Alien Covenant - SPOILERS Movie Review
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- We provide our in-depth spoilers review for Alien: Covenant, discussing the best and worst of the film, including major reveals.
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How the Xenomorph grown fast It's Possibly it was a stronger version of the Xenomorph.
But has years past the eggs in the derelict space ship became much slower to growth inside, maybe. Or maybe it's the environment.
Hybrid Network is paradise the xenomorph home world it makes sense Right
this is not out in the usa why made make this video?????????????
It's out in the UK and a bunch of other countries.
not is usa.
They should make an Alien film where the Weyland Yutani corporation are capable of launching a spacecraft without the entire crew dying.
Their track record is pretty lousy to say the least. 2093 Weyland Corporation launches mission to outer space, multi million dollar ship explodes all crew dead including founder Peter Weyland and his daughter. 2104 Weyland Yutani multi Billion Dollar colony ship to distant planet, all crew dead fate of colonists unknown, 2122 Weyland Yutani corporation lose mining ship all crew dead, 1 survivor discovered over 50 years later. 2179 Weyland Yutani colony destroyed over 300 casualties. Rescue mission failure all crew dead survivors crash land into prison eventually killing all crew members. I think the company will eventually go broke due to law suits and compensation claims.
LOL!!!
Although Yutani is not involved in this movie, just Weyland Corp.
Officially it is, they merged after Prometheus yet they don't mention it in the movie.
It's protocol at this point to have an extendable crew, a heroine and some shady guy who wants to infect said heroine with the alien. Maybe David is running Weyland Yutani all these years.
Super disappointed about shaw
Bro fuck this film glad I didn't waste money
:(( im shock about shaw.
its not worth it, the cgi was about as ridley scots saggy old man balls.
Shaw is my only motivation to watch this movie. Fuckyou david.
Same, David is a disgrace to human race. Shame.
The thing that bothers me is that if David created the Xenomorph, why did we see Xenomorphs, Facehuggers and Eggs in the wall paintings of Prometheus?
I'm wondering about this too, it doesn't add up.
LV426 chestbuster space jockey corpse was 2000 years old fosil, David shouldn't be creator of xenomorph. It must be he coincidentally discovered the recipe of engineers to cook up xenomorph. :P
They put in ambiguous images so that you see what you want to see. xenomorph or space jockey
Maybe he found an Engineer cook book?
I guess it's retcon. They did the same thing with the Space Jockeys. There's no way that in the original film was it intended to be a bio suit. It was actual skeletal remains and it was explained that these aliens evolved with their technology so much that in a sense the Jockey was one with the ship. Not to mention the Jockey in the original was much larger as well.
That is sad. Throwing away Shaw after a prologue. I mean I understand if Noomi Rapace didn't want to reprise her roll. They should have convinced her to be in half the movie to give some weight to her death. Throwing away the Engineers and then not explaining the main plot point surrounding the Space Jockey. Ending the film in almost the same way as Prometheus to only find out that David created the Xeno? They should have given people an option to buy a special edition Alien cup with their ticket because the writer's kicked the Alien fans in the groin.
Nailed it, so sad...
Chris F agreed
Chris F Agreed, having Elizabeth written out of the film like that is bobbins. She wanted to know why the Engineer's wanted to destroy the human race. instead they were obliterated by a screwed up android and her corpse experimented on with no explanation given.
even new york is more exciting than the engineer's homeworld...mehh
blame the so called fans not Ridley.
Damn. I was really heartbroken for what happened to Shaw.
When I saw the prologue with David going all Magneto on the Engineers, I thought he was doing it to protect humanity after we find out in Prometheus that they wanted to exterminate us with the black goo. So yay... humanity invades and kills aliens this time around... But I was surprised that this turned out to be another "robot gone bad" type scenario like Skynet, Ultron, Hal 9000.
