One thing I'd like to see brought back from the original Alien. The Alien's clear dome head showing the human skull underneath. I know, it seems like a minor detail but I think it lent a lot to the horror and mystery of the creature. I was always bummed that other movies decided to remove that detail. Along with the second thumbs on their hands...
@@JoshuaSmith-if6np Well H.R. Giger was obsessed with Death and Sexual things, it was all part of his Art and his famous painting in his Necronomicon artbook that heavily inspired Ridley Scott to use as the basis for his "Xenomorph" alien. Within the context of the actual universe of the Alien Films, the Xenomorphic creatures have somekind of psychic ability, like extreme senses of movement. Look at the Facehuggers, from the moment they are disturbed and pick up movement by them, they spring straight out of their eggs, and just home-in on the host. It's like this one pure instinct they have to just catch the host and implant their egg; then they die. Alot like how bees work in a sense. In the case of the Xenomorph itself, it also has these traits and abilities, but i also think when it is born out of the host, whether that be "Human" animal or anything else, it naturally takes the genetics of the host it is born from; so here it simply has part of a human shaped skull, as in the eye sockets, mouth and teeth; but is also elongated, with a inner alien mouth of sorts, along with much pipes, tubes, all made up of what can only be described as - "Biomechanoid" a term coined by Scott himself i think. This Biomechanical lifeform of the Xenomorph makes it so unique, along with it's own internal extreme psychic senses; to pick up where other lifeforms are near it; without having any known actual "Eyeballs." It's fast, superhumanly strong and can stand upright and walk like a Humanoid, but also run up along walls and ceilings, like a creature. "The perfect organism".
Why do people hate digital vfx i mean it's just as an important job as the practical fx i mean people work tirelessly to make the cgi in movies look good and when I read comments about practical over digital it feels like the vfx workers are being insulted
I love how the producer is doing movie that is in line with the former fell of the movies and thus doing the job the right way instead of re-inventing the storyline by using props as much as possible and only resorting to CGI effects for scenes where you can't actually obtain them in real life.
It seems like every time we have "hope"" more often than not we get let down. Not to be a Debbie downer, since everything I've heard seems good, nothing worse than getting all psyched only to get let down once again. PS - But Ive got my fingers crossed. Lol
It is amusing to think about the visceral reactions of the actors to the physical presence of a 'creature' or a set. Maybe some have only worked on sci-fi/ horror where it was mostly CG and they were performing in front of a green-screen. For the cast and crew to be creeped out and frightened while doing the scenes brings some of that old depth of character acting back.
SAME! When i can see the director has put real effort into their movie, paying great attention to detail and making it all look totally real and lived in, i don't mind paying my hard-earned cash to support their Film.
There's tons of CG in the trailer for Alien Romulus, that's a marketing gimmick because people are have a notion in their head that only practical is better. Check out "No CGI is really just invisible"
I heard something similar for the last movie. I'll wait for the reviews. Seems like a lot of directors are saying they are going back to our roots then they fumble it or just say it to get the fans interested. Sounds more like they are making a movie only to keep the rights of said movie. Still needs good writing story and character development. Don't have a lot of faith in this...
As a fan of the first 2 Alien movies, I'm not gonna really hold my breath for what comes next. I hope Alien Romulus and the other iterations are good, but they're really going to have to clear a high bar to bring me back.
It's fantastic that they're going back to roots and are trying to capture the feel of the first movies, but at the end of the day, it's the script that matters the most. If the script sucks, none of this hard work will matter.
I am really looking forward to this film. It's my understanding that Fede had a screening with both Ridley Scott and Jame Cameron and got positive feedback from both.
