Alien Covenant - movie review
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- Опубликовано: 16 окт 2024
- James and Mike review Alien: Covenant.
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My main gripe is the crew is so damn dumb that they didn't need an evil android or xenomorphs to die. They would have died off naturally, so the antagonists only sped up the process. Seriously! They don't have any backup plans, they're constantly arguing, they go onto a planet that they know nothing about without a damn space/environment suit, it's just crazy. And to top it all off, they don't have any extra crew in stasis! They were doomed from the start.
Doooomed!
I think the point is David had already infiltrated their plans and ship?
When the pilot starts shooting randomly inside the ship and blows everything away including herself was disappointing.
the stupidity was pointed out on screen rant too
"Nobody expects at this point to go to the theater and see a movie as good as the originals"
This could be said for a lot of movies recently...
Bob Bobson that just makes it sad and depressing
Bob Bobson I think its cuz people just cant stop living in the past. Or always expecting something that is always connected to the past. Idk I think its stupid that people are like that.
That's because people have retrospective bias and are unwilling to see modern movies in that light. You can trust that if a classic from the past came out today, people would tear it apart without a second thought.
@Aunchient Pistol No it's not. Stop lying to yourself.
because you can't. they have tried to turn movies from an art form to a paint by numbers system, because of greed and it shows. actors are worse, directing is worse, the scripts and plots are abysmal, an original idea hasn't been made into a movie in a long long time. the studios are relying on computers, and talented producers and editors to created what used to be interpreted by an actor, given direction, then artfully captured. all with people taking pride in their work. now it's all about the paycheck. and only about the paycheck. it's as bad as sports.
I wanted Shaw to meet the Engineers who would answer all of her questions.
me too. i was hoping she'd come back in this movie.
+grizzlywhisker wait based on what ive read didnt they show shaw but she died when they crash landed on whatever the hell planet ive never seen the movie correct me if im wrong
they showed her dead corpse for like 10 seconds... that was it.
that is probably the main reason why most people hate this movie... we wait for a long time to know what the fuck happened withthe engineers and all the god damn bio weapons on that plant was for... and just saw that asshole David ruins everything.
tyranthate Alien Covenant does answer a lot...but subtlely and in metaphors. Check out the "Twin Perfect" video about it.
Alien and Aliens are near perfect. Hard to match up to them.
bandwaggon. everyone knows AVPR requiem was the best.
Game over man, game over.
@@scoopstacey3112 lmao that's right!
Mike is totally correct about the alien grow times, every movie since the original has sped up the grow time and now its almost instantaneous.
Brahm Danger To play devil's advocate here, the aliens in Covenant are not the same as the aliens in Alien and Aliens.
Bruh...the original grew to full size and killed everyone within 24 hours...if you listen to the time references in covenant, you'll learn that its pretty similar
The growth time is mostly implied from what I remember. It's a bit of a frivolous thing to point out anyway.
LoL true dude I was thinking the same
It’s instantaneous in the older movies
The extra videos you're looking for are called "Alien Covenant Prologue: Last Supper" and "Alien Covenant Prologue: The Crossing"
They both contain essential plot and character information to understanding and appreciating the film and it's absolutely maddening and baffling as to why these scenes weren't included.
acrophobe I'd imagine runtime and the flow of the script.
That does seem stupid. How long were they? Maybe they would have made the movie just too damn long?
acrophobe thanks man, I was looking for this 👍
100% agree.
acrophobe "Destiny Syndrome", where in a game or movie you have to search online for crucial plot information.
You would NEVER walk out there without a mask solely because of unknown pathogens. and surprise that was exactly what happened.
that makes them absolutely unbelievable. they are supposed to be the spearhead of humanity in colonizing other planets.
It's a science fiction movie men !!!!
