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Alien: Romulus sounds very derivative, dull, and focused on pressing as many old buttons as possible. (www.youtube.com)
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No, I haven't seen it. Yes, I know RedLetterMedia is not an infallible source of movie criticism. But when I read about the movie myself, from promotional material for it no less, I found myself asking "that's it? That's all there is to this?"

Maybe my interest/fondness of the franchise hasn't fully recovered from that "David actually made the alien and killed all the Engineers" retcon asspull from before that made the universe feel very small and stripped it of a lot of curiousity and dread in the darkness of space and all of that.

If you saw it and liked it, that's great. Share what you liked about it if you like. The set design, physical costume/makeup work, and even the acting all sound promising, but I don't think I could bear to sit through what really does sound like some LLM-written kitbash of the previous movies.

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[โ€“] ihaveibs@hexbear.net 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I just can't get past how ableist the movie is towards Andy. What aspects of his character do you think are interesting in the movie itself? Or do you mean what it represents about how broader society views disabled folks?

[โ€“] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I'm still not fully sure how I feel about Andy. He's coded as autistic, with his two personalities sort of being two stereotypical (?) "types" of autism (tropes?). I've seen analysis on how his character partially subverts but arguably still falls into racist tropes as well. The point is, if you're reviewing the movie, you should be discussing these sorts of things. The guys in this youtube video don't, and so their review is extremely shallow. A movie does not need to be good for it to be a good movie for analyzing.