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alien 3 is at least great for its first half, which is more than can be said for most of the stuff fincher didn't disown.
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My only real issue with Alien 3 was the shitty looking blue screen xenomorph puppet composited into scenes with CGI shadows.
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At least you're entering with the right frame of mind
pissed I thought it was some kind of cool horror take on the franchise.
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Yeah lol. I didn't see the evil dead remake this dude did, but this Alien movie comes off like the most over handedly influenced/produced Hollywood bullshit that just needed some guy to officially take the director position. I need someone in my life to talk shit about this movie with lol
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Vegard Pompey
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Alien: Romulus was... a mixed bag.
I loved the first 40-ish minutes or so. It was so fucking immersive and textured. Pulled in immediately when they were still in the mining colony and making plans and you could hear all this industrial machinery going on in the background. It felt so damn grimey and sordid and dark and hopeless long before we got to the alien shit. Then we get to the space station and it plays up the industrial horror of humans exploring an abandoned, automated sci-fi facility completely indifferent to their existence. It gets so much mileage out of the hostile environment long before the xenomorphs enter the picture. Then we get the inevitable facehugger introduction and it falls apart into a jumbled mess of jumpscares and loud noises. All the subtlety and atmosphere of the first act just gone.
It recovered somewhat with the elevator shaft setpiece and if that had been the climax I'd have been happy. Unfortunately it kept going and let me tell you, a lot of people in my theater could not contain their laughter when they introduced the
and I can't exactly blame them. Somehow I don't think that's the reaction you want out of the climax of your Alien film.
Lastly, the cast was fucking awful outside of the main girl and the two androids.
So all in all... it was about 50% "genuinely great" and 50% "laughably bad", with very little in-between.
I loved the first 40-ish minutes or so. It was so fucking immersive and textured. Pulled in immediately when they were still in the mining colony and making plans and you could hear all this industrial machinery going on in the background. It felt so damn grimey and sordid and dark and hopeless long before we got to the alien shit. Then we get to the space station and it plays up the industrial horror of humans exploring an abandoned, automated sci-fi facility completely indifferent to their existence. It gets so much mileage out of the hostile environment long before the xenomorphs enter the picture. Then we get the inevitable facehugger introduction and it falls apart into a jumbled mess of jumpscares and loud noises. All the subtlety and atmosphere of the first act just gone.
It recovered somewhat with the elevator shaft setpiece and if that had been the climax I'd have been happy. Unfortunately it kept going and let me tell you, a lot of people in my theater could not contain their laughter when they introduced the
human xenomorph
and I can't exactly blame them. Somehow I don't think that's the reaction you want out of the climax of your Alien film.
Lastly, the cast was fucking awful outside of the main girl and the two androids.
So all in all... it was about 50% "genuinely great" and 50% "laughably bad", with very little in-between.
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How did you love the 15 storylines introduction that almost had no impact or value the hell Vegard.
the hell Vegard.
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15 storylines? What are you talking about? It was establishing the central premise of the film.
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gah
this is making me think of how the very first Jurassic park movie was so fucking awesome and then all the sequels totally sucked
the awesome first Jurassic Park movie turned 30 last year btw
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Actually surprised by how much I liked Shyamalan's Trap. Probably my favourite of his right after Glass. The way it's filmed, edited, the angles, just the general nuts and bolts of how it was made really stand out for me. Bit of a career-defining performance from Josh Hartnett too. Can't remember the last time I saw someone do the wholesome guy vs unhinged sociopath balancing act since Dexter. The father and daughter relationship was handled with an almost weird amount of sweetness, which makes me assume Trap is meta to some degree, considering M. Night himself is in this and his IRL daughter Saleka is the pop singer that the concert is built around.
Maybe the idea is that the family man serial killer is analogous to directors whose lives are often split between their family and their obsessive need to spend months or years on a single project?
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So bitterly disappointing I cannot begin to describe how utterly Saulnier missed a great opportunity with this. The only redeeming factors were the cinematography and lighting. Aaron Pierre gives a good go to try and be like Denzel Washington in The Equalizer. The little action that was in it is well choreographed but I think Saulnier had his balls clipped when he made this. He pussed out massively on this compared to his previous film Hold the Dark. 4.5/10
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Finally saw Alien: Romulus...
I agree with you entirely about mixed bag; I'd actually even say it was a pretty bad movie, especially toward the end. But I weirdly was not expecting the
to be the thing that made your theater laugh. My friends and I could barely contain ourselves when
made its first appearance. At first, you just see the silhouette, and I was like "oh, that's tasteful." Then it's fully visible, and it just looked terrible. Who signed off on that?
I was also excited by the opening, which I felt did some nice world-building. Also, the "Bar" sign you see on the colony is the same one from Aliens, which I thought was a nice touch. But then the film got way too into its elaborate set pieces and stunt acrobatics, and any subtle tension was just lost. Pretty remarkable this film has 80% on RT. It was very disappointing.
I also get wanting to pay homage to the old films, but enough with the word-for-word callbacks! fucking hell.
15 storylines? lol there were two, and they come together about 20 minutes into the film.
I agree with you entirely about mixed bag; I'd actually even say it was a pretty bad movie, especially toward the end. But I weirdly was not expecting the
human xenomorph
CGI Ian Holm
I was also excited by the opening, which I felt did some nice world-building. Also, the "Bar" sign you see on the colony is the same one from Aliens, which I thought was a nice touch. But then the film got way too into its elaborate set pieces and stunt acrobatics, and any subtle tension was just lost. Pretty remarkable this film has 80% on RT. It was very disappointing.
I also get wanting to pay homage to the old films, but enough with the word-for-word callbacks! fucking hell.
How did you love the 15 storylines introduction that almost had no impact or value
15 storylines? lol there were two, and they come together about 20 minutes into the film.
