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Post by Banjo Is Broken on Aug 16, 2024 3:27:07 GMT -5
This movie is taking all of Borderlands percentages. Very not nice at all. Stupid aliens
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Post by brackus on Aug 16, 2024 8:29:09 GMT -5
This is the "Force Awakens" of the Alien-Franchise: Memberberries, references and easter-eggs galore. Fede Alvarez basicly recycled his set-up from "Don´t breathe": : A gang of young people raid an seemingly old, abandoned place which is still contain danger. Lots of stuff to nitpick in it. the ending is the same as i n Resurrection and Covenant. Instead of space truckers, colonia marines and prison monk we now have a "Scooby-Doo gang". First half dragged, second half had it´s moments. Visually the movie is great. Overall a mixed bag. NOWEHERE nea as goiod als Alien & Laiens. Would rank it below Covenant. Maybe on the same level as Resurrection and AVP2. Better than Alien³, AVP1 and Prometheus.
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Post by MiLB Fan on Aug 16, 2024 11:57:04 GMT -5
Getting ready to see it in AMC’s special Dolby theater. And I got a free pin!
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Post by Timeless Hayterade on Aug 16, 2024 15:26:08 GMT -5
If this one's called Romulus, will the next one be called Remus?
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Post by Natural Born Farmer on Aug 16, 2024 18:13:41 GMT -5
Cromulus
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Post by mystermystery on Aug 17, 2024 21:31:18 GMT -5
If this one's called Romulus, will the next one be called Remus? I hope. And I hope it's going concurrently to this one. {Spoiler}And I hope it's a crew constantly being like "Guys, did the countdown just shift dramatically for seemingly no reason?"
"Hey, was there an explosion? Why would there be an explosion?"
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Aug 18, 2024 1:29:42 GMT -5
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Post by mystermystery on Aug 18, 2024 8:37:25 GMT -5
I will say one thing about some of the complaints about the film, and it may just be my confusion on how people are stating their problems.
But: There has to be a difference between "Easter Eggs" and just "Working a story into the established canon."
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Post by brackus on Aug 18, 2024 8:47:36 GMT -5
I will say one thing about some of the complaints about the film, and it may just be my confusion on how people are stating their problems. But: There has to be a difference between "Easter Eggs" and just "Working a story into the established canon." Yes, but having a characters using the {Spoiler}"get away from her, you bitch" or "can´t lie about our chances"-lines or name droppign the "colonial marines" for no reason has nothing to do with "respecting the canon / lore" and is just blatant fan-service.
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Post by mystermystery on Aug 18, 2024 10:53:44 GMT -5
I will say one thing about some of the complaints about the film, and it may just be my confusion on how people are stating their problems. But: There has to be a difference between "Easter Eggs" and just "Working a story into the established canon." Yes, but having a characters using the {Spoiler}{Spoiler}"get away from her, you bitch" or "can´t lie about our chances"-lines or name droppign the "colonial marines" for no reason has nothing to do with "respecting the canon / lore" and is just blatant fan-service. {Spoiler}Dialogue stuff, sure. My theater chuckled at the blatantness of the "get away from her" moment and I swear the actor was playing it as if the android was confused why he felt compelled to say it. "Can't lie about our chances" honestly didn't register for me (whoops?).
I don't see a problem referencing Colonial Marines in a universe where they exist and the big brother character is obviously wishing he could go sign up since his character is using hand signals and spitting facts that had to be researched instead of stumbled upon. Look under this guy's bed and it's all SPACE SOLDIER OF FORTUNE magazines. Perhaps they could've developed characters more if we didn't need an Alien Isolation 2 speedrun at the end of the movie.
My point is mostly based on people being like "Ugh, they referenced PROMETHUS?!" when the character they mention allowed this story to exist in the timeline through his efforts. Replicated black goo being mismanaged by Weyland scientists allowing for a giant Blue Guy Alien that signals that the process could easily lead to Alien Resurrection centuries later. It's not all Easter Eggs. It's taking established pieces in the canon and fitting them like a puzzle piece into the story at hand.
Although, I will admit at first I was trying to see if the last alien looked like someone from the mining planet since the girl pulled the "I don't know the daddy" card earlier in the film.
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Post by Banjo Is Broken on Aug 19, 2024 1:14:15 GMT -5
I bet all the easter eggs are fun. Just don't be around when they open up.
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Post by mystermystery on Aug 22, 2024 21:10:48 GMT -5
So, on Reddit, Fede Alvarez confirmed the father of the baby. {Spoiler}Bjorn, the anti-android guy, who is also Kay's cousin. I'm going to guess Navarro didn't know.
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Post by Ryback on a Pole! on Aug 22, 2024 22:53:12 GMT -5
I saw it yesterday. It was good, but half an hour too long. I started getting bored and restless after they left the initial ship and there was still more to go.
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Post by Glitch on Aug 24, 2024 6:28:42 GMT -5
I saw it on opening day and the theater room playing it was completely dark before starting. Pitch black screen playing nothing (I had to use my phone to see). I almost wondered if I was supposed to be in there. lol As for the movie itself, I would say it was decent. Not as good as I was expecting but acceptable. Would have been better off if they had cut out all the nostalgia bait. {Spoiler}{SPOILER: CLICK TO SHOW}The pregnancy angle felt completely unnecessary. It just felt like it was dragging the story down and having characters do extra things for no reason. I did like the use of the pulse rifle though. Using zero gravity to their advantage. Despite how I didn't like the black goo from prometheus, they surprisingly made good use of it here. As in there was a more concrete reason for Weyland Yutani wanting the xenomorphs besides the vague answer of "military applications".
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Post by Scoops on Aug 25, 2024 23:33:28 GMT -5
I saw this with my brother and girlfriend. I have some knowledge of the Alien franchise (Saw Prometheus only and love Alien Isolation) so I can't speak for how much this copies those movies but as it's own movie I just found it okay. I agree with RLM that the first 30 minutes were the best but I felt they exaggerated how prominent Rook was in this. They made it sound like he completely took over for the one android but he had maybe 15 minutes of screen time, and was just a head on a monitor for a lot of that time.
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Post by Legion on Aug 26, 2024 11:46:05 GMT -5
So, on Reddit, Fede Alvarez confirmed the father of the baby. {Spoiler}{Spoiler}Bjorn, the anti-android guy, who is also Kay's cousin. I'm going to guess Navarro didn't know. Yeah, I thought they made that pretty obvious right before the acid vagina.
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