JediG60racer
Sr Member
I have heard even British people complaining about the accents in this movie. A bit as if we filmed a movie with folks from the deep south in the USA but used cajun actors that spoke with a barely intelligible bayou accent.
ALIEN ROMULUS post screening discussion
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Came to this party late. Bought the movie Romulus on Prime TV last night. Great fan of science fiction since the days of Tim Tyler’s jungle tank & Buck Rogers series as a kid. Alien & Aliens were over the top for me. The relatively recent sequels were also well done. Even the earlier sequels had some good actor development.
Romulus special effects and space ship scenes were certainly on par for the franchise. Action was great, but actor empathy non existent. The plot, while entertaining, was clearly a disappointing duplicate. Just too many examples up to and including the ending. Airlock suction and putting the android (instead of a cat or a space marine) in cryo sleep for the return journey. Will watch it again however.
Romulus special effects and space ship scenes were certainly on par for the franchise. Action was great, but actor empathy non existent. The plot, while entertaining, was clearly a disappointing duplicate. Just too many examples up to and including the ending. Airlock suction and putting the android (instead of a cat or a space marine) in cryo sleep for the return journey. Will watch it again however.
LOL if were gonna nitpick voices and accent's then I gotta throw magik mike playing gambit in deadpool vs wolverine....... horrible.... friggin horrible....
Laspector
Master Member
I was kinda hoping it would be more like the first one in that we wouldn't know who would be left at the end. With this one I knew within the first five minutes who was going to live.
In the first Alien, at the time, the only actor in the movie I had ever seen was Yaphet Kotto in a Bond movie. During the course of the movie you maybe got the idea that Dallas would be the hero as he was the captain. In a million years I would've never guessed that Ripley would be the lone survivor. Between that factor and since we didn't know what the Alien really looked like, it really kept you guessing. All of that is gone now.
In the first Alien, at the time, the only actor in the movie I had ever seen was Yaphet Kotto in a Bond movie. During the course of the movie you maybe got the idea that Dallas would be the hero as he was the captain. In a million years I would've never guessed that Ripley would be the lone survivor. Between that factor and since we didn't know what the Alien really looked like, it really kept you guessing. All of that is gone now.
joberg
Legendary Member
That's the problem init? At a certain point you'll have to reveal the beast...either partially or fully.
Ok why the hell is the VHS release of this going to be $60?!
Lord Boron
Sr Member
Same—I still have a great-working LD player.
joberg
Legendary Member
Small number of VHS released World-wide: collector's item (but with a limited shelf-life of 10 to 25 years depending on the quality and storage)
So, no! I wouldn't buy one knowing that it's going to be loosing quality over time
Solos blaster
Sr Member
Watched it for the first time yesterday and overall thought it was decently ok. I didn't hate it. I agree some of the callbacks were too much as touched on in the thread, but man, the set design was magnificent! I abhor Prometheus and Covenant(as Alien movies), so I hate everything to do with that being added. I also didn't really care for basically 3D printing the facehuggers, but I get it. The second cocoon didn't really bother me, I thought it was a neat maybe unnecessary next step. I had more of a problem with the strength and length of the Alien tail and yea I didn't care for it in AvP either.
I appreciate trying to tie the different elements together however I don't think it all needed to be done in one movie.
My biggest gripe is it felt like a High Schooler watched all the previous films and then wanted to create their own story using a little bit of everything from them with the finished product looking too close to the original than being its own thing, if that makes any sense.
I also had issues understanding what a couple of the actors were saying. The new pulse rifles didn't really bother me so much as trying to understand the tech involved with how the hold so many more rounds than a weapon designed and used a generation later. Thought it was better than I thought it was going to be, wished both got used maybe before Tyler dying or Andy picking his up after he dies *shrug*.
Still left questions about finding the Alien, why WY would leave a top secret research station alone after losing contact with it. It certainly was not abandoned, I'm fine with the main cast thinking that though. It would make sense to them to think it was so I'm fine with that. Perhaps a team was already enroute to investigate, maybe Rook sent a message saying its too dangerous, doesn't really matter to me with how things went down. I liked it more than I thought I would but that was a low bar I don't like to have for my entertainment, and I'll probably buy this on Blu Ray when it gets discounted. I kind of want Fede to get another chance to make another one and takes the criticism for not making another one a mishmash of all the films as being constructive.
