It's a mixed bag until the ending, that third act just anchors it down hard especially back to back with the "Get away from her." reference. The new Hybrid's design and uncanny CGI Ian Holm were so distracting.
Movies like Alien Romulus are the perfect representatives of everything that is wrong with modern movies, Hollywood, and filmmaking. Movies like this are checkbox movies. Movies that have no real originality, are filled with cliched characters who are there to be archetypes with very little personality. And are movies filled with copious amounts of Easter eggs and callbacks to older movies that are infinitely better because they have to ride on their coattails. And people wonder why I am not excited for movie anymore, and why I refuse to give Hollywood my money anymore!
The only positive of Romulus is the people who designed and built the sets. The colony and the space station is a top class set design. Such a pity the creative end is so bad, terrible script, terrible sequences, stuff that makes no sense. Ash the android's mouth movement is laughable. Hollywood needs to find some new writers, badly.
Epic rant Matt although your comments are hilarious you make valid points about what you like or dislike & don't just hate on a movie for the sake of it. This is definitely a greatest hits Alien film.
Saw it in the theater and it was what I already knew. Boring and ripping off all the other films. It is Halloween 2018. No likable characters except for Andy. So infuriating that they had steal dialogue, music and moments from other films in the franchise. This has to stop.
It has been said over the years, that Ridley Scott wouldn't allow Neill Blomkamp to work on the Alien franchise, because he was dreadfully afraid that he might even outdo him... Goes to show just what an ASSHOLE he really is. And now I can't believe that he would actually be totally OK with giving us a buncha shitty trash like this! 😒
The Jabronies were very much ready to defend this film, even before it came out. "No man, this is going to be the best Alien film ever!" I'd rather watch a movie with GREY Aliens instead.
I despise Disney. To me, without a shadow of the doubt the worst film company in existence. Between the way they treated Star wars(which I still haven't seen and never will), an overrated Prey with an unlikable obnoxious brat as a protagonist and fucking cgi animals and an idiot Predator, Dial of dogshit which is one of the worst movies ever created, another overrated unnecessary prequel that is First omen... And now this... I hated this movie. The only remarkable thing about it is the amount of laziness in it. Shit characters (aside from Andy) who are boring, bland and with one dude being an absolute toxic dump of a human being, bringing Ian Holm back with a shitty cgi... Oh yeah! Because It worked so well for Ghostbusters afterlife! Which was another lazy, nostalgia masturbating crock of shit. The only "new"thing they did is that xenomorph-human hybrid. Which is a retread of another alien movie! Yeah, let's rip off one if the worst films in the franchise, that says it all about "filmmaking" nowadays. I KNEW from the moment the trailer came out it would be Prey 2.0. It comes out, people praise it to the tenth power, call it the best since the original(Aliens in this case) and now they will make more films like this for other franchises. And, wow! I was right! Maybe I'm just too old to get it. Well, I wouldn't say 24 is old... But fuck this movie. Fuck Shitney. Like Fabio said: "Stop making movies!"
I mean I do have some of the actual “original” Disney movies including Black Hole and TRON, but I would prefer either of those before the remakes Disney makes today
The movie is visually very nice and that's how it tricks people. The sets, props, and aliens look just like the original movies. It's everything else that's bad.
While that does happen from time to time, I think the bar these days is just so low that anything with a remote sense of plot and scenic gets hailed as the second coming. It speaks volumes about the current state of the industry... and the mutants running it into the ground. There are no more producers, these people are either legacy directors whose names spark attention, or MBA Marketing/Accounting types masquerading as producers that align with the studios and strong arm the artists. Until the creatives take the business back from the boardroom, this is what we get.
Alien Romulus is nothing but nostalgia berries and a cash grab. Of course the positive reviews is paid for. The youtube reviewers who give positive reviews of the movie are paid for it, get sent free 4k movies, get their videos sponsored, Get free access to the cinema and pre premiere showings, and some don't even hide it. Still, people trust them and their reviews.
I think it's more of those weak standards the audience has. The previous movies are bad, so the new one is deemed a success because of its ripoff nostalgia bait. I wonder if this new crap style of moviemaking will stop.
@@redpillnibbler4423 Well, a lot of the older viewers fall for this, too. They are so hungry for a new _Alien_ film that the smallest nostalgic crumb gets them excited. The never care about the poor scriptwriting, just that it looks like what they remember.
This is the strategy now. Look at Twisters... you can literally put that film up against the original and have a beat-for-beat recreation. The studios have no balls. They take these mega properties and then the boardroom tries to figure out how to appeal to both a new and legacy audience. Rather than create something original, they hand these writers the successful script like it's "Mom's Brownie" recipe, and say do this but slightly obscure it. It's lazy. It lacks creativity. Nothing made like this will ever last beyond the few months it has marketing. Create new shit, or don't bother. As someone who's worked for 3 major studios, I have no faith that the Hollywood machine will ever return to greatness.
Twisters wasn't great but I guarantee its still better than Romulus. At least it didn't bring back a CGI Bill Paxton as a cheap memberberry cameo. That movie's biggest flaw is that its called Twisters. It should've just been a new IP and while it would still get compared to Twister for how similar it is at least it would've been its own potential new franchise. Unfortunately everything has to be sold through something already established nowadays because Hollywood can not for the life of them take a chance on a new property.
@@LivingGhost1 I didn’t hate Twisters. I didn’t feel that Powell had the ease and charisma of Paxton. I also felt it had no true nemesis. The conflict was weak. I didn’t “hate” Romulus… there are worse Alien films. But it just gets to a point where the rehashing gets tired. It reminded me of the remake of Carpenters remake of The Thing. They should all take a page from Carpenter. You can reimagine something and make it better with a firm understanding of source, and true creativity. There’s a whole generation who will have this regurgitation be their first Alien film and that’s kinda sad.
Why does Ridley get obsessed with space jockey suits, exploding engineer heads, and fingering droids... O Bannnon and Ridley made majick, with Giger in 79....maybe O'Bannon would be needed here, or any director who would check Ridley when he drifts.