Honestly, the Alien franchise is off course IMO. A bunch of sweaty people stuck in some space, trying to escape a near certain death by facehugger and chest explosion. We've done this too many times. When it started to get to the race which created the Aliens, it finally started to give the franchise some room to grow¹. Alas, that path was clearly killed off. And now we're stuck with sweaty people screaming in fear for what, the hundred millionth time, now? ¹ ideas for where the franchise could've gone: show the Engineers first attempt to eradicate human life, and how ancient humans survived. This would tie in with the AVP film. Show the internal conflict amongst the Engineers that ultimately led to leaving humanity alone Show the Engineer's conflict with the Predators. Show humans and Predators allying against the Engineers Show humans ultimately being the "monster" the Engineers feared them to be, as humans eradicate the Engineers, basically plunging them into a dark ages. Humans, having killed their "gods," become the new gods, and the cycle repeats with Engineers, eons later, overthrowing an overgrown human empire.
I'm cautiously optimistic. I really love what Alvarez said there about using practical along with CGI. Story wise, it'd be really nice to see movies that take an approach similar to what was done in the old Dark Horse Comics Alien (and Predator) comics, where the xenomorphs were almost a backdrop to tell very human stories, much like how zombies are best used, like in "Train to Busan." For great one-shot examples, check out "Aliens: Salvation", "Aliens: Sacrifice" and "Aliens: Pig"
It shows he has a respect and carefor the original story material and for the mythos that has the Alien franchise so iconic. Plus, it illustrates that this director is a true craftsman when it comes to creating an awesome and terrifying movie without using more advanced methods. It's more grounded and reliable in away. Thanks for sharing, stay safe and Geek- on.😂👽🖖🤓
Yeah, that's the thing. We've been told much about the practical effects but very little about the story. My guess is that if the story is just mediocre dumb fans will be happy.
@@BobJenkins-ez1jl Well tbh the concept is pretty simple, humans in confined space get hunted by monsters. So the story doesnt have to be overly complicated. Just to provide a setup that makes sense for the events to unfold and have the characters make smart decisions based on their situation, skill and knowledge.
Yeah I see Alien and Aliens like Star Wars Episodes IV and V. It they are going back to the old films, without it seeming like a modern B movie, then they will do very well, looking forward to this!
Thanks cookies! This gives me hope that there'll be more than 2 Alien movies! Meaning I'm not that big of a fan for anything after Aliens. Aliens 3 was ok and sort of interesting due to its setting though. I love that the original movies are now being called retro-futuristic. Like so much of science fiction rather than retro-futuristic they were heavily stamped with the aesthetic DNA of when they were made. But yeah, by today's benchmarks, they've evolved into the retro-futuristic aesthetic due to their age. Be interesting to see if he sticks with the CRT (tube) monitors rather than LED/LCD and other little things like that.
I can't wait to see this, it does look really good. The set, production quality is simply top-notch. Fede Alvarez does seem to be a very good choice for making a new Alien film and bringing it all back to that classic "sci-fi horror." I would really luv it if he makes a gruesome scene, where a protomorph, or just whole-new type of "morph", bursts out of one of the character's bodies. Like a entire "body-burster" thing, where the bones, flesh, muscle all just ripped apart as the new creature comes out of it. Got to say i'm getting abit tired of the "Ripley-esqe" look of these female lead characters now. Shaw, Daniels (with a seriously horrible haircut in Covenant), and now Caley Spaeny; basically wish they wouldn't keep hiring brunettes. But i'm willing to give Spaeny a chance. This and Deadpool & Wolverine are only the movies i'm looking forward to now for rest of this year.
Good to see them going back to old school special effects (where appropriate). Hopefully they've also have a good script with believable characters....
The film seems to have the atmosphere, style, and tension of the first two films. My biggest concerns are the cast and the script. To quote George Lucas, "Special effects without a story, is a pretty boring thing." As for the cast, they look like something out of the DEI handbook.
This movie looks like it could be a very worthy addition to the alien franchise. As for the script , the script for the 1st alien movie was incredibly simple . As the original alien writers O bannon and Shusset said in interviews How do we get this alien on board the space ship?, well through the face hugger which basically rapes its victim . Then its just a haunted house story with the beast. Its the way the movie is shot that matters . The android conspiracy was actually put in by david giler which made alien more interesting but this was not in the original script . So alvarez's movie doesnt need a complex script just a decent basic script .
