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[BigBeauford]

Could not finish it. I thought the dude playing the synthetic put in a good performance, otherwise the entire cast was an insufferable collage of teenagers ripped out of a generic schlocky horror movie. At least in the classic movies the cast was comprised of actual adults who were professionals.

 

[drganon]

Still haven't gotten around to watching it.

 

[deathstardom]

Why is it so hard for them to realize alien fans want a return to Aliens.

We've had enough psychological tension movies. Make a movie with thr colonial marines attacking a nest again

 

[AJUMP23]

Why is it so hard for them to realize alien fans want a return to Aliens.

We've had enough psychological tension movies. Make a movie with thr colonial marines attacking a nest again

2 post but this one is a banger. I would love the marines taking on aliens. Again.

 

[Alex11]

Why is it so hard for them to realize alien fans want a return to Aliens.

We've had enough psychological tension movies. Make a movie with thr colonial marines attacking a nest again

This isn't quite true, on every site you go or wherever you see some poll made by fans, Aliens isn't that far ahead of Alien and I'm sure I saw a couple of polls where Alien comes in front.
This is from the AVPGalaxy site and to me 51 to 33 isn't so definitive.

What Alien fans want -- me included, as I'm a huge Alien fan -- is a movie where:
- you don't fuck around too much with the mystery, not everything needs to be explained.
- good quality in story, decent writing, atmosphere, no more comically idiotic decisions made by characters.
- where the Xeno isn't some afterthought, nobody cares about anything else in the Alien universe, you want someone questioning life itself? , no problem, go make that movie separate or another franchise.
- no more prequels or interquels or whatever Romulus is, no fan wants Alien to become a congested, convoluted universe like MCU where everybody knows everybody and you can find lost things like your keys home.

Romulus is a good soft restart which at least nailed the atmosphere part, but I would rather have another self contained horror like the 1st one than Aliens, not because I don't like it, quite the contrary, but because they would fuck up, they would take all the wrong lessons from Aliens.

 

[deathstardom]

This isn't quite true, on every site you go or wherever you see some poll made by fans, Aliens isn't that far ahead of Alien and I'm sure I saw a couple of polls where Alien comes in front.
This is from the AVPGalaxy site and to me 51 to 33 isn't so definitive.

What Alien fans want -- me included, as I'm a huge Alien fan -- is a movie where:
- you don't fuck around too much with the mystery, not everything needs to be explained.
- good quality in story, decent writing, atmosphere, no more comically idiotic decisions made by characters.
- where the Xeno isn't some afterthought, nobody cares about anything else in the Alien universe, you want someone questioning life itself? , no problem, go make that movie separate or another franchise.
- no more prequels or interquels or whatever Romulus is, no fan wants Alien to become a congested, convoluted universe like MCU where everybody knows everybody and you can find lost things like your keys home.

Romulus is a good soft restart which at least nailed the atmosphere part, but I would rather have another self contained horror like the 1st one than Aliens, not because I don't like it, quite the contrary, but because they would fuck up, they would take all the wrong lessons from Aliens.

I watched romulus. It sucked.

It was the alien version of Halloween 5. Did Halloween 5 have good atmosphere and tension? Yes. But the movie was full of idiotic characters and was poorly executed. I wanted every character to die and a whole new cast to be introduced 30 minutes in. It felt like a parody


Nailed the atmosphere though? Romulus was basically Alien 3 meets the worst parts of Alien resurrection.

 

[thefool]

I think people just want a good film tbh. A well made, logical horror/thriller monster in space movie.

 

[Harkonnen]

Why is it so hard for them to realize alien fans want a return to Aliens.

We've had enough psychological tension movies. Make a movie with thr colonial marines attacking a nest again

As an Alien fan, I want them to stop doing Alien movies.

 

[Alex11]

I watched romulus. It sucked.

It was the alien version of Halloween 5. Did Halloween 5 have good atmosphere and tension? Yes. But the movie was full of idiotic characters and was poorly executed. I wanted every character to die and a whole new cast to be introduced 30 minutes in. It felt like a parody


Nailed the atmosphere though? Romulus was basically Alien 3 meets the worst parts of Alien resurrection.

Never said it was a good movie, I said when I saw it in the theater that it was disappointing and full of idiotic decisions and laughable writing.
But atmosphere, yes of course, you have to view it separate from the movie as a whole, the music, the sound effects, the fact that they tried to use as much as possible practical effects, these are the movies's strong points that can't be denied and for these reasons this movie isn't complete shit.

As for the story, it was fucked before this so it's going be hard from now on to steer it in the right direction, but I don't have much hope seeing that the show is set before the events of Alien, so it's going to be fucked even more.

Saw it recently and the cast is so so, but IMO Spaeny gets shitted on a bit unfair, she was decent and so was Merced, the rest, yeah, they are there just to be killed.
Anyway, it's a shame to not continue in this line, more self contained movies, really don't want some CGI infected shoot' em up Aliens wannabe.