ALIEN ROMULUS Explained: The Ending, Black Goo & Your WTF Questions Answered

[@heavyspoilers]

Let us know your thoughts on the movie and if you have any other questions I'm sure someone smarter than me will have the answer.

[@Sh_rib]

Am i the first comment on your post? Whoooooo knoooooows lol 😂😂😂

[@Sh_rib]

@@TheGreatPewpyOne you cared enough to reply lmao 🤣🤣🤣

[@Boricua_User146]

How did the Engineer Space Jokey have Xenomorph eggs on board his ship on LV 426 in the 1st movie if the Xenomorphs were created by David, and all of the Engineers were killed by the black goo?

[@danielpeckham5520]

I'm curious what happened to the mother's body, they didn't show what happened to that, I'm surprised the goo didn't mutate her into a super zombie.

[@soulweaponx6644]

@@Boricua_User146 David possibly copied the Engineer's blueprint on how to create the xenomorphs. In Covenant, he had many sketches on the cave walls, and it seemed like he continually tried experimenting until he finally got it right. The only thing I would have liked to have seen is if the xenomorph could be tamed the same way the protomorph was.

[@tyronfoston7123]

Andy's emotionlessness expression when keeping the doors open was a classic android moment. Also, his creepiness when being reset was great!

[@FaithMarlow-jm2gg]

He reminded me of the T-1000 from Terminator 2 in that moment. I think Andy's mood shifts were some of the most unnerving parts because it was so unpredictable.

[@tyronfoston7123]

@@FaithMarlow-jm2gg he went from looking unsure to stoic and confident without being over the top. The lack of emotion means we couldn't relate to him which is perfect because... he's a robot. You're dead on with the T-1000 reference!!

[@SpecialOrder935]

Yay for autism android 🤡 movie was a massive flop

[@alc4117]

The actor did a great job at conveying emotion for an android that’s not suppose to show a lot of emotion.

[@QGarrison]

​@alc4117 I agree he was definitely the stand out performance in that movie in my opinion. I'm looking forward to seeing more of him.

[@unrhu]

I feel like Andy made this movie, every scene he was in, fantastic. And when he got the Weylan Yutani upgrade he was even more intriguing. Great film!

[@michaelsegriff3362]

The word great is so overused it’s become meaningless.

[@unrhu]

@@michaelsegriff3362 Goofy comments have been meaningless but that doesn't stop goofballs like you from making them

[@TeXmEx26SoX]

@@unrhufried his ass up 😂, Andy actor was awesome.

[@davidtatro7457]

David Jonnson's performance as Andy rivaled those of all the previous masters who have played synthetics in this franchise. He truly makes the film, and it's worth watching just for him if nothing else.

[@dukecraig2402]

He was great but by the same token it shouldn't distract from the rest of the principle cast who were all great. It was an excellent idea to have all the main characters as 20 somethings instead of a bunch of middle aged scientists, pilots and workers, what a better way to restart the franchise with new ideas than to have the energy of youth as the center of the story. I myself consider this to be a better movie than all others in the franchise save for the original of course, Aliens was nothing more than an action movie using the original Alien story as the backdrop, but Romulus returned it to a horror movie which is something none of the other movies in the franchise managed to recreate from the original.

[@juliolaurian1777]

The offspring's resemblance to the engineers felt like a real effed up full circle moment when I saw the movie, tying it to the newer and older alien films.

[@gilbertodepiento8521]

I lost my shit when it smiled. It resembles scp096 shy guy monster

[@saawysorenson4585]

@@gilbertodepiento8521 also Orphan of Kos

[@dante6985]

IMHO it was a much more effective execution of what Alien Resurrection was *trying* to pull off with the newborn in that movie. It wasn't scary it was this gross undead dog puppet.

[@gilbertodepiento8521]

@@saawysorenson4585 uncanny

[@gilbertodepiento8521]

@@dante6985 it made me sad how he died tho. But the offspring in Romulus... I can watch him die gruesome deaths without a single tear

[@dylanmorgan2374]

When the camera pans up at the dead Alien on the station, you can still see the grappling hook Ripley shot at it… still imbedded. Loved this detail

[@p4rt_t1me_g0d]

Now ask yourself how that works with the xenomorphs acidic blood.

[@DrifterSam]

I thought the same thing. It looked like the hook went through the other side and got stuck in the exoskeleton.

[@Fiorwestcoast]

Nice detail. Pity they forgot the detail that the big chap can't make 50 facehuggers.

[@SiliconDrifter]

I love that Easter egg and the fact the original drone went ham on the station

[@martyguy8185]

Glad everyone got a good shot of it. Was to dark in my theater to see details. Thanks for the info though!!!!

[@jasoncox9883]

I enjoyed the Movie. It was nice to see a different set of people. Honestly the young kids just trying to get a better life was cool

[@michaelgranger7113]

Their acting sucked.

[@judedobbelmann859]

​@michaelgranger7113 Nope, they were great. Especially the two leads.

[@jcaashby3]

I legit saw someone complain about the younger cast. Like do you want to see space truckers or marines again!? The story was solid and simple. They wanted off the planet and needed the chambers off that ship. Simple!

[@FaithMarlow-jm2gg]

I like that the story was returned to a working class crew. Rain knew her fate if she stayed in the mines. They had the best motivation to take the risk. I loved the movie.

[@ArloKnudsenFit]

@@michaelgranger7113you’re wrong.

[@THEBIGBAD99-X]

Ridley doesn't like the queen because it wasn't his idea, dudes Ego gets the best of him a lot. The same reason he killed blomkamp movie.

[@ryuuotaku35]

Still it’s part of the sequel franchise.

[@Ruleof2Review]

He’s earned the right to that ego. We’re gonna let him have it.

[@micahrutland9021]

​​​​@@Ruleof2Review No he does not have the right to block other filmmakers from making entries into the Alien series, as he has done. The Alien franchise literally needed a reboot after his 2 convoluted films, and he is STILL trying to shoehorn in his black goo nonsense INTO THE REBOOT. People wanna see a good sequel to James Cameron's Aliens, and he doesn't have the right to tell people they can't. He didn't write the story of Alien, he didn't design the Alien. He doesn't own the franchise. He didn't create any of it. He only directed it.

[@prixswrld]

From a bigology standpoint The Concept of a Queen supersedes the need for face huggers entirely. It's also in conflict with the Idea that these are parasites that need other organisms to breed

[@micahrutland9021]

​​@@prixswrld a queen does not supercede the need for facehuggers. The reason the facehuggers exist, is the DNA reflex. The Xenomorph needs to be able to replicate Xenomorph versions of the species they come in contact with in order to survive. If there's marine life or flying species, the Xenomorphs need to also have marine xenos and flying xenos to overtake them.

[@thecunninlynguist]

I'm still haunted by that face of the hybrid

[@FormlessJKD17]

Wuss

[@Fiorwestcoast]

It was just an engineer

[@ryuuotaku35]

@@FiorwestcoastA engineer / xenomorph Hybrid nickname the offspring, Also it was also a person too. He’s the tallest man in the world. So the scenes isn’t All* cgi. I didn’t know until I checked. 😲

[@kvannielpdance8346]

Same here I hate it

[@kvannielpdance8346]

But I did love the movien

[@RpgBlasterRpg]

4:39 It's was even smiling, that thing is so fucking unhinged!