I thought Covenant was okay tbh, undeniably inferior to the first two movies but I was entertained and I found it endlessly amusing to see James Franco burn up 😁🔥🔥
It sounds cool but if we've already had something like this people are just going to say well just another copy of aliens will a couple of extra spices thrown in hopefully they do it right unlike the last Prometheus movie that really sucked
One nitpick I had with the trailer is the filming looks too clean. I just played Alien Isolation for the first time in years and the film grain added to the immersion. I’m glad they’re going practical, but it’s not going to be a 1:1 replication of the first 2 films
This is something they could add as a "feature" in the BluRay 4KUHD release, like allow us to actually change the filter picture, into a oldskool style, give it that film grain. They film most movies today with Digital Cameras so that's why we no longer get that grain, i do miss it too though.
@@RaikenXion it can still work on digital if they rearrange the lighting. One thing about the original movie was how much of the scenery was cast in shadows. We don’t need to see everything with perfect detail all the time. Another example is that first trailer for the acolyte where everything looked so polished it looked ridiculously fake
@@nhlcbj I agree, that, i think is a result of using too much of the Volume. It's why Andor looked so much better because of the on location shooting, and many set actually built outside. As much as i loved the Mandalorian Seasons 1 & 2, i did notice this slight sort of sheen to much of everything too. Even the scene where Ahsoka comes into the story, against Magistrate Morgan Elsbeth, that murky forrest, it looked really good, but i could just sense and feel somehow it was not truly shot outside somewhere. You can really always tell when things are shot using the volume; although Favreau handled those episodes quite well i think, some things were definitely shot outside, like the scene where Gideon and his Stormtrooper squad shoot up that building where Din and Cara are holed up. Could tell that was shot outside. The Kenobi show was the worst for this, it had this overuse of the volume, and the lighting was terrible. I feel overall the lighting on things in Romulus looks pretty good, hopefully Fede knows how to use lots of shadow well. Don't think i've ever saw any of his films, but i remember seeing some clips of his Evil Dead movie and that looked pretty dark, and shot well.
I noticed sexual dimorphism in the engineers depicted in the Alien Covenant film. I had hoped that the engineers had inadvertently turned their females into Zenomorph Queens.
I have loved every Alien movie and Alien-like iteration that has released including all the Predator and cross over movies, barring one, The Predator (2018), was rubbish.
The Predator was just plain silly, it was like a fan-fiction, especially that ending where the Preds literally send them a transforming Predator, all-in-one swiss-army knife weapon/suit lol. That was seriously dumb. I also don't like AVPR much, that just played like a "Greatest Hits" of practically all the Predator and Alien movies. Some missed opportunities in Alien 4 but overall i enjoyed that, and Alien 3 was awesome, it just need's it's own effects on the Alien runner scenes where it's running along the ceiling of the corridors, updated and improved. And it made one massive mistake of killing off the two characters from the previous movie, OFF-SCREEN. But yeh other than that i do like all the other Alien & Pred movies.
Just be careful as i think there will be one seriously gut-wrenching scene in this i heard; like proper "body horror", never before seen on film; no even in video-nasty 80s horror movies.
you al realize that the movie isn’t entirely practical right there are dozens of vfx workers who gave their all to make alien romulus can sombody please why do so many people hate digital vfx some of the best cgi is invisible
Movie sounds mid. Everyone is a critic and I realize I’m in the MINORITY but I want a conclusion or more exposition on the subject of the ENGINEERS. And what of the fantastic Androids/Automatons? David 8, Bishop, Ash? Romulus looks like cheap scares and cheap thrills
Ill not hold my breath, weve been down this road many many times and 100% been let down, not a single predator star wars or alien has been worth watching. Why would they suddenly get it right now? And the cast looks garbage.
Ridley Scott liked it apparantly, but he has become a bit unreliable in his opinions from sniffing his own farts over the years. It's sad to see someone you respected go down that road. Remember kids : Just say no to farte. It drives you bonkers. Like Jared Leto.
