LMAO off here. Some of you hate me for this review But most of you hate the film as much as I do. So high five to everyone who saw this garbage for the shallow, cash grab, rehash that it is. Lots of predictable deniers too saying "you're stuck in the past man". Wrong, my review of Furiosa this year was fairly positive kzbin.info/www/bejne/h2qzfGOwdtyNnqs I was also one of the few who had anything positive to say about Alien Covenant. Give me a great modern movie like Dragged Across Concrete, Upgrade, Nitram, Dredd, Brawl in Cell Block 99, Snowtown, Toy Story 4, The Master or Hereditary (all post 2010) and I'll give you a glowing review. Give me a turd like Alien Romulus and I'll call it for what it is, no shilling, no catering, no holding back. I'm stuck in GOOD MOVIES and intend to stay here. Whether you loved or hated the film, thanks for your comments, even the personal digs :)
@toastedfallenstar5844 ай бұрын
I liked it a lot more than i expected to, i found it an ok story in that universe but is it as good as it could be or even should be? No.
@ollyf50884 ай бұрын
Calm down ;)
@liskeke4 ай бұрын
dude, you're just old. Every tree will become a stump
@darkthorpocomicknight78914 ай бұрын
I respect the "argument" but seriously the sound camera work and music were very top notch. Were there major flaws sure? But I think plot needs to be separated from other elements - if you think the plot was poorly done. Fine but there were compensating factors. That said yes it was creatively ... somewhat limited.
@D88niel4 ай бұрын
Liverpool....... Ooh, You're hard!
@eibhirmulqueen43104 ай бұрын
I was struck by how poor the dialogue was and how shallow the conversations were from the offset, so even the initial premise of getting off the mining planet seemed implausible and the characters utterly flat. For me it felt like a B teen horror movie: the kids head off somewhere forbidden for the weekend and get picked off one by one while we yawn or chuckle at the wrong scenes.
@Metalgearenthusiast693 ай бұрын
Yeah it was filled with cheesy corny and cliche dialogue like “wait you want me to sneak into a highly secured spaceship!” And the cliche group of roughneck teenagers, with them finishing each others sentences, the one thing I looked was the visuals and the way they enforced the idea of why the xenomorph was the “Perfect organism” it showed it waiting for Andy to open the door while using Kay as a bait so they could open the door, and when it saved rain when she was falling and instead of killing her it controlled her because it needs a living breathing person to infect with the facehuggers not a corpse, overall a 2.5/5
@TylerDurden-id6yp3 ай бұрын
@@eibhirmulqueen4310 exactly, that's what we have here: a teen movie.
@drownthepoor2 ай бұрын
@@Metalgearenthusiast69 It was "steal highly regulated material" which is referring to the cryo-sleep pods and their fuel. One thing I didn't understand was why it took the bodies into the duct in the hangar. The girl was what it burst out of, and the guy died after it stabbed him in the face and the acid dripped all over him. They do not eat humans, and don't seem to eat anything really.
@plate1014Ай бұрын
That's exactly how I felt. The dialogue felt so needless and I genuinely felt as though I knew everything there was to know about each character the moment they said their first word. The casting, and dialogue took me out of this movie immediately
@mk-ultramags1107Ай бұрын
@@eibhirmulqueen4310 terrible cast, terrible dialog etc. I think what bothered me the most was the unnecessary sound effects he stole from Alien and used WAY too much. In places the noise shouldn't even originate from
@TylerDurden-id6yp3 ай бұрын
As an Alien fan, I can't believe how blatantly crappy is this movie and how some fans think this is the best Alien ever!! Did IQs just drop sharply while I was away or what???
@scottwheeler69313 ай бұрын
Very good with the iq line 😂I agree it was pants .
@mr.blonde53443 ай бұрын
I wouldn't say it's the series' best. But, it's very good.
@cgdimension3 ай бұрын
We live in an era of multiple transformers, fast and furious and trek reboots, IQs are the same but taste and imagination have been reduced to the basic, ie jump, scares, explosions and cgi
@TylerDurden-id6yp3 ай бұрын
@@mr.blonde5344 well, I'd say it is the worst so far, including those of alien vs predator
@mr.blonde53443 ай бұрын
@@TylerDurden-id6yp To each their own. Take care.
@dmc73244 ай бұрын
How the hell this film is doing so well is beyond me.Shows how powerful marketing can be!
@SagaciousFrank3 ай бұрын
And how dumb modern audiences are.
@trevor30132 ай бұрын
@@SagaciousFrank exactly right sadly
@trevor30132 ай бұрын
@@SagaciousFrank exactly sadly
@antoniocenteno1483Ай бұрын
Movie had Little to no marketing mate.
@dmc7324Ай бұрын
@antoniocenteno1483 your kidding right?🤣
@Ma55ey4 ай бұрын
Everyone slates alien 3.. but at least Alien 3 was an original idea. It wasn't a mish mash of the previous two movies.. Charles dance didn't say "get away from her you bitch" I just don't get modern movies.. I swear most movies and TV shows from the last 5 years have mostly been written by ai. Mostly...
@badlaamaurukehu4 ай бұрын
I liked 3. In my head canon I consider it a stand alone as I liked the Dark Horse or whatever comics they were where Hicks survived and they expanded the in universe lore a bit.
@RomanticAnalog4 ай бұрын
Yeah I thought Alien 3 was really cool also!
@PontificusPinion4 ай бұрын
The characters in Alien 3 were definitely memorable, some almost relatable and a few even sympathetic. I didn't hate Romulus but I felt nothing for the characters. The casting was very generic and diverse to appeal to a Gen Z audience. Alien did not have pretty people which made it feel real.
@Fatsaver4 ай бұрын
Just no. Alien 3 is the worst of the worst. Literally kill off everybody within the first few minutes. Making the 2nd movie completely pointless.
@austinwillcut49194 ай бұрын
Alien 3 was not an original idea, they just took the first film and set it on a prison planet with one alien again. There was nothing original about it plot wise.
@Hauerization4 ай бұрын
The most positive thing about Romulus is that it apperently have made Alien isolation sell like icecream on a hot day again.
@purefoldnz30704 ай бұрын
I bought it for the third time.
@drufazz4 ай бұрын
Didn't even know about it till watching reviews on this movie. What a great game.
@purefoldnz30704 ай бұрын
@@drufazz and the game directly inspired the movie as well.
@Hauerization4 ай бұрын
@@drufazz There you go.
@blasty1374 ай бұрын
In case you're living under a rock Romulus has generally positive reviews among both critics and audiences and is absolutely smashing it at the box office.
@idealsAREisomorphic4 ай бұрын
Finally someone addressed the infantilism of the “parkour” bullshit in modern action films.
@bingerz2374 ай бұрын
The only reason this franchise is even still a thing is because of how original O'Bannon's take on the space alien movie premise was, and especially how uniquely beautiful Giger's designs were.
@chrisginsburg66114 ай бұрын
Agreed, but also Ridley Scott complemented that with a gloomy, gritty sci-fi noir aesthetic. One of the greatest accomplishments of the original Alien, (likely related to Giger) that few talk about, was the ambiguity surrounding the backstory, Alien. Engineers and human, that allowed the audience to create their own universe... They could dream up perhaps what kind of evolution, through eons and bizarre environments might create such fantastic beings. Then progressively as it is all spelled out for us... it loses its mystique and becomes dumbed down and backed in a corner.
@astheseasonsgrey4 ай бұрын
I know people say movies made by committee are usually terrible, but in my opinion when the committee is made up of creatives like Scott, O'Bannon, Shusset, Giger, Hill, Giler, etc a movie can be fantastic. That's sort of what irks me about Ridley Scott claiming ownership of the franchise. He was no doubt an integral part, but by no means was it his baby alone.
@MrCarpen7er4 ай бұрын
Dan O'Bannon basically stole from John Carpenter's Dark Star. The better ideas came from Ronald Shussett and David Giler and Walter Hill. Also Ridley Scott's creativity.
@bingerz2374 ай бұрын
@@MrCarpen7er How did O'Bannon steal from a movie he helped make? There was no facehugger or chestburster in Dark Star, those were solely his concepts, but you think an Alien movie without them would be fine? It was also his idea to have the creature based off of Giger's artwork, which might be one of the best ideas anyone has ever had for a sci-fi horror film?
@mania42704 ай бұрын
No the only reason this franchise is still going is because most ppl LIKE THESE MOVIES. Funny that the only place I find ppl hating alien movies are the internet but most regular ppl find these movies totally fine. In the words of James Cameron "get out of your mom's basement"
@donniecatalano4 ай бұрын
I am so tired of these remakes, prequels, remixes and so on. There are no new ideas so they make money chewing on great classics. Enough, really.
