Prometheus 2 aka Alien: Covenant (Official Thread)

[MartyMcFly]

Is this just the usual Coli hyperbole or was this really trash


Made that drive to the Alamo draft house for nothing

Luckily I didn't lol. Just a regular amc. I won't go to Alamo again till spidey

Also I don't think it's hyperbole on my part homie it's not good

 

[BillBanneker]

Just saw it. Felt it was disappointing.

 

[Mr210]

It only made 36 million

 

[FooFighters]

It only made 36 million

What was the budget?

 

[BillBanneker]

Just saw it. Felt it was disappointing.

Don't wanna get into spolier territory but I feel like Scott has no idea where he wants to go, or maybe he wants to do the space jockey origins and the studio is pressuring him to do a "Alien" movie. Too many horror cliches to me.

I liked most of the characters though, I liked the idea of the whole "couples" crew thing. Didn't like David's arc in this, way too transparent and predictable.


The hell am I say, I already know I'm going to go see the next one anyway.

 

[Rapmastermind]

It only made 36 million

What was the budget?

"Alien" is the highest grossing horror franchise in Box Office history (Over Freddy, Jason and Michael). You have to judge it along horror lines. All of them are "R-rated" also. They aren't PG or PG 13 Sci-Fi like Star Wars or even Comic Book films. I think the budget was about 97 Million so Ridley kept it check. It's already grossed over 117 Million Worldwide. It's going to make less than "Prometheus" but should still do pretty good internationally. Based on the history of the franchise, these numbers are about right. Obviously "Prometheus" being so polarizing definitely kept people on the fence.

Alien: Covenant Opening Weekend:
Total Lifetime Grosses
Domestic: $36,000,000 30.5%
+ Foreign: $81,881,862 69.5%
= Worldwide: $117,881,862

 

[FappleMeOff]

I would've liked to see the

Spoiler

Xenomorph and the Neomorph fight each other

In fact, just give me an Alien movie without any humans.

 

[HHR]

So when the lights came on, my homegirl asked me why did i look disappointed lol. I then went into the lobby and just said "UGH, Ridley Scott." This shyt was beyond meh. It's predictable, hardly evolves any of the interesting themes or ideas it throws out, barely develops a single character on screen, its characters are incredibly stupid, and takes the cliche route at every single damn turn. There's a line of dialogue in the movie where David is talking to William about being unique and people fearing unique so its best to give them mundane and generic....that's this movie in a nutshell. I may not have fukked with Prometheus but it was unique and Ridley decided to give us something extremely generic and cliche and easier to digest Le boo

Y'kno....I don't totally disagree with anything you said here.

But I still loved the movie.

As far as being cliche goes, that's what the Alien franchise is and has been since arguably Aliens. Stupid humans getting owned by Xenos for being stupid is, like many reviewers have said, "a feature, not a bug" of the franchise imo.

Alien is still the only "ALIEN" movie that everyone expects and wants each subsequent sequel to be. We aren't ever getting that again lol.

Plus, I mean....we got dueling Fassbenders. Literally and figuratively. And that flute scene

Story wise, I agree that they left a number of themes totally unresolved or developed beyond a mention (religion/faith most notably), but I still think it was more focused storytelling than Prometheus. I feel that film was crippled by LIndelof's constant inability to answer the large questions he poses. The themes of creation, advancement and to be blunt, the utter worthlessness of humanity, were well done enough to keep me interested.

 

[Mowgli]

Y'kno....I don't totally disagree with anything you said here.

But I still loved the movie.

As far as being cliche goes, that's what the Alien franchise is and has been since arguably Aliens. Stupid humans getting owned by Xenos for being stupid is, like many reviewers have said, "a feature, not a bug" of the franchise imo.

Alien is still the only "ALIEN" movie that everyone expects and wants each subsequent sequel to be. We aren't ever getting that again lol.

Plus, I mean....we got dueling Fassbenders. Literally and figuratively. And that flute scene

Story wise, I agree that they left a number of themes totally unresolved or developed beyond a mention (religion/faith most notably), but I still think it was more focused storytelling than Prometheus. I feel that film was crippled by LIndelof's constant inability to answer the large questions he poses. The themes of creation, advancement and to be blunt, the utter worthlessness of humanity, were well done enough to keep me interested.

Awww shyt I gotta escape the family and catch this solo.

 

[MartyMcFly]

Y'kno....I don't totally disagree with anything you said here.

But I still loved the movie.

As far as being cliche goes, that's what the Alien franchise is and has been since arguably Aliens. Stupid humans getting owned by Xenos for being stupid is, like many reviewers have said, "a feature, not a bug" of the franchise imo.

Alien is still the only "ALIEN" movie that everyone expects and wants each subsequent sequel to be. We aren't ever getting that again lol.

Plus, I mean....we got dueling Fassbenders. Literally and figuratively. And that flute scene

Story wise, I agree that they left a number of themes totally unresolved or developed beyond a mention (religion/faith most notably), but I still think it was more focused storytelling than Prometheus. I feel that film was crippled by LIndelof's constant inability to answer the large questions he poses. The themes of creation, advancement and to be blunt, the utter worthlessness of humanity, were well done enough to keep me interested.

BUT lol those characters have always been defined so when they do make stupid choices you understand why and have some sympathy for them rather than contempt. And having awesome themes, which the movie has, means nothing if you can't execute from a storytelling standpoint. I'm not judging it based on Prometheus but rather just as a movie and a story and on those fronts it's lacking and just meh and upsetting lol because a good movie is in there

 

[Sonny Corinthos]

Movie left me just as confused after watching Prometheus but this went the Aliens route for action.

Confusing and messy yet I enjoyed it, won't go into spoilers but I agree Scott don't know what he wants to do and it's hurting these movies big times.

I'll give the 3rd one a chance

 

[MartyMcFly]

Also @HHR i agree with you that the alien aspects are the weakest part of this. Absolutely the weakest. Like it's tired at this point. The stuff with David and Walter is the best stuff in the movie and I would've loved more of that. It shows the Paradise lost aspect of the movie which I wanted expanded but it's like Ridley kept saying "oh damn that's right it's an alien movie" so it's a damned if you do damned if you don't situation

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

Just got out the IMAX and I hate to say it but Ridley Scott might be

This was a solid movie with some great cinematography but breh, it's the definition of "same shyt different day". There's a lot of bells and whistles but no real substance.

You gotta see this in IMAX tho because it makes the visuals and sound that much better for real if I saw this on another screen I'd probably have disliked it even more

7/10

 

[Apollo Creed]

What was the total amount of Humans and how many died? And how does dude from Empire Die? He's black so I`m sure they killed him.

 

[lamont614]

I was entertained ..


I can't believe I waited 5 years for this shyt tho lol

Could've waited for the bluray lol