2024 - a year of sequels

 Thinking of all the movies this year that have been popular, there have been a LOT of repeats:

I just watched Alien:  Romulus (Alien 6 +)

Already this years there was Dune 2

Mad Max 4

And Twister 2

Upcoming is

Gladiator 2

Beetlejuice 2

Joker 2

Interesting I have not seen the original of Twister, Gladiator, Beetlejuice or Joker.  Just forgot!

And over on Netflix

Beverly Hills Cop 4  

Also to be watched, but as I found with Alien, you can't go back to 1979 again.  I think I'll remember how good Beverly Hills Cop in 1984 was.

Alien: Romulus

 Alien was one of the first R rated movies that I saw at age 14.  Back then you had to sneak into the theater.  Also I walked to the theater but that's another story.  That was the Summer of 1979.

It's a long time since then, so the plot was a little fuzzy.   A group of astronauts gets mysterious ill and an alien bursts out of the chest of one of them and terrorizes the crew until only Ripley is surviving to kill it.

Such a good premises that it has continued all these years later.

Alien:  Romulus is more like a version of Total Recall or Blade Runner, whereby workers on a foreign planet are seeking to escape.  One of the workers has a brother who is a "Replicant" or an artificial person.  They steal a spaceship with the help of their R2D2 and land, predictably, in a haunted space station, whereby aliens terrorize the crew until only Rain is surviving to kill it.

A lot of call backs to the other movies.  Directed by Feyd Alvarez,  and starring Cailee Spaeny (not Cailey Fleming as I thought!) 

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