@drumstick744 ай бұрын
Either they do remakes, prequels, sequels or just make another disaster movie. Try counting how many _End Of The World_ movies they have spewed out in the last 20 years. 🤮
@ItsaKindOfMagic864 ай бұрын
💯 @donniecatalano hollywood should write their fanfic in their own time and not throw millions on money at sub par stuff
@Alex-tu9bh4 ай бұрын
Theres a few good movies that come out each year. If you haven't seen the parasite I recommend it
@donniecatalano4 ай бұрын
@@Alex-tu9bh thanks I'll check it out
@timfahey71274 ай бұрын
If you are sick of them, I am assuming you have seen many sequels, prequels, remakes... etc...to form this opinion. If not, your comment is valid at face, but don't you gotta experience something to say your sick of it? Anyhow..be well.
@Glocktologist4 ай бұрын
I have a less negative opinion of the movie but some things in it are simply indefensible. You mentioned the implausibility of big chap surviving a harpoon to the belly, being blasted with a rocket engine, and being left floating in space for 20 years. Then there’s the implausibility of finding the damn thing in the vastness of space. It’s more like a needle in an ocean rather than a hay stack - and I might be understating it. But there’s yet another angle that shows this part of the story to be absolutely bonkers: the company knew of the organism and knew where it was picked up. They could have gone directly to LV-426 without passing Go. Instead, they spent two decades combing the space to find something they didn’t even know was there. Stupid teenagers have nothing on Weybland Yudummy.
@darkwoods19544 ай бұрын
I assumed they had also gone to LV426 to pick up all those eggs. Where did they come from otherwise?
@Glocktologist4 ай бұрын
@darkwoods1954 it’s possible they could have produced the eggs by synthesizing the sample of the Alien they found. If they did indeed go to LV-426 and picked up eggs, why did Rook make such a big fuss of searching for the Alien and finally finding it after 20 years? Why was this shown on screen and nothing about the trip to LV-426 and fetching the eggs?
@ravecrab4 ай бұрын
Yep, these were exactly the things I noted as well. Even worse: the "sarcophagus" thing containing Big Chap isn't just floating through space, it's in the wreckage of the Nostromo! The same Nostromo that was blown into tiny pieces by an enormous nuclear detonation tens of miles away in space from where Ripley finally blew the alien out of the airlock. And we're supposed to believe these items of space junk are bobbing around within metres of each other after 20 years of hurtling through the cosmos. And then there's the fact some lowly teenage miners are aware there's a derelict WT ship in orbit, but WT themselves who control the entire planet and its orbital traffic don't appear to be remotely interested in the fact a gigantic unaccounted space station of their own manufacture has appeared floating above. I thought Romulus was a bit of a curate's egg when I left the cinema, but the more time I've had to digest the details the more sloppy the writing gets.
@AuroraMeansDawn274 ай бұрын
As a LOVER of Alien, I was worried that this would be the storyline. How ridiculous.
@TheGlobuleReturns4 ай бұрын
Also Rook says he sent a message to tell the company to pick up the compound. Wasn’t there some kind of emergency warning in place or beacon/message sent out already, since the companies most important work was on that spaceship? They can find a black alien years later in the vacuum of space but the most important vessel just gets ignored floating above a populated planet. A bit ridiculous.
@octosalias57854 ай бұрын
I feel this weird vibe in the industry with movies like this and Matrix 4, where the first 20 minutes or so feel like its written by a different person, and then the rest is just regurgitated quotes out of context, that mean nothing to the people saying them, or hearing them, except the audience where it falls flat
@dokosza29814 ай бұрын
Calculator is the new brain so studios might invest first 20 minutes to bait the audiences, investor even.
@scaredlobstero4 ай бұрын
@@octosalias5785 except matrix 4 was actually in and of itself a not so hidden critique of the industry shenanigans, while this just adopts the standard with no intention of making that same statement but simply regurgitate yet another homage-ridden movie
@octosalias57854 ай бұрын
@@scaredlobstero I feel like that was intentionally self-criticizing of Matrix 4 as it was literally an investor advertisement for Unreal Engine. And thats true of many movies, like Pirates of the Caribbean and Avatar, to sell vfx and 3D technology
@scaredlobstero4 ай бұрын
@@octosalias5785 I might be overinterpreting, you mean Matrix 4 is all part of a plot to portray movies and the movie industry in a particularly bad light so that audiences will finally switch to videogames , or that more simply put it was bad on purpose to highlights even more that impressive Unreal Engine 5 Matrix demo? I'm genuinely confused by your comment, tell me moar
@octosalias57854 ай бұрын
@@scaredlobstero I mean that Matrix 4 has a tie-in advertisement for Unreal Engine 5 you can download featuring Keanu Reaves and Carrie-Ann Moss. Its highly likely thats the only reason the movie exists and then they hired one of the Wachowskis to write part of it
@SerMattzio4 ай бұрын
Just a quick pre-watch comment; I find it weird that no one makes any films about literally everything else that happens in the "Alien" universe. You could make so many epic stories about Seegson, Weyland-Yutani or even what the society is like in a broad sense. Instead they just produce "Stupid People Getting Killed by the Xenomorphs Story #2090"
@custardgannet48364 ай бұрын
I'm hoping the TV series from the Fargo showrunner will provide us with some of that.
@collativelearning4 ай бұрын
@@custardgannet4836 That Fargo series was awesome!
@ranulf84774 ай бұрын
Weyland-Yutani know about the Alien. Since the first movie. I want to know what their plans are with that creature. But they gave us another cheap slasher/action movie without any story. I also want to know what will happen with David. Its insane to end a trilogy after the second movie. Thats just cruel.
@Raycloud4 ай бұрын
It's interesting to ponder an "Alien" expanded universe, but to be honest, you'd either be shoving the Alien in there when it isn't necessary to keep the thematic connection or else telling dystopian stories that have nothing at all to do with it and thus don't necessarily need to be set in that same continuity.
@ekurisona6634 ай бұрын
@@SerMattzio most people making movies arent artists, or creative, or have any thing compelling to say - it's mostly just a business
@davidnicholls53034 ай бұрын
ALIEN RECYCLED would have been a better title for this film, I'm surprised cinemas didn't hand out Alien bingo cards before you entered so you can tick off all the call backs from the other movies, first person to shout House! gets a prize maybe? The Alien Isolation reference is interesting as that would have made a much better Alien loose on a Space station story than what we got (it has a much more compelling protagonist as well) so why not just adapt that? I was prepared to cut Alvarez some slack as it's obvious that Ridley Scott ran interference here, (hence all the prequel nonsense that's been included) but the news that he now wants to pitch a new AVP script to Disney has destroyed any credibility he might have had. ALIEN R.I.P.
@chrisginsburg66114 ай бұрын
Yeah, next he should try to make A Clockwork Orange 2 with Disney and starring the Kardashians.
@WaldemarPerezJr4 ай бұрын
@@davidnicholls5303 yes 😁💯
@WaldemarPerezJr4 ай бұрын
@@davidnicholls5303 I'll admit I like AVP comics. But none of the movies have been stellar AVP2 was similar to Romulus. It was just safe carbon copy Predator. Robert Rodriguez's Predators was my favorite for Yakuza vs. Predator scene
@jordanjohnston6554 ай бұрын
ALIEN ROMULUS: PROMETHEUS RESURRECTED
@jarnokorhonen38404 ай бұрын
King Kong vs Aliens vs Clockwork Boringe vs Planet of Apes vs Escape from New York vs escape from Tombstone vs Rambo vs Godzilla etc.
@edwardrichardson82544 ай бұрын
That humans have mastered interstellar travel, artificial gravity, and created sentient androids but are going into mines to die holding canaries is laughable on the face of it.
@scaredlobstero4 ай бұрын
If anything, I think it's kinda reminiscent of our society and I found it pretty effective. AI is replacing art jobs but waiters and cashiers still exist. The irony of technological progress
@juanote89434 ай бұрын
I mean. Theres slavery in some parts of the world today.
@PlightOfTheInnovator4 ай бұрын
More Canaries, less Xeno's, think that would have been better to be fair.
@jafsterlordbib4 ай бұрын
Yes I also thought that was pretty stupid. Sadly the least stupid aspect of this script
@edwardrichardson82544 ай бұрын
@@juanote8943 The African and Oriental parts without capitalism, sure. And of course the dirty Hispanic criminal world of cartel human trafficking.. basically all the places without white individuals.
@Josh-fp2qn4 ай бұрын
I'm 36 years old. And I am envious of you older folks who got to see the OG Alien and even Aliens in the movie theater back in the day.
@Perseusgorgonslayer4 ай бұрын
oh yeah......the OG was an absolute pants shittter!!!!!! Guaranteed! Romulus had ZERO of that factor.
