I do recommend Prey as a great movie in the same setting but different time period. I also Romulus as a well made Alien movie that doesn’t really do anything new but does hit the right notes for the franchise.
Romulus was cool imo, but not mind blowing. To me it was good enough to warrant more. Was it as good as 1 or 2? No. Was it better than everything else? Yes, because unlike every Alien sequel, it is not a few good scenes in a bad movie. For better or worse, it is consistent.
I actually had my internet down for like 10 days and only had a handful of movies available to me and no books as I had just moved and was still awaiting their arrival. I ended up watching Romulus three times. to me it is the perfect example of “swimming in sevens.” I had only a month prior marathoned all other Alien movies though, so maybe my brain was affected.
I cannot speak to the most recent 2 predator movies, but I liked Prey enough to watch it twice in a year. I think the same person did the John Goodman bunker movie, and I just think they are a competent person running the show for Predator stuff now.
The characters weren’t bad, I really liked the setting and how it managed to bind the original and Prometheus together. It’s a good Alien film and perhaps could’ve been even better, if they had just stuck with the horror tone instead of going full action in the third act. I got the feeling that the director/writer really wanted to blend the best parts of 1 and 2 into a single film.
Recently watched Romulus, like two weeks ago. Personally, I loved it, thought it was great.
I had also tried to watch Aliens (plural, the sequel) holy shit it is so trash. And yet it was considered a hall mark of the time. It takes over an hour for the aliens to show up, and in the meantime you have to deal with dumbfuck marines who are supposed to be the best of the best but are undisciplined fuckwits that make the term “crayon eater” sound like a compliment. Then they do show up, and the marines are just the biggest idiots. I cannot stress enough just how trash this supposed classic is. Also, probably a hot take, but Weaver is just a product of her time and heavily overrated.
I also watched AvP and AvP: Requiem, and both of those movies were a much more fun watch, though Requiem really does drop the ball with way too many dark shots, its a common complaint about the movie for a reason. There’s a lot of complaints about lack of character depth too, but my own response is who the hell cares when most are just going to wind up dead. I’m definitely not watching Alien or Predator movies to be enamored with the basic humans. And they’re all better than the trash Marines of Aliens.
Alright, let’s say it is true, lets just take your subjective experience as fact. Afterall, the crayon eating meme likely has its grounds in some truth, right. So lets say that is totally how they really act. It changes nothing in making the team in the movie an absolute cringe worthy cast to watch. I dunno, maybe the thought was that helps make you root for their death. But over an hour in and I was just sick of the movie, and couldn’t even get into them getting come-uppance. It was a genuinely frustrating movie to sit through.
Yeah, I’m pretty aware of the general trend, I did read up reviews and scores and all that. Like I said, people consider Aliens a hallmark, but it’s just… not. It’s terrible. And while AvP franchise is nothing great, more like very expensive B-movies, they were more entertaining than what James Cameron shat out as far as I’m concerned. They were fun. Aliens was a slog. I will die on that hill.
Those who have seen the recent releases of predator and alien movies, is it worth doing a marathon of them?
I mean Romulus, and the other time period predator movie, and this one.
I do recommend Prey as a great movie in the same setting but different time period. I also Romulus as a well made Alien movie that doesn’t really do anything new but does hit the right notes for the franchise.
Prey was also directed by Dan Trachtenberg.
+1 it is a solid movie.
Im definitely going to watch Prey. Lots of good feedback on that one
Its good, but predator 1 and 2 are better. Just to manage expectations.
very hard to beat the originals. but Prey was true to form and a worthy sequel.
Prey was pretty good.
absolutely.
Rom is probably the best Alien movie since Aliens.
Prey is EXCELLENT, as is Killer of Killers.
Alien and Predator having a resurgence right now in quality.
Which says fuck all, everything after Aliens was crap and so is Romulus.
Sorry you didn’t like it.
I enjoyed it. Nice setting, some nice work with gravity, good use of Facehuggers, cool uses of synths, great AV, very moody.
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The weird alien human hybrid at the end pushes the film to a level comparable to Prometheus or Alien Resurrection.
i understand that comparison, though i find how Rom handled that better than the others.
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the Prometheus line of movies are canon so I do enjoy this connective tissue.
I liked Prey a lot. A very basic plot summary
I havent followed the franchise tho. I watched this one bc it is disconnected from the other movies. The predator is not really the main story.
Prey was solid.
Romulus was cool imo, but not mind blowing. To me it was good enough to warrant more. Was it as good as 1 or 2? No. Was it better than everything else? Yes, because unlike every Alien sequel, it is not a few good scenes in a bad movie. For better or worse, it is consistent.
I actually had my internet down for like 10 days and only had a handful of movies available to me and no books as I had just moved and was still awaiting their arrival. I ended up watching Romulus three times. to me it is the perfect example of “swimming in sevens.” I had only a month prior marathoned all other Alien movies though, so maybe my brain was affected.
I cannot speak to the most recent 2 predator movies, but I liked Prey enough to watch it twice in a year. I think the same person did the John Goodman bunker movie, and I just think they are a competent person running the show for Predator stuff now.
I share your opinion of Romulus.
The characters weren’t bad, I really liked the setting and how it managed to bind the original and Prometheus together. It’s a good Alien film and perhaps could’ve been even better, if they had just stuck with the horror tone instead of going full action in the third act. I got the feeling that the director/writer really wanted to blend the best parts of 1 and 2 into a single film.
Very cool, thank you
Recently watched Romulus, like two weeks ago. Personally, I loved it, thought it was great.
I had also tried to watch Aliens (plural, the sequel) holy shit it is so trash. And yet it was considered a hall mark of the time. It takes over an hour for the aliens to show up, and in the meantime you have to deal with dumbfuck marines who are supposed to be the best of the best but are undisciplined fuckwits that make the term “crayon eater” sound like a compliment. Then they do show up, and the marines are just the biggest idiots. I cannot stress enough just how trash this supposed classic is. Also, probably a hot take, but Weaver is just a product of her time and heavily overrated.
I also watched AvP and AvP: Requiem, and both of those movies were a much more fun watch, though Requiem really does drop the ball with way too many dark shots, its a common complaint about the movie for a reason. There’s a lot of complaints about lack of character depth too, but my own response is who the hell cares when most are just going to wind up dead. I’m definitely not watching Alien or Predator movies to be enamored with the basic humans. And they’re all better than the trash Marines of Aliens.
Having hung out with Marines, the movie depiction may be too accurate…
Alright, let’s say it is true, lets just take your subjective experience as fact. Afterall, the crayon eating meme likely has its grounds in some truth, right. So lets say that is totally how they really act. It changes nothing in making the team in the movie an absolute cringe worthy cast to watch. I dunno, maybe the thought was that helps make you root for their death. But over an hour in and I was just sick of the movie, and couldn’t even get into them getting come-uppance. It was a genuinely frustrating movie to sit through.
Lol Aliens is a thing of it’s time.
Most people don’t like the AvP movies, so it’s interesting reading your point of view. Thank you!
Yeah, I’m pretty aware of the general trend, I did read up reviews and scores and all that. Like I said, people consider Aliens a hallmark, but it’s just… not. It’s terrible. And while AvP franchise is nothing great, more like very expensive B-movies, they were more entertaining than what James Cameron shat out as far as I’m concerned. They were fun. Aliens was a slog. I will die on that hill.
To each their own. I can respect that.