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Please stop making Alien movies (www.spectator.co.uk)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Anyway, Alien: Romulus is the seventh film about these particular monsters. According to the producers, the film takes the franchise ‘back to its roots’. So we get a group of grimy crew-mates piloting a big rust-bucket of a spaceship who pick up an extraterrestrial stowaway and end up having to use their wits and courage to survive as it gobbles them up, one by one.

And it’s not a bad film. It’s nicely creepy, the special effects are good, the acting is perfectly serviceable. In fact, I could give you a normal review of Alien: Romulus, but just writing this is making me feel a little crazy. It’s not a bad film, but it’s also a direct copy of a much better film that already exists. That film is called Alien, and it came out in 1979. It had Sigourney Weaver in it. It hasn’t vanished. If you have a Disney+ subscription or a torrent client, you can watch it tonight. Why have we made it again? What’s the point? Why have we spent the past 45 years – which is longer than I’ve been alive – making seven different versions of the same film? What on Earth is going on?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Haven’t seen the film yet but I was agreeing with them until the very last part.

There’s some great arguments against these Disney soft reboots that tell the same story as the original films, but throwing all the previous sequels under the same bus as Romulus seems nonsensical to me.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

theres billions of Alien movies to be made. mash-up with a Adam Sandler dating comedy. Toss into a Kung Fu epic. C3PO is stranded with one and they nerd out and philosophize. Every movie with a great start that doesn't know how to end could switch to Alien mode.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Alien 3 it's the last enjoyable part of this saga, even resurrection if you're bored, nothing later should ever be done.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (3 children)

What? They haven't even made Fast and Furious and Alien yet.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Lmao I just posted about alien in the moviesandtv shows comm

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I feel the same about Marvel films. I don't watch them

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Every time they try something different it gets destroyed by critics. At this point I don't blame them for making the same movie over and over.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Who? Marvel? Look, i don't care if people like Marvel films. That's fine. My point was just that people should just not watch films they don't like. Not every bit of media has to be just for you, specifically.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Money

There are movies that are too successful for their own good. Then someone buys ip rights and milks the cow.

Like latest planet of apes movie. It’s so unnecessary. There’s a yellow sign “cash grab” in every scene

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (5 children)

I was entertained. Nothing Else Matters. Movie critics have the dumbest stuck up takes sometimes.