@Theantitotalitarianmovement4 ай бұрын
We had great films every week in the 70-90s every week man. You’d go really enjoy it and have a meal beers etc. then go and see it again the next day as it was that good
@borislugosi544 ай бұрын
You could have seen Alien just recently in the theater. Rereleased for the 45th anniversary. You'll have to wait for the 50th anniversary
@Hossak4 ай бұрын
I was so scared from Alien that I could not use the outside toilet during nighttime for a few weeks after. Not pleasant :(
@ForPapaandGrandma4 ай бұрын
I live near a city with a theater that plays midnight showings of old flicks. A few years ago, I got to see "Alien" there, and, yeah, it was epic! Perhaps you'll come across a similar opportunity.
@mattgilbert73474 ай бұрын
I thought it was terrible. All the positive reviews come off as desperately trying to polish a turd.
@RachelSullivan734 ай бұрын
John Hurt is, for my money, the greatest actor of all time.
@mroctober36574 ай бұрын
John Hurt is the Daniel Day Lewis of Laurence Olivier's.
@layersoftheonion81684 ай бұрын
Gary Oldman is up there for his ‘Slow Horses’ character.
@redpillnibbler44234 ай бұрын
@FreeThinkAlways Back to the old freezeroonies . . .
@leapsplashafrog4 ай бұрын
@@layersoftheonion8168 such a dull series watched it free wouldn’t bother again
@jarnokorhonen38404 ай бұрын
Indeed! John Hurt and Monty Clift! No others come even close.
@darryljf72154 ай бұрын
I gotta agree Rob. I was disappointed. The Ian Holm monstrosity was probably more scary than the Xeno.
@Disconnect3504 ай бұрын
One IMDB review described this movie perfectly "An Alien Greatest Hits album sung by a cover band."
@Variable10004 ай бұрын
Spot on 😂
@mattgilbert73474 ай бұрын
A bad covers band. It's Capitalist Realism at work. No new artworks, endlessly recycling the 20thC until it is spent, then recycling the recyles.
@LordMagiru4 ай бұрын
Yeah I hated seeing people fleeing from a facehugger swarm in yet another movie. Di they really have to bring that one back, its been done to death already..
@sporovid58564 ай бұрын
That’s genius lol
@tigar0074 ай бұрын
Hollywood is dead at this point..
@MrCarpen7er4 ай бұрын
It's been dead for years
@joniofark20424 ай бұрын
@@MrCarpen7ersince the 90s mostly garbage imho
@obeewankenobi4 ай бұрын
no just paranoid, careful...I like Wes Anderson. and despite studio finales Denis Villeneuve is brilliant
@leapsplashafrog4 ай бұрын
@@obeewankenobi sorry but dune 1 was ok dune 2 was totally stupid all threat and tension gone - poor film making. Denis couldnt hold a candle to Sam peckinpah, Scorsese de palma etc etc. Wes Anderson’s is ok but daft as fcuk about as much tension as acolyte
@obeewankenobi4 ай бұрын
@@leapsplashafrog like most of those guys. whats acolyte...hahaha? denis-enemy, arrival, and that awesome hairstyle commercial, c'mon, guys gotta start somewhere. he paid his dues. i think dune 2 is equal to kubricks spartucus reason. what u think? no control ending, is like no way! OB
@jonbourgoin1824 ай бұрын
It's legitimately refreshing that Rob has a different opinion. I don't follow too many film channels but the ones I do are all praising this movie.
@theendisthebeginningistheend4 ай бұрын
Maybe they're all praising it because it's a darn good movie lmao
@jonbourgoin1824 ай бұрын
@@theendisthebeginningistheend I trust Rob's critical eye more than Chris Stuckmann and Jeremy Jahns, and especially more than Doug Walker
@theendisthebeginningistheend4 ай бұрын
@@jonbourgoin182 Well now I don't trust Rob as a critic at all. ☹️
@jon.wilson4 ай бұрын
@@jonbourgoin182 if you don't trust them, then why follow them?
@sole__doubt4 ай бұрын
Yeah I remember he was the only one who gave a negative review to Blade Runner 2049 while everyone else was raving. I had to watch it three times because I couldnt believe how bad it was, I thought I was missing something.
@TylerDurden-id6yp3 ай бұрын
In Alien we had space truckers. In Aliens, space marines. In Alien 3, space convicts. In Res, space hitmen... Now, we have space teens. "Thanks", Disney.
@Mitzihunt13133 ай бұрын
Exactly wtf
@starwarsroo24482 ай бұрын
Well miners if we're continuing in occupation🤷♀️
@TylerDurden-id6yp2 ай бұрын
@@starwarsroo2448 I wish. Xenomorphs and miners sound good.
@TheSuperQuail4 ай бұрын
"Somehow xenomorph returned."
@deejno.47584 ай бұрын
Lmaooooooo
@desireless40924 ай бұрын
"Then God help us all..."
@chrisginsburg66114 ай бұрын
"And nobody saw Alien 4 so we can just reshuffle the scenes, CGI new actors faces on. yay, then the house in the Caymans will be paid off!" John Waters version of Alien starring Richard Simmons and Ru Paul would have been more serious.
@ConsueloWubba4 ай бұрын
THE POWER OF EGG THE POWER OF BURST THE POWER OF THE COMPANY
@franciscoantonio53064 ай бұрын
Lol
@matthewbob69664 ай бұрын
While I can’t say I hated these recent films you have reviewed, I’d also be lying if I said I was satisfied. Big budget filmmaking no longer supports the original, thought provoking, masterful art of the not so distant past that so many yearn for in their films. This video, and other recents including your Longlegs review, feels more like a genuinely angry response to what feels like is never ending mediocre onslaught of modern big budget productions. This is not him hating for clickbait this is a true reaction that I cannot be mad at. Alien: Romulus and Longlegs left so much to be desired withholding them from being anything worth dissecting and analyzing.
@dennisbenn20654 ай бұрын
You're saying what the famous 1970s director William Friedken said a few years ago - that movies today are not grounded in gravity, in physical reality. He meant that literally, but also in general. In 1977 he released a movie called "Sorcerer" about Americans getting their jeeps stuck in the mud in a monsoon in a South American country, a character study rooted in a basic real life problem and which meant a lot to him. It happened to be released the same week in May as a little weird movie called Star Wars, which blew up out of nowhere within days, and his film was dead. I think the fuddy duddies who were criticizing the success of the Star Wars movies even at the time as giving license to a more childish mentality might have been right all along.
@Omnicient.4 ай бұрын
Friedkin was great and hysterically funny in interviews but a raving narcissist so most of the films from him post 1973 were turkey's. A good example of a director who was useless without a great script.
@worsethanhitlerpt.25394 ай бұрын
The CG on Ash was so bad I thought his face was gonna disappear and turn into a "buffering" sign
@steveetienne4 ай бұрын
RIpley blasted that Alien with the escape shuttles engine. No way would it have survived.
@MindbodyMedic4 ай бұрын
Somehow, Big chap survived....along with a massive chunk of Nostromo with lettering to show it is in fact The Nostromo in case you thought it was space trash.
@SweetZombiJesus4 ай бұрын
No one said it did. They just extracted DNA.
@Josh-fp2qn4 ай бұрын
Isn’t xeno dna hydrofluoric acid?
@PontificusPinion4 ай бұрын
It isn't implausible that it cocooned itself to go into stasis. But where did all the extra mass for the resin come from? This was one major plot hold in Alien: how did the alien grow so big without consuming anything? (To be fair, in Alan Dean Foster's novelization, I think it raided the food supplies. Then again, in the end it exploded from the pressure differential when blown into the vacuum of space.)
@callumcc88974 ай бұрын
The self destruction of the Nostromo is the equivalent of a hydrogen bomb
@EdwardHinton-qs4ry4 ай бұрын
Scooby-Doo in space but without the mystery. And the callbacks, so many callbacks to the previous movies.
@redpillnibbler44234 ай бұрын
Yikes!
@alantracy67574 ай бұрын
@@EdwardHinton-qs4ry those darn kids
@Ares-dn3qp4 ай бұрын
100% Scooby-do.
@chrisginsburg66114 ай бұрын
It could have used some laugh tracks though. Gilligan's Island episode in space.
@leapsplashafrog4 ай бұрын
@@EdwardHinton-qs4ry those peskykids
@chadesteban14084 ай бұрын
Couldn't agree more with your review, Rob! Saw it last night with two friends, and we were all left cold. Excruciatingly bland characters. Rehashing of lines/scenarios from previous films added nothing but the sense that the writer has no new ideas and no originality. Plot was vaporous: uninteresting, babyfaced wage-slaves take a spaceship to steal some cryopods from a derelict space station so they can fly off to a distant planet for a better life. Spacestation was filled with troublesome xenomorphs, and they all have a bad time, one squirting out a hybrid before expiring. One (and her android brother) survives and leaves an audio log entry at the end of the ordeal. 2 hours felt like 4 hours. My revelation half way through was, "There's so little going on here, I'll never need to see this movie again." If you haven't seen this movie, trust me - you're not missing anything. Life's too short to waste it on Alien: Romulus.
