*** Alien: Covenant ***

I watched this the other night and actually enjoyed it. After the **** show that was Prometheus I thought it was a step back on the right track, it was nothing particularly special but a solid effort imo.
 
The black aliens were a more advanced/refined version that David had engineered from the goo to create the facehugger delivery system, perhaps by experimenting with the remains of Shaw's reproductive system to make eggs.
I think the white ones were a result of the goo infecting and mutating the local flora.

That's my guess anyway. Both of these films kind of leave you to make your own mind up or just invent whatever makes sense to you :D
 
I did find that a problem myself that this was before alien yet the tech they had was allot more advanced e.g. The map that's in the honest trailer
 
I guess there's at least two arguments for that.

1: It was a simple, bare bones mining ship.
It had the basics to do what it needed to do with no fancy fluff.

2: It was made in 1979 and that was the director's future vision at that time, given the day's tech and more likely, the budget he had to work with.

We couldn't have spaceship tech looking like that in a film made these days. It has to reflect the times.
The ship in Prometheus was basically a trillionaire's no expense spared luxury yacht to ferry him on an all or nothing last voyage to meet his maker.
The ship in Covenant was a high tech colony seeding vessel, so it's gonna be a bit more advanced than your average high mileage mining ship.

Saying all that, you're just gonna have to go with it and accept that times have changed :) If Alien was made today, then the ship would obviously look more modern and flashy, but it ought to still look a lot more basic and grimy than the Prometheus or the Covenant given it's purpose.
 
If Alien was made today it wouldnt be half as good. They'd get lost on special effects which dont matter, whatever giant puppets they used back in the seventies with a lot of bad lighting to cover it and make it seem more ominous was superior to our high detail over worked stretched effects. That and the story was better first time round, its not bad now but its a rehash, nobody is really innovative enough to go with a completely new direction.
I liked the parallel in the poem
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SixTwoSix said:
A big no...if it was straight after District 9 i'd be on the hype train. However he's made 1 good film in 3 and his short films are testament to how he is visually great but can't hold attention for more than 20 minutes.

That's not to say I don't want this moved away from Scott, he's just got lost.
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Sigourney, Michael Beihn and Lance Henriksen were interested so I would have said Blomkamp could have been heading in the right direction.
 
Elysium and Chappie were far from great, but after seeing those and being really disappointed with Elysium after the great District 9, I'd take an Alien film from Blomkamp over the tripe that Scott has put out since his return to the franchise. The franchise has been in decline from Alien 3 onwards, so even if Blomkamp's Alien film were to continue that trend, it wouldn't exactly be derailing the franchise. The train has already left the tracks and crashed spectacularly.

Regardless of what follows on from Convenant, Scott needs removing from the franchise. I can't see Fox just pulling the plug on the Alien franchise, so it will continue in some form or another.
 
Uncle Petey said:
I guess there's at least two arguments for that.

1: It was a simple, bare bones mining ship.
It had the basics to do what it needed to do with no fancy fluff.

2: It was made in 1979 and that was the director's future vision at that time, given the day's tech and more likely, the budget he had to work with.

We couldn't have spaceship tech looking like that in a film made these days. It has to reflect the times.
The ship in Prometheus was basically a trillionaire's no expense spared luxury yacht to ferry him on an all or nothing last voyage to meet his maker.
The ship in Covenant was a high tech colony seeding vessel, so it's gonna be a bit more advanced than your average high mileage mining ship.

Saying all that, you're just gonna have to go with it and accept that times have changed :) If Alien was made today, then the ship would obviously look more modern and flashy, but it ought to still look a lot more basic and grimy than the Prometheus or the Covenant given it's purpose.
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Aye, the Nostromo was the equivalent of an old tug, operated by a company that quite literally decided it's staff were disposable.

It's like the difference between a nice new cutting edge aircraft for business class passengers, or a modern airline and something operated by a third world airline for shifting dirty cargo around.

The various books have expanded on it to the point where even long after Aliens 2 it's commented that the use of the likes of the auto doc (which is by then no longer a prototype), is not found on frontier colonies let alone transport ships for workers but only on big successful colonies or executive/military transport.
 
That trailer above summed it up for me. Predictable, unlikeable and forgettable plot and characters which plodded on for nearly two hours. Oh yes and that wretched flute. Even Alien 3 was better at least it had a genuine creepy air and one of the scenes in Covenant seemed derived from that anyway, where they were chasing the dog-alien around the leadworks.

2/5.
 
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