No thread on this already or is it buried in a 789-page thread covering every movie ever created?
Anyway, here's the first teaser. I hope this isn't a Fede Alvarez-style gore fest.
Re: Alien: Romulus
Posted: Wed March 20, 2024 5:45 pm
by Ensign9
Looks like it was in the 424-page thread! *shrug*
Re: Alien: Romulus
Posted: Wed March 20, 2024 5:46 pm
by tree_
i don't think it looks very good
Re: Alien: Romulus
Posted: Wed March 20, 2024 5:48 pm
by wease
tree_ wrote:i don't think it looks very good
What don’t you like about it?
Re: Alien: Romulus
Posted: Wed March 20, 2024 5:58 pm
by tree_
wease wrote:
tree_ wrote:i don't think it looks very good
What don’t you like about it?
The focus is on action over story. And we've seen this action before. Doesn't intrigue me. It's as if the trailer for Jurassic Park was just a snippet of the T-Rex trying to get to the kids in the car. That would be dumb because there's actually good story. This must not have much story to it. But it is just a teaser so who knows
Re: Alien: Romulus
Posted: Wed March 20, 2024 6:09 pm
by McParadigm
Moved from the general motion picture news thread:
I think Aliens movies really live or die by the quality of the human characters. You’ve either got a memorable group, portrayed by memorable people…or you’ve got nothing to offer.
And this might also be the franchise I think CGI is most ruinous to. Xenomorphs have to look disgusting and wet and really, really, really there. They also need to maintain a certain amount of physical mystery…which happens to pair well with the production-side need to hide the fact that you’re working with a puppet or costume, but not at all well with the “every shot looks so cool” mentality of cgi.
Re: Alien: Romulus
Posted: Wed March 20, 2024 6:20 pm
by tragabigzanda
Steve Albini wrote: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.
Re: Alien: Romulus
Posted: Wed March 20, 2024 6:25 pm
by wease
tree_ wrote:
wease wrote:
tree_ wrote:i don't think it looks very good
What don’t you like about it?
The focus is on action over story. And we've seen this action before. Doesn't intrigue me. It's as if the trailer for Jurassic Park was just a snippet of the T-Rex trying to get to the kids in the car. That would be dumb because there's actually good story. This must not have much story to it. But it is just a teaser so who knows
Isn’t the story the same in all the Alien movies? Except maybe AvP.
The focus is on action over story. And we've seen this action before. Doesn't intrigue me. It's as if the trailer for Jurassic Park was just a snippet of the T-Rex trying to get to the kids in the car. That would be dumb because there's actually good story. This must not have much story to it. But it is just a teaser so who knows
Isn’t the story the same in all the Alien movies? Except maybe AvP.
I'd prefer something like Prometheus but better. I just generally don't like Ridley Scott or his aesthetics. I just want something new.
Re: Alien: Romulus
Posted: Wed March 20, 2024 6:34 pm
by Jorge
tree_ wrote:
wease wrote:
tree_ wrote:i don't think it looks very good
What don’t you like about it?
The focus is on action over story. And we've seen this action before. Doesn't intrigue me. It's as if the trailer for Jurassic Park was just a snippet of the T-Rex trying to get to the kids in the car. That would be dumb because there's actually good story. This must not have much story to it. But it is just a teaser so who knows
It's really hard to tell from that teaser, yeah
Re: Alien: Romulus
Posted: Wed March 20, 2024 6:48 pm
by BurtReynolds
"I just generally don't like Ridley Scott or his aesthetics" might be one of the worst things anyone has ever said. A true heir to LV's idiotic hot take throne has been found.
Re: Alien: Romulus
Posted: Wed March 20, 2024 6:59 pm
by tree_
all I'm saying is I don't prefer his style. I didn't say he's objectively bad.
Re: Alien: Romulus
Posted: Wed March 20, 2024 7:10 pm
by Alex
And slowly, inexorably, terrifyingly… tree has become the loathed vermin of our time. No cow too sacred nor no brow so low as not to be drawn and quartered by the rapier blade. All hail the ersatz haderach.
Re: Alien: Romulus
Posted: Wed March 20, 2024 7:27 pm
by Malloy
Re: Alien: Romulus
Posted: Wed March 20, 2024 7:32 pm
by E.H. Ruddock
I wish they did a prequel about the engineers.
Re: Alien: Romulus
Posted: Wed March 20, 2024 7:33 pm
by tree_
Alex wrote:And slowly, inexorably, terrifyingly… tree has become the loathed vermin of our time. No cow too sacred nor no brow so low as not to be drawn and quartered by the rapier blade. All hail the ersatz haderach.
i don't even have enough flowers on my shirts
Re: Alien: Romulus
Posted: Wed March 20, 2024 7:43 pm
by Alex
tree_ wrote:
Alex wrote:And slowly, inexorably, terrifyingly… tree has become the loathed vermin of our time. No cow too sacred nor no brow so low as not to be drawn and quartered by the rapier blade. All hail the ersatz haderach.
i don't even have enough flowers on my shirts
Strike one. What’s your weal/woe ratio?
Re: Alien: Romulus
Posted: Wed March 20, 2024 9:51 pm
by Ensign9
Re: Alien: Romulus
Posted: Wed March 20, 2024 9:52 pm
by Ensign9
I have no idea how to get YouTube tags to work on here anymore.