@Pnanasnoic4 ай бұрын
"Check boxes". We live in the hell we were warned we would inherit.
@luckykat084 ай бұрын
Three messages in this film - white men are racist, black men protect white women, women are more capable than men. Variations of these in like every movie now.
@jonbourgoin1824 ай бұрын
There are 9 circles of hell and we have to be in the 7th by now, entering the 8th by 2030.
@luckykat084 ай бұрын
Three messages in this film - white men are racist, black men protect white women, women are more capable than men. Variations of these in like every movie now.
@luckykat084 ай бұрын
Just reposted this - KZbin deleted it.
@vollsticks4 ай бұрын
It's Hollywood chasing money. I have no problem with diverse casting, people seeing themselves represented on screen--but make no mistake, Hollywood is in *no way* "woke"--IT'S A FUCKING HUGE COG IN THE CAPITALIST MACHINE. And I think in 99% of big studio productions, the introduction of diverse characters is deeply, deeply cynical. If you can't be bothered with a book, Some More News did a great "Is Hollywood "Woke"?!" video. If you've got an hour, it's an interesting watch. And it's not "cultural Marxist propaganda". So don't be scared! Peace!
@willirazl55264 ай бұрын
Hm, I'd say, some criticisms of you aren't thaaaaat valid. Picking one now. Make the characters have something going on, a handful of personal, individual traits... Not just their ethnicity or regional background. If that's all you saw in the characters, then I think you didn't want to see more in them. I'd argue: The different characters make different emotional vs rational decisions, which inform their characters. That conflict is introduced by the mining backstory where an android sacrificed people, by shutting down a gate, in order to save more lifes. It is then clearly highlighted by rook's statement, that humans take too long until they start acting rational in critical moments. So the asshole character with his English accent. What has he going on? - He hates androids because of their rationality - is aggressive - when in crisis he decides to do the emotional thing and tries to save his girlfriend, who might be infected and, thus, is a threat to all their life's. - in a mean sense of irony he does it by shutting a gate - leaving his friends behind and basically to die - which is exactly what happened to his parents, which made him hate androids. - also ironically, his girlfriend Navarro did the rational decision and wanted to keep a door closed, while her boyfriend and the leader were fighting for their lifes The protagonist had a lot of shit going on The android had a lot of shit going on The nice guy leader was the nice guy, brave leader, who didn't act rational but emotional and tried to save lifes despite the odds I only saw this movie once, but I believe one could get more out of this flick and it's characters than: it's all just diversity checkboxes.
@wephilips66514 ай бұрын
Agreed. I saw this yesterday the ethnic make up of the cast didn’t even enter my head nor the did it make into the list of issues for the person I saw it with who hated it. To even notice this, let alone make it a talking point says a lot more about the reviewer and their sensitivities than the movie. Pretty disappointing to find another reviewer get brain rot from the ‘anti sjw/woke’ nonsense: it’s the easiest, lamest and least interesting way to approach a film. If I wanted than crap I’d watch drinker 🙄
@liquidrufus4 ай бұрын
Wonder how Rob saw Navarro who was female was in a heterosexual relationship with Bjorn was trans somehow? I guess buzzcut=Trans? So I guess Ripley in Alien 3 is trans now based off of her losing her more feminine hair?@@wephilips6651
@Glocktologist4 ай бұрын
@wephilips6651 funny you should mention The Critical Drinker because his review of this movie is more nuanced and less clouded by ”this must suck so all I notice are things that suck” than Ager’s.
@MasterBlaster2204 ай бұрын
@@wephilips6651 If its his sensitivities then its the normal human response that is intelligent and informed. The purpose of a good movie is to immerse you into another world, when you even get a glimpse of annoying, irrational everyday politics of our world it destoys or damages the immersion. The difference is that you either embrace it or you were distracted by other stuff. People subconcioussbness at least notices this stuff. And asian plus a black. That is race cheeckboxes. + the black guy is the android, most of this population in aliens is wester, i.e. white, you want to sell androids, so why make him black?! Because either they are racists or you are an idiot and dont know how free market works. This was a minor thing to me, because other nastiness is much more obvious. The GenZ cahracters are out off palce and are capable of nothing but whining, screaming and are dull and incompetent, no one wants to see that.
@josephdarkhelmet94944 ай бұрын
That was awesome. Thank you. I can't believe it. First Alien movie I'm not going to see. Hated Prometheus. Hated Alien Ccovenant. Liked 3 but hated the unnecessary deaths of Newt and Hicks. Fortunately, I wrote a short story where Ripley is seeing a psychologist where she discusses a recurring nightmare where she's stuck on a planet that is a custodian to convicted inmates. And an Alien. Ripley discovers it is trauma induced by the power of Elite males, who want to control society as they see fit. That's right, I turned it into a fever dream where trauma is stored in the recess of her sub- conscious. Of course, Newt and Hicks are alive. Peace.
@alexsackman51224 ай бұрын
Totally agree with you Sir....that's a honest review. What a disappointments of a movie. That's not cinema, it's a crab of nonsense things put together. Now I appreciate much more Prometheus & Covenant😅
@JAMSTAR1114 ай бұрын
Damn I must be the only person in the comments that enjoyed the hell out of it! 😂
@custardgannet48364 ай бұрын
I'm glad dude, I've been enjoying Alien 3 for the past 30 years and people tell me I'm crazy !
@JAMSTAR1114 ай бұрын
@@custardgannet4836 I grew up on that film as a kid so I naturally love Alien 3 as well! I love them all tbh especially Romulus, deffo want to see it again!
@theendisthebeginningistheend4 ай бұрын
You're definitely not the only person in the comments who liked this movie. I'm here!
@devanmoran4 ай бұрын
I enjoyed it
@you-5-iver8044 ай бұрын
You are the only non-idiot in the comments. Rob likes Toy Story 4, he's a hack and a waste of space now.
@dvdragon4 ай бұрын
"The perfect organism. Its structural perfection is matched only by its hostility...its purity. A survivor - unclouded by conscience, remorse, or delusions of morality." - Ash
@T--kq3pj4 ай бұрын
REMEMBER ASH?
@NotMorganFreeman.4 ай бұрын
Ok, we all know the line, but what are you trying to say.
@dvdragon4 ай бұрын
@@NotMorganFreeman. It’s obvious. The creature is amazing because of how it exists and what it can do. Fast rate of growth, stupidly durable and strong, and intelligent. That’s what makes it a fascinating creature.
@Alucard20914 ай бұрын
@@NotMorganFreeman. It means Xenomorph can hibernate in space in-addition Aliens: Isolation exhibit its first occurrence.
@lesleyrussell82004 ай бұрын
not to perfect, predators hunt them for training
@christinacowan76444 ай бұрын
Held off until I had been to see it before watching... Agree with everything you say! For me, Romulus was just totally soulless and void of any semblance of atmosphere.
@RobertVanDormolen4 ай бұрын
“You cannot spoil an egg that has already rotted” Amazing saying.
@CineG4 ай бұрын
Kane and the facehugger was part of the Alien story; lore building, tension, and false-sense of relief. Since, it's treated as an obligatory checkpoint holding back what the producers wanted to tell otherwise. Blame society's shortened attention span. According to the novelization and the graphic novel, the parasite embryo absorbs its host body where not even futuristic medical scanners can detect a difference in body weight. This was one of the reasons Kane was so hungry because lot of his body had been eaten/transmuted from the inside. If I remember correctly, there are graphic novels that point out victims of the facehugger have short term memory loss after regaining consciousness. They mingle out in the public when they "burst" spreading the Xenomorph further into the populous.
@zuzu-iw8ug4 ай бұрын
"suddenly marilyn manson shows up and starts killing everyone" 😂
@markweatherill4 ай бұрын
Looked more like Lady Gaga
@benjamindover43374 ай бұрын
Prometheus gave people things they hadn't seen before and words they hadn't heard before... And it was relentless panned so viciously that the franchise was nearly irreversibly damaged. I suppose thats why they just mined the fan favorites and rehased those with a fan service flick.
@yellowjackboots26244 ай бұрын
You're probably right about that
@absbee984 ай бұрын
totally agree
@FiggsNeughton4 ай бұрын
Prometheus had some interesting ideas but was still a boring mess filled with unlikeable characters.
@absbee984 ай бұрын
It's pretty crap how critics can with reviews influence what a series can be or not. If I wanted to watch the original Alien, I'd do just that. Thought Prometheus was great when I watched it in the cinema and still do now.
@MrAden13074 ай бұрын
Yeah BUT Prometheus is part of a broader narrative he wants to tell. I don't think Ridley sees the narrative broken down into single movies. That's just his job to do that. In his mind it's kind of interesting to see what he's trying to explain. But he still hasn't made the bridge movie from covenant to Alien. David is the spine of this saga now. And it's interesting that Ridley has kept the android/company so intertwined within the narrative. To me. Prometheus and Covenant are building blocks in his narrative. To explain the androids power within this story and how he went so far as to create Aliens. As a way to get back at his own creators Ridley needs to drop a final classic to tie things up. Before his time is done..
