You guys need to watch Prometheus if you haven't already... You'll find out more about certain things that happened in this movie, and there are links to Alien too.
To answer your question, yes the aliens are immune to their own acid. It does not burn their skin. This was shown in a technically non-canon movie though so take that fact with a grain of salt. Source "AVP"
I think the xenomorph "saves" her in the elevator shaft because it wants to regrow the hive and she's pretty much the only human on the ship at that point. It does keep her head pointed towards the area where the Facehugger eventually crawls out of.
It also shows it learns. Remember it stabbed Kay first and carried her off and she was too injured to implant. So next time it wrapped its prey and then just made sure she was gonna stay there for the facehugger.
There should have been one scene in which they show. the Alien carefully holding onto a potential victim for the facehugger to attach to so audience members have that in the back of their head when Rain gets caught in the elevator. Edit: they did this Aliens when the colonial marines got ambushed and some were taken alive. So it wasn't a surprise when Newt got taken alive. Whereas Romulus, everyone taken by alien thus far, was basically stabbed and mortally wounded.
David Jonsson as Andy is the best android performance I have seen in over a decade. He perfectly captures how artificial intelligence can also at times be innocent and infantile. While also being pure.
@ Bishop, Vision, David 8, Roy Batty, K from Blade Runner 2049, any performance from the androids in Westworld, and of course The Terminator. And no, the Terminator is not a cyborg, cyborg is an already living being that has had cybernetic augmentations to it, terminators are machines that have had organic skin placed over them, technically making them still androids. I could go on.
@@Quzga Considering she played Lev in the game for the motion caption, voice acting, and they designed Lev to look like her, yeah I hope she gets to play Lev in TLOU season 3.
Great observation from Eric about the age of the cast. One of the laziest complain people had about Romulus what that the characters are just "a bunch in teenagers" (which they aren't) when yeah actually most of the actors from Alien and Aliens were around the same age. I guess people just looked older back then haha.
@@Intothemind I think people take issue because of how young the actors look despite being in thier 20s. And you are right, people did look older than their age back in the day.
It's just one point of many and in Aliens, those guys were F-ing Colonial Marines. That alone is more than enough of a difference. But to be fair...not even Colonial Marines could've made this movie any good.
Eric, that alien at the end is even better than a puppet. That is straight up, just a giant dude in make up and prosthetics. How freaking cool is that?
Speaking purely for myself as a MASSIVE fan of Prometheus, I was so happy when I saw that not only was the black goo mentioned, but that it received a proper explanation and then genuinely horrifying application in the final hybrid scene! I know some criticize this movie for basically being a remix of all the best parts of the Alien franchise, but I don't think the film gets enough credit for *how* it mixes those elements together to craft an original, captivating story.
They took the hybrid idea from Alien Resurrection, considered one of the lowest ideas in the lowest movie, and redid it so much better. They remixed ideas and it works great! Alien Remix lol
I recently got into the Aliens lore and binged most of the movies in order. I thoroughly enjoyed both Prometheus and Romulus and appreciated the connections.
I remember I saw this movie alone in theaters and no one else was with me. The sound design is so good with movie speakers. That ending made me so terrified.
It was not completely CG. Fede Alvarez showed a video in which they actually did build a replica of Ash upper half which was capable of moving it's head and arms. They only used CG to make it look like the replica was speaking.
This was probably my favorite movie theater experience of 2024, the sound design and visual effects were spectacular and I absolutely melted in my IMAX seat at the end😂
The reason the way onto the ship at the start is a narrow crawl space, it's because it's a service entrance made only for synths, which don't feel things like claustrophobia, so they make the entrance as small as possible while still functioning as a pathway, shows you how sythns are looked at and designed upon.
@@danielpeckham5520 Probably because mining for the most part has become very technology-based, you don't really see people by the dozen go down into mines nowadays and in developed countries. Also we now have tools and people (chemists, geologists) who study areas and what chemical compositions areas to be mined on have so that mining crew are better equipped and prepared. mind you, this is in developed countries like the USA. In very underdeveloped nations, the 'old school' way of mining still happens a lot (and with little to no health/safety oversight unfortunately).
The TERROR I felt in that prologue alone putting it together that the original Alien survived deep space. Meaning that Alien Queen, if it didn’t fall back into reentry, could come back, and nuking really is the only option 😅
One of the best things about this movie is David Jonsson and his portrayal of Andy because he’s been the fan favourite character. And also, the moment I saw the human-Xenomorph hybrid while seeing the movie in theatres, my whole audience went like, Oh hell no! And I couldn’t agree more with them.
Fun fact- This was only David Johnsson's second feature film. His first was a great 2023 romcom called Rye Lane. I loved this film and had a blast watching it in 4DX in theaters. My second favorite film in the franchise after Alien.
One of my favorite bits is that Rook actually had some sense knocked into him. When he thinks his mission has failed and he has nothing to lose, he gives the group genuine advice on how to get out of their situation and when he says “perfect organism” he’s saying it sarcastically. And when Andy starts saying his Darwinist bullshit that probably came from his new WY programming, Rook tells him “it wreaked HAVOC” to emphasize its BS. Now he thinks the Xenomorphs are too much trouble on their own and would rather work with their goo from Prometheus-Covenant to be safer. Never thought I’d see character development from “Ash” but here we are.
The Xenomorph with the sparks is nicknamed ''Scorched'', it is in fact the one Bjorn zapped, you can see its head is a bit scarred and the electricity inside is actually the tip of the prod used to zap it in the coccoon, which got stuck inside its cranium since it was shoved in there while the alien was still evolving. It's probably why that one's extra pissed, it literally has a taser lodged inside its head going out at random intervals.
trivia time! - When Tyler, Bjorn, and Andy tour the reactivated Renaissance station, Wagner's "The Entry of the Gods into Valhalla" from "Das Rheingold" is heard over the introductory audio explaining the station being named after Romulus and Remus. This ties back to Alien: Covenant (2017), when Peter Weyland first activates David and asks him to play Wagner, choosing "The Entry of the Gods into Valhalla." - In the background of several shots, the emergency telephones that function as save stations from Alien: Isolation (2014) can be seen. Much like the game, they're typically a sign that something terrible is about to happen. Tyler also brings along a set of signal flares similar to the ones Amanda can find in Isolation, and even uses them to distract some facehuggers due to the heat of the flare like how Amanda can use them to distract the xenomorphs aboard Sevastopol. - In an interview on RUclips, Fede Alvarez described his idea on the significance of the biomechanical aspect of the Xenomorph coming from it's adaptability as it evolves during its gestation phase, absorbing parts and energy of the environment around where it cocoons itself in order to be able to excel within those surroundings, and in a used, dark industrial future, it would naturally lean towards a mechanical appearance to thrive within it. (also why it shows to have electricity runing thru it's skull bc bjorn tried to kill it before it was fully born, show casing you can indeed give it additional traits) - One notable design element in the film is the pulse rifle, which merges features from the original Alien (1979) flamethrower and the Aliens (1986) pulse rifle. This hybrid design reflects the film's intent to blend elements from both movies, creating something familiar yet new to reflect that this film takes place between those two movies. The auto-aim feature is not a completely new addition to Alien lore: in the Special edition of Aliens, Pvt. Hudson already mentioned an "independently targeting particle beam", and the Smart Guns carried by Vasquez and Drake use infrared-assisted targeting systems that can automatically detect enemies. It can be assumed that Rain's auto-aim pulse rifle is an early precursor to those weapons. - Aileen Wu, Fede Alvarez and film promos confirm that Navarro is Bjorn's adopted sister. According to the cast preview I'm Radio Times, "She was taken in by Bjorn's family on Jackson's Star and now thinks of Bjorn as a brother." This means the film features a trio of sibling pairs, which ties into the underlying myth of Romulus and Remus, and the two halves of the Renaissance station (named for the myth). Álvarez has said sibling relationships are a key theme in the film. - The Offspring was portrayed by the former Romanian college basketball player Robert Bobroczkyi. Speaking with Collider, Fede Álvarez explained that he didn't want to create a CG creature and had to find the right person for the role. After learning about Bobroczkyi, the director sent an email to the 7'7 basketball player asking him if he would like to be in an Alien movie, which Robert was very excited about. The Offspring was mostly done using make-up, with the exception of the creature's tail which was CG. - The chestburster scene was done practically. - the movie poster literally spoils who the first victim is lmao!
