ALIEN: ROMULUS News And Updates!
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Fincher was not involved, so it isn't actually a director's cut, it's officially called the Assembly Cut. I'm not sure who was involved, it may have been the guys who put the DVD together. They basically restored and incorporated the fairly signicant amount of cut footage and reinstated the originally shot 'oxburster' instead of the theatrical cut's dog. Some digital effects were also changed, that veers into spoilery territory.
I hated the theatrical cut, but I really like the AC, it's like a different movie. The chase through the lead mould is still impossible to follow tho
Fincher was not involved, so it isn't actually a director's cut, it's officially called the Assembly Cut. I'm not sure who was involved, it may have been the guys who put the DVD together. They basically restored and incorporated the fairly signicant amount of cut footage and reinstated the originally shot 'oxburster' instead of the theatrical cut's dog. Some digital effects were also changed, that veers into spoilery territory.
I hated the theatrical cut, but I really like the AC, it's like a different movie. The chase through the lead mould is still impossible to follow tho
Thanks for the clarification! Yes, the theatrical cut is terribly incoherent and random. But the AC is actually a pretty decent film.
Amazon Prime Video has it for purchase as the "Special Edition":
You want the version that is 2 hours and 24 minutes, NOT the version that is 1h 54m (or less).
Enjoy!
kristen jones
Master Member
Why do you say the "behind the shoulder feature seems useless"? they literally explained it's use in the film: it's aiming assistance. They even showed it moving to articulate her shoulder to help hit her target. They also explained that pulling the trigger half way is what allows the HUD display to lock on a target and activates the aim assist.I liked it. I even loved some of the stuff in it. But I agree that the story is too thin and derivative to really even worry about. I would have enjoyed a little more time on the planet, maybe a few scenes with corpo type characters in an office reacting to motion sensors on the station picking up human life. Something. The teen slasher formula it is then.
The sound design and music really helped me feel like I was back in the Alien universe. While it didn't take me out of the film, I really don't think a company like WY would just leave THAT station abandoned and adrift that close to an active mining operation. Going into the film I thought we might learn there was some corpo behind tipping off the kids to lure them in, and he or she would drop the security to make it easy for them to get inside. Nope, WY really did just let this station float around on it's own.
I got a chuckle that the android was named Andy.
The pulse rifles. Yeah. I love the look, but the operation and use was difficult for me to swallow. The "behind the shoulder" feature seems useless. The "pull the trigger halfway" thing, well, that was just stupid and entirely unsafe. With the safety on or not, that's just asking for ND's all over the place.
Anyway, I think overall the film was enjoyable, and the Rook fake face stuff didn't bother me. The call back to the black goo could have been way more horrific. That felt like a missed opportunity more than anything.
It's explicitly stated in the dialogue.
kristen jones
Master Member
The bird also made an appearance in Prometheus.
The film was ok, it was a fairly standard affair as Alien films go. A group of people stumble across an Alien a cat and mouse chase ensues, people make stupid decisions, people die. It's a fairly well worn story now across 7 films.
The zero gravity scenes were a new and interesting aspect of the fight against the Xenomorphs.
There have been many plot holes mentioned already but one that stood out was when Andy gets left at the bottom of the station surrounded by Xenomorphs and face huggers when Rain escapes into the elevator shaft with the pregnant girl.
Then when she gets halfway up the shaft and has a change of heart and returns to save Andy, there are absolutely no aliens of any kind.
It's almost like the plot needed them to be gone so she could get across to Andy to have a heartfelt conversation before the aliens then surprisingly return to corner them. That bothered me as being WAY too convenient.
The "get away from her......you bitch" line was a really bad piece of fan service.
The terrible Ian Holm deepfake could have drawn so much less attention and potential for criticism by simply having a different synth. It's known that there are other synth models so just have it be anyone but him, it was totally unnecessary fan service and given how odd it looked it was drawing me out of the film anytime he was on screen.
When the trio warmed the room up to body temperature to cross the section of the station filled with face huggers I guess Andy must have malfunctioned and forgotten that the heat built up in the room would have started equalise across that large open section behind them as soon as the door was opened meaning they would have stood out as warmer heat sources straight away and would have attracted the face huggers within 30 seconds of the doors being opened.
In space/Hollywood physics is flexible.
Overall a fairly standard entry into the franchise. I watched it at the cinema so it got some money from me and my fiance but I doubt I would be in a a hurry to watch it again.
The zero gravity scenes were a new and interesting aspect of the fight against the Xenomorphs.
There have been many plot holes mentioned already but one that stood out was when Andy gets left at the bottom of the station surrounded by Xenomorphs and face huggers when Rain escapes into the elevator shaft with the pregnant girl.
Then when she gets halfway up the shaft and has a change of heart and returns to save Andy, there are absolutely no aliens of any kind.
It's almost like the plot needed them to be gone so she could get across to Andy to have a heartfelt conversation before the aliens then surprisingly return to corner them. That bothered me as being WAY too convenient.
The "get away from her......you bitch" line was a really bad piece of fan service.
The terrible Ian Holm deepfake could have drawn so much less attention and potential for criticism by simply having a different synth. It's known that there are other synth models so just have it be anyone but him, it was totally unnecessary fan service and given how odd it looked it was drawing me out of the film anytime he was on screen.
When the trio warmed the room up to body temperature to cross the section of the station filled with face huggers I guess Andy must have malfunctioned and forgotten that the heat built up in the room would have started equalise across that large open section behind them as soon as the door was opened meaning they would have stood out as warmer heat sources straight away and would have attracted the face huggers within 30 seconds of the doors being opened.
In space/Hollywood physics is flexible.
Overall a fairly standard entry into the franchise. I watched it at the cinema so it got some money from me and my fiance but I doubt I would be in a a hurry to watch it again.
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I was able to pick up one pair sz. 10.5 after an hr of refreshing the page.
JediG60racer
Sr Member
I would have written it that they heated up BOTH passageways, on both sides of the blast door, and then had Andy go pretty far back in the room to make a noise and attract the attention of the facehuggers, while the two humans hid to the sides of the doorway until all the buggers went past after Andy, who then became silent and invisible to them and waltzes past them without issue. But after they walk down the passageway, and we think they're in the clear, we discover that there are more dormant aliens deeper in the passageway, causing the humans to startle, make noise and attract the attention of both swarms.
We had the pleasure of interviewing Director Fede Alvarez yesterday:
On Apple Podcast:
The Perfect Organisim Podcast
podcasts.apple.com
Or on YouTube:
He addressed many of the issues with the film in a very honest straight forward manner.
On Apple Podcast:
The Perfect Organisim Podcast
255 // Interviewing Fede Alvarez (Part Two)
We last spoke with Fede Alvarez, director of Alien: Romulus, shortly before the film premiered. Now that it's been out a few weeks, we circled back with Fede to
podcasts.apple.com
Or on YouTube:
He addressed many of the issues with the film in a very honest straight forward manner.
TheMechanic
Sr Member
I liked that a lot of the issues the fans had he addressed and he has issues with them too. The choices make more sense when you realize that he had to make a movie for people who had never seen an 'Alien' movie.
drusselmeyer
Master Member
No, that makes no sense. If you are making a film for new audiences, no fan service callbacks are justified. You simply repeat the formula. The callbacks have no context.
It’s intended for both new audiences and the old timer fans like us. It’s an incredibly difficult task, I think he balanced it pretty well.
Watching this in the theatre with kids (7-15) they loved it. And the the crowed out loud cheered at the “Get away from her...” line. It is so difficult to make an audience react like that...
