Even the Science Officer of a fucking crew of Space Truckers does science better than the scientists of Prometheus, and they're supposed to be the best of the best of their fields. Damon Lindelof is a terrible writer, he makes Michael Bay look like a genius of unparalleled nuance.
The idea of a robot sabotaging the whole crew in order to get profits for a big corporation sounds coherent. Guess they do not use that idea so well again just cause it could be another seed of paranoid propaganda against the corporations that employ us or, the writers are simply overpaid morons
I watch this movie, and I legitimately can't believe that it's directed by the same guy who directed the original Alien. It's almost like he had absolutely no memory of how these creatures were supposed to work. I mean, what the hell was up with that "stick-figure" Chestburster? The Chestbursters are supposed to be larval-forms - they come out more like snakes and eventually develop limbs after molting. But what really gets me is that, we're supposed to believe that THIS is the answer to where the Xenomorphs came from? They were originally designed to be a genocidal alien-virus capable of wiping out an indigenous species of a planet in mere moments, that mutated when making contact with air, thus resulting in a fungus that releases infectious fungal spores, that cause parasitic monsters to grow inside a host unfortunate enough to come into contact with them? And one-way-or-another, these Proto-Morph things were effectively stagnating in their current form, until a Genocidal Android with a God-Complex somehow managed to cross-breed the right genes enough, to make a perfected GMO version of the Xenomorph, which is how we get Facehuggers?! ...Something tells me it's just easier to believe that the Predators engineered the Xenomorphs to be the Ultimate Game. At least THAT doesn't sound nearly as convoluted.
Or, better yet, the Xenos shouldn't even HAVE a definitive origin story. Have it be like the Joker where they have multiple choice origins but keep it vague. It makes them, for lack of a better term, more alien.
Actually. by the comic books, the Yautja or Hist harvesting egg laying queens from the Xenomorph homeworld which actually has a specie that already preys on the xenomorphs and there are literally hive wars.
I can't understand how anyone thought it was a good idea to do an origin story for the Xenomorph. Aren't they supposed to be, you know, alien? As in, unknown and unknowable? Instead, some asshole android went bonkers and created them with the black semen of giant, albino body builders that are also Jesus.
GanonGhidorah the whole story is that David created the Protomorgh. This is why the chestburster wasn't wormlike but had all its arms and legs. It's also why it was less biomechanical. Still a crap story though, not trying to defend the movie.
Alien 1979 Alien: Attacks man. Crew: Yeah, let's bring it back. Alien: Implants something in the host. Crew: This is fine. Alien: Dies after implanting said unidentified object in its host. Crew: Still no problem here. Man: Dies from alien chest buster. Crew:....alright...we MIIIIGHT have a problem.
When u just no realize Jussie smollett is in this movie and would have never known that fact if he didn’t pull his lil stunt....guess his plan def worked lol
Captain Oram: "I constantly make idiotic decisions and don't have the slightest respect for the lives or emotions of my crew...Obviously they hate me because I'm religious!"
Well, we can say Michael Fasbender has done both. He's a megalomaniac, WWII survivor with magnet powers, and an Android who had minor feelings for the "like Ripley" female lead in covenant.
Huh?, Hicks and Newt had a ceremony after they got killed and Bishop had the chance to warn Ripley about how fucked up the situation was and also had the chance to ask for a last wish... this thing of killing of important character between movies with fucks not given started in Covenant :/
+Fury161 I didn't mean ceremony literally, I meant that they were killed casually, as if they didn't matter. The main point of the second half of Aliens was "Save Newt" and the end had her Ripley and Hicks as the beginning of a sort-of family. It was a narratively satisfying ending, particularly with the stuff about Amanda Ripley back in the film. Then along comes Alien 3 and the writers are like "Well, that kid's going to slow down this re-tread of the original we wanna do. Eh, just off her and that soldier, who gives a shit." That I found very disrespectful to the characters and to those who worked on the previous film. If anything I find it worse than Covenant, since Newt, Hicks and Bishop were more engaging and interesting characters than Shaw so killing them off so easily as if they didn't matter bothers me more.
+GriffinPilgrim I agree but it's not really the writers of Alien3, it was the studio. They were too cheap to pay Michael Beihn and Carrie Henn had aged too much. That's why they were killed off. No other reason. I would have been fine if they had died if those deaths had artistic merit. But they didn't. Hell, I'll even be generous and say they can kill one of them off off screen at the start, but doing it to both is just utterly lazy writing. It's like using a Deus Ex Machina to get someone out of a jam, except it's to get the story out of a jam instead of getting a character out of a jam.
Its so depressing to think Ridley Scott, the man who created the original Alien, is responsible for both of these awful alien prequels. I mean, the man deserves praise for his earlier work & its impact on cinema and pop culture, without a doubt, but I just don't know what he's doing with these prequel films, they're the kind of prequels that take AWAY from the original film rather than increase your enjoyment of it. I have NO interest in where David's wacky descent into cartoon villainy is going & hope these prequel films do not continue any further, just retcon them out of the alien timeline and leave their origins a mystery again, or at least say they were created by the Space Jockeys or Predators instead of an insane man made android named David. The black goo saga should end here and be forgotten for the sake of the Alien franchise' future (if it even has one at this point), or at least out of respect for its legacy in sci-fi horror history. P.S. how is it possible that the humans of these films literally keep getting dumber and dumber? Its like the filmmakers heard the critiques against the characters of Prometheus and doubled down on their stupidity to see how much worse they could get. How do all these morons keep getting jobs on high-tech deep space missions that require at LEAST basic common sense in order to survive and succeed?! XD
@@jordanwright2313 Thank you. I love Ridley Scott and all but he just directed someone else's idea. An idea he clearly doesn't know what to do with after being given entirely too much credit for the first movie. He does deserve a lot of credit because he's a great director. In any case, just as he shouldn't get too much credit for Alien, I don't think he deserves all the blame for this movie either, since it was based on a story idea by John Logan and Dante Harper, and the script was written by Jack Paglan and Michael Green. Just as we shouldn't always heap praise upon one man, the same applies to blame.
@@williamhiers1280 for sure, I liked Prometheus and covenant, to me covenant was edited weird, and thought it was lame they didnt actually go the engineer home world, but to each is own. Covenant probably the last Alien film for awhile
@@williamhiers1280 Indeed. Watch John Carpenters Dark Star (Also written by Dan while he was crashing on Johns couch) It feels much more like an actual Alien movie than any of these prequels.
Is it just me or have directors completely lost the ability to be subtle in movies. Everything seems to be extremely "in your face" and obvious these days.
look at the box office numbers. blade runner 2049 barely beat this movie despite being rated 20 points higher on meta critic and rotten tomatoes. loud and dumb is what sells
Its because its true ,people going and paying for movies nowadays are dumb, its shown by the fact these terrible movies are making hundreds of millions of dollars and the studios are saying "dont fix shit that isnt broke" during production. The audiences are deciding what films become successful and the studios keep using that rubrick when choosing directors and when meddling with decision making while continuously pumping out polished turds. Movies that take any critical thinking have veen on the endangered species list for years now and it will only change when audiences say enough is enough
I dunno, they're seem to be pandering to an audience of morons. The Frankenstein references in _Prometheus_ were far from subtle, and still most people seem to have missed them. It's like they need to be spoonfed.