Ah man I thought the xenomorph with the electricity running through its skull was a reference to the synthetic xenomorph they made in a comic it was named Jerry and was a cool concept, a fake drone to monitor a hive, in my mind that it made sense why it caught her, but ya your statement makes sense.
@sirgoodsworth ive heard of that combo before, Personally never seen it. Altho i have seen the terminator xeno hybrids w/sarah battling them. That was loco.
This is almost 100% the movie that Ridley Scott would’ve made in 1979 if he had the budget and technology, and is also basically Alien: Isolation The Movie - which is a testament to how well Isolation made it work.
@jamesmonroeiii Firstly. Not old, because you can watch old films now, amazingly enough! Secondly, this film was so laughably derivative in all of its references it beggared belief. But that irony will be lost on a special person like yourself, no doubt.
Your praises for the set and prop design is well founded: almost everything in the movie is pulled straight from Alien: Isolation, which is one of the best pieces of Alien media in the entire franchise (on par with the first Alien). The director was a big fan of the games and wanted to emulate it directly!
48:08 that shit was so crazy to see in theaters, with how quiet it got and the audible disbelief and confusion the audience had. And just how unsettling it is, too. That was probably my favorite theater moment this year
52:17 That was my exact reaction, I was super in the loop about basketball stuff a few years ago and I saw this kid absolutely everywhere, and then he just kinda disappeared. Then I see this and feel like he looks familiar, then bam, he's right back there and absolutely killing it on his first film role. Really hope to see him in more stuff taking up the mantle of guys like Javier Botet, because that's honestly a once in a generation type of horror actor.
I LOVED that they didn’t just completely write Prometheus-Covenant out of existence. I love when a later work will actually incorporate even the less beloved works in the franchise tastefully instead of simply nuking them from orbit, and make them actually work. I think this is a cool way to continue some of the plot threads from those movies but still do it right.
I kind of like the idea that prometheus-covenant are an in-universe theory by historians trying to explain Xenos. It let's fans decide whether they prefer the ancient xeno stuff or the man-made stuff and it makes sense that scientists would look at such a perfect creature and think 'nah this thing HAS to be made by calculations'. Makes the universe feel more rich and believable to me
Same, would love to have modern devices push back in that direction some, uniform black glass slabs with touchscreens can't really be used without staring at them, whereas tactile mechanical controls can be used intuitively while multitasking
I love movies like Romulus and Prey that kinda return to the original form of the franchise that they're built on but also have their own updated elements that improve the idea and keep it unique. Such great movies!
If you guys decide to watch Alien 3, I highly recommend the Assembly Cut, just because it's the closest thing we got to the original vision of what the movie should've been. The theatrical cut is missing something like 30 minutes of footage
A lot of people have commented on how young the cast is. While it's true that Alien had a much wider age range among its cast, Sigourney Weaver was only two years older than Cailee Spaeny when the original was made.
Same job too, both were science officers, seems the Ash/Rook model line were specialized as Science officers, though I suspect Rook's crew may have been aware he was an android as there was no need for him to "hide" as they were openly researching Xenomorphs
This was a movie that had to be seen in theaters was scary but was stressful the whole time. That last 20 minutes seen had everyone terrified, and you could hear a pin drop in there. It was awesome 😂
The Ian Holm one was also a nice touch from a personal level. He wanted to return to Ash at some point (did so in Alien Isolation game) but something happened that had the studio ignore him. So the family were happy to have him finally return. Personally I think the CGI was too off, it was even more glaring in iMAX, but knowing that info I now appreciate it more. Also loved Rain and Andy, one of the best character combinations since Ripley/Newt or Ripley/Hicks.
According to the director he agreed that Rook still needed more work after the theater release so the final "home release" version does have some improvements apparently. Given the damaged state of Rook though some "uncanny Valley" breaching is actually fitting, he's broken, there's no point in hiding it, he's just putting on a "good enough" performance to get his points across and maybe alarm the humans enough to pay attention
2 things that i love about this movie. 1, they made facehuggers absolutely terrifying. Every movie they're glazed over once someone is impregnated. Here it shows that facehuggers are the most formidable form of the xenoology. Forget movie plot armor, they're faster, and can jump really far to make up the distance, can find your body heat if you try to hide and are very strong, good luck pulling one off once its got your face. 2, Xeno's are capable of space travel. We already know that Xeno's existed before the engineers. So they didn't get from planet to planet by cargo hold. They litterally create a rocky shell and just get sent into space till they land on a planet. Forget the aliens from Independence Day, the Xeno's are the true Locusts of the universe. Im so glad they dont exist in real life. At least i hope not.😅
I _really_ hope that they check out *_Prometheus_* & *_Alien Covenant_* because they add a lot of interesting context into this. *_Romulus_* did genuinely SUCH a brilliant job of stitching together little bits of all the whole of the franchise together, and the fact that they just greenlit him making a sequel made me unbelievably excited.
Here's a fun easter egg, I don't know if anyone in the comments mentioned it, but when the Xenomorph is sitting on the shuttle, waiting for them to open the door. The shuttle is Ripley's from the first movie, suggesting Waylan-Yutani found Ripely a lot earlier than she was told in Aliens. Which means Burke lied to her about floating in space for 57 years, when the company had her for 30 of those years still possibly in cryo.
@@paradox_productions Not sure why they would have kept her in cryo, but it's kind of haunting. Like what were they doing? Were they hoping she was infected? Were they planning on having her infected? IIRC in the Colonial Marines game, there was already a science lab with eggs on the Sulaco (ALIENS), that Ripley and the first Marines didn't even know about.
@sathman6501 it was an Engineer. Prometheus showed that it's weird design was just armor. We don't know why they were transporting the Xenomorphs as we still don't have the full story of David inventing them
@sathman6501 Ah yeah that's not explained, though the pilot was chest burst so that's why it crashed. We just don't know it's goals or how it got infected. For that we need to know more of how David created the xenomorphs
Obviously and they should know this stuff being movie reactors AS A CAREER. Like they seriously have never seen any promo material or anything showing this stuff? Prometheus alone has been out for 12 years. And they never bothered?
