Alien: Covenant (Ridley Scott, May 19th 2017) Movie • Page 10

That would be a fascinating idea.

 

Part of the reason why Danny McBride and James Franco were cast was because Ridley is a fan of Pineapple Express

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The aliens only interact with living things.

 

So far

 

This movie was great if you love the world and lore of the Alien films. It was pretty much fan service, giving you a mix of Prometheus and the first two films.

I'll agree that I expected more from the David/Shaw resolve from the last film, but at the same time I'm just glad they addressed it and gave us answers. Even though I liked Prometheus, I felt it gave more questions than answers.

 

Tbh I always enjoyed the lots of questions/not as many answers aspect of Prometheus. My favorite review of that film was Roger Ebert's. He compared the film to the "classic tradition of golden age sci-fi" for that very reason. I don't get frustrated with that film; I'm just left wanting more, which I get plenty of from this film.

 

Prometheus might be the one movie I got to my grave defending, haha. I really think it's a lot smarter and more interesting than detractors give it credit for. But it's obviously an outlier within the series.

 

I find a lot easier to defend now that I've seen this.

 

I feel like Prometheus is just character development/set up for David and why he ends up doing what he does in this one. I still want to know what he said to the Engineer at the end of Prometheus to make him go all murder crazy.

 

"Not impressed"

 

Is that what he said? I only saw Prometheus once but thought they never revealed it, which was kinda cool. I can see how telling your maker "not impressed" would get him heated lol

 

lol no I was joking, I wonder that too.

 

There's this deleted scene in Prometheus, that gives you the basic idea of what he's saying. Though, there's no subtitles, so we might never really know.

 

What was David experimenting on for all those years? He killed all the Engineers, and Shaw died at some point. Was he just waiting hoping someone would show up? Why didn't he take the ship back to Earth?

 

Well it did crash so it's possible he couldn't get another vehicle to work. It's a stretch though, I feel you on that concern.

 

Are we sure it crashed, or did he just say that to explain Shaw's death?

 

Well he has no concept of time so waiting for another human being or a ship to crash isn't really much to him.

 

dont we see it crashed in the movie?

 

We see it, but we don't know the damage. Also, there had to have been other ships on the planet; there were multiple ships on the Prometheus planet, so their homeworld must have more.

Why did the planet have human vegetation? I assumed that David and/or Shaw terraformed in the ten year period, which is why the crew did not detect the planet initially.

 

I'm almost certain that isn't the engineers homeworld. Such an advanced civilization couldn't only rely on one small city.

 

I saw the planet mainly as a metaphor for paradise with the grain and all that.

 

I think that was their main city (or one of), but just like there were Engineers stationed on the moon LV-223 in Prometheus, there are probably Engineers all across the galaxy. I mean, there has to be some on LV-426 so this can finally wrap into the first Alien right?

 

Walter will come crashing to Earth, and in 2022 we'll get the long awaited Alien/Blade Runner crossover. Fassbender vs Gosling.

 

I really shouldn't even be asking these questions because it operates under the assumption that Ridley Scott knows where this is going. If you read interviews and comments made between the release of Prometheus and the production of Covenant, it is obvious they redid almost the entire thing.

 

We already got Fassbender v. Gosling. It's called Song to Song