Putting the Lie in Alien

I posted the trailer for Alien Romulus last week Wednesday (along with a poll making you pick between the first two films in the franchise and, update -- Ridley Scott's original has held firm in winning said poll this entire time) and now that the film is in theaters and made boffo box office I will post the poster for the first time, because I am a very timely person. It's a great poster, right? It gets the job done. I dig it. (I especially like the buzzed head, which feels like a reference to David Fincher's unjustly maligned Alien 3, but I admit when I saw the character with the buzzed head in Romulus I instantly remembered this poster and was like, "Oh well you're doomed.") But the poster isn't actually why I am here -- my Pajiba review of Alien: Romulus went up on Friday, and since I wasn't blogging that day I haven't linked to it from here -- so here, my review. I had a pretty mixed reaction overall, which depressed me -- I feel like between this and Furiosa I've been reluctantly slamming a lot of my sacred cows in 2024! I guess it just proves you can't buy me! I tells it like it is, see? (Hopefully you're reading that in a Jimmy Cagney voice because I was typing it in that voice.)