Alien: Covenant - Movie Review
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Chris Stuckmann reviews Alien: Covenant, starring Michael Fassbender, Katherine Waterston, Billy Crudup, Danny McBride, Demián Bichir, Carmen Ejogo, Amy Seimetz, Jussie Smollett, Callie Hernandez, Nathaniel Dean, Alexander England, Benjamin Rigby. Directed by Ridley Scott.
I hope James Franco gets an oscar nomination for his great, lengthy performance.
The way he lied on that gurney man... just wow
He was so lost in his role that I didn't even notice it was him until later
britbloc123 I heard he's not feeling too well, said he was burning up..... must be a fever
He was hot.
You could tell that when he started acting his role he was lit.
The only real issue I had was with the TERRIBLE choices every single person made. I mean, my God, these people were supposed to be colonizing a planet. I wouldn't trust them to run a lemonaide stand.
The writer assumed all the audiences are as stupid as the characters
Why would anyone want to watch a movie where every single character makes the best choices?
@@SlyRy Because if the characters ALWAYS make stupid decisions and despite that manage to kill the alien, so the creature isn't tha much of a threat...for an Alien movie that is kinda lame
Niels Bergeron I don’t know of any entry in the franchise where that’s the case. All I know is I would never want to watch a movie where characters don’t make mistakes. That would just be really lame.
They weren't actually the main people colonising the planet...were they? There was a massive ship for of people.
No one loves Michael Fassbender like Michael Fassbender.
Nezeru whose michale fasbender
Fassbender for Bond!
+Mister B. You'll get it when you watch the movie. ;)
It should have been James McAvoy XD.
+goji3755 I could definitely see Fassbender as Bond.
People that didn’t hate Alien: Covenant:
Chris
Me
Ridley Scott
I actually enjoy it a lot and id rather watch it more then 3, resurrection and honestly even 2. Im really not a fan of 2. I don't get what people like about 2 at all.
I think Ridley kind of hated it
@@bixhutch6274 you don't know what a good film is if you think this shit is good and Aliens is bad.
I liked it a lot.
I loved it.
Spoiler!!!
Anyone who saw the ending twist coming a mile away, get over here!
the film was incredibly predictable, all of the twists, it played out like a classic horror movie...
Comeonmate7 i loved the idea how david is the creator of the xenomorph!!!!
George Zhang it was so predictable. They literally show walter heal himself but later has to use staples
berserker7331 Shhh! Not yet!
berserker7331 As if the voice of a thousand Predator fanboys cried out all at once😂😂😆😆👍
That James Franco, man. His performance in this film was hot. He was on fire throughout the first act.
literally
areasevenpro how long is he actually in the movie?
SPOILER
The time it takes for someone to burn to death.
TheFlickinCritic i think a minute or less
RMC damn how many lines does he have
I liked Prometheus too.
Prometheus is a MASTERPIECE. It always makes me a feel some sort of way whenever I watch it. The music MOVES me.
@@seangallagher9529 its pure sci fi
@@siddharthbhoyar9737 Pure sci-fi indeed. It transports you with the characters inside the movie. You feel the story move along. You are fully immersed in it.
Me too bro . Ppl just don't understand the movie so try to give it a bad review
@@KingDues Loved it as well. There's a lot of symbolism and philosophical concepts involved which poeple are too attracted to basic action to get into. Personnally, if I had to rank the alien movies it would be from best to worst: Alien, Prometheus, Aliens, Alien Covenenant, Alien 3 and the horrible Alien Resurrection. Furthermore, I've noticed that people are heavily biased by their own nostalgia. For instance a lot of people said they liked Alien resurrection on his review but for almost all of them it's just because they're people in their late 20s or early 30s who saw this movie when they were kids. Kinda sad that people are so simple and predicatble.
Alien: Covenant accomplished a milestone. Some of us wanted the entire crew killed off because there was not a single likeable character.
LOL
I actually liked Oram and was disappointed in how he got murdered but as Captain he made incredibly stupid choices ultimately leading to his death by idiotically following David into an obvious death trap. Also, I didn‘t hate Daniels and even Tennessee...they were kinda likable...
Daniels (the main girl) + Tennessee (the pilot) were likable and the only smart ones... until the obvious ''plot twist'' at the end -_-
Danny McBride has never been unlikeable.
except my flaming hot james franco...
possibly the most incompetent crew in the alien franchise.
KiMBo Scott They have a hightect spaceship but still, theyre bunch of noobs
shebzydon they were both pretty bad. even the ones that survived did some shit made me facepalm. I like the Prometheus lead though. sadly nothing went anywhere when they killed her off. I'm still trying to figure out how she looked so good after being dead for along Time. unless the bursting was recent.
KiMBo Scott It's just beyond me how a script so utterly terrible is able to make it into a franchise this big. Someone actually read through that script and thought it was good... It's not even bad, it's flat out illogical. When people tell me to watch that film without criticising it, and enjoy it for what it is, I just can't do it! The plot holes are THAT huge.
sketchyou lol. they both fuckin slipped. I coined it the 3 stooges moment
The original crew brought Kane on the ship. Just right up in there, without any protective gear on at all, with an alien on his face. He had an alien on his face. They let him on the ship. Ripley even told them not to do it. I don't care that it was traitor Ash that opened the door, the Captain of the ship ignored quarantine to bring into the ship a man with an alien on his face.
And then he ATE DINNER WITH HIM.
"Probably the third or fourth best Alien film"? UMM THERE'S A BIG DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BEING THE 3RD BEST AND 4TH BEST ALIEN FILM...
Like a huge difference lol
Yup... Because Alien 3 is the 3rd best usually... So that's really the threshold under which an Alien movie goes from "Amazing" or "Good" to "Meh..."... And Covenant look like a big fat "Meh" to me.
Also... I've heard many people saying that characters are just down right stupid in this movie and are totally incoherent. I've never had this impression in the first 3 Alien movies were characters were at least decent and definitely not making unbelievably stupid decision one after another.
alien, aliens, Prometheus and then alien covenant or alien covenant then Prometheus? if he said 5th best then there's a problem
It's better than alien 3
Trump dictaror.I am videoblogger.
When the entire plot of the movie can be derailed if the characters wore helmets. A great example of "just because you can breathe it, doesn't mean you should".
I know right, this would never happen in real life. We would have to study the microorganisms and potential pathogens for years before anyone would dare take off their helmets. I'm sure they could have just had a tare in the suit, or an air filter malfunction, or the pathogen could share the corrosive properties of xenomorphs blood, or one of 1000 reasons.
@@SubjectE57 I mean it's fiction so they would have to by pass the "for years". part. It take years to travel in space but in most sci-fi they do it in days to a few weeks to maybe even months.
@@SubjectE57 But they don't know anything about the lethalness of the air or ANYTHING about the xenos in the movie that's the thing tho.
