is this a GOOD alien film?! Alien: Romulus - REVIEW

[@ChrisBunker-i6g]

Being “Not offensively bad” still puts it as better than most big budget movies, which really says a lot about what Hollywood puts out at the moment

[@EksaStelmere]

My Review: Romulus tried to playback the plot of all four of the original Alien films in one movie. It lacked any identity of its own and moves far too quickly (in a bad way) to do any of those stories justice.

[@Hurdleizer]

That was my impressions as well.

[@theadmiral4625]

Hard disagree: it was a tribute/love letter with an original story. With the feel of sci-fi horror of Alien and the latest patches installed….. and the pacing is a literal tribute to Alien…….

[@royalecrafts6252]

​@@theadmiral4625thats what he said, too many homages and it lacked identity of its own, I much prefer alien 4 acting and ideation and phasing, the dark comedy throws me off a bit tho

[@patricktrisler2043]

It would be hilarious if they retcon the company to be Disney instead of Weiland-Yutani, and they send a girl boss out to deal with an alien infestation.

[@nooneshome8746]

Ripley,?

[@dragerdet]

Badass women have always been the main theme for Alien movies.

[@SpiderboyN2Jesus]

@@dragerdet Ripley is not a modern insufferable girlboss. She's actually a strong female character. When people use the term "girlboss" they're definitely not talking about well-written strong female characters like Ripley or Sarah Conner. They're talking about annoying losers like Disney Captain Marvel or Disney She-Hulk that are shoved down our throats as they insist that they're strong female characters when they definitely are not.

[@divinestrike00x78]

This movie is the Force Awakens of the Alien Franchise. People will love it because it hits all those familiar beats and aesthetics of the original movies. It seems like a return to form from disappointing prequels (Prometheus, Covenant). However as time goes by and the more people think about it the less they will like it and feel like it is a hollow imitation.

[@wombraider7796]

Just watched the movie I went in with low expectations but was pleasantly surprised. I hope this revitalizes the franchise and we get more.

[@cardinalrule6810]

Ripley going back into the Queen Alien's hive alone to save Newt with minutes left until the colony was going to explode was one of the most badass and terrifying things I've ever seen in any film

[@carnpitts]

I enjoyed the movie. I think it did a good job of tying all the other alien movies together. I do think the alien/human hybrid grew too quickly, but it was fine. Mysterious black goo does unexplained thing. Sure. I also didn’t get any emotional impact from her saving the android. As far as I’m concerned, he’s just a machine. Not sure how they could have made me feel more connected to him. I did like the character though. He portrayed an android very well.

[@LordPhoton-rl4ot]

After a pep talk/speech Xenomorph Theoden yelled Death! and all the other xenomorphs ran towards the guns yelling Death! and it was epic.

[@ryanwelch1321]

I'm so glad you watch all this stuff for us. Thank you, Shad!

[@EnsignRedshirtRicky]

The tech appears far more advanced than in Aliens, and nothing in this movie can be known by the Colonial Marines. So I am expecting that this is just loaded with plot holes but will not know until I have seen it.

[@RichardPhillips1066]

Oh plot holes is guaranteed

[@mikewaterfield3599]

One thing to note with alien and aliens, the tech was supposed to be real world and lived in. Not everything is glowing touch screens and smooth buttonless consoles.

[@elijahsnow3119]

@@EnsignRedshirtRicky Believe it or not Mr H has at least two excellent videos on this and the way that the writers and director approached it. It’s actually very interesting. I would recommend watching. TLDR they talk about what technology looks like varies a lot even in the first two movies. And the guns are explicitly MORE primitive than the pulse rifle from Aliens.

[@GoranKlintenheim]

@@elijahsnow3119Except that they’re not. Have you seen the movie? The pulse rifles in this movie are far more than the ones they use in Aliens 👍

[@moviereelnews]

hows the tech more advanced, they explicitly went out of their way to focus on the consistency of the technology so clowns like you wouldnt get triggered. and to dismiss an entire film for aesthetic reasons is laughable.

[@jonathanadnitt7704]

The films fine, not great, just fine. To be honest for the first half hour i was pretty bored and apart from Andy the rest of the cast were dull fodder i didn`t much care for. It has some nice moments, some eye rolling moment and some "why did you go there" moments, especially the end. Probably the 4th best.

