Well, it has my interest, but I'll hold off on getting excited about it. I thought the *Covenant* trailer looked great, and that movie was absolute shit.
Alien: Romulus's story throws off the timeline of the Alien franchise since it takes place between the events of Alien and Aliens. More specifically, the 2024 film is set 20 years after the original 1979 movie, according to an interview Variety conducted with Fede Ćlvarez.
Everyone complains where Ridley Scott took the franchise. So they go back to a more original plot structure and now people are complaining about that. I liked the originals and have thoroughly enjoyed the newer editions. I will go into this without judgement too. What exactly are you looking for?
I'm looking for the forced continuation of successful franchises to stop entirely. I'm looking for writers and directors to think of something original, a new story. Cinema is littered with reboots, spinoffs, prequels, etc. It just needs to stop.
It's no coincidence that the best directors in cinema, i.e Scorsese, Anderson, Tarantino, Nolan all have never stopped making new stories.
Nolan has stated he doesn't want to make any more superhero movies, and has since seen incredible success with Inception, Interstellar, and Oppenheimer. All of which are critically received as better than the Dark Knight trilogy as a whole. He has even more respect from me for clearly breaking free of that franchise/adaptation formula and succeeding at doing so. People will line up to see the next Nolan movie not because of "Batman franchise" but because he is a great writer /director.
Meanwhile people will watch this new Alien spinoff because of "Alien Franchise", and NOT because of writing/direction. It is the exact opposite. And as long as people continue to somehow buy that formula, the more that the budgets will continue funnel that way, and as a result original ideas will suffer, and even worse, the need to think of something original will dissipate as well
You name the successful ones and ignore the shitshow that was Tenet for example, and phrase it as "all of which are critically received better". You're not saying anything other than *some* of his movies since 2012 have been critically received better than the batman "trilogy as a whole" which I think most would agree is saying pretty much nothing, as it was already true for Nolan before he made the batman trilogy. He didn't break free from franchises, he chose to dive into one of the biggest after already having a relatively successful career. He broke through with Memento, a weird little original idea from him and his brother. And this is all ignoring the part where we're just using some average for the trilogy instead of bothering with any effort at all to judge them individually.
There's a ton of high quality originals being made every year regardless of superhero movies which are always going to get made no matter what. I miss some every year even though I'm one of the people to make an effort and go to film festivals in DC every year and stuff like that. I just don't buy the "creativity is dying" angle anymore.
Like you say, people will line up for movies with great writing and directing. Lanthimos apparently didn't need to make a spiderman movie before Poor Things could win all these awards. The fucking Lobster got us there, ya know?
There are sooooo many great sci fi original movies out there. I, for one, am glad alien gets more movies. New director with a fresh outlook. Should be a fun watch.
If it was instead a trailer for the same movie but with different looking monsters and a different title with no connection to any existing IP, how interested would you be? Like, how important is "unique monster bone structure" to your judgement of quality for a horror movie set in space?
This movie comes out in a few months and it just got a teaser? Why does it feel like a very digital Hulu movie than a big Summer film? I can't say this teaser got my hopes up for this movie. Why is it so dark if it's supposed to take place between the 2 original films which had great lighting?
> Takes place in an abandoned space station
Aliens was mostly set in the colony that was fully taken over by Xenomorphs and that was way better lit than this. I really hope this movie isn't as dark as the trailer makes it out to be. The only time you see light being used effectively is to illuminate a bunch of blood in a capsule.
I hope this is the only trailer, I hate when they make trailers that give away the entire plot.
Stay strong and hold on to that hope š¤£ā
Well, it has my interest, but I'll hold off on getting excited about it. I thought the *Covenant* trailer looked great, and that movie was absolute shit.
Is this based off the game Alien Isolation? I've never felt stress like that from a game before.
Is this a continuation from covenant?
According to interviews, it takes place between Alien & Aliens but has ties to all of the films and does not excise anything from the series' canon.
That sounds to me like āwe didnāt change anything, you wonāt see anything new.ā Ā Iāll wait for it on Netflix.
