*BEWARE SPOILERS* Alien: Romulus

[Rotfish]

Can't say I noticed a difference on my physical watch a few weeks back. Then again, that was several months after my theater watch. Hard to tell without comparing the two side by side.

 

[Khev]

Huh, I didn't realize they had done this. Does the Ian Holm FX look any better on streaming? Apparently they reverted back more to the puppet.

https://www.empireonline.com/movies/news/alien-romulus-fixed-ian-holm-cgi-home-release/

I've watched it twice on disc and didn't realize that the effects were updated, so I'm guessing anyone that hated it before will feel largely the same.

I *did* think he looked better than I remembered, but assumed it was because I was viewing it on a smaller screen.

EDIT: They did include a deleted scene that showed the Rook animatronic with no CGI at all and I actually wish they had gone that route for the entire film. No it didn't look "real" but it still fit the aesthetic better than what we got IMO.

 

[choombaz]

Another thing, one of my very favorite scenes out of all the Nightmare on Elm Street films is in the second one where the one kid is trapped in his own bedroom as Freddy is being "birthed" out of the main character just a few feet away. The kid's all freaking out and trying to open the door while his parents are frantically trying to do the same on the other side. That scene just always hit me as being extra freaky due to how prolonged it was with Freddy not rushing at all and just being all nonchalant as he came into being while the kid could do absolutely nothing to escape.

I love that scene and film. Was my very first horror film at the cinema and really freaked me out.

holy **** wtf is that?

That’s Robert Picardo by way of Rob Bottin from Total Recall. Intentionally cheesy.

That's pretty cool, I hope they put that on the streaming platforms as well.

It should be, Disney put up extra money for Alvarez to make the additional changes for home video.

 

[Khev]

It should be, Disney put up extra money for Alvarez to make the additional changes for home video.

And yet would NOT pay the royalty fee to IMAX for the full aspect ratio on disc.

 

[Rotfish]

And yet would NOT pay the royalty fee to IMAX for the full aspect ratio on disc.

To be fair, how often do we get IMAX ratios on the physical release?

 

[jye4ever]

To be fair, how often do we get IMAX ratios on the physical release?

Doesn’t make it right though.

Cheap *** Disney.

 

[T8OO]

To be fair, how often do we get IMAX ratios on the physical release?

Especially full 70mm IMAX ratio of 1.43:1. Is BvS remastered the only one?

 

[Khev]

To be fair, how often do we get IMAX ratios on the physical release?

Often enough to be annoying as hell when they don't, especially for films like Romulus where IMAX was used for the entire film and didn't alternate aspect ratios from scene to scene (like Top Gun: Maverick and Oppenheimer which *did* provide IMAX formatting on disc).

 

[Wor-Gar]

why did they "fix" Ash... uh, Rook?

 

[JAWS]

But most importantly, I really hated the connections to the prometheus movies. I don't like what Scott did with those, I don't like the black goo, I don't like the connections between the engineers and the aliens, and I kind of hate that this is going to be a major focus of the franchise moving forward apparently.

I would have preferred they steer clear of that junk and just focus on the aliens. Oh well.

Nothing in Romulus requires you to pretend that those films are canon though.

Well since Romulus is not canon either.

I said this a few pages back but It’s more a sequel to Covenant than it is to Alien. And its ideas and call backs are more related to the Prequel films. Which makes the film much better. Imagine it was David and not Ash. So much better and fitting.

my original, insightful, and brilliant thoughts here

So I finally watched this again last night. I did not hate it as much as the first time.

I think its a better Prometheus / Covenant sequel then an Alien Prequel and fits much better in that Universe then the ALIEN Universe (Yes they are different Universes to me)

In fact I am about 100% sure this was Ridley's idea for the 3rd David movie.

It would have been David's ship that was discovered with some of the passengers not scientist that would be stuck in the walls, and it would have been David not Ash that they found.

The Film title even mentions the ship like the other two Prequel films

I would have much preferred all that to what we got. No dumb Ash F/X, no callbacks to the original films, the dumb creature at the end is more acceptable and maybe the cast could have been a bit more mature and likable.

 

[Khev]

Well since Romulus is not canon either.

If you don't include it in your head canon that's fine with me.

I said this a few pages back but It’s more a sequel to Covenant than it is to Alien. And its ideas and call backs are more related to the Prequel films. Which makes the film much better. Imagine it was David and not Ash. So much better and fitting.

my original, insightful, and brilliant thoughts here

Yeah I read your thoughts the first time and...definitely don't agree.

 

[Wor-Gar]

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[ironwez20]

I’m glad this movie did do well with everyone that we are still talking about it.

 

[JAWS]

If you don't include it in your head canon that's fine with me.

You will come around one day.

Yeah I read your thoughts the first time and...definitely don't agree.

The repost was more for karmazov

Having said that

Nothing in Romulus requires you to pretend that those films are canon though.

Accept black goo, the company trying to find ways to cheat death with said black goo, and freaking Engineer baby

Anyways, just curios Khev

You don’t agree that it makes a better sequel to covenant or that it was that it was not originally a bunch of ideas Ridley had for the 3rd part of that series

Because if you take that opening, exchange ash for David, and the scientist for the crew at the end of Covenant, you pretty much have a direct sequel to the Prequel films.

I’m 100% certain they just threw the Nostromo, big chap, and Ash in the film just so they could say it was not a direct sequel to Covenant.

I mean ultimately it’s all our own head cannon but boy all the pieces are there for this to just be a follow up to Covenant and IMO, would have been a much better movie if it just did that instead of all the memberberries. David for Ash alone would have improved the film greatly.


Of course it would have been another box office bomb