But when you just throw any semblance of realism out of a movie, it just looks silly. The idea of a planet not having breathable air or having airborne pathogens is not ultra-realism.
even introducing our own microbes to foreign planets/ecosystems is a huge concern for scientists even today. these movies are just retarded
That, and I really wish they made David being the one to survive a lot more hidden from the audience. It was so predictable that it was David that I would have been shocked if it wasn't. They even showed him reaching for a blade. No, they should have cut it in a way to make it seem like there was NO chance it was David, but then BAM.
Don't forget Alien: Isolation. Close to perfect, story-wise.
To be honest, the rubber-banding AI of the Alien killed it for me. I was sitting in a vent, and there was a corridor which wrapped around where I was on the right, connected to a room on my left, and the Alien kept walking around back and forth between the two with no goal forever, it just wouldn't leave (as if it knew I was there) but never entered the vent (I guess because he wasn't supposed to know I was there?).
Anyway, I think it's bad because as soon as you hide for a while, it instantly stops behaving in a believable way, and you can't really be clever about it (unless we call using a noisemaker something "clever", or abuse the survivors when they are available). There is never a genuine moment with the Alien, where you hide and hold your breath and then it leaves the area, it always stays until the script tells him to leave.
I meant story-wise, ya goofs.
Can't comment on it, then, since I didn't finish it. XD Maybe I should watch a playthrough on youtube. :)
Very simple, overly drawn out story, but it worked. Damn shame the game play itself was complete trash.
Really? Ok, maybe I'm forgetting something, but... what story? Finding the message? That wasn't even the majority of the game.
And that ending... it felt like a kick in the balls after all these torturous hours of side tracking.
To me it was a drawn out series of story disappointments.
they have to make a movie just like "alien isolation", for me is the perfect sequel
I think that game is way to long for a survival horror game...
Loved that game, worth every minute of life I invested
I do believe the game is canon, so perhaps they could do some follow up on it
@@Dutch_man20 The character you play as in that game, Amanda Ripley, was in an extended cut of Aliens if iirc
Romulus has a few references to Isolation, the Saving-game phone booths show up a few times.
The movie aint complete trash, what destroyed it for me was the explanation of aliens origins. This alone makes me want to pretend this shit never existed.
Lito it's fan fiction
No fan fiction would have been better.
Lito the origin isnt even that bad. Its pretty cool to me tbh.
David had to base his research on something. He was alone on the Engineer homeworld for a very long time, and he had access to all their stuff since he killed them all. I'm pretty sure he was just recreating experiements the Engineers did in the past. We know the ship in Alien had crashed there LONG before Prometheus, let alone this movie. I don't think David created the Xenomorphs. I think he recreated them.
I agree about the origins being so bad. I wish this movie didn't exist. This movie does have other faults too.
I want a Transformers movie on Cybertron, WITHOUT any humans.
Kishimyu or beast machines
Humans just ruin movies though. The Transformers, Muppets, and even Wall-E were all ruined by the stupid humans. Those movies would have all been so much better without them. When will Hollywood learn Humans ruin everything!?!
Smokey McJoint War for Cybertron begs to differ.
With Adult dialog lol
Kishimyu Sounds expensive
I hate how this is a "prequel" yet the technology is years more advanced than in alien. Alien and even the recent Alien Isolation used that 80's tech, big bulky, slow. Here its like holograms and shit, wtf happened??
DrViperVideos
Same thing with the Star Wars prequel movies.
Executives probably were scared into thinking people would complain that the tech looks outdated or something stupid like that.
In alien the ship was just a commercial towing vessel, basically a shitty tug boat. there is no need for any fancy gadgets on board.
Its different because OUR technology is different. That is all.
DrViperVideos that was done on purpose, I think it's suppose to be that a. The ships in Prometheus and covenant are big and fancy and highest quality possible, while in alien it was blue collar truckers in space. And B. It was i stylistic choice, the technology in the two most recent ones are more modern like ours but it's different in the future because the technology and culture changed or something along those lines. I heard it in an interview about the design choices. It's meant to be more modern because it is, and the stuff we see later in the series is more advanced but looks different because it's the future. I know it doesn't make a whole lot of sense but it's a logical way to write it off.