I think this was the first time I saw Cailee Spaeny in anything and I saw Civil War for the first afterwards. She’s had a really good year and I look forward to seeing her in more!
@@OrionInSpace lmao it's ok dude😂. You are being too hard on yourself. Yeah she's pretty much great in whatever role she's in. I can sense a bright future for her as an actress especially in dramatic roles.
@@prathapkutty7407 trust me, I deserve to be roasted because for how much I follow movies and love this stuff I should know that. Like you said, I agree, she’s got a bright future!
@@OrionInSpace it's all good my dude. The other actress in the movie, isabela merced is also amazing. She will be playing hawkgirl in the new Superman movie.
I f*** love this movie man, i know it has a LOT of memberberries but its all i wanted for a new alien movie... a lot of action, a LOT of xeno scenes, cool deaths (and new), a great ost, a shocking ending twist. Love it
I've seen tons of people complain about this movie from a variety of standpoints, but honestly this is the best movie since Aliens by far and I'd put it right there along with it and Alien, it's fantastic. I'd actually love to see more of Rain/Andy in the future, especially as the new Ripley going forward, and while yes she'll never be Sigourney Weaver, she did damn well in her own right and handled her own just as well, gave me a very Ripley feel from her, or hell even Samus (but far less overpowered) and as well all know with Metroid, it's heavily inspired by Alien as well. It's a great film and people I feel expect too much or some varied performances. My only real complaint is the Hybrid, it comes off as a bit of an oddity, but terrifyingly horrid in its own right, while still keeping Prometheus and Covenant and such relevant despite them never being truly finished because of public outcry against personal theories and just a variety of issues with those films which were pretty average/mid at best. Very glad to see the Blind Wave crew actually love the film and not ceaselessly just finding fault in every aspect and enjoying it for what it is, a corporate dystopian nightmare where a crew gets done in my a horrid machine of death. I'm really hoping the series continues forward despite it not having the entire best reception and box office for what should have been expected.
I love this movie. I think when this movie was released, it was generally positive with mixed reviews. But I already had an interest in watching it, so a mixed review was still a "see for myself" for me. And after watching it for myself, I absolutely love this movie.
Huge fan of all of the movies I highly recommend you guys react to the prequels Prometheus and Alien covenant, both movies a little different from the rest but still really enjoyable and a fun ride for the lore of the universe. Prometheus was mentioned in this movie you'll get some context on a few things that you might have noticed and asked about in this reaction as well.
The baby was human, engineer, and xenomorph. You wouldn't catch it too much from Alien ( the big guy in the chair), but the engineers were more of a focus in Prometheus.
You seem to misremember something. The Synthetic in the first Alien is named "Ash". Remember he was A, Bishop in "Aliens" was B, and Call in Alien Resurrection was C. Even David fit, being the next new one, even though that one only makes sense in a meta-sense not in the lore. Walter broke that naming convention and Rook doesn't fit it either. Andy would fit lore-wise as he would be from around the same time as Ash and would therefore get a name, starting with an A in-universe. Anyway, Rook is not the same Synthetic as Ash in Alien. He's just the same model, at least visually.
Ash and Rook both specialize as Science Officers, it seems likely that they are both the same models, Rook might still be in use as his model was good at it's job, likely moreso when not needing to pretend to be human or empathetic, and perhapse seen by the company as fairly reliable given he was still in use around a decade or more after Ash. Looking forwards to seeing more of Andy too and any new synthetics that join in for later movies, perhapse next time we'll see another Bishop or some Working Joes like in Isolation
The offspring creature in that last part was just so creepy and the birth scene was horrific. Proper sci fi horror. I loved this film when I first saw it.
I loved this movie. I’m personally more of an Alien fan than an Aliens fan although they’re both fantastic movies obviously but give me a crew of people in space getting picked apart one by one while having very little hope of survival and I will enjoy that Alien movie 10 times out of 10. The Alien Human hybrid at the end was FOUL, so nice to see practical monster designs and not an over abundance of CGI *cough* Alien Covenant *cough*
When I saw the Hybrid that is shown at 48:08 in the theater, I muttered a quiet "what the fuck". Me, and the audience included, were amazed and disturbed when we first saw it.
4:08 The xenomorph at the beginning is the same one from ALIEN. After Ripley "shot" it out of the Narcissus it was not dead and encased itself in resin to "hibernate". The whole opening scene shows a Weyland Yutani drone which locates the Xeno in the area where the Nostromo was destroyed. Hince the wreckage with the letters "ROMO". The Drone "wakes-up" gets the encased Xeno and take it to the Romulus-Remus research station. It is cut out of the "cocoon" and taken away. Later in the movie when this Xeno is shown in the lab you can see the grapple head projectile that Ripley shot still embedded in the body.
@@sreyangovender3404Not sure I follow. It doesn't negate anything Ripley did. At least according to the conversation between the director Fede Alvarez and Ridley Scott that is part of the DVD extras.
@@sreyangovender3404 Also if you freeze frame twice at the right spots you can see the Narcissus in the background as Ripley sails off to begin her 57-year nap.
12:33 aaaaand director confirmed that Bjorn got her pregnant even though they’re cousins. Either there really were just no options in their colony, or Bjorn didn’t give her a choice and Kay is just trying to preserve her cousin’s reputation. Or other reasons, none of which are pleasant.
It's never stated that they are related though. Sure Kay and Tyler are brother and sister but they could have different moms or dads and Bjorn could be from the side of the family that isn't blood related to Kay and only Tyler. Given that its a Ridley Scott movie though it is certainly possible they are related but unconfirmed. Could you link the source for the director saying they are.
@@roxtechs "The hybrid" looks that way because it was mutated by the black goo which was shown in Prometheus. If you recall, humans share most of their DNA with Engineers since we along with all life on Earth came from their genetic make-up which was probably made more dominant in the Offspring (Not a hybrid since all xenomorphs are technically Hybrids). The black goo is also a different variety and you could say a diluted and further mutated version since it was harvested from the already mutated facehuggers that were grown from cloned cells instead of the original pure source of the black goo that the Engineers created.
@@ACoffeeFan238 I just looked this up... Fede Álvarez, the director of the movie, confirmed that they ARE cousins. And from everything I'm seeing, there is blood-relation between them. **"Sweet Home Alabama" INTENSIFIES!!!**
No, the Alien/human hybrid at the end is a real man in prosthetics, he’s a 7+ft basketball player, can’t think of his name right now though.That design was a great cross between Engineer, human & Alien.
I watched none of the trailers and avoided everything to do with this movie so I could watch it without expectations. I had no idea about the cast or it's setting and just assumed it was a sequel to alien covenant. This movie was such a joy from start to finish though some of the reuse of lines from other movies did bug me a little.