"They hate me cause I am a man of faith!" fact established in the movie by you preventing ppl from mourning the recently deceased loved one... Something ppl of faith are known fo.... Wut?! 🤨🤨🤨
This entire film was a corporate exercise in "Lets make a film even dumber than the one before just to prove we can make utter shite and the dumbos will still pay for it."
My Rating = 2/10! Seriously, I never felt more enraged while watching this movie. Mostly it's a huge failure because they actually had the ground works for a good prequel (if you take out Prometheus): Just have a plot involving Planetary colonists discovering a planet with hibernating Xenomorphs, have David be an obsessive biologist artist, wanting to breed his own xenomorphs, creating neomorphs after ten years of being on this planet (who was apart of an early Colonial mission, but discovered an Engineer/Jockey colony), and the colony crew end up being preyed on by both Xenomorphs and David with his Neomorphs. Then, in the end, everyone deads, only for a Space Jockey (the one we see in the first Alien) collecting Xenomorph eggs, and one sneaky facehugger snuck on its ship, and boom! You have your Prequel! You're done! The Fans are happy, I'm happy, Decker is happy! No Sci-fi Creationism overtones! No unfulfilled promises of revealing Xenomorph origins! I agree with you, Decker: the Visuals are beautiful, and the Music was good, hell even the Gore managed to make my rating a 2, instead of a 1. The story is a failure on every level, and the homoerotic scene with the androids felt forced and unnatural. Like they wanted to fit with the current year but failed. Plus I didn't know they had a gay couple in the movie until someone told me of a RUclips prologue scene...oh okay? Why was that not in the movie? I ended up not giving a single fuck for the characters (Except for Danny McBride, I did feel for him and loved his dramatic role, just wish it was in a better movie.), so once again Alien series fails to be a horror, because if I don't care about the characters, then it's not a horror film, despite what Michael Bay would tell you.
Well if we take Ridley's "Daved the crazy android has created the Xenomorph species" bullshit origin story, then there isn't much "Alien" left in xenomorph creature. According to Ridley xenomorphs are nothing more than mutants made from human organs with the use of little drip of an alien virus.
+Major Benson Winifred Payne I wish I could argue that David made the Neomorph from the xenomorph, buuttt there is no point when even *if* the engineers did not make the black goo, they apparently made humanity, so we would be of the same origin and... my word this whole mess is stupid.
It's kinda sad that Scott didn't like the original script for Prometheus and decided to rewrite it. According to it xenomorphs were artificially engineered creatures, created by the Engineer civilization as a bioweapon. While it wasn't striking imagination, at least it made perfect sense as an explanation to why there were eggs on a derelict ship on LV-426 and why the xenos were so dangerous.
+Major Benson Winifred Payne Unless the Engineer civilization were not humans from space, the does not sound much better. Admittedly, if humans were not engineered, xenomorphs would have been alien then, but there would have been problems, like the evil organization having wasted so much time trying to get a sample of a weapon that had probably been replaced by its creators long ago when they could have tried studying the assembly line.
The xenomorphs we see from Covenant and onward are David' creations sure. But he didn't create the xenomorph in the first place. They're on the engineer murals, which existed well before David did.
"Unintended". Dude the only thing unintended was not having a laugh track when those two dumb guys infected themselves and those two dumb girls messed up so many times trying to kill the neomorph.
It was Tremors 5 Hakuna Matata ... Tremors 6 on ice cube came out week ago . Trailer looks nice and i bet like these days is so typical all the clips worth to view are in trailer .
ive watched so many of these covenant reviews. thank you for being the first one to take issue with the basic particle physics of neutrinos. the most highly advanced equipment on earth has a hell of a time even detecting them. they arent called 'ghost particles' for nothing. I did enjoy covenant for what its worth.. though I do admit it has its faults. I thought it honestly looked cheaply made(even though i know it wasnt)
Your editing, witty commentary, and pretty solid movie takes along with your fair ratings make you one of my favorite youtubers. keep up the work man. Also.... fuckin sweet hair.
What a coincidence. I just saw your first review of Covenant yesterday and am now about to watch this new one. Great work Decker. The universe works in mysterious ways XD
Neutrinos don't travel at a faster speed than light, but when there is some kind of solar cataclysm, It starts at the nucleus of the star, from where the neutrinos escape with ease cause they almost don't intereact with matter. The photons take longer to get to the surface because they do interact with matter, heavily, so when you detect a massive neutrinos burst prepare yourself. This is just to clarify.
How the heck did you manage to get more than two for this pile of poop? I've tried to watch it three times but I find I stop giving a damn once the extreme stupidity sets in. I got through Prometheus because I actually cared a bit for Shaw's character and I would probably have even made it through Covenant if she had survived but there's no-one to care about in this movie. To be honest, a better movie would have been Shaw sharing the Engineer ship with David and slowly realising she had an android psychopath on her hands. Then she could have flushed him out of an airlock and set off on her own to encounter the engineers.
Ah, but the original Space Jockey was larger and differently proportioned to the 'Engineers'. So perhaps there could be a final encounter with some kind of alien master-race, possibly symbiotically involved or even related to the original aliens.
21:53 Thank you! Glad I'm not the only one who was thinking this! Her constantly traumatized 'Yeardley Smith' expression for most of the movie, reminded me of how unchanging Liv Tyler's expressions were in "Armageddon." 26:19 I imagine if there is a third one, we'll find him on that planet the ship was heading to, only it'll be fully colonized with xenomorphs, and David will be 'lording over heaven,' among his 'beautiful creations,' a God far away from the demons on Earth...until another unsuspecting and stupid crew from Weyland Industries happens across him.
It's great to see Decker's gradual rise in views. His work contains a lot of work, and he recognizes EACH and EVERY actor -- no matter how small the role. Would like to join you for a review sometime, I could learn a thing or two from your work ethic.
Dude, that's so awesome to hear. Everybody makes mistakes and it's really refreshing and encouraging to to hear a person with a public voice who stands to lose from not being perfect in this shitty political world, simply admit fault. Even in something as simple as a movie review.
Another amazing review.. thumbs up! ... I don't understand why the people making sequels and prequels to established movie universes don't care to be even the slightest bit consistent. It's insulting and quite infuriating..
18:04 perfect my ass! They are like the hand me down of the albino aliens, actually needing an egg and a face hugger when all you really need is TO HARVEST THE SPORES then fill a room full of people with the spores and boom you got like that many aliens you don’t even need the face huggers anymore! Or anything just the spores!
Last night I randomly rewatched your Prometheus Review and I thought "I wonder when Decker will review Covenant"....then I suddenly see your Covenant review in my feed...awesome. Great review as always!!
