ALIEN: COVENANT (First Reactions from World Premiere)

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I never know whether to trust first reaction tweets. I could swear the first reactions for Terminator Genisys were more positive than expected...
 
DIABOLUS said:
I never know whether to trust first reaction tweets. I could swear the first reactions for Terminator Genisys were more positive than expected...
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Oh gawd.. Isn't there some rule somewhere that nobody is supposed to talk about that movie ever again?
 
GearSolidMetal said:
IMHO, the Alien Queen was the only threat that equaled (and in some ways surpassed) the original H.R. Geiger concept art.

Everything else has been extremely half-assed.

That's why I loved Prometheus because it wasn't just another Alien flick filled with Xenomorphs, it had completely original threats, including the Engineer.

But I'm also hyped for Covenant because we need a new Alien flick filled with a Xenomorph-like threat, and the movie poster hints there will be a Queen.

Ridley Scott directing a Alien flick with a Queen? Fucking take my money now!

Hate I have to wait another month. I may be watching this twice in one weekend, and I haven't done that... well... since 1995.
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The queen was a tough menace but I kind of felt the eggs and face-huggers were more terrifying, I don't recall those in my brief look at H.R. Geiger's art? If they're there then sorry, I am mistaken

The Queen is of course a large horrible monster but Geiger's alien had a giant Penis coming out of its chest, imagine a slimy Alien thing that rapes you with a giant chest-penis and then eats your traumatized ass alive (or makes you a vessel for a face hugger)

IMAGINE
 
I watched that Netflix special on Giger.. I think his wife killed him lol. She was obviously tired of wheeling him around, and it said he "fell." They were into kind of evil stuff, with respect to his talent, I don't think she would have felt bad.
 
EgonSpengler said:
The queen was a tough menace but I kind of felt the eggs and face-huggers were more terrifying, I don't recall those in my brief look at H.R. Geiger's art? If they're there then sorry, I am mistaken

The Queen is of course a large horrible monster but Geiger's alien had a giant Penis coming out of its chest, imagine a slimy Alien thing that rapes you with a giant chest-penis and then eats your traumatized ass alive (or makes you a vessel for a face hugger)

IMAGINE
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Giger did also do the concept for the eggs and face-huggers (as well as the alien ship and space jockey). Here's an article that shows a lot of them [LINK]
 
Amerikuracana said:
He lost me on Kong.. I think his reviews are usually very good, as well, however.
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He's liked some films I haven't. But he usually points out in his reviews obvious things certain viewers might be turned off by, even if he doesn't mind said things or flat out likes them himself.
 
After the fun of GOTG 2, this is the next movie i will be herded into. I didn't used to be a blockbuster guy, but movies I want to see like hacksaw ridge don't even play around here. Anyways, this movie will NOT be as fun as GOTG, of course, but I'm Hoping Ridleys return carries some serious quality with it.
 
It's getting decent reviews, though undoubtedly mixed. Heard some spoilers that bug me in regards to what happened after Prometheus.

So we'll see in a couple of weeks.
 
liljoe said:
It's getting decent reviews, though undoubtedly mixed. Heard some spoilers that bug me in regards to what happened after Prometheus.

So we'll see in a couple of weeks.
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Like what?
 
Amerikuracana said:
Oh gawd.. Isn't there some rule somewhere that nobody is supposed to talk about that movie ever again?
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There's a scene in this season of Agents of Shield where two agents, Mack and Yo-Yo, are dealing with an android designed by Dr Radcliff. The andriod has already killed one agent.

Yo-Yo, "Someone needs to make Radcliff watch every Terminator movie".

Mack, "Even Genisys?!"

Yo-Yo, "Hey, he brought this on himself".:)
 
I saw this last night

I wish they'd have let Blomkamp make his Alien movie instead. I would have been happier with this movie if there had been some answers from the questions raised in Prometheus. Instead, you just end up with more questions and they don't get answers either.

Also they play very fast and loose with the established life cycle of the alien, and worst of all mess up the continuity of the original movie

If David created the eggs that spawn the original Alien, how the hell did a bunch of them end up in a derelict engineer spacecraft on LV426, which is so old the remains of the engineer have fossilised. This movie is set not long before the events of the first alien.

Also the first guy to get attacked by a face hugger wakes up not long after and immediately a chest burster emerges. In the original movie Kane was immobilised for some time before it released him, and then survived long enough to have a medical and go to dinner before anything happened. The second guy in covenant to get it has the face hugger on his face for all of 10 seconds and is still fighting it, and it some how impregnates him?

So David and Shaw finally make it to.. somewhere.. and David just bio-nukes the place. No explanation why. No explanation what happened to Shaw, apart from the fact that David clearly experimented on her either before or after she died.

The cinematography is great, and Fassbender is excellent. The rest is pretty average. If it were a standalone movie it would be better, but as part of a series it only becomes annoying for the questions it doesn't answer and how much extra it muddies the universe it takes place in.
 
So basically Ridley strong-armed Blomkamp out of fixing the series and making the film we all wanted.


I hope this piece of shit retires soon, at the very least.
 
pinkybrief said:
so hyped for this, hope mcbride won't ruin it for me
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Gadddamit!

At least prometheus was interesting



They've teased us of continuing the engineers world, then shiyt, just minutes in the screen they're out of the storyline, then just back to the whole alien killing the whole crew all over again

It's not that bad, I'm just dissapointed they didn't continue prometheus lol


 
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