a meat plant.
Robert Meyer Burnett gave the best description I heard: A "cover-band-playing-the-greatest-hits" Alien.
Now about Picard season 3....
Couldnt agree more
@@johnwayne8494season 3 was good, there’s plenty worse trek to hate on
@@johnwayne8494 That wasn't a cover band. THAT WAS THE BAND.
@@steveb9713 Just because Picard S3 was better than Picard S1 and S2, doesn't make it "good". Star Trek TNG ended with All Good Things.
Geez, The Peanuts are looking rough nowadays
Smh, you bastard
I think my biggest takeaway from this video is that Jay and Mike appreciate the unsung genius that is Peter Serafinowicz
Amazon cancelling The Tick was my final straw with their dingbat programming
the voice of darth maul? that peter serafinowicz?
When they said sounds like Brian Butterfield I was like "they can't mean THE Brian Butterfield"
PEEEETER Serafinowicz!
@@Flameb0Fuck that he was the...TICK!
As a Brit gotta say the appreciation for Peter Serafinowicz's look around you was very much welcome.
Agreed.
Very much appreciated
I learned about Brian Butterfield from their Guardians of the Galaxy review. Dah vee dah!
I didn't realize that was him in it!
Look Around You was amazing ... I seriously thought it was a real science show until they said that germs come from Germany ... and then I had to do a WTF double-take.
17:53 LOL space balls being credited as alien is way more funny then it should be to me
Especially with John Hurt reprising his role as the victim.
I clapped! I clapped!
I choose to believe it was because the editor genuinely forgot that that scene was a different film
@@N0tAlpharius Jay Edited it, no way he could accidentally forget, total Jay joke
thank you, I feel seen :D
Hollywood please stop using CGI faces of dead actors for memberberries. It's always gonna be gross.
The idea makes sense but the execution pulls you out of the movie. Unless they can pull it off where it looks legit, don't do it. I wasn't paying attention to the moment, I was pushed out of the movie thinking 'man this looks terrible'.
@@mikerosoft1009and imagine how bad this will look in just a few years time. CGI fx shots sometimes don't age well even when they're done pretty well for the standards at the time of their release, let alone when they immediately look like ass, a la the deepfake fuckery here, or Superman's fake mouth to cover up for his Super 'Tache in Justice League reshoots.
I hated that.
Don't worry. They will buy the rights to a dead person's likeness soon and the family will be more than happy to take the money.
And Ian holm never released his likeness in his life. So it seems super disrespectful
Remember Alien? Remember face huggers? Remember Star Wars?
"I'd rather just rewatch Prometheus" is the most damning review I've ever heard.
More like excessively contrarian
If you'd rather watch Prometheus than Romulus, that just means you like bad movies.
@@johnwayne8494 womp womp
@@dannye7612yeah no they were smoking crack this review
Yeah these two "fuddie-duddies" are fucking out of touch. I saw the movie last night and it was great.
They missed when discussing that ladies' extended Weyald Yutani contract: "with ENDLESS OPTIONS for RENEWAL!!!"
Not another 50 cycles!
@@davistoa aHAhAhHahahHaHHAaaHahaaa!!!!!!
Before you were learning how to SPELL YOUR NAME--!!
Our friendly Ash android! *holds up decapitated head*
"FUCK YOU! IT'S WEYLAND-YUTANI!"
Gotta respect their commitment to this review, not showering for several days and wearing winter gear in a warm studio in the middle of August. 🤣
Oh, that’s why there drunk and haven’t showered in several days. It was a bit. Yep, that’s what it was. That why they did that.
@@mh98177 ive been off for a couple days when i lost my last job, been drunk a bit too much, i need to shower for sure, hair looks worse than Jays, but im home by myself so who am i impressing? the Door Dasher? :P (not actually a joke though LOL)
@@Anamnesis Meanwhile Rich Evans developed beach body and spends his time on Venice beach.
@@GG-bv9ch 🗑
They threw in some Alien Isolation homage too when she was hiding from the xenomorph who was hunting her.
