Alien: Romulus (2024)

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Dr.Retarded said:
I think he's asking if you were rooting for the aliens and the newest film versus the retarded colonist kids.

If you haven't seen the movie yet I suggest not bothering. I didn't care who got mauled, and all the Gen z characters are pretty damn forgettable.
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I watched the first 30 minutes and turned it off. I just didn't care about the zoomers and it wasn't interesting because it's the same formula over and over. Predator (one of my most favorite films ever) suffers from the same problem.

The people who came up with both franchises caught lightning in the bottle once and now we have to suffer 4 decades later through all these shitty sequels.

Prometheus had a seemingly decent premise to get away from the formula and explore something different but botched it bigly with Covenant. Predator didn't even try.
 
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Araysar said:
I watched the first 30 minutes and turned it off. I just didn't care about the zoomers and it wasn't interesting because it's the same formula over and over. Predator (one of my most favorite films ever) suffers from the same problem.

The people who came up with both franchises caught lightning in the bottle once and now we have to suffer 4 decades later through all these shitty sequels.

Prometheus had a seemingly decent premise to get away from the formula and explore something different but botched it bigly with Covenant. Predator didn't even try.
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Well you definitely didn't miss out on anything.

Predator 2 and Predators were enjoyable enough films. Second one was nice just to have a change of setting, and it actually mimicked the comics which took place in New York versus LA after the events of the first film.

The third one's definitely a rehash but was still fun movie. The AVP stuff is horrendous, and I doubt I will ever watch the Indian girl Predator movie.

I guess that's what I was kind of bums me out about both of the franchises how's that they had a road map with all of the comics and extended universe, and you can kind of see where they maybe got a little bit of inspiration, but Hollywood always manages to fuck things up.
 
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Well you definitely didn't miss out on anything.

Predator 2 and Predators were enjoyable enough films. Second one was nice just to have a change of setting, and it actually mimicked the comics which took place in New York versus LA after the events of the first film.

The third one's definitely a rehash but was still fun movie. The AVP stuff is horrendous, and I doubt I will ever watch the Indian girl Predator movie.

I guess that's what I was kind of bums me out about both of the franchises how's that they had a road map with all of the comics and extended universe, and you can kind of see where they maybe got a little bit of inspiration, but Hollywood always manages to fuck things up.
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I like the first AVP because it's the one time that you get to see Preds fighting hand to hand at full power. That scene where a Pred grabs a Xeno by the tail and whips him around in a circle while smashing its head through pillars is great

Predator needs to to do something like what Prometheus tried to do and get away from Hunter/hunted premise and make a movie about Yautja on their homeworld. Doesn't even have to humans in it.

The Indian girl Pred movie (Prey) wasn't as cringy as it sounds. Certainly was better than AVP 2: Dawson's Creek or The Autismo Predator

Aside from the original Pred, I think Predators with Adrian Brody was the only who attempted to do something different and was relatively successful at it
 
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I'll have to check out Indian predator then. I do agree that they could do a movie just with predators and no humans.

Actually in the comics the AVP issue zero is basically just all predators on a hunt, and the only text are two guys in a spaceship just talking BS throughout the entire comic. Sets up everything though for the following four issues, which the first AVP movie is very loosely based on that comic series.

I think somewhere along the line within the comics the Predators invade Earth and militaristic invasion. I never read any of those but just saw some video talking about it. That could make a pretty pretty fun movie, especially if it said a little further in the future.
 
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I'll have to check out Indian predator then.
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Didn't like it, too spicy ;)


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I don't get how Shane Black made such a bad movie
 
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Homsar said:
I don't get how Shane Black made such a bad movie
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How dare you question the power of autism, even the Predators know how powerful it can be!

I've never watched the movie by the way, but to my understanding it's an abomination.
 