The Alien franchise was already ruined by its sequel. A good scifi action movie doesn't mean a good Alien movie, as aside from the aliens and Ripley, it lacked everything that made Alien great.
The last two movies were truly Horror movies . Horrible script , horrible acting , horrible story. I will keep re watching the first and only movie , and playing Alien Isolation . Everything else is just horrible trash .
I liked the story, the acting overall was good i thought, the script could have been better i'll admit. One thing i'll always appreciate Ridley Scott for was that he actually expanded and really opened up the whole universe of the Alien franchise. The Engineers were a very interesting addition i think, the design on their pressure suits, and their chair suits was exceptional. I just feel where Ridley screwed up was simply not fully providing enough "answers" and helping to connect things up to his original 79 masterpiece. Also he did do the unforgivable, by killing off Elizabeth Shaw, OFF-SCREEN in his Covenant follow-up; when we had followed her journey and actually cared for her, after everything she went through in Prometheus. I guess now we'll never get a full Answer and Connection to how the Derelict ship got there on LV-426. Did the thing that broke out of the "Space Jockey", go down into the cavernous underground of that planetoid and excrete, create all that system of bays with stored eggs; and it's own sort of bio-mechanoid security field? Or was all that already there, established by a whole other race itself, and the Engineers simply made regular visits there, taking some eggs, which they re-worked into their Viral Bomb versions? As a more safer way of carrying their biological payload; until one of their own got impregnated by one of the facehuggers of it's own cargo, and had to put down their, sending out the warning beacon, for his comrades to basically stay away? I guess we'll never know now.
the trailer gives away everything. 5mins in "oh thats the character that dies horribly in the trailer" etc etc etc it looks too teen, bank robbers got more than they bargained for, horror, adventure to be takin as alien serious. not hopeful
Or is just bringing back.pointless rehashes ? It sounded great at first but the more we find out the more it just seems like its gonna be mish mash of the first two movies.
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Nothing beats old school horror.
One thing I'd like to see brought back from the original Alien. The Alien's clear dome head showing the human skull underneath. I know, it seems like a minor detail but I think it lent a lot to the horror and mystery of the creature. I was always bummed that other movies decided to remove that detail. Along with the second thumbs on their hands...
I think they'll show that here i'm sure.
Nah
Why tf a human skull in an alien head??
@@JoshuaSmith-if6np Well H.R. Giger was obsessed with Death and Sexual things, it was all part of his Art and his famous painting in his Necronomicon artbook that heavily inspired Ridley Scott to use as the basis for his "Xenomorph" alien.
Within the context of the actual universe of the Alien Films, the Xenomorphic creatures have somekind of psychic ability, like extreme senses of movement. Look at the Facehuggers, from the moment they are disturbed and pick up movement by them, they spring straight out of their eggs, and just home-in on the host. It's like this one pure instinct they have to just catch the host and implant their egg; then they die. Alot like how bees work in a sense.
In the case of the Xenomorph itself, it also has these traits and abilities, but i also think when it is born out of the host, whether that be "Human" animal or anything else, it naturally takes the genetics of the host it is born from; so here it simply has part of a human shaped skull, as in the eye sockets, mouth and teeth; but is also elongated, with a inner alien mouth of sorts, along with much pipes, tubes, all made up of what can only be described as - "Biomechanoid" a term coined by Scott himself i think.
This Biomechanical lifeform of the Xenomorph makes it so unique, along with it's own internal extreme psychic senses; to pick up where other lifeforms are near it; without having any known actual "Eyeballs." It's fast, superhumanly strong and can stand upright and walk like a Humanoid, but also run up along walls and ceilings, like a creature.
"The perfect organism".
@@RaikenXion ah.. so not a literal human skull...right? Bc...they not human
I’m cautiously optimistic about the film. Good to hear the director went with the original special effects crew & practical effects.
