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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2017 23:16:25 GMT
It's a 9 for me. I enjoyed the shit out of it. I love the cast. Magnificent and fascinating performance from Micael Fassbender. The interactions between Walter and David are very good and have so many symbolic scenes such as the scene where David kisses Walter before betrays him reminds me of the Judas/Jesus kiss and betrayal. The cinematography and visuals are very good as well. The opening scene with Weyland and David is very fascinating as well and David's God-complex is just freaky. The chestburster sequence in this film is also very interesting. The backburster/mouthburster, grass attack, chestburster (the score, and dialogue during this scene is unexpectedly very good), planet escape and the classy and epic ending five minutes are all so great. So many fun moments throughout. I think the second act could've expanded more on David, the engineers, Shaw etc... However it's a visually stunning sci-fi, a intense horror movie and just a damn enjoyable film. Can't wait to see where Scott brings the next installment. |
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Post by CowherPowerForever on May 20, 2017 7:59:15 GMT
For me it was a film that didn't know what its end game wanted to be. With a twist that nearly everyone should have saw coming from a mile away. If you only want good scares with some good acting, and can ignore the story, you will most likely give it a higher rating than me.
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Post by twothousandonemark on May 24, 2017 2:09:30 GMT
Where's the rest of it?/10 6.5 I gave it a 6 here. Turning David evil really sux; I loved his character in Prometheus - now I think I don't in this + going forward.
The film was not bad, it merely felt like a place holder in between more expansive films. I was expecting a much larger scale vision instead of stumbling across David & some of his pet hybrid Xenomorphs. |
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2017 12:31:54 GMT
3/10
Way too much Prometheus influence. To me it comes across as if they tried to sneak a Prometheus sequel onto people by pretending it was an alien movie. "Take our Prometheus sequel and put Alien in the title, style the opening credits like Alien, use the Alien music, stick a Xenomorph in there somewhere. They'll be fooled because they're stupid."
Plus once again everyone behaves stupidly, the bad science really hurts, you see the twist ending coming from a mile away, and we get a Xeno origin that is just... ugh. Ridley has now taken everything that was cool and mysterious about the Alien franchise and given it the most mundane spin they could have.
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Post by barkingbaphomet on May 24, 2017 13:07:01 GMT
Aliens vs Prometheus
whoever wins, we lose.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 3, 2017 2:49:34 GMT
It's a mess. First of all, the characters and actors are not very good. That includes Fassbender. By the time the showdown between David and Walter took place, I knew what was going to happen and I wanted to be surprised. The fight itself was silly and unconvincing. And almost every decision each character makes in this film is stupid. It's really disappointing that Ridley Scott, given a massive budget, decides to include characters who are clearly nowhere near the best and brightest. This is the same problem I had with Prometheus. Both beautiful films. Both irritatingly stupid.
The captain just found one of his crew murdered and realized David was hiding something. Instead of forcing him back where the others are (or shooting him) he follows him down a dark passage. You can guess what happens.
Then there is a shower sex scene that belongs in a Friday the 13th film it is so lame.
This series is a mess. And there is no reason for it to be a mess. Scott clearly has a budget to do whatever he wants. The films make money. I am sure they will make another.
I hope they take that money away from Alien and put it into a film adapted from Joe Haldeman's The Forever War, which would make a much better film than a new Alien film that is essentially treading water and going nowhere. And it is about invading aliens in space, war in space, cultural and social issues and time travel.
All that said, I wasn't bored with Covenant. I was just really disappointed.
5/10
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Post by sjg on Nov 20, 2017 10:24:02 GMT
6/10
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Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2017 13:48:14 GMT
5/10
Its just another rehash.
Yet again a crew sniffs after a mysterious ping and sticks their collective nose in a deadly larva pod. Are our astronauts learning? God no — they’re still hell-bent on their own extinction. And if the audience expected a different plot, we're not learning, either.
