Movie Alien: Covenant

[Marlowe]

The trailer doesn't raise my hopes that Covenant will be anything more than Prometheus 2.0, or a Prometheus redo. The Alien series has been spinning its wheels for like 25 years though, having never lived up to its potential.

 

[Summer Nights]

I liked Prometheus.

 

[Fuzzy Wuzzy Bear]

Looks pretty intense.

 

[Roobs321]

It looks decidedly mediocre. I think the level of something like The Thing prequel is about as good as we can hope.

 

[Carbine Chaos]

I'm kinda excited to see Danny McBride in a more serious role. I really like him.

James Franco can't last long given his absence in the trailers.

 

[Bomberboyokay]

Looks like the previous movies. Find aliens then have to escape as crewpeople are picked off one by one.

 

[BOMBERS 4 LIFE!!!!]

If James Cameron is not a fan then I'm not a fan.

 

[rumply]

Actually I'll take the opposite approach b4l

 

[exe ex machina]

I don't consider anything other than Alien and Aliens as canon

 

[Geelong_Sicko]

But it's been a long time since I saw them and I didn't watch any of them in order (it was pre-torrent days). Haven't watched Prometheus so that's also on the to-do list.

A torrent exists of a much-superior Prometheus cut called 'the Giftbearer edit'. Find that. It almost completely redeems the movie. F*cked if I know why Ridley Scott released it the way he did.

 

[Marlowe]

A torrent exists of a much-superior Prometheus cut called 'the Giftbearer edit'. Find that. It almost completely redeems the movie. F*cked if I know why Ridley Scott released it the way he did.

It's weird there isn't a proper Director's Cut considering Ridley is like the King of director's cuts (Blade Runner, Kingdom of Heaven, The Counselor).

 

[Geelong_Sicko]

It looks decidedly mediocre. I think the level of something like The Thing prequel is about as good as we can hope.

The trailer looks alright but it definitely doesn't bring anything new to the table. Do the Engineers figure in this?

 

[bourbons]

New trailer actually looks better than the first one. But yeah not really covering any new ground. And yet again, entire plot laid out in a trailer.

Curious about where they find the eggs - wouldn't make sense if it was in Shaw and David's (from Prometheus) hijacked engineer ship would it? That ship only had the black goo on board.

 

[rumply]

A torrent exists of a much-superior Prometheus cut called 'the Giftbearer edit'. Find that. It almost completely redeems the movie. F*cked if I know why Ridley Scott released it the way he did.

I second this & as I've posted several times before, Giftbearer improves on the original immensely, was insane that some of those deleted scenes weren't included first time around.

 

[Summer Nights]

Hey GG.exe, why do you choose to like almost every post?

 

[exe ex machina]

Hey GG.exe, why do you choose to like almost every post?

Because I like every post I read?

 

[Fuzzy Wuzzy Bear]

Anyone got any theories on Shaw's fate?

Dead?
Used as experiment by David?
Still in cryo/stasis and only a cameo appearance near the end?

Would be disappointed if they killed her off so non nonchalantly.

 

[Xtreme]

Would be disappointed if they killed her off so non nonchalantly.

Don't Fox have form with that anyway ? Alien 3 killing off the main plotline from Aliens ring any bells ?

 

[djrossie16]

Katherine Waterston has come a long way since The Babysitters

 

[Fuzzy Wuzzy Bear]

Don't Fox have form with that anyway ? Alien 3 killing off the main plotline from Aliens ring any bells ?

Yes. I've never forgiven 3 for that.

 

[Kram]

Yes. I've never forgiven 3 for that.

Director Cut isn't bad but it's still hard to get over the start.

 

[Geelong_Sicko]

Anyone got any theories on Shaw's fate?

I was hoping that, under the hardened flight suit of the original 'space jocky' in Alien

we'd find that it was Shaw. Perhaps she stole all of the alien eggs and other bioweapons she could find on 'Paradise' so the Engineers couldn't use them to destroy humanity.

Prometheus did after all go to great lengths to establish that it was a hardened exoskeletal framework, and not the actual body

sitting in the pilot's chair.

 

[Brick Loosener]

The more Danny McBride in this shit show the better.

 

[Fuzzy Wuzzy Bear]

I was hoping that, under the hardened flight suit of the original 'space jocky' in Alien

we'd find that it was Shaw. Perhaps she stole all of the alien eggs and other bioweapons she could find on 'Paradise' so the Engineers couldn't use them to destroy humanity.

Prometheus did after all go to great lengths to establish that it was a hardened exoskeletal framework, and not the actual body

sitting in the pilot's chair.

Interesting theory.

Yeah I remember being a bit disappointed that it was just a suit and not a a race of space elephants.

 

[mighty_sainters]

I loved the concept of the engineers and finding out why humans were made, was hoping we might get some answers but looks like it won't lead down that path. I did really like Prometheus though.