Alien: Romulus is a Dumb Movie for Dumb People | EFAP Highlight

[@MemeAlchemist]

"Simple Jack sucked ass!!" "Alright, who said that? It's not funny. Whoever it is, it's not funny, okay?"

[@FalseH3]

Also Fede Alvarez wrote and directed Don’t Breathe which is about a group of young people breaking into a place to steal something. It goes horribly wrong and it’s not what they expected. Then near the end there is a gross pregnancy plot point. lol

[@SolidSnake240]

I loved that movie until the pregnancy plot showed up lol

[@micmorgan84]

Those characters are even dumber than in Romulus. At least that’s not Romulus once they’re on the ship it’s not as easy to leave even though it is but in don’t breath they’re so dumb.

[@RPknight101]

Tipples in cages is the only thing that gives me joy in life

[@pickledblowfish6178]

Cage the Tipples is my favorite Ska band.

[@JiJ1511]

But Wolf didn't you see the bird in a cage? Rain is like a bird, inside of a cage. She wants to see the sun Wolf!

[@mala6238]

It is the THEME

[@sullivandmitry1416]

Simple themes are not a negative to films if they are portrayed well and thoughtfully. Stop criticizing a movie for just doing simple thematic imagery.

[@HectorLopez0217]

There's no reason not to cage birds. They're not a domesticated animal sure, but they produce milk, they produce quite a lot of meat, and they produce lots of ivory

[@DUKEzors]

​@@sullivandmitry1416But it wasn't portrayed well or thoughtfully. So do we have permission to criticize now?

[@sullivandmitry1416]

@@DUKEzors I mean, she literally was a bird in a cage. It’s shown once for 2 seconds. It was done perfectly fine.

[@ghoulsome9483]

Birds in cages is the only thing that gives me joy in life

[@jonbaxter2254]

Wait a min, did the Bird/cage mean something?!

[@paulocarreirapinto]

@@jonbaxter2254 I´m the "joke passing by" meme. I know there´s one but i just don´t get it, like a bird in a cage.

[@TOONYBOY]

I'm sorry, WHAT? You're telling me they tried to make a "purely logical therefore evil" moment with the android character and there choice was to have him take a HUGE risk keeping the door open until the last possible second before the facehuggers got through just so a team mate could get through the door in time...and they treated that like he's EVIL? He could have shut that door whenever he wanted, but he calculated the time it would take for his team mate to get through the door and timed the door to shut the second he got through and we're supposed to believe that's actually him BETRAYING his team? The _actual_ logical thing to do if he were evil would be to shut the door immediately and sacrifice his team mate so that there's _NO_ chance the Facehuggers get through, but he specifically took action to give the team mate a chance to survive

[@Demigod_3scrub]

Yeah Andy and Rook were never evil or malevolent in the film.. He left K behind also because logically they all would've died.. Which was correct..

[@chriscross8547]

That wasn't the moment. Andy makes the "purely logical decision" to not open the door to save pregnant friend when the xenomorph is in the room with her, and her friends are coping and seething that they have to watch helplessly at the xeno dragging her to what they think is her death. That's all well and good, but then they take the hysterics overboard and never acknowledge that that decision is the reason they're alive

[@TOONYBOY]

@@chriscross8547 After seeing the movie, they do ALSO complain about the moment I mentioned as well with the facehuggers and him closing the door _just in time_

[@andrewmeyer3599]

@@chriscross8547 They do bring up a tad bit of anger over the face hugger door. I *love* how they want to be mad about preggo lady even though Andy literally points at the Xenomorph *waiting* for them to open the door

[@Delimon007]

Yuuuup. They also tried to make him seem evil because he was the only one making logical decisions to not endanger everyone else who had sub room temp IQs.

[@chriscross8547]

The day after seeing Romulus, it really sunk in for me just how much my brain was just turned off to... everything about it. It's honestly been years for me since the last time I saw the original Alien all the way through, to the point that I'd completely forgotten about the Nostromo's destruction via three consecutive nuclear explosions. Upon getting reminded of that, it is *impossible* to look past. It's the Death Star wreckage in TRoS all over again

[@TheGreatGonzales777]

The Alien Awakens: An Alien Story

[@diegodankquixote-wry3242]

CMkoseman described the movie as an advertisement for a crappy Alien themed escape room hotel created by disney, and that seems to be a pretty appropriate description to me.

[@cjbroskin1327]

Always appreciate some Koseman recognition in other places asides paleo circles.

[@fishclaspers361]

That would be better, because you can go to something much more interesting and probably more enjoyable.

[@Grand_Edict]

Wow so edgy

[@YBOT-BITTERs]

​@@Grand_Edictthe comment was about as edgy as a styrofoam cup lol. How soft are you? Makes sense tho since you watch pop culture detective

[@Grand_Edict]

@@YBOT-BITTERs a whole paragraph. Get out of your feelings soy man

[@TonyTama]

"Seem to care about is the story." What a WEIRD confession to admit to online. If your story doesmt work then the film doesnt work.

[@KendrickEdits]

Who wants to bet that after the movie Predator: Prey and Alien: Romulus will now try Aliens Vs Predators on a planet with ONLY Female Space Marines

[@Aster_Logos]

Get excited for Prey vs Romulus!

