Alien: Covenant - 2017 - Ridley Scott

[Sabreman]

For me, with something so steeped in my personal history as the Alien series there's no way I'm not going to watch the latest one. I may not pay to see it at the cinema, but I'll certainly always watch them even if they're universally panned.

[futureshock]

Allen's Top Ten Seven

 

1. Alien

2. Aliens

3. Alien Isolation

4. Alien Ressurection

5. Alien 3

6. Prometheus

7. Covenant 

[Commander Jameson]

1= Alien

1= Aliens

3 Alien 3

4 Alien vs Predator

5 Alien Resurrection

6 Prometheus

7 Alien Covenant

8 AVP Requiem

 

 

[earlymodernsteve]

18 minutes ago, Commander Jameson said:

1= Alien

1= Aliens

3 Alien 3

4 Alien vs Predator

5 Alien Resurrection

6 Prometheus

7 AVP Requiem

8 - Literally any other scifi or alien related movie ever.

18 minutes ago, Commander Jameson said:

9 by default - Alien Covenant

 

 

 

[Guest]

What the hell was this.

 

Nothing really happened bar a load of disjointed sequences, and it wasn't frightening at all.

 

I don't get quite how anyone thought this edited together well.

[Alex W.]

Thinking back over it, the closest comparison in terms of tone would be those internet projects where everyone gets 60 seconds of Star Wars to remake and they put it together into one movie.

 

I still think it has tremendous (unintentional) entertainment value and will some day have a cult following for being completely barmy.

[Hexx]

On 9/7/2017 at 13:35, futureshock said:

Allen's Top Ten Seven

 

1. Alien

2. Aliens

3. Alien Isolation

4. Alien Ressurection

5. Alien 3

6. Prometheus

7. Covenant 

 

Ignoring Prometheus and the Isolation...

 

There are now officially more bad Alien movies (3, R, C) than good (Alien, Aliens)

 

[MDY]

15 minutes ago, Hexx said:

 

Ignoring Prometheus and the Isolation...

 

There are now officially more bad Alien movies (3, R, C) than good (Alien, Aliens)

 

 

I wish I'd ignored Prometheus at the cinema..

 

[Girth Certificate]

2 hours ago, Hexx said:

 

Ignoring Prometheus and the Isolation...

 

There are now officially more bad Alien movies (3, R, C) than good (Alien, Aliens)

 

 

also known as the 'every franchise ever' ratio

[McFly]

On 07/09/2017 at 13:35, futureshock said:

Allen's Top Ten Seven

 

1. Alien

2. Aliens

3. Alien Isolation

4. Alien Ressurection

5. Alien 3

6. Prometheus

7. Covenant 

 

AvP isnt terrible its ok for easy watching but Requiem is garbage and ruins two iconic beasties  i got an Alien 3 poster with Sega Power and it gave me nightmares but somehow Xenomorphs have been watered down so much they barely register, unless i felt one drooling on my shoulders then pouncing on me

 

I havent seen Prometheus for a while but it was boring from what i recall. Disappointed about the chat around Covenant.

[Phelan]

I tried to watch this on the plane. Managed around 35 minutes I think before turning it off.

Got to the part where the woman comedy pratfalls on blood when a baby alien sees her. Dumb as fuck.

[futureshock]

9 hours ago, Phelan said:

 Managed around 35 minutes

 

 

Those were some of the better minutes, too. You should watch the rest just to see what happens when you give three writers a third of a film each.

 

On 13/09/2017 at 21:33, McFly said:

 

AvP isnt terrible its ok for easy watching but Requiem is garbage

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I haven't -and probably never will- get round to watching the AvP films. I'd rather just play Isolation again.

 

 

[JoeK]

1 minute ago, futureshock said:

 

Those were some of the better minutes, too. You should watch the rest just to see what happens when you give three writers a third of a film each.

 

 

I haven't -and probably never will- get round to watching the AvP films. I'd rather just play Isolation again.