[@Cat-uo4vw]

I don’t think it actually knew what was happening and acting on instinct. Kind of like how babies smile involuntarily.

[@JoeKerr019]

I think it's more primal. Like how primates "smile" as a sign to threaten others

[@RandomBitterMan]

It loves the hunt.

[@mikaeljohansson291]

Another point with the xenomorph that grabbed Rain, that I noticed but my brother and friend did not notice, was that this was the first one they encountered as it had electric bolts in its scar from earlier, thus the beginning wrapped back to the end and we got a little vendetta of old scores needing to be settled. Similar to the net-faced xeno in AvP movie and Number 6 from one of the AvP video games

[@lukegialanella5992]

His name is Grid, net scarred xeno. I have a figure.

[@FortFinesse007]

Well an alien wants to persevere people for impregnation and the hive

[@Yerinjibbang]

@@lukegialanella5992 sickkk

[@duendeacdc]

i noticed that electric scar, but I still can't understand why it grabbed Ray.

[@szszisti4816]

@@duendeacdc Because it wanted impregnate her with a facehugger? You can see one of those things showed up next to her.

[@AaronBowley]

now that it's been a few days since i've seen it, i like it even more and more

[@Nicholas_Chen_]

It definitely gets better upon rewatch

[@luizholiveira3105]

I hate that fucking movie so much. Trash movie.

[@AaronBowley]

@@luizholiveira3105 don't care about you

[@luizholiveira3105]

@@AaronBowley You do. The movie is horrible.

[@baconeggcheesepodcast9390]

Me too it was really good

[@Leggo_Waffle]

Andy was the best character

[@baconeggcheesepodcast9390]

I liked him too

[@charlesharry7901]

Definitely Agree

[@stealthyturtles]

Exactly what I’d expect a synth or synth sympathizer to say.. 🤔 Na he was definitely the most fleshed out, ironically

[@danielfragnelli5887]

Totally agreed just like ash and David. Sorry if I didn't mention Cole or bishop as I do like there characters, Andy just nailed the roll perfectly.

[@Anonymous-bs8it]

Hardest working spoiler guy on YT. Take that Ryan Arey!

[@eldritchmorgasm4018]

Is this the reason why James Cameron suddenly distanced himself ftom the finished movie, even though before he was pleasently surprised, but now there's no queen involved, which pleases Ridley Scott? Xenomorph: What pleases the hive? Android: What pleases the company, Weyland-Yutani? Ridley Scott: What pleases my ego? Fans: What pleases the franchise?

[@Fiorwestcoast]

I guarantee you Cameron hated the Rook character. And made fun of the black goo. Because no matter what. It never made sense.

[@rockhurstu]

I have mixed feelings on it. The fact that there’s no Queen but there are face huggers could simply be attributed to the fact that the station is filled with face huggers because the company made so many (as seen on the conveyor belt). The main thing that disputes the idea of a Queen seems to be that face huggers were developed from the Big Chap DNA and the face huggers impregnate via a genetic implanting vs an alien embryo…but its vague enough it could still be some mix of the two.

[@jcaashby3]

There also was no Queen in the original movie but yet....there was a SHIP full of eggs. That was never explained nor needed to be explained and Alien is considered a classic!! Romulus did not need to have a Queen as you can literally see they scienced up facehuggers....for what reason ..who knows. Who cares. And had they added a queen in this movie that would be one more thing copied from other Alien movies that people would complain about.

[@jcaashby3]

@@rockhurstu also the original movie did not have a Queen. It had a ship full of eggs. I lean more towards the engineers aspect of messing with the black goo and creating all types of shit. Prometeus also had no queen but there was plenty of weird genetic shit happening. So Romulus not having a queen but with facehuggers is not that big of a deal.

[@Fiorwestcoast]

@@rockhurstu basically it's Ridley still trying to make the goo make sense

[@fivesfish]

The android eyes in Romulus where a nice touch.

[@baconeggcheesepodcast9390]

What you mean

[@rosstee]

@@baconeggcheesepodcast9390 It's mentioned in this video - Andy's eyes have the Weyland-Yutani logo on them, visible when he looks up.

[@cubanref9670]

I agree. That reboot scene was really cool and added to the tension.

[@idrathergetaidsthangetwoke9145]

That impresses you? Wow. You're easy.

[@MoonDevoured]

7:14 I really wish the xeno-cocoon had more screentime, was one of my favorite parts of the movie, and something we've never seen before. the growth/maturation of an adult xeno, from the chestburster stage.

[@luizholiveira3105]

this is a copy from the movie Species.

[@johnwoo2016]

I agree. And made it make far more sense how the chest-buster Xenomorph can evolve into adult size; in such a short-space of time.

[@DeathcoreHusky]

Yeah it was one of the few thing i loves from this horrible movie

[@mayrasanchez7851]

I saw it at the movies as the ads and I wanted to watch it for that reason lol

[@johnwoo2016]

@@luizholiveira3105 In reality though…..would any Sci-Film really be the same without Alien (1979)?

[@toaolisi761]

I really hope they continue Rain's story. All the characters In Romulus were great, and far more likeable than the ones in Covenant. Prometheus had a decent protagonist, I don't get why they killed her off so quick.

[@UNSTABLE111]

I rewatcched Prometheus...Makes me sad we didn't get a proper promotheus sequel, instead we got Covenant..which wasn't terrible but I actually didn't care much for that crew..

[@MissteriousOne]

They really messed up when they ditched “Paradise”, Elizabeth/David’s actual sequel and replaced it with Covenant. That movie just didn’t feel like a proper Alien film.

[@smith549371]

That annoying guy in Romulus that constantly acted like a chav, saying “bitch” constantly and bullying Andy…that was a bad character

[@phattjohnson]

I couldn't care less about any of the characters in this film. Though I'll admit it does a good job of making Prometheus look like a masterpiece and Covenant feel like an overperforming follow-up. Other than some great visual set pieces, what actually happens in Romulus is easily forgettable.

[@smith549371]

@@phattjohnson the main girl was a decent enough character but more of a good side character in a decent movie than a real main character. The rest of them were just plain annoying or fleshed out so minimally why would we care or remember them.

[@graelent9]

I'm pretty sure the xeno cocooned itself not because it was premature, but because that is part of its cycle. It 's just that we were never previously shown that stage from the original films. Nothing to do with the facehugger being removed prematurely.

[@stealthyturtles]

I thought it was kinda dumb personally. It cocooned itself in a bunch of organic material from nothing. Where did it get the mats for that, how did it do it pretty much instantly? At that size? Would’ve been cool if it just kept doing that, like atleast twice, to show that it was a small chest buster, then it was a little bigger like big dog sized, then did it a final time to reach full growth. Cause it was definitely premature when the guy shocked the hell out of it, but it went from planted embryo, to chest buster, to full size in like a matter of an hour (from the characters perspective). That’s roughly what the timeline was from face hugger latching on to fully grown threat.

[@The_Chosen_Heretic]

I think either interpretation is valid.