@ravensthatflywiththenightm73194 ай бұрын
The fact that Alvarez relies so heavily on the Idiot Plot makes me wonder if that's precisely why Scott chose him over Blomkamp. I mean look at Prometheus and Covenant. Scott relied on his characters being complete morons for the plot to work.
@juanote89434 ай бұрын
He didnt. Watch those movies again. Everyone acts within reason. The closer we get is the colonists from Covenant not having hazmat suits while on the planet. But, why would they wear them? The planet natural biosphere didnt infect anyone. It was the eggs, which were pretty much traps. I dont expect for something to burst out of my asshole if I get covered in pollen.
@mk-ultramags11074 ай бұрын
But Scott had reasons. Every character was an extension of a particular human emotion and reaction to danger. Now it's just idiots making bad ideas
@chrisginsburg66114 ай бұрын
@@mk-ultramags1107 Poor Blomkamp, so much promise after District 9, Elysium.. then Chappie and it's all downhill (but I LOVE Die Antwoord). Panos Cosmatos would have made an interesting sequel.... Alvarez has nothing up his sleeve, he is paint by numbers.
@ravensthatflywiththenightm73194 ай бұрын
@@mk-ultramags1107 I may not entirely agree with that notion, but I will say, if you're right, and there is always a chance, it's but another example of "shit trickles down".
@willirazl55264 ай бұрын
@@ravensthatflywiththenightm7319 the characters were actually quite smart in how they approached things They differed in how the reacted in a crisis. Some acted emotional and some rational But the group as a whole had smart ideas throughout.
@alura53763 ай бұрын
It seemed written by AI.
@jamess8543 ай бұрын
I think that's an insult to AI. Even an AI could have done a better job.
@tykjenffs4 ай бұрын
It's been decades since I absolutely regretted watching a movie. Ian Holm is turning in his grave. I can no longer see him as Bilbo or Ash. He is now a resurrected CGI abomination.
@Podzhagitel4 ай бұрын
least dramatic youtube comment
@matt41984 ай бұрын
@@Podzhagitel I agree, wasn't even a bad film.
@jerzyruszaj19084 ай бұрын
They ruined your childhood memories?
@looking_glass87364 ай бұрын
I recently wrote a mini-essay about why Alien 3 is my favorite: What I love about it is how relatable Ripley is as someone suffering. Not only is she a traumatized survivor (just like the second one) but she’s so tired to her very bones. This is someone emotionally broken, who still gets up and makes it happen, because it’s the right thing to do. The movie is about overcoming depression, in the same way the second is about overcoming ptsd. I know this is a small thing (and I know she had just ran + the final act twist) but I love the part with her leaning in the mess hall doorway. To me, it’s more than just physical fatigue. As she tries to warn them, she’s about to collapse from the weight of everything that’s happened to her, and the crushing knowledge that she’s still not done yet. That’s how I’ve felt so many times in my life. “You’ve been in my life so long that I can barely remember anything else.” Finally, her sacrifice is one of the most moving things I’ve ever seen. To have the strength to say no, and to close the gate, when it would have been SO easy to say yes. With everything, she still kneels down, saint like, to comfort Morse when he’s shot. There’s no one tougher, or more noble, than Ellen Ripley.
@josephdarkhelmet94944 ай бұрын
I wrote a short story where Ripley is seeing her psychologist, talking about a recurring nightmare where she's trapped on a planet full of convicted male inmates. The meaning behind this trauma is about control, and blind power, where men are in control. Of course, this means Newt and Hicks survived, as they should've. Whoever thought of killing these characters off should be in a prison at the ass end of space, where no one can hear you scream.
@apeture_explorer48104 ай бұрын
@@josephdarkhelmet9494 it was largely disliked by fans, but objectively crucial to the final shape of ripley's character and response to tragedy with extraordinary nobility, it was her final test.
@glendonaldson71054 ай бұрын
This is so well written and thoughtful.
@DanielTejnicky12 күн бұрын
Breathe. Or when the veteran shoots his gun for the first time everyone in that room would be deaf for 10 minutes... Including the vet. So his military grade super hearing would be for nothing. There problem solved. The movie would end right there. Because thats the moment the teens would just run out of the house with their ears ringing... DONE - The End - Roll credits xD
@DubSte114 ай бұрын
Stop sitting on the fence Rob, tell us how you really feel lol.
@theendisthebeginningistheend4 ай бұрын
Lmao
@DannyMexen94 ай бұрын
He wanted to like it.
@Kirisu__Mafuyu3 ай бұрын
I had to write: "Alien Romulus was bad" to find a review like that. I was extremely disappointed with the movie. I'm not someone who watches a lot of movies, but I love the first 2 Alien movies. Right now I can't remember specific dialogues, but I felt that many times things were invented so that X part of the movie made sense, ignoring things from previous movies about the Xenomorphs and the "face huggers", to be more specific I felt like The face huggers were nerfed, they were dumber, weaker, when in previous movies (in the flooded room scene) they would have devoured the entire cast if it were the same situation. I went to the cinema to see it today, I haven't been to the cinema since 2018, extremely disappointed.
@ObsidianFrog4 ай бұрын
Thank goodness I've finally found an intelligent reviewer that's not yet another 20 something ( hard to tell these days, they could be mid 30's...) gushing how this is " the best ever!" I always die a little inside when l see that they don't actually have any real-world experience to temper their views. Thanks for your review.
@bobbyshepard49864 ай бұрын
So many been praising this trash heap of a movie...even Mr. H...bunch of sell outs!
@CplDwayneHicks114 ай бұрын
Loyalty to the Disney Resort.
@llaevigrof4 ай бұрын
The 'trailor' of Romulus told me all I needed... NO thanks! Yes...crap! Thanks for the review.
@llaevigrof4 ай бұрын
PS I love the Alien franchise movies absolutely agree with you on what are the good ones and are not!
@RX552VBK4 ай бұрын
OMG! Thank you, Rob. Romulus was soooo bad! Alvarez used every Alien cliche from previous films. Boring characters that I did give a damn about, Andy was (of course) the “magical negro” stereotype still used in films today. Some Fox executive told Alvarez that’s not an Alien film if there isn’t a scene where the female protagonist is holding a rifle while sweating! The film also lazily steals the story of the far superior video game Isolation, being set on a station that going crash or something. The girl pilot (20 minutes) before her death finds a X-ray device that she’ll use to watch a facehugger punch out of her. In Alien and Aliens, there was a lease some time that had to pass before the creature emerges-now that plop right out in a ten minutes or so. Then there was unconvincing use of CGI poor Ian Holm (RIP) as an Ash copy. The movie was embarrassing to me. And to add add insult to injury, it ends with blatant rip off (or if you prefer homage) of both Prometheus and Insurrection with another Xeno-Human hybrid. I can’t ppl who should know better liked this film!!!! The franchise should really take a break, maybe 10 or 15 years, maybe return with fresh new take on O’Bannon’s original Star Beast concept.
@alanfaulkner63294 ай бұрын
We didn't actually expect it to be good did we. Let's be fair, the only reasons great films and being "remade" to death is to destroy them and sell "the message".
@SkemeKOS4 ай бұрын
💯💯💯💯💯💯
@awasteofspace-man26684 ай бұрын
86% audience seems to disagree
@liamcarroll58704 ай бұрын
I was thoroughly stoned when i went to see alien romulus. The jump scare made me laugh. The movie was incredibly predictable even being stoned. Some parts of the movie had me wanting to yell "Get On With It!!" I think it would have been much better if they explored the themes surrounding Remus and Romulus.
@alexkiddonen2 ай бұрын
Shoulda smoked the good weed mate
@carsonhaught99344 ай бұрын
The voice of reason as always Rob. Saved me a tenner or more not to mention two hours of precious lifetime...
@LikeSomeDude4 ай бұрын
Oh Mr Ager, you are truly a treasure of KZbin. Always appreciate your honest commentary! 🏆
@robertbusek303 ай бұрын
7:24 - I have not seen Romulus, nor am I likely to based on this review. However, I don’t recall ever seeing the xenomorphs eating. Did I miss something in the other films?
@El_Hicks4 ай бұрын
Red Letter Media gave it a Do Not Recommend also
@collativelearning4 ай бұрын
Good for them. I glanced at their review. Disagreed when they said it was well shot, but otherwise fine.
@theendisthebeginningistheend4 ай бұрын
RLM has always been kinda harsh with their reviews. No surprise there.
@ryanjacobson25084 ай бұрын
@@collativelearningThe New released movies I grew up with (in the late 80's/early 90's) were shot on film. Most digital stuff pales in comparison to even the most mediocre shot on film stuff from the late 80's/90's.