[@elijahsnow3119]

At this juncture I’ll take serviceable. How long has it been since we’ve had a serviceable movie of the kind?

[@heybrandon88]

And especially in this franchise, I appreciated what Prometheus tried to do, but they shat the bed in execution. I hated alien 3 as a kid, but with age and seeing what came after I mellowed and deemed it a passable film. I can live with passable.

[@zwidowca1]

This, this exactly. It does not suck. It is a step in the right direction, one of many I hope

[@effindave6909]

@@heybrandon88 Honestly at this point I'd be happy with a resurrection equivalent. Hot take, I always liked that movie anyways. It's dumb but it's really fun.

[@Wicked061]

Theres nothing wrong with dumb fun. Ill take any day over what we usually get​@@effindave6909

[@fullmoon_games]

Twisters not bad

[@teslasnek]

Just saw it, loved it! 😎

[@Schlumpsha]

I'd like to see an Alien movie that isn't a prequel. Or plays somewhere between older movie timelines for that matter. I know, I know... wishful thinking.

[@yolkonut6851]

How about the dark horse comics timeline? No, ok I'll go cry

[@theadmiral4625]

Romulus is literally set between Alien and Aliens…….. it’s a love letter to the Alien IP

[@JustTooDamnHonest]

@@theadmiral4625 Yet it remains us of Resurrection a lot and not to mention they basically said that the alien from the first film didn't die instead somehow it came to the same place that the main character of this film was in the vast dark void known as outer space. YEAH F*CK OFF WITH THAT SH*T!!!!!

[@John-fk2ky]

@@theadmiral4625 More like a mockery. It would have been a slightly cheesy love letter if they didn’t include the finale. The finale was probably the only part of the movie where I was completely rather than momentarily disconnected from the film.

[@SMNBLMRDM]

@@John-fk2kyHow come?

[@Genshion]

Compare to how the last 4 alien movies have been, I honestly found this one to be a breath of fresh air. It takes a bit from all the previous movies and makes something that is very good

[@juanjosemendivil1626]

I say that the reason as to why they could easily just leave orbit is because since it's a cargo/mining ship, it could only be used for the planet they are on and not space travel. They need the right cryo-thing with lots of fuel because their ship is "slow," and it is not reliable for hopping to other planets that is long distance. Imagine you plan to go to Japan, but you only have a blimp, while everyone else has a plane, and you don't have enough fuel or food for the trip.

[@NoName-ym5zj]

It was a surprisingly good movie. Maybe my expectations were low, but it actually managed to create tension and the characters actually showed signs of Intelligence, a quality usually lacking in these types of movies, and even when they were being stupid, they were still at least acting true to their character. It didn't do anything particularly new, but it was a pretty solid homage to the original films, I honestly would like to see more from this director, hopefully with a new and fresh spin on the series, I feel like a sequel of some kind might work with this one.

[@DavidHendel-l1m]

I'm thinking the Company boobytrapped the facehugger room because they knew someone would be in the room if they were salvaging that power core. Which also means the distress call is also part of the company's plan to lure people to the ship. That said, they also want the serum to be salvaged BY the company too

[@BReal23-qm8hs]

It felt like Don't Breathe with Xenomorphs meets a redo of the third act of Alien: Resurrection.

[@zwidowca1]

Getting Alien superpowers is not as "fun"/"good" as you think Shad. Not in this universe anyway. Look for a character called Blue Marsalis. Tl;DR She tried to heal herself with help of Alien mutagens and accidentaly turned into an Alien Queen form. aaaaaand then was a lab rat. Aaaaaand then she ran. Aaaaand then she dies... This universe just sucks... You don't get powers. You get screwed by this stuff. Even medicine made by using Alien dna or stuff is dangerous AF

[@AppleFrogTomatoFace]

if they do that it becomes pretty much movie doom plot. lol i personally think they should try mixing blade runner and alien, where they get some rogue androids and they get to meet aliens and make some story.

[@zwidowca1]

@@AppleFrogTomatoFace WDYM "IF"? They already DID. All this stuff is already in printed books and comics?

[@AppleFrogTomatoFace]

⁠@@zwidowca1i mean as movie… and give them superpower like shad is describing. it sounds like what doom movie did.