[@ezragoldberg3132]

"No matter who Wins, Men will Lose!"

[@Based_Witch_Hunter]

I believe to really knock it out of the park you should put Humans in the middle of it all, to make it fresh and engaging.

[@ShadowRulah]

That's so idiotic it has to be in production already.

[@chriscross8547]

I've seen this parody before...

[@cjd2889]

The whole, "Quietly sneaking past the monster" trope works because of the anticipation of what will happen IF you make noise. Once you make noise and nothing happens, it kills ALL the tension in the scene. It would have been cliche had they had her struggling to not scream at the jump scare, but at least the scene wouldn't fall flat.

[@FourthDrawerDown]

Why does a xenomorph float?

[@marcogenovesi8570]

because it looks up DUH

[@XenoSpyro]

You added soda.

[@reptarcar]

Because it's made of wood!

[@cgman1940]

The people in the comments seething because they feel personally attacked by the title would not have survived the days where half the reviewers would tell you to do something to yourself that google won't let me say for liking bad movies.

[@ViolentMessiah666]

Guys..... I think Rain is the bird in the cage. It was a subtle but important theme 🤔 😂 Sounds like the kind of thing that'd make me root for the Xenomorph

[@CheeseOfMasters]

That was the enjoyable part of the movie tbh since most of the crew were unlikeable.

[@flumbofrommelkont6863]

Twitted my bird's tipples to this (the bird is in a cage and wants to see the sun) (also the bird is Rain actually, themes) Doing this is the only thing that brings me joy in life.

[@djdeadbeat4380]

The bird in the cage is Rain and she wants to see the sun and the sun is the thing she wants to see and did you consider she’s the bird in the cage that wants to see the sun did you know that?

[@danielneighbour3733]

I took it just as a reference as the miners used to do of taking a canary into a mine, because the canary would die of any deadly gas faster than a human, I really didn’t see it as a metaphor of being trapped

[@heskymarky]

(me standing in the corner at the function): they don't even know that she's the bird in the cage

[@OrganicWolf19]

I'm just exhausted by movies, everything new is just like this: Soulless, unoriginal, nostalgia bait, irrational, contrived, regurgitated, key jangling. I just can't care anymore, tbh it would be a good thing if cinemas died.

[@skully5063]

Star Wars was a passion project for George, Look how Mad Max started, I mean theres literally tons of examples of movies that were just barely scrapped together and became iconic all time greats. A New Hope had a budget of 11 million and Disneys last Star Wars movie they spent 400 million, thats the difference. It used to be making something out of love against odds vs now trying to perfect the “film formula” and throwing as much money as you want something to be successful. Its very disappointing. To be fair though the first Alien movie is really the only one thats good, though I do like the 2nd film.

[@cosmictreason2242]

Op if you haven't seen sargons cargo cult video it'll explain everything

[@azraelbokor247]

Have you tried watching anything other than Hollywood? Or are you a person who plays a game u dislike because u used to enjoy it? Now you just play it because u think you have to. There's plenty of good things out there. Play a different game. U obviously burnt yourself out, so take a break and find something new to be passionate about. Jesus christ. Studio Ghibli has showings for Ghibli fest almost every month. Watch one of those.

[@TheTrueRandomGamer]

But it had an alien. Because...remember it. Do you remember it?

[@epj0211]

I memba.

[@crimsonpotemkin]

I rember.

[@KendrickEdits]

Alien: The Member Berries

[@MysticTroll]

I KNOW WHAT THAT IS

[@lordofthepizzapie9319]

Andy said the line! I clapped and coomed and got excited for next product!

[@davidburton9690]

I can deal with the majority of the movie. But I hate the black goo, and I hate weird directors obsessed with pregnancy and aliens. Impregnated by a facehugger is horrific enough. We don't need some hip and cool new monster. We have the xenomorph lifecycle, the horrific lifecycle. It was already great in Alien and adding the Queen in Aliens was a great move. Black Goo Tentacle Pregnancies are dumb, Predalien vomiting eggs into a pregnant woman is dumb, the latest Engineer-Alien monster baby is dumb.

[@sanai97]

I appreciated the pro-choice imaginery tbh

[@VVaarnemin]

The Alien franchise has always been notorious for shocking and disturbing sexual imagery, why would you watch an Alien film if you can't handle that?

[@DarkCyberElf]

@@sanai97 Pro-irresponsibility I think you mean.

[@pascalsimioli6777]

@DarkCyberElf pro choice. You have a choice to abort or to give birth to the baby, so it's pro or anti choice. I know you tried to pull a "smart" but you just sounded childish.

[@Alx1744]

It's not "pro-choice" it's 'pro-death'. And I'm pro-life 🖕🏻

[@kevo-o-o]

Good news everyone, the genius in charge of Fargo is making an Alien Television series.... just let it die.

[@davidburton9690]

Olyphant as a baldhead android space sheriff probably

[@Skulduggery_TV]

Fargo is good, though. What's the issue?

[@kevo-o-o]

@@davidburton9690 I'd be down for that

[@kevo-o-o]

@thetenthplanet_ I've only seen the second and the latest season. And in my opinion the latest was terrible. Which was a shame because I liked the 2nd quite a bit.

[@woodwyrm]

@@davidburton9690 also Mormon, very important that!

