ALIEN ROMULUS post screening discussion

Well I would have to check the years of the original, but how did they reproduce, all the face huggers? The company would have to have
known about them ahead of time. The biggest thing to me is, they have a ship, with all the Alien goodies, but they let float
in space? Than some crew, finds out, takes a ship ( nobody asking anything about! ), and gets right on board! I mean this company,
has been wigging out about this stuff, and they just leave a ship floating in space? There are a few other small things, I can't remember,
I have to sit down and think about it!
Oh, how did the Alien get fossilized? I guess it's possible for it to survive the engine blast, from it's tough exterior. The Alien baby, which
is just opinion, looked horrible!
The thing about Alien is we don't know its life cycle, in the original ALIEN film, there has been restored deleted scenes in the Directors Cut, where Ripley finds Dallas & Brett they are cocooned to the walls & encased in resin & look like they are transforming into Eggs.
We know nothing about how it reproduces until James Cameron introduced a Queen that lays eggs.
We see the population of LV-462 in ALIENS incased in resin in the Alien hive, & Newt gets captured & is trapped in the resin.
So we know that the creatures, not just the Queen can secrete resin
The pipes in the back of the creature perhaps??
The Big Chap that was harpooned out of Riley's Lifeboat must have encased itself in resin

There were no eggs in ALIEN: Romulus we see the facehuggers in plastic cases, the scientists must have grown them, perhaps extracting seeds from Big Chap then replicating them

J
 
There wouldn't have been anything left of the Nostromo after a series of 3 thermonuclear explosions. And why would Big Chap be anywhere near the wreckage anyway? Just so many plot contrivances in this movie.
Finding Ripley in ALIENS was a real stroke of luck, I mean “Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.”

J
 
Why the heck did the Xenomorph catch Rain when she was falling down the elevator? I was waiting for it to say "I gotcha" lol

At first i thought it had impaled her on its tail. So many shots were just too dark to tell what was going on, particularly near the end in the container.
 
Why the heck did the Xenomorph catch Rain when she was falling down the elevator? I was waiting for it to say "I gotcha" lol

At first i thought it had impaled her on its tail. So many shots were just too dark to tell what was going on, particularly near the end in the container.
Because it wanted to take her & cocoon her & prepare her for a face hugger, like they always do
 
It's The Force Awakens of Alien movies.

Superficially entertaining. Good production values. But quite clearly a designed-by-committee remix of all previous Alien films—from the original to Prometheus, and to my surprise even Resurrection—with little to no ideas of its own. Cailee Spaeny carries the whole thing, she's a star and she's been for quite a while now, the movie's weaknesses would be quite more glaring without her. Her relationship with the android wants to be the backbone of the story, and it's the one thing the story really needed to focus on, unfortunately the film is so preoccupied with referencing and remaking every recognizable moment from the previous films that any attempt to work with the characters ends up muddled and diluted.

Even more unfortunate, the Alien series is composed of such different takes from wildly different filmmakers (one movie is psychological horror, another action, then thriller, then sci-fi, etc) that mixing them up does not work very well. The transitions from one to the next are pretty jarring in Romulus and really make you wish they stuck to one. But then again, I suppose that would've only led to additional pseudo-remakes in successive sequels, like it happened with Star Wars and Jurassic Park. A pity. Again, at least it looks sleek and Spaeny is awesome. That's about it.
 
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There wouldn't have been anything left of the Nostromo after a series of 3 thermonuclear explosions. And why would Big Chap be anywhere near the wreckage anyway? Just so many plot contrivances in this movie.

Big Chap was pulled into the gravitational pull of a “because it had to happen for the sequel singularity” (the most powerful cosmic force in the universe) which delivered him where he needed to be.
 
Birdie "Álvarez’ emphasis on practical effects preordained the creation of an actual animatronic to interact with his young cast..."
So Rook wasn't a bad deep fake.
 
It was clearly digitally modified in some way. From the way the mouth and teeth moved, it looked like it might have been a 2d mesh warp kind of thing done to the puppet.
In one of the Youtube videos I watched on the practical effects they it said a 'digital likeness' was superimposed on the animatronic, so yeah. However it was done it looked horrible. I think the fully animatronic Bishop from A3 actually looks better in a sense, it has a more believable 'this dude has been seriously effed up' feel.
 
The Rook character was so bad looking. Not just the CG. You could see it was a poor attempt to hide the actor behind the monitor when he was sitting up. Did not look believable at all. But neither did a lot of stuff in the film. I give them credit for using a lot of practical effects but the over all movie/story was just bad. Not a lot of research was done in the backstories other than stealing the popular lines from them.
 
We just got back from seeing this on the $6 ticket day deal. It was an Alien movie for sure, and it was just like watching them all meshed into one film.

I assume the “muff pod” was introduced to help the audience understand that the xenos produce the resin themselves? It would have been nice to build on that further and showed the egg-ification of some people too. Just to bridge the gap between the facehuggers.

Way too many endings…Cut the entire slender-baby-man thing. I’d rather end on an open ended story where the pregnant girl is a plot line for another movie than see anything like that again.

Honestly, this could have been a sequel to a better movie. Show me Weyland’s scientists and that stuff going wrong! That sounds terrifying.

What else…Ash was a cool idea with “okay” execution.

Sets looked good. That pulse rifle was cool (but 450 shots???). Andy was cool with the two personalities.

I assume the station was assumed completely lost by the company? It was just by chance it showed up in orbit above the planet, but then what are the odds only the kids heard the signal? And the planet didn’t even care what flight path their ship was taking? Weird.
 
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