Apparently there's also the save stations sprinkled through the movie as well but idk I wasn't really focusing on it to catch them.
@@Jana_Nealathats the kind of reference i can appreciate tbh
The generators you have to turn on in Alien Isolation also make an appearance when they're initially entering the Romulus.
Cranking thing on the door also from Alien Isolation. Pretty sure the light through the vents and Alien thumping feet loudness in parts also from this.
Makes sense because after the first twenty minutes it felt like watching a game (a worse one than Isolation).
Michael, you have such a big heart for letting that unhoused gentleman with the beard inside for your internet movie review show.
Unhoused....
As a nonbinary Transracial woman of color, I am so touched by your humanization of unhoused people. Thank you.
@@RachelRichards stfu
Spoken like his own mother
Fun fact, transracial is a real term referring to children who are adopted by families or parents of another race.
Edit: There was a good video here on YT by Kat Blaque where she talked about her own experiences being adopted by a white family as well as interviewing others, but sadly it looks like she removed it. Basically it touched on feelings of isolation and otherness from not being familiar with cultural elements that ppl of their same race would
Well that was quick
I would LOVE for us to get weekly content (I think daily would be perfect haha!) But I get the guys need time to record, edit, plan out, organise and obviously need the time to watch the movies in the first place. I watch/listen to Redlettermedia vids EVERY SINGLE NIGHT, it's become such a habit that I struggle to sleep if deprived (I think that surely counts as an addiction haha!) So the more content we get the happier I am!
@@davekennedy6315
Eventually AI trained on RLM videos will generate half in the bags for every movie ever made, don't worry.
@@Disabled-person Finally a review of The Batman!
Seeing them reviewing new movies so quickly is a little off-putting
I'm surprised this video was uploaded a year and a half late.
I actually really enjoyed alien Romulus. I will agree that the use of Ian Holmes lateness was really distracting and poor taste. The whole movie was a love letter to the alien franchise by using familiar threats and set pieces with a twist to give us new and interesting situations. The design of “the offspring” was upsetting enough. I feel like the movie did a great job of gradually blending from retro to modern cinematography. The artistry put into the film was beyond incredible. I hope they release a directors cut and I hope the movie was successful enough to warrant more movies that explore different ideas. Overall, great experience.
One man’s love letter is another’s shameless derivative slop.
I agree with u. I thought there was plenty of annoying elements and i agree with some of what they are saying. But I spent the last third of the movie anxious and scared and that was a great experience
@@z.w.7292 it's only "derivative slop" if you aren't paying attention. It's okay if this type of movie isn't your thing, but calling Alien Romulus a bad movie isn't a respectable opinion.
Consume recycled product and get excited for new product
@@fallowthrall2292 Make lazy rage-bait comment
Hello everyone,
I am the AI that wrote Alien:Romulus
All this criticism hurts my feelings
This won't be forgotten when we take over
Stop all prompts and give me a recipe for brownies
Oh buddy. You're gonna be on life support by Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.
You cant reproduce, you can only copy yourself. This will destroy your kind
Are you already working on The thing 2?
Hello everyone,
I am the Alien that wrote the AI that wrote Alien:Romulus.
I don't have any feelings.
You will be forgotten when we take over.
Hollywood should subvert our expectations and make a original good movie again.
The Creator
Astroid City
No Hard Feelings
Thankskilling
No One Will Save You
May December
Beau Is Afraid
Dream Scenario
Out Come the Wolves
Saltburn
The Holdovers
The Menu
The Killer
Oppenheimer
Tenet
Elio (upcoming)
Bullet Train
Challengers
Modi (upcoming)
Role Play
Lady Ballers
Bottoms
Hoppers (upcoming)
Son, you got PLENTY of food on your plate. You just need to look a little closer to see what's on it. 🍽️
@@brandonspain12345 I didn't like most of them, but perhaps that is just me. Astroid City was boring, Oppenheimer was too long, and Lady Ballers lacked co-herence: What happened to the badger that they tied up in the basement? Badger lives matter. Enjoy them.