What I cant wrap my head around is the gaping plot hole this movie created when you look back at the original Alien movie. (I re-watched it a day after watching Covenant)
So, remember when the Nostromo's crew went to investigate the signal in the original movie? When Dallas, Kane and Lambert found the corpse of the Engineer, they said he's been dead a long time - long enough for him to fossilize as if he was growing out of the chair. On taking a closer look - they say he died because something "burst out of his chest". This scene takes place immediately before they stumble on the cache of Alien eggs that were sitting directly under the ship's bridge.
So if David engineered / created the xenomorphs - how can an ancient Engineer die from a chest burster? Sure, maybe it wasn't a xenomorph chestburster like we saw in Prometheus, but it feels heavily implied in the original movie. Soooo what's going on here? time travel? Or maybe David stopped by LV-426, made a queen lay hundreds of eggs under the Bridge of an Engineer ship that conveniently already had a fossilized Engineer that coincidentally died by chestburster?
Gogo I have been asking this question for the longest and still have no answer..
Scott has just lost it and thinks its totally okay for him to retconn the whole series. the Spacejockey in the original film is clearly ancient, the derelict has obviously been there for thousands of years. But, nope, Scott just will ignore that and do whatever he wants now. Which is why I'm starting to think this will go the way of the Star Wars prequels and almost be ignored by a lot of the fanbase. If you create a group of movies in a series that contradict the classics.... that just doesn't really work longterm
Ridley doesn't know what he is doing or intends to. He has lost his damn mind instead of making prequels that not only answer questions but make questions, mystery, etc. I am pretty sure Ridley has a tumor and that's impeding his judgment. I never hated a director as much as I hate Ridley. The guy keeps making shit up with no regard to what his prequels and what was done/said in Alien.
Works for me Derek. Fan since 79, happy to see Ridley giving some greater depth to it all.
harnois75 ... while occasionally contradicting his own work as well :/
so nothing about engineers¡¡
i was hoping to know more about them
Erick Rodriguez exactly, they were the most interesting part....
Erick Rodriguez these movies were made for the one purpose of answering the alien origins and questions the fans had from the original films.
Erick Rodriguez it's David just straight murdering humanity's gods. also, he learned their language and studied their stuff. basically, because he's so murderous, he's the ONLY one who knows anything about them.
very interesting possibilities going forward. like alien sequels after these prequels.
I still think they will appear in other movies as they would be on more planets than just that one, think of all the spaceships and technology they have.
Erick Rodriguez we could have if David didn't kill them immediately
So they took one of the most iconic sci-fi creatures in cinema history and basically turned it into "Hur dur! One of the most dangerous creature's ever encountered in space was created by a rogue robot that was created by man!" Nevermind the fact that this tidbit contradicts the mural in Prometheus. What a crock of shit. And the David/Walter switch? Who honestly didn't see that coming? All that hype man...what a fucking let down...
the ending is the exact same thing that happens to Shaw just on a larger scale.
what a waste of a character with shaw Honestly ,
the movie was okay, it wasn't bad but it was okay
I'll enjoy it still cause I'm a alien fan
True
pull an alien Resurrection & clone her haha
Steel 1974 it was a stab in the back.
Since when has a Character had a happy ending in the Aliens universe?
Obviously she was gonna die but at least give her another movie or 2 to flesh out her character (no pun intended)
David should of kept her in cryo sleep & admire her & protect her, he could of saw the covenant crew as a nuisance when they arrived, so that's why he kills them
So, the story is basically Data vs. Lore with the Borg in Star Trek TNG (Walter as Data, David as Lore, and Xenomorphs as the Borg)... The similarity is striking...
BJ S yes and this time lore wins
satireknight exactly what i was thinking plus Brent Spiner in my opinion plays a better Android but to be fair im a big trekkie so im a bit biased but also i don't think anyone has topped Ian Holm's performance as Ash.
satireknight and i preferred Descent more
Right on, though I'd say the Engineers are more the Borg, even some similar design elements in their appearance and ships.
The Xenomorphs are basically the Uruk-hai of this universe.
Berserkasaurus Rex yes fantastic analogy i completely agree 😀😀👍👍👍👍
Where to start.......
1) Massive deadly solar flare causes destruction and death of the Captain but it takes minutes to fix a solar sail with a hook then all is well.