Part of why I like Aliens Fireteam Elite too, mixes in a little bit of everything including stuff like Seegson and the Working Joes from Isolation, getting vengeance on Xenos and androids alike after running scared in Isolation is cathartic
One of the things I appreciated about this film is that the Company's position wasn't just defaulted to _evil._ Apparently there have been problems with humans colonizing other planets. It's been a failure no matter where they go. So they were trying to upgrade the human race utilizing the xenomorph genome.
And thanks to this movie, Alien Isolation is getting a sequel too, fitting since the director has stated that Isolation was a big inspiration for Romulus
This movie's director, Fede Alvarez pitched a potential co-directing job with Dan Trachtenberg who directed Prey for a future Alien vs Predator movie. It's a good time to be a fan of both series as we're getting 2 Predator movies in 2025. A sequel has been confirmed for this and the 20th Century CEO confirmed an AVP is happening. Disney is also sitting on an Alien vs Predator animated series and right now Marvel is putting out an Aliens vs Avengers series and it is FANTASTIC!
58:28 I saw Rook's(?) mouth moving out of sync from his dialogue as a byproduct of the fact that he's a broken synthetic and is malfunctioning so his motor functions aren't matching his audio
@@sandrosliskeagreed, in this instance, "Rook" looking uncanny and unnatural is perfect given the wrecked state he's in, that and it's not worth the effort to put on the full act when they can see his synthetic guts hanging out Also greatly enjoyed the performance of both versions of Andy, really impressive and I really want to see more from them, especially if we see them in a sequel
Finally! Was waiting for you guys to get to this! I saw this in theaters with a friend, and the dozens of facehuggers triggered my arachnophobia so bad with all the legs, so was glad to have someone to cling to, haha! And I like that the movie payed homage to the entire franchise, even the parts people may not be a fan of.
Ok, did anyone else saw Ripley's escape vessel from Nastromo aboard this station? It was ejected from station when it crashes against the rings. Little cool detail.
definitely should watch the series on the channel or at least the ones yall haven't seen. I would love a Prometheus reaction. Its a very devisive film but even if you hate it, Michael Fassbender CARRIES the prequels.
all the actors in this film are in their mid 20s - early 30s so they're definitely not teens but yeah i think people even in their 20s looked a lot older (due to makeup/clothing/hairstyles, etc.) back then vs now because i used to think the og characters were old as hell but a lot of them were around my current age
A great comment I saw about why the technology is so far behind, to waylan many of these people are expendable why give them super cool tech when they don't need it.
Also, Spacetravel is brutal on modern tech, high density silicon chips and stuff like LCDs are very vulnerable to radiation and power surges, not to mention their longevity is not up to the task of potentially decades of service So we could legitimately see some more robust "oldschool" tech return in various forms specially designed to be brutally robust rather than slim and pretty, they would still preform far better than the oldschool tech thanks to some hardware and software improvements they could still benefit from, heck, even today super high capacity tape-drives still exist for archival storage when capacity and longevity matters far more than access speed, which, again would be good in a long-term spacecraft or device. And... yeah, Cassette futurism is just cool too, not gunna lie, I love the look too, as much as the potential practicality of it
@@UNSCPILOT hehe reminds me of stargate where quiet often weaker human technology would win because the enemies were not used to non energy attacks and such hehe.
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You guys need to watch Prometheus if you haven't already... You'll find out more about certain things that happened in this movie, and there are links to Alien too.
As "bad" as they are... The whole franchise needs a react.💁🏾♀️
To answer your question, yes the aliens are immune to their own acid. It does not burn their skin. This was shown in a technically non-canon movie though so take that fact with a grain of salt. Source "AVP"
Rook is not the same android from Alien which was Ash
Idk who the hell that is talking… but it’s not Calvin lmao. His bodies been invaded by some other entity lol
I think the xenomorph "saves" her in the elevator shaft because it wants to regrow the hive and she's pretty much the only human on the ship at that point. It does keep her head pointed towards the area where the Facehugger eventually crawls out of.
That was the silliest thing in the movie
@@sreyangovender3404 it wasn't silly, it shows how smart the xeno actually is. It's people who don't understand this scene who complain about it
It also shows it learns. Remember it stabbed Kay first and carried her off and she was too injured to implant. So next time it wrapped its prey and then just made sure she was gonna stay there for the facehugger.
@@sreyangovender3404 how is it silly? It clearly has a plan to have the Facehugger get her.
There should have been one scene in which they show. the Alien carefully holding onto a potential victim for the facehugger to attach to so audience members have that in the back of their head when Rain gets caught in the elevator.
Edit: they did this Aliens when the colonial marines got ambushed and some were taken alive. So it wasn't a surprise when Newt got taken alive. Whereas Romulus, everyone taken by alien thus far, was basically stabbed and mortally wounded.
David Jonsson as Andy is the best android performance I have seen in over a decade. He perfectly captures how artificial intelligence can also at times be innocent and infantile. While also being pure.
Not as good as Michael Fassbender in Prometheus and Alien Covenant
@@sreyangovender3404 to you!
Yeah, his performance was quite good.
Are there many android performances?
@ Bishop, Vision, David 8, Roy Batty, K from Blade Runner 2049, any performance from the androids in Westworld, and of course The Terminator. And no, the Terminator is not a cyborg, cyborg is an already living being that has had cybernetic augmentations to it, terminators are machines that have had organic skin placed over them, technically making them still androids. I could go on.
Isabella Merced was amazing as Kay, that scream was iconic and i felt so bad for her.
Yeah she went THROUGH IT this movie
Can't wait to see her in tlou! The Asian chick would make a great lev too
@@Quzga Considering she played Lev in the game for the motion caption, voice acting, and they designed Lev to look like her, yeah I hope she gets to play Lev in TLOU season 3.
@CarrCab really? I had no idea lol. The town in romulus even is called Jackson
@@CarrCab She didn't play lev. May have been the face scan for lev but she didn't do the voice or mocap that was Ian Alexander.
Great observation from Eric about the age of the cast. One of the laziest complain people had about Romulus what that the characters are just "a bunch in teenagers" (which they aren't) when yeah actually most of the actors from Alien and Aliens were around the same age. I guess people just looked older back then haha.
@@Intothemind I think people take issue because of how young the actors look despite being in thier 20s. And you are right, people did look older than their age back in the day.
It's just one point of many and in Aliens, those guys were F-ing Colonial Marines. That alone is more than enough of a difference. But to be fair...not even Colonial Marines could've made this movie any good.
Exactly that!
I'd say more alien then aliens alot of the aliens cast was in their 30s more or less
@@style0vertalent191what could have made this good for you then since all your other comments are negative without any reason
Eric, that alien at the end is even better than a puppet. That is straight up, just a giant dude in make up and prosthetics. How freaking cool is that?
Right?! The behind the scenes clip gives you an idea of how tall the actor is
Legit one of my issues with the movie was that the final alien looked too unrealistic and CGI. Then i found out it was a dude. Crazy.
Speaking purely for myself as a MASSIVE fan of Prometheus, I was so happy when I saw that not only was the black goo mentioned, but that it received a proper explanation and then genuinely horrifying application in the final hybrid scene! I know some criticize this movie for basically being a remix of all the best parts of the Alien franchise, but I don't think the film gets enough credit for *how* it mixes those elements together to craft an original, captivating story.
