Alien: Covenant

[Gusington]

Are you calling me a stupid nancy boy?

[mirth]

I've taken each film as they come from a story and cinematic experience

Me too. This one felt boring. No real tension or excitement. Aside from Fassbender, I thought the characters were uninteresting. Prometheus had better characters, imo. Even if it was a lesser film because of the sheer stupidity of those characters.

[mirth]

Are you calling me a stupid nancy boy?

Never!

[Gusington]

Just want to make sure your insults are accurate.

OK so why will I love it?

[mirth]

Because you love everything Aliens, Francine.

[Gusington]

Call me Shirley.

I don't like everything Aliens - I did not like Resurrection!

[mirth]

Well, you should have.

[BanzaiCat]

Resurrection was number 3 on my Alien movie list, behind Alien and Aliens. That's less a vote of confidence than it is saying the rest of the movies are shite pretty much. ;D

Yes, Gus, Alien 3 is the bee's knees, I know. I should re-watch it. I tried a month or so ago and got about 30 minutes into it before I had to stop. I tried!

Resurrection was pretty good, and seemed to have fun and not take itself too seriously (that would probably be Whedon's influence, I expect), but that last scene with her doing the wriggly-piggly with the alien/human thing was just...absolutely...stunningly...dumb. And later I found out that that's something Sigorney's been wanting to do for several movies now - have a scene where she's having sex with an Alien.  ???

[Gusington]

Weaver is still hot. And MUCH hotter now that I know the above.

[mirth]

I really wish Whedon had the experience/pull back them to have written and directed Resurrection

Screenwriter Joss Whedon was unhappy with the final product. When asked in 2005 how the film differed from the script he had written, Whedon responded:

    "It wasn't a question of doing everything differently, although they changed the ending; it was mostly a matter of doing everything wrong. They said the lines...mostly...but they said them all wrong. And they cast it wrong. And they designed it wrong. And they scored it wrong. They did everything wrong that they could possibly do. There's actually a fascinating lesson in filmmaking, because everything that they did reflects back to the script or looks like something from the script, and people assume that, if I hated it, then they'd changed the script...but it wasn't so much that they'd changed the script; it's that they just executed it in such a ghastly fashion as to render it almost unwatchable."

[BanzaiCat]

Weaver is still hot.

She was hot in Working Girl.

[mirth]

Weaver is still hot.

She was hot in Working Girl.

Yeah she was. Hotter still in Galaxy Quest.

[BanzaiCat]

^ +10

[BanzaiCat]

Well...I found a better quality upload and checked it out. The older one gave me headaches. I powered through the first half and then the movie really...took off, actually.

Fassbender makes the movie. Utterly. Without him, it's just another horror-in-space flick and an unimpressive one at that. I saw the ending coming a mile away too (their editing tricks don't work on me, dammit). Still...it was a really good ride at the end. Mirth, I recommend you give it another shot, if you can find a high-quality version.

[mirth]

Mirth, I recommend you give it another shot, if you can find a high-quality version.

It wasn't a quality issue with what I watched (though the quality was poor). And I did skip to the end and watch a fair amount of it. Still thought it was dull.

You're correct about Fassbender though. He is excellent and his performance almost saved it for me. Almost.