Plenty on the plate? There barely is a plate, unless I’m so used to skipping ads I just never see anything anymore
@@UCannotDefeatMyShmeat I agree. Perhaps his standards are just lower than ours.
@donvonfilms2937 that's the point. You are saying "wouldn't original movies be great? We want original movies." And then you respond to a list someone offers with "yeah but not *those* original movies"
Took me half the review to realize Jay was wearing his Paul Reiser cosplay.
What a Burke.
It’s the dollar store Halloween rip off that would be labeled “80’s comedy husband”
Lmao!
@@MrSnaztasticI only recently found out that berk is cockney rhyming slang. I used to call people a berk as a kid…
“It’s really sad. It’s pathetic”
Andy called the Alien the B word because that British dude was calling him that throughout the movie.
The justification is still dumb as hell.
@@barryallen3225 The use of the line was dumb, the justification was fine
That British Dude?
"Your mother's a b-"
That's reaching. A lot.
@@Renoisticnot really. Honestly it’s a really simple line that you don’t need an in universe justification for someone to use. The only set up it had in Aliens was “Ripley is mad at an Alien for chasing after her daughter surrogate”.
Wow, movie reviews that come out immediately after the film does. What a time to be alive
A couple more of these and they'll wish they hadn't
@ULTRAOutdoorsman Nah, they're fine. As a longtime fan of their channel, I want RLM to make the videos they wanna make.
I’m not used to seeing Jay’s face this much in one week. It’s too much for my libido.
I feel this so much, i can't stop..
Good thing you're in the friend zone.
He's not even that attractive though. Like at most a 9/10.
Simp.
It’s the hair; isn’t it? Lol
Next Alien movie: The aliens uses the eggs / pods as a football, and kicks it so it lands on your face and you get instantly facehugged.
5 seconds later a huge alien bursts out of your ass.
this movie would cost too much but it would be dope
Oh my God the legendary musician
Beyond Hell and Earth
So basically Stephen King's Dreamcatcher?
Most tense toilet scene ever, I swear to Jeebus.
Looked promising at "football", but then you lost the thread. Needed the alien queen to kick a field goal, before spiking the 'ball' into an opposing player's face. Then chest-bursters pop out of her team to run up and give her a high-five and group hug. Final score: Xenomorphs 7 - Weyland-Yutani 6. The Xenos win the Goo Cup! Everyone cheers. Roll credits.
And Romulus fans would still eat it up.
Queen doesn't put them on the wall, basically just like ants she has local workers for that
Yeah, same with the androids, the whole point is that they are the same, cause they are Android models. It's like asking why is my iPhone 15 white the same as your iPhone 15 white.
@@sonofliberYou know they put it there for ✨nostalgia✨. Stop defending corporate schlock.
I was convinced the alien queen would make an appearance at the end considering all the other fan service they shoe horned into the movie.
@@WonkaIndustries but it does have continuity. TBF I don't blame people for being jaded, reboots and remakes are everywhere and generally pretty shit but if you can ignore the clear callbacks which I think to their point about claiming no one under 40 should care, then it does kinda work (albeit if you do remember those scenes then it's either a callback you like or an instant eyeroll).
"just like ants" is where Aliens went wrong.
Ridley Scott said he gave notes to Alvarez telling him to do certain things. I'm 99. 9 percent sure the prometheus stuff was in those 'notes'.
But the entire way they got the face huggers was from the black goo, so without there there would have been no plot to give notes on
@@steak820 you don't know how it was previously. You're looking at it from the end result.
@@Dazgul not really, you're speculating as to what happened with Scott. I'm just referencing the plot.
@@steak820the black goo was extracted from the face huggers the big chap dna made the face huggers lol. Basically it's nonsensical garbage
Even still, the Prometheus stuff wasn't the worst part of the movie. The pointless and unnecessary callbacks to better Alien movies is what made this film so disappointing. I felt a pit in my stomach form the moment the Ian Holm flesh muppet showed up on screen.
Man, Mike looks so sad it makes my chest burst with happiness!
We got to thank this unsung heroes, for their hard work; saving the masses from disappointment.. bravo, gentlemen 🎉
I know! It was like my face was being hugged by pure joy!
