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Re: Alien: Romulus (2024, D: Alvarez, P: Scott)
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Re: Alien: Romulus (2024, D: Alvarez, P: Scott)
Originally Posted by Dr. DVD
(Post 14464129)
I have heard rumors that while this movie won't remove Prometheus from canon, it will at least offer an alternative to David being the one who created the Xenomorph. In a way, you can kind of draw that conclusion for yourself if you watch Prometheus and Alien. Prometheus only takes place about 20-40 years before Alien, and the ship they find in Alien is allegedly 100s of years old. So it can be presumed the Engineers/Jockeys were making their weapons one of which was the xenomorph and the one they found in Alien was a failed attempt to transport them to Earth . David's version was basically a knock-off he made with what he found of Engineer technology and science.
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You even see facehuggers impregnating humanoid hosts at the bottom of the mural. |
Re: Alien: Romulus (2024, D: Alvarez, P: Scott)
Now I'm really getting excited. I've had tickets for Saturday for a few weeks.
https://variety.com/2024/film/news/a...se-1236103817/ |
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Sweet... just picked up my tickets for Thursday night.
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Reviews are trickling in. Rottentomatoes hasn't gotten the blurbs all up but apparently 89% with 54 reviews so far.
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/alien_romulus "Inventive" is high praise for a franchise this old |
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Yeah, I looked at the reviews last night and while they're not all positive, there's enough nuance there that I'm thinking this could be fun.
And I have no idea how I could record and post it, but I get ads on Facebook mobile for this movie, and it even does a little scrolling gif thing that shows where this takes place in the main timeline (it doesn't include the two AVP movies but it does include Pro and Cov and it shows Romulus right between Alien and Aliens. Pretty nifty to be honest. |
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JoBlo gave it a 7/10. It seems their only issues were related to the
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Re: Alien: Romulus (2024, D: Alvarez, P: Scott)
Originally Posted by RocShemp
(Post 14465717)
JoBlo gave it a 7/10. It seems their only issues were related to the
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If it's what I think, then I would wager that's Scott's contribution to the movie. |
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Pretty pumped for this, seeing the first Imax showing! Again I'm hoping it's not a gore-fest.(I'd like to take my dad to it next week if it's somewhat of a tame R rating) I have an idea of potential tie-ins they could do from the first two films which would be very cool - I'm guessing this takes place closer to Aliens than Alien.
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Re: Alien: Romulus (2024, D: Alvarez, P: Scott)
Originally Posted by TheMovieman
(Post 14464163)
Just as a side, I made an account here when I was 26. I'm now (almost) 44. :( Back then I was at the theater on a weekly basis, sometimes two movies a week depending on what was out. |
Re: Alien: Romulus (2024, D: Alvarez, P: Scott)
Originally Posted by Abob Teff
(Post 14464777)
Well, that's one way of looking at it. Here is another (and why I am on the fence)
Fede's resume is . . . meh . . . full of slasher gore films. Side note: I've seen a few tweets from people who saw this already referring to the game Dead Space as a sorta reference to how this movie is. I love that game so I'm super hyped now. |
Re: Alien: Romulus (2024, D: Alvarez, P: Scott)
Originally Posted by Dr. DVD
(Post 14465735)
If it's what I think, then I would wager that's Scott's contribution to the movie.
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Seeing this tonight. :up:
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Re: Alien: Romulus (2024, D: Alvarez, P: Scott)
Spoiler-free review:
Very good, but not quite great. Fresh kills are always an Alien staple and this movie delivers on that. I’ll talk about my favourite one in the spoiler thread. Unfortunately, aside from a couple characters, nobody is interesting at all. Motivations are a bit vague, and there’s little for the audience to connect with. And those last 20 minutes are… something. The ‘secret’ in the spoilers posts above was spoiled for me by simply looking at the IMDb listing for the movie, but I’ll just say. (fairly mild spoiler) Spoiler:
Overall, I give this 3.5 cattle prods out of 5. my unofficial rankings: Alien Alien: Covenant Prometheus / Aliens Alien 3 Alien: Romulus Alien: Resurrection |
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Just finished re-watching the first Alien last night . Going to see Romulus this afternoon. Expectations have lowered a bit since the initial buzz, but hope it's still got enough good stuff for me to enjoy.
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I'll see it. I have more faith in Alvarez than in Scott. I thought Prometheus was complete poop.
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Re: Alien: Romulus (2024, D: Alvarez, P: Scott)
Originally Posted by Dan
(Post 14466269)
Spoiler-free review:
Very good, but not quite great. Fresh kills are always an Alien staple and this movie delivers on that. I’ll talk about my favourite one in the spoiler thread. Unfortunately, aside from a couple characters, nobody is interesting at all. Motivations are a bit vague, and there’s little for the audience to connect with. And those last 20 minutes are… something. The ‘secret’ in the spoilers posts above was spoiled for me by simply looking at the IMDb listing for the movie, but I’ll just say. (fairly mild spoiler) Spoiler:
Overall, I give this 3.5 cattle prods out of 5. my unofficial rankings: Alien Alien: Covenant Prometheus / Aliens Alien 3 Alien: Romulus Alien: Resurrection Update - the third act is a mess, mostly. That hurts it. |
Re: Alien: Romulus (2024, D: Alvarez, P: Scott)
Some jackass uploaded the whole movie on YouTube. From what I read in the info, it's been up since yesterday. -ohbfrank-
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Re: Alien: Romulus (2024, D: Alvarez, P: Scott)
Originally Posted by RocShemp
(Post 14511218)
Some jackass uploaded the whole movie on YouTube. From what I read in the info, it's been up since yesterday. -ohbfrank-
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Report the pirate. There is a button to do it.
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Agreed! And send the link so we can all report it too!
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Re: Alien: Romulus (2024, D: Alvarez, P: Scott)
Originally Posted by DJariya
(Post 14511227)
Report the pirate. There is a button to do it.
https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/dvdtalk...432c2af3d4.jpg I followed the instructions and led me to this page. And then the next page leads me to a form that requires me to either identify myself or my client as the affected party. Thanks your making this easy YouTube!-rolleyes- |
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Clipping out the first part so it doesn't display here...
watch?v=yw-IVWuC7E4 I reported it but it doesn't really let you pick a close reason why. Best I could do was spam/misleading.
Originally Posted by RocShemp
(Post 14511230)
All I get is this (I'm on my TV)
I followed the instructions and led me to this page. And then the next page leads me to a form that requires me to either identify myself or my client as the affected party. Thanks your making this easy YouTube!-rolleyes- |
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Someone must've figured it out cos now the video is gone. Hate to be a narc, but scrap like that does no good, even if most won't see it that way.
EDIT: Thanks, Meathead! :up: |
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Originally Posted by RocShemp
(Post 14511237)
Someone must've figured it out cos now the video is gone. Hate to be a narc, but scrap like that does no good, even if most won't see it that way.
EDIT: Thanks, Meathead! :up: Yup it comes up as a private video now. |
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