That's the whole point of the movie though, the colonists have no choice. They can't go back into hyper sleep and the they can't reach their planned destination. All they have left is a possible planet and blind faith - much like Shaw - and blind faith is deeply flawed.
@@harnois75 blind faith isn’t just “deeply flawed” it’s downright idiotic and moronic.
I thought Prometheus was better. AC was choppy, and the quick growth of the Aliens was questioning. The one scene that had me laughing was the tiny fully formed Xenomorph that rose from someones chest and raised its arms to David, What?
hahahahaha what a dumbass scene
I am in the minority who didn’t like Prometheus this was okay at best in my opinion
Oh wow that scene was the worst part of this movie, it was so dumb... What was the problem to use a chestburster?
It'll be better if they continued Shaw as the main character and continue with Prometheus storyline. I wanted to Know about the engineers. Not Aliens.
I dont think you understand that these are almost the types we're used to seeing. This is a generation before those
Chris please do a review for *Blade Runner* before the new one comes out 🙏
Jordan Leach that movie is a fucking piece of SHIT
Which version? He's seen them all, and doesn't care for the movie (according to a tweet from 3 years ago)
Richard Cruz no one agrees
Idiot
dylan12394 Chris stuckman agree with me
Bad plot. Bad characterisation. Amazing production design. Amazing cinematography. Wonderful ideas.
Basically every Ridley Scott movie ever made.
@@christophzeit6282 except for alien , blade runner , gladiator , American Gangster.
You forgot shitty cgi instead of awesome practical effects
Also great soundtrack
INSERTGODZILLANAMEHERE 1 i ususally hate CGI but I kinda liked the CGI in this film. It was fairly descent. The creatures were all beautiful.
This movie felt like a series of unconnected events, loosely strung together by a weak thread and stupid decisions.
ROBOTPETER101
so it felt like batman v Superman
so, just like real life
ƃN Ⅎ
if being on the bandwagon means hating a crappy movie, then I am fine staying on the bandwagon
Best summary
Eric Banks this movie is fucking fantastic if you wanna hate on something go and watch Black wake
I loved the world building, the big picture focus of Prometheus. I didn't mind the absence of Xenomorph or the things that people were expecting from an Alien film. The answer that they were seeking and the journey they made for it, that whole process kept me interested in it.
While watching Covenant, I missed this aspect of the Prometheus and now I understand why Scott went this way. To bring it in line with originals and to give people what they wanted (Xenomorph) he sacrificed on the bigger picture.
I can't imagine where the story would have progressed had he not been influenced by the feedback.
exactly!
Am I the only one who really disliked the fact that multiple scenes were shot from the aliens' perspectives? It just took away most of the tension for me.
Worked for Predator, doesn't work in this. Then again, Ridley Scott has no idea what he's doing anymore. That or he just doesn't care.
Sagittarius (I play games!) Yeah, they also did that in Alien3, andd it didn't work there
totally agree it was horrible , but to be honest for me the film had already bombed by this point.
I disliked how the Alien clips straight through part of the floor because the hole isn't big enough for the CG Alien to fit through. I thought they may have corrected it for the final release from the trailer, but nope. The Aliens back tubes still magically go through the floor. I almost walk out the theater.
The final scene where the Alien walks into the hangar bay, also had a CG error. Might have only been for a second but you could clearly see red lines coming out of the Aliens elbows.
Sagittarius (I play games!) I enjoyed it, it helped the pacing a long fine, it's not about the alien, as it is about the people in proximity of the Alien.
All these "Chris stuckmann grew up with" comments are the reason he doesn't say "I grew up with" anymore 😡😤😢
good, he said it way too much
After that "Get Out" review I think it was time to give it a rest for a little bit. lol
TheHasmith99 he's a human being yo why does it matter?
Which is a good thing.
he grew up with these comments
The original Alien simply can't be topped. I'm still gunna see this movie though
It was topped with Aliens.
malaluke1 it didn't! it just expanded the horror cannon into action piece!
While I love the Aliens film it ruined the story canon for me, turning a mysterious and horrific alien into space termites.
Disagree, i prefer the horror aspect of Alien rather than the acton of Aliens. Plus the open act of Aliens is very slow!
Aliens is good cuz the movie introduce the Queen alien. without the Queen the movie is meh space termites..lel and wassup wuth James Cameron big spaceship look like a giant marine assault gun..
Hated this film, the whole theatre burst in laughter when the captain trusted David.
Ben Buchoo garbage theatre
@@foundhorrificgames.2505 your taste is garbage
@Found Horrific Games agreed
5thejurassic you’re taste is garbage if you thought this film is garbage
David screams when the Captain shoots the Xenomorph. 2 seconds later “come down in to the basement and stick your face near this egg.” Absolutely stupid. One of the many ridiculous moments in this steaming pile of turd.
Most people complained not about the lack of Xenomorphs, but about the lack of common sense in the script.
Tiago Jordão XD , and how boring it was....i swear I didn't notice it was an alien movie, even at the end when the alien like creature came. I was like....do these idiots want a law suit ? Had no idea they were connected until early this year XD, whoops.
Here before anyone has time to say 'I'm Mary Poppins y'all'
You just said it.
DUN DUN DUUUNNNN
Fuck you.
ah damn you beat me to it
Hayley Skinner LMao gold
Can this meme please die? That would be great
Is this a sequel reboot, also known as a "sea-boot"? A soft sea-boot? Or is it a soft sequel sea-boot reboot prequel?
Fuck you it's forever!
Sequel to a preqel which is part of the threequel
I clapped in the theatre because I recognized the Xenomorfs
XE-NO-MORPHS, XE-NO-MORPHS, XE-NO-MORPHS!
(AT-STs)
That's right Susan!
Great vid Chris. For the record, I love Alien: Covenant. David's progression makes perfect sense. This and Prometheus are almost like two halves of a whole...
Xenomorph grew up inside Chris. Get it? hehe
SPOILER...
Xenomorph literally grew up inside Chris (Chris Oram in the movie)
Coincidence? I think not.
you're going into a dumpster
If you love the Prometheus story, you might be a little disappointed.
John O'Malley i was more of a fan of prometheus than alien. Guess i will be disappointed by this.
OmG why ?
Disappointed about what? I saw the screening last night, it was AWESOMETACULAR!
John O'Malley Prometheus story in Arrow is fucking cool
Prometheus was awful. Hopefully I'll like this
I facepalmed so hard and so frequently during this movie that I most likely suffered a concussion. To anybody who hasn't seen it: SPOILERS IN COMMENT!
