compromised.
the original ideas were more alien related but also more of the same stuff we have already seen.
ridley wanted to move away from the (difficult to do proper justice to) alien and so we got a confused, diluted mess held together by the first 'ideas' Lindelof came up with. Which were dumb, but hes a hack and cant tell.
and they cheaped out with unused designs from old projects that dont really fit.
and they chickened out by not explaining important points due to them being obviously pretentious crap.
Its a cake that they had no real recipe for and they took it out the oven half way through to attempt to change the mix.
then they threw a nice layer of pretty icing on top and hoped nobody would notice
That’s the point though he is a malfunctioning android that cannot understand human emotion he is perfect in every way compared to them but at the same time he sees himself as the next evolution of mankind and sees humanity as obsolete
>geologist that forgot how to geology >petting a giant alien white snek >c'mon you guys, lets take our masks of on this weird planet and frick microbes and shit >an alien engineer auditioning for Kenny G by playing a fricking flute to get coordinates. >A FLUTE. AFRICKING FLUTE
I like to watch prometheus and covenant back to back if I watch them, I hated prometheus when I first saw it due to what mentions but its grown on me and I like it now.
It's kinda like some sort of cheesy 1950s sci-fi B-movie script, like the stuff they would parody on Mystery Science Theater, but filmed on a $100 million+ budget.
100% agree. for me it always seemed more like a Galaxy of Terror remake than anything else. which is ironic because Galaxy of Terror started as a cheap Alien knock off and ended up being the precursor for Cameron with Aliens
one of the most interesting scenes in a sci-fi movie (space jockey)
actually its just a suit for beefy white doods.
thats not a nitpick, thats turning the mona lisa into a coffee stain doodle.
it has it's moronic moments but they're outweighed by the ridiculous sci-fi horror elements imo. It's like a shitty b-horror movie with a biggest budget ever
>muh deeper meaning
Yeah liek with the engineer playing the flute. He was blowing the air we need to stay alife on low and high tones, meaning life has ups and downs. That was some deep shit man.
imagine; if they found an alien ship that diddnt look exactly like all the other ones.
imagine; they found more large alien bodies merged with machinery that hints at a purpose but remains a mystery.
imagine; if the boring engineer in a sleeping pod was actually a creature that emerged from one of those huge mystery aliens and went dormant.
imagine if this film was made by people with imagination
why did the engineer flee from some implied accident, jump in a sleep pod and set the dial to 'forever'?
why is promethius such a waste of potential and such a fat shit on anything good from alien?
Retconning engineers from giant cyborg elephant squids to marble albinos buried any potential this heap had. Even ignoring Alien this sucked as a standalone movie.
Prometheus aesthetic had a lot of charm in its own way, I do like it. I just wish it was its own thing. It doesn't fit with Alien. The space jockeys should stay unknowable aliens, and the prometheus engineers can remain humanities ancestors in an unrelated story.
Fair enough, I actually agree that the mystery was ruined and it should have been left alone, but FOX really wanted something and Ridley had no choice, I think making them fallen angels was a good attempt at making a mythology and expanding the lore. Covenant just ruined everything by abandoning the Prometheus stuff and turning it into Alien 1 but worse.
lol no, had to shut off covenant after the first 10 minutes it was so unwatchable. that cheesy dramatic scenej 2 minutes in where some chick is crying over her dead boyfriend in stasis. give us a chance to get to know the characters before expecting us to give a damn about them ffs.
I remember seeing this in the theater back in 2012 after having been intrigued by the cool trailers that made me hope for some sublime sci-fi in a 2001: A Space Odyssey vein with Lovecraftian overtones, and by about 5 minutes into it I was like "what the fricking frick is this shit?"
>3D map the whole area >get lost
WHY if they wanted the characters to get lost for the sake of the plot did they include the 3D map shit?? Just cut that out of the movie so it makes sense if they get lost else it just comes off as some crappy b-movie.
Prometheus could've been good if it didn't try to tie itself to Alien. The sadder thing is it still had a pretty solid foundation a sequel could've easily built upon into being something great but then Alien Covenant spends a half hour undoing damn near everything.
Michael Fassbender pretty much carried both movies on his back, although credit must be given to both Noomi Rapace and Katherine Waterston who did a lot of weigh lifting on their own. I still can't get over Ridley Scott irrevocably fricking up the canon like he did. Dude simply strolled him, demanded the reins of the project who was in Blomkamp's hand, took a fat shit on everything, refused to elaborate, left.
That's because Prometheus is shit and always will be shit. I've tried to like this movie since it came out and find it hard to enjoy/sit through without pulling up my phone or distracting my self. It's boring, shallow and for an Alien film extremely bland and slow. It was a MAJOR disappointment for fans and audiences alike and will never be anything else. Thanks a lot Ridley for shitting all over a once great franchise.