I am only 9 minutes in, and I love your wise-crack and sometimes ironic commentary of this movie. You are definitely in your stride! I have seen over 100 off your reviews so far, all in last 3 months, and I am probably one of your biggest recent fans. Lol. And I even own a small black rescue cat. It would have been ideal to appear in this review cause it's very alien like. Anywho, I am only 9 minutes in. Thanks for your awesome way of explaining plot holes and mistakes and your acting, you are def one of the best in this business! Keep up the good work and from my heart thanks for giving me a platform to follow on RUclips I really enjoy watching as my daily relax and smile entertainment. Peace ✌️
Decker I always look forward to your videos, I do like to rewatch your Summer Specials especially the summer of Freddy and Jason, there is enough content to whittle away a grey afternoon in Manchester. Keep up the good work hope this years Summer Special is going to be epic
I swear you need more support! You are absolutely THEE best critic on RUclips! Your references with all movies, video games and d&d make up for the best commentary to date! I swear if I was a millionaire I would give you half! Please keep up this perfection and if I'm ever in Texas, you MUST invite me over for a campaign 😎
Decker, the alien we thought was the classic wasn't necessarily a xenomorph, this variant is considered to be the protomorph. This alien in particular was a meant to be the early version of the xeno that didn't fully evolve into its biomechanical look. And there are tons of differences between this protomorph and the classic xeno that we all know and love. One is that instead of having the biomechanical exoskeletal body this variant seems to have a internal skeleton within a more fleshy epidermic skin. Of course it has acidic blood but another thing in difference is the behavior between the two. The xenomorph is more advanced in intelligence, it stalks, outsmarts and actually plans its attacks on its prey. Where as the protomorph is more feral and savage. It acts more animalistic with the less advanced intelligence to the point where no matter what the situation is it will just go in for the attack instead of fleeing from a dangerous situation or adversary. I wasn't trying to be a smart ass I was just telling some facts about the differences between Xenomorph and Protomorph.
Mostly right on the Neutrino part(they can interact with particles just very rarely). However Neutrinos typically proceed the violent death of a star/nova/supernova and this was likely the warning that was implied or should have been warned about as just neutrinos themselves should’ve been little cause for concern. Fucking awesome review though!
Hey Decker! Another great review. I pretty much concur with your reviews of the whole Alien series, arc, philosophy, etc...I like a man who asks questions knowing there probably aren't coherent answers. You get the idea. Anyway, as a possible suggestion to decompress, you may want to review Roger Corman's "Forbidden World" from 1982 as a possible Alien/Thing/ripoff. It doesn't offer many questions, but it doesn't want to. It's got slime, girls, low grade effects, and all the other things B movie lovers want. Before, Dimension, before Asylum, there was Roger Corman, and his ability to cash in with vengeance. I've had bad steaks (Ridley Scott) in a restaurant, but I've never had bad popcorn (Roger Corman) in a movie theater. Anyway, take care, and keep up the great videos!
I had fun with Covenant at first, but like Prometheus the flaws are more apparent upon repeat viewings. Its ok, but like Alien 3 it just throws out the last movie for no reason. Also like a certain Star Wars film it just doesn't bother answering previously asked questions, not because its mysterious or insightful or any other cop out excuse, but because its lazy writing.
How does it throw out the last movie? it is a direct continuation of the story of David on his route towards autonomy and insanity. Shaw's search for God in a Godless universe was never going to lead anywhere.
to be fair; the second xeno had leaped at a full run, so it couldn't course correct anymore. it was committed to it's attack and was impaled for it. also, there was ALOT cut from the movie that answered so much.
This movie was beyond insulting. For years, I'd been one of the people defending Prometheus. For example, when they took off their helmets in Prometheus, they went out of their way to show them scanning the atmosphere of this dead planet and determining it to be safe. Furthermore, despite all of the death, nothing in Prometheus was caused by airborne pathogens, so taking off their helmets really was safe after all. I'd been refuting that piece of criticism to no end. So imagine how insulting it is to see the follow-up movie feature characters that don't ever scan the atmosphere of a planet obviously teeming with life, that don't even bother with helmets in the first place and who actually _do_ encounter airborne pathogens!
Mother from Alien was already acting on company orders when it woke the crew. They seemed to know what the signal was about. Tennessee could detect the signal because he was outside the ships shielding.
9:00 Is it just me or would this form of aliens be way deadlier then the actual aliens? Like who needs a face hugger when you got literal black smoke that will do the same thingA
My word basic human safety thrown out of the window, loaded firearms near explosives, random cig breaks...on an alien planet, breathing in an unknown spore, generally touching anything, lack of respect for fellow crew members so much so by locking them in a room with an aggressive alien lifeform, that's not quite fully grown, letting it grow and letting them die, sexy time in the shower when crewmates are missing with music on that ship alert can't turn off...I am so, so glad I didn't watch this film in the cinema because I would be ranting my lungs out at the levels of stupidity you've shown this film possess. I thank you for this review.
Damn! That Xenomorph was eating him with outer jaw and not killing him in with the inner jaw! You are making me laugh. You Decker have the most entertaining reviews that I have watch so far. Congratulations! I would be doing it the same way.
air being breathable and non-toxic ≠ air being free of pathogens and safe to breathe. Remember that kids because these assholes in this movie surely didn't.
Gabriel Torres at least George Lucas attempted to make his franchise look like it's in a bigger universe, Ridley having an android create the Xenomorphs makes the Alien universe seem a lot smaller
wolfmantheimpaler very true ridley took the main thing that this franchise is mostly about the horror of the unknown and isolation of the vastness of space.( second one is probably just my opinion though)
did anyone else find it odd that every one on the crew was married to each other? I understand that a colonizing mission would have mostly if not all couples for the purpose of procreation but the odds of them all being qualified to work on a spaceship seems a bit far fetched to me. Also how does a regenerating android loose to another android without that ability.
I actually felt insulted when they tried the David Walter fake out near the end. My 10yr 9ld nephew wasn't fooled by it either. They made it as obvious as possible without directly saying it.
That thing about the signal annoys me. In Alien, they worked on a hauling rig that was old and dilapidated. They had cryotech on board. They were all in stasis, had been for MONTHS, when the signal was picked up. That ship could very well have been the new commercial model at the time Covenant took place. And it was programmed to stop at any sign of alien life. Yet the state-of-the-art science vessel, whose only single purpose was to seek out signs of new life, was NOT programmed to stop at any sign of alien life?
Full theory: We know from the mural in Prometheus that the Engineers knew about Xenomorphs and Facehuggers (both pictured in the mural). This leads me to believe the Engis took from the Xeno's (which spread naturally on worlds throughout the galaxy) the unique gene that gives them the ability take foreign DNA and mutate and integrate it into the xenomorph's own biology. This gene lets the Xenos instantly adapt to whatever environment the host is operating in. The ship in Alien (the 1st movie) was one which was harvesting eggs of the species to use to develop this weapon / tool. The Engis took this gene from the Xenos and weaponized it making the black goo because they saw its amazing unique properties to change life. David then learned about the origin of the black goo and tries to reverse engineer a xenomorph from what little data he could find because he believes this ability to mutate and adapt to the universe to be perfection. There we go... All tied up nice and neat. God I hope they don't fuck up the last film and make this very clear.
Rather well done. Except the Xenomorphs didn't spread naturally. They were seeded by the Yautja (Predators) to be hunted and on some worlds, hunts went wrong and not all of them were killed off, allowing the Engineers to learn of their existence.