The Alien itself was a cameo on the movie. Also, the hunted aspect of the series was removed, in order to "empower" some random character no one cared for. She is not Ripley and she is not even trying to be.
I think the girl who played Ramona in Scott Pilgrim would make either a great young Ripley or Ripley's daughter.
She's basically a Ripley rip-off in the 2011 movie The Thing. She's was also the only decent part of that movie lol
@@Blackenedwhiplash nothig was decent in that movie
@@AydarBMSTU Elizabeth Winstead was
A _Rip-offley_ if you will.
I want to see James review on his own, he knows and understands Prometheus and the other Alien films better than Mike. It would be more interesting.
Yet he wasn't giving any great arguments here...
I think this movie biggest mistake was ruining the lore with the mad scientist cliche killing the xenomorph mythos.
How did it ruin the lore? David didn't create the Xenomorphs.
Did you watch the film?
It's pretty much makes it that David did create this breed of Xenomorphs but not the entire species. It would retcon the fact we saw a mural in Prometheus which had an alien on it
David creates a "protomorph" a early xenomorph but if he's the creator who knows
And even thinking back on it more, we know the engineer DNA is a 100% match with human DNA, and that the mural on the ship was over 2000 years old. This pretty much implies that the engineers know what happens when a facehugger impregnates an engineer, and it will most likely look like the original Alien xenomorph. You guys are implying that David created the facehuggers, and there's absolutely nothing to back this up. He most likely discovered a method to create and foster the eggs, and knows that the ultimate creation is a Xenomorph+human hybrid.
I enjoy you guy's take on the movie. I personally thought it was an okay movie, but I've had many talks with people about how they believe that it is the worst trash ever. I agree that it is nowhere near as good as the original two, but much better than what we've been given before. Thank you for more of a neutral standpoint on the film.
Man, this is the reason why James is a fucking lovable guy. He knows the movie is pretty shitty but he still finds enjoyment in it. He's not denying how bad it is, nor he's ignorant about it, his opinion is informed, and he simply enjoyed the movie because he's overall a positive guy. He's a good example of how to have an opinion.
I respect him as a reviewer for many reasons, this included
I don't think they stole the idea of solar sails from Star Trek. Maybe I am mistaken, but I think the idea of using solar powered sails is something actual scientists have considered and worked on for space travel. It is a way to obtain energy during flight and doesn't require docking for a refuel or anything like that.
cooleobrad you are correct
You're absolutely correct fam. NASA is going to be using solar sails to fly by Alpha Centauri for the next few decades which is pretty damn cool
We currently use solar sail technology on some satellites. It's a reality.
I don't think it was the technology being used, so much as how it looked.
Alien; Aliens; Alien 3; and Alien : Isolation are the real Alien stories. I think the Alien franchise needs to end. At this point, I think there needs to be movie made in the in the same vein of horror suspense as Alien or the same vein of action horror as Aliens.
I do agree for me my favs were Alien Covenant,Alien,Aliens,Alien 3. I thought AC was a decent prequel but it should end there. Alien Ressurection could of been better. Prometus was a major mess. I can't Play Alien Isolation but I heard it had a good story which takes place after the original Alien. One film I can think of is Annihilation which came out in 2018 now that is what a good horror/sci-fi/action flick should be it was original too, reminded me of the Thing,Alien, & Forbeddon World.
Man Covenant was the worst of them, Ressurection is silly but still better in many ways than this excuse of an movie...
We would really like to see original ideas come arise again. It's just pathetic how much rehashing is done and how little creativity is allowed to exist.
Alien 3 Assembly Cut is much better than this.
@@mkproductions2.042 could have. Not "could of". That doesn't mean anything. Also, AC sucks the worst of all of them. At least Alien Resurrection was funny.
