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Alien: Covenant • Page 26
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nickthegun 87,712 posts
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I wish he'd been allowed to make the follow up to Prometheus too. Just chucks it and replaces it with an Alien highlights reel. The engineers were pretty damn cool. I also preferred the Prometheus cast. They may have been dicks but at least they made an impression. -
vDoll 2,380 posts
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Registered 14 years agoI'm assuming everyone else's audience erupted at the I'll do the fingering scene.
My Friday night crowd was full of young lads, so of course the guffawing went on for longer than necessary, but I'm still mulling over whether it was intentional. -
captbirdseye 11,190 posts
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Registered 16 years agoThe David/Alien hands up scene got the most.
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simpleexplodingmaybe 19,992 posts
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Registered 6 years agovDoll wrote:
That whole bit was straight out of Ghost
I'm assuming everyone else's audience erupted at the I'll do the fingering scene.
My Friday night crowd was full of young lads, so of course the guffawing went on for longer than necessary, but I'm still mulling over whether it was intentional. -
Derblington 35,161 posts
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Registered 17 years agoGaol wrote:
What film did you watch?
The engineers were pretty damn cool. -
Derblington wrote:
Read the post properly. And the ones before it for context. Please.
Gaol wrote:
What film did you watch?
The engineers were pretty damn cool. -
JYM60 19,085 posts
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Registered 15 years agoI thought the Engineers story was cool and interesting too. It was all the alien related stuff in Prometheus which was Gubbins. -
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erniewhatbert 3,131 posts
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Registered 18 years agoI watched Prometheus for the first time on Sat night. It surpassed my really low expectations. Three stars. I'll probably wait for the DVD of this now. -
vDoll wrote:
Bit of a tangent but I'm quite curious: do people in the cinema holler and applaud and such during a film like they do in the US?
My Friday night crowd was full of young lads, so of course the guffawing went on for longer than necessary, but I'm still mulling over whether it was intentional.
Over here in Belgium it's limited to the end of the film, only laughter is socially acceptable during a film. Otherwise people tend to be as silent as possible (annoying idiots aside)
When I lived in Paris my experience was the same, the only exception being when we went to see Mission Impossible and Jean Reno appeared on screen for the first time. Otherwise mostly silent as well.
I find little cultural nuances like this fascinating.gif)
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simpleexplodingmaybe 19,992 posts
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Registered 6 years agoOnly time I've seen anyone applaud a film in the uk has been at Q&A events when the writer, director or star has been in attendance.
Laughing or crying during the film are acceptable. That is all. -
vDoll 2,380 posts
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Registered 14 years agoLaughter and shrieking only.
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I loved this. It was bonkers and weird.
So Im glad that the next film is (apparently) going into production next year.
To the people saying the next film is set before Covenant... I think you are confusing things. There is book coming, set before Covenant. The author hasnt said what its about, mind you. -
Not-a-reviewer 7,686 posts
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Registered 7 years agoThe whole David Walter thing was a bit weird and there was way too much exposition, what happened in between seemed like it would be more interesting to watch.
Alien stuff was fine but calling it Prometheus 2 is more accurate. -
In a way, it seems like aspects of Blade Runner are running through Covenant. The film defo reaches too far in multiple directions but Im all for scifi horrors.
My dad really liked it too. Funnily enough, we saw LIFE on opening weekend, a film that was very much Alien-lite, and he hated it. -
Derblington 35,161 posts
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Registered 17 years agoGearskin wrote:
Genuinely, I knew this was coming from when you defended Scott before seeing it.
I loved this.
Gearskin wrote:
To the people saying the next film is set before Covenant... I think you are confusing things. There is book coming, set before Covenant. The author hasnt said what its about, mind you.“It will go ‘Prometheus,’ ‘Awakening,’ ‘Covenant’ …”
http://variety.com/2017/film/news/alien-awakening-next-alien-movie-ridley-scott-1202011249/
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2 days later I still can't fully absorb how bad this was...
It's partly a shit sequel to Prometheus (a pretty bad movie itself), mostly a sci fi drama about AI's and lastly a laughable attempt to shoe horn a Xenomorph into the mix to give it the vaguest of links to the proper movies.
Ridley Scott has effectively made the Star Wars prequels of the Alien franchise. The pacing is absolutely atrocious the 'action' is all in the trailers (there's that little of it) and literally everything of note that happens is down to someone being an absolute fucking retard! -
Chug666 768 posts
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Registered 14 years agoI went last night. Really wanted to like it, thought there were good bits but I totally agree with comments about dumb characters and bad pacing. Overall i thought it was just a bit... dull.
Bonus point for casting Danby McBride and giving him a cowboy hat.
What is really annoying is I know I'll go and see the next one in the hope it all comes together somehow. -
Chug666 wrote:
With the hammering the film is taking, this is the only plus point left.
Bonus point for casting Danby McBride and giving him a cowboy hat.
Kenny Powers as action hero...maybe worth watching after all. -
damagedinc 3,105 posts
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Registered 10 years agoJust seen this. Will add more later but this is very meh.
Prometheus with all its faults is so much better than this. Completly lost its way. Was on board for first 40 min and as soon as David comes into the film it got crap -
Derblington wrote:
I dont need to "defend" it.
Gearskin wrote:
Genuinely, I knew this was coming from when you defended Scott before seeing
I loved this.
Opinions are like arseholes.
Although this place is an echochamber. Clearly, it has fans. 75% on RT. On metacritic its on par with Guardians Vol2.
Also, that link you posted makes a pretty big jump from a flippant comment made. Is this politics?
The next film is going to be a sequel to Covenant. Of course it is.
Edited by Gearskin at 16:53:32 16-05-2017
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captbirdseye 11,190 posts
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Registered 16 years ago@Gearskin The next film is a prequel called Awakening. Scott confirmed this back in March. -
I think Scott is making it up as he goes along in fairness. -
wuntyate 17,494 posts
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Registered 8 years agoHe is. He really is. -
Switch-v85 4,290 posts
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Registered 7 years agoJust seen it, enjoyed it.
Some silly bits and a few missteps but Fassbender was superb and I was intrigued for the most part.
It's nowhere near as bad as I thought it would be after reading the opinions here. Maybe the low expections helped! -
MrFlay 4,670 posts
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Registered 13 years agoPretty damning review from Kim Newman in Sight and Sound. He regularly champions genre movies but not this.
http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/reviews-recommendations/alien-covenant-ridley-scott-space-vacuity
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damagedinc 3,105 posts
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Registered 10 years agoThe most exciting bit was the necromorph. After that it just feels like fox telling Scott what to do.
The shower scene is ridiculous. Alien encounters, crew members dead, let's have sex to soul music in the shower
The weird speeding up of the alien life cycle and THAT flute scene.
We watched prometheus again before this yesterday and me and the wife actually enjoyed it more than we did when we saw it a few years back. It had its faults but went in an intresting direction. This just seemed to lose the plot completly, the xenomorph was pure fan service and didn't need to be there really.
So much potential but it's just a mess
Angers me that through everything they just decide to bypass paradise and nuke it from orbit (almost literally)
Edited by damagedinc at 19:55:07 16-05-2017 -
Watched this last night, first and probably last time at a 4DX showing. The smoke, shaking, wind, rain, lightning flashes and spray was pretty intense throughout and I think we probably picked a good film to see in that format. Weird to get rained on during the shower scene tho!
Shame half the story seemed to be missing, hate the characters acting dumb and lack of motivation for David plus the tools or subjects to experiment on seemed to be completely missing after he killed them all!
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