[@simeonyeager2135]

I thoroughly enjoyed the cocoon felt like it added more to them

[@mikeglasswell-gameplay]

The wall cocoon is a new concept adding to the lore and it's suggesting that chestbursters shed their skin and use that cocoon to grow further. 'Big chap' did it too

[@Norvascott]

Apparently taken from Geiger concept art

[@cyanyde4950]

@@Norvascott there was a deleted scene where in the first film big chap would have had remnants of their cocoon in the boiler/engine room of the nostromo, but was removed, so the concept had always been there this was just the first time on film we've seen it. and that's pretty cool, not enough to save the film but a nice inclusion to the xenomorph.

[@BlkBugHunter]

Actually no it was used in deleted scene in alien albeit with humans being turned into eggs but still same concept.

[@mikeglasswell-gameplay]

@@BlkBugHunter ah yes. That concept the egg morpher, i prefer the enhancements to the lore with the queen. I was meaning the new gestation concept for the alien.

[@chelseapand0ra]

This is the BEST analysis video I've seen about Romulus so far. MVP!

[@baconeggcheesepodcast9390]

Yeah I love the breakdown

[@hotcoldman77]

New Rockstars cooks this and it's not even close

[@ghostfacescrillaNG]

Gotta say, that film was bloody brilliant! As a massive fan of the OG, it was real return to form.

[@michaelgranger7113]

My god, you must have very low standards!

[@luizholiveira3105]

it was trash. hated it

[@aaronrodriguez1410]

​@@luizholiveira3105 can't please everyone

[@DeathcoreHusky]

I am a huge alien fan , and god i hated this movie

[@luizholiveira3105]

@@DeathcoreHusky me too.

[@SoulPurposeGaming]

Earned a like for calling out Disney's insane terms and conditions for Disney plus that allow them to end you.

[@atticus3743]

***Spoilers ***I see the Xenomorph catching Rain as its intelligence on display. When the Alien took Kay to be a host, it wounded her too badly. So she was never implanted by a face hugger. So it learns to be more careful in its handling of host organism for new Xenos.

[@duendeacdc]

it makes sense,but did you notice the electric scar on its head? I'm sure it wasn't a reflection. I can't understand this scene

[@mrwoopass]

@@duendeacdc I don't recall it emerging unscarred from the cocoon, but after a while, I thought perhaps it has that scar from when it was getting facefucked by the cattle prod.

[@ImSakina_]

or it’s just plot armor lmao. let’s be honest here.

[@duendeacdc]

@@ImSakina_ maybe it was the scar made by that stupid guy that didn't like Andy with the lighting rod?that alien is the same alien from the cocoon ?

[@mrwoopass]

@@duendeacdc yeah that's what i was referring to. the cattle prod that he blindly stuffed into the cocoon before his demise.

[@submergedstegosaurus437]

I thought the cocoon the xenomorph was in was just the next stage of its growth after the chestburster. Just something we never got to see in a previous installment. Something that helps explain how the alien can get so big so quickly after molting.

[@yesyesyesyes1600]

My son (13) in cinema: Cool, like in Species 😂

[@ihdiinnotime]

Yh that seems to be what it is.

[@frankrochefort8265]

It is just another stage. It’s not because it’s premature. When the chestburster gets out it ingest nutrients and then forms a cocoon to finish it’s growth into a drone. Well explained in the alien rpg written by andrew gaska who was hired by Scott to make coherent the alien world.

[@itsakekmydude8190]

It looked very sus 🤔 pretty much like a female Genital

[@danielc7131]

There are some answers to the many plot holes in this film, but not all of them. The facehugger that implanted Navarro should never have even succeeded given it was only attached for around 3 - 4 minutes before they got it off. That is WAY too short given what’s established in the other films and even worse, given that the implantation was successful, the facehugger should have DIED! Did the writers never watch the other movies? Not only that, the fact that Navarro then gives birth to the chestburster not 10 fucking minutes after being implanted? That is NOT how that works. But then the writers needed that to be the case or the rest of the film doesn’t take place. It’s such an awful mess.

[@adamstapleton9756]

Parker wasn’t talking about freezing the facehugger, he was talking about putting Cane in cryosleep.

[@Cain353]

Correct. Which would have been the best thing Ash could have done. The Alien wouldn't have caused any destruction and WY could have taken Kane to a research facility/station without problems.

[@kellysmith1144]

@@Cain353 My only point to against that is we don't know how long it takes to put someone in hypersleep. Critter could have arrived before the process was completed.

[@paigelogan7600]

Cryosleep didn’t help this last pregnant lady. She was in the cryo tube then it malfunctioned because the alien baby was still growing.

[@baconeggcheesepodcast9390]

Why you say that

[@akumathelion535]

@@Cain353 According to this movie and Aliens 3 (is that still canon?) the xenomorph inside will disrupt the cryosleep.

[@straysheep5312]

Honestly the part when Andy froze while rebooting was really good. I know it had CGI involved, but it definitely gave it a more eerie atmosphere when exploring an abandoned ship.

[@stealthyturtles]

From the crews perspective, it’s even more creepy. Here’s this android they’ve known for years as being defective and kinda “slow”. When they are being attacked by something in water they can’t see it just freezes after they uploaded some random disc into, hoping it would give it approval access to the door. Followed by him completely changing into a totally different android, meanwhile their friend has a weird predatory creature on her face mimicking her breathing pattern. The entire act from start to finish when the face huggers first appeared to the alien bursting from her chest, was just phenomenal

[@frankrochefort8265]

Parker doesn’t suggest freezing the facehugger to remove it. He suggest freezing Kane to bring him back on earth where he can be taken to a medical facility.

[@baconeggcheesepodcast9390]

You’re right

[@brendanmccormack8374]

Kane

[@frankrochefort8265]

@@brendanmccormack8374 oh yeah kane sorry

[@bigslydoc]

I thought the Alien franchise was dead after Covenant, how wrong was I. I freaking loved this movie.

[@phattjohnson]

Seriously? The characters are bland and shallow as can be and it's not even an age thing, just a script and casting thing.. I am not a fan of Alien 3's writing and inconsistent character arcs at all (worst film for me personally) but at least there's some interpersonal conflict in that one to keep things interesting outside of the (now a tad overplayed) xeno scares.

[@leonardtompkins5197]

The more Ridley Scott pushes to erase the queen the more likely he will be removed from future projects. BRING BACK THE QUEEN!

[@SpecialOrder935]

Just get rid of the Prometheus bullshit And I’ve never been a massive fan of the Queen but it’s been 20 years since we’ve seen her AVP 2004 and she was awesome in that movie !

[@joyfulwarrior7597]

@@SpecialOrder935 just get rid of ridley scott, he did great with Alien but all of this new crapo has nothing to do with Alien

[@DeathcoreHusky]

@@joyfulwarrior7597yeah , he sound like he invented xenomorph , but he just made a movie with a xeno in it , the xeno dad is HR giger

[@kendiamond7852]

Ridley should've retired at least 10 years ago. The origin concept in Prometheus really is garbage in the end. Covenant was even worse.

[@jamesdean8785]

…Jesus F***king Christ

[@desmondbrown2813]

The Alien queen was brilliant. Literally opened the hive horror mentality for all films after. And a fantastic continuation of the story organically.

