The OBVIOUS Problem With The Alien Romulus Trailer

[@joe9739]

Honestly, Alien Resurrection is the only one i dont care too much for, but id still give it like a 5. I really liked Prometheus & Covenant tbh and was hoping for a third...

[@JohannRosario1]

This movie has a strong resemblance to ALIEN: ISOLATION, the iconic game that takes place years after Alien but years before Aliens. Sevastopol is the infested space station that the protagonist, Ripply’s daughter, searches for her mother. It’s not a bad story at all.

[@JimTheMovieGeek]

I've not played it so il take your word, like I say I'm crossing my fingers I still want it to be good 😊

[@DarrenMoore-le6pg]

I second that opinion. Alien Isolation is an awesome game and it really has the spirit of the original Alien movie.

[@Woozy.0]

Overuse of the term "iconic" is a sickness. It's a cult hit; it is not remotely iconic.

[@ryanmalarik4398]

​@Woozy.0 iconic in this context is that there's a large amount of people and gamers who if you ask them to think of their most influential horror survival video game, Alien Isolation has held a pretty obvious title or comes to mind for a ton of people. Therefore it is iconic in its on right bc its held a solid position damn near over a decade later and will probably stay there for years to come

[@Woozy.0]

@@ryanmalarik4398 that's not how the word works if you're over the age of 15

[@DarrenMoore-le6pg]

This looks actually promising. It’s not the Neil Blomkamp Alien film I was yearning to see but this actually looks better than most. Retconning original space jockeys into the engineers was a huge mistake on Ridley Scott’s part. He was doing too much.

[@DAV1979]

Prometheus and Covenant didn't feel or look like Alien movies to me. The continuity was completely off. Everything looked too clean, too futuristic. They simply didn't align with Alien and Aliens. In Covenant, the characters were using Go-Pros and primarily 20th century weapons. In Prometheus, the Space Jockey didn't align with what we saw in Alien. It just totally took me out of the experience and was due to a lack of effort and attention on the filmmakers' parts.

[@JimTheMovieGeek]

💯👍👍👍

[@Windstorm7x7-wl8ko]

I fully agree that to remove the mystery of the space jockey was a mistake and felt that way right when news outlets first reported on it. But since they decided to do it I think that Ridley's point of view is valid. He wanted to explore another aspect of the story and I believe he Never intended it to feel like apart of the Alien franchise, especially from a look and feel standpoint. I realise it's difficult to accept but nothing ages faster than futurism. Anything you can think of today is going to be overshadowed in some way in the future. That's apart of the act of, suspension of disbelief when watching a movie. Going back and comparing and expecting things to look and feel the same way as it should now is kind of hard to justify and make believable unless you can explain why. Use your imagination. Perhaps the technology of Prometheus looks and feels more advanced because the future techno-virus hadn't came about yet, requiring walking back some technology or this "Alien" towing vessel, is some really old sh*t, ready for the scrap heap.

[@SSS.1984]

The previous teaser trailer was better. It relied more on sound & kept things mysterious. This new trailer is less subtle & IMO it suffers for it. Not only does it pile on the kind of "homages" we need to see less of in modern films, but it also shows us the certain deaths of at least 2 characters. I hope they're well written enough for us to care when they die because the trailer treats them as disposable. The vibe I am getting from this is not unlike 2010's Predators. A film which looked great & had some genuinely great ideas. But in the end the experience was ruined by far too many "homages" & an over-reliance on tropes which were fine decades ago, but today are old hat! On a positive note, the cinematography is gorgeous & the sets are REAL for once!