These people were responsible for colonizing a planet. Did they have absolutely no training or intelligence at all? Let me provide some examples:
- Let's explore an unknown planet; in camping gear and not space suits or otherwise effective protection *facepalm*
- Let's by no means react to the fact that this planet has life on it *facepalm*
- Let's assume a specific plant is wheat, even though Triticum has thousands of very different morphological variations. (And this is an alien planet with millions of unknown plant species). *facepalm*
- Let's land in water, even though we apparentl know that we have a possibly damaged hull *facepalm*
- Let's not comment or speculate eagerly that we found signs of intelligent life *facepalm*
- Let's touch random things on an alien planet for the lols *facepalm*
- Let's ignore when we start feeling ill within hours on this alien planet, claiming that "everything is fine" *facepalm*
- Let's call for pick-up to get our sick individuals to the super important, expensive colonization ship immediately *facepalm*
- Let's lock the sick individual in a room with another healthy person instead of a medically capable android *facepalm*
- Let's call for help in incoherent screams and cries without informing the colonization ship of any details of the situation *facepalm*
- Let's crawl when in danger, like in any horror movie, like we suddenly lost all bodily functions *facepalm*
- Let's shoot in an apparently very highly explosive shuttle with firearms *facepalm*
- Let's follow the obvious alien sympathizer into a dark room full of eggs, looking at them from a close distance and touching them exploringly *facepalm*
- Let's get the colonization ship with thousands of lives in it within a very dangerous distance of the planet, risking everything *facepalm*
- Let's send a pick-up to get people from the planet where everybody died in disease or an otherwise violent gory death within hours *facepalm*
I could go on forever. SOOOOO many facepalms. My head hurts now, I need to rest. These people are supposed to be colonizers. Nuff said.
Exactly what I was thinking. I would also add last scenes which made characters even more naive - let's not check if the android is our android... who could sabotage the whole mission, I am just happy that he didn't decide to go back to Earth. Another really annoying, why David access code worked on a very different spaceship? And why there was only one android to take care of such a huge ship, this could be understandable on a small ones, but the massive one carrying over 2000 human beings should have more just in case.
The plot has a strong potential and with better written characters this movie could have been quite good. I really don't understand how it is possible that they spend so much money on making the movie, but don't pay much attention to do thorough work on believable characters.
Oh I can name several more facepalm-moments actually. This was just a few of them to share with you. Such as the moment when they point at a statue in the unknown space-ship, saying "They were huge!"
...as if statues are always made the same size as what they represent. *facepalm*
As you said, the setting and environment had SOOO much potential. They resorted to old clichés and poor characters, which kind of reveals Ridley Scotts intentions; the Alien-franchaise will never be but of memory of what it was. The series is probably dead :/
Regarding your android facepalm moment: at least I can tolerate that the android fooled them to some extent. They probably have not seen an android changing appearances with another android earlier. It was "deffective" and behaved in a way androids usually don't in that setting, so they didn't expect it. But the access code thing....good point. Hmm... maybe it was on the previous androids hard-drive? But in that case he should have known about the cabin on the lake too....
David code shouldn't work at all. It was even mentioned that those androids were too much human and eccentric, so why some old time android considered potentially unstable can access an entirely different ship with his old code some decade later. That doesn't have any sense.
I think Daniels checked if it was Walter when she looked at his hand and thanked him for saving her second time, but David already knew that, and when she was in a cryo chamber it was already too late. Anyway after experiencing such a horror and knowing what David was capable of, she should be more careful and double check him.
Yes the setting was amazing... One good thing is that there are many options for future movies, I just wish they will be better. Well written characters, plots and better music, I think the first two movies were perfect in that regard. For example the scene where they walk via Engineers graveyard, I would love to hear Alien 2 music there, some simple but disturbing sounds, and see more scenes of the place and Engineers, just a little extra tint that would make the movie a great experience. Hey, if you walk between dead foreign species bodies it should be done with a magnificent touch, of something mysterious and monumental. For me Covenant is a bit flat in this regard, a lot of action, not so much mood. But overall scenario is amazing with Engineers and a sabotaging android.
David wasn't really considered unstable. The Company was simply afraid of losing control of units like him. As for his codes, we don't really know how privvy he was to Peter Weyland's secrets, but both films imply that he was privvy to quite a few. Peter Weyland could have built in certain safeguards that would allow David to take control. I'd also like to point out that we didn't see exactly what he did to Walter and whether he might have extracted further info from him.
Yes, later on I had similar thoughts about it. Do we know from the movie which company owned Covenant? That would explain a lot. David was very close to Weyland and probably also programmed to have similar characteristics, or David learned them directly from him. We also don't know how was he programmed and what truly drives him. We see in the movie that he is making some presumably free decisions, but there may be some deeper programming which started when Weyland died, of which even he can be not aware of.
I liked this movie. It was gorgeous, unique and the soundtracks were beautiful. The only thing i had a problem with it was that they killed off Shaw. She was one of the main highlights from Prometheus.
You and I are few and far between apparently.....
Right there with you!
she was better than any of the characters/actors. also in girl with dragon tattoo.
I can tell this trilogy/series fassbender is meant to be the protagonist. And its a bit like space oddysee: make the robot more human than the disposable humans so it might be intentional that the other characters are a bit bland so David can be aloof and deep, but its not like in Space Odyssee its more like they made the characters stupider, more superficial intentionally to make the AI dude look better.
Ugh, Shaw was one of the two great reasons why Prometheus disappointed. At least, her lines anyway.
Shaw seemed semi decent only because the rest of the characters were so god damn terrible. Nothing like original alien movies in which every character was great.
Wenger out.
ExMachina loooooool
Arsenal is shit either way m8
Wenger in.... From a Spurs fan
Haha wtf
ExMachina Wenger out!!!
I enjoyed it ,I knew what I was getting and I also enjoyed Prometheus before it . Fassbender is Awesome as David and Walter !
Green Leader The first time I watched the movie, I thought it was ok, but now I have watched it many times and I absolutely love Alien: Covenant now, it’s one of those movies that gets better and better after watching it several times and love the Prometheus movie as well and loveee the Alien movies...
tbh they showed the alien so much i felt no suspense going throughout the movie. they were just monsters and for the most part, its just an action movie. Felt none of the grip and fear that life, for example, had for most parts of the movie.The best part for me personally was that scene when the girl was locked in with the baby xenomorph. That legit felt terrifying. Since they lacked suspense and showed the alien so much, they may as well went further with the gore
I agree so much with this. The movie felt like it was going the right direction until David showed up. It felt suspenseful and terrifying and maybe like it was going to be more of an Alien movie than a sequel to Prometheus. Then it just became Michael Fassbender the movie. After that, it just turned into a suspense-less action film that was surprisingly light on good action sequences.
Julie Chen this. everything was bland. there was no fear or ugent feel into it. even when ailen went full haunt mode- it seemms boring and uneventfull. becuase we seen it all better way.
Julie Chen your opinion, but imo the white xenos where scary as fuck. Specially in the scene one seems "tamed"
That doesn't make sense. They showed the Alien a little too much to be effectively scary or suspenseful in your opinion so they should have just jumped all the way to the other end of the spectrum and made it an alien slasher film? That's stupid. They showed the Alien just the right amount. Enough to properly enjoy it, but not so much that it ruins the suspense. Not to mention the alien doesn't even come into play until the third act of the film. You're really just not making sense. The movie you're describing wouldn't have worked. The Alien wasn't in it nearly as much as you're making it sound like he was.