Why do people hate digital vfx i mean it's just as an important job as the practical fx i mean people work tirelessly to make the cgi in movies look good and when I read comments about practical over digital it feels like the vfx workers are being insulted
the practical effects look terrible in this movie . just look at the trailers they look bad
@@alexandershawn440look at the trailers for romulus . the practical effects look terrible
It does seem to match the look and feel of the first two movies. Looks like it's going to be a good watch. This was a fabulous video.
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I love how the producer is doing movie that is in line with the former fell of the movies and thus doing the job the right way instead of re-inventing the storyline by using props as much as possible and only resorting to CGI effects for scenes where you can't actually obtain them in real life.
4:27 i need this i want this i must have it
I need to kill this, I want to destroy this, I must defeat it. But I will fail...
To quote Hawkeye "Don't give me hope." Lol
It seems like every time we have "hope"" more often than not we get let down. Not to be a Debbie downer, since everything I've heard seems good, nothing worse than getting all psyched only to get let down once again. PS - But Ive got my fingers crossed. Lol
Encouraging stuff, love practical effects.
It is amusing to think about the visceral reactions of the actors to the physical presence of a 'creature' or a set. Maybe some have only worked on sci-fi/ horror where it was mostly CG and they were performing in front of a green-screen. For the cast and crew to be creeped out and frightened while doing the scenes brings some of that old depth of character acting back.
1:39 Hey, that's one of the save points from Isolation in the background.
I'm definitely paying money to see this in the theaters!
Way better than CGI props!
SAME! When i can see the director has put real effort into their movie, paying great attention to detail and making it all look totally real and lived in, i don't mind paying my hard-earned cash to support their Film.
There's tons of CG in the trailer for Alien Romulus, that's a marketing gimmick because people are have a notion in their head that only practical is better. Check out "No CGI is really just invisible"
@@paulkingMotion I'm sure there is a lot of CGI in it, but what I meant was that at least they're not just banking on CGI to carry the film.
no it looks way worst . just look at how bad the practical effects look in the romulus trailers
Probably one of the few things I'm looking forward to 😱😳🥳
I heard something similar for the last movie. I'll wait for the reviews. Seems like a lot of directors are saying they are going back to our roots then they fumble it or just say it to get the fans interested. Sounds more like they are making a movie only to keep the rights of said movie. Still needs good writing story and character development. Don't have a lot of faith in this...
As a fan of the first 2 Alien movies, I'm not gonna really hold my breath for what comes next. I hope Alien Romulus and the other iterations are good, but they're really going to have to clear a high bar to bring me back.
I want a breathable atmosphere. I NEED an rc facehugger xenomorph!
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It's fantastic that they're going back to roots and are trying to capture the feel of the first movies, but at the end of the day, it's the script that matters the most. If the script sucks, none of this hard work will matter.
I am really looking forward to this film. It's my understanding that Fede had a screening with both Ridley Scott and Jame Cameron and got positive feedback from both.
Alien isolation + aliens special effect team? Damn that's a win for me
Will be there opening day. This is by far my most anticipated movie of the summer.
Honestly, the Alien franchise is off course IMO. A bunch of sweaty people stuck in some space, trying to escape a near certain death by facehugger and chest explosion. We've done this too many times.
When it started to get to the race which created the Aliens, it finally started to give the franchise some room to grow¹.
Alas, that path was clearly killed off.
And now we're stuck with sweaty people screaming in fear for what, the hundred millionth time, now?
¹ ideas for where the franchise could've gone: show the Engineers first attempt to eradicate human life, and how ancient humans survived. This would tie in with the AVP film.
Show the internal conflict amongst the Engineers that ultimately led to leaving humanity alone
Show the Engineer's conflict with the Predators.
Show humans and Predators allying against the Engineers
Show humans ultimately being the "monster" the Engineers feared them to be, as humans eradicate the Engineers, basically plunging them into a dark ages. Humans, having killed their "gods," become the new gods, and the cycle repeats with Engineers, eons later, overthrowing an overgrown human empire.
I’ll take any of your ideas over this same ass movie. This franchise is creatively bankrupt.
That sounds awesome, but it'd be better done as a series IMO
@@semaxwell1 I’d take that even more!!
