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n_huffhines said:
Alien Romulus was really good.

Alien has become clearly one of the greatest movie franchises. Outside of a few bad Predator crossover movies, their batting average/slugging % are like Barry Bonds numbers.
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I haven't seen all of them. but the ones I have seen have been very formulaic.

different cast, different location, slightly different starting points, pretty much the same endings.
 
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Marcel the Shell is really good. It's the original film-making that people claim to pine for, but but then it's there for their viewing pleasure and it's as if it doesn't exist. I had never even heard of it, just found it browsing Vudu.

Stop-motion, great voice acting, clever writing and storytelling. They use that diegetic audio technique and it's so satisfying.

My 7 YO loved it. My 4 YO loved it but didn't make it all the way through.

A24, of course. This movie is 4 years old. It's a 98% on Rotten Tomatoes. How have I not heard of this?
 
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n_huffhines said:
Alien Romulus was really good.

Alien has become clearly one of the greatest movie franchises. Outside of a few bad Predator crossover movies, their batting average/slugging % are like Barry Bonds numbers.
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the only thing i dont like about the alien franchise is, the only palatable way to reconcile Prometheus and covenant with the first three films (David merely recreates xenomorphs from the mutagen rather than being the creator) makes David's story, and both films, pointless.

I think they're both good films, and David is a fascinating character, but what's the point?

I guess David thinking he's achieved the Pinnacle of creation by recreating an alien from a mutagenic compound that will invariably lead to xenomorphs is in line with the idea that David is clearly malfunctioning (misremembering authors) but I don't believe its what Ridley was going for and in that event I think hes just lucky that people will pay to watch Fasbender be a cooky Android with screws loose not doing anything particularly important

And the Space Jockey is still ruined too
 
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bigdaddy said:
Weapons. I liked it. Good horror. Some funny moments. Not anything new but a good way to tell a story. Not a huge RT fan so I’m not saying 10/10 but solid. I will say the previews for the more Jordan Peele movie looks good
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It was a solid movie. Once the story unfolded it was kind of underwhelming, but all mystery movies have to deal with that. But that finale was entertaining and beautifully shot.
 
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apevol said:
the only thing i dont like about the alien franchise is, the only palatable way to reconcile Prometheus and covenant with the first three films (David merely recreates xenomorphs from the mutagen rather than being the creator) makes David's story, and both films, pointless.

I think they're both good films, and David is a fascinating character, but what's the point?

I guess David thinking he's achieved the Pinnacle of creation by recreating an alien from a mutagenic compound that will invariably lead to xenomorphs is in line with the idea that David is clearly malfunctioning (misremembering authors) but I don't believe its what Ridley was going for and in that event I think hes just lucky that people will pay to watch Fasbender be a cooky Android with screws loose not doing anything particularly important

And the Space Jockey is still ruined too
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David's goal was to eliminate humans because he viewed them as bad creators and he himself seemed to develop a god complex.

Edit: and this is probably the biggest flaw of the prequels...it's hard to follow the story and understand why David is doing what he's doing. It's all there on the screen, but I had to use Google to undrstand it all the first time I watched it.
 
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n_huffhines said:
David's goal was to eliminate humans because he viewed them as bad creators and he himself seemed to develop a god complex.

Edit: and this is probably the biggest flaw of the prequels...it's hard to follow the story and understand why David is doing what he's doing. It's all there on the screen, but I had to use Google to undrstand it all the first time I watched it.
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he clearly states we're a species gasping for a second wind but he won't let us have it because we don't deserve it

that doesn't answer what the point of making the movies is

Ridley has stated David created the xenomorphs

Nobody else involved with the franchise seems to have any interest in keeping that, so its not really important other than to show Ridley is kinda losin it

But either way, why were we (originally) getting 3 films about a mad android who hates humanity?

Its like Ridley has got lost in this tug of war between exploring themes of Alien and Blade Runner.

Covenant was an overreaction to people being upset the xenomorph wasn't featured in Prometheus, so its not like he'd intended to have David be the genesis of the xenomorph, it just got mashed together because the studio wasn't going to let him continue making films about synthetics without the xenos being central.
 
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