Watched Alien: Covenant (2017)

[CuntFucker .]

It kind of ruled. A bit underwhelming that the final step in the creature's evolution was induced by the Josef Mengele robot. He also was one of the least annoying characters among those reckless assholes. None of the movies, aside from the first one, are great but I love the franchise's tone and universe.

 

[Meownaw]

Do I have to even say it?

 

[CuntFucker .]

Do I have to even say it?

I'm not sure what you're getting at. Is it something you are not sure you can say in here?

 

[Princess Alena 2]

Do I have to even say it?

They mostly come at night. Mostly.

 

[Rutherford_b_Blaze]

I like your movie reviews and your ruled/kinda ruled metric.

 

[Meownaw]

I'm not sure what you're getting at. Is it something you are not sure you can say in here?

WWAWD Prey (2022)

 

[CuntFucker .]

WWAWD Prey (2022)

Never even heard of it.

 

[CumiaPoodle]

If you understand
1) Scott's original vision for this new trilogy
2) The studios meddled with the whole thing
3) Scott is a booze-brained Nana with no grip on reality

... this makes far more sense. I like Prometheus and Covenant for what they were meant to be, not so much what they are.

There's obvious Christian symbolism in the thread about the Engineer sacrificing himself for life on Earth, and then the final Engineer killing Weyland for flying too close to the sun... But it's all a mess.

What I genuinely like about the Alien-Predator-Blade Runner universe is the philosophical dichotomy between Androids-Replicants. The Androids were used in Alien, replicants in Blade Runner. The idea being that androids were too likely to corrupt and go rogue a'la Fassbender in Alien, so they switched to replicants, which also lead to issues. Even the billionaire leaders of these industries, Weyland and Wallace, respectively, were rivals like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs.

Scott can really build a universe in film, that's his strength. It's a shame that 80% of the films in these three franchises were garbage and added nothing to the canon.

I liked all the money in the world and the lasts duel I like all this niggas movies

 

[HH Brother]

They mostly come at night. Mostly.

I.

Rape children.

At night.

 

[Princess Alena 2]

I.

Rape children.

At night.

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[HH Brother]

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Poor kid was the rotisserie between Nana and Joe, funster.

 

[Stent]

I love the franchise's tone and universe.

This is what Alien/Predator/Blade Runner are for me. They're generally disappointing once they get past the original movie, but the basics of greatness are there. Covenant could've been amazing but it seemed like another movie reliant on dumb character decisions and unnecessary nonsense.

Terrible casting choices, like Jared Leto in Blade Runner 2049, don't help an otherwise pretty great sequel too.

 

[Queefer Sutherland]

Made even less sense than Prometheus. Totally pointless.

 

[TehSamurai]

Prometheus and Covenant stunk. I don't understand Scott made the movies about the android instead of the aliens. Why was David kissing himself? Did he want to make another Blade Runner?

Also, he threw away the Engineers in Covenant, despite them being the only interesting part of Prometheus.

Finally, the plots were retarded. I could forgive plot holes if the movies were entertaining or interesting, but they weren't.

 

[Dog Eater]

I liked Prometheus a lot (not as an Alien movie just as a movie). Covenant was just ok.

 

[LingerLonger]

Prometheus and Covenant stunk. I don't understand Scott made the movies about the android instead of the aliens.

Ridley Scott wanted to make an ancient aliens movies mixed with Christianity. The studios told him "never going to happen". So instead he took his movie and jammed its contents into the Alien universe. And so we got the abortions of Prometheus and Covenant. Same thing with Many Saints of Newark being a Newark riots movie and not an actual Sopranos movie.

 

[Meownaw]

Terrible casting choices, like Jared Leto in Blade Runner 2049, don't help an otherwise pretty great sequel too.

I haven't watched the fan edit but apparently they removed him completely from it and it takes nothing away from the movie.

 

[Stent]

I haven't watched the fan edit but apparently they removed him completely from it and it takes nothing away from the movie.

He could be a main cast member and removing him would help. They could've cast The Rock or Jason Momoa and it would've annoyed me less.