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[Ulysses 31]

If such a thing exists. The corporate machine ensured the Marines were NOT as well informed and equipped as they could have been. I go on the theory Gorman was put in charge SPECIFICALLY because of his weak personality and inexperience to make him more pliable for Burke.

I'm not so sure about that, Ripley herself informed them of the gist of it and she put it all on file for them. She didn't know about the nest either so I don't necessarily see that important info was withheld from the marines(unless you believe The Company knew more about the Alien(s) than Ripley at that point in time).

In an open field, 500 meters apart, xenos on one side, Marines with artillery, heavy weapons, tanks, and air support on the other? Sure, Marines win. Problem is that the xenos didn't get the memo that this was supposed to be a stand up fight and they already got onboard the circling gunship and are about to crash it, they are lying dormant under the ground beneath the marines, they sent a wave of face huggers to infect large animals and now there are supermassive xenos inbound, and corporate "forgot" to mention that the marines were just injected with an experimental drug that makes them more aggressive but lose unit cohesion just to see is a human can go mano-y-mano with a xeno. Human nature defeats itself.

Yeah, bad leadership costs a lot of people their lives but if the marines could've called for proper back up, I'm sure if would've been over for the aliens once the marines return in force(if they don't just outright get nuke first).

 

[IDKFA]

Oh wow. I didn't think anyone else had read those books. I liked them a lot. There are some legitimately good AVP books written in the same timeframe that would have been better than the shit movies we got.

Steve Perry also wrote those books.

I had them as a kid, but no idea what happened to them........so I just bought all the Kindle editions. Hyped to read them again!

 

[Dazrael]

Bear in mind that the marines weren’t allowed to use their weapons as they went into the hive due to their proximity to the nuclear reactor. The combination of that and Gorman’s bad leadership got them killed. Good leadership and no nuclear reactor? I’d put good odds on the Marines.

 

[Badlucktroll]

They should do a predator/alien movie where a predator goes to check out the temple in prometheus and gives his two cents

 

[clarky]

They should do a predator/alien movie where a predator goes to check out the temple in prometheus and gives his two cents

Wasn't one of the AVP set in a temple? Fuck those movies

 

[VulcanRaven]

Wasn't one of the AVP set in a temple? Fuck those movies

I can enjoy the first movie but the second was even worse.

 

[clarky]

I can enjoy the first movie but the second was even worse.

Which was that? Requiem? Or was that the third one? So so bad either way.

 

[VulcanRaven]

Which was that? Requiem? Or was that the third one? So so bad either way.

Requiem is the only sequel.

 

[clarky]

Requiem is the only sequel.

Shit your right, could have sworn they did a third one.

 

[moniker]

I did not expect to dislike this movie as much as I did. What a dud.

 

[Represent.]

Inside Ridley Scott’s Producing Empire: “Tell Me the Film in Two Sentences”

Behind the scenes of his production company Scott Free: How the iconic director picks his projects, and his one real business regret.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

Scott also revealed he's developing a new Alien movie for 20th in the wake of Romulus' success

New Ridley Scott Alien movie announced. Probably shadow dropping next year.

So, thanks to the success of Alien: Romulus (a movie that most people loved outside of this thread) we have:

Alien Romulus 2, Alien Isolation 2, Alien: Earth, Alien Rogue Incursion VR and Alien film by Ridley Scott, all thanks to the success of Romulus, which made well over 300 million and is one of the most successful horror films of the decade.

This thread is the outlier, people loved it, its great.

Like it or not, Romulus and Fede literally saved the franchise. Again, this negative ass "this movie sucks" ass thread is the outlier. It has a 90% audience approval rating. lol

 

[Days like these...]

Why are you triggered by the fact the people who watched the originals don't like this memberberry greatest hits collection rehash? Aliens been ruined for ages now. Nothing can save it especially not a sequel to this trash

 

[Represent.]

Why are you triggered by the fact the people who watched the originals don't like this memberberry greatest hits collection rehash? Aliens been ruined for ages now. Nothing can save it especially not a sequel to this trash

youre in the minority with that garbage opinion bro

 

[WhiteWaterM00se]

Steve Perry also wrote those books.

I had them as a kid, but no idea what happened to them........so I just bought all the Kindle editions. Hyped to read them again!

I read this book as a kid also. I don’t remember much of it today but, i remember liking it. Surprised this was never adapted.

 

[IDKFA]

I read this book as a kid also. I don’t remember much of it today but, i remember liking it. Surprised this was never adapted.

Same. I'm surprised a lot of the Aliens/Predator books were never adapted. That AvP books (Steve Perry wrote 3 IIRC) would been far better than the tosh AVP films we got.

Steve Perry's fantastic Earth Hive trilogy would have also been the perfect follow on to Alien Resurrection. Would have needed to have made some slight changes, but the material was there to have an Alien hive take over the Earth.

 

[Hrk69]

This thread is the outlier, people loved it, its great.

