Alien: Romulus

If they had hired a real actor to play Ian Holm’s character this would have been a solid Alien entry. 

Doing it with CGI brings nothing to the table. If someone was making Godfather 2 today they would de-age Marlon Brando and DeNiro’s once in a lifetime performance as young Vito would be lost to the world. 

What I’m trying to say is that the ghost in the machine threw me out of this film just as it was starting to cook. 

Quit doing this. 

The rest of this is fine. I’m not sure there’s any more meat on the bone for Alien as a franchise. The repeat of a famous phrase from the franchise in this flicks’ climax kind of proves the point. 

But my interest in this and predator was never very strong. Make a good one and I’ll see it eventually. Make a bad one and it’s pretty much the same thing.

The final section of the movie had our heroine battling the final boss and her ship’s levers which all have to be pulled so that she can do a thing which will save her and kill it. Two sci-fi movie classics come to mind. A sequence in Galaxy Quest where the viewers discover the space ship is very complicated for no reason at all.

And this classic line from Spaceballs. 

“Even in the future nothing works!”