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I believe I was correct in my claim. This installation of the franchise far surpasses Prometheus in just about every aspect. While Prometheus was a more "thoughtful" journey, this was a more straightforward action sci-fi flick similar to Aliens. I was engaged for most of the film, whereas with Prometheus I was wondering when something interesting would ever happen, which nothing did until the last ten or so minutes. I wasn't looking forward to the sequel to Prometheus (in that I didn't care about the Engineers or any of that bulls***), but I am interested to see what happens after this one.
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While I didn't like Prometheus, it was still built up as being rather important, particularly the Engineer plot. But then that's almost entirely abandoned in this one. There's one flashback revealing that David did find the Engineer home world and then...killed them all. Like, he dropped a gigantic swath of pathogens on what looked like the whole population, and they all burned/melted/dissolved, and that was it. Something so important and intriguing in Prometheus just discarded as an afterthought in this one kind of rubs me the wrong way, but at the same time I'm glad because it wasn't something that grabbed my attention in the first place.
One thing this and Prometheus share is the dumb character decisions. I shouldn't have been, but I was baffled at some of the stupidity shown here.
- When the team lands on the Engineer planet, they don't even bother with suits/helmets. Not even an off-hand "shouldn't we check the atmosphere" kind of thing. They immediately open the cargo door and hop out like it's Earth. By neglecting this safety precaution, they actually caused their own demise. If they had been using helmets, the two security guys wouldn't have been infected with the black spores, therefore preventing the destruction of their original ship and the deaths of the two guards. It also wouldn't have drawn David to them, which would've kept everybody alive. The little things matter sometimes.
- The female engineer (not the capitalized version) that attempted to help the sick guard was understandably scared out of her mind, but also stupid. She locked the guard and one of the female scientists in the med bay because she wanted to keep the spread of infection a minimum. But...she was covered in the dude's blood after he coughed up blood on her face. She might as well have let the other girl out to at least save one more person. I didn't have as much of a problem with her unintentionally blowing up the ship by firing a shotgun in the cargo hold containing flammable canisters, because again, she was freaked the f*** out, but trapping a friend in the med bay with the creature was idiotic.
- Both of those women slipped on the dude's blood on the floor, both times preventing them from damaging or killing the little Neomorph. It was somewhat OK when the first woman did it, but then the engineer came in with her shotgun and slipped before she could hit the thing. f***ing eyeroll moment.
- The captain trusting David in the egg room was stuuuuuuuuuupid. Why would anybody trust him after learning that he basically created everything that was killing them off? It was such a forced way to kill off a character that was just starting to develop.
There are four aliens in this movie, and there only needed to be two tops. The first was the little Neomorph that came out of the guard's back. It got killed when the engineer blew up the ship. The second Neomorph that came out of the other guard's mouth was absent for a while after its initial attack, but then got killed off later on. The Protopmorph that came from the captain's facehugger was around for maybe three scenes before getting crushed in a crane claw. The final Protomorph got shot into space like most other movies in the franchise. It would've been better had there been one Neomorph and one Protomorph to increase the suspense.
I saw the twist coming even though I'd read about it and watched the ending on Kodi before seeing it in theaters, but I still think I would've caught it regardless. It's pretty obvious when we don't see David actually die. The only thing I'm wondering is how David mimicked Walter's injuries and voice so perfectly. I know they're both synthetics, but he fooled the remaining crew up until the very end somehow. David himself is such an a*****, and such a good villain. I want him to die so badly but he's interesting to watch.
The fight between Walter and David was fun aside from the quick cuts. Walter was giving David a beating despite being out one hand. I would've liked to have seen how David beat Walter. Hopefully it'll be a deleted scene.
I think we're going to get a queen in the next one. David only brought two facehugger embryos onto the Covenant at the end, knowing there were around 2,000 colonists. That's a huge implication if I've ever seen one.
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On March 3, 2017, it was reported that the sequel to Alien: Covenant had already been written and would be ready to film in 2018, dependant on the success of the first film.[11] Later the same month, in an interview with Fandango, Scott appeared to accidentally reveal that the title of the next film would be Alien: Awakening and also seemed to suggest that it would be a prequel set between Prometheus and Covenant.[35] Scott went on to state that there would be at least three further films, assuming the two movies were successful.[35]
Hot damn. This franchise is going to get milked for all its worth.
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Prometheus was far more ambitions than Covenant was, but just didn't back up any of the ambition. Beyond some basic symbolism it went nowhere with a plot that had so much potential. Plus Prometheus has some of the dumbest written characters I've ever seen.
Covenant is definitely better, but if you look at it as a sequel to Promethtus it's very underwhelming. But I get that since so many people hated Prometheus. Don't get me wrong, loved it as an Imax experience, but was still quite disappointed with a lot of aspects of it.
As long as they don't make another movie with Ripley in it, I don't really care. This sequel franchise is already destined for mediocrity. Not absolutely terrible, but not in any ways great either.
I liked it but I didn't love it. Why are scientists so damn stupid?
Here's this signal let's rush there RIGHT NOW because it's urgent for some reason. Set up a base camp, establish what the environment is like, the flora, the fauna or lack thereof? f*** that noise, guns will do.
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I actually kinda preferred the Neomorph's in this movie, they were way creepier than the Xeno's which just felt kind of OP and were in no way threatening with how CGI they looked. For me it was just kind of like "Yep. That's a Xenomorph" when they showed up.
The aliens overall were way too tanky in this film, in the others they've always felt fallible and had to be smart to get the kills unless they had numbers but here they were like f*** it, we're going to mess everything up.
I wish this was a bit more like Prometheus and explained stuff like why is it that when Xenomorph's spawn through humans do they become the perfect killing machines? It's a bit odd considering the Engineers are far superior to humans in both intelligence and physicality. Maybe the next film will explain that but I kind of doubt it.
Good movie but woefully predictable.
I'm not sure I've ever seen a movie where two lookalike characters fight, one dies and the survivor isn't completely obvious. If there's ever a scene like that, it's always going to be the bad one that wins 99.99% of the time so what's the point really? The crew still wouldn't know and we'd be sitting in anticipation.
Finally, I'm not sure I liked that they tried to create Ripley 2.0. She was kind of cool I guess just seemed a bit cheap, you can't just re-use every theme or formula and hit gold again and again. Alien and Aliens work so well because they done completely different things, every other film in the franchise besides Prometheus has just copied those two and they've sucked, in comparison to those two at least.