@TheRealNormanBates4 ай бұрын
@@theendisthebeginningistheend I would say "honest". I don't always agree with them, but at least they explain why they have their opinion, which I can respect.
@Grandmastergav864 ай бұрын
@@theendisthebeginningistheend "harsh" are you having a laugh?
@minkleymcmoo52484 ай бұрын
Poor casting. No characters to root for.
@CNDcovert4 ай бұрын
im so glad someone feels the way I do. was the movie bad? no. was it the best alien of all time FUCK NO. I felt the execution of the story was garbage, the glossy dead people in the hive was laughable of how fake and crappy the props looked. The cheap jump scares, the floppy disk drive on the AI (the glitchy meltdowns lol), the references to the original was cheesy af. the ending was Kinda neat minus the Godzilla egg with a baby sliding down the pit. I scored it a 5/10 and im being generous as I felt it was more of an action/adventure movie filmed by the producer of Spy Kids.
@brianm55634 ай бұрын
I saw it last night... Wish I hadn't. It was utter garbage.
@vaderbase4 ай бұрын
Alien is disneyfied af. "Somehow Xenomorph returned..." the film has to get me in in the first minutes. Buy this pita was so boring and cheap in this first minutes with all these exposition talks... Man, even skipping the illegal stream was a waste of time.
@natashahaegl27784 ай бұрын
I totally agree with you. I rate it 2/10. There are so many people who gave Romulus good reviews and I can't for the life of me understand why. Its the worse alien movie next to AVP Requiem in my opinion. Even Resurrection was at least entertaining. Romulus was boring. Just a mash of scenes and lines verbatim from other movies. Just terrible.
@Wifgargfhaurh4 ай бұрын
"You cannot spoil an egg that is already rotten" that line was cold as ice 💀
@chrisbenavides31764 ай бұрын
Haven't seen this, so I don't have my own opinion on this film. I am glad at least one voice out there doesn't pretend to like things just because the standard of modern movies have absolutely collapsed our expectations.
@user-ld7ch1er6j4 ай бұрын
Been seeing this thing everywhere. Nowadays, a movie that's getting good press is not just good. It's the best. Like they told us that Longlegs was the best horror of the decade or it made people vomit or have higher Blood pressure. The pie is smaller and everyone's now scheming. No, thanks. I'll rather watch Texas Chainsaw Massacre or The Shining or whatever again.
@Alrbro2344 ай бұрын
Tbh I really don’t understand the hate with this film it’s no masterpiece but it’s a solid film I saw it day one and I saw it again yesterday this film is more than nostalgia bait it actually expands on the lore and answers some questions and the characters arent brain dead like in the prequels they actually make some smart decisions and seems like this guy was expecting something like alien or aliens but in reality those will never be replicated. Plus the sets are amazing there are details from the games and the origami movies it just seems like this guy was hating it from the first trailer and never expected anything less but to each their own but definitely recommend
@badlaamaurukehu4 ай бұрын
Peanut gallery slop.
@JesusGomez-ob2qt4 ай бұрын
Last classic-material film I've seen was 2018's Suspiria.. that was 6 years ago!
@RyanT586-24 ай бұрын
Everyone praising the Andy character. But I found it kind of annoying and tropish that playing a robot with holes in its programming has shades of autism and stutters through Dad jokes. Felt Tropic Thunderish.
@thepodbaydoorshal4 ай бұрын
Yeah, it was pretty damn bad. The trailers were crap but I got suckered by some early glowing reviews. Should’ve known better. What a flat, terminally boring, unnecessarily long, repetitive, derivative, nonsensical, ugly, and utterly un-scary film.
@TheREALExposingtheJoyofS-px3ri4 ай бұрын
Well said. lol
@worsethanhitlerpt.25394 ай бұрын
i liked the Blade Runner set up and the Robot guy was interesting but when the Xenos showed up I was really bored and didnt care
@darkwillow14514 ай бұрын
Romulus starts off with the stupidest plot whole in the universe. WY goes to so much trouble to get that one alien. But why? The spaceship is full of facehuggers. Those facehuggers cannot have came from that xeno because that one isnt a queen. So where did the facehuggers come from? If they got them elsewhere, why do you need to find that one specific xeno floating in space? Makes 0 sense. You got 10000 facehuggers that you can use to make 10000 xenos. And after all that trouble, WY didnt bother to come back to Romulus to get their precious cargo? They just abandoned it? That aside, the movie is boring from a script point of view. Its a rehash of all the tropes from all the first 4 movies cramped into one. Nothing in Romulus is new. Everything has been done before. Its so painfully formulaic and predictable. I actually loved Prometheus and Covenant. With all their flaws, at least they brought novelty and you didnt really knew where the plot was going. I honestly would've been much more interested in a continuation of David's story. That arc deserved to go full circle regardless of what conservative nerds want. I enjoyed Romulus, but only as a Redux of Alien.
@collativelearning4 ай бұрын
Haha, great point.
@MrFurious1764 ай бұрын
There's no queen because Ridley Scott hated that idea. The original intent was for the standard xeno to be able to either produce the eggs themselves or transform cocooned lifeforms into them. The ideas was hinted at in the restored scene from the DC of Alien but never fully explained. If he stays involved, we will probably never see another queen again.
@darkwillow14514 ай бұрын
@@MrFurious176 hopefully we wont. The "hive" mentality feels wrong to me. I know xenos were somewhat inspired from the wasps. But those wasps that impregnate the victims are actually solitary
@juanausensi4994 ай бұрын
That's a very fair point. If they are scared because there are facehuggers in the ship, what is their plan to contain those, and full grown xenos, in their labs? Either WY wants the xenos or doesn't. You can't have it both ways. That's bad writing.
@juanausensi4994 ай бұрын
@@MrFurious176 Ridley Scott has every right to not like the Alien Queen. I adore her, but that's not important here. But what he doesn't have is the right to ignore her existence in a movie that tries so hard to connect to every other movie in the franchise.
@paulwoodford19844 ай бұрын
Yes finally something i agree with him on. It was amateurish, boring and poorly written garbage
@j_shelby_damnwird4 ай бұрын
I wholeheartedly agree with all your points. The fact there's people hailing this turd of a film as a masterpiece (seriously, wtf) speaks volumes about "modern audiences". Another soulless, puerile cash-grab from the House of Mouse
@Sleepai4 ай бұрын
Cry harder grandad
@j_shelby_damnwird4 ай бұрын
@@Sleepai More like yawn harder 🥱
@kevinkevin-ug9po4 ай бұрын
Me and my pal went to see it. The detailing was great. Few things I just could not get. The kids fire a ship up to atmosphere, were was security? Big ship floating in space, nobody notices apart from kids. Some folk found bits of Nostromo, still had name on it, fkn impossible, it was blown up to infinity. I could go on and on, like Ash. My head hurts.
@crazyjoee4 ай бұрын
In the first Alien we send unwitting space truckers to pick up an alien life form. In the sequel, future people scour the vastness of space randomly hoping by chance they can find the ejected Alien rather then return to the egg site from first movie where without a doubt, with precise location coordinates, we know for sure from previous events will have an alien life form?
@kevin.afton_2 ай бұрын
Yeah, good review. And why diversity always means White woman/Black man? Why isnt it any other race? Like Arabic woman with Asian man?
@jamess8543 ай бұрын
I just made the mistake of buying it digitally today and wish I hadn't. What an absolute load of s****
@Agesilaus.884 ай бұрын
Beautiful cinematography but the movie itself was shite.
@PK-MegaLolCaT4 ай бұрын
Honestly Hollywood think of its audience as idiots
@DannyMexen94 ай бұрын
And we are. Look at the box office sales.
@PK-MegaLolCaT4 ай бұрын
@@DannyMexen9 some are . im not
@SurfbyShootin4 ай бұрын
What is Hollywood made out of? They're a chosen people.
@PK-MegaLolCaT4 ай бұрын
@@SurfbyShootin the cybernetic reptilian people from counter mars? I mean sure .. they a bit cold blooded but the cybernetic part is mean to make them better understanding emotions… maybe they run out of dobble AA batteries?
@chrisginsburg66114 ай бұрын
Not really. Actually those writers and directors are the idiots because they have not thought things through. They are not smart enough to not leave holes. The reason is that it is a MONEY-MAKING venture and they don't have time nor inclination to be air-tight. They need to make another movie next month so they can pay the mortgage on the house in the Caymans. There are VERY FEW movie makers interested in ART...... interested to SAY SOMETHING. Most are just working.
@TheGazza834 ай бұрын
I 100% agree. It's an awful, boring, pointless film
@dennisdegasEDG4 ай бұрын
@19:34 Again, this is Rook, not Ash. Which makes bringing Holm back to life with shitty cgi, all the more obviously nostalgia bait. Rook could've looked like anybody.