[@hotcoldman77]

It sucked. Especially its dumb design

[@siruseless6650]

I’m really confused, why don’t people like the Alien Queen from Aliens and in other appearances it showed up in? I think she’s got a neat design, and it could still fit nicely with all of the post-Prometheus Alien films as well since it could easily be explained as the Xenomorph naturally evolving and galvanizing its own creation of more xenomorphs through the making of an egg-laying queen. And if you still don’t like the idea that’s the main evolution of it without involvement of any experimentation, then you could say it’s just an offshoot evolutionary path or something. Either way, I just think it’s neat.

[@joey.renaud]

I would love for the next movie to also take place around the time of Romulus that ties in Covenant: David has all those colonists and embryos, what if there is another massive fight for survival with them against David and his babies, and the survivors found Hadley's Hope, not knowing that their fate will be just the same. I do love that "Stay away from her" was reused, it did make me smile, but it felt very strange coming from Andy. The delay of whether or not he was going to finish it was even better...but then it all lost its momentum when he did. It really should have been used when Rain went to go save Kay from her child...but I think it would have received even bigger flack if Rain had said it.

[@eden20111]

The Prometheus and Engineer reference is by far the best thing for me. I'm glad they shed some more light on the black goo. This implies the black goo also evolved the Engineers, but their modification was more controlled and stable.

[@nunyabusiness6691]

I thought the same thing. I really dislike the engineer/black goo/ they seeded life on earth BS storyline. However, if it turns out that they were products of the black goo that could be mildly interesting. Like the engineers are the synthetic people created by a different race we haven't seen before, and maybe the Xenomorphs are something that has just "always been" and don't necessarily have an origin that can be found. Or something like that. I dunno, but they need to do SOMETHING get this franchise back on course.

[@eden20111]

@@nunyabusiness6691 if you watched Prometheus, you will see the Engineers worshipped the xenomorphs. That's because the black goo came from the xeno homeworld. It's implied the Engineers discovered the xenomorphs home planet while travelling the stars and extracted the black goo and reverse engineered it to enhance themselves. They used the black goo to create humanity, and they used the black goo to create that civilization from Covenant.

[@danielc7131]

So we’re told that Rook and his team of scientists apparently studied the captured xenomorph’s DNA at a molecular level, even going so far as bio-engineering face huggers and the black goo from the aforementioned captured specimen, but then the film also tells us they were ‘surprised’ that it had acid for blood. 🤔 Writing.

[@jonahulichny9874]

@@danielc7131 just to ask, was it the secutity team that shot it who were suprised or the researchers studying it?

[@juliusthompson4794]

Dam... so the Alien Queen that Ripley blasted into space is possibly still alive out there...

[@baconeggcheesepodcast9390]

That’s what it seem like

[@El_Grande_Jefe]

Yea. That thing prob enter atmosphere and not burn up. Infest a whole planet.

[@john_p_123]

@@El_Grande_Jefeisnt the new show just that?

[@El_Grande_Jefe]

@@john_p_123 idk . Haven't heard that. U mean new TV show?

[@taWay21]

solid 8/10 popcorn flick for me. saw it in imax and had a blast. My favorite parts however had to be the set pieces. I felt they did a really good job creating that retro-futuristic analog horror atmosphere that was iconic to the original. Big buttons and nobs and such. Also felt the shots of the station hitting the astroid belt really made you feel, even with all the insane action horror going on, that all of it was really insignificant in wider scheme of things which by itself is existentially terrifying.

[@yesyesyesyes1600]

Have you seen or played Aliens Fire Team Elite? There were So many refernces which make me strongly believe they studied the artwork to get thd right feeling for the ambience.

[@slushosaur]

So... inhales I think the best way to summarise Alien Romulus would be, its two hours of combining every Alien film in the franchise into one movie for the good and the bad. It left me feeling very "Bro can I copy your homework?" "Sure just change it up a little". As far as effects go the Ian Holm deep fake was the only bit that had me thinking they should have taken another method than that, it was atrocious to see in Imax, the worst part? the mouth! it looked so copy pasted on top of the rest! As far as the films story goes I feel there wasn't enough emphasis on the desperation to escape the planet. The Rain wasn't angry enough about being manipulated over and over again by the company, all we really got was exposition of how miserable the characters where, nobody actually seemed that oppressed. Also given that at least two of the characters seemed to have free access to a ship whenever they wanted it seemed absurd that ex boyfriend had never taken Rain up to just see the sun at any point before? that would be basic bitch territory to impress a partner right? Bjorn was there to give us someone we were looking forward to seeing killed off, what with his constant unprovoked abuse towards Andy. I actually really liked Andy's portrayal a lot, that the damaged synthetic felt more vulnerable and human than any of the other characters in the film. I kind of wish that his software repairs had remained after the chip was removed, minus the overriding "do it for the company" directive of course, although that did leave me wondering how software and hardware interact in this universe. Why did Andy revert back to his previous self? Maybe I missed an explanation about when he crashes and needs to be reboot he loses the updates? That would have been a nice way to tie in Rain going back to save him both physically and metaphorically. Everything is great until we hit trying to tie in Prometheus and Covenant. The instant Kay said she was pregnant I knew she was there purely because of that, her sole characters purpose is freaky birth sequence. She honestly serves nothing to the plot and is just there as a vehicle for grotesque hybrid fodder, which in itself felt like a weird amalgam of Prometheus and Alien Resurrection. The two sequences I loved where the most original ideas in the film (Clearly Ridley let go of the wheel for 5 minutes so Alvarez could cook). They creepy hot terror hallway of nothing but facehuggers actually made them scary again! The suspense of silence and seeing then waiting, twitching at any sound, wondering if our characters body temp would drop or if even the sound of sweat dripping would set them off! Then there's the glorious Zero-G Acid tunnel Vortex, chefs kiss to that! As if only worrying about being caught in the spray was bad enough now here's a whole swirling pool of death for you to somehow navigate through, oh and btw did we mention you're on a timer too? I'll be adding that to my list of nightmare fuel thanks Alvarez. I also think that being told how everything got the way it did sounds like I somehow missed a fantastic Alien movie in the series. Big chaps crucified remains (yes we see that religious metaphor very clever) with harpoon still embedded looming over everything felt very fan service but also that's it? that's all we got? felt wasted in a way. Something that I feel might have helped tie the movie to the overall "evil company" narrative might have been to have had the damaged station intentionally directed towards the mining colony. They obviously new the Xenomorphs could survive extreme heat and pressures so perhaps as an override Rook could have sent the station on a collision course with the planet as a way of seeding the planet with more specimens for company collection at a later date. It did feel very odd that somehow nobody else had spotted the station given its size and proximity, having it being intentional would have gotten round that and been very on brand. Sorry about the huge rant, I honestly really wanted to to enjoy the film but it ended up feeling like they went for copying lots of ideas from the franchise to appeal to fans rather than push boundaries. Trying to Prove you're a fan by rewriting and showing the fans everything they loved about the previous entries doesn't make them think you're a genius, Star Wars: The Force Awakens proves that. Also Fede, Ridley will never be your Senpai! You should have made your own movie! XD

[@galex5060]