16:50 why do i have the distinct feeling Aurom (or Aurum? idk and frankly idc) was Ridley Scott making the prequels and "explaining" where the aliens came from and David was James Cameron seeing how unnecessarily convoluted it all became And the Neomorph was the Xenomorph Queen
I really was expecting they would tell us more of the deacon alien in the ending of Prometheus rather than leaving us with the expanded universe version. Although I'm a bit sceptic on the direction that Scott is taking the series I hope in the long run it doesn't suck for the good of the frachise. I'm worried as well for the new film of Predator. Two of my favorite franchises right there.
you finally got around to this one after a whole year since it came out I still like the film; so many fans complained about the lack of actual aliens and I didn't get a lot of answers but this one gave me more and I'm thankful for it Michael Fassbender still gives a tremendous performance playing two roles and the flute scene is impressive utilizing modern splitscreen techniques sucks Shaw died and we didn't get to see more of the Engineers but this was David's story and humans did create his whole God complex, they're responsible for all the carnage of creation of the Xenomorphs
People loved characters being killed offscreen at the start of Alien 3 so much, Ridley Scott decided to do it again. Noomi Rapace was the only thing I enjoyed about Prometheus and I couldn't believe you had to watch some internet video to find out what happened to her.
webfox100 first, last time I checked this was a movie review show not a game or comic review show. Second, just because the movie sucked doesn't mean it isn't worth reviewing. Third, it wouldn't make sense to review all the other alien movies and skip this one, especially when it's not the worst one of the series.
Seems the third prequel film "Awakening " is dead I remember Ridley was planning to take them to Lv426 and there was going to be some war of the world's scenario between engineers David and possibly colonial marines
Great review, I always love how you seem to find tiny mistakes and play them off as '... But anyways' :) As an Alien, Aliens, Alien3 and Prometheus fan, at first I thought I liked this movie. A perfect massive destructive creature as the xenomorph must be the end product of a long period of evolution between different species, as Prometheus tried to tell by ending it with the Deacon. But it seems that Scott had other plans and it was really sad to see he tried to please the Alien fans more who didn't like Prometheus as much as telling an original story. He promised Alien prequels from the start, but Prometheus was kinda it's own thing. Shame that it's going to be a mess from now on. The xenomorph has really been butchered over the decades and it only worries me more for the movies to come. If they're ever going to make that 'Aliens 2' with Weaver, that would be exciting tho. Love you work!
Someone mentioned tgat the Xenomorphs were in the Engineers morals. The theory went that the Engineers took the xenos DNA because of its adaptability and modified it into the goo that we see, making it into a bio weapon. So the deacon was a genetic dead end, the neomorphs and protomorphs were David's first attempts at reverse engineering the goo bio weapon back into the Xenomorphs. But as we see he also was trying to control them as well and this is where the xenomorph hierarchy comes from in later films.
I could have sworn you had done this one already. But I think I just mashed together when I watched this movie, with many sarcastic comments from me and my friends, with your reaction vid.
unlucky for me that is the second alien movie i went into the cinmea for, the first one was "alien: ressurection", this one was even worse, all those points decker pointed out were glaring isues, aswell the seemingly need of doing hommages to aliens primerely like the scene whre some chars sitting next to photo of a forest scene and several others ... long story short: even though alien4 was a bad movie in its own rights, it still was entertaining, alien covenant was so bad i wanted to leave the theater midmovie;in particular as those morons left the shuttle without suits and stuff, i forced myself to see the rest o that movie just to see how bad it will get and i didn't got let down on that one, especially the fate of dr shaw was extremely poor handled and the psycho-robot david on top of all things
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Remember when Ripley was like "Hey, I'm not opening the door, we have protocols and stuff about this." I miss characters like that in these movies.
You mean, when the entire cast wasnt autistic??
I know right? I it makes the horror so much more horrifying when it's not due to complete stupidity on behalf of the good guys.
Ridley didn't have full control in that Alien, he was surrounded by people who aren't crazy and live in a bubble of ignorance.
Even the Science Officer of a fucking crew of Space Truckers does science better than the scientists of Prometheus, and they're supposed to be the best of the best of their fields. Damon Lindelof is a terrible writer, he makes Michael Bay look like a genius of unparalleled nuance.
The idea of a robot sabotaging the whole crew in order to get profits for a big corporation sounds coherent. Guess they do not use that idea so well again just cause it could be another seed of paranoid propaganda against the corporations that employ us or, the writers are simply overpaid morons
It's kinda sad to seeing people who are supposed to be scientists acting dumber than space truckers, Marines, a little girl, and religious prisoners
I guess that must be the time that IQs dropped sharply.
Alien franchise is connected to idiocracy!!??
I was talking about Ripley's line "Did IQs drop sharply while I was away?"
I know i was just joking
8:12 What, they are still using that 'Mars Rover' in another sci-fi movie? That is a probe for unmanned missions
19:26 I remember trying not to laugh my ass off at the movie theater. I was expecting the little critter to start singing "Hello! Ma Baby".
I watch this movie, and I legitimately can't believe that it's directed by the same guy who directed the original Alien.
It's almost like he had absolutely no memory of how these creatures were supposed to work. I mean, what the hell was up with that "stick-figure" Chestburster? The Chestbursters are supposed to be larval-forms - they come out more like snakes and eventually develop limbs after molting.
But what really gets me is that, we're supposed to believe that THIS is the answer to where the Xenomorphs came from?
They were originally designed to be a genocidal alien-virus capable of wiping out an indigenous species of a planet in mere moments, that mutated when making contact with air, thus resulting in a fungus that releases infectious fungal spores, that cause parasitic monsters to grow inside a host unfortunate enough to come into contact with them?
And one-way-or-another, these Proto-Morph things were effectively stagnating in their current form, until a Genocidal Android with a God-Complex somehow managed to cross-breed the right genes enough, to make a perfected GMO version of the Xenomorph, which is how we get Facehuggers?!
...Something tells me it's just easier to believe that the Predators engineered the Xenomorphs to be the Ultimate Game. At least THAT doesn't sound nearly as convoluted.
Or, better yet, the Xenos shouldn't even HAVE a definitive origin story. Have it be like the Joker where they have multiple choice origins but keep it vague. It makes them, for lack of a better term, more alien.
Actually. by the comic books, the Yautja or Hist harvesting egg laying queens from the Xenomorph homeworld which actually has a specie that already preys on the xenomorphs and there are literally hive wars.
I can't understand how anyone thought it was a good idea to do an origin story for the Xenomorph. Aren't they supposed to be, you know, alien? As in, unknown and unknowable? Instead, some asshole android went bonkers and created them with the black semen of giant, albino body builders that are also Jesus.
The Godless Beast that and the Space Jockeys prior to Prometheus were a lot cooler, being somewhat cybernetic and telepathic
GanonGhidorah the whole story is that David created the Protomorgh. This is why the chestburster wasn't wormlike but had all its arms and legs. It's also why it was less biomechanical. Still a crap story though, not trying to defend the movie.
Alien: Covenant in a nutshell: "In the name of science, I'll put my face right in it!"
So... we know that Rule 34 exists after we make it out of our solar system. This is less surprising than it should be.
They clearly deserved being killed by the aliens
Alien 1979
Alien: Attacks man.
Crew: Yeah, let's bring it back.
Alien: Implants something in the host.
Crew: This is fine.
Alien: Dies after implanting said unidentified object in its host.
Crew: Still no problem here.
Man: Dies from alien chest buster.
Crew:....alright...we MIIIIGHT have a problem.
neomorphs? do they know kung fu?
Whoa.
Xenomorpheus: You think that's a dumbass you're bursting out of now?
Neomorph: Uh, yes?
Don't let them show me xD
They both dispense and take the red pill!
Fun fact: neo is Latin for new
Xeno is Latin for strange or different
Morph is Latin for shape or form
At least we got Michael Fassbender teaching himself how to play the flute while totally not being gay.