[@notacompleteidiot...1285]

"Despite all my rage, I am still just a...bird...in a cage!" -Bilbolly Corganfeet

[@lordofthepizzapie9319]

"I feel grey, sort of gloomy, like sunlight spread over too much sky" - Also Bilbolly Corganfeet

[@TrulyRottenFish]

*cough cough* Anyone else remember Rogue One?

[@thenewguyinred]

I like Rogue One.

[@JavRexgteneg2pIift]

@@thenewguyinred Same.

[@chasblankenship697]

The Facehuggers key off temperature, not sound. Andy says this before they go in.

[@DrachonaTheWolf]

It's not impossible to replicate what made Alien good. The biggest problem is that they don't actually care about getting skilled people. They hire directors based on name recognition or "diversity", and they cut so many corners on writers, effects, etc. They want the appearance of a good team with the price tag of a bad one.

[@anthonyml7]

This movie is an example of how it evidently is, and perhaps they gona as far as they can with the franchise, hopefully I'm wrong though

[@marduk1734]

Torch and scorch, sister! -Rain Cage, after throwing Lindsay Ellis in an airlock.

[@Kainvverd]

As a dumb person, I agree.

[@Shadowfan.24]

Your not dumb and I am not dumb

[@Knabtube626]

The brilliance of Alien wasn’t the fact that it was exactly the scariest film ever, but that all of the main characters acted logically according to their situations. So when they were killed you cared about them.

[@ianduran3193]

Ehhh idk if letting the guy who just had a space spider on his face overnight out of the med bay to eat dinner with you was very logical in the original 😂

[@Alx1744]

No, the brilliance of the alien movies where the adventure, the mystery and the greater world, which is why THAT is what is advertised in the trailers... Alien: Romulus by disney and the new d.e.i.-hires has none of that.

[@human3213]

Bs. Most of the characters in the first alien film were dumber than this. That's the reason for their deaths

[@andrewmeyer3599]

@@ianduran3193 Ash was fucking with everything. He was the only one who knew what was inside of Kain's chest (he turns the monitors off anytime anyone goes into his office) and told everyone else he was fine. Ash is the needed element for Alien to happen, otherwise Ripley would have kept Kain outside of the ship as protocol demanded

[@micmorgan84]

@@human3213what movie did you watch

[@JurassicRod]

I don't understand the praise Romulus and Prey got. Both ''ok'' at best. I don't know why they couldn't make a film set after Alien 3. Hollywood seem unable to move franchises forward now. Constantly going backwards with prequels and remakes.

[@pdzombie1906]

Alien Romulus is The Force Awakens from the Alien Franchise: it's an entretaining movie because it plays all the hits from the previous films. And as a bonus, it furthers all the tenets of current Hollywood: 1. Male sexuality = Evil 2. Embrace AI (the human risks her life to save her artificial brother) 3. Consume product.

[@dubdub680]

You forgot about "white people are evil" bs

[@thenewguyinred]

No! Not girl power, my one weakness!

[@VVaarnemin]

The Alien franchise has always had the subtext of sexual violence, idk why you wouldn't expect that from Romulus

[@kvltofsobek90]

Rags' peener is like the bird. In a cage. It needs to see the sun, Wolf!

[@Skulduggery_TV]

I'm seeing the film this Sunday. Sad to hear the EFAP gang werent into it. My expectations were already non-existent going in anyways. Not expecting quality on par with the first two films, but a decently okay guilty pleasure will suffice for me. Then again, they could be right and it's a giant turd. I'll know soon enough. Edit: finally saw the film, here are my thoughts. Really, my only complaints about the movie is that the Xeno doesn't have much of a presence as, say, the original film. Even when it wasn't on screen, you felt like it could pop out at any time. Even Aliens captured this feeling perfectly. In Romulus, the alien feels like an afterthought at times. I think this has to do with the characters, as well. There aren't really many you care about aside from Rain and Andy, which removes that tension of "anyone could be next" that the older films had. Seeing as Rain and Andy are the only characters the movie wants us to care about, we know the alien won't show up until at least the third act. In the first two films, you cared about them all. The movies go out of their way to make sure you care about them, and so that tension is strong and prominent from start to finish. The setting itself, Romulus Station, doesn't really have a lasting impression. It doesn't have the same character as the Nostromo, for example, where you remember every detail of that ship from its sounds to its aesthetic. Romulus Station, while having snippets of those things, feels a little more generic than a ship/station in the alien universe should. I liked the characters' cargo ship much more. Finally, the pacing. It's a weird mix of slow and too fast at times. It was okay, but I left the theatre feeling like they could've done more in the film, if that makes sense. I do love the new ideas they introduced, like the Facehuggers being blind and relying on sound and heat to acquire a target. The new addition of how a Xeno grows after bursting out of a chest was also really cool. The cinematography was great, as was the sound design and the music. The practical effects were amazing. All in all, Romulus is a guilty pleasure for me. It's not as great as the first two films, but it's not terrible, either. It's simply an okay movie, and that's fine with me. Thank you for attending my TED talk.

[@danielmenefrego]

It's actually more enjoyable with no expectations at all. Some good moments and locations, characters mostly annoying asf.

[@Skulduggery_TV]

@@danielmenefrego Guilty pleasure then. Same as Alien 3 for me.

