Spoilers Alien Romulus reviews and ratings

[xenotaris]

The Salmacis, IIRC

Yes!

I wonder if there more cyropods on that ship than on the Narcissus.

The Narcissus had two lifepods

I am assuming the Salmacis would have more to compensate for the rest of the crew?

Edit: Nevermind, just got back from the AVP wiki, the Salmacis like the Narcissus only had two cyropods.So someone was going to get scroogled. That means only four people, Jonesy the Cat, and maybe Ash (depending if was willing to give up his facade) would have a snowball chance of surviving a catastrophe.

 

[Mage]

I can't remember it being actually being said in the movie, but is it not implied? If cryofuel was easy to come by, they wouldn't have risked being imprisoned by Weyland Yutani if they were caught breaking into the space station.

I think it is rare, perhaps expensive. But The Company can afford that.
I think it's more a case of there being no need for cryotubes on the planet they were on, so also no need for cryofuel. However, with the station having pods, it makes sense to have fuel onboard.
No pods on planet, hence the need to steal them from what they believed to be a ship at first, not a station. That's why they went there in the first place.

 

[xenotaris]

I think it is rare, perhaps expensive. But The Company can afford that.
I think it's more a case of there being no need for cryotubes on the planet they were on, so also no need for cryofuel. However, with the station having pods, it makes sense to have fuel onboard.
No pods on planet, hence the need to steal them from what they believed to be a ship at first, not a station. That's why they went there in the first place.

I think cryofuel is very COMMON actually otherwise there wouldn't be a BOOMING space industry with Space Truckers, Colonists, and Colonial Marines. I don't remember any of the characters saying that Cryofuel was rare, like at all, where did this even come from?

sorry for the caps, I was imitating Big Dave from Scified.com

 

[Skipper]

I don't think cryofuel is particularly rare or expensive. It's just not available to civilians. And it obviously doesn't make sense for it to be on a planet. I suppose they could have stolen it from some off-world ship in transit, but it's certainly easier to do from an abandoned station.

 

[Mage]

I think cryofuel is very COMMON actually otherwise there wouldn't be a BOOMING space industry with Space Truckers, Colonists, and Colonial Marines. I don't remember any of the characters saying that Cryofuel was rare, like at all, where did this even come from?

sorry for the caps, I was imitating Big Dave from Scified.com

Yeah, I just realised I missed a word in my post. "I DON'T think it's rare, perhaps expensive. But The Company can afford it."

 

[Saul]

It's not a bad movie. I think I'd place it as my 4th favorite (I actually like Alien 3 - both versions!). I might describe it as a diluted addition to the franchise. The people I went with to see the film had never watched an Alien movie before and they loved it. I liked the connections to other films thrown in. Never imagined we'd see Prometheus referenced again. There's hope still they might tie up the loose ends of Covenant in future. The whole 8 hour alien gestation period seems to be gone for good in these films for modern audiences.

 

[Mage]

It's not a bad movie. I think I'd place it as my 4th favorite (I actually like Alien 3 - both versions!). I might describe it as a diluted addition to the franchise. The people I went with to see the film had never watched an Alien movie before and they loved it. I liked the connections to other films thrown in. Never imagined we'd see Prometheus referenced again. There's hope still they might tie up the loose ends of Covenant in future. The whole 8 hour alien gestation period seems to be gone for good in these films for modern audiences.

See, I also really like Alien3, probably the director's cut a bit more, but still.
The biggest issue for me in ranking this, which I already hate doing, is that I consider Prometheus and Covenant part of the whole, but also different movies. And I think I enjoyed those both a bit more than Romulus. I think....
Same goes for placing it above or under Alien3. Both movies had things I very much enjoyed and parts I might have done differently.

Ranking these movies will have to wait untill I've seen it a second and third time.

 

[thribs]

Only disappointing thing is that there doesn't seem to be a novelisation for it. I like reading those.Getting into the heads of the characters.

 

[thribs]

See, I also really like Alien3, probably the director's cut a bit more, but still.
The biggest issue for me in ranking this, which I already hate doing, is that I consider Prometheus and Covenant part of the whole, but also different movies. And I think I enjoyed those both a bit more than Romulus. I think....
Same goes for placing it above or under Alien3. Both movies had things I very much enjoyed and parts I might have done differently.

Ranking these movies will have to wait untill I've seen it a second and third time.

I'm still annoyed with Alien3. I was promised Aliens on Earth and we didn't get that.

 

[xenotaris]

It's not a bad movie. I think I'd place it as my 4th favorite (I actually like Alien 3 - both versions!). I might describe it as a diluted addition to the franchise. The people I went with to see the film had never watched an Alien movie before and they loved it. I liked the connections to other films thrown in. Never imagined we'd see Prometheus referenced again. There's hope still they might tie up the loose ends of Covenant in future. The whole 8 hour alien gestation period seems to be gone for good in these films for modern audiences.

