The hero’s journey is, at its core, an underdog story. This fact makes female action stars ideal, provided the transition to hero is realistic.
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The film doesn’t explain the backstory all in one dump but breaks it up between two scenes and multiple action sequences.
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In terms of quality, I would rank the series like this: Aliens, Alien, Romulus, Resurrection, Prometheus, Covenant, ice melting, grass growing, and Alien 3.
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This film makes a serious effort to tie the alien anthology together. Continuity is too often seriously neglected in this modern age of “cinema”
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When measuring the significance of a plot hole, we should ask, how does it ultimately affect the story? Some of the ones in Romulus are not deep.
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Romulus is likely harmed at the box office by the fact that the previous two films in the series were terrible. It meets the minimum standard for a quality film
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Incoherent cinematic messes are the result of having too many people involved in writing the story. There is no single, coherent vision.
Read More ›The problem with killing the major characters of a film off-screen is that it weakens the audience’s stake in the next installment.
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We begin to learn why the alien xenomorphs take varying amounts of time to develop inside a human body before they erupt and kill.
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One example of the way stupidity appears to drive the plot is that characters who should not trust David seem to do so, with disastrous results.
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Seeing that the robot is frighteningly apathetic toward the death of one of his crew, Oram demands answers from the faulty machine.
Read More ›What’s the point of Daniels being the screenwriters’ prophet if the character isn’t going to even try to take any sort of action to prevent a disaster?
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It’s exciting but the audience will likely notice the hands of the writers moving the pieces where they want them to go.
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While it’s good that Dr. Shaw manages to maintain her faith throughout her various trials, it’s unclear why she continues the quest all alone.
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It’s not even clear how the crew knows that the alien creator wants to destroy humanity, let alone why.
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After contact with deadly alien chemicals, Dr. Shaw finds herself pregnant with an alien life form and, worse, Fifield returns as a zombie.
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The corporation funding the mission to investigate the moon in Prometheus (2012) may have a different agenda from what the crew supposes.
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While the film begins well, it eventually falls into the trap of spectacle over substance. But I recommend it for the music, the acting, and the visuals.
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Cooper says that the mysterious “They” have “evolved.” How in the world did natural selection select the fifth dimension?
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Last Saturday, we looked at Cooper and his crew landing on the first of three planets that might sustain human life. Humanity’s time on Earth is running out, and Cooper’s crew has been tasked with finding it a new home. The first planet they tried turned out not to be so ideal, and that one trip cost them decades of valuable time thanks to relativity. The planet was too close to a black hole, which meant that it had created a dramatic time shift. On Earth, over twenty years have passed since their mission began. Now the crew is traveling on to the next planet. The extra time spent on the first planet has left them with just enough fuel Read More ›