[@zwidowca1]

@@AppleFrogTomatoFace I mean you can make that work, but you have to escalate the threat. Can be done, but it would be hard. PLus I don't trust the studio to not make the movie stupid : |

[@edge81y42]

We saw an attempt at making a super human fight zombies before in what is supposed to be survival horror (Resident Evil films). Didn't work. I do like how we got another stage in the xeno's life cycle. That hybrid at the end was clearly a corrupted engineer. Guess they didn't get all the xeno genes filtered out.

[@MrBigmorg3000]

But did you get a cool popcorn bucket?

[@wokenlunatic2849]

See if a Xenomorph and Venom combined, would a Xenomorph take control Venom or would Venom take control a Xenomorph? (Which BTW, a Xenomorph Venom Combination name would be called as Venomorph)

[@mjuk1984]

Good, balanced review (as always), Shad! I'll probably watch it on VOD and enjoy it. Not expecting much but I like the aesthetic (and sci-fi).

[@camerons6859]

Alien Resurrection already explored a character with superhuman abilities so that wouldn't have been new if they did it.

[@johnnyskinwalker4095]

Yea I mean it was a mistake doing it in Ressurection, when I saw it happen here again, my arms fell off.

[@royalecrafts6252]

​@@johnnyskinwalker4095it made sense in resurrection, 200 years of trial and error to produce a human with enhances genetics

[@egillskallagrimson5879]

Ripley: "They cut the power!" Hudson:"What do you mean they cut the power? They can't cut the power they're just animals!" Dumb aliens in a Alien movie makes a bad Alien movie... the aliens are smart, they learn an adapt quickly and are able to understand the environment it surrounds them.

[@Сайтамен]

They are smart, but not sentient. They didn't know what an airlock was.

[@hideopalescent]

The alternate story you outlined sounds just like Resident Evil.

[@bazzzzz6175]

It's inoffensive and not terrible. And people are accepting of this low standard. No wonder the movie industry is completely ruined.

[@RyanG0899]

From the reviews I've seen, it's far from terrible.

[@diegoalejandrogarciavaldes8703]

To be fair, yeah it may sound mediocre, but with how the industry has been in the last 8 years, hey! At least it wasn't woke, and I prefer that over lecturing people.

[@lostvayne9146]

"It's inoffensive and not terrible." actually people should be accepting of this standard as a baseline. An overabundance of entertainment means you'll have more middling products than high quality stuff. That is reality. Most entertainment is middling and then you'll get a couple of higher quality products and even fewer masterpieces. If everything is "high quality" then the goalpost simply moves. The problem is that the woke is straight garbage. Its in the negatives. It can never start at zero and will never go beyond it. That is not the standard to accept. the movie industry is ruined not because of mediocrity. Its ruined by complete trash feminist woke writers making trash agenda driven films. That isn't mediocre. That is just trash. The standard is not starting at 5/10 which is middling (inoffensive and not terrible). It is starting at -5/10

[@Goro_Maj1ma]

This may come as a shock to you but people have pretty much always been accepting of movies of this level of quality which is a good movie not great or amazing or a masterpiece but just a good movie and if you can't comprehend that you must be quite young!

[@royalecrafts6252]

​@@RyanG0899its like his evil dead remake, gore with a lot of screaming and no new ideas whatsoever

[@charlesco7413]

4:00 So if W.Y. can just change the deal then their contracts are worthless. This only works if all these people can't get a lawyer. Unions dont exist? No politician would investigate the W.Y. Monopoly?

[@charlesco7413]

[SPOLERS] ...... ...... Plot holes big enough an alien could blast through and out into outer-space. ..... The plot is dumb. OK the girl-boss should know what happens when her 'Andie' gets an upgrade disk installed. So W.Y. has a mining facility and floating above is a huge (financial structure) but they dont send a recover team to capture the alien tech? They don't have space tugboats to rescue the drifting station? They haven't been tracking the station. No external satellite is in orbit to overwatch the planet and it's surrounding from pirates or corporate espionage? (W.Y. can just change a contract without any arbitration.) Why are they using humans to mine? If they can make androids look like humans. Why cant they make androids look like xenomorphs? Why is W.Y. (mostly run by androids) in such a dangerous rush to make hybridization of humans? The lab design is dumb. Their is an alarm if a cryogenic fule rod is removed but no forien biological alarm when the face-huggers escape? ..ect ect....

