As for the "believability" part, the teens in the movie don't have access to space travel. They have access to orbital SPACE TRACTORS and extremely focused work training, because they have been generational child-slave workers their entire lives.
The film spend tens of minutes explaining to the audience that real space TRAVEL between planets is complicated, advanced, dangerous and extremely SLOW. It's not something normally done by mere civilians, which is why they have to risk their lives to access it.

You never know if Alex absolutely loved a movie or absolutely hated it until he speaks 😂 it’s hilarious 😂

the black guy playing the part of the android did a fenomenal job, when he  SPOILER ***********switches chips to the weiland yutani one and aggressively grabs a facehugger by the tail I was speechless

i didn't need it to be better than Alien or Aliens. i just wanted it to be a decent movie and i'm glad that's what we finally got.

Alien (1979) takes place in the year 2122AD
Alien Isolation takes place in 2137AD
Alien Romulus takes place in 2142AD
Aliens takes place in 2179AD
Alien 3 takes place in 2179AD
Alien Resurrection takes place in 2379AD.
Hope that helps anyone understand where this film sits in the overall alien timeline.

Borderlands was expensive because every actor they hired charges $30mil a movie.

No spoilers but the ending I initially was like “wtf” with a confused grimace, but honestly the way Fede shot it made it genuinely fucking creepy.

Enjoyed it, but I just don’t understand modern screenwriters and how they don’t see major plot holes and inconsistencies in their writing. I rewatched the originals and they aged a bit but at no point did I have to just say “well that wouldn’t happen and is really hard to ignore”

like Weylon Utani just leaving the research station derelict directly above one of their colonies…with a spaceport… for years with the alien life they’ve been desperate to get a hold of right there with zero explanation for why they didn’t go back and clear it out

The Borderlands situation is Karma for Aliens: Colonial Marines

Just saw it. Movie theater was dead silent in the space scenes

The biggest gripe of mine is that the movie is SO derivative of other alien movies and games.
It felt like I had seen almost every single scene before.

Other Joe: 8
Alex: 8
Angry Joe: 8

According to Ridley Scott the movie was originally really long and Ridley Scott gave Fede pointers to shorten it so hopefully we will get a Directors cut in future because that is probably why you’re wanting it longer or some things feels cut.

8 with the plot holes larger than Nostromo.?? Wow

This film had a lot of tension, but Ripley going back into the Queen Alien's hive alone to save Newt with minutes left until the colony was about to explode was genuinely one of the most terrifying and badass things I've ever seen in any film

When y’all said the budget for this was $80 million, this is WHERE I THINK we need to return back to a time of more “modestly-priced blockbusters” (The Creator is ANOTHER ONE that has a GREAT VISUAL AESTHETIC but is made on a relatively “shoestring budget” compared to most Hollywood productions).

The problem now is CGI significantly INFLATES the budget and EVERYONE’S eyes have now become SO over-bombarded by CGI effects, that UNLESS you have the BEST CGI EVER, most people are gonna be look, “meh, that CGI looks okay” or “that CGI looks fake.”

Or I’m WRONG ABOUT ALL THIS and movies cost too much now because the execs are using them as a “front” to launder their own “Cayman Islands bank holdings” back into their own pockets (which wouldn’t REALLY surprise me).

I know that when Fede Alvarez first showed "ALIEN: ROMULUS" to Ridley Scott and James Cameron, they both liked it. I also know that Ridley Scott told Fede Alvarez that he thought that he had a "potentially huge movie here".

This movie really puts into perspective on how much of a parasite, the alien actually really is. ❤

David Jonsson acting was phenomenal.

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In the film it shows how a chest burster becomes a full grown Xenomorph, in a matter of minutes and the design of the cocoon would have made  H.R. Giger be very proud. It’s very seemless.