Romulus Gives Birth to A Huge Opening Weekend in "Alien"

Alien, directed by Ridley Scott, fundamentally altered the landscape of science fiction.

A story that serves as the basis for one of the best science fiction horror movies ever made is engrossing, but it should also serve a bigger, more innovative purpose on HD Movies Soap2Day. While it might be entertaining to detect shot-for-shot allusions to Aliens and character details reminiscent of Alien 3, when these elements don't actually add anything to the narrative, the picture starts to feel like a pointless exercise that regrettably fits in with the current trends in franchise filmmaking. The allusion to Prometheus seems especially inappropriate; it's as though Scott is instructing Álvarez not to overlook his prequels. The movie loses its way when Álvarez and Sayagues start cramming in as many allusions to past movies as they can, discarding any hint of creativity. Fascinating storylines are introduced by Álvarez and Sayagues, such as the fact that Weyland-Yutani killed Bjorn's mother in the mines in order to save the lives of Synthetics, but they are swiftly dropped to advance the plot and reveal the next Easter Egg. It seems more like a flimsy attempt to poke fun at the status quo of franchise filmmaking while giving in to its darker tendencies.

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Foreign, Whenever I think of the outpost, I picture Brett going down into its depths to try and locate Jones—the famous orange cat—who has run off and chosen the worst place to hide. In front of the camera is the tan skin of a reptile that used to belong to the terrifying chestburster that had killed Kane just hours earlier. That small silver-sharp-toothed chestburster has developed pretty swiftly, far stronger than any of the crew members had imagined. If only Alien: Romulus had understood the lesson of nature, that in order to grow to his full potential, one must discard his old skin.