gringopaul
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I'm halfway through the movie, and so blown away that I wanted to see what else Cormac McCarthy had written. The dialog is amazing, the story is so radical and yet so grounded in reality that it gives me chills. I am completely sucked in. Before finishing, I wanted to see what else writer McCarthy has done. I saw the rating
The movie currently has a 5.4 rating. I am amazed, as I would be if The Godfather, Citizen Kane or The Shawshank Redemption got a 5.4. After I finish writing this, I will read the reviews of others. Arrogantly, I assume they will be written by idiots and the 5.4 is proof of the Dunning-Kruger effect. If the poor reviews are jammed with misspellings, bad grammar and punctuation errors, I will feel vindicated.
The movie currently has a 5.4 rating. I am amazed, as I would be if The Godfather, Citizen Kane or The Shawshank Redemption got a 5.4. After I finish writing this, I will read the reviews of others. Arrogantly, I assume they will be written by idiots and the 5.4 is proof of the Dunning-Kruger effect. If the poor reviews are jammed with misspellings, bad grammar and punctuation errors, I will feel vindicated.
The movie begins with a street scene reminiscent of Blade Runner. It's the first of many , what should we call them, ....thefts...from better, original movies.
The new Alien Monster victims are younger than past movies. The plucky heroine never gets fully fleshed out. Her Dad died, leaving her to take care of the idiot synthetic who has the mental capacity of a sweet child. The conflicts between the characters seem forced and unrealistic.
The young protagonists somehow steal a space craft from a planet where people are struggling to survive, yet no one goes after it. The young people all see to know how to run spaceships, bypass complex security systems, and dock their smaller stolen craft onto a larger vessel. They find slime, tunnels carved from acidic alien blood, and the halls of the larger vessel are filled with leaking water like it's just normal for a ship with complex electronics to have little streams running through them. All the Alien tropes are there. The only original addition is a new Alien design. It wasn't enough to justify an entire new entry into the series.
The photography was good, special effects were up to standard and the actors weren't bad. The first two movies in the series were a 10. Alien: Romulus isn't bad. It just doesn't come close to the two originals.
The new Alien Monster victims are younger than past movies. The plucky heroine never gets fully fleshed out. Her Dad died, leaving her to take care of the idiot synthetic who has the mental capacity of a sweet child. The conflicts between the characters seem forced and unrealistic.
The young protagonists somehow steal a space craft from a planet where people are struggling to survive, yet no one goes after it. The young people all see to know how to run spaceships, bypass complex security systems, and dock their smaller stolen craft onto a larger vessel. They find slime, tunnels carved from acidic alien blood, and the halls of the larger vessel are filled with leaking water like it's just normal for a ship with complex electronics to have little streams running through them. All the Alien tropes are there. The only original addition is a new Alien design. It wasn't enough to justify an entire new entry into the series.
The photography was good, special effects were up to standard and the actors weren't bad. The first two movies in the series were a 10. Alien: Romulus isn't bad. It just doesn't come close to the two originals.