If anybody is interested here is the full timeline... for now
TED 2023 (Video)
Prometheus (film)
Alien: Covenant (film)
Alien (Film)
Alien: Out of the Shadows (novel)
Alien: Isolation (video game)
Alien: River of Pain (novel)
Aliens (film)
Alien 3 (film)
Aliens: Colonial Marines (video game)
Alien Resurrection (film)
Alien: Sea of Sorrow (novel)
________________________________________
93 AD - Prometheus initial scene, where an Engineer sacrifices himself to create experimental life on a planet.
2023 AD - Peter Weyland gives a TED TALK
2064 AD - An Elizabeth Shaw memory from that time is shown in a memorial device system seen by David in Prometheus.
2089 AD - Elizabeth Shaw and Charles Holloway discover a star map in a Scottish cave, dating back to 35 000 years.
2093 AD - Major happenings in Prometheus expedition.
2094 AD - Catastrophic happenings that destroys Prometheus crew, except Shaw and David.
2104 AD - Happenings from Alien: Covenant
2122 AD - Happenings from Alien.
2137 AD - Happenings from Alien: Isolation aboard the Sevastopol space station.
2179 AD - Ripley is rescued from the Outer Rim.
2181 AD - Ripley is taken to Gateway Station.
2183 AD - Major happenings from Aliens, in Hadley's Hope.
2184 AD - Happenings from Alien 3.
2386 AD - Ripley is resurrected.
2434 AD - Major happenings from Alien: Resurrection.
Don't blame me I copied that from the official... "official"... "official"??? Alien wiki
2009Bandman I have already touched this comment
And you can see how how badly Ridley fucked up the timeline with Android: Covenant.
When I saw David with long hair I thought Iggy Pop showed up out of nowhere ha.
Elliott Knighves LMAO
did he get thrown by a japanese delinquent?
I like the new background. Making it look like a movie theater was a good idea. Seems obvious, but it works lol
Two giants sitting in a movie theatre facing the projector lol
It was impossible to take this movie seriously when two different characters slip on the same puddle of blood within a minute of each other. The crew is dumber than the teens an your average slasher flick.
I hate that Mike talks over James for a lot of this, and all he is doing is repeating himself over! I’d love to see James with a team like RLM, people he really clicks on screen with and is on his wavelength!
I like how James appreciated the cinematic creativity that the film actually had and talked about the different aspects of the plot vs. the subject matter and Mike was how he always is about everything...."it wasn't made at least 20 years ago so its fucking garbage."
Mike's right though, Covenant was absolute garbage. That's why they're not making any more alien films. It was so bad that it literally killed the franchise.
the only transformers i ever cares about was Beast Wars.
very limited on humans, you just watch the robots war.
ryan phillips Beast wars was cool. Love that episode with the golden disc showing the original megatrons message.
I actually liked this movie
I've seen millions of star trek episodes with them walking around on unknown planets without any kind of helmets or anything, why is no one ever complaining about that? Could anyone please explain this to me? And it's not just Star Trek, it's basically the entire science fiction genre. Why are people all of a sudden acting like this is the dumbest thing anyone has ever done in a movie?
If you saw them you know already. They scan the planets before they go down to see if it has an atmosphere they can breathe.
It's because they had people wearing helmets and then taking them off. If you look at Star Trek, they have people not wearing helmets but they also have aliens everywhere who all look like humans and can have children with humans, they have people with psychic powers, the computers look like old mainframes from the 1950s, the ships all go on the same plane for no reason, everyone just ignores that because it's not what the story is about.
@@kennymendoza1581 they don't wear helmets in alien covenant.
