Alien: Romulus

^ With Ridley Scott back at the helm?...**** that, Need someone else helming it at this point.

I mean I’ll watch it, but I won’t get scared.

Originally posted by Kazenji
^ With Ridley Scott back at the helm?...**** that, Need someone else helming it at this point.

That's why I said "proper." Ridley would be fine as long as they brought Lindelof back to continue what he started.

This just needs to bomb so they'll get a clue.

*Watched New Preview*

They're clearly going back to their Alien and somewhat Aliens roots, so more of the same, and that's fine as it still looks like a decent scifi horror flick.

Not a huge fan of the new xeno design PL posted a pick of on the last page. Looks too much like a xeno/Venom crossbreed. They nailed the look of the xeno early on, no need to change it now.

Unless that xeno isn't a xeno that busted out of a human?

^ I don't know if that's even from this movie. 🤷

Seems to me that there's a new Xeno for this movie, As its an abandoned lab whatever the **** that they were doing.

I got tickets for this because a friend wanted to go see it together. IMAX.

I've looked into it a bit more and the director does seem to be taking a good approach, so I'll maintain some cautious optimism even though it seems it's going to take nearly a goddamn miracle to bring the series back from the dead after the last entry (I think the director even WINK-WINKED diplomatically that Covenant is terrible).

I'm keeping my hype level low, but there does seem to be some decent buzz...

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I like the cinematography, but I’m not particularly impressed with the cast.

I don't think I know much of the cast except for the girl who was in Civil War. Cailee Spaeny. She's good.

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^ So how does it look? I've heard good things, but I'm not watching.

Reveals a bit more about the plot which piqued my interest. Beyond that it seems more a recut of previous trailers. Still looks good though.

I did hear a little more of the premise and I like it. Something about them trying to scavage an abandoned space station. Sounds good, simple, and creepy. I like it.

Yeah that. I was thinking it was another rehash of the settlers moving to another planet stuck on a ship or deep space crew encounter abandoned ship type story.

So I saw that this got a '15' rating for the UK.

Being an American I don't really know what that means, but it looks like the system is as follows...?

'U', 'PG', '12A', '12', '15', '18' and 'R18'

I imagine it will probably just be Rated 'R' for sci-fi violence and gore here in the States.

I guess our system is something like...

G, PG, PG-13, R, NC-17, X (although I don't think 'X' is an official rating, but more slang for pron)

Early reactions to this are saying that it's very good and the best in the franchise since Aliens.

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Originally posted by Patient_Leech
So I saw that this got a '15' rating for the UK.

Being an American I don't really know what that means, but it looks like the system is as follows...?

'U', 'PG', '12A', '12', '15', '18' and 'R18'

Originally posted by jaden_2.0
Early reactions to this are saying that it's very good and the best in the franchise since Aliens.

I'm not believing the hype. It's going to have to win me over.

This is largely quite terrific.

My biggest gripe is

Spoiler:
did it really have to be Ian Holm again? Because the deep faking was atrocious and distracting AF

But the careful structuring of the characters and story and world building is all pretty excellent.

Go give this money so he can do more!