Totally agree. Here is my posting in case you missed it. YAWN!!! I was sadly disappointed in this film. It was a hot mess. I feel it was over-hyped with the marketing campaign. In the end, the plot could have been written on the back of a postage stamp. There were so many plot holes and I kept on predicting what would happen next. I understand the homage to Ian Holm (aka Ash/Rook), but felt this was to the detriment of the film, which surely should come first. It was too contrived and I knew it was "Ash" as soon as I saw the body on the floor. It would have been much more effective and chilling if a different synthetic had actually said the same lines and directives, which would have emphasised Weyland's intentions more powerfully. The CGI for Rook was absolutely a shocker, given what resources are available to do this, which again underlines why they should have gone with a new character. If you can't do it well, then don't do it at all. Also, the gestation of the aliens was so fast which made it unbelievable. I am confused as to why the face-huggers couldn't get through the glass. In the original ALIEN, the face-hugger could get through Kane's glass helmet, but not get through glass in ALIENS nor here it seems. The characters filled the usual line-up of likeable/unlikable characters. For once, it would have been good to see a male character play the "hero" role so as to go against type. But in the end, I just wished they could have all been killed to put them out of their misery and the audience's misery too. Also, maybe I missed it, but why was Kay not in cryo sleep once she was put in the cryotube and hence suspending the birth of the hybrid. The final hybrid was again ridiculous and the audience I was part of, actually laughed out loud. A few thought it was crossed with Voldemort. Really, again, the CGI was appalling in this film. I really do think it is time they stop milking this franchise for all it's worth and leave it alone, but then the $$$$ are too tempting. I for one, will not spend one more $ on seeing an ALIEN film. I know that a lot of people think this was the best film of 2024, but for me, it just fell flat. And I have watched and re-watched every ALIEN film and forgiven many sins. But this was one sin too many. As an aside, I will say that ANDY was amazing and brilliantly portrayed which emphasises even more what could have been happening in this film if they had stop pandering to fan-service and been brave and original.

[@danielc7131]

@@galex5060you haven’t touched on the more egregious errors in the script! I also find it ridiculous that Rook and his team of scientists apparently studied the xenomorph at a molecular level right down to its very DNA but the film tells us they were ‘surprised’ that it had acid for blood??!! That’s preposterous! Given how much bio engineering took place, they absolutely WOULD have known about that. Don’t you also love that we’re just supposed to accept that not a single scientific finding was shared, reported on or communicated with ANYONE outside of that ship during all of Rook and the scientists findings? The scientific discovery of the aliens, creating facehuggers, bio engineering the black goo etc was apparently never shared with anyone at WY or at a governmental level, and nobody even knows what went down on this station that must have housed hundreds of personnel? Nobody went out to see what happened with them all and check on the status of that ship? Okay film. And then to add insult to injury, Up until now we assumed there was no updates or transference of data, but at the end rook casually updates HQ on all the events that went down on this station. Which completely undermines ‘Aliens’ meaning the events of aliens simply cannot happen after this film.

[@danielc7131]

We should count ourselves lucky that the writers didn’t decide to pluck Ash’s destroyed body from the vacuum of space and somehow insert that into this film 😅. I guarantee you they would have thought about it. The very fact that Big Chap somehow ‘survived’ is another absurdity the writers just want us to simply accept much like Palpatine appearing in a similar broken mess (TROS) with zero logic or establishment.

[@hutonghustler5317]

@@galex5060I think you’re being a bit of a hater. Movie had some flaws but it was an enjoyable two hours and had some scary scenes

[@Scottysaweet]

before watching your video, i assumed it wanted her alive so it can use her for reproduction in the cocoon hallway

[@midwesternfellowship1237]

"smashed his head like the like button" lol

[@jackofpaultrades]

Rooks character was a great addition. Orchestrating the mission and manipulating the crew. Watching him face his own decommission after failing his prime directive was very good

[@johnmarc1986]

Just wish they didn't use a creepy Ian Holm deep fake. Just cast someone as a new Android.

[@dominiquejones3805]

Just hated the mouth movements & sometimes the head looked small

[@arandomstormcloak8839]

I’m really happy they didn’t completely retcon the prequels, I was invested in the story, even if it got pretty hard to follow lol

[@michaelchejin9688]

Xenomorphs always turn into a cocoon shortly after erupting from a host, just the 1st time we've seen one emerge from the cocoon

[@MetalsirenIXI]

IM READY FOR THE NEXT FILM NOW!!!

[@baconeggcheesepodcast9390]

Me too when does it come out

[@vikramd4619]

They will take their own sweet time. It was disheartening that the next Prometheus movie never came.

[@Loons1975]

I enjoyed the Movie right up to the Alien 4 redo.

[@africanhistory]

I enjoyed it up until Ash CGI

[@baconeggcheesepodcast9390]

That was the best part

[@johnmarc1986]

Xenomorphs are probably the coolest movie monster in film history and they sideline it in the final act for a basketball player. It's nonsense.

[@hotcoldman77]

I was bored out of my mind of the fan sarvice movie right up to the Alien 4 redo which slightly redeemed it lmaooo

[@hotcoldman77]

This is 2024 not 1979. Xenomorphs have become the most boring creatures in Hollywood. I wish the 7'7 basketball player was the only enemy in the movie. At least he was terrifying and a breath of fresh air

[@DonMiguelLaBestia]

The main thing that bugged me was how quickly it went from facehugger to full Xeno. It was like 2 days in Alien 1 for what happens in 20 minutes in Romulus… I like your explanation tho. The xeno catching rain didn’t even register with me as a plot hole, that makes sense for the reason you stated. Good catch with Andy saying bitch. I wondered if that was supposed to be a T2 Arnold kinda line where he’s using slang in a clunky way

[@ghostofwar5430]

Because just one of them managed to wipe out my entire crew in less than 24 hours - Ripley telling those suckers in aliens It grows full size very very quickly

[@jonahulichny9874]

I thought that in alien 1 it molted almost immediately after it burst. like they were looking for it immediately after, went into the rain room, and found it.

[@DonMiguelLaBestia]

@@jonahulichny9874 That's fair... I think it's that in Alien the amount of time that's passed is unclear so I always assumed that some hours passed in between scenes. Whereas Romulus you have the computer telling you exactly how many minutes have passed. It's warmed up to me though. I like the idea that the wall cocoon is sapping energy/resources from the ship to grow.

[@foetaltreborus2017]

Second watch this afternoon in a 3/4 full cinema - excellent as far I'm concerned !

[@prestonpeet1]

I watched the first minute and a half of the above (to the 1:37 mark in your video), having not yet decided when I was going to watch Alien Romulus. When you showed the copy of your Dark Horse Aliens Omnibus, I immediately dug out my copy, and within another minute or two, decided that yes, it was time for me to watch the new film. So a big fat Thank You for enthusiastic start to your above video, as I great enjoyed the movie (and will be rewatching very soon), and for reminding me I still need to finally give my Aliens Omnibus a good read through next (addicted to reading from a very early age, I tend to get overloaded with material and can sometimes get behind, not helped at all by my second addiction, watching movies). I only just discovered your channel, and as soon as the film was finished, I came back to your video here, and finished watching it through, then subscribed. I found Alien Romulus to be the best addition to the Alien movies story line since Aliens, and far better than both Prometheus and Alien Covenant. Again, a sincere Thank You for your obvious and inspiring love of the film(s).