I mean, there's a reason we saw through the alien's point of view in the corridors toward the end. We weren't supposed to see it that frequently, and when we did it was either in a tense action/survival sequence or during suspenseful sequences where we only see him through security cameras and obscured by glass like in the shower scene. Rarely does he get solid screen time, nor should he. Yes, he gets more than the alien in the original film... but that was the original. We've already experienced that tension and suspense, we don't need to experience it again in exactly the same way. I mean really, use your imagination. Stop asking for a retread of old films and appreciate this one's originality.
There's a difference between how much time the alien is in the film and how much time it's on the screen. The original movie was suspenseful, because often-times when the alien was around, it was shown indirectly/not fully. In later parts of the film, it's nearly inescapable. It feels like it's around every corner even though you rarely actually see it.
Covenant plays it the exact opposite. The new aliens occupy an amazingly small amount of the run-time, considering how much time they are actually shown and times that they are implied to be near but not actually shown (this is almost never, btw). When the new aliens are involved, they are shown nearly completely and usually well-lit. This completely eliminates any mystery about what they might look like, where they are/what they're doing, and who they're about to kill. When the classic xenomorph comes out, it's fully revealed immediately. Almost every shot involving them shows exactly where it is and in its entirety. The scenes that you mentioned from their perspective are even worse. Not only do they reveal exactly where the alien is and what it sees (no humans or anything interesting that will provide suspense because it's trapped in a corridor), but it also destroys any mystery surrounding what/how they see.
Beyond that, the aliens are almost never in the same shot as humans. For all the screen space they occupy, they usually just wind up shown in jump-cuts between the humans doing something and the alien moving around. All menace is removed because you have a CGI creature that doesn't even really inhabit the same space as the people it's terrorizing. And if you want to talk about how "original" this film is, we get our umpteenth chest bursting scene in the franchise, a crane arm fight that is eerily reminiscent of the power armor fight from Aliens, a plan where they force the alien through corridors by locking bulkheads ripped straight out of Alien, and then they blast out of an airlock into space, which has happened in every main entry except Alien 3. Most original movie ever.
I enjoyed Prometheus a lot.
Didn't really expect any Xenomorph because I was told it's an origin of alien...
So didn't expect to see anything much . and man I was glad I wasn't.
And damn... Tbh I didn't like Alien Covanant.
I'm totally with you. Covenant was a complete left turn from where Prometheus was going with numerous plot holes. They fucked the lore
Unfortunately Ridley gave the vocal fans what they wanted in covenant. Wish he would've stuck with his original plans because I got into Prometheus.
Vocal fans: "deep, thought provoking philosophical concepts? No thank you give me xenomorph!"
Ridley:"turn your brain off and heres your damn xenomorph!"
I loved Prometheus terrifying. I still need to watch this movie .
Feel like Chris is getting a load of slack on here now and his "I grew up with" has became a shite joke. Come on he's one of the most consistent and entertaining reviewers on here.
Can't just turn on him ...
I grew up with the multiverse
He has to learn to take criticism , we are making him better , he will grow up with us
DUKE NUKEM constructive criticism that is yeah ... he isn't getting a great deal of that.
Deja - Review cant turn my back on our boy Chris, I grew up on his reviews.
Same his comment was my childhood.
Sadly I didnt really care for this one and I'm a huge fan of Ridley Scott and the Alien franchise. I dislike the absence of science in a movie concerning space exploration. "Come, let us bathe in these alien waters before we test them for microbial life that could kill us!" There was a lot of stupid in this movie and while Prometeus had its fair share at least there were some surprises. Covenent telegraphed the plot and really gave me nothing new. All that aside Danny McBride was awesome and the special fx were really good.
The problem Prometheus has is "too many questions too little answers". But it is a good movie in the end. And I really like Noomi Rapace in it. Was looking forward to seeing her again... 😢
Yup without the Shaw character it would have been a shit show. Idris Elba's talents was wasted as well. Still a better movie than Covenant.
VRforAll Prometheus better than Covenant? One no, two.... COVENANT ISNT EVEN OUT IN THEATERS TILL TOMORROW JACKASS
Calm down. It was released earlier in other countries. It's been out for about a week now. Do yourself a favor and think before posting.
VRforAll how about you learn what movies are better than others.
Shalo CFH No need. Already mastered having my own opinions. Have u even seen Covenant?
The scene between “D” and “W”, one life form trying to explain an equal how to live a life is sublime.
James Franco had the best role in this movie, my favourite character *cough*
When your movie starts copying Alien 3, you know you've got a problem.
I'm watching this on the pooper
HappiestSadGuy aren't we all?
HappiestSadGuy whoa same
Me too.
Chris Stuckmann is definitely pooper-watch worthy
HappiestSadGuy that's awful!..... but yeah, me too.
Happy to see positive reviews on this movie.
The Wrestling Enthusiast thats positive
Why?
@@LorenzoDoesntExist Because there are still many positives to the film with a overall bad story with stupid decisions and forgettable characters.
@@Gadget-Walkmen Characters and story are pretty important, lol
@@LorenzoDoesntExist They are the most important but I'm saying that there positives set pieces and aspects BEYOND that.
3 years later, I still love this movie. I found Prometheus to be fun when I first saw it. However, this movie got me hooked on Alien as a whole. I picked up Alien Isolation shortly after seeing this in theaters. I went back and watched the original Alien and Aliens. Safe to say, Alien is now one of my favorite horror movies and Isolation is one of my favorite games. Alien, Prometheus and Covenant are my preferred movies of the franchise mainly because they're solely thrillers. Aliens is great, but I'm not a fan of it being more action. Nevertheless I'll happily watch it.
You poor guy
This killed the franchise 😂
@@gutsthestruggler3052not at all lol, a new movie next year and a show. Covenant isnt bad, not the best but certainty still good.
This movie was already doomed, when they decided to listen to the complaining "fans". We end up with a mix between Alien, Aliens and Prometheus. Until now, every Alien movie had a theme:
- Alien: Horror
- Aliens: Action
- Alien 3: "Misery, misery, misery... that's what you've chosen"
- Alien Resurrection: Comedy
- AVP : "Freddy VS Jason worked, right?"
- AVP:R : "Maybe it works with stupid teenagers and without... the light?"
- Alien Covenant : "You know, we're already working on the title for the next one: 'Alien 6', ... does AVP count? So 'Alien 8'? Whatever, just call it 'Alien Isolation'... wha... wait... WHAT!?"
...
"At least we try to be creative, Michael Bay! Wait, how about 'The Last Alien'?"
DarkRaptor LOL, best comment I've seen in a while.
DarkRaptor i
wait what do you mean "without... the light"?
