Alien: Covenant (Ridley Scott, May 19th 2017) Movie • Page 11

Did one tell the other to finger his flute?

 

I mean, while you are right about the reworkings of what ended up being this movie from a straight Prometheus sequel, I also think if we got a Shaw/David adventure follow up like first announced it probably would have ended the same with David playing mad scientist killing Shaw and creating the Xenomorph. I think the re workings was just to skip through a lot of that stuff and give people some Xenomorphs due to complaints and popular demand lol.

 

Blow while one did the fingering. Or something to that effect.

 

BBC Radio 4 - The Film Programme, Ridley Scott

 

I giggled at the fingering line and I have no shame.

 

Just got out of this. I'll give it a solid 'meh'. Not necessarily bad, I was definitely entertained overall. Would maybe watch again if it was on tv and I had time to kill.

 

I'll give the movie credit. It started off on a real high note by killing James Franco.

 

This is a very run of the mill film. Fairly disappointed.

 

Probably the most predictable movie I've seen in a while too.

 

This movie had a lot of great things in it. I loved the idea of David losing it and creating the the neo/xenomorph's and then the dynamic between him and Walter. Fassbender was great. But the actual alien scenes fell flat. The xenomorph ending on the ship felt lazy and I didn't really feel any tension the entire time it was happening. I wish there would have been a little more time between the airborne infections and the neomorph births. It felt too sudden and again took away any real tension. I'm also not understanding the praise for McBride. His acting was fine, but outside of him cracking a John Denver joke and being one of the last survivors, I don't remember anything about his character.

 

The back to back birthing sequences were great but I found the rest pretty dull.

 

Definitely my favorite part of the movie was the initial landing scene through the tall grass scene. Probably why I loved the movie so much.

 

damn can't believe so many people predicted that flute scene was coming

 

Finally saw this. I honestly think I hated this movie. Fuckin garbage.

 

Rewatched Prometheus last night and can confirm the existence of a flute that I never seemed to notice before

 

This is exactly why I didn't like it. I'm a huge fan of the original and I really enjoy Prometheus, despite its misgivings, it has some interesting ideas. This to me, had nothing. There was little to no tension and I never felt scared at all so it didn't work as a horror movie and they squandered pretty much everything they set up with David, Shaw, and the Engineers so it didn't really interest me as a sci-fi movie either. I love the world that Scott has created with this series, I just wish he told better stories within it.

 

This was pretty terrible, took all the interesting ideas from Prometheus and ruined them. For all the complaints Prometheus got about characters making irrational decisions, these characters were even stupider.

 

I'm still not sure how I feel about this movie. I liked how it was pretty quick out the gate with action (James Franco I sneezed and you were gone), and the neo/xenomorphs themselves were cool. But is space colonization really at a point there where Oram can just be like "a human? let's check it out lol"? - I mean surely there was procedure to be followed there, like the quarantine rules in Alien that were so recklessly abandoned dammit. Related, the Alien chest burst scene was so iconic, but here it fell kinda flat for me.

 

I guess this had a pretty substantial dropoff this week, making the thousand sequels Ridley planned less likely

 

Saw it today, didn't like it anywhere near as much as Prometheus.

 

I'm actually surprised it's sitting at 71% on RT.

 

As long as we get at least one more, hopefully to wrap up David's story and tie this into Alien. We still need to get an Engineer to have his mask on, setting in that weapon chair and to have a face hugger get him right?

 

Yeah i love the alien series but rid is out of his mind thinking he can make it as big as SW. four or more movies doesn't really interest me and seems kinda excessive. maybe just three, one set before cov and two bridging cov with og alien. IF he can get the green light on all those...

OH and if he disregards Aliens and the whole Queen aspect, well fuck. Fuck that.

 

Ridley Scott is about to turn 80. It took him five years to get a sequel to Prometheus made, and he had to do it with 3/4 of the budget Prometheus had and looks like it will make significantly less money as well. This whole idea of his is not happening. It is also important to remember all of the things Scott and the writers said when Prometheus came out and how Covenant went in the opposite direction.