"I'll do the fingering." How in the name of "Charlie" did Michael Fassbender say that with a straight face? XD
He must have been high on a lot of weed
I actually enjoyed that scene alot but then again I've only seen the film once on opening day
Cailean Thomson The answer is Percocet and Valium.
Is it gay if hes screwing himself
Whenever I see the words "Deckershado" and "ALIEN", everything else in life becomes irrelevant until the video is over.
Frank Dougherty Amen
Amen Brother :D
Remember to watch Alien Origin to get rid off that addiction :-D
When u just no realize Jussie smollett is in this movie and would have never known that fact if he didn’t pull his lil stunt....guess his plan def worked lol
Bruiser Brown I swear I saw a xenomorph wearing a maga hat lol.
This is Xeno country!
They put a facehugger around my face.
@@BodaciousBob66Make Aliens Great Again?
"Death and explosions and pretend you're being an intellectual about it"- that has to be the most goddamn accurate description of this movie.
Captain Oram: "I constantly make idiotic decisions and don't have the slightest respect for the lives or emotions of my crew...Obviously they hate me because I'm religious!"
You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain. :T
Well, we can say Michael Fasbender has done both. He's a megalomaniac, WWII survivor with magnet powers, and an Android who had minor feelings for the "like Ripley" female lead in covenant.
Well, it is keeping one tradition from the Alien franchise; killing off important characters between movies with no ceremony or respect. Yay.
Huh?, Hicks and Newt had a ceremony after they got killed and Bishop had the chance to warn Ripley about how fucked up the situation was and also had the chance to ask for a last wish... this thing of killing of important character between movies with fucks not given started in Covenant :/
+Fury161 I didn't mean ceremony literally, I meant that they were killed casually, as if they didn't matter. The main point of the second half of Aliens was "Save Newt" and the end had her Ripley and Hicks as the beginning of a sort-of family. It was a narratively satisfying ending, particularly with the stuff about Amanda Ripley back in the film. Then along comes Alien 3 and the writers are like "Well, that kid's going to slow down this re-tread of the original we wanna do. Eh, just off her and that soldier, who gives a shit." That I found very disrespectful to the characters and to those who worked on the previous film. If anything I find it worse than Covenant, since Newt, Hicks and Bishop were more engaging and interesting characters than Shaw so killing them off so easily as if they didn't matter bothers me more.
+GriffinPilgrim I agree but it's not really the writers of Alien3, it was the studio. They were too cheap to pay Michael Beihn and Carrie Henn had aged too much. That's why they were killed off. No other reason. I would have been fine if they had died if those deaths had artistic merit. But they didn't. Hell, I'll even be generous and say they can kill one of them off off screen at the start, but doing it to both is just utterly lazy writing. It's like using a Deus Ex Machina to get someone out of a jam, except it's to get the story out of a jam instead of getting a character out of a jam.
+Fury161 whoosh..
GriffinPilgrim nice one ♡
Its so depressing to think Ridley Scott, the man who created the original Alien, is responsible for both of these awful alien prequels. I mean, the man deserves praise for his earlier work & its impact on cinema and pop culture, without a doubt, but I just don't know what he's doing with these prequel films, they're the kind of prequels that take AWAY from the original film rather than increase your enjoyment of it. I have NO interest in where David's wacky descent into cartoon villainy is going & hope these prequel films do not continue any further, just retcon them out of the alien timeline and leave their origins a mystery again, or at least say they were created by the Space Jockeys or Predators instead of an insane man made android named David. The black goo saga should end here and be forgotten for the sake of the Alien franchise' future (if it even has one at this point), or at least out of respect for its legacy in sci-fi horror history.
P.S. how is it possible that the humans of these films literally keep getting dumber and dumber? Its like the filmmakers heard the critiques against the characters of Prometheus and doubled down on their stupidity to see how much worse they could get. How do all these morons keep getting jobs on high-tech deep space missions that require at LEAST basic common sense in order to survive and succeed?! XD
Ridley scott didnt create Alien, Dan Obannon and Ronals Shusett created the story.
Indeed.
Hollywood these days seems to get more incompetent by the day...
@@jordanwright2313 Thank you. I love Ridley Scott and all but he just directed someone else's idea. An idea he clearly doesn't know what to do with after being given entirely too much credit for the first movie. He does deserve a lot of credit because he's a great director. In any case, just as he shouldn't get too much credit for Alien, I don't think he deserves all the blame for this movie either, since it was based on a story idea by John Logan and Dante Harper, and the script was written by Jack Paglan and Michael Green. Just as we shouldn't always heap praise upon one man, the same applies to blame.
@@williamhiers1280 for sure, I liked Prometheus and covenant, to me covenant was edited weird, and thought it was lame they didnt actually go the engineer home world, but to each is own. Covenant probably the last Alien film for awhile
@@williamhiers1280 Indeed. Watch John Carpenters Dark Star (Also written by Dan while he was crashing on Johns couch) It feels much more like an actual Alien movie than any of these prequels.
Danny McBride surprised me in this film. I was genuinely into his performance. Good on him
I wouldn't trust these people to survive a camping trip, let alone an uncharted alien world
Very true-these characters are senseless idiots.
Is it just me or have directors completely lost the ability to be subtle in movies. Everything seems to be extremely "in your face" and obvious these days.
look at the box office numbers. blade runner 2049 barely beat this movie despite being rated 20 points higher on meta critic and rotten tomatoes. loud and dumb is what sells
Its because its true ,people going and paying for movies nowadays are dumb, its shown by the fact these terrible movies are making hundreds of millions of dollars and the studios are saying "dont fix shit that isnt broke" during production. The audiences are deciding what films become successful and the studios keep using that rubrick when choosing directors and when meddling with decision making while continuously pumping out polished turds. Movies that take any critical thinking have veen on the endangered species list for years now and it will only change when audiences say enough is enough
I dunno, they're seem to be pandering to an audience of morons. The Frankenstein references in _Prometheus_ were far from subtle, and still most people seem to have missed them. It's like they need to be spoonfed.
I blame Jordan Peele
@@tristanhartup4936 Jordan Peele's a great director.
Can you review the Lake Placid Movies?
I was going to ask the very same.
Movies ?. They made more than one!
Yep, 5 direct to DVD syfy sequels, one of them being a vs crossover with the Anaconda movies
Oh hells yes
Good call
"They hate me cause I am a man of faith!"
fact established in the movie by you preventing ppl from mourning the recently deceased loved one... Something ppl of faith are known fo.... Wut?! 🤨🤨🤨
7:28 YES!!! That was the exact same thing I thought when Walter opened the hatch-door. I even quoted that to my Pops in the theater and he laughed. ;D
Hey, I didn't know that Juicy Smulliete was in this movie. You know ,Juicy! That very famous, very French actor.
LMAO
"Ok, just so we all know who's who, I'm going to sharpie a circle on Walter's forehead and a triangle on David's."
This entire film was a corporate exercise in "Lets make a film even dumber than the one before just to prove we can make utter shite and the dumbos will still pay for it."
"Back with Prometheus and... Bob."