Jon Spaight's writing between this and Dune is night and day -- because Fox forced the [redacted] Lindelhof on Ridley and him 'for lack of experience' despite Prometheus being Lindelhof's "first 'solo' film writing gig". Hollywood is a cesspool, and Prometheus didn't have to be a monumentally stupid dumbed down Ancient Aliens slideshow
Stfu shits old gayget
and a lame idea at that frick this entire franchise
Prometheus is the best Alien movie
>prometheus
you misspelled Aliens
Aliens isn't an Alien movie. It's a very decent Cameron action movie though with some insects.
kek, fair enough
The queen was cool though. It's a shame she gets defeated by a forklift.
+1
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Is there a word that's worse than disappointment'?
Insult. This movie is an insult.
compromised.
the original ideas were more alien related but also more of the same stuff we have already seen.
ridley wanted to move away from the (difficult to do proper justice to) alien and so we got a confused, diluted mess held together by the first 'ideas' Lindelof came up with. Which were dumb, but hes a hack and cant tell.
and they cheaped out with unused designs from old projects that dont really fit.
and they chickened out by not explaining important points due to them being obviously pretentious crap.
Its a cake that they had no real recipe for and they took it out the oven half way through to attempt to change the mix.
then they threw a nice layer of pretty icing on top and hoped nobody would notice
Sacrilege. Aliens 3 was a better Aliens movie than this. I ain't even baiting.
Agreed. Even Alien Covenant was better imo.
I really like the alien baby extraction scene.
what's the sequel called and is it worth watching
Covenant
Yeah I'd say. Not as good as Prometheus but David is still peak kino and it had a great ending
>cringeworthy cope
embarrassing
>David is peak kino
David is the gayest robot i've ever seen. he's so gay, he makes c3po look like a t-800
he'd beat your ass (in a sexual and non-sexual way)
That’s the point though he is a malfunctioning android that cannot understand human emotion he is perfect in every way compared to them but at the same time he sees himself as the next evolution of mankind and sees humanity as obsolete
whoa whoa whoa you think because he's gay it means he's malfunctioning? go leave chud
Nah in covenant it’s revealed he is in massive disrepair and Shaw kinda fixed him
So bad I can't remember the name. Not worth watching.
It's shit, all the good stuff from Prometheus is gone
>geologist that forgot how to geology
>petting a giant alien white snek
>c'mon you guys, lets take our masks of on this weird planet and frick microbes and shit
>an alien engineer auditioning for Kenny G by playing a fricking flute to get coordinates.
>A FLUTE. AFRICKING FLUTE
lol
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I like to watch prometheus and covenant back to back if I watch them, I hated prometheus when I first saw it due to what mentions but its grown on me and I like it now.
It's kinda like some sort of cheesy 1950s sci-fi B-movie script, like the stuff they would parody on Mystery Science Theater, but filmed on a $100 million+ budget.
100% agree. for me it always seemed more like a Galaxy of Terror remake than anything else. which is ironic because Galaxy of Terror started as a cheap Alien knock off and ended up being the precursor for Cameron with Aliens
if you liked the flute then you'll love the "i'll do the fingering" scene in the sequel
It looked great, but the plot and actions of the crew were absolutley moronic and insulting to the audience.
>actions of the crew were absolutley moronic and insulting to the audience.
It was almost Europa Report tier when it comes to moronic crew.
Have you been in a coma for the last 10 years, homosexual?
Gatekeeping a mediocrity like Prometheus. How sad.
Zoom zoom
Good film with the most annoying detractors alive, just spouting the same handful of cinema sins tier nit picks over and over and over and over.
nah bro the movie is bad because they like ran away from the falling thing or something????
This
one of the most interesting scenes in a sci-fi movie (space jockey)
actually its just a suit for beefy white doods.
thats not a nitpick, thats turning the mona lisa into a coffee stain doodle.
Spot on
pretty much. I enjoyed this movie, the surgery scene is my favorite. It's so intense
>med pod
>just for men
>females on crew though
wtf
it has it's moronic moments but they're outweighed by the ridiculous sci-fi horror elements imo. It's like a shitty b-horror movie with a biggest budget ever
>morons bicker like textbots
>giant alien rips off androids head and beats man to death
>woman births squid
This is peak kino
OP are you a virgin?
>t. Brokehomosexual watching shit on freevee
>team goes looking for the meaning of life and finds only death
based movie, filtered manchildren but so does everything that's ever been good
>muh deeper meaning
Yeah liek with the engineer playing the flute. He was blowing the air we need to stay alife on low and high tones, meaning life has ups and downs. That was some deep shit man.
>he played a flute *DING*
haah very cool, wish I could upvote this twice!