Like it or not, Romulus and Fede literally saved the franchise. Again, this negative ass "this movie sucks" ass thread is the outlier. It has a 90% audience approval rating. lol

 

[thefool]

I live to hate films like this.
It’s actually kind of revolting how we end up with these abortions that lack a single original idea.

It was never so easy to cheer for the xenomorph.

 

[Doom85]

I'm surprised a lot of the Aliens/Predator books were never adapted…..would have also been the perfect follow on to Alien Resurrection.

Well, that’s probably a partial explanation there, I can’t imagine many studio executives were in a rush to do a follow up to that film specifically.

I still enjoy AvP 1 to a degree. Sure, the main lady and Lance Henriksen are the only memorable characters (though I do love the dark irony of the one guy who keeps talking about his kids meeting his doom by being trapped in a room with facehugger eggs), and the PG-13 rating hurts it, but I really like the final act.

The second film is fucking shit. At least I think it is, it’s so poorly lit I don’t even know what happened in it! I mean, the audio worked, so I heard what was supposedly happening, but good lord, the film crew must have been very sensitive vampires to any sort of light, natural or not, or something.

 

[Hugare]

Oh, this movie was squarely aimed at the brain rot Gen z and millennials who are too young to remember the originals. It works the same as The Force Awakens:

‘Just do a worse version of the stuff that happened in the old films. The idiots will think it’s great!’

Shiny new visuals, repeated characters, and updated graphics have replaced good, original storytelling for the target audience of today. Disney have trained you all very well to love the same things we loved - only repackaged for them to profit from.

This is what GAF looks like sometimes

Im not Gen Z. Love the original to death. Love Alien Isolation to death. And I've really enjoyed this one.

Glad that it was successful and its getting a sequel

 

[IDKFA]

Well, that’s probably a partial explanation there, I can’t imagine many studio executives were in a rush to do a follow up to that film specifically.

Fox were keen to carry on with the franchise. We almost had collaboration with Ridley Scott and James Cameron making Alien 5 and 6, with the 5th being set on Earth. Cameron even toyed with the idea of having Arnold Schwarzenegger as a main role.

However, Fox instead decided to go with Alien vs Predator first, which annoyed Cameron and he dropped the project.

 

[thefool]

I would like to understand what reaction a director intends to elicit when he repeatedly makes callbacks to other films, namely very popular ones. Alvarez opens the movie unabashedly evoking 2001 monolith on the moon scene, copying the sound design and even evoking similar imagery

For what purpose I have no idea, tribute someone will say but i just find it incredibly schlocky. This reminds me that Stanley Kubrick in an interview said his inspiration was his real life work as a photographer looking at the world through his own lenses, while today we have a generation of filmmakers whose inspiration is actually not reality but the (small) fictitious world of movies in which they grew up watching. This is why everything feels plastic, lifeless and derivative, because nothing truly exists beyond the tiny scope which they derive all inspiration, someone else's cinema.

 

[Come On Tars]

I thought this movie was very fun and rad. Everything has been said but id like to add the auto aim rifle was so sick

And Fede’s evil dead remake is one of the best remakes of all time. This is a fantastic effort imo

 

[clarky]

I thought this movie was very fun and rad. Everything has been said but id like to add the auto aim rifle was so sick

And Fede’s evil dead remake is one of the best remakes of all time. This is a fantastic effort imo

I really enjoyed his take on Evil Dead, Brutal.

I rated this a 7. It was just fine, but I was expecting a lot more from the director. Can't say i'm excited for another one.

 

[Ulysses 31]

 

[Spyxos]

I didn't hate it or love it, something was missing, it's been a few days since i've seen the movie and i still don't know how i really feel about it. The sets looked great. The teenies didn't really bother me either. It was much better than covenent. But I still liked Prometheus more.

 

[HJuggernaut]

I loved the movie, I'm happy we are getting sequel.

 

[RagnarokIV]

Fede has come up with a new Alien film and is directing it. Unfortunately it’s being produced by Wiggly Scott and his company.

They’re in the middle of filming but just heard that Wiggly Scott has finished another Beavis and Butthead marathon and he’s on his way down to the studio shoot to let people know it was always his thesis theory.

Mr Scott kicks the door down and walks towards Fede.
“Well, isn't it corny?” asks Wiggly Scott.
“Huh? We’re shooting Alien Romulus” Fede responds.

Wiggly is quick to jump in “Listen, I'll be the best fucking judge of that. I'm the director, okay?”
Fede tries to get a word in “but I am-“
Wiggly Scott continues over him “So, and that, you learn - you know, by now I'm 44, so I'm no fucking chicken. I'm a very experienced director from commercials and The Duellists and Alien. So, I'm able to, you know, answer that with confidence at the time, and say, you know, back off, it's what it's gonna be.”

Fede is defeated. “Ok well this film is just going to be between Alien and Aliens, ignoring all the crap ones and we’ve got a good lead duo and incredible practical effects being done in-camera”

Wiggly removes his Beavis and Butthead basketball cap.
“WHAT ABOUT PROMETHEUS? WHAT ABOUT THE BLACK GOO? WHAT ABOUT LOL?”