Mike hated it, James liked it. I agree with Mike. It's a mess of a movie
TheWinni2011 I actually liked it because I took it for what it was and where the plot was going. Like everyone was so mad cuz of the whole prometheus thing and I get that but that part of the story is not going to be explained I feel. Its going to be what the origin of the aliens use to be like this unknown thing in the universe that we may never get an answer to. And thats cool I dont mind that. This movie to me was a pretty cool follow up to Prometheus
David saved this movie. Most Alien movies are just the typical "something went wrong, now theres zombies" plot. And this movie has that ultra stupid plot until david shows up and stop it. From then on, its a much better movie, witht the intrigue of david there, and its not just stupid humans getting cut down.
Mike is so stuck in the past
TheWinni2011 Genius movie
It’s so fucking horrible... one of the biggest disappointments in years. There’s no way this movie wasn’t given up on half way through filming.
James, those RUclips Videos you couldn't find are called "Alien: Covenant | Prologue: The Crossing" and "Alien: Covenant | Prologue: Last Supper".
And "The Red Shoe Diaries"
they really need to do a james & mike monday on alien isolation
Came here to say this. I thoroughly enjoyed that game. Sad to hear the development team was broken up.
James and Mike seemed to have really awkward chemistry in this video.
Justin Lynch I think James liked it that's why and Mike didn't
Dan Moreno lol so true
Yeah I got that impression too, and wasnt sure if thats why they seemed awkward. Seemed like James liked it and Mike was railing so hard against it he didnt wanna say anything..I like Prometheus so Im sure I'll like COvenant
Yeah well just look at these comments about James liking Prometheus. I mean people are entitled to their opinions and I think generally James is pretty spot on
It was just sexual tension
The flute scene was epic. Not even Picard in TNG did it that well
I quite liked it, and I agree with James: you can say it's a good film, without having to cheapen the untouchable originals while doing so.
There's a compromise that a lot of people forget about.
@JMFS yes... That is what I said..?
I was disappointed that they didn't go further with the engineers like they promised at the end Prometheus , instead we have one quick scene of David killing them almost like they wanna be done with the engineers closing that plot line and just have aliens now, but who knows maybe they will be explored in future films i think that would be entertaining .But in the end i was entertained during the film.
james cobham Exactly. There's a lot of questions about the Engineers that I want answered because of Prometheus; and that's why Prometheus is so brilliant.
They cant expand the engineers story because the last engineer was killed in Prometheus thus not being able to explain also the movie is about the Aliens not about engineers. The engineers was just a reason for the Alien story to kick off, humans find advanced civilization in space they find advanced civilization(engineers) but stumble across another species(Aliens) in space that begins to spread and now its up to humans to stop it from getting into evil humans who want to use the Alien species as a weapon
This movie was worse than Prometheus, it has nothing on Alien 3.
Nah better than Prometheus
I would rather watch Exodus: Gods and Kings over Alien: Covenant even though it was better than Prometheus.
Nothing wrong with him. He got good taste unlike you.
Damn right
agree prometheus much muuuuch better
I agree so much more with Mike than with James, no offense. Also hated the focus on Androids. Angry Joe said it right, it's David: Covenant
I actually liked this movie because it was a direct sequel to Prometheus and successfully tied Prometheus into the Alien franchise. I also think the way they tied both movies together was done quite well and seemed to go over lots of people's heads.
Of course I didn't think they were anywhere near as good as Alien or Aliens, but I don't really expect those movies to be topped. I expected to be entertained and immersed and these movies did that, much more-so than the other movies of the franchise (Alien 3 and Resurrection).
I understand why some people wouldn't like it but I'm not too into Sci-Fi most of the time anyways. This fits my Sci-fi tastes quite well. I think as a couple, Prometheus and Covenant are a solid duo.
Two of the last movies are about an evil android slapped with the word "Alien" on it. We expected it to be about the engineers and aliens, not about an evil android and some overly stupid humans. What a terrible waste of opportunity.
There aren't any Xenomorphs in this movie. Neomorphs and a Protomorph, why doesnt anyone get this? It's not the perfect organism yet.