The CGI are also shockingly bad. Scott obviously coudnt aford WETA or ILM so he went cheapskate with a second rate company like MPC
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Post by Vits on Nov 20, 2017 21:24:38 GMT
3/10
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Post by NewtJorden on Nov 24, 2017 2:49:23 GMT
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Post by bluerisk on Dec 30, 2017 20:20:28 GMT
3/10 Way too much Prometheus influence. To me it comes across as if they tried to sneak a Prometheus sequel onto people by pretending it was an alien movie. "Take our Prometheus sequel and put Alien in the title, style the opening credits like Alien, use the Alien music, stick a Xenomorph in there somewhere. They'll be fooled because they're stupid." Plus once again everyone behaves stupidly, the bad science really hurts, you see the twist ending coming from a mile away, and we get a Xeno origin that is just... ugh. Ridley has now taken everything that was cool and mysterious about the Alien franchise and given it the most mundane spin they could have. I made through the first 50 minutes, but the slapstick part (when everyone was slipping and falling in this med lab) did it for me. If I want slaptstick in a movie I'll go for the three Stooges or "Dick and Doof" (Laurel and Hardy). That a 2 lbs heavy mini-alien could crash the safety glass was also something to headbutt the wall. And not a single Engineer. You say too much Prometheus, I say far too less. This was the movies I longed for this season, but it was an utter fail. I wanted to learn more about the Engineers (I couldn't care less about the Xenomorphs) but all I got was a stupid, really stupid, monster movie. |
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Post by bluerisk on Dec 30, 2017 20:23:18 GMT
It's a mess. First of all, the characters and actors are not very good. That includes Fassbender. By the time the showdown between David and Walter took place, I knew what was going to happen and I wanted to be surprised. The fight itself was silly and unconvincing. And almost every decision each character makes in this film is stupid. It's really disappointing that Ridley Scott, given a massive budget, decides to include characters who are clearly nowhere near the best and brightest. This is the same problem I had with Prometheus. Both beautiful films. Both irritatingly stupid. The captain just found one of his crew murdered and realized David was hiding something. Instead of forcing him back where the others are (or shooting him) he follows him down a dark passage. You can guess what happens. Then there is a shower sex scene that belongs in a Friday the 13th film it is so lame. This series is a mess. And there is no reason for it to be a mess. Scott clearly has a budget to do whatever he wants. The films make money. I am sure they will make another. I hope they take that money away from Alien and put it into a film adapted from Joe Haldeman's The Forever War, which would make a much better film than a new Alien film that is essentially treading water and going nowhere. And it is about invading aliens in space, war in space, cultural and social issues and time travel. All that said, I wasn't bored with Covenant. I was just really disappointed. 5/10 I read both books. The first one was great, but the twist of the second book was a huge let down. Why always screwing things up with religion and god. |
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Post by ravi02 on Dec 30, 2017 20:44:53 GMT
6/10
A mediocre movie with a good performance by Michael Fassbinder. A little better than Prometheus, but still doesn't bring the franchise back on its feet.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2017 22:52:24 GMT
Are we allowed minus numbers?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 31, 2017 1:21:08 GMT
You say too much Prometheus, I say far too less. This was the movies I longed for this season, but it was an utter fail. I wanted to learn more about the Engineers (I couldn't care less about the Xenomorphs) but all I got was a stupid, really stupid, monster movie. I couldn’t disagree more. The engineers were a mystery better left unsolved. There was absolutely no need to “explain” the space jockey, especially when the explanation was such a silly, mundane sci-fi cliche one. It was a fatal flaw in Prometheus and then was compounded in Covenant with an even more unnecessary and foolish explanation of the origin of the Alien. |
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Post by politicidal on Dec 31, 2017 1:50:25 GMT
5/10. An interesting sequel to Prometheus packed into a run-of-the-mill Alien sequel. Fassbender's performance is fun to watch and Waterston is a better action lead than I expected. Props to Danny McBride as a surprisingly solid dramatic actor and in a genre film of all things. But a lot of the other characters are disposable and dumb. But then the gore effects are cool and the action isn't badly shot. The ending is refreshingly bleak and a neat cliffhanger though. Some cool stuff mixed with alittle too much silly stuff for me to say I liked it.
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Post by James on Jan 1, 2018 15:45:22 GMT
7.5/10 for me (voted 7)
The best since Aliens IMO, and a good return-to-form for the franchise. Prometheus was decent but this was a bit better for me, since we get to see more alien action. And it has a Xenomorph!
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Post by Roberto on Jan 1, 2018 17:23:23 GMT
Needs More Noomi/10
It was bad.
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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on Dec 7, 2018 12:22:32 GMT
2/10
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Post by maxwellperfect on Dec 7, 2018 20:50:29 GMT
6/10. Overall enjoyable, but as with any long-lived series, you start to feel you've seen it all before. (See Star Wars series, 1977 --.)
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