They took the hybrid idea from Alien Resurrection, considered one of the lowest ideas in the lowest movie, and redid it so much better.
They remixed ideas and it works great! Alien Remix lol
@@HotDogTimeMachine385like a big budget fan film, love it
I recently got into the Aliens lore and binged most of the movies in order. I thoroughly enjoyed both Prometheus and Romulus and appreciated the connections.
THANK YOU. Prometheus and even covenant were still great films and this one built off of them PERFECTLY @eliktm4624
Totally agree, fellow Prometheus fan here!
I remember I saw this movie alone in theaters and no one else was with me. The sound design is so good with movie speakers. That ending made me so terrified.
Ian Holm in Alien was named Ash, this is a different android but with the same look of Ash.
Yep. Also, Ash was decapitated in Alien, and then incinerated by a flame thrower, even before the Nostromo blew up. 💥
Everyone who played Alien Isolation had PTSD hearing the alien heavy footsteps when he was running on the hive scene
21:28 Calvin: It’s so much better than CG
(Two seconds later: CG Ian Holm)
😮💨
it’s one of the best looking CG recreations of an actor though, and his family were on board for it
@@leojs5673I found it distractingly obvious that it was cgi
@@leojs5673i thought it looked pretty bad, tbh. but i was willing to overlook it because the rest of the movie looked great
It was not completely CG.
Fede Alvarez showed a video in which they actually did build a replica of Ash upper half which was capable of moving it's head and arms. They only used CG to make it look like the replica was speaking.
This was probably my favorite movie theater experience of 2024, the sound design and visual effects were spectacular and I absolutely melted in my IMAX seat at the end😂
My thoughts exactly
The reason the way onto the ship at the start is a narrow crawl space, it's because it's a service entrance made only for synths, which don't feel things like claustrophobia, so they make the entrance as small as possible while still functioning as a pathway, shows you how sythns are looked at and designed upon.
The canary was significant because, aside from the visual metaphor, miners used to use them to detect carbon monoxide pockets
Weird how many people don't realise this
@@danielpeckham5520 Probably because mining for the most part has become very technology-based, you don't really see people by the dozen go down into mines nowadays and in developed countries. Also we now have tools and people (chemists, geologists) who study areas and what chemical compositions areas to be mined on have so that mining crew are better equipped and prepared.
mind you, this is in developed countries like the USA. In very underdeveloped nations, the 'old school' way of mining still happens a lot (and with little to no health/safety oversight unfortunately).
The TERROR I felt in that prologue alone putting it together that the original Alien survived deep space. Meaning that Alien Queen, if it didn’t fall back into reentry, could come back, and nuking really is the only option 😅
Great scene getting overshadowed by a great movie.
Keep in mind that ridley Scott doesn't care for the concept of an alien queen.
@@ReelUrbanityWell, as far as I'm concerned, Ridley Scott can suck it.
One of the best things about this movie is David Jonsson and his portrayal of Andy because he’s been the fan favourite character. And also, the moment I saw the human-Xenomorph hybrid while seeing the movie in theatres, my whole audience went like, Oh hell no! And I couldn’t agree more with them.
Fun fact- This was only David Johnsson's second feature film. His first was a great 2023 romcom called Rye Lane. I loved this film and had a blast watching it in 4DX in theaters. My second favorite film in the franchise after Alien.
He did so good!!
Calvin's face when the Hybrid stood up was priceless XD
One of my favorite bits is that Rook actually had some sense knocked into him. When he thinks his mission has failed and he has nothing to lose, he gives the group genuine advice on how to get out of their situation and when he says “perfect organism” he’s saying it sarcastically. And when Andy starts saying his Darwinist bullshit that probably came from his new WY programming, Rook tells him “it wreaked HAVOC” to emphasize its BS. Now he thinks the Xenomorphs are too much trouble on their own and would rather work with their goo from Prometheus-Covenant to be safer. Never thought I’d see character development from “Ash” but here we are.
The Xenomorph with the sparks is nicknamed ''Scorched'', it is in fact the one Bjorn zapped, you can see its head is a bit scarred and the electricity inside is actually the tip of the prod used to zap it in the coccoon, which got stuck inside its cranium since it was shoved in there while the alien was still evolving. It's probably why that one's extra pissed, it literally has a taser lodged inside its head going out at random intervals.
trivia time!
- When Tyler, Bjorn, and Andy tour the reactivated Renaissance station, Wagner's "The Entry of the Gods into Valhalla" from "Das Rheingold" is heard over the introductory audio explaining the station being named after Romulus and Remus. This ties back to Alien: Covenant (2017), when Peter Weyland first activates David and asks him to play Wagner, choosing "The Entry of the Gods into Valhalla."
- In the background of several shots, the emergency telephones that function as save stations from Alien: Isolation (2014) can be seen. Much like the game, they're typically a sign that something terrible is about to happen. Tyler also brings along a set of signal flares similar to the ones Amanda can find in Isolation, and even uses them to distract some facehuggers due to the heat of the flare like how Amanda can use them to distract the xenomorphs aboard Sevastopol.
- In an interview on RUclips, Fede Alvarez described his idea on the significance of the biomechanical aspect of the Xenomorph coming from it's adaptability as it evolves during its gestation phase, absorbing parts and energy of the environment around where it cocoons itself in order to be able to excel within those surroundings, and in a used, dark industrial future, it would naturally lean towards a mechanical appearance to thrive within it. (also why it shows to have electricity runing thru it's skull bc bjorn tried to kill it before it was fully born, show casing you can indeed give it additional traits)
- One notable design element in the film is the pulse rifle, which merges features from the original Alien (1979) flamethrower and the Aliens (1986) pulse rifle. This hybrid design reflects the film's intent to blend elements from both movies, creating something familiar yet new to reflect that this film takes place between those two movies. The auto-aim feature is not a completely new addition to Alien lore: in the Special edition of Aliens, Pvt. Hudson already mentioned an "independently targeting particle beam", and the Smart Guns carried by Vasquez and Drake use infrared-assisted targeting systems that can automatically detect enemies. It can be assumed that Rain's auto-aim pulse rifle is an early precursor to those weapons.
- Aileen Wu, Fede Alvarez and film promos confirm that Navarro is Bjorn's adopted sister. According to the cast preview I'm Radio Times, "She was taken in by Bjorn's family on Jackson's Star and now thinks of Bjorn as a brother." This means the film features a trio of sibling pairs, which ties into the underlying myth of Romulus and Remus, and the two halves of the Renaissance station (named for the myth). Álvarez has said sibling relationships are a key theme in the film.
- The Offspring was portrayed by the former Romanian college basketball player Robert Bobroczkyi. Speaking with Collider, Fede Álvarez explained that he didn't want to create a CG creature and had to find the right person for the role. After learning about Bobroczkyi, the director sent an email to the 7'7 basketball player asking him if he would like to be in an Alien movie, which Robert was very excited about. The Offspring was mostly done using make-up, with the exception of the creature's tail which was CG.
- The chestburster scene was done practically.
- the movie poster literally spoils who the first victim is lmao!
