{"id":630958,"date":"2024-08-14T22:00:20","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T19:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-a-good-video-game-horror-ride\/"},"modified":"2024-08-14T22:00:20","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T19:00:20","slug":"watch-a-good-video-game-horror-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-a-good-video-game-horror-ride\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch A Good Video-Game Horror Ride"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a295119748f0\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a295119748f0\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-a-good-video-game-horror-ride\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_A_Good_Video-Game_Horror_Ride%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online A Good Video-Game Horror Ride&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-a-good-video-game-horror-ride\/#%E2%80%9CA_Good_Video-Game_Horror_Ride%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;A Good Video-Game Horror Ride&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_A_Good_Video-Game_Horror_Ride%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online A Good Video-Game Horror Ride&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CA_Good_Video-Game_Horror_Ride%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;A Good Video-Game Horror Ride&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    There\u2019s now a contradiction built into the very idea of a new \u201cAlien\u201d sequel. \u201cAlien: Romulus\u201d is the seventh entry in the franchise, and each time we line up for another one of them, even when it\u2019s as encrusted with \u201cmythology\u201d as \u201cPrometheus,\u201d the hope is that we\u2019ll get to experience a taste of the shock and awe that \u201cAlien\u201d achieved 45 years ago. \u201cAliens,\u201d in 1986, conjured enough of that sensation to register as a classic \u2014 and though \u201cAlien 3\u201d (1992) is reviled by everyone in the known universe, including its director, David Fincher, I\u2019ve always found, in its maternal-bad-dream-as-art-film way, that it exerts a slow-burn queasy power.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    But starting with \u201cAlien: Resurrection\u201d (it\u2019s never a good sign when a film\u2019s title sounds like a pitch to stockholders), the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> has been running less on honest dread than on fumes of space-beast nostalgia. The face-hugger, the adult alien with its helmet head and dripping silver jaws, the whole primal terror of your body being not just attacked but <em>invaded<\/em> \u2014 the truth is that the more \u201cAlien\u201d movies you see, the less of a nightmare jolt there is to them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    So when I say that \u201cAlien: Romulus\u201d is one of the best \u201cAlien\u201d sequels, that it delivers the slimy creep-out goods in a way that none of the last three \u201cAlien\u201d films have, I don\u2019t mean to suggest that the shock and awe is back, or that the movie has reinvented this series in any visionary mind-fuck way. Quite the contrary. This is closer to a grandly efficient greatest-hits thrill ride, packaged like a video <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a>. Yet on that level it\u2019s a confidently spooky, ingeniously shot, at times nerve-jangling piece of entertainment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    The film is set during the period between \u201cAlien\u201d and \u201cAliens,\u201d which is a way of hearkening back while dispensing with the storytelling murk of prequels. Most of it unfolds on the carcass of a sprawling ship, much like the Nostromo, that has been decommissioned and is floating around the cosmos. Rain Carradine (Cailee Spaeny), a mine worker, is lured into joining a group of four young renegades who plan to escape the Jackson Star Mining Colony, which is basically a dystopian corporate prison with no daylight. (Rain, after earning a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">travel<\/a> permit, is told that the policy has changed and she must now work another 12,000 hours \u2014 i.e., five years \u2014 for the right to travel.) If she and her rebel brigade can reach the abandoned ship and restart it, and if there\u2019s enough fuel for nine years of cryo sleep, they can escape.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    The ship looks fascinatingly old-fashioned (primitive computer graphics, a cooling system of backlit propeller fans), and it\u2019s not the only thing that does; so do the monsters. The director, Fede \u00c1lvarez (\u201cDon\u2019t Breathe,\u201d the \u201cEvil Dead\u201d remake), is a visually brash, dramatically pedestrian showman who stages the alien encounters with a welter of practical effects, which in this retro era tends to get some viewers as excited as a Gen-X hipster cooing over his vinyl collection. Early on, several of the characters explore a passage deck flooded with water, where they encounter things thrashing around them. It\u2019s an army of face-huggers, who are now almost like old friends. (At the screening I attended, rubbery models of them were passed out as PR items, sort of like Leatherface masks.) They don\u2019t seem as powerful as they once did (I don\u2019t remember characters in \u201cAlien\u201d being able to just shake them off), but there is plenty of bony tentacled imagery, and one hugger fastens itself to a crew member, the close-cropped Navarro (Aileen Wu), who soon disgorges a writhing fetus with jaws.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    There are other elements there to remind us of \u201cAlien\u201d: a hole burned through layers of the ship, as well as a mangled droid named Rook, played by a digitally reconstituted version of the late Ian Holm (even though his character in \u201cAlien\u201d was named Ash). He looks a bit more svelte than you remember, as if he went on the AI diet \u2014 but seriously, if this is what the future of AI re-creation looks like, it\u2019s more creepy than auspicious. Holm\u2019s monologue in \u201cAlien\u201d was one of the film\u2019s highlights, but \u201cAlien: Romulus\u201d isn\u2019t a thriller where the characters pop in the same way. Several of them have off-puttingly indecipherable British accents, and it\u2019s not as if the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">script<\/a> fills them in. But \u201cPriscilla\u2019s\u201d Cailee Spaeny, with her clear eyes and serene resolve, makes her presence felt as Rain, the closest equivalent here to the fearless Ripley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Rain has brought along a droid of her own named Andy, who tells bad jokes and whom she regards as a spiritual brother. He\u2019s played by David Jonsson with a gentle-voiced ambiguity that\u2019s compelling; when he gets reprogrammed into a company stooge, we realize we miss the old Andy more than we do the characters who are being killed off. There\u2019s a disturbing half-formed alien that looks more vaginal than anything we\u2019ve seen in the franchise, as well as an elevator shaft lined with the obsidian exoskeletons of live alien bodies. In a terrific sequence set in an anti-gravity zone, Rain lays waste to this monster army with a mega machine gun, leaving yellow acid blood hanging in blotches in the air.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    But it\u2019s the final act of \u201cAlien: Romulus\u201d that\u2019s designed to get audience eyes popping: a birth sequence that nods to \u201cPrometheus\u201d and ties the series together, though what\u2019s best about it is simply the flair with which \u00c1lvarez stages a lone-woman-vs.-humanoid-alien showdown. It\u2019s a sequence tense enough to grab you by the throat, if not the face.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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