Alien: Romulus

Saw it, liked the first half or so. Liked it a lot, in fact. It quickly went off a ****ing cliff for me, though. Better than all but the first two, sure, but honestly pretty disappointed.

Just got back from 2nd IMAX viewing and will say that I liked it even more this time.

Things that bothered me before bothered me much less the 2nd time.

This is my jams.

I have renewed hope for the Alien franchise.

(My understanding is that Fede consulted with Ian Holm's family and they chose the CGI version in the film. So I get it. May or may not be the best version for the film, but it's apparently what the family wanted.)

Alright, so this is pretty epic, because it seems that Fede Alvarez wants to get this series back on track and finish up the Prometheus storyline...

But did Álvarez feel guilty for making a new “Alien” movie when the trilogy Scott had wanted to make with the “Prometheus” films has seemingly stalled out? “I did. And originally, my first intention, which we might figure out a way to do if we get to make another after this, is to merge them,” Álvarez noted (and, truth be told, there is a surprising amount of “Prometheus” nestled within “Alien: Romulus”). “I think that’s what I want to see. I never liked the idea that something got suspended and some stories were not really finished. And I think he really wants to also find a conclusion to some of the stuff he started with ‘Prometheus’ and ‘Covenant.’ But I’m one that wants to make sure that everything builds up to one big finale.”

As to whether or not we’ll see that big finale, well, we’ll have to wait to see what the second weekend’s numbers are…

Inside Director Fede Álvarez’s Quest to Make ‘Alien: Romulus’

And this seems to be doing pretty well at the box office so far, and performing particularly well overseas. So needless to say I'm going to be keeping an eye on it.

I'd rather he just let Prometheus die, tbh.

The most interesting aspect of this franchise now is the Engineers, especially the more pale dickhead ones. They need to do a film (or two) that focuses on that.

^

Bingo. And that's exactly the plan as I understand it. I think it was good for the mythology to expand some and I really like the direction they took because it opens the door to so much more creativity. The series needed to expand beyond the xenomorph. And I'm glad there is hope again of some more Engineer involvement.

They also need to incorporate more Giger-esque imagery. I'm not sure why that hasn't been emphasized more.

The engineers are to the Alien lore what the Necromongers are to the Riddick lore.

Shite.

Edgy, bro!

Spittin' FACTS as the youngsters say nowadays, or so I'm told.

"Stop trying to make Prometheus happen. It's not going to happen"

Originally posted by jaden_2.0
The engineers are to the Alien lore what the Necromongers are to the Riddick lore.

Shite.

I disagree. This nerd also disagrees with you:

Originally posted by jaden101
For me it was stuck between two stories. They've obviously taken on board the criticisms of Prometheus and tried to leave the cringey religious aspects of it behind and move closer to Alien and ends up halfway between them in tone. Plenty horrific body horror. Bits of the whole "creator" aspects although from a different perspective. The two biggest problems is that you give absolutely no ****s about any of the 1 dimensional, boring characters. Contrast that with Aliens where some characters like Apone and Drake got hardly any screen time but you still cared when they got killed. With this you'll come out struggling to remember any of their names. Something that could have been somewhat rectified if they bothered to include the scene in the extended trailer with James Franco before they go into cryo sleep. As it happens they didn't and Franco dies without even coming out of his cryo pod. A small mercy given what an annoying **** he is.

The other problem is that they go out of their way to telegram the most obvious of obvious plot twists. There must be at least half a dozen blatant hints before it happens and if you somehow miss them you are officially the dumbest person in the world. Then there's the fact that if you haven't watched the prologue you have no idea why David does what he does in the flashback and even then it's not really explained not to mention that what he does basically destroys one of the most potentially interesting threads the series could have explored. And once again it's only half a story strung out for the sole purpose of making another sequel and making more money.

****ing bullshit garbage. Avoid 2/10.

potentially interesting

What did they turn it into?

Oh hell yeah, this is up to $314 million worldwide and still rising.

BoxOfficeMojo

This is excellent news.

And from what I've heard where they filmed it, Hungary, it gets a 30% tax rebate on the production budget. So that brings the budget of $80 million to like what, $56 million?

I liked it alot

I'd say good entry in the Alien movie franchise

and about time we finally see the transition from Chestburster to Xenomorph. Only time we've seen that happen was in the game Aliens versus Predator: Extinction.

I bought the tie-in comic to this today.

And sequel is in the works. 👆

Alien: Remus (2026)

waited for this to drop on disney plus

liked it but nit a lot of violence

also i was screaming at my tv and sayng "GET HWKGIRL" "KILL HAWKGIRL"

Originally posted by Robtard
Alien: Remus (2026)

you beat me too it