[@OKMBVideos]

@@Skulduggery_TV It's a guilty pleasure film. Divorce it from Alien and Aliens and it's fine. It's canon annihilating otherwise.

[@tomcustis9272]

You will laugh hard at the last 20 mins. At least I did.

[@danielmenefrego]

@@tomcustis9272 yeah, I laughed hard at that Marylin Manson cameo

[@rotimigbadebo9609]

Maybe........Certain franchises should be put to rest? Certain ideas and concepts sometimes belong and resonate only with the generation that sprouted them. Any one else won't get what makes the thing great only creating flanderised versions of said property

[@DoffysGlasses]

While Alien is one of those IPs that's been done to death, I do miss the old days of one and done movies or simple trilogies that knew where to end

[@samael4550]

It’s the problem with everything in Hollywood. If something makes money, it needs to have an entire cinematic universe created around it.

[@akchemaceshwa]

I'm here for simple jack!

[@reptarcar]

U muh..muh..muh..make me happy!

[@TARMHeLL]

I just realize how lucky Ridley Scott is to get to call his franchise "Alien", it's like having Anon as your twitter handle.

[@TKUltra971]

Popcorn is ready, let'er rip gang! Lol.

[@sognurT]

Start the popcorn and get stuckmannized

[@jamogable]

went into this movie looking forward to all the birds inside cages. walked away disappointed, with my day ruined

[@squeedikatako]

I kept saying throughout the movie “nah just cruise right there” sarcastically and laughed at all the stupidity. It was a fun watch though. At least I can get on board with kids making dumb decisions.

[@RickRando001]

I have to think the Facehuggers were still somewhat subdued from having left cryo, otherwise 🤷‍♂️

[@wrxrob2589]

6:30 this is how you know it’s hate for clicks, you guys can’t even understand that if acid is poured onto a beating heart, which is pressurized, when that acid eats its way through the chest and into your heart there would be a small explosion, like popping a ballon. So who’s really the dumb one?

[@adamioppolo1884]

Ok bill nye. You're heart isn't a bomb and it wouldn't explode like that. The movie was terrible and stupid and so were all the characters.

[@Macken-n9l]

4:38 If you watch the actually clip Bjorn stares at it for 3 seconds. But no he stares at it for like 10 seconds according to you. No mind to the part he tried to kill it. Just the part where he looks at it for 3 seconds and then gets stabbed in the eye.

[@killer_wasmad5721]

It’s Ya Boi zack sperged out when people said it looked like shit

[@FallenOuroboros]

Cant wait for him to spend another three weeks spazing out about it.

[@charlesco7413]

I feel this move copied several parts of Resident Evil 1.There is an accident in a lab. (Sadly, this amazing action scene is left on cutting room floor.) Instead, we get the flashback of alice with mad hatter during a mundane days work. 2. They enter the hive with naive and alice in tow. 3. They then confront a hostile security system controlled by an A.I. sociopath. 4. They must outwit sensors by using a clever strategy against a deadly security hallway. 4. There is much carnage along the way. 5. The A.I. is reset to a good guy setting. 6. (You are all going to die down here.) 7. Hive security doors deactivate & now enter "Dining hall B. " 8. Release the LICKER. 9. Escape hive with self-destruct timer activated. 10 confront 1st level boss at end of speedrun. Roll credits....

[@Delimon007]

After the dude died and they got on the elevator I just stopped watching. I would be here for hours, pointing out all of the stupidity that occurred starting from the moment they were allowed to just fly off without air clearance.

[@ProjectRedfoot]

You cant keep rain in a cage. You need a cup or a bucket or something

[@PolarRiceBerg]

""Simple Jack"" thumbnail got me here.

[@MachineDoctor1]

It's good, the characters actually make smart decisions. - M0istCr1tikal.

[@andrewwall4155]

Good to know Mauler isn’t afraid to call half of his friends dumb!

[@Mechani-Kong]

Yup…honestly from all the grifter channels he’s probably the best one.

[@DoffysGlasses]

@@Mechani-Kong you made me curious: how is Mauler a grifter exactly?

[@alphabret6844]

​@@DoffysGlasses people just use words they dont understand, in these scenarios if you find someone you agree with alot, but then they start saying things you disagree with, obviously they are a grifter cause how could someone agree with me on one thing but then disagree on another

[@ShadowRulah]

​@@Mechani-KongGrifting is small scale swindling for easy low effort profit. Mauler makes extremely detailed research and editing intensive long form content that is routinely demonitized when he isn't making 10 hour long podcasts dissecting media. Mauler is the worst grifter in the world.

[@MannyNamiro]

He was tearing his hair out when a lot of his friends praised the Fallout show. And he wasn't afraid to call them out then.

[@Ser_xxphinn]

The fact that the movie looks good but the plot is..

[@ramjet94]

Why the fuck are the people in the comments freaking out about the canary in a cage? It's there for all of three seconds and isn't dwelled on at all. But shows that even in the vast future, miners STILL have to depend on "the canary in a coal mine". At no point does Rain go on some prolonged speech about the bird or reflect on it. Yet everyone's acting like it's an overbearing theme.