[@extorkdabreakz]

Great review. I’d probably give it 7/10 instead of 6/10. They did a good job of building tension. , and there was some pretty freaky sh!t. I liked the atmosphere (pun?), but it did look amazing. Now I see why people are bringing up 2001:ASO. I’m glad you talked about things like… how fast do they grow? Because I get so distracted by stuff like that. Maybe it was right, but it just seemed fast. The fake face was driving me nuts. The characters didn’t have as much personality as I would’ve liked, but it wasn’t a dealbreaker for me. There was actually some good acting. I’d recommend it.

[@Shadowpack95]

So some of what your describing, the Xeno's hunting by heat and sound and them capturing people to impregnante by the Facehuggers, are things you can do in the Alien Vs Predator game from 2008-9 when playing as the Alien. So I haven't seen the movie yet, I plan to as I am a big fan of this universe but it sounds like the Aliens are acting like we've seen them before.

[@PaulSimonMcCarthy-fu6ms]

That's the RTS game? I loved that!

[@Shadowpack95]

@@PaulSimonMcCarthy-fu6ms No, its first person, where you can play as an Alien, Predator or Human

[@rudolphantler6309]

Granted, this particular mechanic never really had substance behind it. In AvP 1 & 2 victims just died. In the shallow AvP 2010 game huggers were just used as a finishing move animation. In Isolation you were only on the opposite side. I never played Extinction but that looked like some old corny failed Kenner toyline.

[@Bloodball99]

I agree on the score. It could've been better but it could've also been much, much worse.

[@charlesco7413]

14:54 There should have been an (exposition dump) explaining the alien mannerisms and nature. 17:30 Where does all this extra material come from?

[@GafferPerkele]

Still the third best Alien movie, which says quite a lot of the franchise. At the very least it wasn't more of Scot having an egofest a lá Prometheus and Covenant.

[@PaulSimonMcCarthy-fu6ms]

Fun fact, Scott produced the script gor Prometheus by skeetimg on toilet roll and then shoving it up his ass for a day.

[@captnwinkle]

This wasn't close to Alien 3

[@johnnyskinwalker4095]

I liked Alien 3 better esp. the director's cut. There was much more in Alien 3 than "teens in space" and you have the great Ripley death. I also like Alien Ressurection better cause it was filmed by the great Jean-Paul Jenet who had made great movies like Amelie and City of Lost Children. The worst part of Alien 4 was the human-alien hybrid and they repeated the same mistake in Romulus! I also like the first Alien vs Predator movie more than this.

[@johnnyskinwalker4095]

@@Alice_Long I have no issues with that. Also the Cinematography of Alien 4 is sublime. Although you should watch Alien 3 the director's cut. They changed a lot of things based on the vision of what David Fincher wanted to do.

[@BeanoTubes]

Aliens vs. Knights

[@kieranadamson3224]

Tyranids Vs Imperial Knights

[@HyraxusPrimus]

The exact premise of Aliens: Phalanx.

[@momomomocensoredbyyoutube9085]

Not a fan of the franchise or anything but I do know some of the lore. The Xenomorphs we see are already half human so the hybrid at the end is very strange. In the series a Predator has been impregnated by the Xenomorphs which creates a different creature to the ones we're familiar with which has 2 variants. The predallion and pretorian are what the variants are called.

[@thiefofa1073]

The pregnant girl injected herself with the black goo distilled from the alien samples using advanced Weyland lab equipment. So the hybrid at the end is a mix of 50% Engineer and 50% Alien: Resurrection.

[@charlesco7413]

28:31 it had some of resident evil (plot beats) entering the hive, lockdown, dining hall B, the lazer security hallway. Ect..ect...

[@Roland3ld]

Almost forgot to put in the full support like usual, whoops. Closed the tab then remembered and reopened.

[@brianmeen2158]

“Run of the mill” Yep, I read a few very glowing reviews so it kind of gave me more motivation to watch . I did on KZbin of all places and I wasn’t impressed. Not a bad movie by any means but it was just ok. It did not need to be made

[@darkshamrock5763]

I love the original first two films and wanna see this but I don’t want to give Disney box office money.

[@pce0]

there are only two alien movies

[@captnwinkle]

Alien 3 is amazing

[@rudolphantler6309]

Alien 3 provided THE MOST interesting genetic mechanic of the species!!!! And at least it was a healthy end to Ripley!