We’re probably about the same age, and I have to admit, I’ve completely lost interest in movies over the last ten years or so. I’m just done. The current socio-political crap in them has completely turned me off. I’m too old now to waste one more second hoping I don’t get what I already know I’m gonna get with hollyweird today.
Just got home from seeing it at the theater. 9:15 I believe I saw an atmosphere processor in the background in the beginning. 😉 38:38 They do make clear magazines you can see-through to tell how many bullets you have left. As for the electric counter, they did make a working one for replica pulse rifles/Thompson submachinegun. Though, I think when you put in a magazine, it resets to its max count, then goes down every trigger pull. So, it doesn't really keep track of how many bullets you have left in the magazine, so if you put in a mag that isn't fully loaded, the counter will still start at the max count.
It’s not even a question of surviving. It’s just that space is very vast. How are you supposed to find an Alien body in the vast expanse of space, far from any planet, when it’s known since the first film that Aliens have hardly any thermal signature because their body temperature becomes whatever their ambient environment is? It reaches the absurdity of a huge chunk of the Death Star (or was is Second Death Star?) still intact in a separate Star System light years away. It’s a case of making the universe small
Maybe in _Aliens 0.5,_ they'll crash on Fury 161 and establish a pre-prison colony, which will be revealed as a new Wayward-YouGoney Space Jockey goo research facility where they experiment on double Y dudes.
We already had a midquel, it’s called ALIEN Isolation the video game LMAO. Would have rather saw a movie adaptation of that instead of a teen popcorn shitfest like this. The fact they apparently used Ian Holm’s likeness for one character just already pisses me off
It has been said over the years, that Ridley Scott wouldn't allow Neill Blomkamp to work on the Alien franchise, because he was dreadfully afraid that he might even outdo him... Goes to show just what an ASSHOLE he really is. And now I can't believe that he would actually be totally OK with giving us a buncha shitty trash like this! 😒
The concept is dead. Alien was bum fucked by the very studio that financed the very first film, then, let Ridley Scott take over control of the franchise, only to send the mystery of Alien straight back to the dark ages. Alien never needed the backstory. Alien never needed Ridley Scott back either. Now, Alien Romulus lands, and it's worse than all other travesties combined since Alien: Resurrection. I have no compassion toward those who think this film, Alien Romulus, was a 'return to form' or 'the best in the franchise since Aliens'. This movie was terrible in script, and the acting just made me wince with absolute horror. Even the CGI in places looked dodgy. People who praise this film need their heads examined by a brain surgeon for how serverly blinkered they are.... There's only two Alien films that matter. Alien and Aliens.
It has been said over the years, that Ridley Scott wouldn't allow Neill Blomkamp to work on the Alien franchise, because he was dreadfully afraid that he might even outdo him... Goes to show just what an ASSHOLE he really is. And now I can't believe that he would actually be totally OK with giving us a buncha shitty trash like this! 😒
Of course people are desperate to praise a new alien film since as long as it’s better than the previous films, then they will praise it like it’s a game changer and comeback for the franchise.
Prometheus on they have spent so much time trying to make the android character interesting that they completely forgot how to make the entire cast of humans as well. What would happen if they made an Alien film without an android character? We will never know. Originality does not exist in this dojo, does it? No, sensai!!!
I really wanted to like it. I was thinking for once, I could walk out feeling like I wasn't lied to by the fandom. That I really spent good money seeing something that truly lived up to the hype of being the best sequel since Aliens. Nowhere close to it, mind you, but pretty good. And I felt like it was getting there. Then the third act happened, and I spent the next day trying to wrap my head around WTF I just watched. Did Ridley Scott learn NOTHING from the abysmal performance of his two prequels? What made him think anybody would appreciate this? I couldn't even make sense of it; the black goo just does whatever the hell the writers want. Never mind the fact it turned that one scientist in Prometheus into a homicidal mutant turd that had to be stopped with a flamethrower. No, because according to Fede Alvaraz, it's the source of all life now! It's been a part of the Engineers all along, and both humans and Aliens came from the Engineers. Hence when that dumb pregnant girl injects herself with it, and somehow doesn't become a turd (because continuity be damned), she gives birth to an Engineer-xeno hybrid. Why? Because Alien, Engineer and human DNA are crossing, that's why! But hold the fuck on a second. Aliens have been breeding with human hosts from the very beginning. They ALWAYS crossed their own DNA with their victims. That's how they reproduce. And NONE of them in any of the older movies had the head of a dumbassed Engineer. A species that couldn't have had the black goo as its primordial origin anyway, because Prometheus literally had it KILL one of those guys in its opening. Fuck this movie. And fuck this fandom for talking down on others for not giving it unconditional praise. Even Star Wars fans are better than that.
Alien has the same problems Terminator and Predator has , its called just one more this might be a hit, this might be the one, please stop, your franchises are done after part 2 , all three franchises have not had a decent sequel since parts 2 over 30 years ago , no one can argue that. All three franchises parts one and two are amazing movies. After parts 2 , all three franchises are all garbage.
Matt thank you so much for your excellent completely honest review. I commend you for watching these crappy movies so we don’t have to. Fede Alvarez could’ve come up with something new and make this movie is own instead of stealing from much better previous Alien movies. Evidently he couldn’t come up with anything better. James Cameron made Aliens his own movie.
There is so much good material from the Dark Horse comics, and yet every adaptation has flat out chosen to ignore it instead of doing the easy thing and just adapting it for screen.
I really don’t agree because Aliens isn’t a sequel that needed a inane retcon for a third movie to get made while Terminator 3 has a very inane ridiculous retcon to explain why Judgement Day can’t be prevented making the entire second movie entirely pointless.
