Alien 6 for Hulu

[Zulithe]

I am going to see it this weekend. Haven't decided on Friday or Sunday yet. Avoiding all spoilers for now.

The popcorn buckets and cups they rolled out to theaters for this are wild though.

[Coola Yagami]

So is this all prequel stuff or how does Ripley even fit into the plot anymore?

[Mayhem]

Originally Posted by Coola Yagami

So is this all prequel stuff or how does Ripley even fit into the plot anymore?

It's set between Alien and Aliens.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by Coola Yagami

So is this all prequel stuff or how does Ripley even fit into the plot anymore?

Ripley hasn't fit into the plot of any Alien movies for almost 30 years. This is an between-quel. Ripley technically sets the plot in this movie in motion by ejecting the Alien Drone from the Narcissus at the end of Alien 1 but spends this movie floating in space asleep, only halfway through her 50+ year journey to Aliens.

Originally Posted by neatoman

Spoiler:

It's not really explained either, though we do get a new stage in the life cycle in this movie, the chestburster is shown to create a cocoon in order to mature into an adult. Maybe it's related to that?

Spoiler:

Huh, OK. I guess that would make sense, especially if they're in the vacuum of space. I guess that means the Alien Queen Ripley ejected from the Nostromo in Aliens is floating around the same star system, encased in something similar.

[Andrew NDB]

Aw man... how stupid...

Spoiler:

they literally bring back the "get away from her you B*TCH!" line as a callback. So, so stupid. This is even worse than the callbacks to the lines of Predator in Predators. This is next level stupid. And now if you watch the Aliens movies in order, a newb will be like, "How dumb of Ripley, copying that line from Romulus!"

[CyberCubed]

I'll have to wait till this comes out on the streaming websites in HD. I actually spent money on theaters to watch Deadpool/Wolverine, so I used up my "quota" for the year of paying real money to watch a movie. I haven't purchased a movie ticket in so long I forgot what it was like, didn't buy any of the overpriced popcorn or snacks either. So I watched my one movie in theaters this year.

Everything else I can wait a month to watch on the illegal streaming websites in HD. At this point things come out in like a month or less now. Saves me both time and money. Especially since movies like this may not even be good.

[Coola Yagami]

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

I'll have to wait till this comes out on the streaming websites in HD. I actually spent money on theaters to watch Deadpool/Wolverine, so I used up my "quota" for the year of paying real money to watch a movie. I haven't purchased a movie ticket in so long I forgot what it was like, didn't buy any of the overpriced popcorn or snacks either. So I watched my one movie in theaters this year.

Everything else I can wait a month to watch on the illegal streaming websites in HD. At this point things come out in like a month or less now. Saves me both time and money. Especially since movies like this may not even be good.

Never change Cubed. Never change.

[Andrew NDB]

This was the review I posted to my wall:

Alien: Romulus. Hmm... I'm not sure. It was well made and the characters were well cast, distinctive, even memorable and the story itself was straight forward and clear, which already right there gives it more going for it than maybe any Alien movie since Aliens. The problem is that it's as much a "greatest hits" for the little moments cherry-picked from all the movies so far as it is a "greatest hits" of the stuff that most would agree is the worst moments/biggest mistakes of them. I could rattle off a bunch, but the biggest one: remember how in AVP and Covenant everyone was up in arms at how ridiculously fast the Aliens grew? Well, this has them beat and boy, by far.

I think largely this is Ridley and his notes using Fede Alvarez as the horse to ride back into Fox with to complete whatever he was doing with those last two Alien prequels he never got to make (you know, if this ends up being a money maker). In some fashion. The ones that Prometheus 2 killed when it morphed into Alien: Covenant and underperformed, which, ironically, was itself also a big "greatest hits" of the Alien movies. "People didn't like the clean, sterile and advanced Prometheus ship? Here's a dingy, retro-future 70s ship again, the Covenant! People want everyday people and not scientists? Here are some grubby colonists! You want the original Alien and facehuggers running around? Here you go!" and so on.

I actually enjoyed it, I just think a lot of the really, really stupid callbacks and "homage" shots replicated from the other Alien movies really hurt it, especially if you ever tried to sneak this in between Alien and Aliens in any marathon run and most especially if you ever did so with someone who has never seen the movies before.

The sequels I'd like to see at this point:

* Just let Ridley do it. Do the big Prometheus 2 we were promised and never got. Let's see the REAL Engineer homeworld and get to know the real Alien origins. And somehow whatever David is up to with those colonists on the planet he went to with them could come into play.

* If not the Blomkamp movie, then a Blomkamp-like movie with better writers attached.

* If we could put aside our probably shared dislike of Alien: Resurrection, an Alien: Resurrection sequel with Ripley-8 feeling a call to the Alien homeworld (no, I don't buy that David created the first Aliens or anything) or something would make a lot of sense. While Sigourney Weaver is still remotely up to the task. And more Engineer stuff could come into play.

* Anything but another: "experiments/accident/blah blah, Aliens on a new ship or station or enclosed area and everyone gets whittled down to 1 or 2 people," etc..

[Andrew NDB]

So it looks like Romulus did what it needed to do. By the time it's over it will have gotten about as much money as Prometheus and over the same period, but at almost half the cost of Prometheus. And Prometheus was considered a modest success (though technically speaking is the highest grossing Alien movie ever).

So yeah. Either Fede gets a part 2 or Ridley gets to continue his prequels. Something is going to happen now for sure.

[TigerClaw]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

So it looks like Romulus did what it needed to do. By the time it's over it will have gotten about as much money as Prometheus and over the same period, but at almost half the cost of Prometheus. And Prometheus was considered a modest success (though technically speaking is the highest grossing Alien movie ever).

So yeah. Either Fede gets a part 2 or Ridley gets to continue his prequels. Something is going to happen now for sure.

There is still that Alien TV show that's coming out, It takes place way before Prometheus.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by TigerClaw

There is still that Alien TV show that's coming out, It takes place way before Prometheus.

Not "way before Prometheus." It takes place one year before it and then alongside it.

[neatoman]

I recently found out that Cameron intended for the androids to be constructed by Cyberdyne but it was changed for copyright reasons.

Can you imagine though? The Terminator movies constant time travel nonsense finally succeeds in preventing the robot apocalypse and the need for time travel, but then the robots end up being used to bring aliens to earth that are a far worse can of worms than Skynet ever could have been?

[Andrew NDB]

Ridley Scott snuck some Blade Runner references into Prometheus, so there's that. And if you do that, then you get SOLDIER, too. I don't know that it's too much of a stretch to tie the Avatar movies into them, either.

[Andrew NDB]

So Romulus looks like it's wrapping up its run as the second highest grossing Alien movie, second only to Prometheus, and that's both domestically and internationally. And domestically it is only the second Alien movie after Prometheus to crack 100 million.

Also, by comparison, Alien: Romulus has done way better than any Predator movie. And it's not even close.

[Andrew NDB]

Yeah...

https://www.ign.com/articles/ridley-...ew-alien-movie

[Andrew NDB]

They fixed the CGI on Rook for home release. Apparently.

https://www.darkhorizons.com/alien-r...-post-release/