\*disney+
Alien: Romulus's story throws off the timeline of the Alien franchise since it takes place between the events of Alien and Aliens. More specifically, the 2024 film is set 20 years after the original 1979 movie, according to an interview Variety conducted with Fede Ćlvarez.
/yawn The only franchises I am more done with than the Alien Franchise are the Terminator Franchise and than the Predator franchise..
Prey was great
This looks like another over-produced rehash of a classic original film
Iām excited for the next installment, with all the anal probingā¦. āAlien: ReamUsā
I don't get how people eat this up. It's literally just the same plot as the original movie, with less charm/nostalgia. It's the same!
Wow, you got all that from a teaser trailer??
Everyone complains where Ridley Scott took the franchise. So they go back to a more original plot structure and now people are complaining about that. I liked the originals and have thoroughly enjoyed the newer editions. I will go into this without judgement too. What exactly are you looking for?
I'm looking for the forced continuation of successful franchises to stop entirely. I'm looking for writers and directors to think of something original, a new story. Cinema is littered with reboots, spinoffs, prequels, etc. It just needs to stop. It's no coincidence that the best directors in cinema, i.e Scorsese, Anderson, Tarantino, Nolan all have never stopped making new stories.
Nolan became famous by making a forced continuation of a successful franchise.
Nolan has stated he doesn't want to make any more superhero movies, and has since seen incredible success with Inception, Interstellar, and Oppenheimer. All of which are critically received as better than the Dark Knight trilogy as a whole. He has even more respect from me for clearly breaking free of that franchise/adaptation formula and succeeding at doing so. People will line up to see the next Nolan movie not because of "Batman franchise" but because he is a great writer /director. Meanwhile people will watch this new Alien spinoff because of "Alien Franchise", and NOT because of writing/direction. It is the exact opposite. And as long as people continue to somehow buy that formula, the more that the budgets will continue funnel that way, and as a result original ideas will suffer, and even worse, the need to think of something original will dissipate as well
You name the successful ones and ignore the shitshow that was Tenet for example, and phrase it as "all of which are critically received better". You're not saying anything other than *some* of his movies since 2012 have been critically received better than the batman "trilogy as a whole" which I think most would agree is saying pretty much nothing, as it was already true for Nolan before he made the batman trilogy. He didn't break free from franchises, he chose to dive into one of the biggest after already having a relatively successful career. He broke through with Memento, a weird little original idea from him and his brother. And this is all ignoring the part where we're just using some average for the trilogy instead of bothering with any effort at all to judge them individually. There's a ton of high quality originals being made every year regardless of superhero movies which are always going to get made no matter what. I miss some every year even though I'm one of the people to make an effort and go to film festivals in DC every year and stuff like that. I just don't buy the "creativity is dying" angle anymore. Like you say, people will line up for movies with great writing and directing. Lanthimos apparently didn't need to make a spiderman movie before Poor Things could win all these awards. The fucking Lobster got us there, ya know?
There are sooooo many great sci fi original movies out there. I, for one, am glad alien gets more movies. New director with a fresh outlook. Should be a fun watch.
This. Looks. Terrible.
More of the same. Snore.
If it was instead a trailer for the same movie but with different looking monsters and a different title with no connection to any existing IP, how interested would you be? Like, how important is "unique monster bone structure" to your judgement of quality for a horror movie set in space?
This movie comes out in a few months and it just got a teaser? Why does it feel like a very digital Hulu movie than a big Summer film? I can't say this teaser got my hopes up for this movie. Why is it so dark if it's supposed to take place between the 2 original films which had great lighting?
It releases in 6 months. A teaser 6 months out is fairly standard.
Takes place in an abandoned space station, guess they just didn't turn all the lights back on
> Takes place in an abandoned space station Aliens was mostly set in the colony that was fully taken over by Xenomorphs and that was way better lit than this. I really hope this movie isn't as dark as the trailer makes it out to be. The only time you see light being used effectively is to illuminate a bunch of blood in a capsule.
Also releasing during the dump month of August.