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[Discussion Thread] Alien: Romulus (2024) - What did you think? [Spoilers] (feddit.uk)

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As a huge Alien fan, I have come away from tonight's screening actually angry. The sets and practical effects were fantastic, but you barely saw the aliens until the climax to the mid-section of the film.

Bringing back Ian Holm as Rook took some getting used to, especially as some of those shots were off. It seemed to get better as the film progressed. I already have a theory on that one. The credits listed the crew who worked on the Rook animatronic. I wonder if they were displeased with the result and used CGI to cover the face? (Maybe I'm just too angry at the moment 😆)

The visual and audio Easter eggs were annoying, especially when Andy repeated Ripley's line. My audience laughed, and I was just facepalming by this point.

I think what finally broke the camel's back was the third act, which links the film to Covenant and Prometheus. I didn't like those films as hey try to explain the alien's origins, and now we have to have a fight with a creature that was giving me Alien:Resurrection newborn vibes. Is this Ridley sticking his oar in, as it is his creation?

I'm just so disappointed. After seeing the first two trailers, I thought we were getting something that was going to be really special, a return to form.

Ugh!

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Right there with you! Rooks teletubby level CGI mouth was an immediate immersion breaker. When i heard this movie was taking place between Alien and Aliens, I was really hoping we'd see the story of the how the colony on LV-426 finally came across the eggs and got destroyed. Instead it feels like i got a slightly different version of the first movie with a bigger budget and the same ending.

Further, i hate how she was able to kill the gravity and smoke a colony worth of xenomorphs. Forget that a single xenomorph has presented huge problems for people in other movies, but why do they all the sudden forget they were clinging to walls and that they have prehensile tails when the gravity runs off? Ruined how scary they were supposed to be.