{"id":1622,"date":"2024-08-16T21:08:29","date_gmt":"2024-08-17T04:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/?p=1622"},"modified":"2024-08-16T21:11:39","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T04:11:39","slug":"movie-pass-adventures-alien-romulus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/16\/movie-pass-adventures-alien-romulus\/","title":{"rendered":"Movie Pass Adventures: Alien: Romulus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/alien-romulus.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1623\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/alien-romulus.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/alien-romulus-300x38.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/alien-romulus-768x96.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s an Alien movie. It goes like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>There&#8217;s a problem (that looks familiar).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>We have to do a thing to solve it.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Our &#8220;solution&#8221; leads to a bigger problem (that also looks familiar).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Repeat, killing folks along the way.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a total fan-service movie, and that mostly works, but there is a specific extended callback that was such a terrible idea that it pulled me right out of the film for a bit. And I thought the Final Boss Monster looked goofy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh, and here&#8217;s what I kept thinking when I saw the title:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Icant-be-the-only-one-always-thinking-this-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"The left side: the poster for Alien: Romulus.\n\nThe right side: A fake poster for Romulan: Alias featuring Captain Picard disguised as a Romulan.\" class=\"wp-image-1627\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Icant-be-the-only-one-always-thinking-this-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Icant-be-the-only-one-always-thinking-this-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Icant-be-the-only-one-always-thinking-this-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Icant-be-the-only-one-always-thinking-this-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Icant-be-the-only-one-always-thinking-this.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">In Space, the Final Frontier&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who wants a hug???<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1624,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":10,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":""},"categories":[161,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movie-pass-adventures","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1622"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1629,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1622\/revisions\/1629"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}