Alien Covenant - the thread WITH SPOILERS for them what have seen it

Haych

For me Prometheus was just 'OK', it wasn't bad but it could have been a lot better.  I was really looking forward to Covenant but I think the story writers dropped the ball, but they dropped it in Prometheus and it was too late to go and fetch it in Covenant.

David as the creator of the facehugger/xenomorph is weak and the ending was predictable.  I was hoping that the AVP films tied in at least canonically and the xenomorphs were an ancient alien species and not the creation of a mad robot.

The original Alien films were great.  Alien was way ahead of it's time and Aliens worked well too.  I wasn't a fan of Alien 3 but quite liked Resurrection and IMHO they should have left it there.

But as Mel Brooks coined in Spaceballs, "God willing we'll all meet in Spaceballs 2: The Search for More Money".

WezV

Haych said:

But as Mel Brooks coined in Spaceballs, "God willing we'll all meet in Spaceballs 2: The Search for More Money".

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.maxim.com/.amp/entertainment/mel-brooks-spaceballs-2-2017-5

pintspiller

I don't understand why they used the name "Alien" in the title, as it is a Promethius sequel not an Alien sequel. Unless they've renamed Promethius as "Alien: Promethius"

Myranda

pintspiller said:

I don't understand why they used the name "Alien" in the title, as it is a Promethius sequel not an Alien sequel. Unless they've renamed Promethius as "Alien: Promethius"

Prometheus was an Alien prequel when it was first announced... then when it got commissioned Ridley Scott said it wasn't related at all... then it was the same universe, but not related... then it was a direct prequel - being film 1 of a trilogy... It was written by committee and as often happens with Fox it was also interfered with...

But it's an in-cannon direct prequel to Alien: Covenant which is itself a direct prequel to whatever the 3rd film will be called which is the direct prequel to Alien - But they did cannonically kill off AvP and AvP2 ...

Hope that clarifies the use of the Alien name

mellowsun

AvP was actually a better film than either Prometheus or Alien Covenant.

Drew_TNBD

BigBearKris

Seen it last night. I quite enjoyed it.

Sure, it doesn't have the mystery-horror aura to it like the 1st 'Alien'' but it was quite all right comparing to ''AvP'' or ''Resurrection''. 
But I did enjoy ''Prometheus'' as well. I like the Alien Universe and both movies were well made. Plot holes are there for sure - also stupidity of the crew is beyond imagination, but overall a good watch.
I agree to the comment re: Alien being a creature from ''Starship Troopers'' - although hungry, it didn't seem to be highly intelligent at all.
I would give it strong 6/10.

Emp_Fab

I turned it off after about 45 minutes.  What an absolute pile of shite.

Ricobanko

Utter bollocks if you ask me

TimmyO

Emp_Fab said:

I turned it off after about 45 minutes.  What an absolute pile of shite.

did you search out a 2 year old thread to add that insight? 

Emp_Fab

Yes,

It made more sense than starting another thread to rant.

Christ knows I start enough of those.

Heartfeltdawn

Looking forward to Emp's imminent "Ben Hur - with SPOILERZ" thread. 

Emp_Fab

They ruined it once they got rid of the piano soundtrack.