I`m happy any time a kid from the midlands gets a role over the usual suspects from the US
Alien: Romulus - Fede Alvarez (Evil Dead) to write/direct
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I`m happy any time a kid from the midlands gets a role over the usual suspects from the US
It deserves it, the practical effects are fantastic.
They actually even went back and fixed the Ian Holm scenes that had some dodgy CGI:
Alien: Romulus Improved One of Its Most Controversial Scenes for Home Release
Director Fede Alvarez confirmed the visual effects of Ian Holm's android have been changed post release.
gizmodo.com
It deserves it, the practical effects are fantastic.
They actually even went back and fixed the Ian Holm scenes that had some dodgy CGI:
Alien: Romulus Improved One of Its Most Controversial Scenes for Home Release
Director Fede Alvarez confirmed the visual effects of Ian Holm's android have been changed post release.
That really needed fixing, it looked 2d at times depending on the angle.
Honestly that was my biggest gripe with the movie, it was utterly stunning from a visual perspective otherwise. Even compared to movies with far, far larger budgets, Romulus cost 80 million USD -- aka a fraction of most cinematic releases and even higher profile tv shows.
I totally get the complaints people have for the story and pacing etc, but from a visual standpoint on a proverbial shoestring budget compared to other cinematic releases? It absolutely deserves praise for the visual effects, frankly I cannot think of a movie that comes close during that year and many that eked an inch toward it cost double to triple.
It's noticeable imo.
Appreciated too, I think that's half the reason I'm behind this movie. It is flawed, but you can tell the guy behind it really loved the source material. It's a passion project, and that pays off for me despite the iffy parts you see and overboard fanservice.
Watched it at last. Apart from a dreadful last act, and an overly slow opening, it's not bad but also nothing to write home about.
Why use unforgivable bad CGI to add a dead actor back in? It's a pointless attempt to stoke nostalgia.
Why use unforgivable bad CGI to add a dead actor back in? It's a pointless attempt to stoke nostalgia.
The entire film is a nostalgia trip and a bad one at that.
That hashed Ripley speech towards the end....Jesus, is that going to be said by everyone now in other alien films?
Poor CGI aside I thought it was a nice tribute to Ian Holm - unlike a lot of the other forced nostalgic bits which were just completely out of place and belong to the original Aliens movie and none other.
I guess that's a good way to look at it, but I find it ghoulish and creepy when they do stuff like this.
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Was ok, could have been so much better.
I read I think the CGI on Holms was very last minute and the team didn't have anywhere near close to the time to really finish it. I think the updated version was what they ended up with but the release of the film was pushed out earlier or something so no chance to update for theatres.
The updated version is still bad though, sometimes it looks pretty decent, othertimes it doesn't - and it never looks as good as.... just having a living actor to do it. There's no reason for that character to look like Ash other than a nostalgia hit.
Yea it still look crap lol
This really is a franchise that has had more misses than hits. I remember people being really curious about the concept art from Neil Blomkamp, but as we know it never got made and they continued on with Alien Covenant instead. Covenant being another movie set up for a sequel but it never happened as it was "meh" at best. How Ridley Scott continues to get all these 100 million plus budgets boggles the mind, he must have pictures of some studio execs in compromising positions with Goats or something.
Alien: Romulus made $350m on a $80m budget; Covenant made $238m on $97m; Prometheus $402m on $125m. These films may have been disappointments but they were still decent mid-hits.