All the scenes with David are good.
I like his spooky Frankenstein castle.
I also think the Med Bay scene is good despite it being kind of goofy.
And the music score is good.
I vaguely remember something about them using LV-223 in Prometheus as a launching ground for their weapon to attack Earth before it was taken out by the black goo or whatever, but what about the rest of the species? Did they just forget about killing all humans?
Who knows. I'm sure we would've gotten some answers if Ridley was allowed to finish his trilogy and there wasn't so much studio meddling.
Prometheus is the perfect example of fans not knowing what they want and studios being afraid of taking risks.
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Anonymous
Also Damon Lindelof should not be allowed to touch anything. The original Prometheus script is better than his edit of it.
11 months ago
Anonymous
>Prometheus is the perfect example of fans not knowing what they want
They've always wanted Aliens part 2.
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Aliens Part 2 is literally Alien Resurrection and it's fricking awful in every way.
A bunch of HUH RAH marines up against xenomorphs isn't that interesting.
11 months ago
Anonymous
No, it's proto Firefly. They want something closer to Starship Troopers.
I always liked Prometheus and Covenant as sci-fi space exploration movies. In that sense they are quite well made, if you discard all the stupidity from being part of the alien franchise.
Ehh, Prometheus was a pretty movie with a confusing script. Fassbender was the highlight. To me it was enough that the xenomorph is a weird parasitic alien species that we don't know much about and that humans try to weaponize for some unfathomable reason? Would the xenomorph even be useful in conventional warfare?
Imagine dropping a bunch of xeno eggs on enemy territory. They could easily take unprepared soldiers until they learn how to fight them
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Yeah, but what is the cost-benefit ratio of xenos bioweapons? War is expensive as hell.
11 months ago
Anonymous
Xenos dont eat, they dont sleep and they do it for free. They are perfect bioweapon material
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Yes, they have obvious advantages. However, their life cycle makes their utilisation harder. What's the successful implantation ratio for a face hugger? How many of the chestbursters will then survive to grow into full-fledged xenomorphs? As far as I know, they died to gunfire like humans do. The xenomorphs are at their most effective at space stations and poorly defended colonies, but as a weapon they seem to be very unreliable and dangerous to their supposed owners.
That's what I'm saying though, both films would've been better if they didn't try to explain the origins of the Xeno. They could've easily been interesting films about the Engineers and David, instead we get moronic rehashes of the Alien films while overcomplicating their origins.
I honestly couldn't stand the slapstick Rube Goldberg sequences like the Neopmorph hatching scene and how it somehow caused everyone to kill themselves without even trying. Shit felt like a moronic dark comedy, and unintentionally so.
It's one thing to show their incompetence (the girl freaking out and not opening the door), it's another to script the sequence where it becomes borderline comedic (actually deciding to open the door when the alien is already loose, both girls slipping on the blood like morons etc.)
I always wondered what the frick came out of his back with the alien and I only just now realized it pulled his brain out with his spine.
I don't think your brain could come out without your skull though...
Many of the performances are laughable and nearly every character is so stupid it's almost insulting.
I'm upset I spent 2 hours watching this pile of shit.
Frick you for reminding me OP.
6.5 is good? OP is a gay moron.
AC is a terrible movie.
The only reason im hyped for Romulus is it might be like Prey with girl boss smol heroines. Ib4 liberal. I don't care. Id rather see cuties fight ugly monster than this borefest ridley scott crap.
All the scenes with David are good.
I like his spooky Frankenstein castle.
I also think the Med Bay scene is good despite it being kind of goofy.
And the music score is good.
I think it falls apart in the last third though.
Who where they?
A group of aliens that were seeded on the planet by the Engineers just like humans were.
But why did they get the docking thingy and the humans didn't?
The Engineers stopped visiting Earth after we crucified Jesus. They saw us as horrible and barbaric and were planning to kill us.
I'm assuming they destroyed all the docking stations at that point.
I vaguely remember something about them using LV-223 in Prometheus as a launching ground for their weapon to attack Earth before it was taken out by the black goo or whatever, but what about the rest of the species? Did they just forget about killing all humans?
Who knows. I'm sure we would've gotten some answers if Ridley was allowed to finish his trilogy and there wasn't so much studio meddling.
Prometheus is the perfect example of fans not knowing what they want and studios being afraid of taking risks.
Also Damon Lindelof should not be allowed to touch anything. The original Prometheus script is better than his edit of it.
>Prometheus is the perfect example of fans not knowing what they want
They've always wanted Aliens part 2.