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spronk said:
apparently the streaming release of this movie redid with AI some of the scenes with the half man, spoilers if you didn't watch the movie comparing it



www.empireonline.com

Alien: Romulus ‘Fixed’ The Controversial Ian Holm CGI For Home Release: ‘It’s So Much Better’

Director Fede Alvarez confirms his Alien film got a visual upgrade following its cinema release. Read more at Empire.
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i thought they mighta fixed the CGI for slender man, he looked goofy too
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Still doesn't keep it from being a shitty movie, but whatever. Guess they wanted to keep polishing this turd for some reason.
 
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Quality of the rest of the movie aside, still IMO a bad choice. Just make it a different bot and have some actual actor have some fun with it 🤷‍♂️

Like, who is this for? Kids roughly the age of the main cast won't remember, and people old enough to have fond memories of this don't care and/or are creeped out by uncanny resurrection.
 
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Zweischneid said:
Quality of the rest of the movie aside, still IMO a bad choice. Just make it a different bot and have some actual actor have some fun with it 🤷‍♂️

Like, who is this for? Kids roughly the age of the main cast won't remember, and people old enough to have fond memories of this don't care and/or are creeped out by uncanny resurrection.
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Like I said before I think it was supposed to be the force awakened of the aliens franchise. I think the purpose was to try to get younger audiences involved especially with the younger cast, I'm going to have all these stupid throwbacks for anybody who was a fan of the original films.

It doesn't work, and I have no desire to go back and rewatch it, where is I couldn't tell you the number of times I watched the first three.

I also think it was maybe supposed to be a pilot for a Hulu series, but then they decided to do a big release, and I kind of shows towards the end maybe. I don't know so much of the damn movies pretty forgettable, but it was just something that I noticed at some point that it just seemed current day TV streaming service quality in some parts.
 
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Crap movie with terrible characters, the lead girl being just selfish and annoying
 
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Yeah, god damn.

I just wasted 2 hours of a Sunday afternoon, I could have been doing like anything else. But Nooo, I had the dumb idea to sit through this.

It just re-enforced my decision to drop Disney+
 
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I thought the effect improved as the movie went on but why they thought it necessary to do a callback like that to the 1979 film is beyond me. i don't know who that was supposed to be for and the first film might be my favorite. I guess someone in Ian Holm's family probably got a small check for the use of his likeness? It's tough to come up with upsides.
 
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Arbitrary said:
I thought the effect improved as the movie went on but why they thought it necessary to do a callback like that to the 1979 film is beyond me. i don't know who that was supposed to be for and the first film might be my favorite. I guess someone in Ian Holm's family probably got a small check for the use of his likeness? It's tough to come up with upsides.
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I read something the other day that was talking about the filming of the 3rd movie after Covenant. They cited some clips from Romulus for lore reasons and how it all related back to Ripley and that whole story. But they also whined a lot about how some absurd amount of the movie was cut before production, and those clips supposedly gave more insight into the Engineers and their creators, etc. etc.

But, what it really pointed out to me and someone else said it earlier in the thread and it stuck with me.. this movie just seems like it was made to go straight to streaming sites. Versus Prometheus and Covenant, with excellent CGI, set pieces, etc. Its third installment will be intended to hit the big screens first from a creation perspective.
 
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Daidraco said:
I read something the other day that was talking about the filming of the 3rd movie after Covenant. They cited some clips from Romulus for lore reasons and how it all related back to Ripley and that whole story. But they also whined a lot about how some absurd amount of the movie was cut before production, and those clips supposedly gave more insight into the Engineers and their creators, etc. etc.

But, what it really pointed out to me and someone else said it earlier in the thread and it stuck with me.. this movie just seems like it was made to go straight to streaming sites. Versus Prometheus and Covenant, with excellent CGI, set pieces, etc. Its third installment will be intended to hit the big screens first from a creation perspective.
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I saw a video the other day about this, just some random dude on the internet but I watched a few of his videos and he's tolerable. I honestly don't have anything invested in it or care and I wish Scott would just stay out of the whole damn franchise, but take it for what it's worth.

 
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