[@aaronrodriguez1410]

Black goo yayyy. I want more engineers

[@baconeggcheesepodcast9390]

So how do you feel about the engineers

[@emilio556]

Same. I want to see an Engineer vs a Xeno, or a Engineer vs Predator

[@aaronrodriguez1410]

@@emilio556 same here. They did that a couple of times in the dark horse comics. The engineers were always op

[@johnmarc1986]

🤮

[@aaronrodriguez1410]

@@johnmarc1986 🤣🫵🤡

[@Crainage1056]

"I prefer the term artificial person myself" is also a reference, the way rain was shown how to use the rifle was a direct reference, and many more that I cought but don't have immediate remembrance. the way rain said "are you okay Andy" sounded like "are you okay Annie" from michael Jackson's song.

[@roxanneandrew530]

I saw Alien Romulus today and loved it

[@baconeggcheesepodcast9390]

Yeah it’s worth watching twice

[@mikeglasswell-gameplay]

looks like the black goo is extracted from the Xeno DNA and then scientists (engineer or human) repurposed it for their civilization. i like that retcon from Prometheus. it makes the Xeno more important and mysterious and changes the origin of the black goo creating the Xenos, which was hinted at in the Covenant and Prometheus films .

[@UnifiedEntity]

If Ridley hates the Queen Xeno idea so freaking bad, then show us a proper evolution and processes of the damn Xenos. Like how in the hell is it able to create eggs out of humans, create the biomass on the walls, and where the extra(unless there werent extras) facehuggers freaking come from!!!!! Cause someone is going to answer it for you which James Cameron did

[@Tracks2008]

He hates it because he cannot handle the fact the fans love it. His ego is so large he cannot share the limelight with anyone else.

[@BrandynQuigley]

Am i dumb or was there no eggs in romulus. They were all genetically created/fossils. Clones. Eventually the xenos obviously evolve (or one of them births as) a queen for the sake of being able to reproduce themselves. Until then, the reason there are so many is because wayland is creating them (or at the very least harvesting and preserving them) but it was pretty clearly stated through the environment of Romulus that the humans had been experimenting with the xenos. When they find all the eggs in the prequels, that's because they've been genetically engineered too. Its a symbiotic fungus/spore. It takes many forms and evolves over the timeline of the franchise.

[@ladygriffin3777]

Depressing. If the fans like the queen (I do. She's amazing.) Why not embrace it and build upon it instead of acting like a petulant child??? Mercy me

[@nunyabusiness6691]

It's funny because I don't think Ridley Scott had as much to do with Alien's success as you all think. He was just the director of the film. Sure he has a lot to do with the look and feel of the film, but I don't believe the story itself came from him. That was Dan O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett. Not to mention H.R. Geiger's design of creature and sets. I don't understand why Ridley Scott, or James Cameron for that matter, think that they alone are responsible for all the success of whatever movie they direct that just happens to become iconic. He was just a part of what made that film awesome. Its very possible that James Cameron had nothing to do with the creation of the queen alien but is taking credit for it from some concept artist or writer.

[@UnifiedEntity]

@@nunyabusiness6691 Whatever the case maybe, as I said SOMEONE thought of the answers and evolution of the Xenos via Aliens creative team.

[@stevenstewart2906]

What a great video! Loved your attention to detail and explanations... thanks

[@baconeggcheesepodcast9390]

I love the breakdown too

[@Greeny5051]

I feel like the other half of the outpost called Remus survived since it was still visible at the end, and it might lead to a sequel showing what happened to it. Just some food for thought.

[@keystrix3704]

Glad I saw it twice too because that really softened the blow of that hilariously bad line - at least they did a logical setup, though I and many didn't see it the first time.

[@riseagainstfb]

Ridleys hate for the queen is a dig on the fans.

[@baconeggcheesepodcast9390]

Why

[@dante6985]

Nah. Ridley Scott is a creator and an artist. He probably doesn't like the "just go bigger" approach to sequels which Aliens generously abided by. George Lucas didn't like The Force Awakens and said little else about Disney Star Wars (seemed to like Rogue One better, calling The Last Jedi "Beautifully made" was light shade. Everyone knows it's 'beautifully made' but did he like it). He's the creator of the universe he's allowed to dislike new additions to his baby. David Fincher is a brilliant filmmaker and thought killing off Newt and Hicks offscreen was a good idea.

[@wormboymm1]

I was also confused during the zero gravity elevator shaft scene But afterwards my friends and I decided that Ryan was the most healthy human still alive This is the reason why she was saved and not eaten right away, the face hugger was near It was a theory but its good to hear we were not the only ones who thought that

[@itsjustdorian8927]

I would love to see a film about the engineers retaliation to the black goo drop by David

[@baconeggcheesepodcast9390]

Me too I know that would be good

[@peterh3889]

Loved the movie and both you coverage of earlier films, trailers and the actual film.. plug all of it chap it was a great film but I still needed this one last vid from you (my shameless favourite breakdown channel ❤ from 🇦🇺) thanks Paul as always and goodnight

[@Boricua_User146]

How did the Engineer Space Jokey have Xenomorph eggs on board his ship on LV 426 in the 1st movie if the Xenomorphs were created by David, and all of the Engineers were killed by the black goo?

[@Six_Gorillion]

because ridley scott is old and delusional.

[@p4rt_t1me_g0d]

The only logical explanation that I can think of is, like all the Saiyans being killed in one instance and all Kryptonians likewise, there had to be some off world. You can't expect a race of space faring people to all be gathered in one place, at the same time. Just my opinion.

[@Tracks2008]

Because they weren't. The android killed off some form of lesser Engineers on one planet. Nothing anywhere says that was their home world or the only world they had seeded or colonized. The Engineers are also the ones who created the Xenomorphs. The android was simply trying to recreate the Xenomorphs.

[@DuskyPredator]

Some rumours have placed that a third movie in the David saga would have Engineers seeking revenge, which could be how the get the eggs on a ship. The first movie they said it was ancient that it fossilised, but this might just be that they didn't realise it is a suit. Considering WY had an idea what they were looking for, there is a number of possible explanations.

[@Cain353]

The planet in Covenant David attacked wasn't the engineer homeworld. It was another planet like Earth seeded by the Engineers.

[@HoldLeadersAccountable]

Andy was great he better be in the Next Alien movie, heck make an entire movie Dedicated to ANDY!!!!

[@baconeggcheesepodcast9390]

Yeah I love his character

[@footballjones1023]

Great stuff but can we talk about how good Rain looked barefoot in those shorts at the end?

[@baconeggcheesepodcast9390]

You hear me🗣🗣🗣🗣

[@Jayforeman3047]

I must admit for a hot second I thought the Xeno that grabbed Rain was Kay, who’d had an offscreen transformation or something, but I’m glad it wasn’t and we got the offspring instead.

[@NeBuLiSt]

" Smashed his head in like the like button!!" Hahaha Smooth, very smooth!!! 😎

[@hidingtk2860]

You made me nervous when you pulled out the 📖 book 😳

[@MellowDarkflower]

I was in awe when it showed that Weylin-Yutani already had their hands on the black goo, and so early in the timeline at that! My only question now is... what did Wayland-Yutani do to the black goo that it didn't mutate Kay after she injected it in to her neck?

[@johnwoo2016]

Why’s no one talking about the Zero G Acid scene? Sequence was a great touch; whilst keeping canon over Xenomorph acid blood melting through ship walls.

[@user82938]

I actually hated that part. No way the blood would have been that easy to avoid.