Was the race mixing also based?
imagine; if they found an alien ship that diddnt look exactly like all the other ones.
imagine; they found more large alien bodies merged with machinery that hints at a purpose but remains a mystery.
imagine; if the boring engineer in a sleeping pod was actually a creature that emerged from one of those huge mystery aliens and went dormant.
imagine if this film was made by people with imagination
why did the engineer flee from some implied accident, jump in a sleep pod and set the dial to 'forever'?
why is promethius such a waste of potential and such a fat shit on anything good from alien?
Retconning engineers from giant cyborg elephant squids to marble albinos buried any potential this heap had. Even ignoring Alien this sucked as a standalone movie.
This aesthetic is a billion times better than elephant man
No. It's not. They look like stock nu wars aliens.
>Behold a space jokey but accurate!
Prometheus aesthetic had a lot of charm in its own way, I do like it. I just wish it was its own thing. It doesn't fit with Alien. The space jockeys should stay unknowable aliens, and the prometheus engineers can remain humanities ancestors in an unrelated story.
Fair enough, I actually agree that the mystery was ruined and it should have been left alone, but FOX really wanted something and Ridley had no choice, I think making them fallen angels was a good attempt at making a mythology and expanding the lore. Covenant just ruined everything by abandoning the Prometheus stuff and turning it into Alien 1 but worse.
He looks fabulous
I liked it but yeah the biologist and geologist were fricking idiots
Covenant>Prometheus>AvP>>>>>>>>>the rest
lol no, had to shut off covenant after the first 10 minutes it was so unwatchable. that cheesy dramatic scenej 2 minutes in where some chick is crying over her dead boyfriend in stasis. give us a chance to get to know the characters before expecting us to give a damn about them ffs.
I remember seeing this in the theater back in 2012 after having been intrigued by the cool trailers that made me hope for some sublime sci-fi in a 2001: A Space Odyssey vein with Lovecraftian overtones, and by about 5 minutes into it I was like "what the fricking frick is this shit?"
yeah ridley promised more alien and instead we got hostel in space
Ridley has a lot of clunkers under his belt.
imagine; the guys making a map were not the only ones to get lost
>3D map the whole area
>get lost
WHY if they wanted the characters to get lost for the sake of the plot did they include the 3D map shit?? Just cut that out of the movie so it makes sense if they get lost else it just comes off as some crappy b-movie.
I’ve always liked this movie and I even liked Covenant. I genuinely don’t get the hate these two movies get.
I love Alien and Aliens. Never seen the other ones
Alien, Aliens, Alien3. nothing else is canon
and alien 3 is where the rot set in, start filming without a finished script? great idea you frickers
Prometheus could've been good if it didn't try to tie itself to Alien. The sadder thing is it still had a pretty solid foundation a sequel could've easily built upon into being something great but then Alien Covenant spends a half hour undoing damn near everything.
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This movie was based. Better than Alien and Aliens, no doubt. Some people can't understand it if they're low IQ
Aliens is the most pathetic franchise I've ever seen to the point garbage like Riddick and The Matrix flies circles around it.
>Riddick
>garbage
Excuse me buddy but reddit is that way!
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Riddick for all intents and purposes is generic schlock, yet the second movie beats the living shit out of all Alien movies world design wise.
Don't cuss.
FOX JUST HIRE WOMAN ALREADY. SHE'S WHITE, LIKE GENUINELY WHITE, NOT LIKE SIGOURNEY WEAVER THE israelite WITH A JAW.
>prometheus school of running away
at least it produced some quality memes
The problem with "bait" is you're being conditioned into letting stupidity persist
Understatement of the decade.
David made these movies kino. Period.
That guy is a clown though and had no hand in making David. It's like some super advanced AI asking a McDonald's worker why humans made it.
Michael Fassbender pretty much carried both movies on his back, although credit must be given to both Noomi Rapace and Katherine Waterston who did a lot of weigh lifting on their own. I still can't get over Ridley Scott irrevocably fricking up the canon like he did. Dude simply strolled him, demanded the reins of the project who was in Blomkamp's hand, took a fat shit on everything, refused to elaborate, left.
That's because Prometheus is shit and always will be shit. I've tried to like this movie since it came out and find it hard to enjoy/sit through without pulling up my phone or distracting my self. It's boring, shallow and for an Alien film extremely bland and slow. It was a MAJOR disappointment for fans and audiences alike and will never be anything else. Thanks a lot Ridley for shitting all over a once great franchise.
Jon Spaight's writing between this and Dune is night and day -- because Fox forced the [redacted] Lindelhof on Ridley and him 'for lack of experience' despite Prometheus being Lindelhof's "first 'solo' film writing gig". Hollywood is a cesspool, and Prometheus didn't have to be a monumentally stupid dumbed down Ancient Aliens slideshow
you got filtered sweetie