Aliens Part 2 is literally Alien Resurrection and it's fricking awful in every way.
A bunch of HUH RAH marines up against xenomorphs isn't that interesting.
No, it's proto Firefly. They want something closer to Starship Troopers.
>they want garbage
My theory is that these guys are "lesser" prometheans. They are manual labor for the real 8 ft tall engineers with pitch black eyes
England fans
beaners
It's literally the most kino entry in the franchise since the original. Covenant makes Aliens look like a braindead flick.
I love the Alien franchise bros. I wish it was more popular so I could find friends to talk about it IRL ;_;
This is idea is both good and moronic at the same time
>Its actually a pretty good movie
Not by any stretch of the imagination. David is the only reason this isn't completely worthless.
I always liked Prometheus and Covenant as sci-fi space exploration movies. In that sense they are quite well made, if you discard all the stupidity from being part of the alien franchise.
Based. The real problem with the alien movies is that they keep messing with the origin story of the xenos
Does their origin even need to be explained?
That's the problem. The Prometheus and Covenant try to do exactly that.
Ehh, Prometheus was a pretty movie with a confusing script. Fassbender was the highlight. To me it was enough that the xenomorph is a weird parasitic alien species that we don't know much about and that humans try to weaponize for some unfathomable reason? Would the xenomorph even be useful in conventional warfare?
Imagine dropping a bunch of xeno eggs on enemy territory. They could easily take unprepared soldiers until they learn how to fight them
Yeah, but what is the cost-benefit ratio of xenos bioweapons? War is expensive as hell.
Xenos dont eat, they dont sleep and they do it for free. They are perfect bioweapon material
Yes, they have obvious advantages. However, their life cycle makes their utilisation harder. What's the successful implantation ratio for a face hugger? How many of the chestbursters will then survive to grow into full-fledged xenomorphs? As far as I know, they died to gunfire like humans do. The xenomorphs are at their most effective at space stations and poorly defended colonies, but as a weapon they seem to be very unreliable and dangerous to their supposed owners.
That's what I'm saying though, both films would've been better if they didn't try to explain the origins of the Xeno. They could've easily been interesting films about the Engineers and David, instead we get moronic rehashes of the Alien films while overcomplicating their origins.
It's a 8/10 at minimum.
No but Ridley can do what he wants. Prometheus and Covenant are unironically the two most interesting Alien movies to discuss.
Not really but millennial midwits with too much time on their hands LOVE origin stories for everything
Prometheus was better
I honestly couldn't stand the slapstick Rube Goldberg sequences like the Neopmorph hatching scene and how it somehow caused everyone to kill themselves without even trying. Shit felt like a moronic dark comedy, and unintentionally so.
The scene in question
Goddamn it's just as stupid as I remember it.
This scene is awesome you were filtered completely.
Forgot to add, I only watched one movie btw and I'm gay.
I genuinely pity you for having such horrid dogshit taste.
Sorry but Alien Covenant is better than 98% of the movies this board discusses.
lol
Exactly, the state of this catalog and zoomers discussing Disney remakes and capeshit almost constantly.
I like this scene but I get why people don't
They are incredibly incompetent
It's one thing to show their incompetence (the girl freaking out and not opening the door), it's another to script the sequence where it becomes borderline comedic (actually deciding to open the door when the alien is already loose, both girls slipping on the blood like morons etc.)
I always wondered what the frick came out of his back with the alien and I only just now realized it pulled his brain out with his spine.
I don't think your brain could come out without your skull though...
the aylien deboned him
Its magic
Many of the performances are laughable and nearly every character is so stupid it's almost insulting.
I'm upset I spent 2 hours watching this pile of shit.
Frick you for reminding me OP.
Kys I bet you like Aliens when its nothing but cringey quipping
It was by far the worst movie I'd seen that year
6.5 is good? OP is a gay moron.
AC is a terrible movie.
The only reason im hyped for Romulus is it might be like Prey with girl boss smol heroines. Ib4 liberal. I don't care. Id rather see cuties fight ugly monster than this borefest ridley scott crap.
i watched the whole series (skipping resurrection) recently, having only seen the first alien before
prometheus and AC were annoying as frick, both should have been much better. David was great but making him an out and out villain was boring.
>Remember the lead survivor from previous movie?
>She died offscreen
That alone makes it a 6.0 max.
This, regardless of the thin plot, moronic and forgettable characters and the huge dump it took on the franchise.
You are plebs of the highest order and enemies of cinema if you think that matters at all and effects the quality of the movie.