Its an Average Film for the Average Film goer and there's nothing wrong with that but for people who want a little more intelligence, creativity and originality than it just doesn't work for them. I really wanted to be positive about Romulus and despite some positives like the set designs and practical Alien effects being fantastic, as an actual film it just didn't work for me. It did start off well on the Jackson's Star Colony and i really wanted to see more of that world and how Rain and Andy survived in it but after they docked on the Romulus and it became a "Best of" Alien movie, it started to go downhill very fast for me. Not only were the rest of the characters very forgettable but the dialogue at times was actually embarrassing and the fact they included the "Get your hands off her" line just summed up how devoid of ideas this film actually became.
Great review as usual, Matt! I thought the movie was such a waste of time. So many things wrong with the movie that I won't even try to list them all here. I'm surprised you liked emo andy. I thought his character sucked. His facial expression the whole 2 hour run time -----> 😔 Although I'd probably look depressed all the time if I had to be stuck with those people. lol
It has an Alien in the movie, so this makes it a 10/10. -Logic of the modern-day movie fan. People are just desperate to watch these franchises because their lives have become so empty due to overstimulating their brain with entertainment/dopamine. THEY NEED MORE! This is the reason behind the GRAND mystery of why everything gets praised these days. Solved it.
Its biggest fault? It was damn boring. A group of teenagers try to scavenge a derelict spaceship and an alien kills them all. Yeah, that's the main plot.
The pulse rifle was the only star in this movie .. I’m 51 , ex film student and well .. my hackles only got exited with the pulse rifle and its cinema sound .. that was it !! I paid £13 to here a pulse rifle for like 3 mins
Absolutely fantastic new epic film review, of Alien: Romulus. Matt. I think I will stick with my two favourite alien films that only matter to me. Aliens & Alien: Resurrection. :)
17:55 "I kid you not-you need subtitles with this mother fucker!" 🤣🤣🤣🤣 I'm seeing this today and it sounds like I'm really in for a ride. My review coming up this week.
Covenant totally soured me of any further installments I didn't even bother with this. Either take cues from the Dark Horse Comics or let this franchise die. Romulus is what you get when you put Alien and Aliens together and make a totally new movie. Totally original! Just stick to the first two films.
My thing was why were they put in that specific chamber. It made no sense to me. I actually thought the xenomorph put them in there 😂. But I'm like how they put stuff in bags?
Can you imagine a Zenomorph crew of surgeons and nurses? Like them doing experiments and mixing DNA samples with beakers and the Vile Spindel thing..They all have green aprons and the head and surgical mask getup,but their phallic heads are poking out the back and second mouth and all the drool Making a mess all over the desk.The table with the the computers and microscopes, and samples. The puddles all over the floor. They try and put on those rubber gloves to transport the facehuggers in the things staart whipping off into anothers face while its weird webbed tube fingers try to mix drip drop viles real close to its head..The glove hits its face and the viles shatter and they start getting frustrated. The gear starts flying off and begin slipping and smashing containers with face huggers fermenting..
I would have been happy with a beat for beat remake of the original movie but instead we got a boring fan movie. This was basically “I know what that is” the movie.
Gorgeous film, practical effects, sound design..wow. But, this is the last time I'm going to believe what influencers and other RUclipsrs say about a movie. I ran out on day one to see this, my expectations were so high. I was bored except for the last 20 minutes, didn't know what would happen next. Stealing lines from better films in the franchise, is lazy writing and just wrong. "Get away from her you bitch" is Ripley's line!!! 3 out of 5 for me. Prometheus was better.
Yes, it was disappointing, because it had potential to be much better, flat acting, characters, effects, everything fell flat, i wish james cameron would do another one with sigourney, that would be fantastic, forget about the Avatars
I'm supporting this Garbage. The only franchise that is truly making a sincere attempt at good storytelling and great character-building, while still maintaining the spectacle of a summer blockbuster, is the Planet of the Apes franchise.
Another unoriginal greatest hits Hollywood movie of an old franchise that steals from other previous installments. Alien Romulus makes the other flims look better especially the first two lol
0:03 Now judging by the title and thumbnail also the fact that iMatt sn't wearing his glasses that this is going to be a very EPIC RANT indeed😁😁😁😁🤣🤣🤣🤣 2:55 That's one thing I noticed in these recent ''Alien'' films there's always one character that's worth something in ''Prometheus'' it's ''Janek''(Idris Elba) in''Alien-Covernet'' it's''Tennesse''(Danny McBride) it seems whenever they create characters for these films they get really lazy on writing more likeable characters that the viewer should care about in root for just like the first 2 films in this series for ''F--k'' sake bro. 5:25 That would've been a good idea imagine that a man who is a andriod becoming the lead hero in this series who happens to be black but nah we got to have it be a women again another wannabe ''Ripley'' 7:52-8:05 WOW!! Now that is just staright up lazyness of both Fede Alvarez and Rodo Sayagues part as writers but then again why am I not suprised both these men come up with the story for ''Texas Chainsaw Massacre'' 2022. 11:37 Agreed bro! 19:10 Yeah I could now see why you didn't like her she's a horrible character indeed. 36:27 🤣🤣🤣🤣 40:24 Is that suppose to be some kind joke? That's the dumbest thing I've heard in any of these films you give them weapons that can't use because the Alien's acid blood is going burn a big hole through the ship.
Finally.....someone whos falling it what it is. Because i was thinking it was justme and i was in the twilight zone. so sick of it. The "fans" lap it up and that why this is all we keep getting.
50:10 ''Oh no!! Not again''-John Hurt Spaceballs87. 56:18 It seems like thanks to this film along with both ''Prometheus''&''Alien-Covernet'' also ''Predators'',''The Predator''&''Prey'' makes both the 2004&2007 ''AvP'' films more watchable sadly enjoyable as time wasters bro. 56:40-56:47 True🤣🤣🤣🤣 58:57 A user who wrote a review about this said that same exact thing as the title of it. 1:01:15 I 2nd that statement but you are right Matt it's not called''Show Friends'' it's''Show Business'' money talks and BS runs the marathon like a wise man once said before. A very fantastic epic long rant brother👍👍
That redone line in the film was so bad. It also seems like everyone unanimously didn't like it. I didn't either. It took me out of the film. I was like you didn't have to say that.😂
I know we have our differences in regards to Alien 3 and Alien :Covenant, but I’m with you on this one man. I enjoyed most of the 1st and 2nd acts, although it did seem like a rehash of the first two in many parts with a few too many callbacks for my taste. The twist at the end however just completely killed any joy I had of the movie leading up to that point . I’m not really sure why, the Director/writer of this film thought that was a good direction to go in. Also, yeah, the movie is getting a lot of good praise and a lot of people seem to like the “twist” so I have a feeling we’re gonna be in the minority on this one, but I was not a fan. Overall, I left pretty disappointed, and this is coming from a guy that actually enjoys the prequels even.
