Wednesday 21 August 2024

Rig!

 Firstly, Alien: Romulus is excellent!

Andy (played by David Jonsson) is my favourite character.

Alien Romulus offers nothing new; it's like a horrifying "The Best of Alien" album featuring masterful covers from previous episodes of Alien films. Set between Alien and Aliens, the retro-vibe is back, and yet it manages to weave elements and story points from prequels and sequels that nudge the movie out of the decaying orbit of a simple pastiche effort. So why is this the best Alien film since 1986? Mastery of the elements and discipline to keep things simple. The film never tries to pull the backstory into the foreground; you get an intriguing prologue that tells you the "how" and a fantastic cameo presence to drive the backstory, delivered in just as few lines of dialogue to explain the "why". Most surprising of all, I instantly liked all the characters. People making bad choices is an essential ingredient of the monster movie genre, but it's refreshing that all bad decisions make sense in their moment here.

Rig

I'm almost done ... probably done with the Rig

Moody lighting!

I must use more external lamps to light stuff!

Logo character art from Midjourney!




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