‘Alien: Romulus’ (dir. by Fede Álvarez) | Official Trailer | 20th Century Studios (8/16)

[Poetical Poltergeist]

That’s why I said I’ll wait to stream it.

I heard you the first time bruh. Have fun.

 

[Makavalli]

So I just rewatched Prometheus to test some of these theories from Romulus

I don’t think the “paradise planet” is the same as the engineer home planet.

But seems like the engineers was worshiping some type of xenomorph figure based on the murals in their ship

I doubt they created them.

Also it seems the black goo is just some type of substance used to create/destroy life depending on how you use it.

Maybe it’s a substance found on the engineer planet (because they were harvesting it) so that would be the key to everything

Maybe it’s the DNA of the OG proto xenomorph GODS?

But let’s not call the Xeno-Cac from Romulous an engineer. He was literally the worst part of the movie

And he came from a human/goo mix so that would make him just a regular hybrid

Well when prometheus came out the theory was that the xeno’s were the perfect bio weapon to clean up the planet if the life forms created on the planet was trash. Thats why we see them seeding life in the beginning and at the end when they woke homie up he was like “oh hell nah they creating life too?!? Fukk em” after he saw David and was ready to drop the rest of the bombs off

 

[twan83]

They called the human alien hybrid victor wembanyama

 

[Rapmastermind]

This joint brought me back. Fede paid homage to the whole Franchise, like every movie but executed in a way that worked. Andy the Android went in. This franchise has always talked about Artificial Intelligence since it came out. It was a young crew and yes they did young stupid things but the suspense was there. The horror was there. This fit perfectly in the franchise to me because of what Wayland Yutani was doing on that space station. It started a little slow but I loved the Colony scenes because of James "Aliens" special edition cut. Then it picked up where "Alien" left off, that was crazy to watch. He really did slot this inbetween "Alien and Aliens". It even had an "Alien: Isolation" Vibe with it being a space station.

Ol' Girl Rain definitely had a young Ripley vibe. I can see why Ridely Scott liked the movie because he definitely shouted out "Prometheus" in this. But I enjoyed it because it seems he wasn't trying to reinvent the wheel as much as just give us an "Alien" movie. It had that suspense like "Alien 3" too in the tight hallways and claustrophobic atmosphere. The Nostalgia can work if you understand what your doing with it. I can tell Fede is a real fan of this franchise. Love the final act too and all the space shots. Just a dope sci fi flick. Not shocked it's cleaning up box office wise because "Alien" does work well as a theater experience.

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The Zero Gravity Acid Blood scene was crazy dope. Also the whole Alien/Human/Engineer Hybrid felt like homage to both Prometheus and Alien: Resurrection. Bringing Ash back was interesting, I read they got Ian Holm's family permission because he loved the Franchise so much. Some of the CGI/AI actually wasn't that bad, and looked like him from part 1. I guess they are still trying to perfect the technology. They did it in "Rouge One" and "Indy 5" too. I think it's a de-aging special effect. I was surprised how much action there was too. That's crazy they were basically slaves in those mines until they died. Wayland was never going to let them leave that dark Planet.

Also liked how he brought back the "Alien 3" intro:

 

[Conz]

movie was good. i like Prometheus and Covenant a little better though

 

[pickles]

It really depends on how far it will go with where they are located, if this does down in a deep underground lab and all traces of the Xeno get erased, it saves the overall continuity. If they get silly and let the Xenos out in an open area, then the canon is ruined.



Yup, all of them, plus Prometheus/Covenant as the film borrows the style from all of the other movies.



Xenobrehs inherit the host traits, high level hosts, high level Xeno. Low-level hosts (like the dog in A3) resulted in a feral, animalistic Xeno.

Resurrection Aliens were setting up traps and showing really excellent ambush skills against the Marines/Scientists...

It's also alluded in Alien Resurrection that Xenomorphs may have the ability to pass down memories to the host, so the Xenobreh who was in essence, a descendant from the Nostormo Xeno played hide-n-seek before with Dallas and used that genetic knowledge to look at these humans with contempt....

WTF? Aint nobody got time for that shyt.

 

[BeachBum Unreal]

Thought it was dope, love to see it killing at the box office. Well deserved.

 

[Tommy Lee Jones]

I’m a huge aliens fan and this was pretty good. I thought it started off dumb but then it picked up. I just miss the days of strong leading man characters. Aliens was great ripley was great but they still had all those badass marine guys they could still do that type of stuff today. Everything today is weak men and strong women characters but the women are all young and small. Ripley is one of the best heroes in movie history.

 

[Avisible Man]

In space, no can hear you scream

In the movie theater, space has never sounded so good

 

[1970s HeRon Flow]

Just finished watching it in Laser IMAX, great theater experience, best time ive had at the movies this year

 

[in the NICK of time]

They called the human alien hybrid victor wembanyama

Meet The 7'7" Romanian Basketball Player Used To Create Shocking 3rd Act Monster In 'Alien: Romulus'

 

[in the NICK of time]

hello there. Big time alien fan. Major disagree wit those who try to convince themselves Prometheus and covenant were good entries. They were not. Most especially covenant. Obviously having a stellar actor like fassbender can hide that but he wasn’t enough.
Romulus suffered from the opposite effect
Terrific story concept and execution wonderfully directed and shot. But lacking a powerful performer to latch us on.
Definitely far more enjoyed this over the last two we got.
This was for sure a step in the proper direction.

 

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

I thought it was exactly…”good”.

B-

 

[Ribbs]

Great popcorn flick

David Jonsson and Priscilla Presley have bright futures ahead of them. That third act was bonkers!

Before finding out they used AI for a certain character, I for sure thought he was still alive. But even the excuse of "well all the other synthetics came back in other movies..." I think they could've chosen another actor.

Acid drip death was too gnarly breh

 

[Conz]

man, some people are shytting all over this. weird that this is where they draw the line on the "member berry" era.

it's a broken record, but i kinda agree, i'm tired of just having constant deja vu while watching basically everything. it's not even normal "well obviously, it's a sequel to the movie..." type deja vu, the entire experience just feels ... i don't know, less. i like this but the whole time i just felt like i was watching some one off tv show episode set in the alien universe. the movie felt big in scope, but someone tiny in story. i can't articulate it. the overall idea didn't feel "movie" big. i don't know wtf i'm talking about, but that seems like something that has been lost in the member berry, no new ip, streaming era of "content."