The Reel Rejects - Just Watched ALIEN: ROMULUS!! Reaction & Review!

Episode Date: August 10, 2024

RIGHT OUT OF THEATER!! Alien Romulus Movie Review & Reaction filmed inside the Regal Cinemas 4DX theater courtesy of D23. The Xenomorph & Facehuggers return from director Fede Alvarez (Evil Dead & Don't Breathe) with many claiming this actually lives up to the Ridley Scott original as well as the James Cameron Aliens sequel. After many mids to misses such as Alien 3, Alien Ressurection, Alien Covenant, Prometheus, Alien Vs Predator...does this one capture that space horror magic again?! The cast consists of Cailee Spaeny as Rain, Isabela Merced as Kay, Archie Renaux as Tyler, and David Jonsson as Andy. The Alien Romulus Trailer Reaction was something special, but the movie itself... Support The Channel By Getting Some REEL REJECTS Apparel! https://www.rejectnationshop.com/ Music Used In Manscaped Ad:  Hat the Jazz by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ POWERED BY @GFUEL Visit https://gfuel.ly/3wD5Ygo and use code REJECTNATION for 20% off select tubs!! Head Editor: https://www.instagram.com/praperhq/?hl=en Co-Editor: Greg Alba Co-Editor: John Humphrey Music In Video: Airport Lounge - Disco Ultralounge by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Ask Us A QUESTION On CAMEO: https://www.cameo.com/thereelrejects Follow TheReelRejects On FACEBOOK, TWITTER, & INSTAGRAM:  FB:  https://www.facebook.com/TheReelRejects/ INSTAGRAM:  https://www.instagram.com/reelrejects/ TWITTER:  https://twitter.com/thereelrejects Follow GREG ON INSTAGRAM & TWITTER: INSTAGRAM:  https://www.instagram.com/thegregalba/ TWITTER:  https://twitter.com/thegregalba Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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WhatsApp, message privately with everyone. Citizens of the Reject Nation, Coy and I, we literally just got out of watching Alien Romulus at 4DX. I didn't know this until really. You saw all the alien movies? I love the alien movies, too. If you guys have seen the trailer for this,

you know that, like, oh, this is trying to harken back a little bit more to the original alien films. Successfully, the great ones. Halfway through this movie, I was thinking, this movie is a fantastic rendition on the alien films like it's doing a great job on the on a play on the alien films but the last half of this movie it started going like whoa you were doing things within the alien world rules things I've never seen you do before it was very impressive they even push it to the limit at certain points where I thought they might be jumping the shark but it works I'll just say this it's undoubtedly the best alien movie since the second alien movie aliens this is like the complete trilogy to the alien films for me they've got a third alien movie and they've tried so many times and at long last there is a third excellent alien movie i agree the trilogy is complete i think hr geiger set out to be a really perverse horny dude all those years ago and now i know what he's talking about man oh man i definitely

understand the reference because there's a lot of things and holes and protrusions and the things popping out and popping in and wet and swelching the direction i expected it to go yeah man things squelph wetly that i felt weird about i was really impressed that it made you so confused about why you were scared and it played attention well and it played with atmosphere well what i love about the first alien film is the horror is about the experience and the setting and the entire thing what i love about the second alien film is the amount of intense action they're able to do so the combination of the horror elements and the atmosphere of alien with the intense action and pacing of aliens is alien romulus so i was so impressed with it balancing those two very

disparate tones and also bringing you new things like he mentioned the second half of the film it would have felt like it did too much if it didn't love the rules and setting of this world so impressed and what's cool about the movie too is while it's primarily doing this perfect blend of like alien and aliens it also seems to take like the best lessons from alien three and alien resurrection and even prometheus knew how to like throw it into the mix that's a good point i like that the movie does have such a great tension to it. What I feel like this movie kind of has over the other ones of what makes it stand out from the alien films. At a certain point, it just like shifts from neutral into drive and it just doesn't let go of the gas pedal. Like it just slams on the gas

and it just keeps going faster and accelerating faster, faster and more intense, more intense. While this movie is scary, it's also incredibly fun. I thought this was a really fun movie on top of it being a really tense movie. And you could feel it with the crowd, too. Like, the crowd was definitely very vocal through so much of this film. I do like what you had to say about letting your foot off the gas.

The movie starts in a way that is really about making you love these characters. You had a funny note about, like, accents. I love accents, and I rarely, like, I wasn't having any trouble with the amount of accents, but I was really impressed that the movie was like, hey, you're going to love all these people that you probably wouldn't connect to otherwise.

Like, they did a really good job endearing you to them. And then once, that thing happens where it's like gas, it needed all that time because you have no time to love them anymore. Because it's just a sprint. In the trailers, they don't really tease a lot of what the main story is about, but they do have that, this main girl already forgot her name, but she kind of looks like our new Ripley replacement. She's great in the movie. Tyler Spenny's incredible. The person who I think is the real standout is the synthetic Andy in the film. Won't say much about him. I feel like out of anyone who really connected with

the crowd, it was one actually the more compelling character, I do think it was a synthetic I also really like the commentary that the alien films, to me, always feel like a post-regonomics commentary in capitalism and the way they handle the AI element that we're dealing with in 2024. Relationships with it. Yeah, like, I think that Reaganomics is one of the great problems we're dealing with to this day. And now we're entering into an age of dealing with AI and all the adversity of what that's going to do to capitalism. The movie addresses that in a really head-on way and much the same way the first film addressed wealth and equality and what it did for the working class. what it was to be part of a company and a corporation. And the characters in the first two films especially

are dealing with the oppression of a mega conglomerate. And I think this film does that best since those two. So we talked about the action of horror. But the actual heart of these films is what humans have to do to endure a world like this. And I think that Andy does a really good job representing this new age in a way that a lot of sequels try to do. Like sequels are always trying to modernize the old guards problems.