[@matthewmilam6578]

Its trite thats all. Her dialogue about wanting to see the sun combined with the imagery of the bird leaves no subtext or anything to infer. It is as subtle as a punch in the face. "Here let me tell you my motivations and who I am and if you are too dumb to get that here is some imagery to really drive the point home." Its not abysmal its just amateurish. Also, miners in this present year no longer use the canary in the coal mine.

[@OKMBVideos]

@@matthewmilam6578 I thought it meant that if she stays here, she's as sure to die as the canary is down in the mines. I didn't connect the dots thinking that it was somehow "Bird is caged and wants to be free, like me!" because the bird is otherwise chill within the box.

[@peteomarjebdollosa9170]

3 seconds is too long when the film has 5 billion other painfully overt references to Rain wanting to leave the planet and see the sun.

[@ramjet94]

@@matthewmilam6578 the bird is quite literally subtext because it is at no point overly addressed or dwelled on. And it doesn't matter if people currently don't use the Canary in a coal mine anymore. These people have to because of their shitty working conditions.

[@ramjet94]

@@peteomarjebdollosa9170 you keep saying that there's a bunch when she only talks about the sun once with the quota worker, she has the dream which she later shares with her cousin who is not a mind reader when she sees the Jackson colony sun. and the bird is entirely unrelated to any sun imagery. that's like three at most. It feels like you didn't even watch the movie and you're getting your info only from this review.

[@robinanwaldt]

Out of all the things to complain about, why insist on this "they made a sound when that means their death" thing when the film explicitly said that the facehuggers ONLY sense through temperature? That was a bit frustrating here.

[@Demigod_3scrub]

11:15 oh my god it's so true 😂😂😂😂😂😂 Jesus K watch where you're stepping 🤣

[@yourebarmy]

I'll give it a 5. If you are under 20 and never saw Alien Aliens, It's probably alright. Maybe not worthy though

[@aa6731]

Rain is the bird and the bird is the word and the birdisthewordandthebirdisrainingwordsandthebirdeatsaturdandaburdisarain

[@paulasido]

Alien: Who's Your Daddy

[@dsmart301]

The Longman is awesome

[@HectorLopez0217]

Just like a bird Who sings of the sun

[@guyincognito1406]

I love how that alien at the end saves her from certain death and then has a little moment with her, hey… members 3? Members? It’s the thing… membahs?

[@nont18411]

More like AVP when the predator had some weird sexual tension with the main character lady

[@henrycepeda1844]

So the reason why she's caught and not killed is because she's the last human that alien that grabs her is holding her in place for the facehugger to come out right after that you see the face hugger coming out of the wall of which is shot by Andy. The aliens have a very specific way of doing things. Her partner is killed previously before this as he's about to try and shoot the alien and the other three come in and hold him and the gun down as the one there is eating him as they deem that he's too much of a threat to try and contain or hold. Their ultimate goal is to breed and reproduce

[@notgonnapay]

@@henrycepeda1844This movie establishes that they can use long-dead humans to create more aliens. There’s no reason an alien would catch her and restrain her for a facehugger to impregnate her when they could incapacitate her or kill her and wrap her up in goo for the facehugger, as they did with every other human they’ve come across.

[@skully5063]

@@notgonnapaywait if they can use dead people why take people alive in previous movies? Its not a game ending plot hole but thats extremely stupid. That doesn’t even make sense, wouldn’t the body need to be alive to support the egg and grow the baby alien? Idfk bro ig the goal is blur lines and rules as much as possible to confuse me lol

[@henrycepeda1844]

@@notgonnapay no they still need to eat well. I wouldn't say need to eat. They benefit from eating and having a food supply helps them grow but they don't need to eat as is established that the one in space just cocooned itself basically put itself in its own cryostasis but the dead bodies they use for food

[@TibiConstantine]

The actors were charisma vacuums let's be honest. And you can tell from the trailer. Those look like B movie actors.

[@darthdragonborn1552]

And what’s with movies and shows that keep casting John Boyega clones?

[@ZgermanGuy.]

The thing about the fast transformation could have been explained so easy They are in a gene lab! The answer is right there. Also i when that one girl calls the guy in the face hugger room how much better would it have been for him to speak very VERY softly and speaking louder just a little bit more so tha she can hear him creating this how far can i go before it becomes to dangerous Thats thw thing about this movie there are so many missed chances to be way smarter but compared to the average modern film this movie is einstein Which is i guess why everyone is flipping out

[@OKMBVideos]

Actually to your first point - it is. Rook admits later in the film that he genetically modified the samples he extracted from Kane's Son/Big Chap to create the Huggers in the first place, explaining why they have a fast gestation time.

[@ZgermanGuy.]

@@OKMBVideos ah k must have missed that

[@garylasorella7997]

​@@OKMBVideos wrong, he said he created the black goo, nothing was mentioned about the face huggers specifically. A better question there is give the face huggers and Xenos are different entities hoe does it make sense facehuggers were recreated from xenos despite the DNA not being the same anymore

[@sullivandmitry1416]

Don’t get me wrong, you guys are great at breaking down the movies, but I have to disagree with this one. It wasn’t the greatest movie I’ve ever seen, but it was enjoyable. I remember in the beginning of the original EFAP when Fringy was annoyed that the opening credits were green and flashing like all the other damn movies. Sometimes you guys get wayyyy too nit picky and cruel.

[@Mechani-Kong]

First time here?

