WATCH ALONG: Romulus
Added 2025-09-13 03:09:43 +0000 UTC
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When I saw their suits in the beginning, I immediately thought, Darth Vader from the Planet Vulcan??? IYKYK I wouldn't have made it through that room where they had to be quiet. I'm a screamer and when I saw that body I would've been done. Listen, these people put a LOT of faith in those cryosleep things! I don't know if I could do that. I'd just stay awake. There's too much that could happen! I would want to know for sure that I was going to make it to where I was going. I know the idea of those was (I think) to not age, but f*ck it. I would take the L and at least know I was alive for the 9 years it took to get there (and that I would get there). Also, Andy's "get away from her you... b*tch* was a nice callback to my FAVORITE scene from Aliens. This one wasn't bad. I just.. for this franchise, wish they'd done these in the right order. The jumping around for the last 3 was kind of crazy. I mean... it's like the Star Wars franchise. Why make the last 3 and THEN do the first 3? Cash grab. And it didn't really work all that well for Star Wars. The Episodes 1-3 didn't do as well as 4-6.
ssb031
2025-09-17 21:34:20 +0000 UTCThanks for all that info, Jimazoid! I ended up liking this one, thought I didn't come in with great expectations: got invested in the characters, which is the most important draw for me in pretty much any movie, and especially one like this, if I expect more out of it than a standard-issue slasher type movie. A LOT of callbacks to earlier "chapters". Some I smiled at, and some felt a little forced ... but okay. I understand. Ian Holm was, for me, far and away the best of these, and I just kvelled every time I saw and heard him (to use a good Yiddish word). At some point, in movies like this, I just get geographically confused and decide to sit back and let the characters "drive" for me, and it made sense from point to point. Andy and Rain was well done and I liked specifically how they treated Andy. Rain is a good change of the guard for Ripley: tough and resourceful, but empathetic. Impulsive, too, which feeds into errors she has to fight her way out of. If they make more movies, she and Andy will make a good team. We'll see. And I felt bad for Kay all the way through. going in and out blinder than the others, really trying hard to survive, but ultimately the creator of her own demise (literally).
Maria Torres
2025-09-13 16:14:29 +0000 UTCThe alien at the beginning of the film is the one from Alien, that came out of Kane. It’s name is Big Chap! It survived in space after Ripley blasted it into Space. (You can even see the Harpoon in it’s back when Rook shows it hanging @ 45:02) @ 43:40 The android that is found in half is Science Officer Rook. It was an AI Render of Sir Ian Holm, who played Ash in Alien. It was done with the Blessing of Ian Holm’s Widow, whom the director reached out to ask if they could do it. If you take the Information from the Alien Isolation Game into account, the Flight Recorder that was found had its data deleted/corrupted by Marlow, which is why it’s taken the Company years to locate the Wreck of the Nostromo, since they did not know exactly where it was destroyed. @1Hr, 7m and 1hr, 8m there is a scene in which in the background down the corridor (Blink and you will miss it), there is a ship that people theorize is the Narcissus, the lifeboat Ripley is on after the end of Alien. It’s said the Company located it, took all the information from the incident and removed any traces of the Alien. It would explain why they had knowledge of whom the alien was birthed from (Kane) and there is a line in Aliens where someone on the Review Panel mentions they combed over the lifeboat and there were no traces of the creature. At the very end of the movie @ 1Hr 36M you can see it ejected into space again (Bottom right side of the screenanother Blink and you will miss it). It was at this point it drifted away, since it was not on any course. @1Hr 13M, 1Hr 15M and best view of it @ 1Hr 26M, you can see an Emergency Telephone. These are the Save Points you use in Alien Isolation! At the very end of the film, the Offspring is practical, played by Robert Bobroczkyi. He is 7’ 7” tall! Kay was oozing Black Goo, to which it was feeding on.
Jimazoid
2025-09-13 09:59:18 +0000 UTC