Did it even get mentioned in the movie?
The friendship between these two is admirable
The movie was just meh for me. Very predictable all the way through including the end twist. on it's own it was just an ok action/horror, but as part of the Alien franchise it was definitely below par.
Yeah. Predictable. It's like a common alien movie. Loved prometheus better.
M every movie after aliens was below par. It's like after the second movie they ran out of good ideas
Every movie after Aliens was NOT directed by James Cameron. Thats why they will always suck in comparison.
Very much how I felt. A lot of the suspense was gone due to the heavy foreshadowing and a lot of the action/mayhem being shown in the trailers.
Also serious comment: I feel like there is a lot more Giger in the prequels though. People are not talking about about the Geiger. Shawls dead body was a Giger panting. The art on the walls were Giger. They are giving us the Giger. That you have to respect that about the newer films.
The YT video that sets up the crew for Alien Covenant is called Alien Covenant last supper, if anyone wants to see it.
Some words you never want to hear in the same sentence;
"Alien" and "attempt"
this movie was sooo disapointing....i primarily got into the ALIEN series to learn the back story of the xenomorphs and who created them so when prometheus came out they did that for me and i ENJOYED prometheus even tho alot of people hated it...but then this movie covenent was supposed to tell us more about the engineers and tell us how they created humans - well this movie FAILED at all of that...this was such a disapointment this movie was all about david and HIS creating story and solved nothing about the back story about tthe engineers
"Supposed" to my ass, you are just butthurt you couldn't predict it
can we get a Resident Evil series review by James
@James how long do u spend everyday on youtube to better understand your audience?
"I thought it was kind of a mess"
my thoughts exactly.
search for "alien covenant last supper"
What made me appreciate this film was for a lit class I wrote a research paper on Ozymandias, the poem mentioned in the film and the connotations and references from Ozymandias made the film mean alot more
"Correct me if I'm wrong, you know more about the Alien movies than me, but isn't there like an alien or something, something like that?"
The instant David decided to cut his hair...anybody with a brain knew the ending.
'face hugger' is such a cutesy euphemism for what's really happening there...like the little bugger should get reported to human resources instead of SVU
These movies have all been generally visually fantastic, but they keep repeating the same character mistakes to the point of frustration.
*you know a movie aint good, if there start TRANSFOMERS COMPARISONS XD*
Thats the weird thing about a lot of movies (and games as well) the trailers just look better than the actual films themselves, even though they are just incoherent snippets of a film usually lol
i think alien and terminator are both a good bit better than their sequels. I think the sequels are among the best sequels ever made, but still there's a larger gap b/w the original films and the sequels than people realize...I think especially with Terminator 2 but also with Aliens that this is the case.
Like the Tom Ford film Nocturnal Animals, Alien Covenant is the means to destroying the Second World War, cancelling its existence. This is because Alien Covenant is a story about the dichotomy of an original needing to destroy its replication, but not having the power to
alien covenant last supper and alien covenant prologue are RUclips exclusives.
Yes mike about a day or so passes with the facehugger. At least the good alien movies, ignoring avp and avpr
Only a few to several hours this was stated in resurrection. It takes a day for it to grow to a full xenomorph after bursting out of someone.
I liked it for what it is
*alien movie with new ideas comes out*
fans: oh NOH!!! they ruined the movie!!
*alien movie with classic ideas*
fans: oh NoH!! Same old thing!! Predictable!!
Have you thought about that they might not be the excact same fans?
Mike is right, when John Hurt got a face hugger in the first movie, he was quarantined until it released its grasp, and was eating with the crew when it burst out, days at least.
Heck, I think one of the biggest scrapped ideas was James Franco's performance in the movie. There's a scene in the trailer where you can tell he would be playing a key role but for whatever reason, they torch him in the pod and thats it! You can tell he would have had a bigger role because they opted for a a cameo bit in the picture frame for like 17 seconds… lmao, laaaaame.