[@theadmiral4625]

💪🤣💪Watching Shad and Critical Drinker prepared me for the Brit accents 💪🤣💪

[@pavelslama5543]

A huge missed opportunity in the end scene would be to make the new alien a xenomorph-ish body with a human-ish mind rather than the typical human-like monster with animalistic mind. And then they could go towards the company headquarters as intended, but the plot twist would be that the new xenomorph is unknowingly to the company protective of the crew. A huge missed opportunity for a cool plot twist. ... OVERALL: Originality: 2/10 - a combo between alien - isolation, and alien 1. Characters: 6/10 - the main ones arent that good, but the others arent terrible Plot: 2/10 - very basic, but not out of the ordinary in this franchise. People are lured in, and they want to run away. There, I´ve just spoiled almost each and every movie in the entire franchise to you in mere 10 words. Action: 10/10 - ideas like the zero gravity acid dodging and action with the new combo between the pulse rifle and smart rifle are really good. Political commentary: 8/10 - brought to a minimum, yeah the main characters are a female and a black android, but that´s perfectly acceptable as long as the rest are not comically villainous or dumb. A rare spectacle in this day and age. Internal logic and consistency: 5/10 - most things are fine, some don´t make much sense (like the placement of the facehugger-growing pods, or the general lack of airtight doors, or the aliens not "seeing" human pheromones even though they should) MY RATING: 75% - not a huge spectacle, but certainly a breath of fresh air after the subpar Ridley movies

[@osets2117]

Disagree about the plot being 2/10, yes it was simplistic but that doesn't make it bad. Completely agree with everything else, Andy was the best character in the movie

[@suckadoesstuff7095]

I did go into this movie thinkin it was gonna be bad but my father wanted to take my brothers and me and I was very much ready for it to be trash but I was pleasantly surprised and I gave it a 6/10 or 7/10 the DEI cast had me worried at first but it reminded me on the first 3 movies a lot and the throwbacks weren't even all that bad though one or 2 felt forced

[@osets2117]

DEI cast, perhaps you should watch alien and aliens the cast in both is also diverse

[@suckadoesstuff7095]

@osets2117 I know which is why I didn't get too bothered by it but Hispanics with thick as shit British accents was throwin me off hard and broke immersion a few times

[@Darek_B52]

"nothing particularly crazy happens" (Looks back at Prometheus & Covenant & AVP 2 & Aliens Resurrection & THE Predator) uh huh...so you're saying it's good.

[@lockypayne5916]

Never seen an alien movie till this one it’s was pretty good I enjoyed it well enough.

[@WillStopka]

21:50 the protective guy of the pregnant girl is her brother

[@ZChronicNebula]

Loved it! The ending sold it for me personally. Liked it up to that point and thought that's it? Oh wait an abomination version of Engineers. Yes.

[@chrisjensen4030]

You should do a reaction/review of the Kingdom come deliverance 2 trailers or at the very least watch them if you haven't yet. The siege scenes in them in particular are amazing.

[@piotrfijoek1095]

I enjoyed the movie. Good action scenes, horror moments, beautiful effects. The characters made decisions based on what they knew; nothing could prepare them to face Alien. They're young people who had to get skills to stay alive so I buy it why they have a spaceship to do daily jobs. I like the part when Rein only got stuck on this planet because the HR elderly woman was jealous and annoyed that the young girl finished her quota and not her. So the HR woman increased the quota manually. I could see clearly the director and writers did their homework on Alien, Aliens and Alien: Isolation (there were moments heavily inspired by that game)

[@gigsis]

Oh I saw Alien Isolation SO MUCH in this movie. Made it all the better too. Glad other people caught onto it

[@willbohland3698]

Alien vs Transformers. Roll 'em... out?

[@jollygoodfellow3957]

It's not Weldon corporation, it's Weyland.

[@kellinwinslow1988]

At this point the Alien franchise is a joke. When Dan O'Bannon wrote the first film he based it off the idea of cosmic horror by Lovecraft. That lives and dies on mystery of the unknown. Things that are beyond our ability to understand. Over showing the Aliens and over explaining them has killed any sense of danger or mystery, especially after the garbage AVP films. Now there is nothing new or interesting or unique about the series. After Aliens it's just been a constant dumpster fire. Now a 10th film might be ok. Who cares. It's damaged goods. It's an old man's franchise now thats dragged around for nostalgia points because Hollywood can't do anything else.