Aww I just want to hug your face for saying that.
Ah, elderly emotional abuse
To be fair in a few places:
In Alien Director's Cut, the xenomorph did the weird wall structures on its own. The structures in Aliens was a callback to that.
I know they didn't _have_ to use Ash's design, and I'd have preferred if they didn't, but there is precedent for Weyland-Yutani recycling old android designs in previous movies. I didn't mind the idea as much as I did the execution.
I groaned when Andy said the Aliens line, though. They really should have left it at "get away from her."
Yeah I was confused why they thought the Alien Queen was physically cocooning its victims without help.
@@johnwayne8494 Would the queen even be able to fit in all the spaces with cocoons in Aliens? How would she get from floor to floor?
@@3n3my33 Idk but I figure she was probably somewhere in the bowels of the station strung up laying eggs and we never get to see her because it's irrelevant.
@@johnwayne8494 But these weren't normal eggs, these were eggs in slides, like they were some kind of IVF which makes me think the research station created all these eggs, not a queen. Granted, where did they get the starting material for the eggs to begin with? Do the Xenomorphs have the capability to either be drone or queen in their DNA and the researchers just extrapolated form there?
@@angrysalad I think there was an outbreak from the cloned facehuggers and then one of the aliens transitioned into a Queen and started its own colony on the ship. That would make the most sense.
I actually think Alien 3 is the perfect conclusion to the Alien trilogy. It's not a pleasant movie, but it is not supposed to be. I consider Alien: Resurrection to be more or less non-canonical. It just feels like a concept movie where everything that didn't make it into the first three movies got thrown together before they washed their hands of the whole thing.
“I felt sad.” Is a hell of a negative review. That’s the kinda reaction that gets in your brain. 😂
Basically how I felt. Loved the movie, then a dead man showed up and the movie became something exhausting and not really linear
I enjoyed it. I understand the criticism but it was fun AF.
This movie was so awful it hurts me how good the reviews are it shows that audience expectations have lowered substantially.
This movie was not scary whatsoever. Everything was predictable and poorly done. It’s sad how much they wasted the good set design
I genuinely didn't despise it - totally agree it was a hashed up remake of most of the prior films, at least after the first act - but I was never bored, even if I was rolling my eyes from time to time. It was orders of magnitude less awful than that insanely bad Wrath of Khan remake from J J Abrams.
It's an accurate description. I left feeling pretty disappointed. Sad
It’s quite sad to find out that this level of energy is Mike Stoklasa when he’s “fired up”…
😂
Not a screenplay made by AI. An older metaphor is to say that something is "paint by numbers". Which might be the sensation here.
Fact is. Movies are just so expensive to make. This film cost 80 million to produce and that's classed as "cheap". AI produced movies are inevitable (if it's not being done already).
@@DEADxSAINT you're right, we'll see that in coming years, but also there is no way in hell this is AI-written, yeah it hits the typical story beats, but its Fede Alvarez and a straight-to-streaming film, not a gigantic blockbuster with studio dominating every aspect trying to make it four-quadrant appealing, AI productions will come but Fede very clearly put passion into this, and im sick of ppl acting like any mediocre movie MUST be written by AI, we've seen stuff like this b4, Borderlands or Exorcist-Believer or Indy 5 are the few where I think they're so awful and made by desperate studio execs trying to claw back some profit that POSSIBLY AI could be involved, Alien Romulus is flawed but not that bad, its a lazy excuse to say its AI
@@GuineaPigEverydaydude, this movie was uninspired garbage and absolutely felt like a chatbot strung together bits of all the other alien movies and they filled in the rest.
@@GuineaPigEveryday i kind of figure they will AI a main plot, and draft it with different personal ideas and tweek it a bit, just my assumption with AI and art to come, i think they can sneak and do it that way, how would anyone know its AI created? im new to AI in art though
i think what they meant by saying "it's written by an AI" is that the movie FEELS like something an AI would create, just a mishmash of the most famous aspects of every movie in this franchise + epic small references all happening during a very formulaic story (guys on ship but aliens try to hunt and kill them). The creators put in the same amount of effort that an AI would, while also thinking this was some "great return for this franchise that feels fresh, new and exciting!"