 

 

 

I'm almost positive that the AvP movies are better than Covenant.

 

 

[K]

AvP is not a million miles away from Covenant in terms of tone or quality - it plays similarly fast and loose with the Alien mythos, and it's similarly overwrought, although Covenant goes for camp horror and weirdness, whereas AvP goes for straight action. Both films are the kind of thing you'd start watching at 10pm on ITV2 on a Saturday, and inexplicably end up seeing through to the end. They're classic satiscraptory entertainment.

 

AvP2 has no redeeming features whatsoever, and is murky, unimaginative, and above all incredibly boring.

[marsh]

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inexplicably end up seeing through to the end

 

Nah, your pushing the boundaries there.

[sandman]

3 hours ago, K said:

AvP is not a million miles away from Covenant in terms of tone or quality - it plays similarly fast and loose with the Alien mythos, and it's similarly overwrought, although Covenant goes for camp horror and weirdness, whereas AvP goes for straight action. Both films are the kind of thing you'd start watching at 10pm on ITV2 on a Saturday, and inexplicably end up seeing through to the end. They're classic satiscraptory entertainment.

 

AvP2 has no redeeming features whatsoever, and is murky, unimaginative, and above all incredibly boring.

Agreed.  Watched AVP last month and is was ok.  AVP 2 is an unmitigated disaster of a film

[Phelan]

@futureshock I’d rather waste my life on other stuff. It’s fucking terrible. 

[Spacehost]

I have a soft spot for AvP2 because it's a trashy, dumb throwback to the sort of bad 80s monster features I'd watch as a teenager. AvP was just dull, AvP2 is just pure, violent garbage.

[Treble]

Whenever anyone says, "It's one of the worst things I've ever seen" the predictable reaction tends to be, "Huh, you've clearly not seen that many films". 

 

Well, I've seen a fucking shitload of films and AVP2 is one of the worst things I've ever seen. 

[JoeK]

Well, it ranks up there with Kevin Costner's 'The Postman' and the Avengers movie...the one where Sean Connery dresses up in a teddy bear costume.

 

Actually, thinking about it both of those were probably worse.

 

Sean in a teddy bear costume...

 

God in heaven. 

[SweatyTravolta]

The Postman is infinitely better than this piece of shit.

[Triple A]

Just saw this.

Actually quite liked it! One or two glaring procedure-related holes aside.

Now I'm going to read the thread and in an hour or so end up hating the movie lol.

 

EDIT: you bastards! now I hate this thing! :-)

 

As a previous poster mentioned, LIFE runs rings around this movie and I have similar feelings about it.

[NecroMorrius]

I think that Predator film with Alien Brody in was better than this.

[Triple A]

Kinda wish I had read the novelisation of this instead. I'm picking up that the novelisation addresses some of the issues with the movie, i.e.;

 

Q: Why did they take off their helmets?
A: In the novelisation they do extensive testing and find zero pathogens on the planet. When they land, they stay helmeted up until Walter does an extensive set of scans locally. Then later in the book David explains that the Engineer WMD is designed to be dormant - even if scanned directly it can evade most advanced methods of detection.

[Triple A]

Did anyone here read the novelisation and in particular, know when it was written vs the movie production timeline?

[Mr Cochese]

Oh yeah, of course I've read the novelisation of Alien Covenant. I came out of the cinema and went right into a book shop to ask for it.

[DirkCrisis]

Well if Covenant has given us one thing, it is a broader acceptance that AVP 1 & 2 are now part of this whole Alien mess. 

 

 

[Triple A]

46 minutes ago, Mr Cochese said:

Oh yeah, of course I've read the novelisation of Alien Covenant. I came out of the cinema and went right into a book shop to ask for it.

way to shut down discussion on a discussion forum, cockcheese

[max renn]

3 hours ago, Moz said:

I think that Predator film with Alien Brody in was better than this.

 

oooooof that's really harsh

[Gambit]

I actually liked Predators!  A Yakuza having a swordfight with a Predator.......fucking scenes.