THB #588: Alien Romulus

“If I only had a brain made of popcorn”

I have found myself saying the same thing - amongst so many other things - for the last couple of years. TOO MUCH!!!

You could feel the excitement in the IMAX theater where many LA critics saw Alien Romulus on Monday. You don’t get that feeling very often. Full houses, yes. But there was that energy that was similar to the first press screening of Avatar, if not quite the hysteria of the first screening of the second Star Wars trilogy film, The Phantom Menace. But this group was ready to take the ride.

The idea of the movie, presented in the last trailers and some ads, is that a young group is raiding an abandoned ship that has some exotic materials on it that they want… but they don’t know what is also on the ship.