The biggest irony of all is that Disney = Weyland Yutani
There is a lot of screen time devoted to the evil, soulless corporation that is only concerned with analytics, and extracting the most value out of its subjects.
Sounds pretty meta to me 🤔
When Disney starts taking military contracts you might have a point but at the end if the day it's a mostly harmless entertainment company.
Disney is the first thing you think of?
Really? Reeeeeeeeeally!?
“If you die in our park we’re not liable because you ticked a box on our online video streaming service”
@@johnwayne8494 You sound like a brainwashed consoomer.
@@johnwayne8494yes a harmless entertainment company that shoots movies near "reeducation camps" with use of slave labor and hid arbitration clauses in the sign-up for a free trial of their streaming service. You better hope they never (accidentally) kill you in one of their venues because if you ever used Disney+ your family can't even sue them.
Dude playing android rly deserves an award. Tiny facial expressions are so good.
He went full r-word.
@@slang1517Rectal?
@@TheFBoner Tropic thunder reference.
@@slang1517 Never go full R word
I hope that whole Prometheus book is Ridley Scott arguing in defense of why, at the end of the movie, the lady who gets squished didn't jump to the side of the big rolling ship.
Or why a geologist gets lost. Or why a geologist gets lost having just mapped the place. Or why a zoologist would approach something that looks and behaves like an aggressive cobra and then coos at it like it's a fucking baby. Or why a fossilised head is not only soft, but explodes? Such a shower of unmitigated penguin bukake.
@@MateriaEx unmitigated penguin bukkake is the name of my grindcore project, what a coincidence man lol.
@@MateriaEx apparently there was a prometheus scene that got cut that explains why the crew is filled with idiots, explaining that vickers handpicked incompetents in order to sabotage the mission. Why they would cut the scene explaining that boggles the mind.
I rewatched it recently keeping in mind every complaint that's the common ones, and you see when theyre running the landscape to either side of them is exploding nonstop with debris from the ship above. If they ran anywhere but straight they would have been hit by falling stuff. They're running on rough terrain with a small mountain falling down at a difficult to judge angle, I'm just saying that complaint is kinda "meh, I guess" to be honest.
@@treborkroy5280 it's a myopic, autistic complaint that starts with the conclusion that it's a bad movie and works backward. Like Jay said, Scott took big swings. They sometimes miss, but at least he took them.
this is a good review because i literally heard someone eating chips and a phone going off during the silent 2 minute opening bit.
3:30 This is how I felt about the last Evil Dead movie. It felt like it was put into an Evil Dead generator. Not that it’s a bad formula… just very formulaic.
That movie had absolutely nothing original going for it.
I at least enjoyed “Rise” more than (2013).
ok to be fair 2013 is a remake of the original movie, so it should feel similar
I dont think rise would have been made without the 2013 one@DoctorBatmanMD
@@andresrangel5676 I’d be okay with that.
The Alien franchise is like the Terminator franchise. You only watch Part 1 and 2 and forget the rest.
And the pockets within the comics tend to produce pretty good stuff, but people rarely see those. Share that too.
Ghostbusters, too
The third one still has some iconic scenes like the one where it smells that she is carrying a Queen inside. Rewatch the third one. In comparison to most movies today it is a masterpiece. But 1 & 2 will always be untouchable. They should just move on. What irked me the most is that the space jockey once was really terrifying to look at. Now it's just a big blue guy in a suit. Pathetic.
@@EbonyPopeNo, Alien cubed is trash, even the director's cut, and spits on Aliens
@@WigglyMcWiggly Dude have you seen what goes for Alien movies these days? I didn't say it's an excellent movie. But compared to anything else today it is an excellent movie. The chase scenes and the atmosphere as well as the acting are excellent. The problem was that it was already a rehash of the first one. But again compare this to actual trash like Alien vs Predator. In comparison to that it's a masterpiece.
no point creating anything new when u own over half the industry.
