Why have we spent the past 45 years – which is longer than I’ve been alive – making seven different versions of the same film?

If you watch Alien, Aliens and Alien3 and come out with the idea that they are “different versions of the same film”, maybe the whole movie critic gig thing isn’t for you. Hell, they are not even the same genre.

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I mean yes, totally. I haven’t seen it, yet, but will likely be going to the cinema for this one.

But, to just throw an idea out there … covers of and homages to songs are normal and sometimes awesome in music, and fundamental in live music.

So maybe the same isn’t so bad in film, especially if they’re not done badly, as it seems to be here.

Maybe “the problem” is more the lack of properly original works, the copious unashamed cinematic universe slop and faithless reboots?

In the same way that Bond films and Disney films find ways to manifest and apply to each new generation or era, why not other classic forms?

I haven't watched the new film yet, but saying that 7 remakes of the first movie have been made is total bullshit.

"Covenant" and "Prometheus" would've been killer movies to kick off a new IP.

I might be the old man shouting at clouds, but I've been turned off to all franchise "reboots". Just sick of rehashes and revisits and the cute little "winks" these movies do to the previous installments. Have an original thought, damn.

What about please stop making BAD Alien movies?

meh, I enjoyed it.

This article would maybe have a point if they hadn't finally released a good Alien movie for the first time in like 30 or 40 years.

Nonono.

I like alien movies.

Moar please. Just not sucky ones.

Capitalism: No

What’s the point?

Um, same point as any franchise or reboot or remake: money. It’s easy too. Story is already there in one form or another; just add a few modern tweaks. You get the nostalgia kick from the original fans, and you get a boost from the younger fans who have heard all of the hyper from the OG fans. People have short term memories, so they get to rinse and repeat every few years.

Edit: for example… 🙄

Haven't seen it yet, but if it's got xenomorphs I'm in. I like all the Alien movies, even the "bad" ones like 3 and 4. I even liked the original aliens vs predators.

Couldn't disagree more. I loved this movie. I could critique aspects of it, but it was fucking stellar overall.

I'm so surprised at how much people liked this movie. I thought it sucked out loud. Alien and Aliens FTW!

That’s like, just your opinion man.

I for one enjoyed Romulus and want to see more. Give me more.

No. Keep making them because Alien: Romulus was fuckin rad. It didn't reinvent the wheel, I got kind of annoyed with the callbacks towards the middle/end part of the movie, but I want to see it again, if not in the theater I'll rent it on streaming. It's the 3rd best Alien movie imo, that's high praise for such a robust franchise. Anyway, the writer of this article is an industry hack, Furiosa is great too. I'm out 🤟

The problem is, Alien: Romulus was pretty good. It gives the original a run for its money in my opinion.

Romulus would be better without the callbacks to the first two films. One character in particular I wish was someone else entirely. Also, I didn't like the ending as it tied into Prometheus/Covenant, my least favourite of the Alien franchise.

I feel Alien has gone the way of Star Wars which keeps linking to the Skywalker's. Let Alien break free of the Ripley verse (She's even in Romulus as a well hidden Easter Egg!) and do something different. The comics have had excellent stories over the years, adapt one of those.

One of my favourites is Aliens: Labyrinth which is about a crazy scientist on a deep space station who has successfully got the alien species under control. His backstory is quite something and you know it will go wrong in the end.

Remember when they re-released Star Wars episode 4 in 2015...

There are no new ideas. Just new talent to play old roles.

bro just stop watching alien movies it's that simple

Yes make aliens mini-series instead. The comics used to release in anuals that would tell a complete arc wether that be about the destruction of a floating research station on a jungle planet after the hunters turned it into an alien hunting world, the fall of earth or refugees stumbling upon an insane scientist trying to domesticate the damn things. Any one of those anuals would make a fantastic basis for say a 12 episode mini-series.

saw it, and I went put with the idea that it was an Alien movie whose target audience was young people that didn’t see the first alien movie.

I still prefer the original first alien movie. Like a lot, but this one is pretty decent. It was like a “netflix remake” with lots of copy/paste from the original movie. Some sentences are exactly copied, some scenes greatly copied and modernized for 2024 eyes.

The main differences that make the first Alien movie superior (to me at least). In this latest movie there is no “mother sound” in the original Alien the spaceship appear to breathe and live with a constant sound that really put you into the “Alien mood”.

Sigourney Weaver. Both her role and her acting were incredible. That is just decent in this new movie.

Critic about megacorps is visible in this new movie, but felt even more terrible in the older one IMHO.

Still, there are a few things not present in the original movie in this one that are a bit nice. The relation with the androids, some great action scenes. But that’s about it. If you love the alien universe it is a pretty decent Alien. If the first Alien is a 9/10 movie I would give this one a 7/10.

I just want another Aliens vs Predator video game. Those 3-way multiplayer matches were so fun.

reason is that historically and statisticwise, sequels make more money then original movies. so there you have it.

Surprised no one in this thread has yet mentioned how this movie very much parallels Alien: Isolation and the huge success that game had by being so consistent with the premise of the first movie.

What a dumb take, the person that wrote this jerks themself off thinking about their opinions

Haven’t seen the film yet but I was agreeing with them until the very last part.

There’s some great arguments against these Disney soft reboots that tell the same story as the original films, but throwing all the previous sequels under the same bus as Romulus seems nonsensical to me.