Dr.Morris79
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That was fucking shit
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Alien: Romulus | Official Trailer
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NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt
Biggest Trails Stan
It's interesting when there's so many great stories in the Alien comics especially the Alien Vs Predator. Dark Horse Alien comics were fantastic. And there was that one videogame that people loved where you had to sneak past the alien. I just find it funny how most of the movies suck
I hope the show is good
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freefornow
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"I'll just casually stand here while shining a torch on my back so you can see the thing that is hammering on the inside of my chest! FFS!!
This alone has one upped Covenent in retardedness!
Calling it now. When watched with captions, the "Andy" character is 100% the Android. Andy the Android!
Also, frenchkissing a facehugger.
This alone has one upped Covenent in retardedness!
Calling it now. When watched with captions, the "Andy" character is 100% the Android. Andy the Android!
Also, frenchkissing a facehugger.
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ValiantTraveler
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Looks like shit.
Hugare
Member
Looks freaking great, honestly
Its simply impossible to please everyone. I've been seeing people on this thread saying that it looks derivative. But if they've changed literally anything about the original aesthetic, some fanboy would complain.
The opinion that really boggles my mind was calling it "boring". This person probably havent seen horror movies lately. They are all "artsy" and "it's about the psychological aspect, bro", with zero action and gore. "Late Night with the Devil", for example. THAT movie was boring. And so many other recent horror movies.
Not saying this will be a masterpiece, but this director has already proved himself with his past movies. He knows how to make some fun horror.
Its simply impossible to please everyone. I've been seeing people on this thread saying that it looks derivative. But if they've changed literally anything about the original aesthetic, some fanboy would complain.
The opinion that really boggles my mind was calling it "boring". This person probably havent seen horror movies lately. They are all "artsy" and "it's about the psychological aspect, bro", with zero action and gore. "Late Night with the Devil", for example. THAT movie was boring. And so many other recent horror movies.
Not saying this will be a masterpiece, but this director has already proved himself with his past movies. He knows how to make some fun horror.
Hawking Radiation
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Brigandier
Gold Member
I like the setting and some of those shots were nice.... Cast? Rofl not so much 
Dr.Morris79
Member
They were truly something special. I used to buy them in Trocadero london, when Alien war was there..
That was something else. You'd go in, come out with a few girls still clinging onto you
The 90's were awsome.
ManaByte
Gold Member
That chestburster was awesome. Put down the pipe.
Yeah, is Games Workshop running around making threats that anything with Space Marines vs aliens in a derelict ship is infringing on Space Hulk or something? I feel like the most logical and surefire Aliens plot is just sitting right there but no one will touch it.
Lord Panda
The Sea is Always Right
I'm going to have a “grumpy old man yells at clouds” moment by saying how much I dislike modern casting, when I see these ‘modern actors’ in such a well-established and once-revered franchise. They lack the charisma, screen presence, stature of the actors from the past. Ugh.
Aside from that major gripe, I’m really impressed with the visuals, special effects, and colour grading/aesthetics.
Aside from that major gripe, I’m really impressed with the visuals, special effects, and colour grading/aesthetics.
Sleepwalker
Member
A lot of old man yelling at clouds in this thread, I'll watch and will probably enjoy it.
Will go to the teather.
Will go to the teather.
Doom85
Member
LOL, these guys in only 2 minutes stand out more than like 90% of the cast of Alien 3. Aside from the doctor and the preacher, everyone else in terms of the new characters just blended with one another. Which made it such a bad decision to have that attempted rape scene, because the prisoners all blended together, I only could care if Ripley, the doctor, and preacher made it out alive as everyone else could have presumably been a rapist since they all weren’t distinct from one another so I didn’t know who to detest or not. Didn’t help the audio mixing was bad so plenty of times I couldn’t hear shit in terms of their dialogue without subtitles.
Like, Alien 4 might be dumber, but I’ll give it this, I remember far more of the characters in that one.
But really, only Aliens I would praise for its entire cast in both casting and writing. Alien has a good cast all around but a good deal of them are pretty one note (I hope when those two guys go to heaven, they get that bonus they wouldn’t stop asking about, LOL). Alien 4 had some good cast members….but it was also Alien 4. Prometheus had half its characters be fucking morons while the other half were decent/good (primarily Michael Fassbender, Idris Elba, and Noomi Rapace) and then Alien Covenant saw Prometheus’ number of characters making bad decisions and said, “hold my beer”. Michael Fassbender carried Covenant hard (not enough to make it good, but still), his two characters were the only ones on point.
But this cast seems fine. I know the main actress Cailee Spaeny from Bad Times at the El Royale (a film more people should see), she was good in that. Isabela Merced is great. Don’t know the others, but this is a franchise that began with an at-the-time unknown actress playing the lead character, so it would be ironic to judge someone until I see their performance.
OmegaSupreme
advanced basic bitch
Some people are really high on this director. Why? The evil dead remake was ass.
What A Shame...
Banned
Alvarez is king of bland horror. No depth, no themes, rehashed settings, cannon fodder characters, but still somewhat entertaining.
EDIT: Oh Jesus, just went through the trailer again in slow-mo to see the quick cuts. It looks like the early plot leaks are true. Not good.
EDIT: Oh Jesus, just went through the trailer again in slow-mo to see the quick cuts. It looks like the early plot leaks are true. Not good.
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T8SC
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The atmosphere & set design seems to be ok but I'm not too sure about the actors. But then, people said that about Heath Ledger before the Dark Knight released, so let's wait & see how it turns out upon release.
It won't top Alien or Aliens, thats a given. But will it better the other movies....
