Alien: Romulus
Discussion
It's dark, it's in space, there are facehuggers, pulse rifles and xenomorphs so the fundamentals are right.
A lot of the production hype was pushing the idea that the humans were a group of "young people", I don't know why, but it doesn't seem to harm it.
The Alien, or rather the fear of it lurking in dark corners is what makes the first two films work for me, even with Space Marines, Sentry Guns etc, the protagonists were terrified of the Aliens and that drove the film, later ones with the Alien in plain sight, jumping on spaceships etc, it was just another action film.
A lot of the production hype was pushing the idea that the humans were a group of "young people", I don't know why, but it doesn't seem to harm it.
The Alien, or rather the fear of it lurking in dark corners is what makes the first two films work for me, even with Space Marines, Sentry Guns etc, the protagonists were terrified of the Aliens and that drove the film, later ones with the Alien in plain sight, jumping on spaceships etc, it was just another action film.
p1stonhead said:
So is the Prometheus story just over? Was anything at all ever really resolved or explained? I can’t honestly remember because those films were so frustratingly bad.
This looks ok but I’m conscious about how much they can get out of another ‘alien is in the ship with humans and they die one by one’ deal
Alien Convenant killed that storyline right away sadly.This looks ok but I’m conscious about how much they can get out of another ‘alien is in the ship with humans and they die one by one’ deal
NelsonM3 said:
p1stonhead said:
So is the Prometheus story just over? Was anything at all ever really resolved or explained? I can’t honestly remember because those films were so frustratingly bad.
This looks ok but I’m conscious about how much they can get out of another ‘alien is in the ship with humans and they die one by one’ deal
Alien Convenant killed that storyline right away sadly.This looks ok but I’m conscious about how much they can get out of another ‘alien is in the ship with humans and they die one by one’ deal
This one, set between the first two films looks much closer to the original in tone but with a larger "threat" than just one Alien. I'm looking forward to it.
Self-confessed franchise obsessive here, and this'll make only the second ever Alien-universe film I watch on the big screen (after Covenant; won't count Prometheus as no truer Xenomorph features - too young for the others / AVP is a no-no).
Very excited, if a little worried that it'll be too teen-flick, or a CGI mess, or acted badly, or too far from the originals. This has promise though, from what I've seen and read so far.
I'd very much love to see this mythical next instalment materialise to complete the Ridley Scott trio, as I for one quite liked them so far - especially with the embryos stashed at the end of part two. David is up there as one of the greatest SciFi characters, or maybe movie villains, of all time IMO.
Hopefully future trailers don't oversell or reveal too much of this new one.
Very excited, if a little worried that it'll be too teen-flick, or a CGI mess, or acted badly, or too far from the originals. This has promise though, from what I've seen and read so far.
I'd very much love to see this mythical next instalment materialise to complete the Ridley Scott trio, as I for one quite liked them so far - especially with the embryos stashed at the end of part two. David is up there as one of the greatest SciFi characters, or maybe movie villains, of all time IMO.
Hopefully future trailers don't oversell or reveal too much of this new one.
Lincsls1 said:
I genuinely though Prometheus was a great film. In its own right too. Could be linked to the Alien films or not.
I can’t view it under any context except waiting for it for like 20 years. Me and a friend went to the midnight viewing at the IMAX in London and couldn’t have been more disappointed when it was done.
Not a single Xeno in the entire film?! Robbed we were.
C5_Steve said:
Resolutionary said:
David is up there as one of the greatest SciFi characters, or maybe movie villains, of all time IMO.
Yeah I agree, he was properly terrifying in Covenant.Lincsls1 said:
I genuinely though Prometheus was a great film. In its own right too. Could be linked to the Alien films or not.
Same - I watch it as regularly and with as much admiration as the first Alien flick. Maybe I'm weird. I love Alien 3 and Resurrection too..Covenant was beautiful, but the cast let it down (much like many in Prometheus, with important exceptions).
As an aside, I hope there is more than a hint of Giger surrealism to this upcoming one. That alone did all the heavy lifting in the first.
Thirded - Prometheus was brilliant. A really interesting take on how the xeno came to be with parallels for our own existence interwoven.
How many times can you see a xeno running round dimly lit corridors.
Hugely wasted opportunity not to continue the story from Prometheus. This looks incredibly lazy
How many times can you see a xeno running round dimly lit corridors.
Hugely wasted opportunity not to continue the story from Prometheus. This looks incredibly lazy
Str6mik said:
Thirded - Prometheus was brilliant. A really interesting take on how the xeno came to be with parallels for our own existence interwoven.
How many times can you see a xeno running round dimly lit corridors.
Hugely wasted opportunity not to continue the story from Prometheus. This looks incredibly lazy
Yeah again I liked Prometheus and wish they carried on the story in Covenant with Shaw and David interacting with the engineers and how it all started instead of bowing to fan pressure and going back to the same trope after killing them all off.How many times can you see a xeno running round dimly lit corridors.
Hugely wasted opportunity not to continue the story from Prometheus. This looks incredibly lazy
David was the saving grace of Covenant.
Maybe there's a vague hope that it might be closer to what Neill Blomkamp wanted to do instead of what Ridley Scott ended up excreting, but I sort of doubt it.
The Blomkamp Alien 5 would probably have looked great and stuck closer to canon - after all what people really want is more Alien/Aliens not something different.
The Blomkamp Alien 5 would probably have looked great and stuck closer to canon - after all what people really want is more Alien/Aliens not something different.
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