This is one series I’m surprised hasn’t been 4K’ed yet. I torrented the latest BD rip of Alien in 1080P a few years back to watch in protest, and unkowingly got the director’s cut 
The pacing is so fucked in that one. Why do we stop in the middle of a countdown chase scene to go check out everyone’s corpses???
The first and second one are out in 4K, but Aliens has been tampered to shit by Cameron and looks bad. Prometheus and Covenant are also out in 4Kas well. Iheard the Alien 4K looks great, but I keep holding out for a box set.
Also agree that the “Director’s Cut” (which actually isn’t) is far inferior to the original cut.
about fuckin’ time. Game is legendary.
The film definitely doesn’t get better the more I think about it, though I’ve only seen it once. I really disliked how much re-treading it decided to do on previous entry’s steps.
The film feels like it has the SW Force Awakens / A New Hope recycling going on in a bad way.
I still stand with my 7/10 but that could change.
And I agree, it’s as good as Alien Rez, 7/10 
Finally saw Alien: Romulus.
A better name would have been Alien: Highschool (with Instant Alien™)
Yep
I didn’t hate it but it confirmed that there’s really no hope for anything good for that franchise.
I also tried to watch Alien: Covenant. After 10 minutes of pseudo-intellectual wankery and a “oops, we 're going to have a potential problem, blink, and now the ship crashes while the droid walks casually as on a stroll in the prairie”, I went “nope” and turned it off 
I think Alien Romulus is the best movie of 2024 for sure
Don’t know why you are hating
I’m not hating… One thing that irks me about blockbusters or big budget movies is lazy/borderline inept writing.
I mean, I get it, most of the budget goes to FX & visuals. That said, with the army of unemployed writers waiting around for a chance to shine, why do blockbusters have to constantly throw at us plots that are like this - so improbable and therefore not even remotely believable, cheapening the whole thing in the process?
And why go against what made Alien the worldwide creepy phenomenon it is (the wait & uncertainty of what would happen to the inoculated and the folks on board), to instead deliver Instant Alien? Who thought that was a good idea…?
Instead of having cliché explosions, cheap scares & all the generic Hollywood stuff, imagine if we could get a well-written claustrophobic Alien that takes its time and where a real cat & mouse-type hunt develops. A movie where the humans observe the Aliens from a distance and take action based on what they learn.
The first Predator comes to mind here: humans, severely under-qualified to fight the Predator, ACTUALLY USE THEIR BRAIN (the audacity!) to try & survive.
So yes, whatever the Alien franchise is these days, it’s pretty to look at and there are some fun moments. It could be so much more, and that’s a shame no writer is hired to make that happen.
That’s my 2 cents… If you can bypass this/that doesn’t bother you, then more power to you & I’m glad you enjoyed it!
I undestand that you didn’t like the plot. But i liked it a lot. 
This android robot is awesome. In the beginning he was kind then he became evil hero then again he became kind. It was awesome. And all these aliens. I love it. And spaceships.
In case you didn’t know already:
I watched Romulus the other day, but only about half of it. Graphic were good, I like the lore that they revealed in the movie, too. Other than that, I don’t have much to say about it. It was just another alien movie to me.
Last weekend I had a movie marathon at my friend’s house and we ended it with the original Alien, which she’d never seen but has been wanting to because one of her clients wants an Alien tattoo (the other films where Annihilation and Moon).
She liked it! It was fun watching it with somebody who doesn’t know shit about the Alien movies.
Last night we watched Aliens, and then she wanted me to go back home and grab the third one, so we ended up watching the assembly cut.
She liked them all and would rank them
Alien
Aliens
Alien 3
Which is the correct order lol. Her friend said we should have watched Romulus in between the first and second and that is a HARD PASS from me. She’s on her own with that one and Resurrection. We might do Prometheus and Covenant later. Dunno yet.
So therefore aliens…
Hr giger art is amazing…it suits the alien movies very well
this is correct
I recently watched Romulus. It was a movie. I was entertained.
I have just returned from my friend’s house after another Alien movie marathon. We did Prometheus, The Crossing (which I stopped right before the aerial bombardment footage) and then Covenant. All blind from her end. She liked how Prometheus slowly tied into Alien, and she liked Covenant a whole bunch, as do I. They work better as sequels.
It’s been fun watching them with somebody who isn’t familiar with the series and doesn’t care about the fandom. I’m Glad I could introduce my friend to some good movies! Skipped Resurrection and Romulus
It sucks. 
there were events happening on the screen that I could look at, and even though I considered it, I didn’t feel like spending time deciding to watch something else, so Romulus passed the “watchable” checkmark for me, which overlaps with the “sucked” checkmark
the characters sucked. part where android and is conveniently deux ex machina’d into “prime directive 4” slash Data’s brother Lore, that was dumb. the movie lacked the Alien atmosphere that all of the other movies actually at least somewhat encapsulte, even AvP (at points).
stand alone it was a decent sci-fi flim. I want to watch again. I thought the sound work was above average and enjoyed the music.
edit: oh fuckin wow…
Isn’t there supposed to be an asteroid hitting our planet and destroying all life as we know it soon?
Nah, rotten tomatoes is just a terrible way to rate movies.
It’s literally a summary of a pass/fail grading system. So basically anything over 5/10 goes into the fresh bucket, and anything under 5/10 goes into the rotten bucket. The score you actually see at the top of the page is just a summary of what percentage of reviews are fresh and rotten. So if everybody watching the movie gives it a 6/10, that would be 100% certified fresh.
Dang, he was the only thing I liked about the movie lol
Sorry, I had to
“I’ll do the fingering” lol
