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Alien: Romulus is too good to be scary (blenderdumbass.org)
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[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 12 hours ago

I enjoyed it, but it certainly isn't too good for anything.

It's a fun romp, albeit somewhat typical. Screenplay is decent, but filled with a bit too much forced fan service. The world building is fantastic, though, and pretty much worth the price of admission itself.

The deepfake version of Ian Holm is pretty egregious. Given that they developed a puppet, and that the character was meant to be a broken android anyway (not a spoiler), I do wonder why they didn't just lean in to the weird face of a puppet. Why are his movements weird and mechanistic? Because it's a broken android. That may have aged better than the deepfake.

But overall, worth a watch, which is at least more than can be said for other series outings.

[–] keyez@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

It's been years since I've seen the Alien films so didn't remember enough to notice the callbacks. Watching it as a horror movie in the Alien universe it was very solid and had some really good set pieces.

[–] demesisx@infosec.pub 10 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

I liked it a LOT more than I expected to. It didn’t really scare me. Nothing does, though. But it was really fun and stayed fairly exciting throughout. I’m a SUPER harsh critic too. I give it 7.5/10.

[–] dditty@lemm.ee 8 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

It's definitely the best of the franchise since Alien and Aliens. I went into it with low expectations and it exceeded them. That they included fake CGI Ian Holm I thought was really bad though. And the movie was still very formulaic.

[–] demesisx@infosec.pub 4 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

I mean, if you’re going to use AI to create something, what better application is there for it than someone that is already an android/uncanny valley territory?

Definitely formulaic and contrived. But honestly, there aren’t that many new, unique stories to tell. Most plots are the same archetypes anyway.

[–] JizzmasterD@lemmy.ca 14 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

lol. Not the target audience for this one, but this film was not « too good » to be scary. It was ambitious and adventurous. At best, as the author says in his own summary «…Alien: Romulus is kind of good. »

[–] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago

if romulus was too good to be scary what does that make Alien or Aliens? such a weird take.

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 8 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (2 children)

Falls apart by the third act. The CGI android callback was unnecessary and eyeroll inducing. They could’ve simply introduced a third android model.

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 6 points 14 hours ago

100% accurate. They did Ian Holm so dirty. And they got too into fan pleasing Easter egg bits. I still enjoyed it, but it could have been much better. It started off really strong. The acid blood in zero G was an incredible addition to the franchise.

[–] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago

they should have made it c3po and started the alien-predator-star wars multiverse.

[–] Uschteinheim@lemmy.world 8 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

The film was mediocre at best, a rehash of the previous episodes into one last recap. Kids is space. "There's sumtingdawotta....Aaaagh!". End of film. Boring and stupid.

[–] warm@kbin.earth 6 points 15 hours ago

That's exactly the problem with these reboots of finished franchises. I get that they just want to use the name for marketing, but at least make something new and interesting, instead they just become filled with tropes. We have seen the facehuggers, the xenomorphs, etc loads now, come up with something new and focus on that. Which then brings us to the point that it might as well be a new franchise altogether instead of rehashing old ones.

[–] shoulderoforion@fedia.io 4 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

woof, i thought romulus was shit on a cracker

[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 5 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I mean it was not exactly bad but just sorta a rehash, ugh but the lengths it went to setup the mcguffin.

[–] shoulderoforion@fedia.io 1 points 15 hours ago

yeah, no, there was some cool looking scifi, but overall it was terrible, just one guys opinion

[–] lemmyng@lemmy.ca 5 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Wayland Utani?? Was this written or transcribed by AI?