Incidentally I've been re-watching the Alien franchise (although I still haven't seen Alien 3). It's nice to have a whole franchise where the best survivors are badass women. And not in a "okay,...
Incidentally I've been re-watching the Alien franchise (although I still haven't seen Alien 3). It's nice to have a whole franchise where the best survivors are badass women. And not in a "okay, here's a little strong woman - as a treat" kind of way. Anyway, I had no idea this new movie was coming out.
Something I find surprising is that Prometheus is much higher rated on IMDb than Alien: Covenant. I think they're very close to comparable in terms of quality, which is to say "good, not great". I expect Romulus will pick up with the colony that David was setting up to infect with Xenomorphs.
Nah, Covenant is significantly worse and much slower in pace. Romulus takes place in between Alien and Aliens. It's a quasi-reboot.
Something I find surprising is that Prometheus is much higher rated on IMDb than Alien: Covenant. I think they're very close to comparable in terms of quality, which is to say "good, not great".
Nah, Covenant is significantly worse and much slower in pace.
I expect Romulus will pick up with the colony that David was setting up to infect with Xenomorphs.
Romulus takes place in between Alien and Aliens. It's a quasi-reboot.
Honestly good. For a franchise that started as scifi survivor horror against a powerful enemy that can be outsmarted, it devolved really fast into generic scifi bullshit I didn't care about much....
it's a quasi-reboot
Honestly good. For a franchise that started as scifi survivor horror against a powerful enemy that can be outsmarted, it devolved really fast into generic scifi bullshit I didn't care about much. The original formula is good. Aliens was good because it was the horror actioned up.
I guess worse is subjective. Slower in pace is fine with me. I'll watch ~4 hour epics like Doctor Zhivago or Lawrence of Arabia glued to the screen. Interesting.
Nah, Covenant is significantly worse and much slower in pace.
I guess worse is subjective. Slower in pace is fine with me. I'll watch ~4 hour epics like Doctor Zhivago or Lawrence of Arabia glued to the screen.
Romulus takes place in between Alien and Aliens. It's a quasi-reboot.
Yeah, that is strange. I think my overall rating of the two is probably comparable but for different reasons. The characters were dumber and more annoying in Prometheus but the lore was much...
Something I find surprising is that Prometheus is much higher rated on IMDb than Alien: Covenant. I think they're very close to comparable in terms of quality, which is to say "good, not great".
Yeah, that is strange. I think my overall rating of the two is probably comparable but for different reasons. The characters were dumber and more annoying in Prometheus but the lore was much dumber in Covenant. I thought Covenant made even more of a mess of the Alien lore than Prometheus did. David creating the xenomorphs didn't make any sense to me at all. For a supposed improvement and "the perfect life form," I didn't really see how the classic xenomorph was in any way better than the over the top proto-xenomorphs of Prometheus and earlier in Covenant.
Curiously, I was also far more disgusted by Prometheus than Covenant, for some reason. Which is weird because I think the gore was worse in Covenant. I generally don't watch horror movies but I have a soft spot for Alien, in large part because of how good the first two are but also because they're sci-fi. But I'm not there to be grossed out — I'd prefer more fear and less disgust out of Alien movies. I will be curious to see where this goes with things, but I suspect it will lean on disgust over fear, which seems to be the overall trend.
I guess the final xenomorph is more bullet resistant. The size difference doesn’t seem to matter much. David’s reasoning seemed to just be down to a god complex. It didn’t make sense, but it also...
I guess the final xenomorph is more bullet resistant. The size difference doesn’t seem to matter much.
David’s reasoning seemed to just be down to a god complex. It didn’t make sense, but it also didn’t make a lot of sense in Prometheus either. He seemed unnecessarily evil. As do the engineers. It’s just like… they both want to kill everything and that shock is supposed to be enough to be interesting.
One thing I always saw in discussions about Alien is the slogan "Less is more". The idea that in horror if you only show rare glimpses of threats the viewers imagination makes it far more vivid....
One thing I always saw in discussions about Alien is the slogan "Less is more". The idea that in horror if you only show rare glimpses of threats the viewers imagination makes it far more vivid.
They certainly clearly showed a lot of the aliens in the trailer, I wonder if that was cherry picked for it or if they've given up on that concept altogether.
I trust the director tbh. There's a difference between using SFX to show parts of an alien that is partially in the dark and an alien in bright sunlight on a planet like in Alien Covenant.
I trust the director tbh. There's a difference between using SFX to show parts of an alien that is partially in the dark and an alien in bright sunlight on a planet like in Alien Covenant.