Respect +100
My Rating = 2/10! Seriously, I never felt more enraged while watching this movie. Mostly it's a huge failure because they actually had the ground works for a good prequel (if you take out Prometheus): Just have a plot involving Planetary colonists discovering a planet with hibernating Xenomorphs, have David be an obsessive biologist artist, wanting to breed his own xenomorphs, creating neomorphs after ten years of being on this planet (who was apart of an early Colonial mission, but discovered an Engineer/Jockey colony), and the colony crew end up being preyed on by both Xenomorphs and David with his Neomorphs. Then, in the end, everyone deads, only for a Space Jockey (the one we see in the first Alien) collecting Xenomorph eggs, and one sneaky facehugger snuck on its ship, and boom! You have your Prequel! You're done! The Fans are happy, I'm happy, Decker is happy! No Sci-fi Creationism overtones! No unfulfilled promises of revealing Xenomorph origins!
I agree with you, Decker: the Visuals are beautiful, and the Music was good, hell even the Gore managed to make my rating a 2, instead of a 1. The story is a failure on every level, and the homoerotic scene with the androids felt forced and unnatural. Like they wanted to fit with the current year but failed. Plus I didn't know they had a gay couple in the movie until someone told me of a RUclips prologue scene...oh okay? Why was that not in the movie? I ended up not giving a single fuck for the characters (Except for Danny McBride, I did feel for him and loved his dramatic role, just wish it was in a better movie.), so once again Alien series fails to be a horror, because if I don't care about the characters, then it's not a horror film, despite what Michael Bay would tell you.
If the xenomorph were created, were they truly "alien?"
Well if we take Ridley's "Daved the crazy android has created the Xenomorph species" bullshit origin story, then there isn't much "Alien" left in xenomorph creature. According to Ridley xenomorphs are nothing more than mutants made from human organs with the use of little drip of an alien virus.
+Major Benson Winifred Payne
I wish I could argue that David made the Neomorph from the xenomorph, buuttt there is no point when even *if* the engineers did not make the black goo, they apparently made humanity, so we would be of the same origin and... my word this whole mess is stupid.
It's kinda sad that Scott didn't like the original script for Prometheus and decided to rewrite it. According to it xenomorphs were artificially engineered creatures, created by the Engineer civilization as a bioweapon. While it wasn't striking imagination, at least it made perfect sense as an explanation to why there were eggs on a derelict ship on LV-426 and why the xenos were so dangerous.
+Major Benson Winifred Payne
Unless the Engineer civilization were not humans from space, the does not sound much better. Admittedly, if humans were not engineered, xenomorphs would have been alien then, but there would have been problems, like the evil organization having wasted so much time trying to get a sample of a weapon that had probably been replaced by its creators long ago when they could have tried studying the assembly line.
The xenomorphs we see from Covenant and onward are David' creations sure. But he didn't create the xenomorph in the first place. They're on the engineer murals, which existed well before David did.
Alien Covenant is an unintended satire.
"Unintended". Dude the only thing unintended was not having a laugh track when those two dumb guys infected themselves and those two dumb girls messed up so many times trying to kill the neomorph.
The xenomorph with the best hair.
Any chance we're getting a Tremors: A Cold Day in Hell review?
Dormammu it was awesome, nuff said
Dormammu I thought he did that movie
It was Tremors 5 Hakuna Matata ... Tremors 6 on ice cube came out week ago .
Trailer looks nice and i bet like these days is so typical all the clips worth to view are in trailer .
Pete Lind movie was fun
It will be out as DVD/Blue ray on 14 may here ... next year i may buy it for 5-10 coins from sale .
Next to be a completionist you must cover the new 6th Tremors movie.
YES!!!!!!!!
Burt is back!
i grew up with that franchise so i cant hate on it at all :)
Cark Takier is it bad is it? I havent had a chance to see it yet. Maybe ill save my time if it’s terrible
It was add for tremors 6 that came up when I clicked on the vid lol
ive watched so many of these covenant reviews. thank you for being the first one to take issue with the basic particle physics of neutrinos. the most highly advanced equipment on earth has a hell of a time even detecting them. they arent called 'ghost particles' for nothing. I did enjoy covenant for what its worth.. though I do admit it has its faults. I thought it honestly looked cheaply made(even though i know it wasnt)
Your editing, witty commentary, and pretty solid movie takes along with your fair ratings make you one of my favorite youtubers. keep up the work man. Also.... fuckin sweet hair.
What a coincidence.
I just saw your first review of Covenant yesterday and am now about to watch this new one. Great work Decker. The universe works in mysterious ways XD
Neutrinos don't travel at a faster speed than light, but when there is some kind of solar cataclysm, It starts at the nucleus of the star, from where the neutrinos escape with ease cause they almost don't intereact with matter. The photons take longer to get to the surface because they do interact with matter, heavily, so when you detect a massive neutrinos burst prepare yourself.
This is just to clarify.
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Arcy Lano lol same here
youtube takes a time to account for the views
And now its 313
393. lol
23:58 I see that xenomorph's tubes clip through the floor when it descend the ladder, anyone else?
How the heck did you manage to get more than two for this pile of poop? I've tried to watch it three times but I find I stop giving a damn once the extreme stupidity sets in. I got through Prometheus because I actually cared a bit for Shaw's character and I would probably have even made it through Covenant if she had survived but there's no-one to care about in this movie. To be honest, a better movie would have been Shaw sharing the Engineer ship with David and slowly realising she had an android psychopath on her hands. Then she could have flushed him out of an airlock and set off on her own to encounter the engineers.
Ah, but the original Space Jockey was larger and differently proportioned to the 'Engineers'. So perhaps there could be a final encounter with some kind of alien master-race, possibly symbiotically involved or even related to the original aliens.
Mundane is your own imagination, please shut up.
22:58 What if the facehugger didn’t impregnate him. What if David put an embryo in him when no one was looking and he was drugged up.
"But then we wouldn't have had a movie."
I would have so much prefered that scenario.
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Thank you! Glad I'm not the only one who was thinking this!
Her constantly traumatized 'Yeardley Smith' expression for most of the movie, reminded me of how unchanging Liv Tyler's expressions were in "Armageddon."
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I imagine if there is a third one, we'll find him on that planet the ship was heading to, only it'll be fully colonized with xenomorphs, and David will be 'lording over heaven,' among his 'beautiful creations,' a God far away from the demons on Earth...until another unsuspecting and stupid crew from Weyland Industries happens across him.
"i'll do the fingering" the best quote from the movie.
It's great to see Decker's gradual rise in views. His work contains a lot of work, and he recognizes EACH and EVERY actor -- no matter how small the role.
Would like to join you for a review sometime, I could learn a thing or two from your work ethic.
Smoke smoke
Dude, that's so awesome to hear. Everybody makes mistakes and it's really refreshing and encouraging to to hear a person with a public voice who stands to lose from not being perfect in this shitty political world, simply admit fault. Even in something as simple as a movie review.
The Alien: To Jussie Smollet, just before killing him... "This is Monster Country!"
Another amazing review.. thumbs up!
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I don't understand why the people making sequels and prequels to established movie universes don't care to be even the slightest bit consistent. It's insulting and quite infuriating..
18:04 perfect my ass! They are like the hand me down of the albino aliens, actually needing an egg and a face hugger when all you really need is TO HARVEST THE SPORES then fill a room full of people with the spores and boom you got like that many aliens you don’t even need the face huggers anymore! Or anything just the spores!
I'm sure Mars is already colonised at this point.