@AdrianFahrenheitTepes4 ай бұрын
That was the element I liked the most about Aliens as a sequel. Bishop was a different likeness, which wasn’t obvious until Bishop accidentally cut his hand in the knife trick, and you saw the white Android blood. The one thing I liked about Androids in Alien movies was the different likenesses various androids had.
@lucascrane1644 ай бұрын
Man I love your videos and I think you are truly brilliant when it comes to film analysis, but I think this film is much more than you give it credit for. I won't explain it because you are intelligent enough to understand the movie, but Alien: Romulus is a film that provides horror and subtext without shoving it down your throat. Your criticisms of Fede Alvarez are unbelievable coming from someone as intelligent as you are.
@collativelearning4 ай бұрын
i'm not hearing much sense there, but thanks for your thoughts anyway.
@lucascrane1644 ай бұрын
@@collativelearning I just think the film has an interesting message about illegal immigration and the process in America. Along with a Hitchcock-like way of creating suspense by introducing elements of suspense. I liked the previous two Ridley Scott films in the franchise, but I feel this film had a daft hand when it comes to creating horror and covering the themes oppression that have been present in Alien since the beginning.
@collativelearning4 ай бұрын
@@lucascrane164 Glad you enjoyed it. it's not what i saw but thanks again :)
@you-5-iver8044 ай бұрын
@@collativelearningthat's the point. You see nothing anymore but Anti-SJW lies, you are as bad as the SJWs themselves. You say for this commentator you are not hearing much sense here but that's just your hypocrisy and nostalgia bias.
@you-5-iver8043 ай бұрын
@dulaman says the one commenting two words and has no profile pic. Get lost 😂
@dustinspencer92786 күн бұрын
My oldest brother and I watch Romulus a couple of days before Christmas on 4k. I brother liked it but he is not very picky and thats okay. I didn't care for the movie for several reasons. Reason 1: It came off as a slaher movie. It was a group of unlikeable teens going into a spooky house being killed off one by one. The only character I had some sympathy for was the mentally disabled android. I am not using mentally disabled as a put down. There is male teen #1 that I didn't care about. There was male teen #2 who was a unlikeable jerk to the android. There was pregnant teen who had no idea of whats really going on and felt it was okay to inject a strange black substance into her body. There was Asian teen who was only there to be face huged. Reason 2: The amount of time that took the xenomorph to mature was really fast. Reason 3: If the pulse rifle auto aim attachment is so good, then why doesn't the Colonial Marines have that as an option? A marine with one to one aim would be even more efficient and intimidating. Reason 4: All the references to Alien and Aliens. Don't reference good movies in your bad movie. Reason 5: The clone of Ash. Do all science officer androids look like Ash? If so then why didn't the Nostromo crew know that Ash was an android?
@adamv22964 ай бұрын
fuck everything that is woke. good review, thank you.
@gabiausten87744 ай бұрын
Know what Alien needed? 20 more Aliens! That will make it scary!
@josephdarkhelmet94944 ай бұрын
You forgot an army of Predators. C'mon man......
@russ254Ай бұрын
i wanted higher stakes - like the entire universe in danger
@StephenBates_IT2 ай бұрын
8:20 Presumably this means the queen from Aliens is also alive out there somewhere.
@collativelearning2 ай бұрын
Hahahaha
@Themanwhosaidsorry4 ай бұрын
It's a forgettable, mediocre movie. Basically, imagine Alien: Isolation's story without the brilliant gameplay.
@collativelearning4 ай бұрын
And without the subliminals
@Josh-fp2qn4 ай бұрын
I think a movie such as Alien Isolation where hiding, keeping quiet, and evading one creature could be intense. Unfortunately, how many new things can we learn about the Xeno after 40+ years?
@badlaamaurukehu4 ай бұрын
@@Josh-fp2qnYou'd need a smart audience for a smart movie. Sadly, the modern peanut gallery would be quickly bored with intilligent characters doing intilligent things like actual problem solving.
@ElliesCousin4 ай бұрын
Brilliant gameplay? Where? It was an utterly tedious fetch-quest w/ brain dead AI.
@kelvincasing52654 ай бұрын
@@ElliesCousin It's some of the best AI ever programmed, at least on Hard. But, yes, it is also fetch quests in a haunted house.
@jibicusmaximus48274 ай бұрын
every other review is making excuses for it, like, when, all my friends pretended that the last two were good because they paid to see them lol, i will listen to you mate, your stuff is honest and in depth!
@collativelearning3 ай бұрын
It's so weird how people pretend something is good because they paid for it. Lol. I almost stood up in the cinema to shout out how bad the film is and probably would have except I didn't want to ruin it for my friends ... but turns out they didn't like it either.
@jibicusmaximus48273 ай бұрын
@@collativelearning you are bang on, i went probably for the third time in 30 years? and saw it! i too struggled not to shout about it and to not walk out, even the woke adverts did me in, same with last batman film, some one asked em to go with them.. i shouted 'that's racist' at the anti white people part lol. the people i know who follow the Alien franchise are super woke and don't speak to me now, so, i don't know if they liked it! thanks for answering, i love your work!
@jibicusmaximus48273 ай бұрын
@@collativelearning obviously we know it did well now but... hmmm.. yes, it makes you wonder!
@jibicusmaximus48273 ай бұрын
@@collativelearning definitely made for the gamer generation, terrible! lol.
@Omnicient.4 ай бұрын
The weakest of the Alien films but cinema sound is dreadful where they are more concerned with channels for sound effects; today characters speak as though their mouths are projecting down a narrow funnel so it was difficult to understand what the cast were saying made worse by this fashion today of mumble, mumble, mumble. Scott as producer is worse than Scott as a director; his career is more miss than hit; only his first three films stood out like few others.
@darkstar69094 ай бұрын
I've always said the reason Alien worked was the characters. All of them looked like they had been around the block a few times and appeared pretty world weary. The cast of Romulus were too young, too pretty and I don't buy they had the technical expertise to pull off the job they were there to do.
@badlaamaurukehu4 ай бұрын
Yeah. They seemed like real people you'd work with in a warehouse or industrial job. No one in Hollywood has worked a real job anymore. In the 70's you also had a ton war vets in production, crew and cast as well.
@SamuelBlack844 ай бұрын
None of the characters in Romulus were likeable in any way Just annoying, arrogant nobodies
@russ254Ай бұрын
how do you borrow a space ship to get to the station?
@ericfurst60914 ай бұрын
Ridley Scott defintly lost his touch. Let it go old man.
@custardgannet48364 ай бұрын
In fairness he didn't direct write or direct this one even though I'm sure he got his input in there.
@ericfurst60914 ай бұрын
@@custardgannet4836 didnt he chose the director?
@custardgannet48364 ай бұрын
@@ericfurst6091 I've no idea, if he did then it's news to me.
@straydogfreedom77954 ай бұрын
@@custardgannet4836 From what I've seen of his newer films, @ericfurst6091's statement still seems accurate.
@H25Invicta4 ай бұрын
@@custardgannet4836From what I remember, Fede approached Ridley with his idea for an Alien movie and Ridley was impressed and gave his blessing to this film. Not sure how much Ridley affected production but he certainly approved of it. Part of the marketing for this movie was that they showed it to Ridley Scott and James Cameron and they both said it was good.
@WheresWaldo054 ай бұрын
They thought Alien Romulus was suppose to be Avengers End Game. 😵💫🤢🤮
@derda24814 ай бұрын
Thank god someone on the internet agrees that Alien Romulus is TRASH. Everyone is loving this movie just like they did Dune 2 and Prey which were also trash. Its Disney recycled garbage marketed as something new. Soulless, mass-marketing insult to Alien fans. I went back to Alien to see the difference and they dont even compare. Pathetic
@Shadow.24-c8h3 ай бұрын
Dune part 2 and prey were good movies you hypocrite. Stop hating on good films.
@mr.blonde53443 ай бұрын
Dune 2 and Prey are trash? Maybe, you don't like movies, bro.
@Shadow.24-c8h3 ай бұрын
@@mr.blonde5344 that guy has no brain cells. Prey, dune part 2, and Romulus are all good movies
@SamElliottsStache3 ай бұрын
Denis is the most boring and dull director in recent memory. Dune itself is overrated as well. He makes Chris Columbus look more innovative.
@mr.blonde53443 ай бұрын
@@SamElliottsStache Wow. You really hate his work. Most boring director, though? C'mon
@2PurpleSwitchs3 ай бұрын
thanks bob yeah I liked Prometheus and covenant but Romulus was crap
@jibicusmaximus48274 ай бұрын
don't breath is trashy i agree, i don't know why people go on about it.. at best it's a silly, hollywood fun film..
@roberttrefcer864 ай бұрын
This was like hannah montana vs the alien. The colony had terra forming tech but couldnt spot a ship In lower orbit. It was the Goonies on Xanax. 1 note the whole way. New World Order trash. 1 star.
