Alien Romulus

[Jimmy T]

I liked watching it! Wasn't too bad of a movie!

OH, I had I my issues, leave no doubt in your mind about that, but I was down for watching it!!

[Perry]

As time has worn on, although yes, a very short amount of time, I have grown a tad more okay with it, but it isn't great. 

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Starts off well enough (and the wife did shiver a couple times when the face huggers were rapidly advancing ), but it quickly degrades into some not so good stuff. I still say they needed a different "Ripley" character as I just couldn't buy into her doing half of the things she did, especially that acid/no gravity scene which was stupid as hell. I also think they screwed up by making a lot of the Romulus Xenomorphs too defined, too well lit. Far too clear. I do enjoy seeing the damn things, but part of the fascination of Alien was that we didn't get a guided view of how the creature looked. In this movie, they are shown so well, a lot of the times, that they look more fake than they do scary. I wanted a classic Alien horror movie like the first Alien, or a smart, action movie like Aliens, and I got something akin to most bad PG-13 horror movies. 

It wasn't all bad of course. I did enjoy a good bit of what they did. Hell, the added feature of being shown the chrysalis was cool (and it's sexual representation aligned perfectly with H.R.Giger's paintings) and the sheer amount of face-huggers was a great tension device. I also enjoyed most of the deaths. But the bad stuff, or the stuff I didn't enjoy, bugged me.

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Although, as I started, those bad things have begun to lessen the further I am away from it. Maybe upon re-watch it will hit better for me and the things I find bothersome will be far less intrusive.
 

Of course, all that said, it was certainly better than Alien 3 and Alien Resurrection.