[@spigwt4586]

@@user82938actually it would’ve been easier to avoid. in zero g liquids would collect and form a ball instead of spreading around like spills

[@user82938]

@@spigwt4586 The force of the bullet impact would have spread the acid out more into an acid mist.

[@EdZd-in8yx]

Maybe their acid blood is to thick to mist out , it’s mistyfying lol

[@johnwoo2016]

@@user82938 That’s not how physics works. It’s not how ‘shaped or spread out’ the acid blood, that is the problem. It is how you can’t really ‘maneuver’ in Zero-G. The film displayed the struggles perfectly, and using the Pulse Rifle for inertia was a great idea.

[@disturbedfan545]

The black goo did not make xenos. The goo is the xenos mutagenic property that is extracted from the face huggers. Why do people miss this

[@Norvascott]

This is my take as well. Xenos as an millennia old independent species. Aliens Genocide explored humans trying to make super serum from alien adrenalin

[@Deadgod91]

@@Norvascott So if black goo was originally extracted from Xenos by Engineers who used to create humans then it means humans are closely related to Xenomorphs.

[@Norvascott]

@@Deadgod91 yeah maybe. Or more closely related to engineers? I like the idea they extracted the mutative qualities of the xeno DNA to make all kinds of things

[@johnmarc1986]

I like this idea the best. I just wish we could move on from the prometheus shit already.

[@MrDuneedon]

Ya know...I thought that the chestburster timing/cycle was, um...a tad fast in this film, BUT -- check out Covenant. It went pretty damn fast there, too. So, it doesn't bother me as much as it apparently does some others. I DO think that Romulus tried to jam too much into two hours. It's like, dude, we get it, Fede: you love this franchise. And I LOVE that you love it. But damn, dude, you didn't have to pay homage to EVERY PREVIOUS film in the franchise, did ya? Anyway. A small complaint, really, because this movie was a lot of fun, especially in the theater.

[@HFXmermaid]

Great breakdown

[@baconeggcheesepodcast9390]

Loved the breakdown

[@trisF1981]

I've noticed that they kept the cocoon scene in the 1st alien which is good because it fits with the creature cocooning itself.

[@baconeggcheesepodcast9390]

You’re right

[@kim_yong_un]

The xenomorph finally done something nice and still people accuse it of snood intentions🤨

[@baconeggcheesepodcast9390]

Ayoooooooo😅

[@EfepeMusic]

lol

[@Lechemilktea]

Love the disney diss 😂 Absolutely love this channel! Keep it up peeps

[@xgodzhiredgunx]

Ridley needs to leave this franchise alone, Cameron's idea of a queen was so much better than his and that's why he hates it.

[@hp201156]

N o

[@jameskillbot2867]

Nah alien is better than aliens. Ridley just needs a good script writer. David lindelof is the only reason Prometheus isn’t a masterpiece. As for covenant it wasn’t supposed to be an alien movie at all but Prometheus 2.. which the studio made changes and ruined. That being said, Ridley following scripts with characters doing retarded things is also pretty problematic.

[@LordSeth-hf8ew]

Give me few reasons instead of it’s just cool

[@trollzynisaacjohan1793]

​@@jameskillbot2867ridley Scott should shut the fuck up and leave. Ridley isn't dan or ronald the 2 original screen writers of alien. Both who were involved in avp 2004 😂

[@xgodzhiredgunx]

@LordSeth-hf8ew do I actually need a better reason than "it's just cool?" Haha. Makes more sense to have a queen and not something melting other things down to create eggs that create a face hugger to then attach to the same thing you used to created the egg in the first place. Not to mention the ship was full of these eggs from somewhere without humans and I doubt an alien would create them while in captivity for another species. The queen is better overall. I think both ideas can coexist though, without the presence of a queen an alien should be able to create a royal face hugger pod.

[@joelove89]

You can complain about that line but when Andy told it to get away from her the audience i was watching with all cheered. I know I did. lol it was great.

[@TheJaker5]

It’s simple. The Engineers in Prometheus already knew the consequences of misusing the black fluid because they went through it before in their history. But just like Waylan/Yutani corp, they knew this fluid held great power as a resource, so they continued experimenting with it til they unlocked the secret to use it safely as a tool for their evolution and a weapon. THAT is why they have a mural of a “xenomorph” on that ship as a terrible symbol/reminder to respect the power of this resource or else it will bring ruin upon them in the form of what we saw in Prometheus and Covenant. I guarantee this is exactly what Scott and the writers intended. Sure it’s ambiguous, but it’s not difficult to imagine. And I know it doesn’t explain the origin of the fluid, but fine! It took decades for us to learn of the xenomorph origins and people complained that “we never asked for that”, but now those same people are asking about the black fluid origin. Maybe we’ll learn that in the future 🤷🏻‍♂️ I don’t care regardless. Just give me a good movie and I’m happy. I do very much appreciate everything about the black fluid inclusion in the Aliens mythos.

[@Deadgod91]

I really like the idea what Xenomorphs and Black Goo is something that always existed in the universe. Engineers discovered it from somewhere, manage to refine it enough to become usable and got destroyed by it. I think Black Goo represents "fire" from greek myth, it's unpredictable but can be used for both creation and destruction.

[@soulweaponx6644]

The assumption is WY possibly sent a probe to scan the planet to see if it was habitable, but the drone picked up life on the planet. WY were planning to send the Nostromo all along because a sleeper agent was placed on the ship to ensure they extracted the lifeform. The xeno saved Raine to harvest her for the nest. There were still face-huggers running around that needed a host.

[@WeirdSkellyK1]

Why did that hybrid baby remind me of manbearpig immediately

[@robski3753]

Manxenpig 50% man, 50% xenomorph, 50% pig

[@TitularHeroine]

Oh, you mean pigbearman?

[@robski3753]

@@WeirdSkellyK1 manxenpig 50% man, 50% xenomorph, 50% pig

[@ericbotondbatternay8452]

I can't imagine why Scott doesn't like the Xenomorph queen, it's truly an amazing addition to the world of Alien.

[@BlackGekikara]

Also also, the Xenomorph learned earlier after 'damaging' Kay when they could not make use of her so it wouldn't have done to stab Rain as well. Need to make those offsprings

[@jcaashby3]

Yep she just wiped out a shit load of Aliens. No need to let her die...him grabbing her was to get her impregnated...nothing more. The Aliens are not dumb. Although I do question why it killed the taller guy....punched right through his face like he was pissed off at him lol

[@BlackGekikara]

@@jcaashby3 He was a threat in that moment reaching for a weapon

[@JDRkicks]

Movie was great, definitely a step in the right direction

[@baconeggcheesepodcast9390]

Yeah I’m waiting on the next one

[@NaD-o2p]

5:15 did so many people seriously miss the part where a facehugger literally crawls by them both to get Rain during this scene? Come on people, pay attention.

[@WasabiBomb]

I enjoyed the movie, but the way the Xenomorphs- and especially the Offspring- are able to increase in size drastically in just minutes really broke my suspension of disbelief. In the first movie, it's easy to imagine that the original xeno broke into food storage, or something... but in this one, the Offspring was able to put on what looked like well over two hundred pounds of mass in ten minutes. Even if it ate its mother, there's no way it could have metabolized that much organic matter so quickly. Prometheus and Covenant both showed how terrifying and dangerous even small xenos could be- I wish they'd done that in this movie, at least for the Offspring.