You know that this is gonna be a well-remembered alien movie when people are excited to look into the behind-the-scenes for neat trivia
Ah man I thought the xenomorph with the electricity running through its skull was a reference to the synthetic xenomorph they made in a comic it was named Jerry and was a cool concept, a fake drone to monitor a hive, in my mind that it made sense why it caught her, but ya your statement makes sense.
@sirgoodsworth ive heard of that combo before, Personally never seen it. Altho i have seen the terminator xeno hybrids w/sarah battling them. That was loco.
I mean technically, he did see the beginning of the chest buster scene in the first trailer lol so I wasn’t surprised BUT they made it look so good.
This is almost 100% the movie that Ridley Scott would’ve made in 1979 if he had the budget and technology, and is also basically Alien: Isolation The Movie - which is a testament to how well Isolation made it work.
The original Alien is far superior though..As was Aliens..
Even the savepoints of Isolation were in the movie
@@scotlandtheinsane3359 The future is now, old man
@@scotlandtheinsane3359 Romulus is easily the third best Alien movie, and it’s not that far off from the original two.
@jamesmonroeiii
Firstly.
Not old, because you can watch old films now, amazingly enough!
Secondly, this film was so laughably derivative in all of its references it beggared belief.
But that irony will be lost on a special person like yourself, no doubt.
Your praises for the set and prop design is well founded: almost everything in the movie is pulled straight from Alien: Isolation, which is one of the best pieces of Alien media in the entire franchise (on par with the first Alien). The director was a big fan of the games and wanted to emulate it directly!
48:08 that shit was so crazy to see in theaters, with how quiet it got and the audible disbelief and confusion the audience had. And just how unsettling it is, too. That was probably my favorite theater moment this year
Me: "There's never gonna be a xenomorph variant that keeps me up at night"
Fede Alvarez: "Hold my black goo"
52:17 That was my exact reaction, I was super in the loop about basketball stuff a few years ago and I saw this kid absolutely everywhere, and then he just kinda disappeared. Then I see this and feel like he looks familiar, then bam, he's right back there and absolutely killing it on his first film role. Really hope to see him in more stuff taking up the mantle of guys like Javier Botet, because that's honestly a once in a generation type of horror actor.
I LOVED that they didn’t just completely write Prometheus-Covenant out of existence. I love when a later work will actually incorporate even the less beloved works in the franchise tastefully instead of simply nuking them from orbit, and make them actually work. I think this is a cool way to continue some of the plot threads from those movies but still do it right.
Your first sentence made me finally lose all hope for humanity.
@@style0vertalent191 womp womp
I do. Prometheus and Covenant are such misfits in the Alien franchise. Clearly want to be their own films.
@@criticalhit69 Bless you, Sir.
I kind of like the idea that prometheus-covenant are an in-universe theory by historians trying to explain Xenos. It let's fans decide whether they prefer the ancient xeno stuff or the man-made stuff and it makes sense that scientists would look at such a perfect creature and think 'nah this thing HAS to be made by calculations'. Makes the universe feel more rich and believable to me
David Jonsson is fantastic in this movie. Being able to act out the different programmings was fantastic!
I always liked the "Cassette Futurism" aesthetic in Alien.
Same, would love to have modern devices push back in that direction some, uniform black glass slabs with touchscreens can't really be used without staring at them, whereas tactile mechanical controls can be used intuitively while multitasking
Cailee Spaeny has been excellent in her roles recently. Excited to see her get even bigger roles.
25:05 one of the best screams ever. Love it.
I love movies like Romulus and Prey that kinda return to the original form of the franchise that they're built on but also have their own updated elements that improve the idea and keep it unique. Such great movies!
If you guys decide to watch Alien 3, I highly recommend the Assembly Cut, just because it's the closest thing we got to the original vision of what the movie should've been. The theatrical cut is missing something like 30 minutes of footage
A lot of people have commented on how young the cast is. While it's true that Alien had a much wider age range among its cast, Sigourney Weaver was only two years older than Cailee Spaeny when the original was made.
Alien had 'Ash" Alien Romulus had "Rook." Same model different Android.
Pretty much
Same job too, both were science officers, seems the Ash/Rook model line were specialized as Science officers, though I suspect Rook's crew may have been aware he was an android as there was no need for him to "hide" as they were openly researching Xenomorphs
"and you won't see me as a child anymore"
Such a cool line.
This was a movie that had to be seen in theaters was scary but was stressful the whole time. That last 20 minutes seen had everyone terrified, and you could hear a pin drop in there. It was awesome 😂
The Ian Holm one was also a nice touch from a personal level. He wanted to return to Ash at some point (did so in Alien Isolation game) but something happened that had the studio ignore him. So the family were happy to have him finally return. Personally I think the CGI was too off, it was even more glaring in iMAX, but knowing that info I now appreciate it more.
Also loved Rain and Andy, one of the best character combinations since Ripley/Newt or Ripley/Hicks.
According to the director he agreed that Rook still needed more work after the theater release so the final "home release" version does have some improvements apparently.
Given the damaged state of Rook though some "uncanny Valley" breaching is actually fitting, he's broken, there's no point in hiding it, he's just putting on a "good enough" performance to get his points across and maybe alarm the humans enough to pay attention
2 things that i love about this movie.
1, they made facehuggers absolutely terrifying. Every movie they're glazed over once someone is impregnated. Here it shows that facehuggers are the most formidable form of the xenoology. Forget movie plot armor, they're faster, and can jump really far to make up the distance, can find your body heat if you try to hide and are very strong, good luck pulling one off once its got your face.
2, Xeno's are capable of space travel. We already know that Xeno's existed before the engineers. So they didn't get from planet to planet by cargo hold. They litterally create a rocky shell and just get sent into space till they land on a planet.
Forget the aliens from Independence Day, the Xeno's are the true Locusts of the universe.
Im so glad they dont exist in real life. At least i hope not.😅
I _really_ hope that they check out *_Prometheus_* & *_Alien Covenant_* because they add a lot of interesting context into this. *_Romulus_* did genuinely SUCH a brilliant job of stitching together little bits of all the whole of the franchise together, and the fact that they just greenlit him making a sequel made me unbelievably excited.
Really no point to now ...
@robbiuchiha …huh?
the “Prometheus” film score moment…loved it.
The baby had an Engineer look to it.
There is really no point in the prequels, the lore is all over the place and they are terrible.
Here's a fun easter egg, I don't know if anyone in the comments mentioned it, but when the Xenomorph is sitting on the shuttle, waiting for them to open the door. The shuttle is Ripley's from the first movie, suggesting Waylan-Yutani found Ripely a lot earlier than she was told in Aliens. Which means Burke lied to her about floating in space for 57 years, when the company had her for 30 of those years still possibly in cryo.
This is a fascinating possibility. Why do you think they kept her in stasis?
Maybe to debrief after the loss of all these experiments in Romulus?
@@paradox_productions Not sure why they would have kept her in cryo, but it's kind of haunting. Like what were they doing? Were they hoping she was infected? Were they planning on having her infected? IIRC in the Colonial Marines game, there was already a science lab with eggs on the Sulaco (ALIENS), that Ripley and the first Marines didn't even know about.
