Was there an actual, bone-thin dude in that suit? Was that an animatronic? I still don't know what I'm looking at...

The incredibly talented Robert Bobroczkyi getting ready to chase after Cailee Spaeny in #alienromulus @LegacyEffects #bts pic.twitter.com/Tp3DLXV40x

— Fede Alvarez (@fedalvar) August 30, 2024

Clearly there was. Edit to add, I'm actually surprised at this. I've seen the movie twice, and not once did it occur to me that was an actor in a suit. I really thought that was all CGI.

The original Alien was a 7+ foot African who was rail thin,

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His neck is wider than his head. Which you can see with some roided up people. But for a scrawny dude to have a neck wider than his head? Weird.

Saw in theatre. Good not great.

Set design, look and feel of it was great.

Sound was great w/ 2001 vibes.

Biggest complaint was that the main characters fell completely flat. Noting interesting about any of them. Casting was bad in that regard.

Main characters were forgettable with the exception of the two synthetics, one of which was AI.

Plot point that the guy had a grudge against synthetics because on locked their dad in a mine was meh.

This was essentially a re-make of Alien.

I see why they cast a bunch of young looking kids.

They wanted to appeal to a new generation not even familiar with Alien and also a younger demo.

This was to appeal to a larger worldwide market.

This also the reason that movies have declined over the years.

Too many cooks in the kitchen.

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Was there an actual, bone-thin dude in that suit? Was that an animatronic? I still don't know what I'm looking at...

The incredibly talented Robert Bobroczkyi getting ready to chase after Cailee Spaeny in #alienromulus @LegacyEffects #bts pic.twitter.com/Tp3DLXV40x

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Just saw this movie and thought it was good. I liked the start of the movie, gave me a Total Recall feel to it with they depicted the mining colony.

I liked how they brought Arthur back. Didn't they give his 'module' to the other robot? Then how is he still controlling the output and all that?

The whole last scene with the half human alien was weird, I was totally hoping it was going to be one of the buff engineers but we got that instead.

Either way I enjoyed it and give it a 7.0

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I liked how they brought Arthur back. Didn't they give his 'module' to the other robot? Then how is he still controlling the output and all that?

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Ash. But technically, not Ash, just another model of the Ash model, this one was named Rook.

And nice catch on the chip. I've watched this three times but never caught that.

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I liked how they brought Arthur back. Didn't they give his 'module' to the other robot? Then how is he still controlling the output and all that?

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Ash. But technically, not Ash, just another model of the Ash model, this one was named Rook.

And nice catch on the chip. I've watched this three times but never caught that.

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One could argue hardwiring him into the ship substituted his loss of his chip. Wired vs wireless, if you will.

I thought this was movie was good but not great.

I have zero issues with the broken information flow among WY employees and other people in this series.

Reasoning:

1. Logical or not you have future tech with an almost analog stamp on it. Fairly common theme in sci-fi where capabilities we think should be standard are sometimes not. They may not have had seamless information flow due to tech in this universe. In addition, it's a big damn universe and getting information across it would be challenging without super advanced technology that could clearly be lacking here.

2. WY is the classic, uber powerful corporation in the future that is swimming in unethical and illegal waters. R&D, especially highly deadly and unethical R&D, gets compartmentalized in large organizations. Compartmentalization is a classic strategy of terrorist and rebel organizations as well. Nothing unusual here at all to me if certain parts of WY don't know what other parts are doing.

Yeah, I'd considered the compartmentalization angle, and that makes the most sense. The suits in the boardroom in Aliens said they had no evidence of a creature Ripley described, but that doesn't mean they would have even been aware of WY's efforts to secure the critter a few years before Ripley was found lost in space.

The tech in the Alien universe is a weird mish-mash of old school with new-fangled stuff, but that's not so much the case in AR. It's more evident in Prometheus/Alien Covenant, set years before Alien, with more modern-looking interfaces than what the future Nostromo carried. Perhaps because those were top-of-the-line starships in the WY fleet, as opposed to the tug boat the the Nostromo essentially was.

By the way, I wasn't really directing that response at you. Was commenting in General to others who think the information flow is a plot hole and I don't think it is for reasons given.

Also, that basketball player is weirder looking than the alien. lol. Did they see him first and base the alien around him or the other way around?

Finally got around to seeing this and thought it was disappointingly average.

Which makes all the praise odd for me.

I've come to believe the older generation is more about nostalgia.

While the younger generation that has grown up watching remakes upon remakes upon remakes and reboots and reimaginings, frenetic films hyper-focused on visual stimulation, and story telling influenced by the current sociopolitical paradigm that has narrowed creativity,

- a generation that doesn't even read books -

doesn't know what a good story/film looks like.

I think any Alien movie is going to suffer from something that it can do nothing about: it's supposed to scare the crap out of you, but since everyone knows what the monster looks like, it just cannot be frightening like it was for audiences in 1979. That fright element is just not reproducible given all that movie-goers know about the creature from its various sequels and spin-offs.

Having said that, what I liked most about AR was the early part of the movie with a look at life on a fully colonized planet, which is what they were doing with LV-426 in Aliens. And I loved the attention to detail to make interfaces and wall placards look a lot like what was seen aboard the Nostromo. Since this movie was only a few years after Alien, that made sense to make things like that be similar.

Out on Hulu now. Watched it last night. Had a hard time understanding most of the side characters english, but other than that I liked it more than any of the last trilogy of movies. The middle kind of drug, but I thought the last 30 minutes or so was pretty intense action.

Currently doing a rewatch and this is basically a haunted house movie in space, which I think was a point they made in The Big Picture podcast. It's a bunch of young people with a foolish plan they didn't think through that are now dealing with consequences they couldn't have possibly imagined. The only adults around (androids) try to tell them to just leave or they'll all die and they couldn't possibly be troubled with listening and just lash out at that reality. Rather than actually escaping they just go deeper and get into more trouble, the further they go the more people die.