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Alien Romulus | Rotten Watch

Alex11

Alex11

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Yeah, pretty much a themed park ride named Alien, cramming in there all the quotes and iconic moments of the past movies, pretty much expected by the end for Sigourney to show up on the back of a Predator and fuck the Xeno's up.

It fucks with the lore just because it can, never mind that the Xeno is there as an afterthought. And apparently this young crew are the only ones to notice a Company space station above a mining planet run by the Company, fucking what? It's clear we're being treated like imbeciles by whoever writes and approves movies today.
 
Ulysses 31

Ulysses 31

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Alex11 said:
It's clear we're being treated like imbeciles by whoever writes and approves movies today.
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Sadly, it seems a thing of this generation of (screen)writers: forced exposition, turning characters into audience stand-ins, characters telling what they see, telling what they think, characters not sharing important info.
 
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Alex11

Alex11

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Ulysses 31 said:
Sadly, it seems a thing of this generation of (screen)writers: forced exposition, turning characters into audience stand-ins, characters telling what they see, telling what they think, characters not sharing important info.
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You know, I'm really not that picky at movies or demand a plot that I need to watch the movie 4 times and once backward, but Jesus Christ.

I mean I couldn't believe my eyes and ears at not one, but two heavy exposition dumps by you know who. Fuck, just have Ridley or Sigourney explain the whole plot, show me some clips of Xeno's hissing and call it a day.
 
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jason10mm

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ManaByte said:
Movie crossed $300M. $80M budget. Huge success.
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And to think they originally wanted to let it rot on Hulu! While I don't think Prey would have done as well as Romilus, it probably would have broke even on its 65 mill budget.

Maybe mid level genre films are making a come back.
 
ShadowNate

ShadowNate

Member
When I watched the end credits, I saw that "LOGAN" led by Alex was also credited.
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What is he referring to here?

Edit: ah, according to imdb full credits it's a company (LOGAN pictures or LOGAN Studios Limited) and "Alex" is Alexei Tylevich credited as visual effects producer/main titles designer. I think he also worked on or produced a MGS title (again according to imdb).
 
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NoLootBoxDev

NoLootBoxDev

Member
I liked it a lot, yes it has problems, but not as many as Covenant.

My Ranking:
Alien = Alien 2
Romulus
Prometheus
Alien 3
Resurrection
Covenant

I hope there is another in this vein, which could be with the
survivor
of this one or the inevitable:

The Simpsons Poochie GIF


Bonus jokes:

This happened because they wanted to escape Latin America.

and

dora the explorer nickelodeon GIF
 
ForAcademicPurposes

ForAcademicPurposes

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Is there an actual reason why the Hybrid was so large? It was only birthed by a human but it had features of an Engineer. You'd actually expect something like that to come out of an Engineer like in Prometheus but we got the Deacon instead.

Going by this logic, the Deacon must be the size of a house by now. I hope we see it again some day, building a better world out there.

 
NoLootBoxDev

NoLootBoxDev

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ForAcademicPurposes said:
Is there an actual reason why the Hybrid was so large? It was only birthed by a human but it had features of an Engineer. You'd actually expect something like that to come out of an Engineer like in Prometheus but we got the Deacon instead.

Going by this logic, the Deacon must be the size of a house by now. I hope we see it again some day, building a better world out there.

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From the comics:

After bursting from the engineer's chest the black liquid caused a mutation in the deacon which caused it to rapidly mutate. Due to the rapid mutations in its growth it slowly grew around the promethues and became a living motionless mountain.
 
Ulysses 31

Ulysses 31

Member
ForAcademicPurposes said:
Is there an actual reason why the Hybrid was so large? It was only birthed by a human but it had features of an Engineer. You'd actually expect something like that to come out of an Engineer like in Prometheus but we got the Deacon instead.

Going by this logic, the Deacon must be the size of a house by now. I hope we see it again some day, building a better world out there.

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Eh, you question that but not how that small squid thing grew that big without any food or energy that fast? :messenger_winking_tongue:

The answer is probably
black goo magic.
 
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DeepEnigma

DeepEnigma

Gold Member
Alex11 said:
Yeah, pretty much a themed park ride named Alien, cramming in there all the quotes and iconic moments of the past movies, pretty much expected by the end for Sigourney to show up on the back of a Predator and fuck the Xeno's up.

It fucks with the lore just because it can, never mind that the Xeno is there as an afterthought. And apparently this young crew are the only ones to notice a Company space station above a mining planet run by the Company, fucking what? It's clear we're being treated like imbeciles by whoever writes and approves movies today.
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I'm convinced select AI will write better than modern writers these days.
 
Lukaku's First Touch

Lukaku's First Touch

Member
I saw it.

Good movie with stupid parts.

The trope when they walk/look away and something happens just a couple of seconds behind their back is fucking stupid. i.e. the mouse mutating in the video.

Also if the crawly things do not attack the android, why doesnt he solo kill them then...
 
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NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt

NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt

Biggest Trails Stan
I finally watched this movie

Really enjoyed it

My only issues is that the There's something in the fooken water guy was fooken annoying and I felt that lot of the movie was a retread of Alien and Aliens

But I thought the last forty minutes were awesome. I especially loved how weird it got

Also the body horror was intense this time especially towards the end
 
AJUMP23

AJUMP23

Parody of actual AJUMP23
I thought there was some uncanny valley to the face, but I was not bothered by Bilbo Baggins on the screen.
 
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