This post has been edited by koolspyda: May 14 2017, 11:41 AM

Yeah, the alien sequences in Covenant are fucking awful. Aliens roaming about like a velociraptor under sunshine. What a farce. If Scott intended those scenes to be true in spirit to the 1979 film, then he got it very very wrong. And that scene with the xenomorph crawling about outside the airborne ship? It is as bad as it was in the trailer.

@koolspyda
Dude if you want to be credible...please read from a legit source, not just click baity articles that floating like herpes. That article also missing this:
http://www.looper.com/64117/ridley-scott-m...m_campaign=clip

You also need to realize during a press junket, Q&A already been curated to a certain extent by the PR people and Studio. Whatever that's out in the wild already been approved by the necessary party mostly.

It's his decision to revisit the nostalgic hole. Succeeding or not that's a different story altogether.
Your assessment just a correlation and not a causation.

How does caving or not in to the fans caused the movie a bad product. How about having a better story and trying fresh ideas. At the end of it all, does the budget allow it or do they have the time to do it. Do the studio agree to bankroll it. Without them, there's simply no movie.

In case you are so oblivious to how marketing works...there's a thing that called post-mortem. Facts and figures assessment that to be quantified with focus group research and data from sales or any other means of performance index.

Chances are the studio came up with priorities and goals to meet. It's Ridley Scott job to meet those criteria and not just be answerable to fanboys.

feels like the title gave people higher expectation of Alien's carnage
most audience already stereotyped how an Alien show should be: dark corridor, hunting, survival, jump scare, motion detection, lurking from behind, etc...

which unfortunately most are not in this latest movie, hence the reason most fans will hate this movie

I love Prometheus, it has it flaws (hated the silly scene of death crushed by rolling spaceship ), but nonetheless has good story, a spark of idea on the origin of Xenomorph, and some really breath taking landscape shots.

I was expecting something similar in Covenant, but unfortunately most of the original are lost in this sequel, for me it doesn't feels like a RS's movie, feels like he's trying to much to fulfill the demand of the studio/fanbase, and left with little of his own story telling. Basically this latest Alien movie franchise feels like a mixed bowl of rojak

The alien Covenant is tracking & apparently doing well, so they listened.

There is nothing to it. It's what fans wanted, and it might not satisfy many fans who appreciated Prometheus, well like some said 50/50, probably first half it's some answers to loose ends of Prometheus & the tail end the the gore & aliens beast doing what it does best.

Just watched it. A tad disappointing. Not much alien scenes. A very cliche kind of alien movie.



This post has been edited by carmenyta: May 15 2017, 04:16 PM

Thanks dude

One hell of a creepy insane psycho movie. Where does it even come close to being an Alien franchise on the whole?

Dammit David,



that said I hope there's more to it. I like this and Prometheus because it made me wanna know a lot more.

Yeah it's not like the old Alien movies but I don't care.

i think of Prometheus/Covenant storyline as the story about an android wanted to be human/god-like power ... same like Marvels Agents of SHIELD's Aida's dream to become human/god-like power...

the Aliens storyline should be secondary, for now .... until the original Aliens kicksin ... but i liked the theory where aliens are byproduct of experimentation of David ...

One thing bugs me:



This post has been edited by alhambry: May 16 2017, 09:45 PM

Aliens in Predator universe are not the same as alien in the original Alien universe. Aliens in Predator 2 and AvP series are in diferrent non canon universe where the studio just wanna mash up both species fighting each other in 1 movie based on fans request and Dark Horse's AvP series.

I now thinking the origin of the black goo. Maybe it originates from an organism similar to xenomorph? Coz we saw the figure on the ceiling in prometheus?

I also believe the alien Xenomorph and Alien queen already exists waay before David developing his Xenomorph. Its because the Alien Queen's figure was already etched at the Engineer's armada ship. My theory is, David may found that the Xenomorph was previously developed by the engineers based on the scrolls and research he founds when he was stranded with Shaw at the Engineer's planet. David maybe simply wanted to recreate back the xenomorph, which the Engineer's don't want to create.

Interesting. But in the first place where did those bombs come from? Was it purely intended to be used on Earth? If it was, did it mean that the Engineers created it? But if they did, wouldnt they prepare a cure for it or safeguards? (i.e biowarfare)

To quote Keanu Reeves infamous line from matrix....Woah!!!!!
The best theory to date.

Feels like a true return to form with its horror elements.

Haha

And here i still cannot fathom Alien 1

Not the movie fault

I got spoilt by James Cameron fast paced action formula in Alien 2



Not so much Romulus fan but i may catch during Wednesday price hahahaha

macam ada android lagi
and the signature proximity sensor

In spirit of the classic Alien