lol. Not the target audience for this one, but this film was not « too good » to be scary. It was ambitious and adventurous. At best, as the author says in his own summary «…Alien: Romulus is kind of good. »
if romulus was too good to be scary what does that make Alien or Aliens? such a weird take.
The film was mediocre at best, a rehash of the previous episodes into one last recap. Kids is space. “There’s sumtingdawotta…Aaaagh!”. End of film. Boring and stupid.
That’s exactly the problem with these reboots of finished franchises. I get that they just want to use the name for marketing, but at least make something new and interesting, instead they just become filled with tropes. We have seen the facehuggers, the xenomorphs, etc loads now, come up with something new and focus on that. Which then brings us to the point that it might as well be a new franchise altogether instead of rehashing old ones.
woof, i thought romulus was shit on a cracker
I mean it was not exactly bad but just sorta a rehash, ugh but the lengths it went to setup the mcguffin.
yeah, no, there was some cool looking scifi, but overall it was terrible, just one guys opinion
I agree with you, not really sure why this film wasn’t panned more. It’s just another nostalgia bait reboot filled with derivative ideas taken from its superior predecessors (which is saying a lot, considering how bad Prometheus and Covenant were). Shit like this is exactly what that South Park memberberries episode was making fun of, and that was over eight years ago. The “you bitch” line was so forced it was physically painful to watch.
I enjoyed it, but it certainly isn’t too good for anything.
It’s a fun romp, albeit somewhat typical. Screenplay is decent, but filled with a bit too much forced fan service. The world building is fantastic, though, and pretty much worth the price of admission itself.
The deepfake version of Ian Holm is pretty egregious. Given that they developed a puppet, and that the character was meant to be a broken android anyway (not a spoiler), I do wonder why they didn’t just lean in to the weird face of a puppet. Why are his movements weird and mechanistic? Because it’s a broken android. That may have aged better than the deepfake.
But overall, worth a watch, which is at least more than can be said for other series outings.
Wayland Utani?? Was this written or transcribed by AI?