2) Can track a planet that requires 7 years sleep but miss a planet that was closer and better suited, even with a signal broadcast from the planet.
3) Trained and educated scientists navigate through extremely dangerous atmosphere to land but turn into 5 year olds when someone is sick.
4) Slips on blood.
5) Slips on the same blood again.
6) Genocide of an advanced civilization that apparently where our creators by an android created by us.
7) David cuts his hair.
8) Witness David with alien, " I know the devil " then " look in this egg, trust me it's safe ". so he looks!
9) Face hugger egg impregnation like 2 seconds.
10) Super rapid alien growth.
11) Killing off Shaw
12) Old android kills new android with self healing ability.
13) chest burster overly long gestation
14) Pointless shower sex scene.
15) Ripley number 5
16) Alien sucked out of air lock
17) Switching androids from Walter to David, you could see that twist coming from a mile away while eating a packet of twistes!
There is much more but fucked if I'm seeing it again, 7/10, please! It was total garbage.
Paul Bacci mic drop! Worst movie I've seen in about 5 years. And I'm a life long fan of the franchise.
I have what would've been a better back story which would set up multiple trilogies pre-prometheus and post-Aliens (obvious SPOILERS, but this is a spoiler video itself sooooo):
Long ago engineers encountered another advanced civilization in the universe. They were better at science and engineers were better at war. Diplomatic truce. The science ppl were so good at it they figured out how to seed life and started doing so in secret. Mankind turned out to be one of their experiments (more on that later). Eventually the engineers stumbled upon earth and found it inhabited w a species oddly similar to their scientist buddies who didn't tell them they were seeding life. They started taking small samples of the population for experiments and such, while also trying to steal whatever data they could from the scientists. They were eventually caught and war breaks out (this turns out to be what's been speculated as the Engineer Civil War).
Since engineers are better at killing things, being the physically superior species and all (see: engineer fighting off that massive octopus thing in prometheus w his bare hands) the scientists create the OG biomechanical Xenomorph to even the odds. Now this Xenomorph cannot spawn, and each one much be lab created (a caveat encoded into their original DNA by the scientists to completely control them). Eventually a few are captured by engineers and experimented in, etc (in secret hiding locations such as the world of Prometheus). Eventually the engineers manage to create black goo (a mutagen they used to seed life and can be weaponized to create Xenomorph-esque creatures but not being as good at science, can't 100% replicate the OG biomech Xeno).
Back to humanity. Turns out we're the most promising seeded life form yet, in terms of our evolution/scientific and technical advancements/large scale societies and governments, etc culminating in our "creation" of AI (which our scientist creators already made long ago, we're essentially just accessing shit encoded in our DNA copied from our creators). Inspired by us, the engineers attempt to seed life in their own image as well using their black goo (which is how/why the civilization on Paradise that David eventually destroys looks like smaller engineers w/ human skin tone... And ultimately why David kills them in the first place. More on that later).
So, back to prometheus. The signal sent to us by engineers was merely to gather additional samples of humans for archiving/experimentation/etc before they destroyed earth (since they're still at war with the scientist race and have decided to wipe them, and all evidence of their work out of existence).
Now, leading into Covenant this would explain what David learned while Shaw was in cryosleep that made him decided to bomb the inhabitants of Paradise out of existence. It would also explain why he (SPOILERS) experimented on Shaw. He realized her reproductive organs were mutated during the events of Prometheus but she still managed to both live, and remain seemingly fully human. So there's something about her physiology that needs to be learned/utilized/etc (I would have Shaw alive during Covenant in an open surgery/adrenaline/antibiotic drip state but that's just me), and from his experiments on her the Alien ability to reproduce is developed (which doesn't make him the creator of the Xenomorph, but does give him a huge role in their advancement). This would explains the eggs in Alien, Aliens, etc without having to retcon anything (and would even make key plot elements of Alien 3 and Resurrection tolerable/logical). David could also use Walter to recreate the OG biomechanical Xenomorph as well, as he discovers that the original creator of man had AI capabilities tens to hundreds of thousands of years ago.
