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Alien: Romulus

An excellent and worthy installation of the franchise. I loved it. Great color scheme.

3.5" floppy drives, CRT monitors, and oldschool 80s Reebok shoes.... in space! That's the only thing that I didn't particularly care for. It obviously matches the aesthetic of the original movie props from that era, but I really prefer the more realistic looking future technology from the prequels. It just feels a bit weird to have both in this movie. I had the same complaint about the movie Life (2017).

One small disappointment was that it doesn't really progress the overall story arc of the entire series. It's just another Alien movie. Not necessarily a bad thing, I was just hoping for a bit more of the lore that I was drooling over from the prequels.


~autism section below~

I wish I didn't always hyperfocus about stuff like this in scifi movies, but this is me bitching about random small things and minor plot holes (contains significant spoilers):

How the fuck did nobody except for a few slave-like colonists know that Romulus, such a large and important vessel, was 200 miles away from the colony planet? How did the Weyland corporation know nothing about it's whereabouts and that it was about to crash into one of their mining operations? Giant spaceships don't have space GPS? They never activated a distress beacon?????? Space colonies don't have space radar? That part made absolutely no fucking sense! In Prometheus they had the ability to scan biospheres which were lightyears away with high degrees of accuracy, but 100 years later they can't see a giant ship 200 miles away from a corpo planet?

Andy offering Kay the Z-01 seemed to go against his new directive...? That's Weyland property! Shouldn't he have known it also killed the rat after reviving it? It explains his knowledge database wasn't updated, but he should have seen it in the lab, it was right there next to the screen... and an android should know that 25% genome shared with rats doesn't mean shit.

The broken half-melted android was a much newer model and shouldn't have had the "creative ego" defect that David had from Prometheus, which would give him cause to give it to a human.

Why didn't the xenomorph acid melt through the top of the elevator which plugged the decompression after Andy killed the xeno?

Also, how would a relatively small mining haul cargo ship have the power to make a 9 year journey to another system? You're telling me cryopods are heavily controlled, but that ship isn't? Whatever, it's the future.

One last thing, is there going to be a strong female lead in every single movie? Are they never going to deviate from that? The series if famous for that, but does it need to be every movie? If it ain't broke, don't fix it, I guess. I'm not going on a woke rant, just an observation about the series.
 
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The movie, Teachers, free on Internet Archives. Great cast and hilarious, but very overly dramatic at times.

However great scene after great scene.
Yeah, it had a message, and seeing decades after it came out compared to years after(1984) I can really appreciate the effort, the humor and perfectly cast.

Richard Mulligan was not super famous, Police Academy movies and others, but his character and the social satire surrounding his character in the movie is great. I almost like Nick Nolte now.
Great cast, and perfect for the roles after 4 decades it more than holds up. Ends with one of the best Bob Seger songs, during the very end and credits, perfect all around.

If your going to have a movie with a message, do it well, make it hilarious and Arthur Hillar does just that and it is one you can see many times and pick up on little things in the scenes. I also like that one character with a very small roll that was great was the school nurse.
Cast: Nick Nolte, Judd Hirsh, Joseph Williams, Ralph Macciho, Crispin Glover, Richard Mulligan( great), Laura Dean, Morgan Friedman, Steven Hill, others. But so we'll cast and done. More than holds up 4 decades later, great movie even though a tad melodramatic at times
 
mal3volent said:
That's an excellent analogy.
Spot on, probably why both are my favorites of their respective franchises.
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Your favorite isn’t Aliens? I thought everybody agreed the second film was the pinnacle. Not that Romulus was bad, I’d put it third behind the original film personally.
 
Silence (2016)

Watched this one a few years ago but rented again and it resonated with me more. About Portuguese Jesuits that were in Japan in the 1600s with the mission of converting them to Christianity. Directed by Scorsese and we all know he is a high artist of historical fiction.
 
alasdairm said:
i think the original alien is better than aliens.

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My wife is with you there. The first one is the only in the franchise she will watch after I sat her down and we binged the first four films.

It’s a tough decision but I think the influence of the novel Starship Troopers on the second film is what has always made it my favorite. And I wish that someone could finally capture that film well in a video game the way they did with the first film in Alien: Isolation.
 
The Place Beyond the Pines -
Great drama movie, cool, gritty, real. It's not sappy like I find most dramas to be, which is why it's probably my least favorite genre. It's also not ridiculous and plastic like a lot of crime/action thrillers. Feels like genuine leather, and that's why I liked it.

The Departed -
Probably the 5th time I've watched this movie. It is by far my favorite mafia movie. Most mafia movies get the coolness and machismo down, and that's always been the core of the genre. This movie introduces a heady intelligent plot. It's a thinking man's movie, and that's what sets it apart for me as my #1. On top of all that, there is not a single dull moment in this movie. As Bukowski would say, every line of a poem needs to have weight, bam, bam, bam, bam, like unloading a clip of a gun into your mind. Get to the point without the boring fluff.
 
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The Departed -
Probably the 5th time I've watched this movie. It is by far my favorite mafia movie. Most mafia movies get the coolness and machismo down, and that's always been the core of the genre. This movie introduces a heady intelligent plot. It's a thinking man's movie, and that's what sets it apart for me as my #1. On top of all that, there is not a single dull moment in this movie. As Bukowski would say, every line of a poem needs to have weight, bam, bam, bam, bam, like unloading a clip of a gun into your mind. Get to the point without the boring fluff.
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"I don't want to be a product of my environment. I want my environment to be a product of me."

Yeah, very classic film. Lots of homages to other films to include a Blade Runner street chase scene. The amount of homoerotic allusions and implications are astounding.
 
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