Alien Review

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Alien Romulus Review.
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00:50Um, right
00:52so
00:54Let's just
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00:59So I've seen alien romulus and it's pretty good pretty good. I think it's pretty good
01:03I actually think alien is back to form after
01:06Whatever the hell it's been for the last so many years. I mean, I like covenant i've said before but it's pretty good. Um,
01:13It's a really good setup
01:15And it actually establishes the characters pretty well fairly early on it makes you clear like this person you're not going to like
01:22So they're going to die. Yeah, like it kind of can be a bit cliche with characters. Do we find?
01:27It's not only cliche because you know, we know what the alien stereotypical crew is because we've had alien
01:34Like how well does it recreate that feeling of like the crew and they're isolated?
01:38Does it actually pretty well actually it's x I actually say
01:41The feeling of the crew pretty much matches the first one. I mean someone as I said, they're a bit cliche I feel like
01:48It has like the bad character like this person's not a nice person
01:51They're you know, they're going to die the alien didn't really have that
01:55Feel the first one like everyone was kind of like a grown-up person. That's why I feel like some of the characters a bit more
02:00cliche
02:01But um, I think they still serve a pretty good role in the form of you know, this is your crew
02:07This is the journey they're going to go through
02:09Um, I do think some of the
02:12scares in it were a bit cheap
02:14It kind of relies on jump scares a wee bit which alien had the past but there was always a good ball update
02:20And this one they're kind of it would just flash you the screen, you know, it's just loud sting. Uh,
02:26particularly towards the end
02:28But um, it still holds a pretty good horror atmosphere throughout it and it still has the classic aliens like horror
02:35Of uh, like when the facehuggers released, I don't know if you've seen the trailers or not, but um
02:40When the release is not just like oh, they're flying at your face and they're flying at the camera
02:44They're circling the characters, you know, they're just kind of like coming back to life
02:50um
02:51yeah, it's it's pretty scary like I don't think I
02:55Scared too often. I'd be horrible. It's not saying like a
02:59Like tough guy but um, you know, I actually find
03:03Especially the later half of them to be
03:05pretty scary and
03:07Especially but there's a certain reveal. I'm not quite spotting anything
03:09But um, there's a reveal later on that it really just it does that alien horror where it's really gross
03:16but also like it's so
03:18outside of like
03:20What you expect horror norms. Uh, like it's it's hard to describe because alien is such a unique
03:26I can't franchise an atmosphere. Yeah
03:28Um, I do think it can be a bit predictable at times
03:32but I think it just comes out horror films these days and just films in general, you know, we've
03:36There's so many it's such like a
03:39Overpolluted genre now, especially horror so much. I mean shutter has its own platform just for horror films like
03:46um
03:48As I said, it can be predictable, but you know, I don't think that's really a negative
03:52I mean when the alien come out like the 70s, you know, you're gonna have to pull off a formula somewhere
03:58Um, what I should say, um
04:02Don't worry i'll cut around this
04:06Um
04:08Is there like a clear crew hierarchy as a clear who like they're rupley characters
04:12I we all
04:14Like in the original obviously it took a while for you to realize rupley's the main character
04:17But from the get-go, you know who the main characters are
04:19There's two main characters and they're actually pretty decent actors as well
04:24They're not just there to be scared and run away from terrifying creatures to actually
04:30establish people who establish goals
04:32I mean
04:33the first one obviously was
04:35Uh rupley and the crew trying to first exterminate it or get rid of it
04:39And or and then there's roughly trying to get away this one that has you know, they're there for something
04:44They encounter alien for a reason. They're not there
04:47Just because it happens upon them like they're there because they want to gain someone so they can have a better life
04:53So there's stakes and ways of like they can't have to be there
04:57But there's also stakes because they have the face
04:59So this was almost a plan by alien and aliens where they know that there's a threat
05:03So it's not like a completely like unknown factor like in order. It's dangerous. That's actually a good point. Um
05:09It's it would say it starts off pretty strong
05:12like alien and then it kind of
05:15Lends in the aliens a bit more I wouldn't say it gets action-y at all
05:19But it definitely has that kind of atmosphere about it
05:22And it established it again that the alien is intelligent
05:25I feel like in previous ones they kind of got away with it