Rather watch the alien rip off movies than this like galaxy of terror or lifeforce which had creativity but this did not it was the same repeats you’ve seen before.
Not seen the movie yet, although ill probably really like it judging from Fede's other movies and what ive heard about it. But you said here that "the Xenomorphs looked good in Alien 3".... it looked good in CLOSE UPS in Alien 3, it looked absolutely awful when it was running through the corridors, looked like really bad green screen.... which makes sense because they used a rod puppet and then basically compositited it into the image
So, in other words, exactly what I thought the trailer showed it to be. I mean people kept asking me if I was excited for Romulus and I told them "No. It's not that it looks bad, just that the trailer didn't impress me. It jus looks like a bog standard, by the numbers Alien plot." My friends remained optimistic about it, but at least they understood what I meant, they were like "Yeah, it doesn't seem like it's reinventing the wheel, exactly. But I'm still holding out for it." Well, good for them, I guess.
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I can forgive a movie for being silly, but I can't forgive a movie for being boring.
They even took a scene from Alien vs Predator: the scene where the Alien spears the last guy through the back, lifts him up, and hisses in his face.🤑
Since the Alien Queen was sent out of the airlock in Aliens (1986), this means that the Alien Queen is still alive, somewhere.
Or she fell into the atmosphere and burned with a heat that melts steel. When entering the atmosphere from orbit, temperatures get hot, say 2,500F
Matt's the only BASED movie reviewer left.
Fabio aswell
What about OCPCommunications?
ocpcommunications,Critical drinker & one or two others.
@@redpillnibbler4423 Don't forget TheChoiceVoice!
@@redpillnibbler4423 God I love Critical Drinker!
This guy is a honest reviewer. No bull crap shill reviews here.
Ocpcommunications too
If someone enjoys the film, are they a shill ?
It's a mixed bag until the ending, that third act just anchors it down hard especially back to back with the "Get away from her." reference. The new Hybrid's design and uncanny CGI Ian Holm were so distracting.
No lies detected.
This film. Wasn't good the new born from alien 4 way better looking creature
Movies like Alien Romulus are the perfect representatives of everything that is wrong with modern movies, Hollywood, and filmmaking. Movies like this are checkbox movies. Movies that have no real originality, are filled with cliched characters who are there to be archetypes with very little personality. And are movies filled with copious amounts of Easter eggs and callbacks to older movies that are infinitely better because they have to ride on their coattails.
And people wonder why I am not excited for movie anymore, and why I refuse to give Hollywood my money anymore!
The only positive of Romulus is the people who designed and built the sets. The colony and the space station is a top class set design. Such a pity the creative end is so bad, terrible script, terrible sequences, stuff that makes no sense. Ash the android's mouth movement is laughable. Hollywood needs to find some new writers, badly.
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Quotes from Alien Romulus.
1 dad joke.
And that call back line.
In a 10/10 movie for so many mega fans.
Says it all.
"Chap-GPT..... please watch all the Alien movies and write a new script..... Alien: Romulus? Great title!" And so it happened.
Star Trek mix up!
Chat-Gpt could come up with a better script for a movie than this. I don't know what A.I they used for Alien Romulus lol 😂
We must retain the copyright with the minimum of effort!
Epic rant Matt although your comments are hilarious you make valid points about what you like or dislike & don't just hate on a movie for the sake of it.
This is definitely a greatest hits Alien film.
If you thought that was bad, wait until you see Borderlands 😂
I watched BORDERLANDS for free yesterday and it’s my most hated film of the year
Borderlands is worse than Madame Web
@@kingslayer2999 was it worse than Challengers?
@@Aragorn_Skywalker the Borderlands franchise has always sucked to begin with.
@@Teh69thSpartan The first two were great games tho
Saw it in the theater and it was what I already knew. Boring and ripping off all the other films. It is Halloween 2018. No likable characters except for Andy. So infuriating that they had steal dialogue, music and moments from other films in the franchise. This has to stop.
It was what one reviewer on here described it as the Force Awakens of The Alien Franchise
It has been said over the years, that Ridley Scott wouldn't allow Neill Blomkamp to work on the Alien franchise, because he was dreadfully afraid that he might even outdo him... Goes to show just what an ASSHOLE he really is. And now I can't believe that he would actually be totally OK with giving us a buncha shitty trash like this! 😒
The Jabronies were very much ready to defend this film, even before it came out.
"No man, this is going to be the best Alien film ever!"
I'd rather watch a movie with GREY Aliens instead.
Hell yeah another epic RANT from Matt! 🔥
A turd rock lol
I despise Disney. To me, without a shadow of the doubt the worst film company in existence. Between the way they treated Star wars(which I still haven't seen and never will), an overrated Prey with an unlikable obnoxious brat as a protagonist and fucking cgi animals and an idiot Predator, Dial of dogshit which is one of the worst movies ever created, another overrated unnecessary prequel that is First omen... And now this...
I hated this movie. The only remarkable thing about it is the amount of laziness in it. Shit characters (aside from Andy) who are boring, bland and with one dude being an absolute toxic dump of a human being, bringing Ian Holm back with a shitty cgi... Oh yeah! Because It worked so well for Ghostbusters afterlife! Which was another lazy, nostalgia masturbating crock of shit. The only "new"thing they did is that xenomorph-human hybrid. Which is a retread of another alien movie! Yeah, let's rip off one if the worst films in the franchise, that says it all about "filmmaking" nowadays.