Woulda been better to see it was Franco before he was torched. Coulda been funnier than Segal getting pitched out of the plane in Executive Decision.
they did that with Bryan Cranston in that Godzilla movie
Sheesh James, you have an entire legion of fans at your disposal! If you needed to find a video, you should've just Tweeted that you were looking for it, we woulda hooked you up!
When did James become the thin one?
At least one of our ancestors got some screen time.
I hope James Franco gets an Oscar for his lengthy role
The Neill Blomkamp movie would have been awesome. It will probably not happen.. :(
You're talking out of your ass… Then explain why, Chappie and Elysium were such utter pieces of shit movies?
And how could HE have made this movie better when he's only made one good film thus far in life.
At least the basic plot was not a carbon copy of the original.
Emmanuel Correia the movie was fucken terrible...whats to like?
Frank Borrego district 9 wasn't just a "good" movie
It was a fucking masterpiece
eh, District 9 is one of my all time favorite sci-fi movies, but Elysium and Chappie were pretty mediocre. Dunno what happened, but Blomkamp can't write a decent script anymore. I thought Chappie would be batter with Terri Tatchell being a co-writer again, but nope. Honestly including fucking Die Antwood and having Hugh Jackman being this ridiculous 1 dimensional bad guy is what ruined the whole movie for me. It's a shame because I liked Chappie by himself, and the CGI of him was mind blowing. SO in other words, I doubt Blomkamp would have saved this Alien movie.
It's a mess and that is not wrong. Nothing more to see folks.
I get what you're trying to say about 'shit hitting the fan' too early in the movie, and I tend to agree with that, but you're not really catching the timing of modern theaters. When I watched the premiere in my town, there was this bunch of dyed noisy unrespectful not so young adults who were making all kinds of noise and comments, laughing at their occurrences, who couldn't do anything but shut up after 'that' scene happened. They had to remain silent in shock and awe because of the remarkful tragedy that just happened.
Ridley literally disciplined those morons into sitting down and watching the movie. I'll be forever thankful for such a move.
The facehugger in Covenant is fresh and new so it can hatch a lot faster opposed to the original movie where they’ve been lying dormant for possibly centuries
Did anyone else notice that Walter basically had the same voice as Bishop? At least it seemed like Fassbender was basically mimicking the same voice. I thought that was a really cool nice touch.
James and Mike need to do a colab with RLM
They should've just made a comedy of it with Franco and McBride in the movie.
so they find space weed on the planet? :P
buffalo stu they had to go to Juniper for space weed
buffalo stu Yes..Much better movie..Plus Actually kill those Xenomorphs. They are not that strong.
rather the movie was bad or just ok....mike and James can do movie reviews just right...better then that AJ movie reviews.
Oscar agreed ,but his games reviews are on. point
ohyeah true AJ's video game reviews r good actually
The "Bayformers" movies, is like if the "rock jock" version of the Transformers theme song, that came out when Rodimus joined the cast, spontaneously turned into a movie franchise. Lol.
Thanks Mike!! You've summed it up for me in one sentence!! It looked more like a Sci-fi android movie rather than an Alien horror one .. that was also my feeling after I'd watched it
Can you review spaceballs
Oddly enough Prometheus is my favorite "Alien" movie while Covenant is my worst. It was even the worst movie I saw all that year.
Isn't below par a good thing? At least with Golf.
One very interesting theme that they totally get rid off, or forget, is that the alien is interesting because it's arguably smarter than the humans. That's never the case in this film. The alien has been dumbed down for some reason. Remember when the main character lures the alien into that big vehicle before pushing it out of the air lock? That seemed so easy. The alien should have been smarter than to fall for that.
Just so you guys know, there is an Alien: Covenant prequel novel coming out, in August. It is going to be about events that transpired right before the movie, and really delve into the stories of all the characters who were seen in the movie.