@chrisginsburg66114 ай бұрын
Xanax is a really good drug... It was more like The Goonies huffing glue and drinking cough syrup vs the alien.
@willirazl55264 ай бұрын
@@roberttrefcer86 you can only find ships if you look for them Why should a slave mining planet scan its orbit ? I can buy it. Have a mining planet and run it cheap. Suppress people, suppress equipment - let them live like peasants What you need to scan a sky for ?
@erroneous69474 ай бұрын
I found the fact they couldn’t see the station stupid as well. At least drop a line that says the station has stealth or some crap.
@roberttrefcer864 ай бұрын
@@erroneous6947 even better they should have had a unit of colonial marines using the group as bait, then coming in and kicking ass. Way too much to ask from the new world order babies. Instead we got shit and all we can do is scoop it up.
@fantasyskeep4 ай бұрын
Another hater clouded by Disney hate goggles.
@balaam_70874 ай бұрын
Not surprised with this one. Trailers looked bad. I immediately disliked the young actors, really wouldn’t mind if the alien got all of them. Not like how I immediately liked most of the alien/aliens supporting cast. This one also looks like it’ll suffer from The Thing remake syndrome: Showing too much alien special effects in broad daylight because they’re proud of their cgi.
@Victor-Vargas4 ай бұрын
One thing I did think was really cool about the hybrid alien at the end is that it was a real guy in the suit. He's a kid in his 20's a former basketball player who's over 7 feet tall.
@RobertOrgRobert4 ай бұрын
A quiet place & Twisters was boring too ! What is going on with Hollywood ? Great review though rob .
@Tomismyusername4 ай бұрын
@11:53 Totally agree. Can you imagine a director like Kubrick doing something like that (not that he'd do a sequel anyway)? It usually just serves to undermine the film by pulling you out of the story and reminding you of the superior original.
@brianthomas2112Ай бұрын
Fantastic point.
@MetalMew23 ай бұрын
Even if the Xenomorph could secrete a substance in Space, it would be frozen by the lack of heat...The cognitive dissonance is worthy of becoming a biopic about M Sham, narrated by Donald Duck.
@cab123007514 ай бұрын
"lesbian-type trans dress style" the characters work in the mines for a living, should they be wearing dresses instead?
@Theantitotalitarianmovement4 ай бұрын
Why would woman work in a mine - why would men ? presumably they have robots in a science fiction film? Its dumb
@lemdixon014 ай бұрын
@@TheantitotalitarianmovementI think open cast mines are the way forward as you just use big machines to extract the thinh to be mined bit maybe that's not good for the story or dramatic scenes.
@theendisthebeginningistheend4 ай бұрын
Liked this comment.
@LuisAngel-mu4zv4 ай бұрын
Yeah! What about Vazquez from Aliens ?
@killerskiely1004 ай бұрын
Anti-SJW Ideology has ruined entertainment on him
@DarkLadyAthena14 ай бұрын
Yours and a few other KZbinrs critiques are among the only ones I can trust. Even when I disagree, I can tell how passionate you guys are about filmmaking, the different genres, the hidden details behind every film and so on. I agree with much of your criticism. I did not think the film was awful though. The ideas it had weren't bad but the execution was poorly done. I found the film entertaining but that was because my hopes weren't too high to being with. I just wanted a good time and I got that when I went to see it with my mom. Alien and Aliens are two of the best in the science fiction genre. The movies, books and other lore that influenced it make it all better. However, films afterwards tried to recreate the formula of either the first or second one or, in Romulus case, both. And none were successful. Some of the storylines from dark horse comics and even those in the new canon do a greater job in carrying on the franchise and expand the universe even further (without taking away the mystery, horror or the action present in the first two films). Alien Isolation also did a great job with this. A much better film would have been adapting one of those storylines. But what done is done. We always have the first two classic to go back to, the films that partially inspired it like Planet of the Vampires, It came from outer space, and the books that influenced it as well like At the mountain of madness, and the aforementioned comics from dark horse and the recent ones that came after the movies.
@orbitingdecay67974 ай бұрын
It's better than covenant. Anything is better than covenenant. This film has good aesthetics but sadly there's not much else but covenant was just awful.
@Zatzzo4 ай бұрын
I absolutely agree, except for me it was about 98.5% garbage, not just 90%. The worst part is cgi Ian Holm and him calling the Aliens "Xenomorphs", which never happened before (no it doesn't happen in "Aliens"). It's a fan term used in comics, video games and by people who don't know anything about the movies. Except now they "reimagined" "Aliens" into Gorman probably knowing what he was talking about. The Aliens look like crap. The actors are too young, which is extremely untypical of the series. They change the Alien universe by stuff like "they can see your body heat". I actually like Prometheus and Covenant, but Romulus is definitely worse than Alien Resurrection even. James Cameron already turned the "perfect organism" into mere cannon fodder in "Aliens" but now their strength and acid blood don't even matter in theory because you can just turn off the gravity and shoot them. Why would anyone even be scared of them? They can't do anything! 7:20 "If it bleeds we can kill it" The Alien doesn't bleed in the first movie, only the facehugger does. Ash said you can't kill it, so that's what the first movie established. All the other movies simply broke that rule and to me at least, aren't even to be considered canon. 7:40 "The Alien can eat" How do you know that? It doesn't eat in Alien or Aliens.
@collativelearning4 ай бұрын
Yeah I was being generous suggesting 10% of the film wasn't boring lol. The adult alien in the first film did bleed. ripley shot it with the harpoon gun and acide blood splashes out from the wound into the vaccuum of space. They didn't try to kill it on accoun tof the blood. As for Ash saying you can't kill it, I never thought that was a statement of literal invincibility like Superman has, but rather that Ash didn't want them to kill it. He was still protecting it so was trying to demotivate them. I think it's implausible to say the alien doesn't eat. It's got a mouth, teeth and a basic humanoid figure. All animals have to devour something for nourishment, otherwise where do they get their energy from?
@Zatzzo4 ай бұрын
@@collativelearning " ripley shot it with the harpoon gun and acide blood splashes out from the wound into the vaccuum of space" i just watched it again and i'm not sure i agree. just before she does that you see there's some sort of dust flying around in the ship, maybe it's just that. i don't see anything yellow. also i'm not sure it would make sense: the ship doesn't get damaged by the acid? "They didn't try to kill it on accoun tof the blood." They only said that about the Facehugger, not the Alien. "where do they get their energy from?" probably true, whatever.
@Zatzzo4 ай бұрын
@@collativelearning "As for Ash saying you can't kill it, I never thought that was a statement of literal invincibility like Superman has, but rather that Ash didn't want them to kill it." Yeah, i'm probably the only one who sees it that way. The idea that you can't kill it just makes the thing so much more "alien" and mysterious. To me a huge part of what makes that movie so great is that you know so little - who knows what's going on with that thing? Everything seems possible.
@collativelearning4 ай бұрын
@@Zatzzo It was pretty obvious in the first film the alien, like its facehugger parent, had acid for blood. That's why they were hoping to eject it out the airlock. That's why ripley didn't just shoot it in the head with the harppon while it was asleep. And that's why nobody ever questioned the second movie for the aliens having acid blood or the novelization. It's built into the entire franchise froim the beginning. When she shoots it in the stomach all the air and debris had already been sucked out the ship. That's it's blood we see from the stomach. It didn't damage the ship because the alien eas flung backwards into space from the impact.
@Zatzzo4 ай бұрын
@@collativelearning Why would the blood only come out when the Alien had already been flung into space and not on impact? Also even if the stuff is coming from the Alien, it could just as well be parts of its Exoskeleton. I think its debris from the ship. We see there's no more debris inside when Ripley fires the gun but just a second earlier there was. Since the outside shot is only a second later, i think it's possible. There's just no way to be sure it's blood, we don't see enough of it.
@03chrisv4 ай бұрын
The "kids" in this movie were far more intelligent than anyone from Prometheus or Covenant. I don't see how you thought they were idiots, they seemed relatively rational considering the situation. I personally thought it was a fun Alien movie with a bit of fan service. I wasn't expecting a deep philosophical story or something as action-packed as the second movie. I just plain don't agree with your take.
@CplDwayneHicks114 ай бұрын
This Timeline was much further into Space Traveling when Humanity learned to adapt more. The Prometheus team was sabotaged by Vickers to protest against her Father plans. Covenant was the first real deal Colony shipped out so they would all be very rough.
@nasirjones5804 ай бұрын
agree, everyone seems just forget that Alien is a horror movie, not some deep philosophical Bergman movie.
@theendisthebeginningistheend4 ай бұрын
@@03chrisv Very good point.
@PaulMilner-nl8vv4 ай бұрын
Exactly, if Rob is gonna complain about realism. There's plenty of unrealistic moments in covenant and Prometheus. Realism takes a back seat in 95% of movies. Entertainment is the main driver. I think he's upset there wasn't a 3rd continued movie after covenant 😅