I KNEW from the moment the trailer came out it would be Prey 2.0. It comes out, people praise it to the tenth power, call it the best since the original(Aliens in this case) and now they will make more films like this for other franchises. And, wow! I was right!
Maybe I'm just too old to get it. Well, I wouldn't say 24 is old... But fuck this movie. Fuck Shitney. Like Fabio said: "Stop making movies!"
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This is the sauce.
I mean I do have some of the actual “original” Disney movies including Black Hole and TRON, but I would prefer either of those before the remakes Disney makes today
Prey sucked.
The dvd cover photo is like the avp one!
Couldn’t they come up with something original?
"It must be a chick thing."
-Johner, _Alien Resurrection_
This guy is on point. I didn't like it either. Honestly, I would rather watch Alien 3 than this again.
I would rather watch Prometheus over this, at least that movie had good looking visuals and the occasional interesting idea.
These highly-rated revIews seemed very suspicious to me. I like to think these are paid reviews.
The movie is visually very nice and that's how it tricks people. The sets, props, and aliens look just like the original movies. It's everything else that's bad.
While that does happen from time to time, I think the bar these days is just so low that anything with a remote sense of plot and scenic gets hailed as the second coming. It speaks volumes about the current state of the industry... and the mutants running it into the ground. There are no more producers, these people are either legacy directors whose names spark attention, or MBA Marketing/Accounting types masquerading as producers that align with the studios and strong arm the artists. Until the creatives take the business back from the boardroom, this is what we get.
@@Teh69thSpartan Same Disney Shills that praised Prey
Course they are.
Alien Romulus is nothing but nostalgia berries and a cash grab. Of course the positive reviews is paid for. The youtube reviewers who give positive reviews of the movie are paid for it, get sent free 4k movies, get their videos sponsored, Get free access to the cinema and pre premiere showings, and some don't even hide it. Still, people trust them and their reviews.
It needed older, experienced character actors
I think it's more of those weak standards the audience has. The previous movies are bad, so the new one is deemed a success because of its ripoff nostalgia bait. I wonder if this new crap style of moviemaking will stop.
Is it low younger audience expectations?
@@redpillnibbler4423
Well, a lot of the older viewers fall for this, too. They are so hungry for a new _Alien_ film that the smallest nostalgic crumb gets them excited. The never care about the poor scriptwriting, just that it looks like what they remember.
I initially fell for that, until I watched the original movies it a franchise and found that I he ones borrowed from were less cringe
The last good was Aliens
It’s for the fans who are too dumb to understand why Alien was good
This is the strategy now. Look at Twisters... you can literally put that film up against the original and have a beat-for-beat recreation. The studios have no balls. They take these mega properties and then the boardroom tries to figure out how to appeal to both a new and legacy audience. Rather than create something original, they hand these writers the successful script like it's "Mom's Brownie" recipe, and say do this but slightly obscure it. It's lazy. It lacks creativity. Nothing made like this will ever last beyond the few months it has marketing. Create new shit, or don't bother. As someone who's worked for 3 major studios, I have no faith that the Hollywood machine will ever return to greatness.
It’s as though ai makes the decisions.
NO SHIT.
Twisters wasn't great but I guarantee its still better than Romulus. At least it didn't bring back a CGI Bill Paxton as a cheap memberberry cameo. That movie's biggest flaw is that its called Twisters. It should've just been a new IP and while it would still get compared to Twister for how similar it is at least it would've been its own potential new franchise. Unfortunately everything has to be sold through something already established nowadays because Hollywood can not for the life of them take a chance on a new property.
@@LivingGhost1 I didn’t hate Twisters. I didn’t feel that Powell had the ease and charisma of Paxton. I also felt it had no true nemesis. The conflict was weak. I didn’t “hate” Romulus… there are worse Alien films. But it just gets to a point where the rehashing gets tired. It reminded me of the remake of Carpenters remake of The Thing. They should all take a page from Carpenter. You can reimagine something and make it better with a firm understanding of source, and true creativity. There’s a whole generation who will have this regurgitation be their first Alien film and that’s kinda sad.
I need popcorn 🍿 to watch this rant on an unneeded movie.
My advice to Alien fans: just play Isolation. It's the only canon material since the OT.
Amanda Ripley was cool in that. A solid character.
There is no original trilogy unless you go:
Alien
Isolation
Aliens
This movie wanted to be Isolation so bad.
Just watch Alien again.
Alien was free to watch on RUclips last month
Everyone: “Matt hates every movie!”
Matt: ***Has a larger collection of positive movie reviews than any other reviewer on RUclips***
Why does Ridley get obsessed with space jockey suits, exploding engineer heads, and fingering droids...
O Bannnon and Ridley made majick, with Giger in 79....maybe O'Bannon would be needed here, or any director who would check Ridley when he drifts.
But dan o'bannon is dead
We’re probably about the same age, and I have to admit, I’ve completely lost interest in movies over the last ten years or so. I’m just done. The current socio-political crap in them has completely turned me off. I’m too old now to waste one more second hoping I don’t get what I already know I’m gonna get with hollyweird today.
There are some exceptions
@@Johnlindsey289 not enough to keep me tuned in.
Just got home from seeing it at the theater.
9:15 I believe I saw an atmosphere processor in the background in the beginning. 😉
38:38 They do make clear magazines you can see-through to tell how many bullets you have left.
As for the electric counter, they did make a working one for replica pulse rifles/Thompson submachinegun. Though, I think when you put in a magazine, it resets to its max count, then goes down every trigger pull. So, it doesn't really keep track of how many bullets you have left in the magazine, so if you put in a mag that isn't fully loaded, the counter will still start at the max count.
It’s not even a question of surviving. It’s just that space is very vast. How are you supposed to find an Alien body in the vast expanse of space, far from any planet, when it’s known since the first film that Aliens have hardly any thermal signature because their body temperature becomes whatever their ambient environment is? It reaches the absurdity of a huge chunk of the Death Star (or was is Second Death Star?) still intact in a separate Star System light years away. It’s a case of making the universe small
It was so boring I was reading about the ingredients in my chocolate bar.
