Fede Álvarez’s Alien: Romulus (Working Title) to Start Principal Photography in Feburary 2023!

[𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔈𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱𝔥 𝔓𝔞𝔰𝔰𝔢𝔫𝔤𝔢𝔯]

All of that aside, these clowns are fronting as if a bunch of early-20-somethings running afoul of a spooky monster isn't both tried and true, and a proud tradition, in the horror genre.

"Oh no, Alien is going back to its horror roots! That sucks! 0/10"

In the broad horror genre perhaps but isn't the original Alien more traditionally about a bunch of boomers running afoul of a spooky monster? 

aliens is gonna be a cheesy KIDS movie!11111

that's what nerds would be writing after hearing news of that casting.
freaking out over every single detail, knowing everything about the plot months in advance.


A POWER LOADER?
ALIEN ISN'T AN ACTION MOVIE WHAT ARE THEY dOING OVER THERE

CHEESY HOLLYWOOD CRAP!!!

etc.

To be fair, if I'd known about Burke's vest beforehand, I would probably have boycotted the film.

[Eal]

My contention is that if Aliens were released today, there would be youtube review after youtube review talking about how bad Burke's character motivation is and how dumb of a series of decisions he needs to make for the plot to happen.

Were contemporary reviews like that? I'm sure there had to be a few that mentioned Paul Reiser's character. I know, I'm a bad fan and should have already researched this.

[SiL]

All of that aside, these clowns are fronting as if a bunch of early-20-somethings running afoul of a spooky monster isn't both tried and true, and a proud tradition, in the horror genre.

"Oh no, Alien is going back to its horror roots! That sucks! 0/10"

In the broad horror genre perhaps but isn't the original Alien more traditionally about a bunch of boomers running afoul of a spooky monster? 

Alien predates the rise of 20-somethings falling afoul of something  spooky as a horror trope.

Not by much - the earliest slashers were mid to late 70s, Texas Chainsaw Massacre was an inspiration for Scott, Halloween came out during filming and F13 was only a year or two away before it made young people getting slaughtered the defining characteristic of horror for the next 10-20 years or so - but it's never been something that impacted the series.