[@Tracks2008]

It did break into the food storage but that scene was cut.

[@duderock10111]

Pretty sure there's a cut scene in the first movie where it does something to grow stupidly quickly

[@xyreniaofcthrayn1195]

Food storage and remember that xenomorphs naturally get bigger like accelerated puberty.

[@Catfullofwok]

If im not mistaken, the black goo was synthesized from the xenomorphs. So when the pregnant girl (i forgot her name) injected herself with it, she went through 9 months of pregnancy in like 30 minutes. So i think it makes sense that once the chestburster comes out, it’s only a matter of time until the xeno is fully grown. Especially if the xeno gets into a food supply or kills someone.

[@bursegsardaukar]

These Xenomorphs were experimented on by Rook so it is possible that their growth is accelerated.

[@GreenAppelPie]

Great follow up vid

[@ray101892]

In "Alien", Ash receives the order to capture the xenomorph. In Romulus, the company knows about the xenomorphs and are actively 3d printing facehuggers but decades later in "Aliens", it seems they forgot all about them because they did not believe Ripley's report and sent out colonists to live in lv 226. You would think that they sent them there with an ulterior motive but the colonists had been living there without incident for years and the engineer ship was only discovered because the antagonist accidentally signed off on a random greedy colonist who wanted to keep whatever he will find on the planet. What gives??

[@seth8629]

Well, the company is straight up lying in Aliens.

[@Tracks2008]

LV-426 or Acheron. Also all indications are they already knew of the Xenomorphs by the events of the first film. However they didn't know where the ship was in Aliens until they found Ripley.

[@seth8629]

They believed the report and lied

[@thetombuck]

Bad writers who are more interested in making things look cool

[@artmaster0831]

Andy’s eyes rolling back reminded me of the replicans from blade runner. Having serial numbers on their eyes because they’re a thing that was manufactured not natural born

[@abraham4352]

You look like Paddy Considine. Your grace.

[@ObiClon]

Okay watching this video along with another video on this channel actually helped give some more context for me with things I had questions on with the movie.

[@Choiceone13]

I want to know why the rat turned it to what it did and Kay didn't. Also I want answers on the blue mist. Had to add this on, whats up with the electricity in that one Bjorn zapped. Some people say the tip burned off inside the alien head but you can see it just melted the tip. Why does the scar keep sparking

[@yevodrehcra9702]

It’s cause the entirety of the pathogen went straight to her baby

[@yevodrehcra9702]

Well not all of it, but most of it

[@danielpeckham5520]

Kay was killed by her offspring that's why, or maybe she died when Rain froze the whole ship with freeze gas. But otherwise she would have continued to mutate I think. Actually we don't see what happened to her body in the end. Maybe she's still alive?

[@Choiceone13]

@@danielpeckham5520 good point about the freezing.

[@beanasian8084]

@@danielpeckham5520I don’t think she survived. At the end of the movie, Rain records a log before she goes into cryo sleep, indicating she was the sole survivor of her ship.

[@cheekster777]

Watched this in Dolby Cinema at Odeon Luxe, West End in London last night. It was good. Rewatching it in IMAX with Laser GT at the weekend. Will catch-up on all of these breakdown videos of the movie after that. Thank you Paul.

[@renecasimiro1332]

Sick Film🔥💯

[@theallagedgenius]

More like Sick(ening) Film 🔥🔥💯

[@baconeggcheesepodcast9390]

I loved this movie

[@mathi9084]

TY for the "PREMATURE Xenomorph" explanation.

[@JCAP9209]

James Cameron > Ridley Scott

[@DonMiguelLaBestia]

James Cameron is better at scriptwriting, action, and raw entertainment. Ridley is better at visuals, themes, and artistry. I once heard someone say that Ridley’s only as good as the script and that is so on point. It’s a shame they never collaborated, they would have complemented each other insanely well!

[@jenn82armstrong]

It is nice to see kids in the movie rather than adults. Its a breath of fresh air.

[@gwendee5070]

- The "Alien" franchise has become fragmented since "Alien 3," making the stories and prequels hard to follow. - The aliens are now depicted as mutants. - Ripley's character has become somewhat of a parody. - Ridley Scott seems unwilling to acknowledge James Cameron's successful sequel or pay homage to it in "Prometheus" and "Covenant." - The movies have taken a religious direction, straying from the original concept of space terror where humans are the prey. - The franchise now focuses on mutating the alien from a black goo, which feels convoluted and vague. - The prequels' narrative is about being the creator, but it lacks exploration of encounters with other species in space. - The desire for sequels is like awaiting the next chapter of a book, with the shock of exceeding a viewers expectations. - "Romulus" did this but faltered with poor CGI for Rooks and making him the villain for the whole movie, we had Ash before. - Ian Holm, a great actor, had his character poorly executed, it should been a cameo that's it. - The mutant alien at the end resembles the ending of "Alien Resurrection," with a also different mother figure giving birth to a creature and then dying in the end - "Prey" is a fresh concept without obvious or direct callbacks to the original, it's done subtle.

[@Boricua_User146]

How are you calling Prey subtle? They say the "If it bleeds we can kill it." line from the original and give an origin to the flintlock pistol from Predator 2. How is Prey any diferent from Alien Romulus in subtlety?

[@byssmal]

Prey was in predator franchise.

[@TheAdhard]

BRO prey is predator continuing the PRED 1-2 continuity AVP is its own thing as of rn not connected to either Alien romulus continues from alien and connects to aliens

[@gwendee5070]

@@Boricua_User146 how many obvious callbacks in Alien Romulus. The gun training, get away from you bi*ch, Rook/ Ash, the mutant baby at the end and ejecting the creature into space. Come on!?! Too much. Prey was set when the French invaded Americas the Predator looks different, if any animal killed would bleed something right. How Andy knows the alien is female .... Or any pronouns... It's too on the nose! The movie is good deserve to be number 3 in the best alien listed movies ... But there were some problems! 😕 Overall

[@Fiorwestcoast]

​@@Boricua_User146at least prey had a reason to say it

[@rabbithole23]

Great Alien film. If like me, you love the Alien movies, this is a must see There are lots of connections to all previous films, but it works as a stand alone also The film pays great homage to the originals and it canons nicely within the time it is set (Between the first and second films by Ridly scott) For me, it gets a 9 out of 10

[@SuperEmTea]

The only name i remembered in this movie was Andy😅

[@baconeggcheesepodcast9390]

Right😅

[@_GeneralMechanics_]

Now I wonder if Andy's fingerprints have the W.Y. logo on them too.

[@calebblack1420]

I think it turned her baby into a flawed Promethian half xenomorph hybrid. A healed human DNA strand would probably result in a promethian. And by Promethian I just mean giant annunaki-like white person.

[@adawait2179]

The bob iger and terms and conditions comment is why I always slam that like button and tell everyone about this channel

[@kgmstudio4010]

Also the planet population was 3k and the father of the baby was her cousin

[@TheAdhard]

LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[@briandain8432]

Just Subscribed from the Original Alien video. Love your stuff. Spoil Away, Brother!! Plus with most stuff lately, You can't Spoil what's already Rotten.