[@trekanderson6701]

I'd agree

[@sullivandmitry1416]

@@Mechani-Kong Nah, I’ve seen plenty of their shit, and most of the time they are right, but this is one where I just felt like the annoyances were too much on the side of nit picky. Fringy and Mauler always will nitpick, but this was a movie I felt didn’t need as much. A lot of the criticism the movie is getting overall feels too much in my opinion for reason that don’t really have to do with anything.

[@yetanotherspuart3993]

​@@sullivandmitry1416 The film says the W.Y. knew about the alien before Aliens occurs. Therefore erasing Aliens. Shite Film.

[@ghoulsome9483]

@@sullivandmitry1416 if they nitpick every movie, and they are also nitpicking this one, are they not just being consistent? What exactly is the line between allowed to be nitpicked and not allowed?

[@Mechani-Kong]

The Force Awakens of the Alien Franchise.

[@dude4192]

Except force awakens is dogshit

[@thepsychomagus]

@@dude4192 And Romulus is horseshit.

[@dude4192]

@@thepsychomagus please explain to me how you sat through like 2 hours of a movie and were miserable the entire time

[@andrewpellet6971]

@@dude4192 says the guy who sat through the force awakens

[@anubusx]

​@@thepsychomagus I wasn't a fan.

[@omegavalwin]

The director of the Movie hates the idea of a Alien Queen that's why they did the Egg in the wall bs

[@danc8871]

Watching this after seeing angry Joe claim it’s not a good film but amaaaaaazing!!!

[@pastichiorocker]

Everyone knows AngryJoe is a simpleton that likes simple things where he doesn't have to use his 2 braincells.

[@VVaarnemin]

@@pastichiorocker Calling people simpletons for liking a movie doesn't make you look smart, it just makes you look condescending and miserable

[@pastichiorocker]

It's true though. Time and time again SimpleJoe has shown us that he loves braindead, fast paced movies. OtherJoe actually likes movies that challenge the audience a bit more.

[@ChenyiZhao-v3e]

Every characters in this movie like a dumb ass😢😢😢

[@admpandora91]

I always thought the face huggers would detect their prey through heat sensing through water or air, vibrations through the floor and air (meaning sound, as well)... But if those rule are broken then....

[@fairwarning007]

Damn… if Romulus is made for dumb people, what does that say about all the people who prefer Prometheus and think it’s the better movie? At least the characters in Romulus have an excuse for making bad choices being young, inexperienced, and completely out of their element. The characters in Prometheus on the other hand are supposed to be middle-aged professional experts, whom get killed off one-by-one by making some of the dumbest decisions imaginable. I know it’s not the highest bar, but I just - at the very least - wanted an Alien movie that was somewhat entertaining while not being quite as dumb and irritating as the previous 2, and that’s what Romulus was/is. Seriously, if it weren’t for all the unnecessary call-backs and stupid member-berries, this movie could’ve really been something special if it had just done its own thing and stood on its own feet.

[@hashvendetta7226]

"Being young"... They're almost 30 for christ's sake. Can we please stop?

[@fairwarning007]

@@hashvendetta7226 “Can we please stop?” With the amount of old cranks I’ve seen in these KZbin comments bitching about Gen-Z and complaining about these characters being too young; respectfully, no.

[@hashvendetta7226]

@@fairwarning007 but they're not. Just because other tards say stupid things, doesn't automatically make you less of a tard.

[@johncoltrane965]

Totally agree. Except for some admittedly egregious lines of stolen dialogue this movie was very solid.

[@Mr_Bones.]

The people who think Prometheus was good should be forced to undergo chemical castration. That movie was garbage and this movie was also garbage. Stop with the cope. If you like this movie, that’s fine, no one is going to take it away from you but the characters are stupid and the plot is tired. Let this franchise rest in peace and make/watch new things for phuck’s sake.

[@sugaryplato]

romulus was like a copy paste of different parts from every other alien movie . terrible movie. maybe even worse than resurrection

[@Right_Said_Brett]

Not sure I cannae take anymore terrible Alien sequels. They are slowly killing my love for the good movies. It's quite upsetting.

[@skotabig]

The black goo = Midiclorians

[@Inastewpopotogo]

34:50 YES EFAP! why are you so focused on the story in a storytelling medium

[@reptarcar]

Alien: An Alien Story - Part Alien (with aliens)

[@jdaws4896]

Alien 4 was ok…..you had a dude in a wheelchair who kicked ass! Also really rate the under water kitchen scene, l was on edge.

[@mrmhj9925]

This movie makes me want to hit something. I felt so angry and depressed leaving the cinema. Awful and I’m a huge Alien fan, I’m just not a complete shill.

[@ProjectRedfoot]

Reminds me of the R Kelly episode of Boondocks MOVE THE HELL OUTBTHE WAY!

[@UNSCWarCriminal]

Braver than the troops

[@Woodleg71]

Agree..not good 👍

[@Lolitzhenni]

Well i reckon im dumb lol

[@BreakerMorant1980]

So, in this movie, are any of the young women in tight spandex costumes? No? 😟 *sigh*...

[@mediadetective6104]

Tbf, that doesn’t make something good. Homeworld 3’s protag is a tight spandex wearing lady, and that story is atrocious.

