Phil-McRackin C_J I enjoyed it, bit all over the place but good trashy 80s style fun. New Order, Frankie and Animotion on the soundtrack too.
Wasily Alien Romulus (2024): 6.5/10 Same premise, new cast. BERKS on a mining colony see an abandoned ship in space and think it’s their ticket to escape their shit existence. Not much novel here conceptually - some scenes in ducts, elevators, the usual xenomorphs, a CGI Ian Holm on the TV- all pretty ‘de rigeur’ but then @Smallman1 makes an appearance at the end to spice things up. Worth a watch just for his gurning face.
Homegrove Wasily would have much preferred the Ian Holm-thing come as a surprise. Jesus Christ you people spoiler-etiquette! Just came out of Alien: Romulus in other words. They could have dialled down the fan service/ homage-department down about 25 % and it would have been much better. Way too many references to the old movies. But real well done, I booked us second row seats, and while it was a pain in the neck and I regretted it because of that all the space stuff was awesome when the screen was all you saw. And the mechanical facehuggers and xenomorphs were much better than the CGI crap on Alien Covenant.
gcw Alien (1979) This is proof that CGI is not needed to make a great action/Sci fi movie. I enjoyed it…..suspense, story, action and it’s interesting that the xenomorph was on screen for all of 5 minutes in total, yet it didn’t dilute the horror. I didn’t see the Ian Holm/Ash twist coming at all and the special effects for that part were really well done. 8 out of 10 for me. I have the remaining 3 in the quadrilogy lined up
Homegrove gcw special edition/ assembly cut of Alien3. The name is different depending on your copy. A MUCH better movie.
Mad_Cyril Lego Batman Must be well into double figures now. Has become our Dad / Daughter watch and always enjoyable. Still funny and always loads going on in the background that you’ve never clocked before. 9 ripped abs out of 8
Homegrove Prometheus (2012). I dunno, I like this even more on each viewing. This was my third time watching it. Also watched the 3,5 hour making of doc on the Blu Ray extras. I used to love a really good making of, but due to diminishing sales of physical media they rarely make any that go beyond 15 minutes of talking heads saying how much they loved working on this movie. Too expensive if nobody but physical media-nerds buys them. If anyone is feeling really nerdy it’s on Youtube. Usually these docs end with audience reaction, for some reason this skipped that. 😀
Amps Homegrove I like this even more on each viewing. I’m hoping the Romulus success gets Scott’s third prequel made.
Amps Homegrove an service/ homage-department Probably the thing that puts me off modern film making more than anything else. The epitome of shit writing.
Homegrove Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988). Not seen it since I was a kid. That was a bit more horny and dark then I’d figure for a Disney-movie Jesus. 😀
Phil-McRackin Enjoyed this. A murder, a wooden mannequin and a spooky house. Amusing in places with some solid jump scares, which usually annoy me but worked here.
Mad_Cyril rhouses Where’s your Romulus review hannu. Taking too long. Loved it. 8.1 / 10 Homegrove look up this thread dummy. Thought worth saving for posterity
Homegrove Love Lies Bleeding (2024). Pretty gross body horror (and jesus the clogged toilet in the first scene nearly made me gag) in this one. But we both liked it, can deffo see how it’s not for everyone though. 3,5/5.
PeterSpadang Alien Romulus was good actually. My third fave Alien movie, by far. Spoilers: Didn’t need to nod back to other films, as in “get away from her, you bitch”, and I didn’t want another human/alien hybrid. But other than that it was really good!
Homegrove I listened to the director of Romulus being interviewed on the Big Picture podcast, and he said that Ian Holm’s widow and kids were very on board with the android having his likeness and voice. I’m sure they got money for it too, but the director said the family felt Holm was snubbed by Hollywood in the last ten years of his career, and wanted him in the movie because of that. Which was interesting. I can’t remember Holm in much in the 2000s. Jackson’s Tolkien-movies, Garden State, that awful Jack the Ripper-movie with Johnny Depp. That’s about it.
Dan Homegrove I always thought Holm was a more established stage actor than chasing Hollywood roles. I read that he was very proud of Alien and so his estate gave Alverez the green light to use his image. I saw it again last night as my Stepson wanted to see it…so much detail that I’d missed first time around.
Homegrove Dan yeah I will definitely be buying it for my collection. I see myself watching it again easily.