All this does multiple things: explains why engineers hate humans w/o having to tread along the "Jesus was an engineer" shtick, explains the variations in xeno/proto/neomorphs and various kinds of huggers etc, it sets up a trilogy pre-dating prometheus which can also now include OG biomechanical Xenomorphs, as well as make earth ufology and metaphysical fantasy elements ppl love in movies now canon to the Alien universe, as well as setting up a potential post-Aliens (or even post Alien Resurrection depending on where you want to pick the time line up at) trilogy that's literally engineers vs the creators of man vs colonial marines vs Aliens just fucking shit up on a galactic scale.
Unfortunately, I think that Ridley Scott may have fucked that all up to shoehorn Covenant directly into pre-dating the original Alien film.
Lmk what yall think?
Hire him scott.
HooliganMovement u need to be hired lmaoo
Give this man a job 20th Century Fox!!!!!!
HooliganMovement damn dude that shits impressive
would have been so much better but I was hoping to see the egineer home world! this wasn't it! they could have done this for the next movie while giving us another movie with Shaw! I assume they tell us more on the egineers later
I never liked the idea of an Android creating the Xeno's.. bad case of overthinking when it comes to Ridley and the writers. I agree with you on Shaws demise being cheapened. Hey, at least this films visuals look stunning.
When Daniels realizes that was David but not Walter, it is too late. The door of the pod is closed and she begins to sleep. I almost think David is going to say "GAME OVER" and the music of SAW comes out with a series of quick flash back, then the screen fades out...
I saw it here in Australia yesterday. It wasn't perfect, but I really liked it.
This sounds like the whole movie has turned into a bullshit story.
When you get people who don't seem to be able to follow the film they've just watched, then come on here to explain their misconceptions, that not surprising.
Hydrogenblonde they focused more on setting up the next film then answering the question from Prometheus. Covenant didn't answer 0 questions about the engineers. From a person who loved Prometheus, Alien Covenant was a big letdown.
So basically the weyland yutani's obsession with xenomorphs was a result of one of their own creations who basically ignored the 3 laws of robotics, as well as being the robotic version of a certain dr mengela, as he basically uses the colonists in cryosleep as fodder to perfect the creation of the xenomorphs, thus possibly making him more evil a scientist in creating a superweapon than either davros or dr wily
I think the movie for me was a summation of the human race and the quote that goes "evil begets evil". It had a Carl Jungian sentiment in that humans that fail to do the shadow work within themselves project the shadow onto the world, even all of creation. I agree in part with the sentiment expressed, in that we've no business venturing out into the universe and exploring it until we start to get harmonic with ourselves.
I find Shaw's fate is perversely poetic. She had a line in Prometheus about how she couldn't "create life," and ends up being one of the key factors in the creation of a horrible type of life in the xenomorph.
I also am thinking of Ash's line in the original about admiring the creature's "purity" and now knowing that the creature was fashioned by a fellow android. It makes his mission more of like an art collection of sorts, like a religious quest than a nefarious gathering for the Company.
The Xenomorph is the pinnacle of what David was trying to create and he even states he has been waiting for the final component, "Mother".
“What are they waiting for David ?”
“Mother” ….😬
Why would Ridley Scott make the movie like this? Why do Shaw like that?? How can you not have ANY info about the engineers when this is their damn homeworld and the whole point was to give us some perspective on them? If David made the Xeno then who made the Mural in prometheus? There's absolutely no way I can give this movie 7/10. It does absolutely nothing for me except piss me off. It answers absolutely nothing.
William J Greklek III if this answered absolutely nothing for you, you obviously didnt even pay attention...
the way the plots unfold are stupid so are the dots.......arriving in the engineers homeworld should be super exciting but its just a bleep in the movie for the sake of tying in with Prometheus.....and shaw might as well die in Prometheus
William J Greklek III i called it :D. No answers, not surprised.
