Lol, yeah, it's honestly not the worst. The aesthetic is really bad compared to the others as it just looks like generic 90s sci-fi, and the "cloning" and improving the Xeno plot points are dumb. If they had dropped the Ripley and clone stuff, and instead just had the crew of the Betty stumble into a ship that had Aliens get loose it would have been decent I suppose.
In Space No One Can Hear You Scream: An Alien thread
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I'll tell you what though. If the next movie finds a way to reconcile this black goo Prometheus virus strain of xenomorph with there being a life cycle that includes the queen that we've had ever since the second movie back in 1986...I'll be quite happy to give this different life cycle a break and just go with it.
The end of 2024 New Year's Eve party I attended had a 'space' theme so I pinned a Xenomorph facehugger plushie on my shirt and used double sided tape for mini facehuggers, hehe
So is Romulus pretty okay? I didn't bother with it because I saw Prometheus, but I'm not clear how related they are. I just bumped into some plot points from Romulus while refreshing my memory of Alien and Aliens.
Edit - At this point is there anyone who is a fan of Alien that doesn't ignore some of the sequels?
Edit - At this point is there anyone who is a fan of Alien that doesn't ignore some of the sequels?
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Wait, someone made a general Alien thread? That's so awesome...wait...I made this? When did I...wha?
Anywaaaay...Romulus was pretty good, right up to a point.
My take on the Alien life cycle is that there is the cycle Cameron nailed down (queen>egg>facehugger>xenomrph). Starting with Prometheus, Ridley Scott threw all that out the window and made the Alien into some ever-mutating virus.
At first Romulus looked like it wouldn't confirm or deny one or the other. But as it went on, it fell firmly in line with the Prometheus virus way of thinking.
Until then, I wouldn't say it was an awesome movie, but it was pretty good. It was certainly better than anything we've gotten since Alien 3. But once they locked into the Prometheus virus, I lost interest.
Anywaaaay...Romulus was pretty good, right up to a point.
My take on the Alien life cycle is that there is the cycle Cameron nailed down (queen>egg>facehugger>xenomrph). Starting with Prometheus, Ridley Scott threw all that out the window and made the Alien into some ever-mutating virus.
At first Romulus looked like it wouldn't confirm or deny one or the other. But as it went on, it fell firmly in line with the Prometheus virus way of thinking.
Until then, I wouldn't say it was an awesome movie, but it was pretty good. It was certainly better than anything we've gotten since Alien 3. But once they locked into the Prometheus virus, I lost interest.
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I really liked it. IMO it fixes a lot of the issues with Prometheus and Covenant without out right retconning them. Its easily the 3rd best in the series.