I'm cautiously optimistic. I really love what Alvarez said there about using practical along with CGI. Story wise, it'd be really nice to see movies that take an approach similar to what was done in the old Dark Horse Comics Alien (and Predator) comics, where the xenomorphs were almost a backdrop to tell very human stories, much like how zombies are best used, like in "Train to Busan." For great one-shot examples, check out "Aliens: Salvation", "Aliens: Sacrifice" and "Aliens: Pig"
It shows he has a respect and carefor the original story material and for the mythos that has the Alien franchise so iconic. Plus, it illustrates that this director is a true craftsman when it comes to creating an awesome and terrifying movie without using more advanced methods. It's more grounded and reliable in away. Thanks for sharing, stay safe and Geek- on.😂👽🖖🤓
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I'll save my determination on the films relevancy and uniqueness after it launches without DEI influence.
This looks promising. Hopefully the script gets as much consideration as the practical effects.
Yeah, that's the thing. We've been told much about the practical effects but very little about the story. My guess is that if the story is just mediocre dumb fans will be happy.
@@BobJenkins-ez1jl Well tbh the concept is pretty simple, humans in confined space get hunted by monsters. So the story doesnt have to be overly complicated. Just to provide a setup that makes sense for the events to unfold and have the characters make smart decisions based on their situation, skill and knowledge.
Yeah I see Alien and Aliens like Star Wars Episodes IV and V. It they are going back to the old films, without it seeming like a modern B movie, then they will do very well, looking forward to this!
Seeing that bts with the r/c facehugger is what's given my hope that this will be a worthy addition to the Alien franchise.
Thanks cookies! This gives me hope that there'll be more than 2 Alien movies! Meaning I'm not that big of a fan for anything after Aliens. Aliens 3 was ok and sort of interesting due to its setting though. I love that the original movies are now being called retro-futuristic. Like so much of science fiction rather than retro-futuristic they were heavily stamped with the aesthetic DNA of when they were made. But yeah, by today's benchmarks, they've evolved into the retro-futuristic aesthetic due to their age. Be interesting to see if he sticks with the CRT (tube) monitors rather than LED/LCD and other little things like that.
I can't wait to see this, it does look really good. The set, production quality is simply top-notch. Fede Alvarez does seem to be a very good choice for making a new Alien film and bringing it all back to that classic "sci-fi horror." I would really luv it if he makes a gruesome scene, where a protomorph, or just whole-new type of "morph", bursts out of one of the character's bodies. Like a entire "body-burster" thing, where the bones, flesh, muscle all just ripped apart as the new creature comes out of it.
Got to say i'm getting abit tired of the "Ripley-esqe" look of these female lead characters now. Shaw, Daniels (with a seriously horrible haircut in Covenant), and now Caley Spaeny; basically wish they wouldn't keep hiring brunettes. But i'm willing to give Spaeny a chance.
This and Deadpool & Wolverine are only the movies i'm looking forward to now for rest of this year.
Good to see them going back to old school special effects (where appropriate). Hopefully they've also have a good script with believable characters....
I am definitely excited for this movie. Great video!
Elaine, Stop getting me hyped! This dude is saying all the right things. I hope it is good.
I will enjoy seeing it on the big screen
Retro Futurism!!!
The film seems to have the atmosphere, style, and tension of the first two films. My biggest concerns are the cast and the script. To quote George Lucas, "Special effects without a story, is a pretty boring thing." As for the cast, they look like something out of the DEI handbook.
I'm not sure if I buy the "it will be a nostalgia trip, I promise!" subliminal here. Thank you for the video.
Nerd Cookies.... As long as they don't have the David timeline in here, I'll go and see the movie.
This movie looks like it could be a very worthy addition to the alien franchise. As for the script , the script for the 1st alien movie was incredibly simple . As the original alien writers O bannon and Shusset said in interviews How do we get this alien on board the space ship?, well through the face hugger which basically rapes its victim . Then its just a haunted house story with the beast. Its the way the movie is shot that matters . The android conspiracy was actually put in by david giler which made alien more interesting but this was not in the original script . So alvarez's movie doesnt need a complex script just a decent basic script .
