Sci-Fi Alien: Romulus (2024)

This looks ****ing great. Bring it on. Just like with Predator I am always down for more Alien films. I wish we could’ve gotten a conclusion to the Prometheus trilogy as I love those. But I’ll of course still take this too.
 
They sold me with the Motion Tracker blip. They throw in the Pulse Rifle sound effect and I'll lose it.

For anyone saying this is more of the same...so was Prey, and that movie was amazing.
 
This franchise seems to be in that space where if they lean into the iconography "too much", it's a fan-made cash-grab rip-off, and if they don't lean into enough, it might as well not be an Alien film or not exist at all.

I guess I don't really know what people expect to be different about these films at this point. This looks like a very straightforward sci-fi/thriller. Cool cast and it's very pretty too. I'll probably watch it at some point.
 
Punisher_MAX said:
They sold me with the Motion Tracker blip. They throw in the Pulse Rifle sound effect and I'll lose it.

For anyone saying this is more of the same...so was Prey, and that movie was amazing.
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I hope this turns out as good as Prey did. I just have to tangibly see good reviews and positive buzz at this point
 
Spider-Fan said:
I hope this turns out as good as Prey did. I just have to tangibly see good reviews and positive buzz at this point
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I'll probably be there opening night lol but honestly, after Aliens, I don't care if it has as much subtext or whatever else people want out of an Alien film. I just want a GOOD Alien movie where the Xenos are scary, I'm on the edge of my seat, and I have an awesome time.

Cameron understood that with Aliens, just make a GOOD movie.
 
I've no idea wether this will be good or bad just by judging by this trailer. I've been disappointed some times before with this franchise even with decent trailers like this, so I never get hyped anymore. But as an old **** who watched the classic Alien teaser trailer at the cinema as a kid, I still actually always love to see those basic graphics shaping up to the movie title. A super cool experience in 1979, and it still holds up 40+ years later. Hopefully this flick will at least be better than the last offering.

I also have a story trying to sneak in to Alien back then as a snotty kid after watching that trailer, but I'm not really sure how many times I've posted that story here, hence I'm putting it in spoilers for those tired of that damn rant lol.

Anyhows, in 1979 me and my buddy were 13 years old when we got the brilliant idea trying to sneak in to the Alien movie showing back then. Alien was rated 15yo in my country (highest rating), hence a great win or loose situation there. Needless to say, we'd both been ridiculously impressed by that amazing all time classic teaser trailer before various movies earlier on.

The whole sinister atmosphere with that mysterious egg (which you instantly could tell was pure ****ing hell, but also in bloody space), and those graphics slowly shaping the title ALIEN with a very minimalist font type. So modernistic, and something you'd never seen before in a movie trailer during the 70s. And also the classic "In space no-one can hear you scream" sub-title. This was obviously something completely different from Star Wars a couple years before (to say the least :funny: ).

The ticket lady actually did let me buy a ticket, but unfortunately asked my friend for ID/legitimation (he was quite shorter than me then, but ironically grew way past me just a couple of years later and got really tall). Did any of us had IDs? Of course not, we were bloody 13! I was almost on my way to a cinematic experience of one of the greatest si-fi horror classic flicks ever made.

But of course I just couldn't be a dick and leave my friend out. Yeah, he still owe me for that lol.

Well, I watched this on VHS a couple of years later. IIRC (at least in my country back then) Alien did quite well regarding home video renting, in an early but steadily growing home video market. The usual über-spoiled kids in the neighbourhood/my class of course grew up early with VCR players (and ****ing Soda Stream machines!), hence me watching this at some of those spoiled kids house lol.

Also, RIP the passed cast members of Alien:

Bolaji Badejo (August 23, 1953 – December 22, 1992), aged 39 (so young, dammit)
Helen Horton (November 21, 1923 – September 28, 2007), aged 83
Sir John Hurt (January 22, 1940 – January 25, 2017), aged 77
Harry Dean Stanton (July 14, 1926 – September 15, 2017), aged 91
Sir Ian Holm (September 12, 1931 – June 19, 2020), aged 88
Yaphet Kotto (November 15, 1939 – March 15, 2021), aged 81
 
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Like with the Prey trailer a few years back, cautiously optimistic.

I hope the result is the same or similar.
 
The facehugger trying to get its uh… appendage inside that person’s mouth was viscerally disgusting. There was a shot like that in the teaser as well and it made me feel icky then too.
 
At this point I think my only apprehension is how they go about the story here. The rumors that the alien from the original film survived floating around in space and somehow got picked up by people and this is how we get to Romulus are mildly concerning to me because that sounds like an idea that could easily fall on its face and not only be stupid for this film but also devalue the final moment of Alien. (If the creature is still alive that is) But I am really curious about how this station ended up with multiple eggs and basically what was going on before our characters get there.
 
Zantera said:
At this point I think my only apprehension is how they go about the story here. The rumors that the alien from the original film survived floating around in space and somehow got picked up by people and this is how we get to Romulus are mildly concerning to me because that sounds like an idea that could easily fall on its face and not only be stupid for this film but also devalue the final moment of Alien. (If the creature is still alive that is) But I am really curious about how this station ended up with multiple eggs and basically what was going on before our characters get there.
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To be fair the Aliens can survive in space. Apparently
the big rock at some point in the trailer is the original alien frozen from being in space so long
. Or that's what some people are theorising anyway.

We'll see though as apparently there is a 25 year or so time difference between this and the original.
 
Still getting no vibe from this film. There's no hook. It's just doing an Alien film. Looks quite nicely made though; still curious, will watch it.
 
#root said:
The facehugger trying to get its uh… appendage inside that person’s mouth was viscerally disgusting. There was a shot like that in the teaser as well and it made me feel icky then too.
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This grossed me out so much. Which was the intention, of course!
 
Wasn't the original thinking that the Xenomorph is unkillable? For better or worse Cameron came along and changed that, but that would imply that it could survive space
 
I'm intrigued by the idea of the Queen still floating around out there.

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This is currently my most anticipated film of the year. Fede essentially is combining Alien and Aliens, and injecting it with some Evil Dead.
 
Stringer said:
Wasn't the original thinking that the Xenomorph is unkillable? For better or worse Cameron came along and changed that, but that would imply that it could survive space
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It not immediately getting liquefied by the engines might support that.
 
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If the rumor is true that this all starts from the company fishing up big chap from somewhere in space and gets him to the space station - how do you guys think they arrive at the eggs? Some form of backtracking to create more black goo from Big Chap or do you think they bring back egg morphing from the director's cut of Alien? I mean somehow we end up with a station overrun with eggs.
 
Admittedly, going along with that rumour, I did just casually assume without thinking that eggmorphing would be brought back.

Which I'd like. I'd like eggmorphing to be established in canon as an alternative to the queen laying eggs. Though it's a shame that it does slow down that cut of the film too much, I love the eggmorphing as a concept. It adds an extra layer of Lovecraftian horror to the species.
 
Zantera said:
If the rumor is true that this all starts from the company fishing up big chap from somewhere in space and gets him to the space station - how do you guys think they arrive at the eggs? Some form of backtracking to create more black goo from Big Chap or do you think they bring back egg morphing from the director's cut of Alien? I mean somehow we end up with a station overrun with eggs.
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Another rumour is that they reverse engineer BC's DNA and make the eggs that way. Or we could be getting a queen from an alien that hatched on the station.
 
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