I agree completely. If people just allowed Ridley Scott to make a Prometheus 2 instead of complaining about the absence of Xenomorphs we probably would've got something FAR better than Covenant.
Covenant on the other hand satisfies neither the Prometheus fans or Aliens fans.
It pisses off the Aliens fans by giving us basically a rehash of Alien (and ruining the Xenos origins. Though they'll probably retreat on that decision) and it pisses off the Prometheus fans by throwing away EVERYTHING the last movie set up.
Voeris Avpr was possible the worst lighting movie of all time
The best part of Alien....was that WE KNEW NOTHING about the origin....
K Comm So you're telling me you never wanted to know the origins of the Xenomorphs or learn anything extra about them? And also the best part of the Alien franchise is obviously the Xenomorph itself
Carl Plays Games I DID want to know....but to learn that a pissed off Murica-made robot made them...in a disjointed, pretentious prequel was just a fucking SHAME.
K Comm So you should've reworded your comment to "Im pissed about the origin they're trying to pass" instead of insinuating you didn't want to know about their origins
And we still know nothing after 2 prequels!
the best part?? lol no
Chris never grew up
Coby Smith TWIST!
The Shadow Master shit.
Clint Epps - HOW THE FUCK DID SOMEONE GET ALIEN MIXED UP WITH VIRUS HA HA HA LOL : D
Chris is looking really yellow! I mean around the eyes.
daniela chacon - THAT MEANS HE'S SEEN A SHIT FILM LIKE THIS ONE OR HES GETTING OLD OR HIGH : D
Amazing cinematography but man some of the character decision making (actually most of it) was frustrating
Tell me about it, every decision pissed me off
Does it also copy the plot line of a popular Lovecraft story?
There aren't enough lovecraft fans who've seen prometheus to understand how much of a fucking blatant RIPOFF! it was to Del Toros' pet project he's now reluctantly had to can.
So few people have made those connections that it's not been talked about enough, like I just now figured out how similar the two stories are
Which one?
At the mountains of Madness.
But with less racism!
Honestly even though it was predictable I found it very entertaining to watch and at the end of the day that's all that really matters with a movie.
I grew up with the grew up comments.
i grew up with Green Whovian
Gotta disagree with you on this one, I find this movie pretty bad. The review from Critical Drinker pretty much sums it up how I feel about it.
You should stop watching his channel. Seriously.
@@jothishprabu8 So, if I disagree with Chris here and there, I should stop watching his channel? Pretty stupid logic, in my opinion. It's fine to diverge.
@@heldane778 i agree with chris on this one the movie is okay but yeah we all free to have our opinions on certian movies like this and plus the movie is pretty forgettable first 2 are way better but i had a good time with it thumbs up on alien covenant.
No. F u c k o f f.
I can't believe you don't recognize how the characters were just plain stupid. No one, especially a scientist, would react to the situations and get themselves killed the way they all do. I want my money back.
The characters are not stupid. They are complacent. Newsflash, real people are normally complacent until they are given a reason to be vigilent. People don't walk arond all day thinking they are facing life or death situations 24/7. What if you lived in Alaska and you went into a store and found a grizzly bear in the store and it kills you. Were you stupid or were you complacent? The Alien characters have to be complacent at the beginning of the film to be realistic. They have no reason to suspect danger. And if they aren't complacent there wouldn't be a movie.
Showing up on an alien planet, as in not earth, and not wearing suits, yea, that's a moron.
JABO They explained that the oxegen and CO2 levels were simular to earth, the gravity level was extremely close, and how it is very simular to earth.
Tyson is awesome And ima guess that the alien planet had no native viruses or bacteria to worry about? They were stupid, as was the movie.
krieginphern Jacobson of course. do you even watch? their mission is to colonize after all. they have no in depht knowledge about the planet, that's why they explore.
Avatar: The Last Fassbender
Pretty sure the issues people had with Prometheus went far beyond "no zenomorphs".
BINARYGOD *xenomorph
Yeah, especially the shit ton of plot holes.
BINARYGOD and so many dumb characters.
this film is even worse for those
MademoiselleLenore Especially the scientist guy that touched the snake alien. Honesty, how much of an idiot could that guy be to not know you're going to be in imminent danger? It's common sense people! If you're on a planet that you haven't been before and have come across an alien that is possibly hostile and lethal, Do. Not. Touch. it.
Man James Franco's performance was on fire in this movie.
I'm soo jealous all the movie critics get to see this early..
“There are some bloody sequences that were H I G H L Y S A T I S F Y I N G”
- Chris Stuckmann
Will you do a spoiler talk video for this film? I'd love to hear some more of your thoughts on it
the most memorable line in the movie: "i'll do the fingering"...
Chris what happen to your more in depth analysis ??? I was hoping so much more from you when reviewing this especially since you are a fan of alien and aliens. How am I even gonna explain this, the lore man the freaking lore, Ridley has royally fucked the entire lore of the franchise, the timeline is now more confusing than before and it adds a lot of questions instead of answering to any of them.
1. In alien and aliens you get a hint that the space jockey (engineer) actually the one created the alien species as a bio weapon, a perfect organism and even in Prometheus you can see the ornament on the wall of an alien queen etc (confirming my hypothesis that the engineer created them)
2. Now David created the alien (spoiler) according to this movie but it doesnt make any sense at all, so he created the egg ??? or does he created the airborne goo that created proto alien too ?? because in Prometheus the goo is not AIRBORNE and even David have to drop the liquid itself inorder to infect someone and even then THE GOO DOES NOT CREATE XENOMORPHS it only infect them and turn them into zombie or something
3. Does the goo disintegrate organism ? create organism ? or twisted the organism that it ingested to ? doesn't make any fuckin sense at all
4. I thought the queen is the one responsible on spawning the alien egg not David. It makes no sense even if David created the queen instead of the egg, why ?? see point 1.
5. The engineer only have 1 planet and in that planet they only have 1 small city ??? I mean we are talking about being that can travel intergalactic and have a technology far beyond man kind, does that sounds a good writing to you ?
6. fuck explanation on why the engineer wanted to destroy us XD (ask ridley dont ask me man)
7. Every single character on the covenant is incoherent and stupid, I assume everyone already watched the film so I'm not gonna explain further but if you want comparison go watch "Life" or even "prometheus" itself because the character is even dumber than prometheus.
8. 70% your entire crew is death and you won't even wake up a second team ? hellooo you got 2000 people onboard they can't be the only crew/team to manage the ship, not to mention the dumbass mcbride endangering the entire ship by going on low orbit.
9. The timeline between covenant and first alien is 18 years (alienanthology.wikia.com/wiki/Alien_Universe_Timeline) and the derelict ship on lv 426 that ripley found is brought by the engineer full of xenos egg, and it has been there for ages because the space jockey got molded into the chair that is how long it is and now david are the one creating them ?? whuat ?? (my head about to explode right now) did david flew that ship too ?? but the pilot is a space jockey O_O........