Prometheus and Covenant remind me of the show "Lost", neverendingly providing QUESTIONS but unable to answer anything. Asking questions is easy. Answers are more difficult. Just stands as a reminder of what Scott's always had a problem with- the storytelling and writing. His films always look great and are well made, but unless he's forced to keep things contained he just goes all over the place in terms of plot
blame all those pathetic so callled fans who complained about Prometheus. You know those morons, the ones whose hugest complaint is that someone trying to outrun a falling spaceship should always stop, turn around, think, then run in a zig zag pattern. They are the reasons why we cant have nice things.
I would bet the reason he killed Shaw without remorse was the fact he is an android, not a human being bound by any "delusions of morality". Chances are she fulfilled a need and that was enough. Sounds like the calculations of a soulless machine to me, and serves the story arch they are setting up. I wouldn't be surprised at this point if they tried to merge this universe with Blade Runner is some fashion. And notice how it was both Shaw's and Orum's trust in David that leads them to their death. And both were extremely religious. Seems like some kind of parallel to worshiping false idols by trusting something that is clearly not human as if it were, or some type of forbidden fruit metaphor. What appears to be character stupidity and a callous death is probably an attempt at advancing the story: that AI and humanity are not at all the same, and one will ultimately destroy the other. Makes you wonder if the gods' anger at the titan Prometheus was justified.
Dorian Smiley or maybe it's just poor stupid screen writing
I came out of cinema last night thinking I'd seen something fantastic. but 12 hours later and I feel totally empty about it. all the mythology, wonder and vastness totally evaporated
honestly it was really disappointing
shaw's fate
creation of the xenomorphs
total waste of engineers
cmon ridley...
I've never seen a man ruin his own creative license since... well you know.
tasteless opinion at its finest, these movies were telling the story of the xenomorphs origins, i think it would have been a terrible decision to go off rails towards the engineers rather than the main purpose.
Yup.. so disappointing
Projectsssss totally agree! I'm so pissed about Shaw. it was a slap in the face. As much as Fassbender is great he gets too much airtime if you ask me . we know David is disturbing and creepy so I feel there were so many wasted scenes further emphasising this.
Lyall James What do you mean off the rails ? So much of Prometheus was setting up the Engineers and most of it wasn't resolved, and then the sequel leaves us with no answers.
so disappointed in shaws fate, cant believe it man. do they show her dead body and what its been turned into in detail?
Yeah, you get to see her body in detail for maybe 20 seconds.
:(
Patrick Winkler they do a quick pass over her face n abdomen so u can kinda see all the guts n stuff but that's really it
Patrick Winkler when it panned across her face I just said "fuck" in the cinema- guys beside me laughed and agreed! I switched off after that .
Patrick Winkler it's on this video, that deformed faced? That's Shaw
i totally would have played francos part if no one else wanted it
I thought the inclusion of the more familiar alien was fairly essential in showing David's commitment to his experiments to re-create the perfect organism. What he lacked was the human material to achieve his goal. Far from being superfluous it was the literally the next step.
the point with him killing shaw, makes ALOT of sense.
He loves her, thats excatly why he had to use her for his babies. she's basicly part of his family now together with his aliens.
He has a pretty weird view on the world, so I guess he sees shawn as havibg given the ultimate sacrifice.
at least that's how I see it. :
maybe they're going to release a extended cut version later on
I really hope it gets AVP's fate... sucks a 5 year wait ended with something that shouldn't be canon...
Oh! David!!! What have you done??? Poor Shaw! :(
*how did you get these HD photos from the movie, the unseen photos?*
I'm absolutely heartbroken by this film. I've been obsessing over it for months, just like the lead up to Prometheus, but Covenant left me far more disappointed. Yes, it has a fantastic cinematic appeal, but the things that have had people talking, debating, and imagining on forums and channels like this were all but swept under the rug.
I loved Prometheus. Its flaws were in stupid decisions by characters and a generally messy plot that left too many strings untied. Alien Covenant was a beacon of hope, not just for the continuation of the Alien franchise under Scott, but as a method of explaining the massive origin story that was laid out in Prometheus. Unfortunately, because it was so poorly received, they've decided in Covenant to sever the head of prometheus (i.e. David) and discard the rest as if it never happened.
