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The out of the gate reactions were good until the Critical Drinker types chimed in with "UMMM ACKSHUALLY, SOUTH PARK TOLD US THAT A FRANCHISE CALLING BACK TO ITSELF IS THE WORST THING EVER (EVEN THOUGH THEY DO IT ALL THE TIME), SO THIS MOVIE IS BAD".
After getting the the bleak cobbled together mess that was Alien 3, the proto-Whedon slop that was Resurrection (though Winona Ryder is a goddess in that), shonen slop with AVP 1 and 2, and Prometheus and Covenant trying to be deep while being nowhere near as intelligent as it seemed to think it was, Romulus was refreshing in its simplicity. I wanted to see a xenomorph run around on a ship fucking people up, and that's precisely what I got.
It's like Jaws or Halloween; it only kind of works on that one level, and gets stupid when you start throwing a bunch of extra lore and shit into it. It was only ever meant to be a 50s creature feature with a budget, but thanks to the comics, and Cameron shares some of the blame as well, they started trying to make it into the next Star Wars, and it got stupid.
In that aspect, I can almost respect Alien 3 as an attempt to bring it back to basics after Aliens basically turned it into a kids brand, complete with toys and video games. The problem is that it did it in the messiest and most unsatisfying way possible, which seemed to stem almost entirely from the fact that they HAD to have Ripley in the plot for some reason, rather than letting her ride off into the proverbial sunset with Newt, Hicks, and Bishop at the end of Aliens, and letting new characters take over.