You would think a 'person of faith' would want them to be able to say goodbye to there loved ones....?
my mon lived on the same street as Riply when reply was seventeen , they lived in Australia
Last night I randomly rewatched your Prometheus Review and I thought "I wonder when Decker will review Covenant"....then I suddenly see your Covenant review in my feed...awesome. Great review as always!!
I am only 9 minutes in, and I love your wise-crack and sometimes ironic commentary of this movie. You are definitely in your stride! I have seen over 100 off your reviews so far, all in last 3 months, and I am probably one of your biggest recent fans. Lol. And I even own a small black rescue cat. It would have been ideal to appear in this review cause it's very alien like. Anywho, I am only 9 minutes in. Thanks for your awesome way of explaining plot holes and mistakes and your acting, you are def one of the best in this business! Keep up the good work and from my heart thanks for giving me a platform to follow on RUclips I really enjoy watching as my daily relax and smile entertainment. Peace ✌️
Smoke smoke
Decker I always look forward to your videos, I do like to rewatch your Summer Specials especially the summer of Freddy and Jason, there is enough content to whittle away a grey afternoon in Manchester. Keep up the good work hope this years Summer Special is going to be epic
Thank you for this. Its always when i start a down hilk spiral into depression, you always pop up and get me to chortle. Thank you Decker.
21:56 "during act 3" I see this point as the final battle of act 2, act 3 doesn't begin until they get back on board their starship
Who knew this wouldn’t be the biggest act Jussie Smollet would put on ?
I swear you need more support! You are absolutely THEE best critic on RUclips! Your references with all movies, video games and d&d make up for the best commentary to date! I swear if I was a millionaire I would give you half! Please keep up this perfection and if I'm ever in Texas, you MUST invite me over for a campaign 😎
I've never clicked off of PornHub so fast before.
Lupus Rex I’m more of a redtube guy myself
+Lupus Rex You need to learn to multi-task. A real man can be watching porn AND a Decker review...just ask Creepy.
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I have much to learn.
WE need a Decker Shado porn video. There problem fixed!
Is this a new meme or sumthin ive seen someone write exact same comment on a ton of vids now
Decker, the alien we thought was the classic wasn't necessarily a xenomorph, this variant is considered to be the protomorph. This alien in particular was a meant to be the early version of the xeno that didn't fully evolve into its biomechanical look. And there are tons of differences between this protomorph and the classic xeno that we all know and love. One is that instead of having the biomechanical exoskeletal body this variant seems to have a internal skeleton within a more fleshy epidermic skin. Of course it has acidic blood but another thing in difference is the behavior between the two. The xenomorph is more advanced in intelligence, it stalks, outsmarts and actually plans its attacks on its prey. Where as the protomorph is more feral and savage. It acts more animalistic with the less advanced intelligence to the point where no matter what the situation is it will just go in for the attack instead of fleeing from a dangerous situation or adversary. I wasn't trying to be a smart ass I was just telling some facts about the differences between Xenomorph and Protomorph.
Mostly right on the Neutrino part(they can interact with particles just very rarely). However Neutrinos typically proceed the violent death of a star/nova/supernova and this was likely the warning that was implied or should have been warned about as just neutrinos themselves should’ve been little cause for concern.
Fucking awesome review though!
Hey Decker! Another great review. I pretty much concur with your reviews of the whole Alien series, arc, philosophy, etc...I like a man who asks questions knowing there probably aren't coherent answers. You get the idea. Anyway, as a possible suggestion to decompress, you may want to review Roger Corman's "Forbidden World" from 1982 as a possible Alien/Thing/ripoff. It doesn't offer many questions, but it doesn't want to. It's got slime, girls, low grade effects, and all the other things B movie lovers want. Before, Dimension, before Asylum, there was Roger Corman, and his ability to cash in with vengeance. I've had bad steaks (Ridley Scott) in a restaurant, but I've never had bad popcorn (Roger Corman) in a movie theater. Anyway, take care, and keep up the great videos!
I had fun with Covenant at first, but like Prometheus the flaws are more apparent upon repeat viewings. Its ok, but like Alien 3 it just throws out the last movie for no reason. Also like a certain Star Wars film it just doesn't bother answering previously asked questions, not because its mysterious or insightful or any other cop out excuse, but because its lazy writing.
Hack is loser in life like you, shut up.
How does it throw out the last movie? it is a direct continuation of the story of David on his route towards autonomy and insanity. Shaw's search for God in a Godless universe was never going to lead anywhere.
to be fair; the second xeno had leaped at a full run, so it couldn't course correct anymore. it was committed to it's attack and was impaled for it. also, there was ALOT cut from the movie that answered so much.
Shut up.
Wooo! Finally. I've been waiting for this review.
check time stamp 2:55 when they are trying to recue the captain. They are using the blunt end of the axe.
What why?!
Is it weird that I prefer the avp origin to the Prometheus and covenant version.
No. Even if it wasn't Canon at least the creators properly established the lore.
@@gadielgonzalez2755 I know I still just prefer the other backstory even if its noncanon
This movie was beyond insulting.
For years, I'd been one of the people defending Prometheus. For example, when they took off their helmets in Prometheus, they went out of their way to show them scanning the atmosphere of this dead planet and determining it to be safe. Furthermore, despite all of the death, nothing in Prometheus was caused by airborne pathogens, so taking off their helmets really was safe after all. I'd been refuting that piece of criticism to no end.
So imagine how insulting it is to see the follow-up movie feature characters that don't ever scan the atmosphere of a planet obviously teeming with life, that don't even bother with helmets in the first place and who actually _do_ encounter airborne pathogens!
Seeing Jussie in a role these days makes me laugh.
We going on an alien planet, we going in raw lmao
Yes! Decker! Shado! Video! Today! Two hours ago! Thank God! Woo Hoo!
This effectively makes David THE most evil android
They should have stopped this movie series at Aliens 3.
The Music Den They should have, but didn't. Or at least they could have made good movies since Alien 3...
More like after 2...
More movies with the Alien in it, the better. The creature itself is so awesome that I will be entertained by literally anything it is in.
The Music Den
I actually like the prequels but I hate Ressurection
They could make Alien comics, but not a good movie why?
Mother from Alien was already acting on company orders when it woke the crew. They seemed to know what the signal was about.
Tennessee could detect the signal because he was outside the ships shielding.
24:00 It's dorsal fins clip through the floor. This cost how much ? Let's see, a quick goggle search aaaand.... $100,000,000 WHAT THE FUCK !?!?!
They don't. Get yourself to SpecSavers.
9:00 Is it just me or would this form of aliens be way deadlier then the actual aliens? Like who needs a face hugger when you got literal black smoke that will do the same thingA
My word basic human safety thrown out of the window, loaded firearms near explosives, random cig breaks...on an alien planet, breathing in an unknown spore, generally touching anything, lack of respect for fellow crew members so much so by locking them in a room with an aggressive alien lifeform, that's not quite fully grown, letting it grow and letting them die, sexy time in the shower when crewmates are missing with music on that ship alert can't turn off...I am so, so glad I didn't watch this film in the cinema because I would be ranting my lungs out at the levels of stupidity you've shown this film possess. I thank you for this review.
Damn! That Xenomorph was eating him with outer jaw and not killing him in with the inner jaw! You are making me laugh. You Decker have the most entertaining reviews that I have watch so far. Congratulations! I would be doing it the same way.
air being breathable and non-toxic ≠ air being free of pathogens and safe to breathe. Remember that kids because these assholes in this movie surely didn't.
