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MarshMellow posted...
I found it fascinating that the baby alien was played by this basketball player who's most likely the only person in the history of humanity who'd fit into that suit.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/8/8c65ddd9.jpg

I was very surprised to learn about this. The guy is kind of alien-like >.>
Pikachuchupika posted...
I was very surprised to learn about this. The guy is kind of alien-like >.>
For real. The costume is less upsetting.
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Romulus was great. Aliens is Vietnam in space but that's not a bad thing. It's just not the same type of horror.
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I'm gonna catch some flak for this, but IMO Romulus is the 2nd best Alien movie. Alien > Romulus > Aliens. I feel like Alien is one of the most perfect horror movies ever and I prefer it to the more action-oriented Aliens.

I'm also extremely hyped for the new series.
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I never liked the newborn in Romulus. all I kept seeing was Oocoo from Twilight Princess.

I liked resurrection newborn better.
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First 2 are on par with each other, just different strokes, then Romulus, then 3 then 4...... and if you HAVE to pretend they exist and aren't the dumbest fucking movies of all time that make 0 sense, then.... I don't care what order you put Prometheus and Covenant, it doesn't matter they both suck shit.
Rage is a hell of an anesthetic.
VRX3000 posted...
I never liked the newborn in Romulus. all I kept seeing was Oocoo from Twilight Princess.

I liked resurrection newborn better.
They both kinda suck.

Romulus would have legit been near perfect if they had just cut that part entirely.
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I just realized, but Oocoo is actually creepier than the thing in Romulus. Lol
Zikten posted...


But yea, the Alien franchise kinda operates like how ninjas do in fiction. The more of them there are the weaker they are. 1 Alien is almost unstoppable. A whole nest of aliens is just cannon fodder for the main character to slaughter

I mean, it makes sense in the context of things. Alien was just 1 xeno in a truck stop bathroom killing a bunch of truckers who only had a crowbar to share between them. Aliens was a bunch of Gravy Seals but they at least had armor piercing bullets and flame throwers. lol
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-Crissaegrim- posted...
In regards to Egg Morphing, one of the things I like about it is that it makes the Xenomorphs a much bigger threat. If all it takes is one normal drone for a colony to start up, it's so much more dangerous and costly to cross paths with them.

Having everything you need to kickstart a colony being contained within either a Facehugger OR a Xenomorph makes it a very robust system, impossible to eradicate, unless you kill off every single one of them.
I was always under the assumption that if a single Xenomorph is able to set up a colony and swarm a place, the only logical thing is that said Xeno could become a Xeno Queen (I don't think the lore has clarified how a Queen is created mind you), or otherwise how are the eggs produced and Queen created? Turning people into eggs kinda feels redundant if that is correct + less efficient since it requires two people to make a single Xeno while the Queen option is "better". Only exception may be in smaller places that wouldn't support a Queen's size.

Would love for a movie to explore the concept more of course.
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I really enjoyed Romulus. I got a kick out of the save points from Isolation showing up before the perilous moments.
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ReturnOfDevsman posted...
For real. The costume is less upsetting.

Damn son lol
It felt like a straight upgrade over the originals. What do people think it did worse than 1/2?

I felt like the horror aspect was better and was more tense.
Comfy_Pillow posted...
It felt like a straight upgrade over the originals. What do people think it did worse than 1/2?

I felt like the horror aspect was better and was more tense.
Story of 1/2 is a lot better.
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Comfy_Pillow posted...
It felt like a straight upgrade over the originals. What do people think it did worse than 1/2?

I felt like the horror aspect was better and was more tense.

The difference is 45 years.

If you watch them all for the first time today, good chance you'll have Romulus first.

That said I watched all of them for the first time this year and I have aliens 1, Romulus 2 and alien 3
Comfy_Pillow posted...
It felt like a straight upgrade over the originals. What do people think it did worse than 1/2?

I felt like the horror aspect was better and was more tense.
They are all really good and I'm considering having Romulus tie Alien in my tier list. I thought Aliens had the tensest moment in the series with seeing the aftermath of the battle between the Xenos and the missing colonists.

Otherwise, strength of acting and story the first two edge out Romulus by just a little bit, maybe less so in the case of Alien.

But again, all three are >=9/10 movies.

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I rewatched Alien 1 and it looks great for what it is. I'd say the practical face hugger makes it look better than the rest of the franchise.

Anyways as someone that joined the Alien fandom this year....my goodness is there a lot of discussion on black goo
I liked covenant a lot more than Romulus. It's probably because of Fassbender. But I just didn't like any character in Romulus except Rook. The aliens were a LOT better portrayed though.
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Bloodmoon77 posted...
I liked covenant a lot more than Romulus. It's probably because of Fassbender. But I just didn't like any character in Romulus except Rook. The aliens were a LOT better portrayed though.

The characters were all pretty young, so to me that was a bit weird.
I liked Romulus better than Prometheus but less than Alien: Sisyphus and Alien: Hephaestus. I'm excited for Alien: Odysseus though.

If the joke isn't clear, I've seen exactly one of the post-Ressurection Alien films and due to the naming convention I couldn't begin to remember which one it actually was .
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Maybe alien Earth can dethrone some or all of the top 3
Blue_Popo posted...
Maybe alien Earth can dethrone some or all of the top 3

I think I might like it more than any of the movies, but a large part of that is just that I enjoy shows more than movies.
MarshMellow posted...
I found it fascinating that the baby alien was played by this basketball player who's most likely the only person in the history of humanity who'd fit into that suit.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/8/8c65ddd9.jpg

This picture is more terrifying than any Alien film
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rick_alverado posted...
I think I might like it more than any of the movies, but a large part of that is just that I enjoy shows more than movies.

I'm far from there yet. It hasn't hit for me at that level
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ImAMarvel posted...
My biggest issues with Romulus were the cheap reusing of Ash's actor's facial likeness, plus the awful CGI with that, and that it confirmed that Prometheus and Covenant were canon. I liked the Offspring but why would you actually want those godawful movies to be canon?
Ridley Scott, who directed the original Alien, directed both Prometheus and Covenant. He always intended them to be canon.

Also, even though AvP and Requiem are canon to the Predator franchise, they apparently aren't canon anymore to the Alien franchise. Something I ran into in a previous topic. I believe Prometheus contradicted a few elements in AvP in particular.
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Its not a bad film, but I think it can be viewed as sort of the The Force Awakens of its particular franchisea tightly made, decently executed (except for that awful Ian Holm CGI) entry that clearly shows a lot of reverence towards its franchises foundational installments, but lacks its own clarity of vision and suffers from being thematically muddy and relying too heavily on fan-pleasing nostalgic references to its predecessors.

Prometheus and Covenant, for all their many, many flaws, at least have the benefit of exploring some kind of theme that is clearly the vision of the filmmaker, which puts them closer to the first two films than Romulus achieves, in my judgment.
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ImAMarvel posted...
My biggest issues with Romulus were the cheap reusing of Ash's actor's facial likeness, plus the awful CGI with that, and that it confirmed that Prometheus and Covenant were canon. I liked the Offspring but why would you actually want those godawful movies to be canon?

The alien franchise doesn't have a team dictating canon and not. Romulus inherited black goo from the original director and even then it didn't go too deep into it
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