Its a good thing I never saw this movie then
Can't make your own opinion man?
Ngl this film slaps. 8/10 right up there with the first 2. Go watch the film man. its a bop
I hate when people agree someone opinion. People like this are lazy to watch a movie, If you watch it on your own then you can have your own thoughts.
@@georgedapro9377It's nowhere near as good as Alien/Aliens. It's average at best.
All of the callback dialogue from the previous Alien movies were cringe. The get away from her u b was the worst in this movie.
Maybe in _Aliens 0.5,_ they'll crash on Fury 161 and establish a pre-prison colony, which will be revealed as a new Wayward-YouGoney Space Jockey goo research facility where they experiment on double Y dudes.
We already had a midquel, it’s called ALIEN Isolation the video game LMAO. Would have rather saw a movie adaptation of that instead of a teen popcorn shitfest like this. The fact they apparently used Ian Holm’s likeness for one character just already pisses me off
It has been said over the years, that Ridley Scott wouldn't allow Neill Blomkamp to work on the Alien franchise, because he was dreadfully afraid that he might even outdo him... Goes to show just what an ASSHOLE he really is. And now I can't believe that he would actually be totally OK with giving us a buncha shitty trash like this! 😒
Or play Alien Isolation or Alien vs Predator the video games.
The alien franchise should die, aliens was the last good movie. The aliens comics are better sequels than what we got after Aliens.
The concept is dead. Alien was bum fucked by the very studio that financed the very first film, then, let Ridley Scott take over control of the franchise, only to send the mystery of Alien straight back to the dark ages.
Alien never needed the backstory.
Alien never needed Ridley Scott back either.
Now, Alien Romulus lands, and it's worse than all other travesties combined since Alien: Resurrection.
I have no compassion toward those who think this film, Alien Romulus, was a 'return to form' or 'the best in the franchise since Aliens'. This movie was terrible in script, and the acting just made me wince with absolute horror. Even the CGI in places looked dodgy. People who praise this film need their heads examined by a brain surgeon for how serverly blinkered they are....
There's only two Alien films that matter. Alien and Aliens.
And there's 2 mummy movies
The mummy and the mummy returns
It has been said over the years, that Ridley Scott wouldn't allow Neill Blomkamp to work on the Alien franchise, because he was dreadfully afraid that he might even outdo him... Goes to show just what an ASSHOLE he really is. And now I can't believe that he would actually be totally OK with giving us a buncha shitty trash like this! 😒
Agree after Aliens it’s been diminishing returns
@@Johnlindsey289 Nobody was expectin' anything GOOD especially after Prometheus...
Of course people are desperate to praise a new alien film since as long as it’s better than the previous films, then they will praise it like it’s a game changer and comeback for the franchise.
The pulse rifle running out of amo was the most tense moments
I didn't mind Andy. I'm confused with the reviewers who say you care about the characters, huh? Alien Resurrection is flawed but I can still watch it.
Prometheus on they have spent so much time trying to make the android character interesting that they completely forgot how to make the entire cast of humans as well. What would happen if they made an Alien film without an android character? We will never know. Originality does not exist in this dojo, does it? No, sensai!!!
These people probably think they're being very VERY smart by quoting the other movies. Those idiots. All it did is making me want to watch 1 and 2.
The reviewers are just shills who needed to get buts in seats
I really wanted to like it. I was thinking for once, I could walk out feeling like I wasn't lied to by the fandom. That I really spent good money seeing something that truly lived up to the hype of being the best sequel since Aliens. Nowhere close to it, mind you, but pretty good. And I felt like it was getting there. Then the third act happened, and I spent the next day trying to wrap my head around WTF I just watched.
Did Ridley Scott learn NOTHING from the abysmal performance of his two prequels? What made him think anybody would appreciate this? I couldn't even make sense of it; the black goo just does whatever the hell the writers want. Never mind the fact it turned that one scientist in Prometheus into a homicidal mutant turd that had to be stopped with a flamethrower.
No, because according to Fede Alvaraz, it's the source of all life now! It's been a part of the Engineers all along, and both humans and Aliens came from the Engineers. Hence when that dumb pregnant girl injects herself with it, and somehow doesn't become a turd (because continuity be damned), she gives birth to an Engineer-xeno hybrid. Why? Because Alien, Engineer and human DNA are crossing, that's why!
But hold the fuck on a second. Aliens have been breeding with human hosts from the very beginning. They ALWAYS crossed their own DNA with their victims. That's how they reproduce. And NONE of them in any of the older movies had the head of a dumbassed Engineer. A species that couldn't have had the black goo as its primordial origin anyway, because Prometheus literally had it KILL one of those guys in its opening.
Fuck this movie. And fuck this fandom for talking down on others for not giving it unconditional praise. Even Star Wars fans are better than that.
It is possible to have other exciting adventures involving Xenomorphs. Dark Horse comics did it, for example.
Alien has the same problems Terminator and Predator has , its called just one more this might be a hit, this might be the one, please stop, your franchises are done after part 2 , all three franchises have not had a decent sequel since parts 2 over 30 years ago , no one can argue that. All three franchises parts one and two are amazing movies. After parts 2 , all three franchises are all garbage.
To me terminator ended after terminator 3
Same thing with jurassic Park
It ended after Jurassic Park 3
funny thing is Cameron filmed three of this six :D
@@BRIANOCONNOR2003Jurassic Park ended with the first one. 😂
@moomin7461 to me it ended at jurassic Park 3
Prey sucked.
Matt thank you so much for your excellent completely honest review.
I commend you for watching these crappy movies so we don’t have to. Fede Alvarez could’ve come up with something new and make this movie is own instead of stealing from much better previous Alien movies. Evidently he couldn’t come up with anything better. James Cameron made Aliens his own movie.