10. Ridley completely forget the franchise that he is making and the lore behind it
11. I would rate this movie D instead of B, because interm of suspense, horor and gore it's bad, I can guess almost all of the plot and they took the worse decision that you can think off, where is the horor ?? (you already knew the outcome).
Hopefully he'll do a spoiler review and tackle these problems. There were indeed many inconsistencies in this movie, (*potential spoilers*) especially the aftermath of the brother brawl.
Kinoksis
*spoiler*
I think there could have been two ways that that happened. Either:
1. David sympathized with the other android and decided to continue his mission.
OR
2. They swapped faces.
I like option 2.
Addison Knies
*more spoilers*
I guess it's most likely that David swapped bodies with Walter, although there's no example in the franchise of androids doing that, and it's hard to believe that he could just tranfer minds in such a short amount of time.
My second theory is that David just chopped is hand to pretend he's Walter, but the screw Daniels used to pierce his chin is gone and David is unable to heal from wounds like Walter. It's very confusing.
And why would he help the crew kill the xenomorph in the Covenant ship, wasn't his creation of utmost importance? So many plotholes man.
themis and addison i just thought he cut off his own hand
Themis Tokles you want alien lores watch Hr reviews
Loved Prometheus! Saw it with my nephew in an empty theatre - fecking heaven!
Best way to see a movie honestly
Wow..thats how you need to see a movie
I remember at one point James Cameron and Ridley Scott pitched an alien sequel to Fox but eventually turned it down. That could have been great. I'll definitely watch the movie but it's too bad they can never again catch lightning in the bottle. Six alien movies later and we never got a true great movie.
What was the pitch?
lol Man.That's a very good question and I wish I knew. It was behind closed doors. Just the thought that James Cameron and Ridley (together) wanted to make an Alien movie could have been a success.
Compare the acting in this one vs the original Alien. There’s just no grit and verisimilitude to the characters or the acting, especially by comparison. When the Android guy is by far the most believable character, there’s a problem.
Something worse than the c-section scene? Well I'm fucking sold.
Enrique Arellano that's the only part of Prometheus I even remembered cause it was so creepy
Dumbest characters I have ever seen in a horror movie.
I was really surprised by Danny McBride in this film. I love him as a comedic actor which he is known to be but he really stepped up in this movie. I hope there is another movie after this with them. I want to know what happens to the crew and people on this ship.
I think the best option for the franchise now, is to go as low budget as possble. Horror movies make a TON of money, because they get made on incredibly low budgets of 10 to 15 million when compared to covenants 150+ million. The genre is too niche for budgets that high. No more spanning vistas or giant set pieces, as gorgeous as they are. My proposed idea If they were to do a Covenant sequel would be to keep the movie ON the Covenant, just like the original spent almost the entire movie on one ship. Hear me out. The ship is relatively large, it has 2000 colonists on it, a rogue synthetic and at least 2 aliens. We saw during covenant that the Alien was somewhat disobedient when it tried to attack David through the monitor, so have something go wrong during one of his experiments and have the two (or possibly more) aliens break free and cause havoc. A handful of the colonists wake up somehow, the Aliens are on the loose stalking the vents and hallways and David is among the colonists trying to be Walter and remain hidden until he becomes a protagonist at the end. It's contained, it's claustrophobic, It's dark, it's scary, it's Alien.
Hawken Valhalla That sounds great to me. It sounds kinda like parts of Alien: Isolation, as if you’d be hiding from one of the Working Joes for a while. I’d definitely watch that, especially if Daniels got to come back.
Sounds just like the plot to pandora. They were on a colonizing ship and creatures are attacking a few people wake up but one of them could be the villian...there are some more twists i dont want to give away but i really liked it. Lots of dark and quiet.
Dylan Brown I like it! Could either throw in some funny nods to the franchises stereotypes and then bam facehugger or go extra horror. A child robot 2.0 would be an interesting foil for David too. Idk. Your plot sounds good as is just got me thinking...
This movie fuckn tanked for me, they did absolutely nothing to flesh out the space engineer mythos
+Apex Neither Ape Stop lying they answered no questions shaw had proposed in promethius.
We still have no idea who the engineers are
Why they created humans
What purpose did they wanted to see after creating them?
They created black goo too kill humans with or?
Why did they want to kill humans?
I can go on and on
Then why do they not look like humans?
+Jack Grayson
Couldn't have said it better myself.
+Jack Grayson
I most definitely agree. You're doing God's work.
You clearly have no idea what you're blabbering about and pretend like you're smarter than everyone else..
ARE YOU GOING TO REVIEW the Predator series soon?
He'll probably do them next year for when The Predator by Shane Black comes around.
I think he's already done the Predator series. Or at least the first film because I remember seeing a video of him doing it
“No one directs a sci-fi film like Ridley Scott.”
That stopped being a good thing a long time ago.
Nah, It's a statement of fact.
I didn’t say it wasn’t. I said what he does is no longer quality.
@@ddc2957 I know, I disagree. Ridley Scott remains one of the best directors. Sci-Fi or otherwise.
What did you think of the “twist” at the end? I’ve seen that in dozens of films. It was predictable & lazy.
@@ddc2957 I didn't regard it as a twist, the fact that you have two characters that look the same and one with malevolent intentions makes it just a question of whether the films protagonists realise in time. The real twist is that the heroine fails.
I really love this movie. I feel pretty much exactly the way you feel about the movie. The transition From Prometheus style to Aliens style film was awkward. I am fascinated by David and would love another movie exploring that more.
I actually enjoyed this film. My only issue with this film was when we saw the Infant Xenomorph , he already had arms and legs instead of looking like a tadpole . Other than that. I thought it was a great movie.
There's no problem with it because that is not the Xenomorph we already know, it's like his grand grand grand father, got it? At some moments you can see how different they actually are. For example, you can clearly see some type of human skull inside it's head, what you couldn't see before, and how insane and kinda angry this creature is. The previous xenomorphs we met before were calmer, more strategic
God dammit people need to stop naming the chestbursters xenomorphs. Xenomorph was first used by Lt Gorman in Aliens, and it translates to alien form (or other/strange form), Gorman was a weak leader who thought using a fancy word would elevate him above his soldiers. Even Frost had to ask what he meant by xenomorph, and then Hicks, good sport as he is, interrupts and "saves" Gorman by saying it's a bug hunt. So we are actually calling these creatures what the idiot Gorman wants us to call them. The real name of the species almost all people call xenomorph is actually xx121, or xenomorph xx121 to not be confused with anything living on earth. Alien form xx121. Calling the chestbursters xenomorph is like naming all living creatures on earth oxygen breathers.
FabledGentleman NERD ALERT! We got a nerd on our hands everybody!
:D proud to be one
That's all well and good, but it wasn't Hicks that said "it's a bug hunt", it was Hudson. what the fuck, get your shit right!