And I don't think there is a bigger new problem than AI and money. And I think on all the massive technical achievements, the xenomorph has not looked this good in a very long time. Wet, achy, shrouded in darkness, squelches wet, close-upness. The build of it, that's what I mean is how it really harkens back to the first alien movie. It's kind of strange because Fetty Albers clearly has a love for Ridley Scott's first alien movie, and he out did what Ridley Scott tried doing with Prometheus and Alien Covenant. He did it. Ridley Scott better than Ridley Scott could be Ridley Scott.

The music was also phenomenal in it. The way the film was shot, the production design does feel like the old tech from like the 70s and 80s as well. Man, the shoes held on. They held on to that really well. And I felt like it was shot on film. I don't think it was, but it looked like it the whole time. Production design is as incredible as it needs to be to feel like it's part of this universe. That is something that we don't talk about enough in movies in this space where if you're doing sci-fi and it doesn't have that tension, it doesn't have that incredible every detail counts, it falls apart. So the aliens looking good only works because the ship looks good, only works if the wardrobe is good.

And this movie feels like when you watch a Blockbuster from the 80s and 90s and you're like, man, everyone loved working on this. This feels like, man, everyone really loved alien. Everyone loved working on this because nothing. is the weak link yeah there's great surprises in here the sound design is phenomenal too on top of that and i will say too a strange thing to actually point out but i feel like we haven't talked about this an alien franchise in a while the use of space itself yes beautiful outer space beautiful to look at it goes back to space being a scary environment and element again yeah and see that on the big screen

made such an impact as well the very end i want people to go into this movie as blind as we did because there are some interesting twists and turns that really evolve what you want out of horror and sci-fi like they do a really good job doing things that i didn't think i'd like and it's actually doing things that i've heard about them having the idea of in other versions of this story and it landed in a way that i will be haunted by for some time to come like there are visuals where this goes that i was just uncomfortably jarred unnerving as hell Like lives right here, like right behind my eyeballs. And that's really impressive.

If you're someone who hasn't seen Alien, I would say that the movie's definitely going to be way more rewarding. You might miss a couple of, without spoiling crap. You might miss a couple of things of why it's, like, special if you haven't seen the other alien movies. However, I do think that it actually does fit as a film that if you haven't seen the other ones, you could totally still enjoy it. They re-explain things in a way that's easy to latch on to.

If this is going to be your first alien movie, as a matter of fact, there was someone here who was their very first alien movie, and they loved it. And they loved the movie. Yeah, I remember talking about them afterwards. they absolutely love the film is the only alien movie they've ever seen even if you don't have time to watch the other ones do yourself favor and least watch the first two but if you don't have time you can absolutely just watch this one on your own this is the highest praise i can give a legacy sequel it's like creed and that is a legacy sequel that i think does legacy sequels best because you care

about the world you're living in but it only enhances your world if you know what led to those moments and i honestly think that this is something that will lead people to alien aliens because those movies are from 79 and like 82 there is an entire generation that's like oh those old sci-fi movies they're gonna watch this and go like i'm on those the sacred texts i'm gonna go back i'm just i'm like literally here going like what are like the cons with this movie and my cons with the movie are in the beginning i sometimes had a hard time understanding what they were saying that's probably just on me being like i can't keep up with these accents a little bit there is one thing in this movie and i don't really want to say too much but it is a moment that involves like the second you see it

You could tell how heavily CGIed it is. Koi and I were sitting next to each other. We ended up laughing and making fun of it. I got used to it as this thing progressed in the movie. You can't say much more. And then, you know, one of the other things often in these kinds of films is these characters have like interpersonal relationships. You know, some characters might die.

And once in a while, when something like that happens, I'm like, this person seems like that kind of move past his death a little bit fast. I'm kind of used to that within the genre. These are things in the grand scheme of things that didn't really bother me. I don't know. I'm not kind of like bullshitting my way through it. don't really have, like, a problem with this movie. I thought it was, like, a really strong movie. Whenever a character does die, it was like, oh, man, that's a, it's kind of a bummer.

Answered my big problems. My biggest problems were all like, oh, that's doing it. And then I was like, yeah, that's why it did it. And I think it earned the doing it. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, I give this movie, like, a solid, like, 9.9 out of 10. That's a high price. Yeah, mine, I'd say like a 9.3, which is insanely high. What's that point seven? I got to process, Craig. It just happened. Ferey Alvarez did his alvoreist. There was so much, like, greatness in the horror space, so much greatness in the sci-fi space. I want people to see this as blind as we went in. It's a hell of a time.

And I want to thank the entire team that set this whole thing up, because this was a really cool way to see it with everyone. Like, the audience was so riveted. So I really appreciate everyone bringing this together. And being on 40X as well, I can sometimes have a love-hate relationship with 40X, honestly. When I talked about this movie being fun, the 40X made it a lot more fun. There was your first time doing 40X. I am mentally and physically exhausted by this film and by the 40X and like the actual experience of watching it felt like two things and I love that. Thank you guys so much.

I got to go work on this video. Much love to your Reject Nation and thanks to Jasmine for holding down the forward of the camera work right now.