48:16 honestly testament to how gross the fx are in this movie i have never seen calvin make that face before lmao
Your faces during the birth and anytime the offspring was on screen were priceless 😂
Eric's face the entire reaction 😂 🤣
The big giant dude from Alien 1 you said never got explained, was explained in Prometheus and Alien Covenant
well not really
@sathman6501 it was an Engineer. Prometheus showed that it's weird design was just armor. We don't know why they were transporting the Xenomorphs as we still don't have the full story of David inventing them
@@MellyMelon1331 yeah i just meant that we dont know how the ship with eggs ended upp crashed on the planet
@sathman6501 Ah yeah that's not explained, though the pilot was chest burst so that's why it crashed. We just don't know it's goals or how it got infected. For that we need to know more of how David created the xenomorphs
Obviously and they should know this stuff being movie reactors AS A CAREER. Like they seriously have never seen any promo material or anything showing this stuff? Prometheus alone has been out for 12 years. And they never bothered?
I think this was the first time I saw Cailee Spaeny in anything and I saw Civil War for the first afterwards. She’s had a really good year and I look forward to seeing her in more!
She was great in Priscilla and pacific Rim uprising which was her first acting role. She is definitely a rising talent to watch out for.
@ dude I’m an idiot and deserve to be roasted… Pacific Rim Uprising was actually the first thing I saw her in. I keep forgetting she’s in that.😅
@@OrionInSpace lmao it's ok dude😂. You are being too hard on yourself. Yeah she's pretty much great in whatever role she's in. I can sense a bright future for her as an actress especially in dramatic roles.
@@prathapkutty7407 trust me, I deserve to be roasted because for how much I follow movies and love this stuff I should know that. Like you said, I agree, she’s got a bright future!
@@OrionInSpace it's all good my dude. The other actress in the movie, isabela merced is also amazing. She will be playing hawkgirl in the new Superman movie.
The Alien/Human is actually a real person. There are some BTS video footage with him and director. Pretty awesome to see
I f*** love this movie man, i know it has a LOT of memberberries but its all i wanted for a new alien movie... a lot of action, a LOT of xeno scenes, cool deaths (and new), a great ost, a shocking ending twist. Love it
I've seen tons of people complain about this movie from a variety of standpoints, but honestly this is the best movie since Aliens by far and I'd put it right there along with it and Alien, it's fantastic. I'd actually love to see more of Rain/Andy in the future, especially as the new Ripley going forward, and while yes she'll never be Sigourney Weaver, she did damn well in her own right and handled her own just as well, gave me a very Ripley feel from her, or hell even Samus (but far less overpowered) and as well all know with Metroid, it's heavily inspired by Alien as well.
It's a great film and people I feel expect too much or some varied performances. My only real complaint is the Hybrid, it comes off as a bit of an oddity, but terrifyingly horrid in its own right, while still keeping Prometheus and Covenant and such relevant despite them never being truly finished because of public outcry against personal theories and just a variety of issues with those films which were pretty average/mid at best.
Very glad to see the Blind Wave crew actually love the film and not ceaselessly just finding fault in every aspect and enjoying it for what it is, a corporate dystopian nightmare where a crew gets done in my a horrid machine of death. I'm really hoping the series continues forward despite it not having the entire best reception and box office for what should have been expected.
I love this movie. I think when this movie was released, it was generally positive with mixed reviews. But I already had an interest in watching it, so a mixed review was still a "see for myself" for me. And after watching it for myself, I absolutely love this movie.
Huge fan of all of the movies I highly recommend you guys react to the prequels Prometheus and Alien covenant, both movies a little different from the rest but still really enjoyable and a fun ride for the lore of the universe. Prometheus was mentioned in this movie you'll get some context on a few things that you might have noticed and asked about in this reaction as well.
The baby was human, engineer, and xenomorph. You wouldn't catch it too much from Alien ( the big guy in the chair), but the engineers were more of a focus in Prometheus.
23:01 It was too late. You can literally see the seed descending down the Facehugger before it gets fully removed.
Sphicters clenched at the sight of the Aliens
You seem to misremember something. The Synthetic in the first Alien is named "Ash". Remember he was A, Bishop in "Aliens" was B, and Call in Alien Resurrection was C.
Even David fit, being the next new one, even though that one only makes sense in a meta-sense not in the lore. Walter broke that naming convention and Rook doesn't fit it either.
Andy would fit lore-wise as he would be from around the same time as Ash and would therefore get a name, starting with an A in-universe.
Anyway, Rook is not the same Synthetic as Ash in Alien. He's just the same model, at least visually.
Ash and Rook both specialize as Science Officers, it seems likely that they are both the same models, Rook might still be in use as his model was good at it's job, likely moreso when not needing to pretend to be human or empathetic, and perhapse seen by the company as fairly reliable given he was still in use around a decade or more after Ash.
Looking forwards to seeing more of Andy too and any new synthetics that join in for later movies, perhapse next time we'll see another Bishop or some Working Joes like in Isolation
The offspring creature in that last part was just so creepy and the birth scene was horrific. Proper sci fi horror. I loved this film when I first saw it.
21:46 Calvin says "thynsetic" lmao
I loved this movie. I’m personally more of an Alien fan than an Aliens fan although they’re both fantastic movies obviously but give me a crew of people in space getting picked apart one by one while having very little hope of survival and I will enjoy that Alien movie 10 times out of 10. The Alien Human hybrid at the end was FOUL, so nice to see practical monster designs and not an over abundance of CGI *cough* Alien Covenant *cough*
The CGI and cinematics in this movie alone are worth the watch.
What made it so great was how much was actually practical.
When I saw the Hybrid that is shown at 48:08 in the theater, I muttered a quiet "what the fuck". Me, and the audience included, were amazed and disturbed when we first saw it.
Love the practical effects
49:10 no puppet its basketball player "Robert Bobroczkyi"
This was a good movie
29:25
Because there just wasn't enough Freudian imagery in the previous films.
It is still very light compared to H.R. Giger wished he could get away with.
Damn Yeah! XENOMORPHS in the house! Great reaction Wave Crew!
4:08 The xenomorph at the beginning is the same one from ALIEN. After Ripley "shot" it out of the Narcissus it was not dead and encased itself in resin to "hibernate". The whole opening scene shows a Weyland Yutani drone which locates the Xeno in the area where the Nostromo was destroyed. Hince the wreckage with the letters "ROMO". The Drone "wakes-up" gets the encased Xeno and take it to the Romulus-Remus research station. It is cut out of the "cocoon" and taken away. Later in the movie when this Xeno is shown in the lab you can see the grapple head projectile that Ripley shot still embedded in the body.
That negates Ripley's actions in the first movie- just why?
@@sreyangovender3404Not sure I follow. It doesn't negate anything Ripley did. At least according to the conversation between the director Fede Alvarez and Ridley Scott that is part of the DVD extras.
@@sreyangovender3404 Also if you freeze frame twice at the right spots you can see the Narcissus in the background as Ripley sails off to begin her 57-year nap.
12:33 aaaaand director confirmed that Bjorn got her pregnant even though they’re cousins. Either there really were just no options in their colony, or Bjorn didn’t give her a choice and Kay is just trying to preserve her cousin’s reputation. Or other reasons, none of which are pleasant.