It won't top Alien or Aliens, thats a given. But will it better the other movies....
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Lord Panda
The Sea is Always Right
There are only two Alien movies.
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FunkMiller
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The more of these things that get made, the more they die at the box office, the faster the studio system collapses. Which is great.
The collapse in the 60s led to the creativity of the 70s. I’m hoping for something similar once the likes of Warner Bros are proper fucked.
dragonyeuw
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If this turns out decent I may actually take my 'done with theatres' ass to the theatre.
Werewolf Jones
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John Bilbo
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Another day, another Alien.
Lord Panda
The Sea is Always Right
GymWolf
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Oh you sweet summer child.
Denton
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What is that accent, anyway? Sounds hilarious
Dr.Morris79
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You got that feeling too?
I thought that, then thought maybe I'm just old. Watched it again and no, it really does give off a Twilight Aliens feeling
It doesn't help that no actor today looks gruff in any way..
These kids look like they've just left university
Look at the crew of Alien~
They wasn't even that old and they look like they've lived a life and fit the roles perfect, natural looking in that situation. Great casting.
Look at the crew of Aliens~
Ripley looks out of place, as she was, she didnt even want to go. The Marines? Looking like badass motherfuckers with sharp sticks, they look Marinish.. you wouldn't fuck with em. Great casting
This Aliens crew?
winjer
Member
You got that feeling too?
I thought that, then thought maybe I'm just old. Watched it again and no, it really does give off a Twilight Aliens feeling
It doesn't help that no actor today looks gruff in any way..
These kids look like they've just left university
Look at the crew of Alien~
They wasn't even that old and they look like they've lived a life and fit the roles perfect, natural looking in that situation. Great casting.
Look at the crew of Aliens~
Ripley looks out of place, as she was, she didnt even want to go. The Marines? Looking like badass motherfuckers with sharp sticks, they look Marinish.. you wouldn't fuck with em. Great casting
This Aliens crew?
With all characters being just very young adults, it also limits the type of characters we can have.
We no longer can have the wise old man/women character. Or the gruff military veteran. The experienced engineer that always finds a solution. The experience leader. Etc.
All we can have is young, inexperienced kids, running from aliens. Basically, just a teenager slasher movie in space.
Dr.Morris79
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Toots
Gold Member
Weird way to tell us you did not have a good time at the cinema since 1991 !Watched every Alien, Predator, and Terminator released in theatres and will continue to do so
Sub_Level
wants to fuck an Asian grill.
Saw Alien Resurrection with my family and had fun, the audience liked it too. Then we got the ps1 game afterwards which was awesome and fookin scary. Its my least fav of the original 4 movies, but definitely a fun 90s theatre experience.
AVP1 was fun in the theatre too. Its a bad movie with CGI that aged like milk but the audience reaction was palpable when you saw them fight for the first time. Was still novel, came out sort of around the time of those Freddy vs Jason flicks if I recall.
Predator 2018 is the only truly horrible time I had, saw it with my dad. It takes a real hack of a director to make me wish for a movie to end when it stars cutie pie Olivia Munm. Like how do you fuck that up so badly.
Lukaku's First Touch
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Looks like a rehash from all the previous movies. Spaceship and alien aboard the spaceship...
I rather want to watch a movie with the creators from that other alien movie that I forgot the name about.
I rather want to watch a movie with the creators from that other alien movie that I forgot the name about.
Toots
Gold Member
good men will always beat a troll, because they are genuine.
I loved Resurrection much more than 3 myself, maybe because im familiar with Jeunet art direction which was kind of a hit or miss unfortunately when coupled with the Alien franchise (Much more of a hit if you were already familiar with it i think).
Hope you'll enjoy a lot more movies in theaters, good and bad, with your loved ones
Doom85
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I really don’t see an issue here. Good suspense/horror should not give a shit how old the characters are. I’m not watching Halloween or Texas Chainsaw Massacre going, “man, this would be scary, but there’s no 40 year old or 70 year old being terrorized, so I can’t get scared by this.” Like, if we removed Margot Kidder from Black Christmas, is the film not scary anymore?
Also, how were the prior films that diverse in types of characters‘ jobs? Everyone in the first movie worked in the same crew. Everyone in the second movie were Marines save Ripley and the one Company guy. The third movie had all the new characters be a part of the nonsense prison/church combo. In the fourth movie, practically all the new main characters were mercenaries. Prometheus, they were all scientists. Covenant, they were all dumbasses.
And if we’re talking specifics within those jobs, why are we assuming it won’t be the same in this movie? Unless one generalizes all young people as “the same”, there’s no reason one can’t better at leading people, one be more tactical, one be an asshole who prioritizes their safety to the point of abandoning their friends, etc. Hell, an engineer? Kaylee from Firefly was presumably 20 (the actress’ age) and she was a fucking great mechanic. Nobody had trouble buying that back then and I don’t see why it would be a stretch now.
GymWolf
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Sound like brit accent.
To this day i still have no idea why women consider brit accent the sexiest one (same for italian accent, both sound dumb af)
And its Shane Black no less, who up till then had a REALLY GOOD track record as a writer and director, including Predator! He MADE the 80's action scene! What went so horribly wrong with The Predator ought to be its own documentary. Black has ZERO credits since 2018, I think that film just totally sunk him.
DeepEnigma
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FinalBossWithTheMostPower
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It's just very bland.
It has the right idea, but the execution is off.
More face huggers than anythibg else.
Is that a queen in the final seconds?
It has the right idea, but the execution is off.
More face huggers than anythibg else.
Is that a queen in the final seconds?