When I first started watching your reviews, I was drawn in by your 80s metal god hair. And I was happy to find you're just as awesome as one!
Goddammit ridley Scott is pulling a George lucas.
Gabriel Torres at least George Lucas attempted to make his franchise look like it's in a bigger universe, Ridley having an android create the Xenomorphs makes the Alien universe seem a lot smaller
wolfmantheimpaler very true ridley took the main thing that this franchise is mostly about the horror of the unknown and isolation of the vastness of space.( second one is probably just my opinion though)
You mean get old
Gabriel Torres: Looks like Shane Black is following suit with Predator. Dark times ahead boys.......dark times indeed.
Cretinous Jester just saw the predator trailer....God has forsaken us....or not.
I’d honestly rather see Xenomorphs portrayed more as invasive parasites than whatever the hell they’ve been portrayed as in Covenant
did anyone else find it odd that every one on the crew was married to each other? I understand that a colonizing mission would have mostly if not all couples for the purpose of procreation but the odds of them all being qualified to work on a spaceship seems a bit far fetched to me. Also how does a regenerating android loose to another android without that ability.
Decker I love your reviews of movies as always and keep up the good work
I actually felt insulted when they tried the David Walter fake out near the end. My 10yr 9ld nephew wasn't fooled by it either. They made it as obvious as possible without directly saying it.
That thing about the signal annoys me.
In Alien, they worked on a hauling rig that was old and dilapidated. They had cryotech on board. They were all in stasis, had been for MONTHS, when the signal was picked up.
That ship could very well have been the new commercial model at the time Covenant took place. And it was programmed to stop at any sign of alien life.
Yet the state-of-the-art science vessel, whose only single purpose was to seek out signs of new life, was NOT programmed to stop at any sign of alien life?
Full theory:
We know from the mural in Prometheus that the Engineers knew about Xenomorphs and Facehuggers (both pictured in the mural). This leads me to believe the Engis took from the Xeno's (which spread naturally on worlds throughout the galaxy) the unique gene that gives them the ability take foreign DNA and mutate and integrate it into the xenomorph's own biology. This gene lets the Xenos instantly adapt to whatever environment the host is operating in.
The ship in Alien (the 1st movie) was one which was harvesting eggs of the species to use to develop this weapon / tool. The Engis took this gene from the Xenos and weaponized it making the black goo because they saw its amazing unique properties to change life. David then learned about the origin of the black goo and tries to reverse engineer a xenomorph from what little data he could find because he believes this ability to mutate and adapt to the universe to be perfection.
There we go... All tied up nice and neat. God I hope they don't fuck up the last film and make this very clear.
Rather well done. Except the Xenomorphs didn't spread naturally. They were seeded by the Yautja (Predators) to be hunted and on some worlds, hunts went wrong and not all of them were killed off, allowing the Engineers to learn of their existence.
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why do i have the distinct feeling Aurom (or Aurum? idk and frankly idc) was Ridley Scott making the prequels and "explaining" where the aliens came from
and David was James Cameron seeing how unnecessarily convoluted it all became
And the Neomorph was the Xenomorph Queen
DUDE TREMORS 6 IS OUT REVIEW IT please
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Thank you so much you my fav youtuber
I really was expecting they would tell us more of the deacon alien in the ending of Prometheus rather than leaving us with the expanded universe version. Although I'm a bit sceptic on the direction that Scott is taking the series I hope in the long run it doesn't suck for the good of the frachise. I'm worried as well for the new film of Predator. Two of my favorite franchises right there.
you finally got around to this one after a whole year since it came out
I still like the film; so many fans complained about the lack of actual aliens and I didn't get a lot of answers
but this one gave me more and I'm thankful for it
Michael Fassbender still gives a tremendous performance playing two roles and the flute scene is impressive utilizing modern splitscreen techniques
sucks Shaw died and we didn't get to see more of the Engineers
but this was David's story and humans did create his whole God complex, they're responsible for all the carnage of creation of the Xenomorphs
People loved characters being killed offscreen at the start of Alien 3 so much, Ridley Scott decided to do it again. Noomi Rapace was the only thing I enjoyed about Prometheus and I couldn't believe you had to watch some internet video to find out what happened to her.
I would have been happy if you skipped this "movie" and reviewed an Aliens comic or video game.
I would have been disapointed and questioned his credibility. You have to see the crappy movies to tell apart the good ones
Just looking at the trailer was enough for me to know it would suck.
I do believe he already did a playthrough of Alien: Isolation
webfox100 first, last time I checked this was a movie review show not a game or comic review show. Second, just because the movie sucked doesn't mean it isn't worth reviewing. Third, it wouldn't make sense to review all the other alien movies and skip this one, especially when it's not the worst one of the series.
Yes he did.
Seems the third prequel film "Awakening " is dead
I remember Ridley was planning to take them to Lv426 and there was going to be some war of the world's scenario between engineers David and possibly colonial marines
no views and ridley scott has already downvoted this w/both of his accounts
man, this video was juuuuuuuuuuust what I needed.
Fucken love you, decker
Great review, I always love how you seem to find tiny mistakes and play them off as '... But anyways' :)
As an Alien, Aliens, Alien3 and Prometheus fan, at first I thought I liked this movie. A perfect massive destructive creature as the xenomorph must be the end product of a long period of evolution between different species, as Prometheus tried to tell by ending it with the Deacon. But it seems that Scott had other plans and it was really sad to see he tried to please the Alien fans more who didn't like Prometheus as much as telling an original story. He promised Alien prequels from the start, but Prometheus was kinda it's own thing. Shame that it's going to be a mess from now on. The xenomorph has really been butchered over the decades and it only worries me more for the movies to come. If they're ever going to make that 'Aliens 2' with Weaver, that would be exciting tho. Love you work!
Someone mentioned tgat the Xenomorphs were in the Engineers morals. The theory went that the Engineers took the xenos DNA because of its adaptability and modified it into the goo that we see, making it into a bio weapon. So the deacon was a genetic dead end, the neomorphs and protomorphs were David's first attempts at reverse engineering the goo bio weapon back into the Xenomorphs. But as we see he also was trying to control them as well and this is where the xenomorph hierarchy comes from in later films.
I could have sworn you had done this one already. But I think I just mashed together when I watched this movie, with many sarcastic comments from me and my friends, with your reaction vid.
unlucky for me that is the second alien movie i went into the cinmea for, the first one was "alien: ressurection", this one was even worse, all those points decker pointed out were glaring isues, aswell the seemingly need of doing hommages to aliens primerely like the scene whre some chars sitting next to photo of a forest scene and several others ...
long story short: even though alien4 was a bad movie in its own rights, it still was entertaining, alien covenant was so bad i wanted to leave the theater midmovie;in particular as those morons left the shuttle without suits and stuff, i forced myself to see the rest o that movie just to see how bad it will get and i didn't got let down on that one, especially the fate of dr shaw was extremely poor handled and the psycho-robot david on top of all things
3:37 Best imitation Jared Dunn ever.
Nailed it.
Ya know, Zach Woods from Silicon Valley.
Decker we need the JAWS series review 👍🏻
Another great video Decker. Getting close to that 100k! Can't wait for the next review