Alien Romulus - Blog Posts
Bro I just watched the new Alien...it was a 10/10 movie but bro just no...my everything hurt my chest my head that was horrifying
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I saw Alien Romulus last night.
I saw it with my boyfriend (twas a date). While it's not my kinda genre I still really liked it from a production standpoint. Personally I think it's better than most non-animated movies that have come in the past few years.
I think it fits cohesively with the already given story of the first and second Alien movies as, timeline wise, it falls between the two. I also love that it starts off in a peaceful way and then later on that's when shit hits the fan.
This is a good quality movie. Am I a fan of horror? No. Was I scared shitless by the end? Yes. 10/10 I would recommend.
Spoilers below the cut. You have been warned.
So on a different not this movie played with a few of my fears actually.
1. Birth/pregnancy
2. Weird lanky freak monsters that are human but also not
No the birth is not in reference to the chest bursters. There is an actual baby born and it's kinda fucked out how it comes out cause it's graphic. Made me feel queezy.
NOW the thing that really fucked me up was the hybrid bady! That thing grew up so fast and ended up looking like my worst fear! I absolutely dread and fear that one day I'll roll over in my sleep, open my eyes and see something like that in the room with me or right in my face and that scares the hell out of me. I actually cried on the way home thinking about it it shook me up that bad. What was funny was that thing was in the background of a scene in some stairs, sneaking up and the theater was really quite and I was the only one who audibly said "Ew". I had my eyes closed for most of the scenes with this monster.
xenomorph stuffs for a roleplay :)
I just watched Alien : Romulus in theatres, and I think Fede Alvarez now owes me therapy.
romulus is uniquely painful bc it's the only crew where they're all family and friends outside of the one job they're assigned to do. so they can't abandon each other in cargo holds like one might to a colleague they just met on a random research assignment or shipping trip. instead they're all gripping hands through industrial doors and bumping foreheads and intensely eyeing each other and literally begging on their knees for their crewmates' lives even though they're all fated to die.
the only reason why they encountered the alien was because they were all searching for a better life together. the only reason they couldn't escape the alien was because bjorn refused to leave navarro behind despite knowing the inevitability of everyone's death. tyler and rain almost didn't make it out of the room full of facehuggers because tyler answered kay's call to help her escape the xenomorph from another part of the ship. and the reason he didn't make it out of the nest is because he went back for kay. everyone dies for someone else. sick and twisted
Without getting into spoiler territory-
Alien Romulus is fantastic. A wonderful homage to each film in the series, while somehow also managing to change things up and remain fresh. (Well, a lot of that freshness comes from how it takes certain ideas from the past and improves upon them)
My only real critque is the reuse of a few lines from previous films (seriously, just write your own dialogue) one of which got an eye roll out of me.
All in all, I really loved this film
(Fede Alvarez should direct a Doom movie)
There isn’t even any shame left. Only yearning to be held gently by big monster.
Lineart only below
ALIEN: ROMULUS
happy with how the xenomorph turned not, not so much with andy and raine :(
Some xeno sketchez
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