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But, to just throw an idea out there … covers of and homages to songs are normal and sometimes awesome in music, and fundamental in live music.

So maybe the same isn’t so bad in film, especially if they’re not done badly, as it seems to be here.

The film does a lot of things I liked but those call-outs are often so clunky it spoiled what could have been one of the great Alien films (it’s still better than most).

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echutaaa@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Are we reading the same article? The text was bashing anything that has a scary alien in a rust bucket spaceship killing ppl. The callbacks are corny sure but not the point. To say no one should make a film that puts a xeno in a space ship and have it hunt down ppl anymore because they did that 50 years ago is insane.

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- MotoAsh@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  No, it wasn’t bashing anything that has a scary alien in a rust bucket spaceship… It merely says, “we already have that movie and it’s great”. It literally praises the original…
  
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  - echutaaa@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    It’s not a bad film, but it’s also a direct copy of a much better film that already exists. That film is called Alien, and it came out in 1979. It had Sigourney Weaver in it. It hasn’t vanished. If you have a Disney+ subscription or a torrent client, you can watch it tonight. Why have we made it again? What’s the point? Why have we spent the past 45 years – which is longer than I’ve been alive – making seven different versions of the same film? What on Earth is going on?
    
    The article is literally saying we should not be making alien movies if there’s already a good one. It’s saying they should have never even attempted to make Romulus because alien exists. If that not bashing it idk what is.
    
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  - DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    It also said every movie in the franchise is just a remake of the first…
    
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