I posted the trailer for Alien Romuluslast week Wednesday (along with a poll making you pick between the first two films in the franchise and, update -- Ridley Scott's original has held firm in winning said poll this entire time) and now that the film is in theaters and made boffo box office I will post the poster for the first time, because I am a very timely person. It's a great poster, right? It gets the job done. I dig it. (I especially like the buzzed head, which feels like a reference to David Fincher's unjustly maligned Alien 3, but I admit when I saw the character with the buzzed head in Romulus I instantly remembered this poster and was like, "Oh well you're doomed.") But the poster isn't actually why I am here -- my Pajiba review of Alien: Romulus went up on Friday, and since I wasn't blogging that day I haven't linked to it from here -- so here, my review. I had a pretty mixed reaction overall, which depressed me -- I feel like between this and Furiosa I've been reluctantly slamming a lot of my sacred cows in 2024! I guess it just proves you can't buy me! I tells it like it is, see? (Hopefully you're reading that in a Jimmy Cagney voice because I was typing it in that voice.) In summation...
The Ian Holm thing is the ugliest, cheapest "Remember this guy" nostalgia slop an IP has pulled yet. Disgusting stuff, and it's embarrassing to see people on here & elsewhere defend it
— Emperor Norton (@ashleynaftule) August 17, 2024