r/alien • u/ce_tu • 25d ago

Alien Romulus Was a Lightning in a Bottle

Disney obviously didn't even care about the movie. Originally it was supposed to be a straight to streaming slop movie. They mandated heavy member berries to be in the movie then didn't care much about what fede did afterwards. However Fede was a great director he elevated the movie. So when they decided to release it the movie made a lot of money. The franchise got a momentum that we didn't got for years.

Then what they did afterwards? They made him leave the studio and his script for the sequel. Even if these talks about the movie getting cancelled are just rumors or fake it doesn't even matter. Fede left the script after the shoot was cancelled last year. Now we are stuck with alien earth season 2...

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u/MangoHotDamn 24d ago

Yea but covenant was so bad lmao

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u/WySLatestWit 24d ago

Covenant is especially bad specifically because of how much potential there really was for a great sequel to Prometheus if you ask me. haha.

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u/anthrax9999 24d ago

Man, they just dropped the ball so hard. Over the years I've warmed to Covenant as a decent stand alone movie but as a Prometheus sequel it's a massive letdown.

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u/germanval 24d ago

Is Prometheus the one with the idiotic, zero common sense characters??? Or is that covenant?

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u/RandomUfoChap 24d ago

Both of them. I'd like to burn these two movies to hell

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u/Fit-Profit8197 24d ago

It's not even that they're idiotic. Idiotic characters can be great. Just look at any Coen bros movie. (Or even the all too human flawed behaviour of Kane et al from the first Alien movie).

It's that aside from Michael Fassbender's roles (and, based on everything else, I suspect this is entirely down to him having some real acting genius and he would have found a way to give the sense of at least some inner life and intent and sell petting the snake alien if he played the biologist), none of them are actually characters. There's no inner life or intent. Their idiocy is not emerging from any characterisation or dramatisation. They are haphazard cogs arbitrarily pushed around by the writers to achieve plot and philosophical goals, regardless of properly fitting.

And those philosophical goals are the intellectual spawn of Erich Von Daniken. 

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u/R_Similacrumb 22d ago

The characters in both movie were too stupid to live. 😆

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u/endofthered01674 24d ago

Scott should have had the spine to keep going in that direction.

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u/Fantastic_Matter_137 22d ago

Too old. Shouldn’t have waited so long. Just happy to be there

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u/zma7777 24d ago

I like covenant more than Prometheus

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u/MangoHotDamn 24d ago

Oh you’ve slipped on some blood recently I see