Alien Romulus [Fede Alvarez]

it ***king kills me to hear this, cnuts talking and on phones in the cinema.

i think its pot luck when you go, im going to try see this before its off the big screen

its the reason we stopped going years go, last two times i almost got into a scrummage, so we dont go now. i wasnt being a d!ck, i just told ppl to give it a rest and reported them the cinema house done nothing. Enrages me,

but im going to try and pick a time for this i think will work…fingers crossed.

There is a big problem with Aliens in space and it’s the acid burning through the ships. I liked how they tried to somewhat mitigate it in this movie and was hoping we may see an Alien Isolation Movie but they really need to have some sort of material that doesn’t burn through the acid otherwise you can’t really kill the aliens.

A lot of the “negatives” people point out don’t matter. Gestation periods are irrelevant, being faster or slower in original means nothing. These facehuggers were made in a lab, why shouldn’t they take a different time to mature?

In alien , the facehugger is on Kane for 24 hours and within a few hours of the alien bursting from him it’s a fully grown adult alien. The crew having lunch after the facehugger comes off Kanes face was one of the dumb things that people seem to get upset about when newer movies have characters doing stupid stuff. Even Ripley didn’t say he needed to be quarantined and checked , nope , let’s have a bit of lunch and have a laugh about it.

In Aliens, it looks like the community are mostly long gone and the alien that comes out of presumably the last survivor seemed to just coincide with the marines arriving. Seems like there is some element of control to how fast it grows or when it pops out.

Also, the amount of aliens killed in the station , half of it should have been melted. When they are being shot to sh*t during gun battles you don’t really see any damage a bunch of aliens being mowed down would of done.

The biggest gripe I have with people reviewing modern alien movies is this idea that characters don’t make bad or stupid decisions , particularly under pressure. The crew of the nostromo made bad decision after bad decision. The marines in aliens made a pigs ear of what they were doing and needed an untrained PTSD space ship female captain to put some organisation to help them have a hope of surviving a battle.

It worked because it was a great movie , great characters , great story and well made. It was also unique so people choose to ignore the kind of things that really annoys them about newer movies.

I’ve no issue with people not enjoying or liking this, just think the negative reasons for not liking it quite often don’t hold up to scrutiny. It’s not a patch on the first two originals , but it’s a decent entertaining movie that can be enjoyed without benchmarking it against it and selecting things (like stupid decisions by characters) that could easily be picked out from originals.

Enjoyed roughly the first two thirds of the movie. Practical effects in particular were excellent. Final 3rd, more so the final 20 or so minutes, undid the good will the movie built up to that point for me. I had anticipated Ridley Scott's bullsh!t would come to it and the callbacks just got more and more cringe and actually annoyed me because some of it just makes zero sense in context. Also ripping off a rubbish scene from the worst Alien movie, what the hell? Make your own movie.

5/10. Could have been an 8 but for the last 3rd. It was doing so well...

Anyone disrespecting Alien 3 is having a laugh. It is better than Romulus.