[@STEVEYTHEEXEEVEE]

something doesnt have to be "mysterious" to be scary. or dangerous. If i brought in a 7+ foot plus alien lifeform into your house that is gonna relentlessly pursue you and try and penetrate you with a tail, i think you'd be scared. and dont "i am very badass" me and claim you wouldnt be.

[@keiichi8191]

2:56 Home Office decided to keep her there for an additional 50 cycles. With endless options for renewal!

[@patrickneff7846]

I really liked the elevator shaft scene.

[@SpiderboyN2Jesus]

Where have you been Shad 😅? The Alien franchise has always been a dark dystopian corpo universe, lol 😅! This oppressive worker colony comes as no surprise at all in this world.

[@generalseal6948]

i seen a lot of people saying that the face huggers are too erotic in this movie like dude they were always erotic ever since the first movie

[@captnwinkle]

Movie fell for me when she goes Rambo and kills 6 aliens and floats around the acid with pulse rifle thrusters

[@osets2117]

What do you mean she went Rambo? It's a smart gun, the gun was doing all the work in that scene, She is not showing off some advanced skills. And using the rifle to push herself out of the way of the acid was intelligent and completely plausible (equal and opposite reaction). Sounds like you're looking for something to justify disliking the movie.

[@wo1verine1ogan]

@@osets2117smart rifle sounds stupid. We already know smart guns exist but theyre a specific type of gun. Making every gun a smart gun is boring

[@SovereignRose]

I enjoyed all but the last 10 minutes

[@JNVIII94]

No agenda ? I'l take that 😂🎉

[@SilverSidedSquirrel]

I don't care: there are 2 ALIEN movies. FULL STOP. Everything more only ruins it.

[@lumeronswift]

I've only seen the trailer - and to my knowledge, that showed the whole buildup, every single twist, every single death, and even the survivor. As soon as the trailer finished I had zero questions left... which really begs the question... why watch a thriller/horror where there is no mystery?

[@gigsis]

This is exactly why I don't watch trailers anymore. My husband and I walked into this with zero clue about anything about this movie and boy did that make all the difference. Trailers have been ruining movies for the last ten years

[@wokenlunatic2849]

The Human-Alien thing look creepy (in my head when The Baby have fused with The Alien, I thought it might be a first ever Alien that is good, maybe The Chosen One that is both Human and Xenomorph but this a Horror Movie, that is not gonna happen)

[@nintendoswitchonlineisabad9491]

In my opinion there are only two Alien films that stand the test of time: The original 1979 classic and Aliens 1986. The other films are ok but won’t be remembered in fifty years as these two movies will.

[@BrendanSchmelter]

They could have adapted one of the story lines from the Dark Horse comics... Or even one of the Aliens RPG adventure packs... Or the Dark Descent videogame... But NO. 😠

[@osets2117]

And then you'd be complaining that it was too similar/stealing from those stories

[@guskinmaypho174]

Memberberries! remember this phrase? remember that phrase? you love this shit right? please like our movie! This movie is garbage. It ripped off so many plots and repurposed scenes from previous movies and just slapped them together hoping you will like it. It's almost like they took AI, fed it previous movies and asked it to write this movie...

[@grandotaku2501]

Thanks Shad, having seen the movie yours has been the fairest review.

[@diex40]

that chair looks like it been through hell lol

[@Skitskl33]

It's the Jurassic World of the Alien franchise. Average to okay with eye-rolly memberberries everywhere.

[@stuartriddell2461]

Oops, a spoiler review. 😯 I will come back after I watch it this weekend.

[@masterswordsmen]

The auto aiming is canon. It's called a smart gun and was used in aliens. Being canon fodder is also canon. Also in aliens when they throw themselves at the auto turrets till they learn.

[@captnwinkle]

Movie fell for me when she goes Rambo and kills 6 aliens and floats around the acid with pulse rifle thrusters The awe pulse rifles with tracker, I'm ok with because it was a state of the art WY lab

[@johnnyskinwalker4095]

@@captnwinkle Same. He said there was no girl boss but that's the movie became when she did that.

[@sstarrlind]

The auto turret scene is in the directors cut version of the film, not in the original. I suppose one could argue that every bit of content included in all directors cuts and extras could be considered canon for the universe, but as cool as that scene is it makes a lot more sense that the aliens aren't actually that stupid. Especially since the entire rest of the movie they actually act and attack smart. Aggressive when they need to be, more subtle when that is a better tactic.