[@eriktopolsky8531]

little KIDS CREW vs ALIENS...Average age of crew is 12

[@JimTheMovieGeek]

See that could be interesting I'm kind of realizing now that if they made it a story about youth and coming of age within this great horror it could actually something bold and good for the series

[@chination1796]

I have faith in Fede Alvarez

[@MarcusWright-uc7zs]

Fede produced Texas Chainsaw Massacre reboot 2022 which came on Netflix but it was not well received by viewers and TCM Fans. Wait till alien romulus is released. It might not be what you think despite what the trailer shows kzbin.info/aero/PLX5yXOVJBh4e1FXb1gWM-BgPAv3mdHZDd&si=2aM2KvofFS1cCHNa

[@JimTheMovieGeek]

Yeah I hope for the best with it I'll give it a chance 🙂

[@chination1796]

@MarcusWright-uc7zs It wasn't the best TCM movie but man those kills were brutal i'm expecting the same brutal kills in Alien Romulus that we haven't seen in an Aliens movie before

[@JimTheMovieGeek]

@@chination1796 yeah I hope so

[@MarcusWright-uc7zs]

@@chination1796 No offense, my Friend This failed TCM 2022 reboot acts a direct sequel to the original TCM Leatherface in the original TCM film, is the mortal and normal human despite his disfigured face, mentally illness. Not the invincible super strong 70 or 80 something year old killer like Jason Voorhees as portrayed in failed TCM reboot 2022 The film was supposed to be released on cinema but thanks to negative test screening and covid-19 pandemic which prevents reshooting scenes. They dump it in Netflix to save their money and not risk financial failure when it receives negative feedback from critics & audience and flops at the box office. Look what to Halloween reboot sequels

[@zensai-gaming]

Creativity born of passion is non existent today. Therefore it’s not possible to make an iconic movie today. For this reason we can only get movies like this passable but forgettable.

[@sylviarogier1]

Spot on. For me, the clincher won't be how similar it is to Alien but how interesting and realistic the characters are, how good is the dialogue is and how convincing the relationships are. The rest is icing on the cake.

[@XenoTheProducer]

Here's my 2 cents mate: Overall when it comes to most modern media, Its either really badly written, disrespects the OG or the trailers just straight up do not sell me on it what so ever. I'm a bit skeptical about this, but the trailers were fantastic imo. The only reason Im checking this one out is because of Fede Alvarez. I was a huge fan of his Evil Dead remake, and the cinematography in his films are excellent, so Im willing to give this a chance. I'm cautiously optimistic!...but by all means, the final product could still be a disaster.

[@leightonbate7516]

As much as i'm excited nothing could ever recreate the feeling I had watching Alien and Aliens for the first time in the 80's and knowing almost nothing about them esp when I watched the first film in about 87.

[@Windstorm7x7-wl8ko]

I have a hypothesis; We are just too old. Young people who will possibly be barely old enough to get into the theater, who caught the horror bug, will likely have never seen anything in the Alien franchise, or maybe not the original, or maybe just the first one for several reasons. Not old enough until recently, horror didn't appeal to them until recently, they are apart (the leading edge ) of the 30 second tictoc generation, their friends weren't talking about it. I believe their are other reasons but I don't have enough young people to ask about it. That I believe is what the studio is banking on, Not older viewers. Anyway, the draw that maybe older fans will appreciate is how the show affects those they know, and to experience those old feelings vicariously. That seems like the best fun seasoned viewers can have. You certainly have a valid point but I think that there is another industry problem as well. That problem is that it's too risk adverse, and a certain level of par excellent talent no longer exists in the industry.

[@ParGellen]

I honestly lost interest in Aliens after watching the fourth goofball disaster of a film. That was a very poorly directed embarrassment. The new films are almost as bad and raise far more questions than they answer. That universe had so much potential before they crapped all over it with their artsy fartsy BS. I have no hope at all for new Aliens films.

[@streakydrip8792]

This movie looks absolutely awesome, I cannot wait for it to come out!! I love Prometheus and like Covenant, so I excited 😊.

[@djmajor1597]

The young cast was a weird direction to take

[@JimTheMovieGeek]

Yeah I mean that is something different I guess, if they make it actually relevant to the plot and themes it could be interesting

[@scannaunderscore1]

If Ridley still has involvement then it will be a dumpster fire

[@JimTheMovieGeek]

Yeah tbf his views on alien are insane today, he said he wished the original was cg and obviously he's obsessed with the origin of the xenomorph

[@standbyforsummarycombustion]

We have NEVER been to the 'Actual ALIEN Planet', where these Creatures are from, where do they come from?

