I went in with really low hopes, but ended up liking the new Alien Romulus movie, due to some of the reasons you outlined.
It’s not perfect and has its dumb choices (uncanny valley de-aged android from Alien, stupid callback lines). But the characters are generally all solid, and there’s just enough world building without getting too expository. And there’s a new twist on alien morphology that was interesting and straight up good horror.
By “new twist” they mean its basically exactly the same as Alien Resurrection but slightly different. Like half of the movie is just beat for beat the previous Alien movies all jumbled into a single movie. The beginning had potential, but it does not even tell a good horror story imo
I went in with really low hopes, but ended up liking the new Alien Romulus movie, due to some of the reasons you outlined.
It’s not perfect and has its dumb choices (uncanny valley de-aged android from Alien, stupid callback lines). But the characters are generally all solid, and there’s just enough world building without getting too expository. And there’s a new twist on alien morphology that was interesting and straight up good horror.
Good to know, thank you. Hadn’t checked that out yet
By “new twist” they mean its basically exactly the same as Alien Resurrection but slightly different. Like half of the movie is just beat for beat the previous Alien movies all jumbled into a single movie. The beginning had potential, but it does not even tell a good horror story imo