That’s how I imagine this movie went down behind the scenes.

 

[ForAcademicPurposes]

Wiggly Scott

 

[Come On Tars]

Fede has come up with a new Alien film and is directing it. Unfortunately it’s being produced by Wiggly Scott and his company.

They’re in the middle of filming but just heard that Wiggly Scott has finished another Beavis and Butthead marathon and he’s on his way down to the studio shoot to let people know it was always his thesis theory.

Mr Scott kicks the door down and walks towards Fede.
“Well, isn't it corny?” asks Wiggly Scott.
“Huh? We’re shooting Alien Romulus” Fede responds.

Wiggly is quick to jump in “Listen, I'll be the best fucking judge of that. I'm the director, okay?”
Fede tries to get a word in “but I am-“
Wiggly Scott continues over him “So, and that, you learn - you know, by now I'm 44, so I'm no fucking chicken. I'm a very experienced director from commercials and The Duellists and Alien. So, I'm able to, you know, answer that with confidence at the time, and say, you know, back off, it's what it's gonna be.”

Fede is defeated. “Ok well this film is just going to be between Alien and Aliens, ignoring all the crap ones and we’ve got a good lead duo and incredible practical effects being done in-camera”

Wiggly removes his Beavis and Butthead basketball cap.
“WHAT ABOUT PROMETHEUS? WHAT ABOUT THE BLACK GOO? WHAT ABOUT LOL?”

That’s how I imagine this movie went down behind the scenes.

While this is very funny to think about and it crossed my mind seeing the goo and remembered wiggly Scott was a producer. That being said I thought it was done very tastefully.

 

[_Idea_of_Evil_]

This thread is the outlier, people loved it, its great.

It has a 90% audience approval rating. lol

90% of audiences are normies that consume slop. Them "loving it" doesn't mean "it's great".

Romulus was an extremely surface-level Alien movie with weak characters and story. I won't go as far as to say it sucked, but it's not "great". It's somewhere between decent to good at best.

 

[Rat Rage]

Finally watched it... and boy does this movie SUCK!

I started watching it with lowered expectations - and it managed to be even worse than that.

Shit characters (why the fuck does everyone look like a 16 year old?), conceptually weak and poorely executed story, fucking aweful pacing, weak ass xenos, the death scenes all sucked and were lame, and all the little references and call-backs to all previous movies sucked, too, as well as the movie's attempt at connecting prometheus and its black goo (which - as a concept - is actually awesome). The cinematagraphy was pretty bad, too. Little logic to the set pieces - as a viewer you never actually understand where the characters are and why they are there.

The most surprising thing about this movie is how the hell it managed to become a box office hit.

Verdict: 3/10

 

[FunkMiller]

The most surprising thing about this movie is how the hell it managed to become a box office hit.

Same reason as The Force Awakens. Better, older stories repackaged for a modern audience with flashier visuals.

 

[Badlucktroll]

cant they neutralize the acid blood with some kind of baking soda or some shit

 

[Hrk69]

as a viewer you never actually understand where the characters are and why they are there.

That's why you need to pay attention. It's very clear why the characters board the ship and why they are there.

The main group is on a mining ship, the Corbelan, piloting toward an abandoned Weyland-Yutani station where they hope to secure cryo-pods for a more livable planet, as they’re escaping their inhospitable world.

 

[drexplora]

cant they neutralize the acid blood with some kind of baking soda or some shit

its infinity acid

 

[clarky]

cant they neutralize the acid blood with some kind of baking soda or some shit

Flat diet pepsi. Never fails.

 

[Badlucktroll]

These movies need some gags and cleverness, for example, someone trying to neutralize the acid blood with a baking soda type material, someone complaining about the way they smell, someone shitting their pants when they see an alien for the first time, sagourney saying “kept you waiting huh” ect

 

[Hrk69]

Edit: maybe not a good idea

 

[Melon Husk]

I forgot to review this one but I pretty much agree with RedLetterMedia: great first 20 minutes,

Spoiler

by 40 minute mark turns on a dime 180 degrees into utter stupidity at which point I felt betrayed, last 20 minutes the most fked up spanish horror.

 

[jufonuk]

Watching this now. So far it’s ok as in ok. In the scope of the film I like why the cast are doing and making stupid decisions. Unlike Prometheus where scientists are doing dumb shit, in this film it makes sense. But it’s not as tense Alien. It still has that teen/slasher movie vibe to it. So far it looks really nice. I love the look of the film. But it’s more jump scare rather than the original. Still it’s better than covenant and Prometheus so far.

Edit I’ve had a few days to think about it. This film is an amalgamation of the first four alien films as I can pick out homages to them in this movie.
It is definitely better than Prometheus and covenant. But not where it stands compared to the first four. I still think if it was a stand alone movie not related to alien it could work on its own and it would be a decent homage.