I figured that is because these weren't regular xenomorphs but altered clones. If that's not the case then I forever blame AVP 04 for that

 

[Rowdy Roddy McDowall]

Well originally the were two escape shuttles. But the second shuttle was damaged... I think, it was mentioned in the novelization.

If so, that implies Dallas, or Ash secretly, would perhaps be expected to go down with the ship.

 

[Rowdy Roddy McDowall]

The whole 8 hour alien gestation period seems to be gone for good in these films for modern audiences.

Thanks to all those Veruca Salts, it's gotten almost as quick as the microwave pregnancies from SPECIES 2.

Would anyone please clear up the exact cause of the sister's death? I was thinking during her final scene on camera this is a hell of a lot like the end of SPLICE, and in between she apparently croaked.

 

[Jax]

Just seen it and overall an enjoyable experience though it fails to become a great movie so obviously Alien/Aliens are still king but it's better than anything else we've had for maybe the Alien 3 Assembly Cut. I would give it 7.5 out of 10 on such a scoring scale.

I would of liked a slightly bigger cast just to have seen more Alien kills but the use of Face huggers was done well IMO and I loved the expansion of them moving to heat/sound, which makes sense but we've never actually had that on screen explanation right? Yeh the gestation always seems to change with these films but it would cool to see the Alien come out that sort of cocoon thing which obviously aids in it's rapid growth - Maybe the gestation period changes depending on the Queen and this one was from a man made lab Face hugger so that could change things.

A nice tie in with the very hit and miss prequel films and the Human/Engineer Xeno hybrid at the end was a twist that worked fairly well though cutting away from most of it's murder of Kays death scene was stupid - Let us the how truly evil this new Xeno is. I thought Andy was a played very well by David Jonsson who was the stand out cast member. I have no problem with the CGI use of Ian Holm's face as the franchise does state they make many versions of there android models but the CGI was quite poor at times and it didn't need to be - stop rushing special effects in post production.

I wonder what the next film will be? Personally I want a mini series on Disney+ that shows the fall of Hadley's Hope as we never saw it on screen. I watched a video about the comics telling that story and it needs to be told on the screen.

 

[xenotaris]

Hopefully we get baseline xenomorphs in future movies and hopefully they retain the longer gestation periods.

However given past ALIEN movies, they've been trying to ditch the Derelict-variants since ALIEN 3's first draft. Yes I know the Runner/Dog Alien/Ox Alien from Alien 3 is a derelict-variant xenomorph but the idea of man-made/hyrbid xenomorphs first appeared in rejected Alien 3 scripts.

William Gibson gave us the proto-version of the eventual Prometheus pathogen but it came from a xenomorph egg instead of the crafted engineer urns. Which can turn humans directly into xenomorphs.

Eric Red gave us the first draft to kill off Newt, Hicks, and Ripley and set it on a "American Farm" space station filled with hybrid xenomorphs.

David Twohy gave us the prison planet idea. Where xenomorph hybrids were going to be released on the inmates.

Vincent Ward gave us the Wooden Planet inhabited by monks. This is where "The Dragon" got its nickname but in this script it was called the "The Devil" also the xenomorph had the ability to directly implant embryos into its prey without the need of eggs.

 

[The Wormhole]

Hopefully we get baseline xenomorphs in future movies and hopefully they retain the longer gestation periods.

As with everything else, I imagine the gestation periods in any future Alien movies will be entirely contingent on the plot. Whether it's long or short will depend on which serves the movie's plot.

 

[xenotaris]

As with everything else, I imagine the gestation periods in any future Alien movies will be entirely contingent on the plot. Whether it's long or short will depend on which serves the movie's plot.

Yeah I know. Not every Film Maker is interested in maintaining a strong continuity

 

[Skipper]

In the old Alien RPG they rationalized this by saying that the gestation period of a xenomorph depends on so many factors that it is impossible to establish a standard length. Also remember that the ones you saw in the movie were the result of tampering by the company's scientists.

 

[xenotaris]

In the old Alien RPG they rationalized this by saying that the gestation period of a xenomorph depends on so many factors that it is impossible to establish a standard length. Also remember that the ones you saw in the movie were the result of tampering by the company's scientists.

Yes, but I was referring to the original Derelict-strain of xenomorph

 

[Mage]

Fun little easter egg in Romulus.
I'm posting the URL in spoilercode, since the URL itself is spoilery.

Spoiler

[Spoilers] Ellen Ripley Easter Egg in Alien: Romulus Found! - Alien vs. Predator Galaxy

When a new Alien or Predator movie comes out many of us will be seeing it more than once, looking for things we may have missed on our initial viewing. In a recent interview, Alien: Romulus director Fede Álvarez was talking about easter eggs in the film, and played coy with the interviewer when...

www.avpgalaxy.net

 

[The Wormhole]

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