Chanur
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You have to remember this was originally a straight to streaming movie. It only changed due to the screening reactions.
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Alien: Romulus (2024)
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"Andy" isn't the android's model name, he was an obsolete android model salvaged and repaired by Rayne's parents so he could protect her. We are never told what the model is called.
They already found Ripley's shuttle, we are never shown in the intro but at the end of the movie when the Renaissance station crashes into the planet's rings, the Narcissus is seen shooting out of the station, though it's very small and blink-and-you-miss-it. After its narrow escape, the shuttle remained in space for another few decades before being found again at the beginning of Aliens.
While I have no answer for the gun's clip capacity or efficiency, the kid mentions he learned how to use one from playing video games. The weapons tech in Aliens isn't necessarily worse than what we see in Romulus, but we don't really see its potential well in Aliens because the Marines are quickly ambushed and overwhelmed and most die rather quickly before putting their weapons to good use. The short fight before the survivors get into the armored vehicle shows their weapons shredded the xenomorphs quite nicely, but those marines also liked to use analog weapons like old shotguns or handguns and good ol' explosives, so it is possible they didn't have the most advanced loadout on purpose.
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At this point they’ve so thoroughly shit on this franchise that, I look at the aspects that made the first two movies great, and its almost not worth recovering, instead just produce new stuff with derivative elements, because they will never give a competent person access to the franchise, its always going to fizzle out
I still haven't watched it, but what have I been saying. It looks like a total turd. I'm sure one day I'll watch it on streaming, but I'm not chomping at the bit to do so. Just more Hollywood shit.
Better off going and rewatching the original trilogy, and reading some of the comics.
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Oh man we played the shit out of that as kids
I remember it being fairly hard, lvl 26 I think right out of the elevator you get jumped by 6 xenos
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I'm playing it now, it's pretty hard. Also I can't see shit. I mean it's almost unplayably dark. Playing it on PS3 (PS1 disc) and thought maybe there was a compatibility issue, so I tried switching to PS2 and it's even darker on there! Looking at Youtube videos of the game, it's perfectly well-lit in all of those. This might be something that you have to play on a PS1 (or emulator) for it to work right. Also might be an issue between it and OLED screens. No clue, but I'm not sure if it'll be playable.
Very tough to go back to these 90's FPS controls too, where L/R are strafe and there's no stick support.
Other than that it's pretty cool. Doesn't seem to have much of anything to do with the actual Alien Trilogy though, it's more like a remagining of Aliens where you have to go to the Derelict Ship at the end to stop the Xenos at the source (which is a great idea that maybe Alien 3 should have been about).
Edit: Managed to spend about an hour checking the game out and it gets a lot better around level 3 or so. The levels gain some light and color and there's enemy variety all of a sudden. Not sure why the first couple levels are so dull and bland but I'm glad the rest isn't like that.
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The cast/characters have been part of the downfall of the last three movies like everyone involved forgot how the crew in Alien and marines in Aliens were easily relatable and well constructed. Now a bunch of no-name young actors who would inevitably suck/be insufferable? First red flag for me.
I can't even give the characters the benefit of the doubt because all it took was watching Honest Trailers to hate them all in one sweep.
The second was hearing that they had to keep up with the fucking black goo bullshit.
I'm the same way with Aliens and Predator being my favorite sci-fi series, but Alien Covenant firmly left me in the position of having zero hope so long as they keep trying to drag this series along.
By the sounds of Romulus, it's just milking the nostalgia while continuing to not understand that not every single thing needs a bloody explanation, "lore," or immersion-shattering connections to other movies and to instead simply leave some things to the viewer's imagination. Calling it the force awakens of Aliens is the best analogy I've heard; hell, it's officially owned by Disney now as well, which is downright depressing.
At this point, I'd rather see a Neil Blompkampf style continuation that completely ignores everything past Aliens and picks up from there.
No one has had the balls to tell Ridley Scott they he lost the plot and what was established in Prometheus and Covenant fucking sucked for Alien. If he wanted to start a completely new sci-fi franchise jerking off Michael Fassbender, by all means, but those two movies completely removed all of the mystery and horror of the unknown that defined Alien and Aliens in exchange for some black plot contrivance goo and jacked albinos.
I saw this behind-the-scenes bit on Youtube and I think it was Geiger himself who said that part of the mystique behind the space jockey was how despite being so massive, we would have no idea what this alien species could be like; they could have been peaceful plant eaters for all we - and the crew in movie - knew, but that's gone now.
Also, each iteration between Prometheus, Covenant, and now Romulus strikes me as them trying the same female protagonist blueprint out of the hopes that somehow they'll catch lighting in a bottle with a remotely worthwhile successor to Ripley, but apparently no one understands what made her character work, never mind the rest of the supporting characters. And I actually liked Noomi Rapace, but Ridley pulled an Alien 3 by killing her offscreen to focus on his gay robot flute playing, just to follow her up with a worse Ripley from Temu and now the 20 year old teenager.
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Spot on.
It's such a shame we'll never get the Blomkampf film. Stupid Ridley Scott screwed that up for us.
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Sinistkir13
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I know some of the rumored storylines that you could easily chalk up to just drafts might have had some rough spots, but I would have loved to see what final product he could have put out.
Blompkamp's Oats Studio shorts are such fun watches with enough DNA to give a rough idea just how cool his take on Alien could have been.
Ridley Scott has had far too many questionable, if not outright stupid decisions for Prometheus and Covenant for his word to be treated like some kind of gospel in terms of continuity, i.e. the black goo and engineers. There isn't even logical consistency between those two movies alone and how any of it is supposed to work, never mind trying to tie into anything seen from any of the prior films. Turning the pinnacle of evolutionary hunting bordering on eldritch horror into the machinations of an angsty robot who wasn't hugged enough by a man who robbed every Spirit Halloween to wear on his face is such an awful explanation to a mystery that was better left untouched.
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I want colonial marines back and legit with them spewing non pc language and not have it be a dig where the audience is supposed to be appalled at their language but it’s “fuuuck yeah that’s the real marines I know”
I want the intense music - bishops countdown
Fucking “marines we are leaving !!!”
None of this pussy fucking let me hold my finger up and soft talk to a little black piece of shit on my finger
Motion trackers with the intense pinging noises as the tension builds
New alien variants ….actual aliens not fucking human slender man hybrids
I want the intense music - bishops countdown
Fucking “marines we are leaving !!!”
None of this pussy fucking let me hold my finger up and soft talk to a little black piece of shit on my finger
Motion trackers with the intense pinging noises as the tension builds
New alien variants ….actual aliens not fucking human slender man hybrids
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Here's a good video about the project. It looked really promising which is why Scott can eat a bag of poison dicks.
Watch this channel quite a bit, good stuff.
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I know people liked Prometheus but this would have for sure been better than Covenant.
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I thought Prometheus was a pile of shit, albeit, a good looking pile of shit, but you can only polish a turd so much. My beef is that Blombcamp probably could have delivered something we're faithful to the first two films, especially if he had Weaver and Bien on board. The storyboard stuff reminded me of some of the comic books, and if I had a guess he probably got inspiration from maybe reading those.
I think he would have done the franchise justice.
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