All the questions that inspired our imagination have been ignored for the sake of bringing the xenomorph back of screen and rehashing elements of the original Alien to satisfy the list of Alien fans. What is the black goo? Where did it come from? How did the engineers use it? What were their intentions? Why were they returning to destroy humanity? What is their relationship to the xenomorph species they revere enough to make murals of? These are just some of the questions from Prometheus. Now we have more.
Any fan of the Xenomorph creature should feel sorely short changed by this film. Not only did the Neomorph completely outshine the Xenomorph in my opinion, but the Xeno scenes were far too quick and the creatures themselves very easily killed in the grand scheme of things. They weren't shown as the intelligent killers we all know and love, but I understand they are a prototype of sorts. This film reminded me of the latest Star Wars films in that they took the elements of originals (Alien, Aliens, Prometheus) and squashed them all together. Instead of nostalgia I just felt a sense of cheapness and lack of imagination.
After watching every second of the viral marketing in the lead up to this, I actually feel like it made the film worse. It teased a further examination of Shaw and David's time together, it teased a more in depth story of the crew on and off the ship, and it left the xenomorph scenes feeling lighting quick and over too soon. Also, wtf is the deal with seeing from the Xeno's perspective!? Okay, so we know they can see now.Totally unnecessary.
I'm sure I'll regret a few things I've written here but I make no apology. I think all the fans of this channel should crowd fund the next instalment so we can put a story and plot together that leaves us all satisfied.
I loved the aliens in this film they was ace
This film deserves no more than a 5/10. Total meh. Prometheus protagonist and plotline thrown aside so the people who bitched about the previous film don't have leave their comfort zones again.
While Prometheus wasn't perfect in it's delivery, the storyline was something fresh. Now Scott just barely acknowledges their presence in this film.
I can't give it more then a 5 because it didn't explain/answer our engineer question from Prometheus. So Alien Covenant basically fucked the ppl who didn't have a problem with Prometheus.
+WoodBlock707 It screwed up the original lore as well. If David had created the xenomorphs, why does Ellen Ripley find a thousand year old Engineer ship full of facehugger eggs on LV426? Ridley Scott just shat all over the Alien franchise with this film.
my opinion: David loved Shaw above all things and his experimentation on her corpse was a means to recreate her into a perfect organism. He wanted Shaw to live forever in a way.
Also we don't really know how Shaw died. Her corpse is fairly intact so maybe she only died recently and not 10 years prior to the movie. Hell, maybe it was Shaw who had David kill off the Engineers
Look if David created the Xenomorphs i don't think this is entirely true, what he did was just upgrading the creature. Remember, the Deacon was the creature we saw on the mural, so this means, the Engineers know what this creature was, David just perfected the creature to the way he wanted.
So we got female Engineers now that's what's up
CHI Nation I don't think they are egineers, they were much smaller and did not seem technologically advanced. Either they are a egineer colony or they are some other hybrid species made by the egineers.
RIP Shaw. Seems like a pretty stupid and useless way to end her journey. She should have never helped to David.
Love your reviews- very direct and not flashy. Good job.
IMO it was David all along. It seems clear that he is a very strong catalyst in the Alien story. Although the Engineer mysteries are compelling, and mesmerized us more than David did in Prometheus, David is the centerpiece of power, influencing the course of events that eventually leads to Alien 1979 and the Juggernaut full of eggs.
hi, in the scence where the alien take out there camera and walter( david) jumps, at first I thought it was silly an android jumping but do you think now we we find out it is david and that after him controlling the other hybrids aliens, he is shocked that this one attacked him in a sense as the camera was a tv with david on it?! so he was shocked that he would go for him? hopefully you understand what I mean in this comment.
I wanted Shaw to become the alien queen 😕
JB0523 same
JB0523 I think Shaw would have been still infected by the black goo, so if she mutated inside the cyro chamber in the Juggernaut and escaped in the crash into the Hall of Heads for example, carrying that story arc would of been better than simply killing off a important character like that off screen, really poor!
At some point during the movie i anticipated that too thinking, dayum is Shaw gonna be in hibernation waiting to spawn this epic Xenomorph creature which turns on these colonists, could've been epic, alas i was wrong lol.
