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.
Spoilers follow:
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.
My understanding is that David's work in Covenant is in parallel with the Aliens anyway because aren't their already signs of the Xenomorph's existence from many centuries ago?
I'm honestly not entirely sure. I'll have to re-watch Prometheus and Covenant to check that out. It's been a few years since I've watched those films. Romulus has me very excited for the future of this series. Whether that's a direct sequel to Romulus or some other story in this franchise. I'd still like to see David's story continued after Covenant.
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.
Spoilers follow:
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.
My understanding is that David's work in Covenant is in parallel with the Aliens anyway because aren't their already signs of the Xenomorph's existence from many centuries ago?
I'm honestly not entirely sure. I'll have to re-watch Prometheus and Covenant to check that out. It's been a few years since I've watched those films. Romulus has me very excited for the future of this series. Whether that's a direct sequel to Romulus or some other story in this franchise. I'd still like to see David's story continued after Covenant.
Haven’t seen many movies lately - excited
To see this one after reading your take!
I liked Prometheus. I was a kid when the first Alien came out and I was blown away. Local museum (LA) had the full set of Mother and it was amazing
Is IMAX the way to see it?
Definitely