I agree. It comes closest to capturing the tone of the first film while integrating action elements in the spirit of the second film, but has enough new ideas to be its own thing.
shareDid you think The Force Awakens was a good movie by any chance?
shareIt was an artístic abortion and an insult to Star Wars, why do you ask?
sharebecause it is a lifeless and unoriginal rehash made to please fans of memberberries.
shareNot at all. It's a very good horror story which intelligently pays homage to the whole saga, even the abortion of Prometheus, which looked an impossible task. In fact I think Romulus IS the only truly good sequel of the original Alien ( although I haven't seen Aliens in 20 years and I don't remember anything, so...), respecting its Spirit and ideas about a depressive corporative future, the dangers of the AI, etc
I don't understand why you don't like It, bad luck for you.
Remember facehuggers?
*jangles keys*
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shareRemember Bishop?
Remember "I prefer the term Artificial Person"?
*Jangle jangle*
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shareHe's saying it was all nostalgia bait. Like the new Deadpool.
shareIt is, but well done. The Alien saga doesn't have a great quality overall, aside of the first two films, so making a good horror film merging the lores of all the movies (including Prometheus, an apparently impossible task) has a lot of merit.
shareYou are under influence. It is a remix of the old movies without an improvement. The characters are generic. The actors are so generic that just an hour after I watched the movie I can't visualize their faces in my head. The movie feels small, like horror movies usually do, but this is not how an Alien movie should feel. And like in a horror movie, everybody is stupid - the characters doing stupid things, the aliens doing stupid things (what hunter would give out his presence or deliberate?), even the space vessels doing stupid things (gravity purge?! wtf? of course you need to have some sort of a malfunction... but gravity purge?!).
On the positive side, I'm happy that they reverted to the old industrial gothic aesthetic and it is not boring like Alien3 or extremely stupid like Prometheus and Covenant. Considering the overall trend of quality in the franchise, it is an improvement. Hopefully this will be a new beginning and more movies would soon follow.
The BEST sequel of all, anyways ( although I don't remember Aliens).
I don't think the characters do stupid things, acknowledging they are Young workers and not soldiers. I would LOVE to see you or me in that situation, see what we do.
I don't think the xenomorphs do stupid things either, not more than in the rest of the saga at least. It's a creature without much sense anyway, as it's always killing but never eats it's victims, so it isn't clear why it hunts and kills in the first place.
Yeah, like the gal injecting herself with an unknown substance laying by her or the guy attacking the creature with a cattle prod just after he was warned that it is a super dangerous thing fueled by acid and he himself had pretty bad experience with it. This is Promethean level of stupidity, but overall the stupidity in this movie is much less extreme than the Dementia Scott productions. I just hoped for better.
Aliens sitting there, watching the victims and doing nothing or making noises to warn that they are coming. The first Alien was a silent lone hunter, in Aliens they were hunting in packs a squad of heavy armed soldiers. The aliens in Romulus look unsure what they want to do we with these kids.
The xenomorph in the original ¿falls sleep? while Ripley gets naked and It doesn't hear her, you could also said that's stupid. I don't agree because IS never clear what these creatures are or why they behave like that; they aren't animals, more like weird cosmic horrors.
shareIt didn't fall asleep. This is the coolest scene, together on the shuttle, nowhere to run. If Fede was trying to achieve the same effect, then he really fucked up.
shareAh no? Why it didn't attack Ripley then? Coldly seen that scene is totally absurd.
shareBecause she wasn't a threat or maybe because it was calculating his chances of survival to be better if she lives. Or maybe because it was tense and surreal. How can you compare one of the most memorable scenes from one of the greatest movies to the scenes in Romulus, where Aliens just sit there and watch, then chase, but get outran by the people, then they catch them and watch or try to scare them, whatever. I get it, it is done so that we can get close ups of the aliens. In Resurrection (still the best xenomorphs) they at least did it by putting them behind a glass.
shareYou can say exactly the same of the behaviour of the aliens here. "Because they weren't a threat or maybe because they were calculating his chances of survival to be better if they lived". It looks they also know that weapons are dangerous, so they were calculating if attacking them or not. Perfectly explained.
And I compare them because they are part of the same unvierse and I don't get my vision conditioned fot the fact Alien 1978 is a reverenced classic and this film just arrived. The comaprison is perfectly valid, If the behaviour of the xenomorphs here is absurd the behaviour of the xenomorph in the ending of the original is even more absurd, you are just trying to justify it because is a reverenced classic and everything has to make sense, although If you weren't conditioned for its status of classic I am sure you would critic it too.
I'm saying that it is different thing. The scene from the first one is artistic, partly because it is weird. The scenes in Romulus are lame. This is the type of thing you see in slasher movies. I mentioned this several times - the director has horror movie background and it shows in many places.
But if you seriously think that this fan fiction rehash of all previous installments is the best sequel ever, I have no chance in convincing you. I give up.
Which one is better than this?
But that's your subjective opinion about the scene, not based of the behaviour of the aliens, because the behaviour of the aliens is equelly absurd in both, as is the plot device BTW, which doesn't have any sense in the Alien 1978, either (why would Weyland trick a cargo ship to take the xenomorph instead of sending a scientific expedition formed for androids to take it, for example?).
I don't agree this is just a rehash of the original, the scene with gravity zero is brilliant and totally original, for example.
And yes, it's tense and surreal, but logically (for what we know of the xenomorphs as a species) it doesn't have any sense it doing that.
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