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  "description": "The Alien franchise is among my favorite scifi/horror franchises because it lands firmly in the don't invent the horror vortex camp. It's realistic, not optimistic and its vision of space is all rough edges, green screen monitors and square clicky buttons and keys. We're still going to try and invent the torture vortex and we're still going to go into space instead of preserving what we have because overbearing hubris is core to the human experience, not because it's a good idea. We'll run headlong into something that'll kill us because we think we can engineer our way around or through every single problem we'll encounter. Leap headlong into the abyss confident you'll land on your feet and soon enough you'll find something flitting around your chest as you realize just how wrong you were about — well — everything. Lesson learned? No, never. Engineer better. It's hard not to sympathize with a cast of characters trying to escape a system that dangles a carrot, exploits them and throws up walls right as they think the carrot's in reach. After all, it feels a lot like we're at right now. Work long enough and hell in you'll get to work outside of hell. At least there's a light at the end of the shortcut. In our timeline we'll outsource the cargo bay ejection instruction design to IKEA and nobody will survive.",
  "path": "/watching/movies/alien-romulus-2024",
  "publishedAt": "2024-10-16T13:30:00Z",
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  "tags": [
    "scifi",
    "thriller",
    "horror",
    "action"
  ],
  "title": "Alien: Romulus"
}