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08-17-2024, 02:05 PM
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Alien: Romulus was underwhelming.

It's okay. You'll get through it and it's not bad like the previous alien films. But it just feels like another failure to add something new to the alien brand. Such an amazing and iconic creature, the xenomorph, yet there hasn't been a great film since Aliens. 6/10.

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Right off the bat, the cast is a bunch of gen z characters. Why? I knew right away I wanted everybody except the main girl and android to die. The story is lacking. A lot of retreads and homages. And they made the xenomorph kind of weak. That last xenomorph hybrid had me laughing though. How many times are they gonna try to do this gimmick? Check it out if you have nothing else to watch or a fan of the alien films.
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08-17-2024, 02:14 PM
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Yep.

5.8/10 is what I gave it.

I wont even bother watching it again.
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08-17-2024, 02:20 PM
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Yep.

5.8/10 is what I gave it.

I wont even bother watching it again.
Yeah it has no replay value while I've watched Aliens probably a few dozen times.
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08-17-2024, 03:55 PM
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There's no where left to go with this franchise. The concept was dried up after 2 movies.
Alien was a cool horror movie in space.
Aliens took it to a cool sci-fi action piece.

The only thing you can do go the Friday the 13th route and just do the same thing over again and again. Of course all the subsequent movies will be mediocre at best.
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08-17-2024, 04:10 PM
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It's okay. You'll get through it and it's not bad like the previous alien films. But it just feels like another failure to add something new to the alien brand. Such an amazing and iconic creature, the xenomorph, yet there hasn't been a great film since Aliens. 6/10.

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Right off the bat, the cast is a bunch of gen z characters. Why? I knew right away I wanted everybody except the main girl and android to die. The story is lacking. A lot of retreads and homages. And they made the xenomorph kind of weak. That last xenomorph hybrid had me laughing though. How many times are they gonna try to do this gimmick? Check it out if you have nothing else to watch or a fan of the alien films.
I could tell from the trailer.

Good alien films are about very rugged, intelligent, and trained people out in space dealing with super high tech equipment and very boring/dangerous situations. So, when I saw all young people in the trailer I knew it was a slasher movie.

I LOVE a good alien movie but I went to wiki and read the plot to determine what the film was. Had it been a cool and interesting story I would have stopped reading but the story sounds cheap and simple.

I can't believe all the great stories and setting these movies could have, but don't. It's a weirdly used franchise as it could be Star Wars level but they rarely try and this has been going on since the 70s.

Anyway, I'm going to watch it for free on a streaming site tonight.
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08-17-2024, 04:15 PM
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There's no where left to go with this franchise. The concept was dried up after 2 movies.
Alien was a cool horror movie in space.
Aliens took it to a cool sci-fi action piece.

The only thing you can do go the Friday the 13th route and just do the same thing over again and again. Of course all the subsequent movies will be mediocre at best.
That is incorrect.

They introduced the idea that an alien race created the monsters. That could be explored more or humans could encounter and alien planet over run by the monsters.

Also, the monsters are show to be intelligent and humans could run across a more intelligent and evolved race. That would elevate the monsters to more than just monsters but rather "people" with motives.

In the fourth movie, it was stated that synthetic people/androids split off to get away from people. So, a war with humans, androids, and the monsters could be a film.

They just need good writers to expand on the multitude of ideas.
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08-17-2024, 04:30 PM
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I liked it.

It basically felt like an 80s movie made in 2024.

I was happy that it didn’t feel like the sets were all green screen and cgi. It felt like a mostly real movie.

The acting was pretty good but it was difficult to understand the British accents some times.

I think there was a major plot hole but I might be wrong.

I was pretty captivated the whole time.


I did think the ending was a little weak.



If the movie came out in 90s/ early 2000s (when they used to make good movies) I’d give it an IMDb 6.8. Which is a respectable grade

By today’s 2024 standards id give it 7.5. Simply because most movies are unwatchable
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08-17-2024, 04:32 PM
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Prometheus and covenant destroyed the franchise for me, relegating the space jockey into some albino bodybuilder was hilariously stupid

Some things are best left shrouded in mystery and cosmic horror… take notes ridley dementia scott
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08-17-2024, 04:42 PM
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Let's see, for the most part, it was practical effects, and it had that haunted house feel to it, with the first movie, except this time there were numerous aliens.

There was also Nostalgia, when they brought back a character.
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08-17-2024, 04:46 PM
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I liked it.

It basically felt like an 80s movie made in 2024.

I was happy that it didn’t feel like the sets were all green screen and cgi. It felt like a mostly real movie.

The acting was pretty good but it was difficult to understand the British accents some times.

I think there was a major plot hole but I might be wrong.

I was pretty captivated the whole time.


I did think the ending was a little weak.



If the movie came out in 90s/ early 2000s (when they used to make good movies) I’d give it an IMDb 6.8. Which is a respectable grade

By today’s 2024 standards id give it 7.5. Simply because most movies are unwatchable
spot on, pacing was good but the plot was a rehash of I think the first alien movie so the outcome was predictable but it was still interesting to see how the outcome would happen
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08-17-2024, 05:10 PM
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Question I have about a major plot point (huge spoiler)


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I don’t understand why the main character gave the genetic material viles to the pregnant girl to get into the escape pod. Why would the main character girl care bringing those down the colony. In fact she should be actively against it.

Then the second part is why would the pregnant girl inject herself with it? As far as I remember, she wasn’t even in the lab room when the android explained what the genetic material is or how it works. So she didn’t even know what she was injecting herself with.

Is it didn’t make any sense to me that a pregnant woman would just blindly inject herself with something or even know what she was carrying was injectable.
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08-17-2024, 06:45 PM
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Prometheus and covenant destroyed the franchise for me, relegating the space jockey into some albino bodybuilder was hilariously stupid

Some things are best left shrouded in mystery and cosmic horror… take notes ridley dementia scott
I didn't even care about the space jockeys because they were so underdeveloped that they were just props. They were another monster in that they only acted out of rage even though they were supposed to be hyper intelligent. They were boring.

If it wasn't for Michael Fassbender those movies would have just been boring and stupid.
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08-17-2024, 06:49 PM
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There's no where left to go with this franchise. The concept was dried up after 2 movies.
Alien was a cool horror movie in space.
Aliens took it to a cool sci-fi action piece.

The only thing you can do go the Friday the 13th route and just do the same thing over again and again. Of course all the subsequent movies will be mediocre at best.
Yeah I think people are under the assumption it would've been some innovative movie of the series not realizing the concept really couldn't go anywhere

Maybe Alien romulus is bad, but if you consider the above, it really isn't bad


I'm gonna go watch it and support it anyway because I'm an alien fan. Enjoyed all the movies and I know for sure I'll enjoy this one.
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08-17-2024, 06:51 PM
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That is incorrect.

They introduced the idea that an alien race created the monsters. That could be explored more or humans could encounter and alien planet over run by the monsters.

Also, the monsters are show to be intelligent and humans could run across a more intelligent and evolved race. That would elevate the monsters to more than just monsters but rather "people" with motives.

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They just need good writers to expand on the multitude of ideas.
Maybe they will go that direction if it gets enough praise. I'm all for more Alien
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08-17-2024, 06:53 PM
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Maybe they will go that direction if it gets enough praise. I'm all for more Alien
Me too.

They need to invest in the story more.
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