"Less is more" should apply to the plot of the Alien franchise more than whether you see the creatures. Prometheus made the lore way too unnecessarily complicated.
"Less is more" should apply to the plot of the Alien franchise more than whether you see the creatures. Prometheus made the lore way too unnecessarily complicated.
Maybe I'm in the minority, but that trailer completely turned me off of the movie. I know "everything is a remix", but that looked so derivative and unoriginal and like a generic horror movie with...
Maybe I'm in the minority, but that trailer completely turned me off of the movie. I know "everything is a remix", but that looked so derivative and unoriginal and like a generic horror movie with an "Alien" veneer. Facehuggers overpowering people and pulling them down into water? Shining a light through someone's torso and being able to see inside them (while a chest-burster flails around inside them without apparently causing any discomfort)? Nah fam, so not buying this.
That's been my take on almost all of these. Alien is a franchise that should have plenty of material to explore, and yet it's just "are we remaking alien or aliens today?" on the docket.
That's been my take on almost all of these.
Alien is a franchise that should have plenty of material to explore, and yet it's just "are we remaking alien or aliens today?" on the docket.
Incidentally I've been re-watching the Alien franchise (although I still haven't seen Alien 3). It's nice to have a whole franchise where the best survivors are badass women. And not in a "okay, here's a little strong woman - as a treat" kind of way. Anyway, I had no idea this new movie was coming out.
Something I find surprising is that Prometheus is much higher rated on IMDb than Alien: Covenant. I think they're very close to comparable in terms of quality, which is to say "good, not great". I expect Romulus will pick up with the colony that David was setting up to infect with Xenomorphs.
Nah, Covenant is significantly worse and much slower in pace.
Romulus takes place in between Alien and Aliens. It's a quasi-reboot.
Honestly good. For a franchise that started as scifi survivor horror against a powerful enemy that can be outsmarted, it devolved really fast into generic scifi bullshit I didn't care about much. The original formula is good. Aliens was good because it was the horror actioned up.
I guess worse is subjective. Slower in pace is fine with me. I'll watch ~4 hour epics like Doctor Zhivago or Lawrence of Arabia glued to the screen.
Interesting.
Yeah, that is strange. I think my overall rating of the two is probably comparable but for different reasons. The characters were dumber and more annoying in Prometheus but the lore was much dumber in Covenant. I thought Covenant made even more of a mess of the Alien lore than Prometheus did. David creating the xenomorphs didn't make any sense to me at all. For a supposed improvement and "the perfect life form," I didn't really see how the classic xenomorph was in any way better than the over the top proto-xenomorphs of Prometheus and earlier in Covenant.
Curiously, I was also far more disgusted by Prometheus than Covenant, for some reason. Which is weird because I think the gore was worse in Covenant. I generally don't watch horror movies but I have a soft spot for Alien, in large part because of how good the first two are but also because they're sci-fi. But I'm not there to be grossed out — I'd prefer more fear and less disgust out of Alien movies. I will be curious to see where this goes with things, but I suspect it will lean on disgust over fear, which seems to be the overall trend.
I guess the final xenomorph is more bullet resistant. The size difference doesn’t seem to matter much.
David’s reasoning seemed to just be down to a god complex. It didn’t make sense, but it also didn’t make a lot of sense in Prometheus either. He seemed unnecessarily evil. As do the engineers. It’s just like… they both want to kill everything and that shock is supposed to be enough to be interesting.
One thing I always saw in discussions about Alien is the slogan "Less is more". The idea that in horror if you only show rare glimpses of threats the viewers imagination makes it far more vivid.
They certainly clearly showed a lot of the aliens in the trailer, I wonder if that was cherry picked for it or if they've given up on that concept altogether.
I trust the director tbh. There's a difference between using SFX to show parts of an alien that is partially in the dark and an alien in bright sunlight on a planet like in Alien Covenant.
"Less is more" should apply to the plot of the Alien franchise more than whether you see the creatures. Prometheus made the lore way too unnecessarily complicated.
The trailer looks really good. I love all Alien movies except for Alien 3. I even liked Covenant. So this is something I'm looking forward to.
Maybe I'm in the minority, but that trailer completely turned me off of the movie. I know "everything is a remix", but that looked so derivative and unoriginal and like a generic horror movie with an "Alien" veneer. Facehuggers overpowering people and pulling them down into water? Shining a light through someone's torso and being able to see inside them (while a chest-burster flails around inside them without apparently causing any discomfort)? Nah fam, so not buying this.
That's been my take on almost all of these.
Alien is a franchise that should have plenty of material to explore, and yet it's just "are we remaking alien or aliens today?" on the docket.
What is up with all those weird video comments about ATW27X?