[@wo1verine1ogan]

No, the smart gun is a specific type of gun. Their regular pulse rifles dont have that mechanic

[@masterswordsmen]

​@wo1verine1ogan I was saying the tech exists. No reason it couldn't be applied on a smaller scale.

[@chickenporkadob0]

i like it. old school vibe

[@arm514ve5]

Shad got bought off he enjoyed Gen z in space. :P But good to hear it's middling I was worried it be a full deathnel

[@michaellugaresi700]

Think you didn't watch the movie properly, they removed the battery of the cryosleep for the face huger that they didn't know was even kept in there, and they were looking for the battery actually. The face huger detected hit they thought, not the alien, the team actually was more clever and solid than the Nostromo, and the attack on a cat was less solid than the attack on the droid left by the protagonist's father, maybe not solid as Replay and Newt, but stronger than Replay and Johns. In Alien Covenant the alien grows up in less than 3 minutes. Also found a young actress today who can match Sigourney Weaver. Actually, there were many few ideas of how they could come up with xenozip, and create a better background for goes into alien genocide, if they keep the neomorph and xenomorph. There is a lack of seeing the franchise go in a direction that people would like, but the movie was actually more solid than all the Scott made, included the Alien 1.

[@zaqzilla1]

As long as it's better than Prometheus and Covenant. Those two were the worst movies I've ever seen.

[@PaulSimonMcCarthy-fu6ms]

It's hard to imagine how it could be worse tbf.

[@johnnyskinwalker4095]

it's not

[@ArveEriksson]

3:20 - Hm. That "world of constant doom and gloom" is something that bothers me in books, as well. (Most notably Wheel of Time. Yes, really.

[@SpiderboyN2Jesus]

Hold on, what do you mean you don't have as strong instincts to see someone get protected like an innocent child?! What about the pregnant woman with a literal innocent baby in her womb!? What are you talking about Shad?! Spoilers: Sure, that doesn't work out so well in the end, but still, for 90% of the movie it's a thing 🤷‍♂.

[@TheSeth256]

The film is enjoyable, 7/10. I see too many comments unfairly jaded against it while it's definitely better than any other post-4 Alien movie and could be even better if not for the mediocre actors who just don't bring anything interesting into it(aside from Andy).

[@osets2117]

The actor who did Andy was phenomenal. And I agree this movie is being lambasted by jaded individuals who went into this movie wanting to hate it.

[@m333pm333p]

I think this is too spoiler not to warn people or segregate it to a spoiler warning point. I am a fan. I won't dislike ir. But i rhinkink you went too far without a spoiler alert, imo

[@carnackketral9904]

I remember my pops telling me his tale of going to see the first movie in theaters. He and significant other at the time were so freaked out, they had to go to a drive-in porno flick for the laughs to calm down. Yes, those existed.

[@wangusbeef86]

"Calm down" sure, is that what they called it in those days?

[@Darek_B52]

@@wangusbeef86 Well I mean doing it will take the edge off.

[@carnackketral9904]

@@wangusbeef86 can't say for certain, i was not there to confirm

[@snugsmchuggsly5449]

Frankly I walked out loving this. It’s a self contained Alien film that’s not trying to be heady like Prometheus, or an action film like Aliens(though I think Aliens is amazing). Also the cast not being obnoxious 20 something’s like I was dreading was so nice. I will say how they used gravity in this movie especially near the end was fun.

[@royalecrafts6252]

If its a self contained movie it shouldnt tried to grab every aspect of old movies

[@JustTooDamnHonest]

No it wasn't self contained for the alien from the first film survived and somehow made it to the area where the main character of this film was.

[@osets2117]

​@@JustTooDamnHonest"somehow made it to the area" did you not pay attention to the beginning of the movie?

[@JustTooDamnHonest]

@@osets2117 It still doesn't change the fact that the chances of that happening is worse then zero especially if you factor in the vast dark void that is outer space and that is when movie logic doesn't work especially given what we know about space.

[@osets2117]

@@JustTooDamnHonest you mean how in Aliens they just so happened to find Ripley floating in space? Or alien 3 where the sulaco just so happened to crash on a planet with her surviving?

[@billstephens396]

It wasn't a waste of time, it wasn't a fun time... It has a "Tale of Two Cities" but not the soul of it... It was 'meh' at best...