That explains one of reasons why the offspring is as messed up as it is.
I was wondering, the energy there felt way too off when he sneaks up behind her.
It's never stated that they are related though. Sure Kay and Tyler are brother and sister but they could have different moms or dads and Bjorn could be from the side of the family that isn't blood related to Kay and only Tyler. Given that its a Ridley Scott movie though it is certainly possible they are related but unconfirmed. Could you link the source for the director saying they are.
@@roxtechs "The hybrid" looks that way because it was mutated by the black goo which was shown in Prometheus. If you recall, humans share most of their DNA with Engineers since we along with all life on Earth came from their genetic make-up which was probably made more dominant in the Offspring (Not a hybrid since all xenomorphs are technically Hybrids). The black goo is also a different variety and you could say a diluted and further mutated version since it was harvested from the already mutated facehuggers that were grown from cloned cells instead of the original pure source of the black goo that the Engineers created.
@@ACoffeeFan238 I just looked this up... Fede Álvarez, the director of the movie, confirmed that they ARE cousins. And from everything I'm seeing, there is blood-relation between them.
**"Sweet Home Alabama" INTENSIFIES!!!**
54:18 do these guys not know about Prometheus? Do they not realize that Prometheus is in the alien franchise?
They need to watch it. Prometheus is very underrated imo. Romulus is better and on par with the og but I love Prometheus as well.
They say at the beginning of the reaction all the alien movies they have seen. So no I'm thinking they have not
@ doesn’t matter whether they’re seen it or not, but the fact that they don’t even seem to acknowledge it.
I think the only issue with Rook's CGI is that it's always in a spotlight. I think if they kept it in the shadows, it'd hide the details better.
CAILEE AND ISABELA WERE SO GOOD IN THIS MOVIE!
One of the best movies in the alien franchise
I’d say it’s right behind Alien and Aliens as the best.
The creatures are bizarre and super creative
Was wondering what was taking you guys so long to finally react to this
34:35 The genome was sequenced correctly, it evolved into something that could escape it's environment. But it was killed when it did.
No, the Alien/human hybrid at the end is a real man in prosthetics, he’s a 7+ft basketball player, can’t think of his name right now though.That design was a great cross between Engineer, human & Alien.
25:04 I’m sorry but that scream always makes me laugh. It reminds me of the scream from home alone when the spider gets on his face
47:05 ahh yes, the beginning of the nightmare fuel
I watched none of the trailers and avoided everything to do with this movie so I could watch it without expectations. I had no idea about the cast or it's setting and just assumed it was a sequel to alien covenant. This movie was such a joy from start to finish though some of the reuse of lines from other movies did bug me a little.
It's as if the makers of alien and aliens had played alien isolation and then added prometheus in... in a good way.
Part of why I like Aliens Fireteam Elite too, mixes in a little bit of everything including stuff like Seegson and the Working Joes from Isolation, getting vengeance on Xenos and androids alike after running scared in Isolation is cathartic
48:04 Offspring moment also they should get the person who played offspring to offspring a Demogorgon
from 48:13 the looks of horrific disgust that spreads from Eric's face to the others is 1 of the best reactions to the Offspring yet!!
One of the things I appreciated about this film is that the Company's position wasn't just defaulted to _evil._ Apparently there have been problems with humans colonizing other planets. It's been a failure no matter where they go. So they were trying to upgrade the human race utilizing the xenomorph genome.
A second movie is already confirmed...Rayne and Andy returning
And thanks to this movie, Alien Isolation is getting a sequel too, fitting since the director has stated that Isolation was a big inspiration for Romulus
42:18 RWBY mentioooonnn!!
Why are people telling them about the basketball player as if they didn’t bring him up in the reaction?
This movie's director, Fede Alvarez pitched a potential co-directing job with Dan Trachtenberg who directed Prey for a future Alien vs Predator movie. It's a good time to be a fan of both series as we're getting 2 Predator movies in 2025. A sequel has been confirmed for this and the 20th Century CEO confirmed an AVP is happening. Disney is also sitting on an Alien vs Predator animated series and right now Marvel is putting out an Aliens vs Avengers series and it is FANTASTIC!
Y'all reaction to the human-hybrid makes me think we need a Substance reaction.
58:28 I saw Rook's(?) mouth moving out of sync from his dialogue as a byproduct of the fact that he's a broken synthetic and is malfunctioning so his motor functions aren't matching his audio
Thank you. So many people just say "God awful CGI" and ignore any reason behind it.
@@sandrosliskeagreed, in this instance, "Rook" looking uncanny and unnatural is perfect given the wrecked state he's in, that and it's not worth the effort to put on the full act when they can see his synthetic guts hanging out
Also greatly enjoyed the performance of both versions of Andy, really impressive and I really want to see more from them, especially if we see them in a sequel
Finally! Was waiting for you guys to get to this! I saw this in theaters with a friend, and the dozens of facehuggers triggered my arachnophobia so bad with all the legs, so was glad to have someone to cling to, haha! And I like that the movie payed homage to the entire franchise, even the parts people may not be a fan of.
The facehuggers were animatronic! They showed off some of them at comic con
Ok, did anyone else saw Ripley's escape vessel from Nastromo aboard this station? It was ejected from station when it crashes against the rings. Little cool detail.
1:08:30 Everything reminds me of Community...
the alien hybrid is in fact fully practical, they had a 7ft something basketball player in cosmetics.
The man could not have been more perfect for the role, seriously haunting
Eric you should've expected the movie to end with an airlock... every damn time
"Id fare better with a stick than without it" 😂
definitely should watch the series on the channel or at least the ones yall haven't seen. I would love a Prometheus reaction. Its a very devisive film but even if you hate it, Michael Fassbender CARRIES the prequels.
THIS MOVIE WAS SO GOOD!
all the actors in this film are in their mid 20s - early 30s so they're definitely not teens but yeah i think people even in their 20s looked a lot older (due to makeup/clothing/hairstyles, etc.) back then vs now because i used to think the og characters were old as hell but a lot of them were around my current age
My third favorite of the franchise after Alien & Aliens
You should watch the third one. As good as the first two in my opinion. Dark and melancholic masterpiece.
A great comment I saw about why the technology is so far behind, to waylan many of these people are expendable why give them super cool tech when they don't need it.
Also, Spacetravel is brutal on modern tech, high density silicon chips and stuff like LCDs are very vulnerable to radiation and power surges, not to mention their longevity is not up to the task of potentially decades of service
So we could legitimately see some more robust "oldschool" tech return in various forms specially designed to be brutally robust rather than slim and pretty, they would still preform far better than the oldschool tech thanks to some hardware and software improvements they could still benefit from, heck, even today super high capacity tape-drives still exist for archival storage when capacity and longevity matters far more than access speed, which, again would be good in a long-term spacecraft or device.
And... yeah, Cassette futurism is just cool too, not gunna lie, I love the look too, as much as the potential practicality of it
@@UNSCPILOT hehe reminds me of stargate where quiet often weaker human technology would win because the enemies were not used to non energy attacks and such hehe.