C'mon it wasn't _that_ bad. Fassbender's double role was really the most enjoyable part of the movie.
Along with the original, this is my favorite Alien film. It’s a solid horror movie as much as a sci fi- and (at places) action movie. The atmosphere is so unsettling; the way the planet feels both so vast and “alive” yet completely devoid of life - it just gets to me. The awesome soundtrack plays a big part in this as well. David is a great villian with interesting motives; played amazingly by Fassbender. In a lot of ways I find him even scarier than the creatures. Not that it lacking in that department - the infestation/incubation scenes with the crew I found especially unnerving (and repulsive), yet I couldn’t look away. And the final showdown(s) with the xenomorph at the end? Come on - that’s grade A Alien material.
couldn't agree with you more
@@Zatzzo Thank you - glad to know that at least one person on the planet does :D
alien 3 is honestly underrated, people act like its as bad as resurrection but its a pretty well made film aside from the terrible special effects on the alien
wouldnt say its a great film but i would put it above covenant, there was almost nothing liked about this film but the cinematography
The time delay after a facehugger gets you is kind of critical. It's what set up the iconic scene of the original movie. Without the gestation time and the recovery of the host you wouldn't have the whole crew eating around a table to witness the xenomorph bursting out of the chest. Instead it would have happened in the med-bay with one or two witness.
The way Dr. Shaw died by the David's hand was really disturbing. It would have been such an interesting continuation on how David's and Shaw's relationship grew until finale where she is killed and the engineers destroyed. A psychological thriller about how David descended into complete madness and disregard of any life that is deemed by him "Beneath him" (Waylon's notion)
We can debate about the quality of each sequel but I enjoyed this one the least of all. AVP not included.
That awkward moment when "Life" was a better Alien movie than Alien Covenant was.
bullshit
Have you seen life? It's actually very good.
i'm at a loss for words here
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AvP 1 was great action movie to my mind, it doesn't pretend to be philosphical or smth, it is what it is AvP action with some ppl invovled, but it was GREAT.
"I think they were on a cargo ship or something..." Did you even pay attention to the movie?
There is plenty of evidence that ships in the Alien universe travel faster than light.
Ripley's shock at how long she'd been in cryo in Aliens and mourning not seeing her daughter grow up being the most pertinent.
It would indicate that cryosleep is not used because the trips take so long, but because it saves on supplies that are needed when they are doing their main jobs.
Just sayin', Mike.
Was it just me or was Prometheus a lot like Jason X but better?
Yes but worse. At least Jason X is enjoyable schlock.
The point about the movie getting too sad too quick is really interesting. I've noticed this theme in a lot of new movies lately.
To name a few; Godzilla. Huge emotional arc at the very beginning involving Bryan Cranstons character which ends with him dying (and btw, alot of the promo material was about him and he dies immediately?). Its just too much too early, I didnt get to have any feelings about him or the situation before it was already over, and I was just left annoyed about how the movie was trying to force me to feel sad. Man of Steel. Epic emotional CG story about superman's parents right off the bat. Are we really supposed to care this much about these characters we only met two seconds ago?
Oh cmon, Alien 3 wasn't that bad, nor was Resurrection.
There a little silly and stupid but entertaining and thats all that matters
Actually fun fact the sequel to aliens with sigorny weaver was by a different director but ridely Scott decided he wanted to make a trilogy out of Prometheus so after alien covenant the next one is alien awakening, and since ridely Scott decided to make a trilogy fox scrapped the sequel to aliens by micheal blompkamp, sorry I probably butchered the names but that's how it actually happened.
What'd you think about the Castlevania series trailer on Netflix?
To the youtube commenter it may concern. Your opinion matters and it's equally important as anyone elses, even if it's illogical and/or subjective. All of the internet needs to hear your opinion.
Iroquois Plisken It's pointed towards you guys. The commenters, moron.