I said it fit, it gave me Alien 1 - 2 vibes in the slower sections.
Totally disagree in regard to the practical stuff looking like CGI, you want to go back to our wee' chat about how Scott was actually the problem after your ardent and now non existent defence?
I saw this today - I’d give it a 6.75 out of 10… a 6.5 feels too harsh but there are quite a few niggles that make me unable to give a higher rating.
The best thing about the film is the android, Andy. This actor and character was great. I really like what they did with him.
The other characters don’t really have much going for them. The whole ‘young adult gang going an adventure’ thing is a fun enough concept to work in this alien world but the supporting cast just didn’t have much to do or say to allow you to care for them.
One of them, the ‘chav’, is absurdly annoying!!! What were they thinking with this character?! He is antagonistic beyond toleration. It’s unbelievable that the rest of them would put up with his BS.
The set-up is fine but as soon as the aliens are around it’s a bit ‘cliched / we’ve seen this before’. It’s not ‘bad’ but the general direction is just obvious.
I did think that there were a lot of dribbly alien shots plastered around, as if they got some good dribbly stock footage and just put it in all over the place to really let you know that the alien is here. This lacked a bit of restraint IMO.
Things picked up with the introduction of the ‘new baddie’ right at the end. I really liked the design of this creature - much more creepy than the thing from alien resurrection. My wife found this a bit too similar to that film though. I didn’t mind - I thought it was much more interesting than what proceeded it.
The return of ‘bishop’ (edit: Ash!) was fun, although he definitely looked a bit ‘uncanny valley’ at times.
Overall watchable but easy to nitpick and unnecessarily blighted by a particularly irritating character. Which is a shame because there is one character that’s really good. Props to that actor!
I saw this today - I’d give it a 6.75 out of 10… a 6.5 feels too harsh but there are quite a few niggles that make me unable to give a higher rating.
The best thing about the film is the android, Andy. This actor and character was great. I really like what they did with him.
The other characters don’t really have much going for them. The whole ‘young adult gang going an adventure’ thing is a fun enough concept to work in this alien world but the supporting cast just didn’t have much to do or say to allow you to care for them.
One of them, the ‘chav’, is absurdly annoying!!! What were they thinking with this character?! He is antagonistic beyond toleration. It’s unbelievable that the rest of them would put up with his BS.
The set-up is fine but as soon as the aliens are around it’s a bit ‘cliched / we’ve seen this before’. It’s not ‘bad’ but the general direction is just obvious.
I did think that there were a lot of dribbly alien shots plastered around, as if they got some good dribbly stock footage and just put it in all over the place to really let you know that the alien is here. This lacked a bit of restraint IMO.
Things picked up with the introduction of the ‘new baddie’ right at the end. I really liked the design of this creature - much more creepy than the thing from alien resurrection. My wife found this a bit too similar to that film though. I didn’t mind - I thought it was much more interesting than what proceeded it.
The return of ‘bishop’ was fun, although he definitely looked a bit ‘uncanny valley’ at times.
Overall watchable but easy to nitpick and necessarily blighted by a particularly irritating character. Which is a shame because there is one character that’s really good. Props to that actor!
Ian Holms cg replacement looked a little odd, in some scenes it looked quite low quality, in others it looked 'ok', and again, in others, his face had an almost flat 2d kinda look to it. I wonder would it have been as noticeable if it was one of the other actors with a cg face replacement. More scrutiny is going to be levelled at the ones we KNOW are cg such as Holm's character.
I just got home from watching it I thought it was brilliant.
Alien and Aliens are master pieces of cinema for me best of the franchise by a country mile and of the franchise nothing has come close to them until now
I really enjoyed this, Andy was brilliant. The face huggers design was fab and probably best we have had them act in a movie too
Watched it yesterday and thought it was great, I will happily add this to my collection once out and have no issues watching it between Alien and Aliens, a worthy placement.
I wasn't overly impressed. Far too many nods to the previous films and some straight copying.
I thought the main girl and the cast in general were OK, but 'Andy' (David Jonsson) was excellent.
It looked good. Very 1979 Alien (By far my favourite in the franchise). Love the clicky-squeeky computer noises 6/10
Rook (Ash) was very uncanny valley. Though I appreciate Ian Holm died a few years ago, so couldn't really de-age him.
They got the look of the universe bang on at last, but they got lazy and just decided to make alien resurrection reboot with some lines from the other films in.
The short anniversary films were far more gripping...
Just got back from the cinema, would probably give it a 7/10
As others said, the actor who played Andy was the best thing in it, though I thought Cailee was also decent. Everyone else didn't even really have a character, other than the ******** one who hated synths/Andy.
I had lots of issues with it as well though.
1) Ash/Rook CGI was bad in some sequences (not all).
2)I thought the Asian woman and ******** guy made a weird choice to run back to the ship and take off without the others...
3) Not enough tension when they were walking through the room of face huggers
4) Brother didn't seem as bothered as he should have been seeing his sister impaled and carted off
5) Wasn't sure why Andy went funny in the blue mist?
6) Body horror Engineer/human hybrid monster thing at the end was a let down. I would have preferred another Queen or something
Ok. Have seen this twice now as wanted to pickup on a few 'what if's' and potential errors in logic.
7.5/10 - If you are one of those people who only classes Alien and Aliens as official canon despite the original director adding to this with Prometheus and Covenant you won't like it. But with what the Fede Alvarez was working with and joining ALL films into the mythos I think he did very well. There were some definitely unnecessary lines, shoddy CGI in one particular character and wasted potential on certain tense scenes I would completly agree but certain moans imo are very unfounded:
Why didn't the company get to the ship - very likely as the whole premise is it takes actual years to travel places hence the needs for the crypods perhaps a specialist team was on the way to the abandoned station. The cast just happened to pick it up after a little while into its orbit and saw an opportunity. It isn't a massive logic leap. Unlike Prometheus and Covenant which were just dumb.
Clearly says X amount of facehuggers cloned.
The ending, of this 'newborn' whilst taking from Resurrection was done MUCH better and this creature was actually really ****** up looking and intimidating. Again, Resurrection exists in canon and so is possible.
The identification of the black goo was well done if the pressure from above was to include Ridley's previous two bad efforts.
Certain parts like the full grown Xenomorphs not appearing until the end could have been explained away with one line of dialogue as in 'If we go down here we need to open up access to the Remus section of the ship' etc a massive missed point imo.
The timeline of gestation was still messed up though and made completely random for convenience.
What happened to the chest bursting Alien? (from the first half, that killed the girl who got face hugged) It was in the shuttle as I understand it, but we never saw it again.
What happened to the chest bursting Alien? (from the first half, that killed the girl who got face hugged) It was in the shuttle as I understand it, but we never saw it again.
It carted his sister off to join the alien colony (even though there was no Queen to lay eggs) and probably just joined all the other Aliens that they encountered
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