Alien: Romulus is getting a VHS release
Alien: Romulus is getting a VHS release
Celebrating 45 years since Alien first (chest) burst into theaters.
I did not care for this movie. It was poorly written, tasteless, and had gratoiuois rib elbowing nostalgia references.
gratoiuois rib elbowing nostalgia references
That's what killed it for me. Early on.I thought they'd be OK but they broke me and I, mentally, went "well you can fuck right off with this nonsense" and then they kept piling it on. It would have been bad in a cheap fan film and I have no idea what possessed them to do it.
I could've lived with the nostalgia baiting if they didn't write so many stupid RNG scenarios into the movie. Even the whole premise of a station coming out of nowhere, somehow somewhere flung out of orbit, somehow getting captured by their planet's orbit, just to then be on an intercept trajectory with the ring. But the whole movie adds more and more, like the ship magically sliding along the station, just to crash land in the hangar, which btw, why did they not land there, especially since they could've never fit the cryo pots through the weird little maintenance shaft they came through. Or how utterly nonsensical the no gravity acid shootout was. In a no gravity environment, stuff isn't just going to stop midair, or float in a circular pattern - it would've just splattered everywhere as soon as she started blasting them. It all felt just way too "cinema" for me. I can live with some unlikely but cool action scenarios but don't chain the whole movie up with them.
Not that everything was bad though. I loved the visuals (except for the bad deep fake later on), the world building they did on the planet (which usually falls flat in the movies), and the acting was also very good. I think they approached the whole AI vs. human consciousness & creation aspect quite a bit better than Prometheus & Covenant did (although Covenant upped Prometheus for me a little bit when it came out).
That'll be great for the 6 people still left on Earth who never upgraded to DVDs or BluRay.
Well, maybe not that great since this movie sucked.
theres a niche group of tech enthusiasts who like this old shit.
my son recently jumped into 35mm film photography with the goal of pushing them into projection slides
people have crazy hobbies.
So vinyl I get. I even get cassette tape nostalgia to some degree.
But who, might I ask, has nostalgia for horrible quality video and audio and could actually want this?
I imagine it's because it is a larger piece of media than a Blu-ray so will look pretty on a shelf for completists.
That's what Laserdisc is for.
This is simply novelty merch. Cassette Futurism was largely inspired by the first Alien movie in particular and Romulus is very much an attempt to go back to the roots of the first movie, hence all the analog equipment there. So this is just for die hard fans of the franchise and the design aesthetic it birthed.
But why though?
So I can watch it on my VCR ?
Why don't you just let a child draw stick figures of every scene in the movie using Crayola nubs and describe the action to you. It would be about the same resolution. @NightShot @Etterra
Ash looked so bad. I don't understand, why they felt the need to make him look like Ian Holm instead of just casting a loving actor.
I kinda liked the uncanny valley from it in this because it made him look more like an android
Should have got Bruce Campbell obviously.
I'd feel happier about this if VHS players were still being manufactured.
Just realized how much I missed the pleasant sound of loading a cassette.
Only top loading VHS players. Once we moved to front loaders the format was dead.
When did people get nostalgic for the crappy analogue definition that was VHS? What's next betamax special editions?
It’s probably the format they watched when they were younger, which would be a major contributor to nostalgia. I still keep a VHS player and my parents’ old copies of the pre-special edition Star Wars movies along with Akira and Ghost in the Shell.
I remember programming the VCR when VHS was first a thing and I'm definitely not nostalgic for it. It was the best most people could afford at the time but it certainly wasn't good.
pre-special edition Star Wars movies
The despecialised editions are the real director's cut fite me IRL.
Alien and the teenagers : I agree, a crappy movie need a crappy resolution.
Quite useless.
Ok. I respect the two dislikes on my comment, but I honestly ask you: what sense does it make to release a movie in VHS format in 2024?
