Alien: Covenant

[mirth]

http://www.denofgeek.com/uk/movies/alien/49933/alien-covenant-where-its-box-office-leaves-the-series

[Gusington]

Ugh - I must concede defeat, then...once Terminator: Genisys is mentioned, it's game over. Man.

[JudgeDredd]

I don't get the hate, I've got to be honest.

It was enjoyable enough for me to put up with going to a very expensive cinema with people who don't understand etiquette.

I understand peoples issues with "the universe" - but it's not fussed me and as a movie, it was very enjoyable.

[mirth]

I don't think it's hate for this movie. It's fatigue with the franchise and this movie just wasn't good enough to overcome that fatigue.

[Gusington]

It's mirth. He's just not that into it.

[mirth]

I'm full of hate.

[Gusington]

With just enough room for bitterness.

[mirth]

Like a Xenomorph.

[Sir Slash]

I liked it but it should've had more boobs. I'm just saying what everybody's thinking.  :wow:

[mirth]

That Alien Queen, she had a set on her.

[Sir Slash]

Well if you've got a million off-spring to feed.....   I bet those little buggers hurt when they get big enough to bite your nipples. I'm sorry, can I say 'nipples'?

[JasonPratt]

Dongles?

I don't know that it's franchise fatigue per se -- two movies is hardly enough by itself to create franchise fatigue, considering how out-of-the-spotlight the series has been before then. And Prometheus was barely an Alien franchise movie.

I think the writing styles have had a LOT more to do with blowback; shallow pretentious twaddle (with or without Damon Lindleof) soaking a plot that needs flagrant anti-logic to even move forward (with or without DL). To that you could add, that to non-Christians the recent two movies (with or without DL) must look like highly inept vague evangelizing (because Ridley Scott has been working through an attempt to understand and deal positively with 'religion' in recent decades, but still barely understands what he's trying to talk about), whereas to Judeo-Christians the movies look insultingly cheap to how they/we actually live and believe our faiths (because ditto.)

So while the two recent films look great (mostly), the many levels of dumbassery annoy enough people on enough levels to lead to a significant level of being tired of this crap already.

[mirth]

Regardless of reason for the waning interest, the series needs a rest and a fresh direction.

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

High school musical?

[mirth]

Meh. Been done.