I thought Covenant was okay tbh, undeniably inferior to the first two movies but I was entertained and I found it endlessly amusing to see James Franco burn up 😁🔥🔥
You make it sound really good.
It looks brilliant
Romulus reminds me of Alien: Isolation a lot…at least in some of the story beats I’ve heard
I had not heard of this film before. (really). I'm optimistic about it.
We will see when the original Alien came out it was awesome scared the crap out of me maybe the magic is returning hopes are high
02:46 So "Alien: Romulus" will not be a sequel to "Alien: Covenant"?!
I'm cautiously optimistic...
It's from Disney. It's hard to know how it's going to be till it comes out.
Even then, I'd be sceptical.
It sounds cool but if we've already had something like this people are just going to say well just another copy of aliens will a couple of extra spices thrown in hopefully they do it right unlike the last Prometheus movie that really sucked
Let`s hope mate
I hope the movie isn't about recovering the original Xenomorph from Alien.
Well rumor has it that Weyland-Yutani retrieved the remains of the zenomorph from Alien & used his remains to make the black goo from Prometheus
Why don't they just decanonize everything after Aliens?
Sounds like an 80s Kid who grew up. And is now in a position to get it right!... Tiktoker G.A.TURKS!
And it's going to be nowhere near as good or as tense as Alien/Aliens. Nothing will ever compare to the classics.
I hear ALL THE RIGHTS THINGS...
But what about the script? The Characters..?
In this day and age I haven't got my hopes up...
One nitpick I had with the trailer is the filming looks too clean. I just played Alien Isolation for the first time in years and the film grain added to the immersion. I’m glad they’re going practical, but it’s not going to be a 1:1 replication of the first 2 films
This is something they could add as a "feature" in the BluRay 4KUHD release, like allow us to actually change the filter picture, into a oldskool style, give it that film grain. They film most movies today with Digital Cameras so that's why we no longer get that grain, i do miss it too though.
@@RaikenXion it can still work on digital if they rearrange the lighting. One thing about the original movie was how much of the scenery was cast in shadows. We don’t need to see everything with perfect detail all the time. Another example is that first trailer for the acolyte where everything looked so polished it looked ridiculously fake
@@nhlcbj I agree, that, i think is a result of using too much of the Volume. It's why Andor looked so much better because of the on location shooting, and many set actually built outside. As much as i loved the Mandalorian Seasons 1 & 2, i did notice this slight sort of sheen to much of everything too.
Even the scene where Ahsoka comes into the story, against Magistrate Morgan Elsbeth, that murky forrest, it looked really good, but i could just sense and feel somehow it was not truly shot outside somewhere. You can really always tell when things are shot using the volume; although Favreau handled those episodes quite well i think, some things were definitely shot outside, like the scene where Gideon and his Stormtrooper squad shoot up that building where Din and Cara are holed up. Could tell that was shot outside.
The Kenobi show was the worst for this, it had this overuse of the volume, and the lighting was terrible.
I feel overall the lighting on things in Romulus looks pretty good, hopefully Fede knows how to use lots of shadow well. Don't think i've ever saw any of his films, but i remember seeing some clips of his Evil Dead movie and that looked pretty dark, and shot well.
@@RaikenXion do yourself a favor and watch Don’t Breathe! That alone tells me we’re in good hands here :)
I noticed sexual dimorphism in the engineers depicted in the Alien Covenant film. I had hoped that the engineers had inadvertently turned their females into Zenomorph Queens.
GOOD NEWS Everyone!
Don’t get too excited
I have loved every Alien movie and Alien-like iteration that has released including all the Predator and cross over movies, barring one, The Predator (2018), was rubbish.