[@billstephens396]

For a story to be 'meh' means it offers nothing to the soul...

[@nosotrosloslobosestamosreg4115]

Not holding hopes for this one.

[@mannen659]

Was there something in the water? ;)

[@captnwinkle]

You mean wuo-ah?

[@JoTheVeteran]

17:00 they do that a lot recently. Walking dead destroyed the zombie virus incubation period, it can be 1 month or 1 second. I'm pretty sure vampires were ruined by supernatural. Ilithin dnd lore was obliterated in BG3. Some people in that ship turned that same day, while your crew takes however the fck you want. Yeah, it can be whatever they want now. It's annoying where you're 40 and remember that stuff from older movies. But I'm pretty sure kids today will see the new movie, and then the old one, and will consider the change a "quality of life" upgrade.

[@pyro380]

Will be forgotten in two weeks.

[@miguelespinosa80]

It's a propaganda movie, without propaganda. It don't have a soul either. So Andy was a better protagonist than the protagonist herself and they had to nerf him halfway through the movie. It would have been better if the update was experimental and gave Andy consciousness. Seeing that that's not what Wayland was going for, they would have tried to destroy him and then it would make sense for the protagonist to feel a connection to him and try to save him even at the cost of her own life. A bit cliché and a copy of I, Robot, but it would have been better.

[@EastyyBlogspot]

Alien :Deja vu ?

[@0x0404]

Paradoxically the more of an alien(s) fan you are the less you might like it

[@WillStopka]

This movie has the WEAKEST alien pop out scene

[@Jito463]

I'm so confused what he's talking about. Everyone knows there were only two Alien movies.

[@AppleFrogTomatoFace]

it is really well made good movie, just i think the whole plot isn’t interesting i guess? fede make really good movies, but something isn’t just right in this… i think aliens kinda becomes side mission and not that scary after half way through even tho story wise aliens aren’t side mission…. i personally think they should have done something like alien 3. much darker and bleak atmosphere, and one very strong alien against bunch of ppl and make alien very menacing and these ppl alien is against are very competent ppl, but even they can’t handle type of story imo. i know ppl don’t like alien 3, but feel like ppl hate it for the wrong reasons imo.

[@johnnyskinwalker4095]

Alien 3 is much better. Also watch the Alien 3 the Director's Cut, it fixes some of the problems.

[@WoEyeOgre]

Most of the time I believe that you know what you're talking about here. I feel like you're a fish out of water. That is my opinion

[@RazarOmni]

I share that opinion. Most of his points are just nitpicking trying to be "objective" or preferences.

[@JRxxx]

There were some really great moments, some really dumb moments and somethings I think break canon. I was honestly kind of bored for 1/3 of it. The crew was lackluster, the aliens were underwhelming and the last alien was creepy but not scary. The acid blood was more of an issue than everything else. The overall story is good. The problem solving was good. The grossness and the visuals were great. For me a 6/10.

[@effindave6909]

An alien movie doesn't need to be super creative. They just need to be fun. They tried to be creative with Prometheus and it just ended up being a bad movie and ruining the lore.

[@dr.sergeykutzofykock9720]

Did we watch the same movie? Got a lot of plot points just flat wrong

[@deathbb703]

The tech marched thwt from Alien and Aliens. Whwre this movie messed up was commecting to those turds Prometheus and Covenant. Plus the ending was shit straight from Alien resurrection.

[@wally4golly]

To be fair this series can have a girlboss so long as it isn't Miss Marvel levels.

[@harlannguyen4048]

You mean Captain Marvel?

[@wally4golly]

@@harlannguyen4048 Yeah sorry about that.

[@parcaleste]

Shad, I don't know what you watched, but this was a travesty of a movie. Thousands of member berries does not a movie make. There was not one grown up character in this (makes sense as a Disney production, actually). Most characters died pretty much off screen. That shootout at the end with the acid just hanging there was so effen DUMB. And that second third act... Jesus effen wept! I swear, after the movie ended, and I tell you it's the first time ever I see a reaction like this (or pretty much any reaction) from a crowd here: people were sitting in their seats, just watching the credits roll. Shock, disbelief and utter disappointment was the mood in the cinema. Yes, this movie IS a travesty not only to the Alien franchise, but to movies as a whole.

[@BucksOutdoors]

Saw it last night and found it very meh...just more of the same where a crew gets picked off one by one. Seen it all before.