[@Alex_Fahey]

​​@@mediadetective6104Homeworld's story got whacked with the DEI stick about as hard as Imogen's face, so the spandex had a lot of work to do to carry that game. However, it would probably still be worse without the spandex.

[@imperialguardproductions]

I really loved this movie surprisingly. Easy to see why Mauler and crew hate it, but they're allowed to have their opinions. I do think the ending was really shitty, but otherwise I really did enjoy this movie.

[@Fiveash-Art]

THey're full of crap.

[@mattg5791]

More butthurt commenters need to take a page from your book. Nothing wrong with enjoying it, but a lot of people are acting like Mauler and co. have lost all credibility by shitting on this movie so hard. So many snowflakes have drifted into this sphere, it's kinda sad.

[@paulocarreirapinto]

a bunch of sad viewers.

[@cgman1940]

abloo bloo bloo they called me dumb :(

[@EpicJasonX9000]

Here’s the cold hard truth: Aliens & T2 should never exist. Why?! T2 should never exist because Skynet was officially defeated before the T-800 was sent, and the war itself was officially over after the T-800 was crushed. Which was even stated in the very beginning of the film’s opening credits that the FINAL BATTLE was being fought in the past. Sarah killing the Terminator ended the war. And btw, T1 is the only film where the time travel makes any logical sense since it’s following BTTF rules where time is linear. & Aliens should never exist because Ripley didn’t even have enough fuel nor coolant to even last the trip back to Earth. She was hoping to be picked up by the network after reaching the frontier within 6 weeks, and if her shuttle craft is completely covered in frost for being out in space for 57 years, then logically speaking that should mean all of the power expired. Which means, she’s dead. Especially when it’s completely covering all the electrical equipment. And both fuel & power especially for a shuttle craft of that size doesn’t last forever. You can’t have a functioning ship with organisms still alive for that long when that amount of frost covering the entire ship including the cryopod’s windscreen. That should imply that both her fuel & power completely dried up at some point, so, she’s definitely dead. Remember the shuttle craft in the film Pitch Black? That thing was a small sized ship which could only hold a few people and yet required 5 large fuel cells to function which is quite a lot of power. Call me a nerd, but, nerds wrote the original Alien and they hired artists who knew how to design things that were practical. Which is what happens when you don’t bring back the original writers, you loose the consistency. You see what I mean when people in the opposite side who defends these two films so blindly don’t think about these things whatsoever? These films have massive retcons, things being introduced that aren’t properly explained, copycat plot/structure, ignoring past rules while making up new ones, convoluted time lines, an ending that really should of created a paradox, constantly changing and/or adding things that were never originally intended, and downgrading the title character in ways that makes them no where near as strong or as consistent as how they were portrayed in their original introductions.

[@tylerjames805]

Okay if we’re going that far then The Dark Knight is a terrible film because Batman decides just stop being Batman after a few years like a total pussy completely contradicting the message of Batman Begins where Bruce wants to make this city better but he just gives up cause it’s too hard. Or how about Empire Strikes Back? Luke suddenly being able to do Force pulls and the empire defeating the rebels after having their big weapons blow up? You all defend the OG trilogy yet ignore that but you don’t care cause the story and characters are still good. In the first Terminator Skynet wasn’t defeated only that single Terminator had been defeated even in the first film they said that the war has only just begun. Really T2 makes sense in the way that they ACTUALLY go after Skynet itself before it’s even born. Aliens could easily just be explained that the ship was just picked up before the fuel ran empty. They never explicitly state that it was empty. This isn’t Pitch Black it doesn’t operate by the same rules. The ending in the first Alien is basically the same as the woman getting away in the truck from Leatherface. Alien is Jaws in space does that mean Brody in Jaws is technically dead? No because it’s the final shot the protagonist’s victory over the thing tormenting them. Yeah we can be super nitpicky about every single little detail that doesn’t make sense and completely ignore stuff like great characters but you know what that would do? Basically make every film ever made dogshit. I know you want to impress Mauler super duper hard but you’re reaching really hard here just to sound smart.

[@YamatoTre]

I'm surprised you guys didn't like it, I thought it was the return to form we've been asking for for years.

[@bikramarora1819]

I’m surprised you thought they’d like the keyjangling, nostalgia bait slop that it is

[@YamatoTre]

@@bikramarora1819 Jeez, slop? There were some cringy moments (every Deepfake AI Ian Holm scene), and I’m not calling it a cinematic masterpiece. But it wasn’t utter crap, was it? I had a lot of fun watching it, way more than Alien 3 or Resurrection or any of the AVPs.

[@johncoltrane965]

The criticism and hate this movie is getting in some circles is definitely disproportionate. It’s honestly kinda strange. Inorganic even.

[@canderoussnurd4265]

Oh you poor summer child. Rewatch Alien and then watch this new one. If you don’t get the issue rewatch the original again. Keep doing this until it clicks.

[@YamatoTre]

@@canderoussnurd4265 So I’m not correct in ranking Romulus below Alien and Aliens, but above everything else? Cause it seems like third best to me. You don’t need to be condescending, I’d prefer you tell me why I’m naive instead of telling me to rewatch a movie I’ve seen countless times as you have as well.

