Alien: Romulus

[Jorge]

This was great! Stylish and visceral, and very very simple, which was a good choice. Fede Alvarez was the star here. He crafted a lot of images that are so nightmarish and cool. One complaint that I have in terms of filmmaking is the messy, jumbled editing towards the end of the movie, there were parts where the geography of the action was very muddled and it was hard to tell what was happening. But I was a big fan of this. Wanna watch it again

[VinylGuy]

Did you and Jorge hold each other during the scary parts?

Ok got it, next time im taking you to the movies too

[VinylGuy]

This was great! Stylish and visceral, and very very simple, which was a good choice. Fede Alvarez was the star here. He crafted a lot of images that are so nightmarish and cool. One complaint that I have in terms of filmmaking is the messy, jumbled editing towards the end of the movie, there were parts where the geography of the action was very muddled and it was hard to tell what was happening. But I was a big fan of this. Wanna watch it again

Im thinking about IMAX

[Ensign9]

This was very, very good but not great. I enjoyed it!

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You didn’t have to add the “you bitch” to the end of that line. Eye-rollingly bad. Most of the homages to the other films were good but also unnecessary.

Production design and tone were A+. Super well done.

I was pleasantly surprised by it not being an over-the-top gorefest. Giant kudos to Fede for showing restraint. These movies have never been about prolonged periods of in your face gore (other than Resurrection, which lessens its quality). This makes it rewatchable for me.

I wasn’t super impressed with the score.

CG isn’t good enough yet to show a fully-lit digital face — just lower the damn lighting instead of showing Ash/Rook closeup with a spotlight shining on him!

I had to laugh at the opening scene with the WY scientists cutting the alien out. No protection other than some hazmat suits. Good luck!

I was surprised there was no reveal of someone else being in one of the cryopods. Felt like they were setting us up for that from the first time we saw them.

They really didn’t notice the rat monstrosity in the lab before leaving?

Stop revealing everything in the trailers! Imagine seeing the zero gravity acid scene for the first time during the movie instead of YouTube.

[Jorge]

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You didn’t have to add the “you bitch” to the end of that line. Eye-rollingly bad. Most of the homages to the other films were good but also unnecessary.

Yes some of the dialogue was sub-par. Some lines were corny ("Andy... are you still there?") and some were unnecessarily underlining ideas that the audience had already been guided to ("That's not just any random room!")

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CG isn’t good enough yet to show a fully-lit digital face — just lower the damn lighting instead of showing Ash/Rook closeup with a spotlight shining on him!

I had this thought throughout but ultimately I thought it worked due to the uncanny valley of it going hand-in-hand with the creepy artificial lifeform.

[McParadigm]

I like the way it drove home the “destructiveness of corporate greed” message from the first two movies by being, itself, an example of the destructiveness of corporate greed.

[VinylGuy]

Someone is on a cranky mood today

[McParadigm]

Someone is on a cranky mood today

Get away from me you bitch

[Jorge]

A groanworthy moment to be sure, but that whole zero gravity sequence was pulled off so well. Very impressed with what Fede Alvarez did

There's one shot that's going to stay with me for a while, that circular tracking shot of Andy rebooting in the cryogenic room and staring straight into camera, all red vapor and terror. I got goosebumps

[oasisfan35]

Someone is on a cranky mood today

Get away from me you bitch

Avatar accuracy

[Farmer John]

Despite some minor quibbles (all of which have been mentioned here), I liked this a lot. Loved the look and aesthetic. A great choice of director for this particular movie.

Was there too much "fan service"? Perhaps. But, as a fan, I say "service me"!

[Simple Torture]

But, as a fan, I say "service me"!

[Hypnos]

It was good, but one have to wonder how much of the originality is sacrifice in favour of fan service. This is almost like a greatest hits Alien written by an AI.

I really think that the only place where FS fully work is in comic movies.

[Hypnos]

Something that Im just thinking about is that for the newbie who just watch an Alien movie for the first time, and do the sugested social-media-bombarded chonological order, how insignificant those catch phrases or plot points of the originals will turn out to be if they watch it here first.

[Ensign9]

And that one, egregious line, in particular, actually cheapens the original if that viewer ends up watching Aliens afterward.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[Farmer John]

In terms of wetness, this ranks amongst the dampest of Alien movies.

[Hypnos]

Theres something in the wa'er!

[Simple Torture]

In terms of wetness

[VinylGuy]

Theres something in the wa'er!

I was happy when that guy died