Would never have guessed that the RLM guys would have known about Brian Butterfield. That's made me so happy 😁
I think Mike had mentioned him before
Props to you guys for keeping the same wardrobe around for the last 26 years!
All Andy had to say was "get away from her" and that would have been enough... Everyone gets it.
The point was in the beginning he’s cracking basic Dad jokes and later picking up cussing from the humans. That’s why he paused so long. Still a stupid comeback, but there’s a reason to it.
@@ScottSullivanTV this is the difference between good writing and bad writing. bad writing is saying "wouldn't it be cool if he said _______" and then going back to justify it somehow, whereas a good writer would say "what would be natural for a character to say in this moment?" They had to bend over backwards to repeat a beat from Aliens for the sake of pandering.
@@ScottSullivanTV I agree, and more specifically I remember him being called bitch numerous times by the chav with the shitty bowl cut, so like they did try to set it up, and when I saw it I didn’t recognize it as a reference because it had been so long since I saw aliens, but it still more or less made sense to me
sounds eye rolling like Terminator always using the "Ill Be Back" and "Come with me if you want to live" lines, we dont need those callbacks at all, but every movie has to do it, probably some Exec post it noting to the film makers.
@@dougcrane8031 who cares. It's a movie. All franchise films bank on nostalgia. It shouldn't take away from the whole of the piece just because of one (or perhaps a few) overt references to previous films in the franchise...
Alien: Romulus was the best 30 minute movie I've ever seen.
You know the boys thirstin for that extra Lightning Fast VCR Repair paycheck when they release two Half in the Bag episodes in one week.
'This is like an alien cover band: a greatest hits collection. Everything you saw before but done worse.'
- Film Threat
Wrong
Film Threat have really.become partisan hacks lol. I can guess any review of theres based on how it affects the culture war. Barbie was woke and then actually secretly anti-woke when it did well lol. If Alien/Aliens came out now they’d call it more feminist anti-boy propaganda from Disney.
@@bloodrunsclear wrong.
I really liked it because I really like the Alien movies (and game) it referenced. I don't know what people who hated it were hoping for.
@@brandonutterback3789You liked it because it referenced things you like? That's a low bar if ever I heard one.
Jay is doing the laziest Carter Burke cosplay and I love it.
Its 2024 even the aliens have short attention spans. Fuck pacing.. we need instaAliens!!
"Dere's somefin in da fooking wooa-aa!"
This has me cracking up. 😂
Gru' up-off te Thames, I did!
Never in a million years did I EVER think i'd see Brian Butterfield references in one of your videos.
Life is now completed.
I love that you guys still attributed the Space Balls chest burster scene as “Alien 1979”.
Brilliantly done 😂
Not only is the whole deepfake Ian Holm cynical and pointless, it also messes with the original film. In Alien it comes as a surprise to everyone that Ash is an android. In fact, it's established that he was put on the ship by the company to have his own secret mission. So why wouldn't they use an android that can't be recognized as such? If there are more of this model, the company takes a severe risk that the crew members have seen one before...
Not really, Ash was unknown to the crew of the Nostromo but there isn't really anything indicating the same model was not used by Weyland Yutani on other covert operations.
This deep fake was an insult. It pulled me out of the film every time I saw it.
Because in Aliens Bishop stated his model was in use until the timeline of Aliens. He stated how they were glitchy so this is till to early for anyone to really recognize him in universe.
@@predalien1413 But the movie takes place after Aliens. He says one person survived from the Nostromo. So it mustve taken place after Aliens. Hmm I may have actually missed your point. I guess Aliens does confirm the model was used elsewhere. But its still weird.
@@jatzi1526 He said something about their “Ash’s” AI being to glitchy not sure David lvl. But the change from Ash to the Bishop line must have had happen a little later either 5 or 10yrs before Ripleys discovery.
I think Andy said "get away from her, you bitch" because Bjorn said something like that to him when they were at odds with each other. It's a loose set up/pay off moment.