ThePandema. You are wrong. Hudson asked if it was. Hicks was then the one that said it was. ;). I have seen Aliens about 100 times in my life, FYI :)
After watching these reviews, I watched Prometheus for the first time since losing my faith. I lived in a cult. And now I'm watching Covenant a second time.
I find an abstract cathartic vibe with these. A passionate pain and anger longing to be released against its creator. These are such rich stories.
Sure, there's mistakes made, but I honestly don't mind. And that opening scene with David and Weyland in Covenant, wow. So much subtext there
Alien isolation should've been a movie with an alien isolation video game that follows. The Studios that made the movies and the video game designers would've made billions!
It felt like things just happening with no real story
Land ship
Guy dies
Alien escapes
Alien back
Kill kill
Get back to ship
Fight alien
Credits
Dylan McDade congratulations you just described the first alien movie
I absolutely loved this movie. You’re completely right about it being obvious who was going to die next, and that was disappointing. But the rest of it I thought was outstanding. And I felt that Katherine Waterston was perfect. She’s not quite up to Sigourney Weaver’s level of Alien protagonist, but I did feel that she felt a lot more relatable, and I just really wanted to see her succeed. I genuinely hope that she stars in another Alien movie. To me, this is easily the third best movie in the franchise, and I love it. I could watch it again and again.
Iwas so excited when i sat down to watch it but soon after I thought it was so bad I wanted to turn it off but I braved it out then regretted not turning it off sooner. Fuck it sucked. I've soon movies that have sucked before but this was the suckiest bunch of sucks that ever sucked.
Just got back from seeing the film. The characters in the film are way more stupider than those from Promethesus and that stupid foolish samurai warrior.
Aku weilding that fucking magic sword
Aku EXTRA THICC
The irony
FUCK YOU AKU!, YOU WILL NEVER DEFEAT THE SIDE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS!
i miss the old aku. The not watching movies aku. The not giving ratings aku. The scheaming aku. The samurai hunting aku. The great monologue aku. The shapeshifting aku. I hate the new aku. The depresed aku. The noninvolvement aku. I miss the Thicc ordering aku. The storyteller AKU. Thats all it was AKU, we still love AKU. And I love AKU like Fans love AKU
The best part of the movie is when the Alien arrives. It looks menacing. It's quick. And holy hell, when it kills, it delivers.
Rarely do I deem it necessary to express my opinion when it concerns the primitive entertainment of this backwards era. My quest to locate the Celestial Madonna in this period does not allow for much leisure but as the popular saying of this age states: "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy." After viewing this particular criticism of a forgotten form of media, however, I feel I must make my presence known in this time period. This motion picture you refer to is an interesting paradox that confounds me. While an impressive technical achievement as far as the images, sound, and production design are concerned, I have witnessed more human behavior and motivations present in the actions of the the mindless automatons that maintain the biofurnaces fueling my chronal transport. You, Stuckmann, profess to have a knowledge of the nuances of this era's cinematic efforts, yet you announce for all to see and hear that you enjoyed being subjected to this, this, MADNESS! Humans who appear to be mentally incapable of logic stumbling through a series of progressively more ridiculous and contrived occurrences towards their unavoidable deaths is not entertaining. It is infuriating. From what I understand, this Ridley Scott is an accomplished auteur with many critical and commercial successes. Foolish primitives! Do you not recognize the ineptness which he wields? This sad, old man is desperately grasping for the glory experienced in days gone by revisiting his past triumphs in a foolish attempt to expand upon what he "created". Pitiful. Once I have found the Celestial Madonna and dealt with the troublesome Avengers, this affront to intelligence will never have existed!
"Humans who appear to be mentally incapable of logic stumbling through a
series of progressively more ridiculous and contrived occurrences
towards their unavoidable deaths is not entertaining. It is
infuriating." YES!!!
I genuinely can't tell if you're being unironically arrogant, or sarcastic. If it's the former, then rarely have I seen such blatant hubris masquerading as some type of intellectual virtue. This type of holier than thou nonsense is honestly is reaching pathological levels of absurdity on your part.
i binge watched all 6 alien movies in 2 days and all considered alien covenant is an A+ for me
I need a ranking with grades
Imma need that list too
Here's my ranking:
1. Alien Covenant (A)
2. Prometheus (A)
3. Aliens (A)
4. Alien (A-)
5. Alien 3 (C)
6. Alien vs Predator (C)
7. Alien Ressurection (E)
8. Aliens vs Predator: Reqrium (F)
Could you do a review of all the Pirates of the Caribbean films?!!!! Ahead of the release of Dead Men Tell No Tales
oldschool honey yes please :o
Pirates of the Caribbean is usual and notoriously bombed by critics.. i dont think you'd want to see those reviews if youre a fan
I'm aware, and am a fan of the franchise. I just enjoy hearing what other people have to say
It being bad was assumed the minute Disney went for the sympathy play, claiming hackers are holding us hostage. Considering the movie was not released after the ransom was not paid, it seems quite likely to be a pathetic attempt for free publicity, for a movie that is about to get panned. When that happens, I expect Disney will "leak" the movie themselves, blame the hackers, and cry to their investors about ticket sales and those "damned pirates".
What I love about James Franco's performance is that you can tell "sparks" are flying between him and another character.
I'll have to say that Alien Isolation the video game story line and feel should be cannon with the first two films and it pisses me that they make this stupid ass robot the creator of the Xenomorph how does the derelict ship end up on LV-426 with thousands of eggs the space jockey pilot chest was blown out he was fossilized for thousands of years and in Prometheus the Xenomorph portrait is on the wall in the engineer temple bunker so....I refuse to except the fact that David is the creator of the Xenomorph and also this really fucks the Aliens movie storyline with the queen too
Could be the murals did not depict Xenomorphs but Protomorphs and Nemorphs, like the one that appeared at the very end of Prometheus and similar to those first two creatures in Alien: Covenant. The Derelict Ship is tricky, but it could be that the Alien eggs and the burst chest from the Engineer in the Derelict were two different events. Something else could have burst from him like a Protomorph long before, and David could have brought the Alien Queen there at some point. Remember, we never really found out who activated the beacon on the Derelict Ship. Could be that it was David who set that trap to lure in other colonists. As far as I know, Alien Isolation is canon to the first two films as of now. It's been referenced by all of the other recent tie-in comics and novels, so I don't see why not.
i dont know everything but i do think its safe to say David is not the creator of the xenomorph... there was a mural of xenomorphs inside the engineers ship in the movie prometheus so they been around before David.
MermaidLuvly Those were slightly different aliens, it's pointed to that the xenomorphs in the eggs were a new species.
Chet I think the idea that humans are ultimately responsible(since they made David...which ia actually a cool character. a robot thinking he's a god turned mad scientist... that's not stupid at all) for the xeno is brilliant.