The Predator was just plain silly, it was like a fan-fiction, especially that ending where the Preds literally send them a transforming Predator, all-in-one swiss-army knife weapon/suit lol. That was seriously dumb. I also don't like AVPR much, that just played like a "Greatest Hits" of practically all the Predator and Alien movies. Some missed opportunities in Alien 4 but overall i enjoyed that, and Alien 3 was awesome, it just need's it's own effects on the Alien runner scenes where it's running along the ceiling of the corridors, updated and improved. And it made one massive mistake of killing off the two characters from the previous movie, OFF-SCREEN.
But yeh other than that i do like all the other Alien & Pred movies.
I'm curious.✌️😎👽🎥🎬🎞️🚀🚀🥁🥁
Yeah yeah yeah... but is the story good?
Tell a great story and cgi vs practical etc... won't matter nearly as much
I think it will be better than any Alien film after Alien and Aliens but still weak in comparison.
Just like Prey?
My kid will beg me to take him to see it and I'll take him. After Alien 3, it has all sucked.
Just be careful as i think there will be one seriously gut-wrenching scene in this i heard; like proper "body horror", never before seen on film; no even in video-nasty 80s horror movies.
you al realize that the movie isn’t entirely practical right there are dozens of vfx workers who gave their all to make alien romulus can sombody please why do so many people hate digital vfx some of the best cgi is invisible
Movie sounds mid. Everyone is a critic and I realize I’m in the MINORITY but I want a conclusion or more exposition on the subject of the ENGINEERS. And what of the fantastic Androids/Automatons? David 8, Bishop, Ash? Romulus looks like cheap scares and cheap thrills
Just like Prey.
Ill not hold my breath, weve been down this road many many times and 100% been let down, not a single predator star wars or alien has been worth watching. Why would they suddenly get it right now? And the cast looks garbage.
110% agree but I hope to be wrong this time
Ridley Scott liked it apparantly, but he has become a bit unreliable in his opinions from sniffing his own farts over the years. It's sad to see someone you respected go down that road. Remember kids : Just say no to farte. It drives you bonkers. Like Jared Leto.
The Alien franchise was already ruined by its sequel. A good scifi action movie doesn't mean a good Alien movie, as aside from the aliens and Ripley, it lacked everything that made Alien great.
Girl boss versus Alien......no thanks. Go woke go broke.
The last two movies were truly Horror movies .
Horrible script , horrible acting , horrible story.
I will keep re watching the first and only movie , and playing Alien Isolation .
Everything else is just horrible trash .
I liked the story, the acting overall was good i thought, the script could have been better i'll admit. One thing i'll always appreciate Ridley Scott for was that he actually expanded and really opened up the whole universe of the Alien franchise. The Engineers were a very interesting addition i think, the design on their pressure suits, and their chair suits was exceptional.
I just feel where Ridley screwed up was simply not fully providing enough "answers" and helping to connect things up to his original 79 masterpiece. Also he did do the unforgivable, by killing off Elizabeth Shaw, OFF-SCREEN in his Covenant follow-up; when we had followed her journey and actually cared for her, after everything she went through in Prometheus.
I guess now we'll never get a full Answer and Connection to how the Derelict ship got there on LV-426. Did the thing that broke out of the "Space Jockey", go down into the cavernous underground of that planetoid and excrete, create all that system of bays with stored eggs; and it's own sort of bio-mechanoid security field? Or was all that already there, established by a whole other race itself, and the Engineers simply made regular visits there, taking some eggs, which they re-worked into their Viral Bomb versions? As a more safer way of carrying their biological payload; until one of their own got impregnated by one of the facehuggers of it's own cargo, and had to put down their, sending out the warning beacon, for his comrades to basically stay away?
I guess we'll never know now.
the trailer gives away everything. 5mins in "oh thats the character that dies horribly in the trailer" etc etc etc
it looks too teen, bank robbers got more than they bargained for, horror, adventure to be takin as alien serious.
not hopeful
Or is just bringing back.pointless rehashes ?
It sounded great at first but the more we find out the more it just seems like its gonna be mish mash of the first two movies.
It will still be crap.
Loved the original film can’t wait to see old school syfi
I love what I heard on this video. I’ll go see this latest it iteration!