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First I've ever heard of this. Fox produced Alien and for all intents and purposes still own it and therefore Disney owns it.
Alien: Covenant/Alien Series thoughts.
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TheHarbinger
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Lots of these franchises have deals where the owners of the IPs must make a certain number of films or the rights either revert to the creators or go up for auction. The creators of the Predator franchise tried to regain the IP from Disney a few years ago. But failed because Disney proved that they had already sunk money into making Prey and were not just squatting on the IP but actually continuing to use it. So they settled out of court and Disney gets another probably three decades of owning the IP outright but at that point the original creators will be dead anyways.
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I knew about the Predator one but I was referring to the Alien franchise and I can find zero reference to Romulus being a glorified ashcan movie.
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i actually thought the romulus movie was not that bad, all things considered of course. when you have 4 movies in a row that are bad, i'll take anything.
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Romulus was The Force Awakens of the franchise.
Looks pretty, relies almost entirely on nostalgia and rehashing classic moments from previous entries, makes story choices that retroactively ruin previous entries.
I'm sure Disney is smarter now... maybe... and they won't allow another The Last Jedi but we shall see.
They already stole from all 4 original alien movies for Romulus, what do they have left?
AvP? LOL
I bet Lance Henriksen will come back for a paycheck, they might de-age Michael Biehn too.
Looks pretty, relies almost entirely on nostalgia and rehashing classic moments from previous entries, makes story choices that retroactively ruin previous entries.
I'm sure Disney is smarter now... maybe... and they won't allow another The Last Jedi but we shall see.
They already stole from all 4 original alien movies for Romulus, what do they have left?
AvP? LOL
I bet Lance Henriksen will come back for a paycheck, they might de-age Michael Biehn too.
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That actually is a great comparison and completely accurate; it even brings back dead people to play roles from the previous film, though given Ash is a model of synthetic it's not an unreasonable choice. It would have perhaps been smarter to just cast a new actor as one in the same series though, since Synths have on more than one occasion proven to be customizable though.
It also just like the Disney sequels dived through the dumpster of old designs and concepts and reused them since there's no innovation there.
Technically, this isn't Romulus' fault and it's not the first to do that; Covenant and Prometheus made those retarded choices first. You can blame this film for deciding to double down on it.
Gonna have to rate rainbows on this one. I can very easily see the Alien TV show become that awful, and I do genuinely think Disney is filled with nothing but malicious retards who should all be fired.
Nope. They're just going to shove more Ripley stand-ins and use the former at best as a memberberries. And that's not even because it's Disney; it's because every film outside of the fucking quadrilogy does this because we need a woman protagonist.
Which I'd not mind if they didn't either make them forgetable or idiotic in the case of Shaw.
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Rogue One did it well and everyone tries to copy it. It's also the issue I have with superhero movie series spin-offs. At best they can afford superman to appear in the last episode for 3 mins, but else you just know they'll never show any 'real' heroes off. A xeno series would probably have maybe 3 xeno appearances which is kinda the point of a stealthy killer but yknow.
Shit, last episode of The Penguin didn't even include Batman. Only a bat symbol in the sky. These series are meant to show a 'boring' side to the big spectacle of the primary movie, but rarely do they do more than "hurdur cameo".
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Coming out this summer. I know it's a teaser but the beast looks like it's ai generated.
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Ever time I read the title, I think of the Italians cashing in on the original film.
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That one's amusing for the location and the alien rip-off being some kind of intestine creature. But I make you a bet that that POS will be better than the Alien show.
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Romulus leans WAY too hard into the memberberries, but there was at least one scene I really liked. Ripley 2.0 wasting Xenos in zero-grav was really cool. I can't say a single good thing about Prometheus or Covenant, so at lease Romulus has that going for it.
I still think Resurrection is slightly better simply by virtue of having actual familiar actors in it as opposed to literal nobodies I've never even heard of. Despite how stupid he is on Twitter, Ron Perlman is a genuinely talented actor.
I still think Resurrection is slightly better simply by virtue of having actual familiar actors in it as opposed to literal nobodies I've never even heard of. Despite how stupid he is on Twitter, Ron Perlman is a genuinely talented actor.
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I used to like him, back in the original Hellboy for example, or in early work like the City of Lost Children. But I feel he's largely built a career on having a face like Jim Henson working with stone instead of felt. I also have a particular axe to grind with him about his ruining an unreproducible shot where Ripley backshots the basketball into the hoop. The director had to cut early because the fucking idiot broke character before they yelled cut. This is basic film acting.
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I was reminded that Alien Romulus was released on VHS and I thought it would be cool to enjoy for the first time on the old VCR and park on the shelf next to my other Alien tapes.
However it was for sale on a single day before running out, now scalpers want like $100. Maybe I'd pay $20 or so for the novelty. Supposedly it was going to be 4:3 open matte which would be cool but reviews say it is widescreen letterboxed. Plus there's one of those gay faux-stickers printed over the cover art like it came from a video store. Otherwise the box looks nice. Then again there's always bootlegs but I don't need to consoom that hard.
However it was for sale on a single day before running out, now scalpers want like $100. Maybe I'd pay $20 or so for the novelty. Supposedly it was going to be 4:3 open matte which would be cool but reviews say it is widescreen letterboxed. Plus there's one of those gay faux-stickers printed over the cover art like it came from a video store. Otherwise the box looks nice. Then again there's always bootlegs but I don't need to consoom that hard.
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Im sorry but this is pure retardation. This is like someone who cares about a good steak microwaving a ribeye to cook it then using plastic utensils to eat it.
If you want some art or something to create some ambience buy a fucking poster. VHS is fucking stupid in 2024 outside of media only available on VHS, only brain dead consoomers would buy something like this.
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Outside of the AVP games, its pretty overrated. With the rare anomaly like alien isolation.
Same level of retardation as those random vinyl records 343 keeps making for halo for some reason. I don’t know why they keep making shit for record players when most computers and phones do the same thing but far better. Literally no one buys that shit either.
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Physical copies can't be delisted or removed from your library. Records have decent fidelity and are much better as an audio medium than VHS as a visual one.
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Oh goodie, they're so desperate to tie themselves to the Quadrilogy and for memberberries they're playing the VHS "collector" market. How pathetic.
If they actually made it as a wider release, I'd have at least given them credit; especially since it's still cheap right now to make these things, since the discontinuing of VHS is still pretty recent. But nah, let's appeal to the scum that artificially drives up prices and crashes markets.
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Does VHS format support widescreen?
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You can squeeze the image into 4:3 so it will look normal on a widescreen tv, kind of the reverse of anamorphic dvds. The only commercial release I know of like that is one of the Terminator movies on laserdisc in Japan. Unfortunately this means it wont look right on a normal sized crt tv.
I saw the first three Alien movies many times on VHS before 'luckily' seeing Resurrection in the theater, so there are some strong nostalgic associations for me there. Plus I actually still have a VCR, crt tv, etc. However it doesn't appear the Romulus release was anything more than marketing baloney. It would be really easy to make a 4:3 release with modern tools depending on how the film was shot. On one of the Terminator 2 DVDs, James Cameron actually hosts a bonus feature showing how the widescreen and 4:3 releases are cropped differently from the Super 35 film frame. I think the Abyss also had done the same thing.
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the VHS thing is sorta cute, but tbh if you were really a burger into Alien back in the VHS days you were mostly mad about the shit on LD and PAL videos you didn't have that had all the extra footage