[@EpicJasonX9000]

Despite my enjoyment of the sequels to both franchises, my defense of Alien 3 and my issues with Aliens/T2, I honestly would be perfectly fine in viewing both Alien & The Terminator as stand alone films. They’re both already perfect as single movies which should of never became a franchise. To me, there’s only ONE Alien film and only ONE Terminator film. No sequels, no prequels, no reboots, no action schlock, no corny one liners, no Liquid Metal, no Queen Alien or hive like mentalities, no multiple timelines, no endings that created a paradox, no repeating the same exact plot just with different styles & tone, none of that dumb shit that created this watered down formula. Just solid horror films in sci-fi settings that told a great solid story once & ONLY once, and was done by the end credits. Both Alien & The Terminator are lightning in a bottle and are both perfect by themselves.

[@eddefy22]

why do people hate promethus, THe only thing that is stupid when the ship is falling.

[@andrewpellet6971]

everything else is stupid too

[@pastichiorocker]

They want Xenomorphs and 'scientists' who don't take off their helmets.

[@anthonyml7]

EFAP's nit picking is always a blast to see, especially when there are clearly bigger problems with the movie. It was ok to be honest what was new and paying homage to the originals was sadly over shadowed by the mistakes. I recommend waiting till it's out on streaming.

[@irondragondxd3836]

I feel like if Alien 1979 released today these guys would still find a way to shred it to pieces.

[@kellinwinslow1988]

Seeing as how Alien is far better written,acted and created they would have almost nothing but praise. The first film was groundbreaking and actually scary. This is just slop with stupid characters and shlock horror. It's simply made to appeal to the lowest common denominator.

[@Fiveash-Art]

These people would be the ones who were complaining about explosions in space when Star Wars was released. Pay them no attention.

[@VVaarnemin]

For real, they'd watch the scenes of Yoda training Luke and be like "Erm.... subtext? subtlety? Did they make the Jedi master a midget to be woke?"

[@Gioven740]

Hi Wolf!

[@TriplePalindromous]

This girl would love Tattooine

[@fabiofernandes9122]

the movie was whatever.

[@Ainword]

Angry Joe gave it a thumbs up...

[@shadowagent7361]

It's been common knowledge for a long time that Angry Joe is an idiot, so that is to be expected.

[@sognurT]

If I were wrong all the time. I'd be angry too

[@cgman1940]

He'd need to review something lying down to avoid a thumbs up.

[@TheWaterdog6]

It is exactly what I thought it was going to be from the trailer. In food terms: empty calories, with no real substance, mostly fluff. "But look Twinkie Nostolgia!" Yeah and absolutely no flavor beyond sugar and preservatives. "But it tastes good!" For a snack, but I would prefer some protein, some seasoning and perhaps more texture than biting foam. "You just hate it because your never pleased!" Or is it I have higher standards than a Twinkie?

[@bjrnhalfhand2258]

Every Fede Alvarez film I've seen has been packed with forgettable, uninteresting characters. Typically with 1 or 2 characters you kinda remember but most, nah. Like Don't Breathe or Evil Dead. Only really remember a character or 2 from each. Pretty much the same here. After a couple of months or so I'll only remember Andy and Rain. Oh and that funny hybrid creature at the end. That thing made me laugh it was so silly. I'll remember that.

[@darthdragonborn1552]

Anytime there’s a mediocre or not very good movie, can we not a fucking meltdown every goddamn time, it’s embarrassing.

[@Simonds007]

These guys sounded like a parody of their critics on this one. Shitting all over this movie like it was AVP.

[@cosmictreason2242]

Hey avp was decent

[@YamatoTre]

@@cosmictreason2242 and this was better than it. By a substantial margin.

[@Simonds007]

@@cosmictreason2242 I should have gone with AVP Requiem.

[@cosmictreason2242]

@@Simonds007 now that one was a big wtf

[@chriscross8547]

@@cosmictreason2242 what's shocking is AVP was more original than Romulus

[@tinymetaltrees]

Geez, indeed.

[@FalseH3]

I think there’s A LOT of problems in this movie. Things that could have been written differently. I also think there is something insufferable about not being able to find any joy or entertainment in something. Complaining about every detail in everything all day seems like such a burden. Obviously it would be way less but you could nitpick the classics just as hard as you are doing here. (Why does the crew keep going off by themselves, why didn’t they seal off parts of the ship, etc) I despise the new Star Wars movies. I don’t think this was even close to being that level of just remaking the same movies. Everyone has different opinions and certain levels of toleration for suspension of disbelief. I know the title is clickbait but it’s not even close to being that bad. Hard to listen to.

[@FalseH3]

Not saying I don’t get your issues with it though.

[@pastichiorocker]

Also, stop using scientists as your inane argument for talking crap about Prometheus. Shaw and Hollaway are archeologists, Milburn is a biologist, Fifield is a geologist, Vickers is a Weyland representative, Janek is the ship's captain, Ford is a medic... Who are these scientists you people speak of exactly??

[@jlev1028]

Are you seriously saying that biology and geology aren't sciences?

[@naxton]

@@jlev1028”Geology isn’t at real science” - Sheldon Cooper.

[@jlev1028]

​@@naxtonI wouldn't borrow a quote from a crappy sitcom written by non-nerds.

[@osets2117]

The people in Prometheus are supposed to be intelligent but they're written like absolute idiots

[@pastichiorocker]

@@jlev1028 Everybody knows those aren't real sciences.