Spoilers Alien Romulus reviews and ratings
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The Alien 3 Assembly Cut is one of the rare instances in all of film where an alternate version / edit ends up being a significant upgrade. For me, it elevates the film from one of the worst (theatrical cut) to right up there near Alien 1 and 2.
It’s really a fascinating movie.
Mileage varies of course, but for my money it's not so rare. Just so long as you discount all those awful "Unrated Cut!" releases that were so popular for a time.
The vast majority of those are 120 seconds longer at best.
I guess there are some other good examples. Off the top of my head, even the "Aliens" Director's Cut was better than the theatrical, especially given that it advanced Ripley's character as a "surrogate mother" to Newt via the news of her daughter's death.
The TMP Directors Edition, also a good example.
Between this and the new Alien: Earth series airing later this year, it's a pretty good time to be an Alien Franchise fan!
And Ridley Scot saying he's doing a sequel to Covenant. I know, not everyone is waiting for that. But I am!
I have concerns about that series because Hawley is not especially known for giving a crap about continuity.
That's a good point, but it's not like Alien has been an outstanding beacon of continuity to begin with.
I've come to view it more like Mad Max....it's a bunch of related stories but not 100% pure in terms of continuity.
They've already said the series will be ignoring the Xenomorph's backstory from Prometheus and Covenant.
Actually, it is said that there is another Alien movie in the preparation phase besides Romulus. This could be Romulus 2. Apart from this, it would be nice if the sequel to Covenant was made into a 6-episode FX mini-series with Ridley Scott writing and directing each episode, starring Michael Fassbender, and the story ended.And Ridley Scot saying he's doing a sequel to Covenant. I know, not everyone is waiting for that. But I am!
In Prometheus, there were Xenomorph images on the walls of the engineers' planet. David probably didn't create the Xenomorph.
So the story there is not completely ignored.
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He never did. What he created is known as a Protomorph. His variation of the species.
That was a spaceship. The Engineers' planet was not shown in that film.
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Because judging by the box office of Covenant, I'm not sure the sequel will attract much attention in the cinema.
Seems a bit early to be saying that since we don't know what the show will be doing.
Ok I remember but we still come to the same conclusion. David did not create the Xenomorph.