Press Release BVHE Press Release: Alien: Romulus (4k UHD) (Blu-ray) (1 Viewer)

[Worth]

Fede Alvarez says they improved the CGI Ian Holm for the home release.

“We just ran out of time in post-production to get it right. I wasn’t 100% happy with some of the shots [in the theatrical release]”

Alien: Romulus ‘Fixed’ The Controversial Ian Holm CGI For Home Release: ‘It’s So Much Better’

Director Fede Alvarez confirms his Alien film got a visual upgrade following its cinema release. Read more at Empire.

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It was a terrible idea from the outset. Not only is it poorly done, it adds nothing to the story.

 

[JoshZ]

It was a terrible idea from the outset. Not only is it poorly done, it adds nothing to the story.

What it "added to the story" was another fan-service callback in a movie that exists solely to dole out fan-service callbacks to earlier, better films. As narratively pointless as it may be, scenes like this were the explicit mission statement of the production.

 

[Tino]

What it "added to the story" was another fan-service callback in a movie that exists solely to dole out fan-service callbacks to earlier, better films. As narratively pointless as it may be, scenes like this were the explicit mission statement of the production.

Obviously that’s a matter of opinion.

I enjoyed that aspect of the film as it tied in the company’s practice of using similar synthetic humans ala Bishop.

I still would rank this film third after the first two films.

 

[tenia]

What it "added to the story" was another fan-service callback in a movie that exists solely to dole out fan-service callbacks to earlier, better films. As narratively pointless as it may be, scenes like this were the explicit mission statement of the production.

Clearly. Otherwise, there's nothing this character does in the movie that couldn't have been done through a different "synthetic" character (that probably wouldn't have required to be updated technically a few months post-release because there wouldn't have been real-life hurdles in portraying it, to begin with).

 

[Worth]

What it "added to the story" was another fan-service callback in a movie that exists solely to dole out fan-service callbacks to earlier, better films. As narratively pointless as it may be, scenes like this were the explicit mission statement of the production.

I thought the film was reasonably well made, but it did feel like a "greatest hits" package.

 

[Jonathan Perregaux]

If someone from the future had told me—in a darkened theater in 1979, as the original ALIEN was unspooling—there would be nine of these things, I would have (reasonably) laughed in Future Boy's face. In order for such a thing to be true, all those sequels would likely resemble the then-recent Airport movies... starting strong, but then endlessly recycling the originating concept into absurdity until all the parts came off.

And now there are nine of these things, and I do see strewn parts lying about. Looking forward to the Devil's Triangle and Charo being in the tenth installment.

 

[TravisR]

...but it did feel like a "greatest hits" package.

That's why it was the best received movie in the series since Aliens.

 

[Tino]

That's why it was the best received movie in the series since Aliens.

Clearly.

 

[Malcolm R]

People love to hear/see the old favorites. Witness Top Gun: Maverick and Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.

 

[dpippel]

Never underestimate the power of nostalgia.

 

[Worth]

...And now there are nine of these things, and I do see strewn parts lying about. Looking forward to the Devil's Triangle and Charo being in the tenth installment.

Now that I would see.

 

[JoshZ]

Looking forward to the Devil's Triangle and Charo being in the tenth installment.

A digitally de-aged or even fully CGI Charo, of course. Cuchi-cuchi.