[@mortalvolt85]

My take on this trailer and I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure fede had something to do with the trailer the way I see it without him giving too much away and giving enough and enough to show how it looks is by showing a bunch of Easter eggs that are already in the movie I personally think this looks good I'm hoping he ads something just enough to make it it's own but I truly feel he is only showing us a bunch of calls backs to the other movie with little sprinkles of how violent it will be and how uneasy some of it is going to be ( facehugger getting into the mouth) . I may have to much faith in what I've seen because I haven't seen any of his other movies but this just looks how it should idk how else to say it

[@samuelmackenzie5267]

Whilst I agree that Romulus looks to be a rehash of earlier films that is unnecessary, at least Fede is trying to make alien scary again. From what I’ve seen in the trailer it looks like the movie will be exploring new elements of the creature and bring the franchise back to its horror routes by putting the characters in horrifying situations with some new and some being familiar. So the movie might have that going for it at least.

[@JimTheMovieGeek]

You make good points buddy, I'm certainly gonna give it a chance 🙂

[@ghostofwar5430]

Rehash of older alien movies that is unnecessary? Its LITERALLY what people have been asking for since prometheus

[@AetheriusComics]

After watching Alien Covenant, I'm expecting this film to start off being about Alien, but will turn into a non hetero allegory story told by a robot who wants to copy every robot-destroys-humanity cliche' in existence, while thinking he did it first. If I hear from fans that this film is awesome, I'll check it out.

[@chrissayeranderson5710]

They have to follow the conventions of the first and second films due to the movies timeline. Hopefully it deviates enough as it does look like a rehash. Can’t wait to see the as yet unknown new Zeno creature which hasn’t been in the trailers . It’s colour is different to the usual ones. Spoilers It’s similar to the new Born but has a Zeno tail and we get an old character from alien returning .

[@JimTheMovieGeek]

Fair points man I look forward to giving it a chance and that new design sound cool and see who this old character is

[@wesleyvr12]

are we getting a new born xeno in this movie ? i really hope not

[@chrissayeranderson5710]

@@wesleyvr12 not exactly , but it’s similar in style. it’s a non traditional birth and creation.

[@wesleyvr12]

@@chrissayeranderson5710 oke hope its looks like a xeno and not that ugly thing in alien 4

[@willbowen4488]

looks okay, it just showed far too much in this new trailer for my liking. I am going in with low expectations.

[@nosfonader8792]

Fans will hate this no matter what thr director did. This video is proof of that. If this was on a xeno planet you'd be bitching that it feels to Prometheus or Covenant. As for the lead, she would have been inevitably compared to Ripley no matter what. People think female characters can never match their precious Ripley and that also set a bar too high.

[@Lokazana]

Prey is so woke. All men sucks. A tiny girl kills the predator. Tbh, the only thing it does is to downgrade the predator to a complete noob. The most fearsome predator in the galaxy. Yeah right. If she died fighting it maybe. but the movie is not a good reboot.

[@rodneyhusain4837]

Nostalgiaphiles will enjoy.

[@Michael-m2b3k]

What's up with the people on that planet??? No one else knows that there is a ship flying around uncontrolled and can't get any communication's with any body from the ship ???? No one question's that this could be a huge bad decision to undertake ???? No one else says, you know that there is this space ship up there and no one can get any word from it ??? Are these kids really that nieve ???? So let's go hop on this uncharted basically unknown star ship and by the way Don't bother bringing any kind of fire power, I mean what could go wrong, right ???

[@georgetheturthurts]

Where's david?'??

[@Blondie472]

I want to see Predator vs Batman, Aliens vs X-Men, and Robocop vs Terminator-because I haven't seen that yet..

[@FlymanMS]

Alien 3 wasn’t bad, problem is it wasn’t really an Alien movie

[@JimTheMovieGeek]

Kinda agree tbh it's grown on me over the years and I respect a lot about it but like you say its not really an alien movie

[@FlymanMS]

@@JimTheMovieGeek with all the production hell it went through, it’s surprising that the movie is that good and coherent

[@dallasstang2818]

I feel like we should just: 1.) Ratchet down the over analysis level from 11 to about 5, 2.) Leave disbelief at the front door and 3.) Just try to enjoy the movie