05:27Like there's just an animalistic creature based on some of the the sequels. Mm-hmm
05:31Like it was just not the main character and try and kill him. Yeah
05:35um
05:36Kind of a slight spoiler. I don't think it ruins the volume or anything, but there's a scene where
05:41They have a gun and it's not because they're going to shoot it
05:44They just know that if they hold the gun, maybe it's not going to come straight at them
05:47Yeah, they'll try and find another way to get them. So they bring back the aliens. They're actually intelligent
05:54Um
05:55That's what made it so scary in the first place because it's not just like a dumb animal
06:00It's like this thing is going to hunt you and it's going to play with its food. Yeah, like it's not it's not just out there
06:04They kill things. Yeah, it's out there. They it almost has fun on them
06:08Oh, not quite than like the you know predator way. Uh, but definitely similar like it's
06:12it's a threat, uh, this one devi harkens back and it's
06:16It's has it's going to let I think it's going to lend to the franchise they go actually somewhere good now, you know, it's gonna
06:23And it doesn't mess with the lore as much as the rest of them. It's just an isolated story. There's no big grander plot
06:30Like it's just this crew and I think that's what aliens should be doing. That's what predators been doing
06:34Well, that's what it did. We pray
06:36You know, it's just an isolated story with this
06:39Really good design of a monster. We already know what's going to happen
06:42But you can still make a fantastic movie about it, you don't need to
06:45It's not reinventing the wheel. No, you just do well. It does have callbacks the previous phones, but it's not, you know
06:52Essential to the plot. They um, they're not pointing wagging a finger like look, you know this
06:58I mean, there's one line of followers where they pretty much look at the camera go mind that and you're like
07:03Like a tattoo you're gonna get yeah
07:05But overall I thought it was a really good film. I recommend horror fans to see it and alien fans
07:10definitely, especially after
07:13the last few years of
07:14You think we're well out of that sort of the waters of prometheus and covenant the sort of talkies of alien movies
07:21Yeah, I mean I like those phones. Well, this is definitely getting back to uh form, you know
07:27It's it seems like it's setting up a format for future forms
07:30And hope they actually balled off that because there's so much to do here like alien such a unique
07:35Franchise and design and atmosphere that you could do so much with like for years
07:39Not to the point where you know, you could think of it though
07:43I see the whole set this thing i'm really curious because I know the director fetty felvert
07:46Really wanted they like recreate that 70s alien
07:51Feel on the spaceship
07:52Is it like proper like you couldn't tell the difference or is there?
07:57um, it definitely has
07:59It's not I wouldn't say its own spin on on it. It definitely has that old like, you know
08:05Alien feel old new tech. Uh, it's but it has a wee bit more modernization. I would say. All right. Um
08:12But not so much where it's a different thing
08:15It still feels like alien alien franchise the you know, the cold and you know spaces and this glamorous thing
08:21It's not like star wars or star trek. It's dirty. This is industrialized
08:25Everything's done between margins like it looks cheap. Yeah, this isn't because of
08:30Prometheus and covenant. It's all very generic like future tech stuff. It's just kind of boring. Yeah, definitely
08:37uh, the same thing's good and the alien itself design
08:41is
08:42brilliant, I mean
08:43It's just talking back to the older stuff
08:46but uh, what I liked about is that I always there's a weird thing about when once the
08:51Chess version comes out, you know, it kind of just screws off
08:53This one actually shows what it does during that period like like they choose how you
08:58Grows. Oh and not just you know, like alien. Are you gonna say just weak to anything? It's gross
09:03um
09:05And they yeah
09:08Shit um scene scene clap
09:14um
09:16Point that the camera so I give this movie a eight
09:18Oh
09:20Gets the dairy journal silo approval good
09:24Um post what I say about that really much um
09:31We'll just end up we'll just do a wee overall, uh, let's do a wee final thoughts final thoughts
09:39Right
09:40But uh, yeah overall I would recommend the film the horror fans and alien fans. It's it's brilliant
09:46It's really good apart from the cheap john scares and kind of cliche characters, you know, it's a good film
09:50I loved it from start to end. It's just the best movie this year up until now the best one i've seen 100
09:56Definitely, although I haven't seen a whole lot this year. I mean a lot of films that come out this year are very
10:01I mean recently we've had borderlands
10:04Refugee horror play so no, but I go see alien
10:08See alien see alien
10:11See it. I see dead people. I see dead people
10:15Yes
10:20It's all about 10 minutes should be I mean the length doesn't matter