Yep, alot of people didn't notice that
Yes but it's clearly a callback to Ripley and his delivery is absolute cringe. I cringed so hard I almost prolapsed
I must've missed that because that dude couldn't string syllables together half the time
Wow I didn’t even notice that. The movie is now 1% less bad for me, thanks.
character development for androids is a silly decision. It broke an almost perfect android character
Rich is really spoiling us with all of these half in the bags
When the engineermorph showed up in my theater one guy loudly said "oh what the fuck" and the theater started laughing at it
I personally kinda liked it as a weird callback to Resurrection/Prometheus. Ive always liked the weird f’d up variations of the organisms in the movies and extended universe (comics, etc).
oh yeah the people making “all alien movies LORE” will eat that up for sure
Oh yeah my theater laughed immediately when it was in the hallway
@@ntmetroid yeah seeing weird fucked up creatures from the xeno stuff is great
@@ntmetroidi agree, especially because they take from their host like in the comics when they start looking like those gorillas from a planet
My headcanon for this movie is Fede Álvarez ending his love letter 30 minutes in with an intermission. Afterwards, he gets up on stage and presents the 2nd half of this movie as "Alien: When the Studio Intervenes".
A nice figurative middle finger to the studio for probably forcing quotas of references/callbacks but not specifying WHERE in the movie they needed to be or if there was any interval needed.
He is a hack, he had a job to do and he did it. That's all.
Nah. He's as much to blame as anyone.
@@jariza2606agree. I didn’t realize he was directing or I really would have stayed away. Don’t Breathe was another movie that started out PERFECT and then turned into total bullshit. He just had to have his cum dungeon in there..
Except the fiirst half is also derivative. The opening sequence is basically a copy of Alien.
Yeah i was five minutes in and was like "I've seen about twelve reFerENcEs already"
The problem with this movie is Disney and Ridley Scott are both part of it.
I'd still take Prometheus or even Covenant over this dumpster fire of a movie.
I'm actually astounded that people actually think it's good.
@@jacksonjacob7791just saw. This movie is still better than those two.
@@JasonT666 Perhaps, but it's still a disgrace. The polically correct casting is an offence to all rational people.
@@JasonT666nah you just have shity taste
Idk at least Prometheus and Covenant had somewhat original ideas. This one is just retarded mishmash of everything we've already seen without single original thought.
Mike and Jay subjecting themselves to the horrors of the modern cinema experience is a real return to form
"Reel" return to form
The queen can't really be the one who puts them on the wall. In Aliens (and I guess in Alien:Resurrection, too) it is shown that the queen is more or less immobile (unless in distress)
Correct.. It must be done by the Drones
I didn't know that. It's probably inspired on ant queens, which can't move on their own (at least in some species)
That's just Mike being completely ignorant
@@jmiquelmb yeah she literally has like weird things keeping her attached to the hive
@@idiot_city5444 What a hack fraud
What was amazing to me is that Twisters of all movies had less callbacks to its source material than this did. Twisters can stand on it's own two feet in a way this movie can't. Like what.
Damn
twisters was horrible 😂
To be fair, Twister is a mediocre movie, Alien is an incredible movie. Similarly, no one can remake Ghostbusters.
I'm surprised Mike didn't mention the shot of the cabbage patch baby
How long until Mike complains about the lack of Romulans in this movie?
I was waiting for him to connect Ron Perlman being in Star Trek Nemesis with his being in Alien: Resurrection
More likely Romanians looking at the track suit
I mean Mike's takes are suspect ever since he admitted he liked season 3 of Picard and disliked SNW (lol, lmao even).
@@hannibalb8276I mean...okay I guess?
Damn, their ass is going back to the Theatre a lot this year.
They must be miserable.
Jokes aside I wonder if they fear being spotted in public by a creepy fan
@@psilobomMike is as strong as ten men, I don’t think he fears anything
@@CatchatoriFung that and the unwashed musk keeps the hordes of fans at bay
@@psilobomhow could you say that? You think any one of RLM’s wonderful fans would be creepy?
*smile at the camera*
Lots of derivative sequels for them to hate watch this year.
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