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Jon's avatar

I saw Alien Romulus in imax and was blown away. I loved it from start to finish. My only complaint is an extended and unnecessary reference to previous Alien films. But overall Romulus is one of my favorite new films this year.

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Romulus makes Prometheus a more interesting film. Romulus at least explains the origin of the engineers in Prometheus to me. The final creatures' face strikingly resembles the faces of the engineers from Prometheus and Alien Covenant. A creature that is born from a pregnant woman who injected herself with the concoction created by the scientists on the space station from the Aliens black goo. Which leads me to think the engineers once resembled humans and have since integrated themselves with Alien DNA to create a 'better' version of themselves as the Rook character was trying to accomplish with humans.

Although, if this is true, it does make Alien Covenant less interesting. It would mean that David didn't create the Aliens, merely altered them. Which lessens the cool idea from Covenant that people created synthetics, then a synthetic created the monsters that have been terrorizing humans.

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Marie's avatar

Haven’t seen many movies lately - excited

To see this one after reading your take!

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