Alien should have stopped after aliens just like how the terminator should have ended t2
There is so much good material from the Dark Horse comics, and yet every adaptation has flat out chosen to ignore it instead of doing the easy thing and just adapting it for screen.
@@colten53 I agree
I really don’t agree because Aliens isn’t a sequel that needed a inane retcon for a third movie to get made while Terminator 3 has a very inane ridiculous retcon to explain why Judgement Day can’t be prevented making the entire second movie entirely pointless.
I respectfully disagree.I loved Alien 3 and enjoyed T3.
@@colten53Agreed!! Especially from the "Colonial marines" titles.
Its an Average Film for the Average Film goer and there's nothing wrong with that but for people who want a little more intelligence, creativity and originality than it just doesn't work for them.
I really wanted to be positive about Romulus and despite some positives like the set designs and practical Alien effects being fantastic, as an actual film it just didn't work for me. It did start off well on the Jackson's Star Colony and i really wanted to see more of that world and how Rain and Andy survived in it but after they docked on the Romulus and it became a "Best of" Alien movie, it started to go downhill very fast for me. Not only were the rest of the characters very forgettable but the dialogue at times was actually embarrassing and the fact they included the "Get your hands off her" line just summed up how devoid of ideas this film actually became.
Great review as usual, Matt! I thought the movie was such a waste of time. So many things wrong with the movie that I won't even try to list them all here. I'm surprised you liked emo andy. I thought his character sucked. His facial expression the whole 2 hour run time -----> 😔
Although I'd probably look depressed all the time if I had to be stuck with those people. lol
Alien for Gen Z
It has an Alien in the movie, so this makes it a 10/10. -Logic of the modern-day movie fan.
People are just desperate to watch these franchises because their lives have become so empty due to overstimulating their brain with entertainment/dopamine. THEY NEED MORE! This is the reason behind the GRAND mystery of why everything gets praised these days. Solved it.
We need new franchises
@@Johnlindsey289 Agreed!
Yes, it goes to taste whether you like this movie, and your standards too
Its biggest fault? It was damn boring.
A group of teenagers try to scavenge a derelict spaceship and an alien kills them all.
Yeah, that's the main plot.
How original 😅
14:55 "thats a space peanut."
Just saw it…..what a borefest.
I think I broke Matt. LOL thanks for the video man. I appreciate it. You’ve really made a tough day easier with a laugh. Keep up the good work -Frame
The pulse rifle was the only star in this movie .. I’m 51 , ex film student and well .. my hackles only got exited with the pulse rifle and its cinema sound .. that was it !! I paid £13 to here a pulse rifle for like 3 mins
Absolutely fantastic new epic film review, of Alien: Romulus. Matt. I think I will stick with my two favourite alien films that only matter to me. Aliens & Alien: Resurrection. :)
I don’t know what people are talking about alien Romulus and prey now 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
17:55 "I kid you not-you need subtitles with this mother fucker!" 🤣🤣🤣🤣 I'm seeing this today and it sounds like I'm really in for a ride. My review coming up this week.
I thought it was visually brilliant but I felt a lot of what you said here. I groaned a lot
No more Alien movies, please
I agree. Same with Predator and Terminator.
Prometheus and Covenant ruined the Xenomorph.
Alien vs my cock.
@@anubusx
Also ruined the ‘pilot’ - 2 fuck ups for the price of one!
Haven’t seen Romulus yet but I’m sure it will be great. Let’s get Fede Álvarez to direct more horror movies
I just want goddamned facehuggers.
The Neckbeard Chris Suckmann vs The Gad Ramboraph4life
*Chad Ramboraph
@@Neopunk2023 i know. Gad is also the higher up of Chad
Covenant totally soured me of any further installments I didn't even bother with this.
Either take cues from the Dark Horse Comics or let this franchise die.
Romulus is what you get when you put Alien and Aliens together and make a totally new movie. Totally original!
Just stick to the first two films.
Agree! The rest after Aliens don’t exist
There's really no explanation about how the Romulus/Remus station had all those face huggers.
My thing was why were they put in that specific chamber. It made no sense to me. I actually thought the xenomorph put them in there 😂. But I'm like how they put stuff in bags?
They will probably explain it in a sequel.
@@anubusxor they’ll release a comic book prequel
@@Judgeholden95
I hate when films do that.
Can you imagine a Zenomorph crew of surgeons and nurses? Like them doing experiments and mixing DNA samples with beakers and the Vile Spindel thing..They all have green aprons and the head and surgical mask getup,but their phallic heads are poking out the back and second mouth and all the drool Making a mess all over the desk.The table with the the computers and microscopes, and samples. The puddles all over the floor. They try and put on those rubber gloves to transport the facehuggers in the things staart whipping off into anothers face while its weird webbed tube fingers try to mix drip drop viles real close to its head..The glove hits its face and the viles shatter and they start getting frustrated. The gear starts flying off and begin slipping and smashing containers with face huggers fermenting..
I would have been happy with a beat for beat remake of the original movie but instead we got a boring fan movie. This was basically “I know what that is” the movie.
I'm glad Matt didn't like this movie. The love for this film is silly.
And why was the fuel for the cryo chambers so unnecessarily far away from the chambers themselves? That made no sense.
The storyline was
a confusing mess
Matt. I found out that the director of this Shit isn’t a Gusano.
He’s from Montevideo Uruguay.
Whoever the fuck he is, he's really starting to become like the Paul 'Worthless Shit' Anderson of this era!
Also, if they want to do some new beastie for the end of one of these, then go through Geiger's art and find one as creepy as the Alien.
Mega RAGE moments at 0:32 and 43:13
Gorgeous film, practical effects, sound design..wow. But, this is the last time I'm going to believe what influencers and other RUclipsrs say about a movie. I ran out on day one to see this, my expectations were so high. I was bored except for the last 20 minutes, didn't know what would happen next. Stealing lines from better films in the franchise, is lazy writing and just wrong. "Get away from her you bitch" is Ripley's line!!! 3 out of 5 for me. Prometheus was better.
I agree with you, Prometheus is way better.