Did we watch the same movie Chris? AC is a complete mess. Yes it does look good, but that does not matter one bit when the story is so absurd and the characters are so dumb. I was too upset to enjoy the visuals. Sure there were good moments here and there, but this is Ridley Scott so one has to expect a lot more. If you are going to do another Alien movie at least have a killer script and a top cast. This was so disapointing. RC did a George Lucas. So sad.....
@NorthernLight Lol this exactly! it takes all the suspense and wonder away, and ambiguity is very powerful to use in film if done right. Look at the George Romero trilogy of dead films, the zombie origins are never explained. The characters can only watch and wonder as their world is slowly destroyed by the undead.. and now romero's son wants to make a prequel that explains where the undead came from... just why. Apparently directors seek to destroy all great storylines today lol and David is annoying in this movie with his conceitedness and apathy (i know he is a robot but still)
NorthernLights couldn’t agree more, it was by far the laziest and dumbest alien of the franchise. Everything, even the script. For instance, the idea of this mysterious creature, dark color, almost camouflaging with the dark environment of these movies, hardly ever appearing, and this movie just shows you the freaking thing from all different angles. Then these pseudo scientists again, holy mother, what lazy writing. Fassbender carries everything on his own LITERALLY. Those scenes of him and himself talking were the best and most tense ones as well. That final karate-like fight though was pathetic, dumb, I felt the urge to leave the cinema right away.
Oh hi Chris!
blondegamerguy shut. The. Fuck. Up.
Alien: Covenant is terrible. How this gets a B, I really can't understand.
He might've been high while watching it
@@scenemaker864 That would explain it.
Because it's his opinion. People like things that others don't like. It's that simple. :D
@@dunklebaumwolle164 shut up
@@Carloszavalalol no u
In what order should I watch the alien franchise
depends on who you ask but;
predator
predator 2
avp
avp: r
prometheus
alien: covenant
alien
aliens
alien 3
alien: resurrection
although personally i would just ignore the first 6 films i mentioned and just watch the initial 4 alien films starting with alien.
Alien
Aliens
I loved Prometheus!
Jordan Frye me too!!!
Chris, I like you, but sometimes you are way too much of a fanboy.
Every review is subjective, you know?
Movie was amazing. go fuck yourself
@@werdle92 this movie is as bad as it gets
@Gasper Vidovic Even Transformers has smarter scientists than this movie lol
It got good critic reviews too. you people are more fanboy by acting mad that the franchise went a different direction.
There were a lot of things I did not like about this movie, but the big dealbreakers were:
1) Most of the characters were disposable with zero personality, so I did not care when they died. In prior Alien movies, I did actually care of someone died, even if I didn’t like them.
2) So much of the plot momentum relies on characters being frustratingly stupid. Maybe don’t remove your helmet and then inhale the flowers on a planet you know nothing about. Maybe don’t follow the stranger who has a shrine to the things that are killing you. Maybe really don’t follow him into a single-exit cave. MAYBE DON’T STICK YOUR FACE NEAR SOMETHING WHEN HE SAYS TRUST ME. When the writing has to rely on characters being this stupid, perhaps another draft is in order. It wasn’t even “curiosity leading to bad consequences”; the characters just behaved in ways that left me annoyed that no one had even mild critical thinking skills.
That said, I really enjoyed the visuals and Michael Fassbender’s performance. He honestly deserves far more recognition for his skills as an actor.
apart from the few major flaws, I loved the connections to prometheus. one thing we know now is that the engineers were excited to see the humans but then got killed, so I'm thinking that there was a war between the engineers (for and against humans) and the good ones eventually won, but then David kills them all. I LOVE David in this movie and I can't wait to see what comes next
How long untill Baby Stuckmann????
Sweat Shirt the day the earth goes to hell
Wow I'm shocked that he actually liked the performances because I personally thought the acting was scarier than the movie itself, the only characters I actually cared about in this film were the aliens lol, the characters had no life to them at all and I found it depressing that this film actually came from Ridley Scott, the original Alien was truly a masterpiece and while I had problems with Prometheus it at least had ambition, good performances, intriguing ideas, and made me think but this film was literally on par with AVP which is not good, nothing more than a cheesy monster movie with stupid characters who line up for the slaughter and offers nothing more than that.
Cropsy25 There is a difference between characters and actors.
I thought they were all good actors, but I felt like Tennessee, the Captain and his wife, and Walter/David were the only good characters.
I know there is a difference but not only did I find the characters lifeless but I really didn't think the acting was good at all
Cropsy25 the acting was actually good. have you lost your mind bruh?
No have you?
come on. not even Fassbbender?
I hate how daniel never noticed the big red flag that walter can heal himself and he doesn't need stitches.
THIS FILM IS RACIST.........THERE IS ONLY 1 BLACK ALIEN
komujimaru no theres 2..
Yup, it's 50% white and black aliens, and on top of that the white aliens die first.
komujimaru False! The Black aliens are bigger and more powerful, therefore they're the privileged ones, so you can't be racist to the Black Aliens! HAH!
apparently the black ones are a result of being spliced with insects so it's less about black and white and more about Endo and ecktoskeleton? But the black ones have Endo skeletons to so....?
komujimaru there was two actually
When he said Danny McBride was good in a serious role in this movie, I audibly laughed because I was so caught off guard by that. Is this a thing McBride does now? Am I the only one who thought his single style of acting was the Kenny Powers style of saying fuck it/blow some shit up? If he's graduated from that and started accepting more dramatic roles since the last time I checked in on him in This is the End, then good for him.
Zach Bush McBride is stepping away from his norm and getting into more horror type projects. he is involved with The Predator movie for 2018 and the new Halloween film which John Carpenter has said nothing but good things about the pitch McBride and the director gave. Definitely seems as though he has a bright future in the genre.
Zach Bush I wouldn't take him seriously now, he cooked all their food
😂
been waiting for a good alien film since aliens.
im still waiting
Don’t hold your breath.
I liked this movie better than Prometheus, but both of them look so good I could rewatch them a lot.
just kinda sucks that folks couldn't get with the idea of a series of films that don't have xenomorphs, but would eventually connect with films that do, smh.
This movie is awful & a disgrace to any Alien fan.
In the soundtrack, 'Chest Burster' is perfection.
Naturally, all film viewers attach themselves emotionally into a story or situation by tethering their emotions to that of a character they can relate. In this case, that would typically be the person being killed by the chest burster... But Jed/Ridley truly had a moment of brilliant vision when they constructed this tune for this situation because the tune itself instantly took the fear out of the scene and put all viewers into the mind, not of the person being killed but into the character who set everything in motion. The character was watching his 'child' being born and this piece of music forced all viewers to focus on that and it's beauty, rather than the gore, which one would think couldn't be overmatched. Yet another demonstration of the power of music. Amazing. Surprising. Beautiful.
overwhelming. You forgot that world. Overwhelming. yeah power of music
There is nothing like finding that your mouth is slightly open and your eyes are wide while sitting in a theater chair.
That's that magic of cinema.
Great review Chris! P.S. I LOVE Prometheus.