I appreciate trying to tie the different elements together however I don't think it all needed to be done in one movie.
My biggest gripe is it felt like a High Schooler watched all the previous films and then wanted to create their own story using a little bit of everything from them with the finished product looking too close to the original than being its own thing, if that makes any sense.
I also had issues understanding what a couple of the actors were saying. The new pulse rifles didn't really bother me so much as trying to understand the tech involved with how the hold so many more rounds than a weapon designed and used a generation later. Thought it was better than I thought it was going to be, wished both got used maybe before Tyler dying or Andy picking his up after he dies *shrug*.
Still left questions about finding the Alien, why WY would leave a top secret research station alone after losing contact with it. It certainly was not abandoned, I'm fine with the main cast thinking that though. It would make sense to them to think it was so I'm fine with that. Perhaps a team was already enroute to investigate, maybe Rook sent a message saying its too dangerous, doesn't really matter to me with how things went down. I liked it more than I thought I would but that was a low bar I don't like to have for my entertainment, and I'll probably buy this on Blu Ray when it gets discounted. I kind of want Fede to get another chance to make another one and takes the criticism for not making another one a mishmash of all the films as being constructive.
Finally watched this today and almost turned it off halfway through. It's like someone sat down and wrote everything they think makes an Alien movie and repeated it. The cringiest thing was the "Stay away from her you bitch!" line. The movie just felt completely predictable (OMG who knew the android would flip on them) and the acting wasn't great. BTW, WTH is with Hollywood casting mumbly actors in everything now? It's either mumbly Brits or mumbly Americans. It's like JJ Abrams gave the director advice on how to do Aliens based on him rehashing ANH with The Force Awakens. We've seen it before.
TimDRX
New Member
I adored the first half of Romulus. Everything up until the reveal of Rook was perfect, easily my favorite of the series since the first. Then Rook shows up and it's all off the rails from there lol. It's still top 5, I'd probably put it behind Alien, Isolation, Aliens as my 4th favorite? But man it was really something special in that first half.
Rook really bothered me - in a movie full of beautiful practical effects why do we need an uncanny valley deepfake face? That character should have been a cheap looking half melted rubber face on a barely functioning mechanical puppet head. It could have been a cheap rubber mask of that particular actor if you really had to, but eh, I also think it's a weird choice to have multiple copies of that particular model of android anyway.
All the callbacks to the other movies felt bizarre to me - I get doing callbacks to the first if you want to slot this in between the first couple movies but why in the heck are we getting references to literally every other Alien movie in here? It turns into a Greatest Hits by the end, like they were never gonna make another one. I wanna believe that was studio meddling and not the director's choice, because Andy stuttering through the "get away from her..." line was despair inducing.
Rook really bothered me - in a movie full of beautiful practical effects why do we need an uncanny valley deepfake face? That character should have been a cheap looking half melted rubber face on a barely functioning mechanical puppet head. It could have been a cheap rubber mask of that particular actor if you really had to, but eh, I also think it's a weird choice to have multiple copies of that particular model of android anyway.
All the callbacks to the other movies felt bizarre to me - I get doing callbacks to the first if you want to slot this in between the first couple movies but why in the heck are we getting references to literally every other Alien movie in here? It turns into a Greatest Hits by the end, like they were never gonna make another one. I wanna believe that was studio meddling and not the director's choice, because Andy stuttering through the "get away from her..." line was despair inducing.
I liked it.
Cool "Artificial lifeform" Great performance
Awesome to see Ian Holm. Well done. Just slow down the exposition.
Lots of practical effects.
Acid blood was handled in a new way. Zero G blood scene was awesome.
The director obviously loved Alien Franchise, where some seem to want to trash it. Hello Alien 3
Just ditch the Nostromo beginning. There was nothing left.
Find the first Alien another way, and all good.
Cool "Artificial lifeform" Great performance
Awesome to see Ian Holm. Well done. Just slow down the exposition.
Lots of practical effects.
Acid blood was handled in a new way. Zero G blood scene was awesome.
The director obviously loved Alien Franchise, where some seem to want to trash it. Hello Alien 3
Just ditch the Nostromo beginning. There was nothing left.
Find the first Alien another way, and all good.
TheMechanic
Sr Member
I've seen several posts on Facebook about 'Romulus' and literally 90% of the comments are negative. Hundreds of comments. Maybe now that people have had more time to digest it or perhaps watched it more than once the opinions are changing.
