Alien: Covenant

[mirth]

Good news for those of you who liked Covenant. Almost 18 minutes of additional footage coming with the blu-ray

http://www.syfy.com/2017-7-4/alien-covenant-ridley-scott-blu-ray

[Sir Slash]

Maybe it'll explain who stole the crew of the Covenant's brains causing them to do so many dumb things.  ???

[JudgeDredd]

Good news for those of you who liked Covenant. Almost 18 minutes of additional footage coming with the blu-ray

http://www.syfy.com/2017-7-4/alien-covenant-ridley-scott-blu-ray

cool  O0

[JasonPratt]

Good news for those of you who liked Covenant. Almost 18 minutes of additional footage coming with the blu-ray

http://www.syfy.com/2017-7-4/alien-covenant-ridley-scott-blu-ray

Not surprising: all that 'promotional' footage wasn't just going to languish around.

[Jarhead0331]

Did anyone actually "like" this movie? I finally saw it, and with great disappointment and sadness, I must conclude that it totally sucked.

[mirth]

JD liked it. And I think B_C did too. Not sure if Gus has seen it yet.

I'm with you, it sucked. It was predictable and boring.

[Sir Slash]

Good but not great. I'll take it over another Transformers.

[Gusington]

Haven't seen it yet.

[BanzaiCat]

It wasn't bad. Fassbender made the movie - without him it would have been utter crap. It was still nowhere near Alien nor Aliens in quality and story. They've had plenty of chances to reach that bar and have f'd it up repeatedly, even though there are a lot of quality scripts that go into the development hell pile every year, and no doubt there are some Alien-related ones that might have been good were it not for typical Hollywood corporate bullshite.

I'd have to say Covenant was around Alien 3 on the scale. Not bad. Not great, but entertaining enough I guess.

[SirAndrewD]

I thought it had a lot of wasted potential.  It was better edited and put together than Prometheus, but I missed the world building aspect of the previous film.  I thought there were some good and tense moments, but the Xeno was a bit of a letdown and felt tacked on and over-amped.  I liked Fassbender and the themes of creation and parenthood, but felt they were underdeveloped.   

The crew were morons, but then again that's not unique to any Alien film.  As much as I love Aliens, the sheer amount of tactical stupidity that results in the Marines being stranded and under siege is every bit as bad as what's in the later films. 

It's a mixed bag for me.  Not a badly made movie, but not something I'm going to enjoy and watch over and over like the first two films. 

[Gusington]

Someone say Alien 3?

[mirth]

That sucked too.

[Gusington]

I enjoyed it. As you know.

[mirth]

I've heard that once or twice before.

[Jarhead0331]

They have lost any semblance of continuity between the first few films and the last two. It no longer makes any sense why there is a derelict Engineer ship on LV426 with alien eggs on board.






SPOILER ALERT
Covenant takes place in 2093, which means David wiped the Engineer civilization out approximately 10 years earlier in 2083. Yet, the original Alien film took place in 2122, 29 years after the events of Covenant.  So if David destroyed the Engineers with their own bio-weapons in or about 2083, and then subsequently engineered the Aliens that we are familiar with from the earlier films, how the hell did an ancient engineer ship crash land on LV426 with Alien eggs on board, if their civilization had long ago been terminated before the aliens had even been created?  Additionally, the gestation time of the Alien, as well as the growth cycle of the Alien after birth is drastically sped up. The damn thing went from spore to baby alien in what seemed like anything from 15 minutes to an hour and then once born, to full size in minutes.
SPOILER ALERT   






Plot loopholes and inconsistencies aside, the technology is nothing like it was in the original film, yet they are separated by less than 30 years. Also, its 2093 and these jackasses are still using AR15s and M4 type rifles with quadrails? I mean. $hit, the military is looking to replace that rifle now, and its only 2017.

Overall, I thought the screenplay and writing was poor, and various reactions of the characters to events totally implausible. I won't get into specifics to avoid further spoilers.

Two thumbs down.