I didn’t hate Prometheus but I enjoyed Romulus better and Prometheus is kind of boring with the most stupid characters expect for david
Yes, it was disappointing, because it had potential to be much better, flat acting, characters, effects, everything fell flat, i wish james cameron would do another one with sigourney, that would be fantastic, forget about the Avatars
Lol hey 😂❤👋🏾I gotta get Matt a movie to rant on lol!
I'm supporting this Garbage. The only franchise that is truly making a sincere attempt at good storytelling and great character-building, while still maintaining the spectacle of a summer blockbuster, is the Planet of the Apes franchise.
Another unoriginal greatest hits Hollywood movie of an old franchise that steals from other previous installments. Alien Romulus makes the other flims look better especially the first two lol
I loved Alien resurrection
I love this Reviewer🔥
Noomi rapace was fantastic in prometheus
I was considering watching this but i thought to myself......why would i put myself through that after covenant?
0:03 Now judging by the title and thumbnail also the fact that iMatt sn't wearing his glasses that this is going to be a very EPIC RANT indeed😁😁😁😁🤣🤣🤣🤣
2:55 That's one thing I noticed in these recent ''Alien'' films there's always one character that's worth something in ''Prometheus'' it's ''Janek''(Idris Elba) in''Alien-Covernet'' it's''Tennesse''(Danny McBride) it seems whenever they create characters for these films they get really lazy on writing more likeable characters that the viewer should care about in root for just like the first 2 films in this series for ''F--k'' sake bro.
5:25 That would've been a good idea imagine that a man who is a andriod becoming the lead hero in this series who happens to be black but nah we got to have it be a women again another wannabe ''Ripley''
7:52-8:05 WOW!! Now that is just staright up lazyness of both Fede Alvarez and Rodo Sayagues part as writers but then again why am I not suprised both these men come up with the story for ''Texas Chainsaw Massacre'' 2022.
11:37 Agreed bro!
19:10 Yeah I could now see why you didn't like her she's a horrible character indeed.
36:27 🤣🤣🤣🤣
40:24 Is that suppose to be some kind joke? That's the dumbest thing I've heard in any of these films you give them weapons that can't use because the Alien's acid blood is going burn a big hole through the ship.
Finally.....someone whos falling it what it is. Because i was thinking it was justme and i was in the twilight zone. so sick of it. The "fans" lap it up and that why this is all we keep getting.
I could tell from the trailer this was gonna be rehashed shite
“Special Needs Android”…Jesus Christ.
I like the long version of Aliens 👍👍👍👍👍👍🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
I wish alien isolation would be made into a movie if so they probably would screw that up all this movie was Halloween 2018 alien edition
Classic game , probably the best Alien related thing since Aliens.
It would had been better
Thank you, Matt, for a fantastic review. Thank you for calling this movie out on it's bullshit. I hated this movie. Loved the rage.
Matt's review was totally right on the money with this huge stinkin' pile of SHIT!!!
50:10 ''Oh no!! Not again''-John Hurt Spaceballs87.
56:18 It seems like thanks to this film along with both ''Prometheus''&''Alien-Covernet'' also ''Predators'',''The Predator''&''Prey'' makes both the 2004&2007 ''AvP'' films more watchable sadly enjoyable as time wasters bro.
56:40-56:47 True🤣🤣🤣🤣
58:57 A user who wrote a review about this said that same exact thing as the title of it.
1:01:15 I 2nd that statement but you are right Matt it's not called''Show Friends'' it's''Show Business'' money talks and BS runs the marathon like a wise man once said before.
A very fantastic epic long rant brother👍👍
Do you think that this film along with the other ones you mentioned would make Alien 3 or resurrection more tolerable time wasters?
@@Neopunk2023 ''Alien Resurrection'' maybe? As for ''Alien 3' F---K NO!! LOL!!
It’s kinda what he did with the evil dead remake. I do agree with liking Andy he was the best part.
Wholy kkcow. Thankyou s for saving me from seeing these further laughs!
That redone line in the film was so bad. It also seems like everyone unanimously didn't like it. I didn't either. It took me out of the film. I was like you didn't have to say that.😂
They really need to bring back Ripley ,for one more movie
I know we have our differences in regards to Alien 3 and Alien :Covenant, but I’m with you on this one man. I enjoyed most of the 1st and 2nd acts, although it did seem like a rehash of the first two in many parts with a few too many callbacks for my taste. The twist at the end however just completely killed any joy I had of the movie leading up to that point . I’m not really sure why, the Director/writer of this film thought that was a good direction to go in. Also, yeah, the movie is getting a lot of good praise and a lot of people seem to like the “twist” so I have a feeling we’re gonna be in the minority on this one, but I was not a fan. Overall, I left pretty disappointed, and this is coming from a guy that actually enjoys the prequels even.
Rather watch the alien rip off movies than this like galaxy of terror or lifeforce which had creativity but this did not it was the same repeats you’ve seen before.
I walked out of the cinema. Absolute crap.
We need a male lead in these movies 👍👍👍👍👍👍
I haven't seen Aliens 2 since the late 80s. I stopped there figuring nothing could top it. I was right.
😂 damn dude he says everything i hate about that film but so.much more articulate than I can do.
Top notch reviewer
Not seen the movie yet, although ill probably really like it judging from Fede's other movies and what ive heard about it. But you said here that "the Xenomorphs looked good in Alien 3".... it looked good in CLOSE UPS in Alien 3, it looked absolutely awful when it was running through the corridors, looked like really bad green screen.... which makes sense because they used a rod puppet and then basically compositited it into the image
So, in other words, exactly what I thought the trailer showed it to be. I mean people kept asking me if I was excited for Romulus and I told them "No. It's not that it looks bad, just that the trailer didn't impress me. It jus looks like a bog standard, by the numbers Alien plot." My friends remained optimistic about it, but at least they understood what I meant, they were like "Yeah, it doesn't seem like it's reinventing the wheel, exactly. But I'm still holding out for it." Well, good for them, I guess.