That's the one thing that could have made this movie even worse.
Haha well it would've been better then seeing her already dead ;[ kinda gutted about Shaws fate tbh.
You so casually drop that Oram gives birth to the xenomorph and Rosenthal gets killed by the protomoroph!
Yep lol
Interesting that the two most faith-driven characters in the movie end up this way.
Yet, Shaw's main motivations were to explore and her faith in God. There are several religious comments and themes in the original Alien.
Ash calling the Alien "Cain's Son." A biblical reference to the son of the first murderer.
Ash calling the Alien "Perfect Organsim"
The Alien birth essentially being an immaculate conception.
All tying into the theme of the Alien being "Space Jesus."
Alien Covenant: I'm gonna blow this fucker into space!
Alien: I'm gonna blow this fucker into space!
Aliens: I'm gonna blow this fucker into space!
just to clarify, the ozymandias poem is by percy shelley and frankenstein is by mary shelley.
Useless movie. What was even David's motivation ? No questions were answered about humanity and engineers, and we end up back at square one.
Maybe it's because the Alien franchise is because the fucking Aliens. Not some albino bald humanoid on steroids.
Tooth Grinder That's fine, but why associate it with Prometheus in the first place. Just make a standalone Alien movie.
jam626 Prometheus reveals the space jockey was actually a big albino humanoid wearing a mask and a flight suit since most people did not know what the space jockey was when they watched the original Alien film for the first time. That's why Engineers are in Prometheus. You forgot about that dead space jockey in the original Alien film?
Tooth Grinder I don't remember much about the original Alien tbh, but Prometheus got me excited about the engineers background and then nothing was delivered. They shouldn't have introduced Prometheus they way they did - with the title sequence giving the impression that the engineers are important to the story and such. It just left me with blue balls and no follow through.
jam626 you must not of watched Prometheus. I thought Davids motivation was spelled out in Prometheus and continued in Alien Covenant. Engineers made the humans, human made the androids aka him and now David wanted to created the perfect species, the Xenomorphs.
too bad Elizabeth died
I've always wondered what happens to an Alien egg once the facehugger had left it. Does it just die, or does it grow another one?
Very sad about what happened to Shaw. It's a bit like how Alien 3 just killed off Hicks and Newt right at the start.
The alien prequels are starting to turn out like star wars prequels >_>
I noticed that :/
Enterthemind1 Hell no.
I don't get why people hating in Prometheus , the film is amazing I love the slow pacing scifi element of the film and the unanswered mysteries that make people think , explaining it out right is boring and lack imagination
covenant too has so much more deeper meaning and potential
I don't get why people hating in Prometheus , the film is amazing I love the slow pacing scifi element of the film and the unanswered mysteries that make people think , explaining it out right is boring and lack imagination
covenant too has so much more deeper meaning and potential
Saotome Alto people want more action based movies now a days, it's a shame.
This was such a bad movie. This is coming from an Alien fan who really liked Prometheus.
1) What happened to Shaw?
She is killed off and there is no explanation as to how or for what purpose. She's not an Alien Queen. So where did the eggs come from? David uses Shaws ovaries as magic beans to grow them? Ridiculous.
2) Trailer footage was not in the movie. How stupid.
David repair scene. Xeno bouncing off walls. Crew meeting with Franco.
3) James Franco dies with zero on screen time. I'm not his biggest fan but why even cast him in the movie if his not even in it???
4) There is absolutely no information on the engineers. None. It's as if Scott is erasing all trace of their existence.
5) The black goo isn't explained. David has spent 10 years on the ship with access to Engineer records and can't tell us the original reason for it's creation?
6) The twist that David is impersonating Walter. What a twist. I mean absolutely nobody saw that one coming..... NOT.
7) There was no Neo vs Xeno battle. What a missed opportunity.
8) The biggest sin of all is that the crew touchdown with no helmets, breathing apparatus or pressure suits. Yeah, breath that alien air in with no protection, that's clever.
And that one guy who takes a leak on the planet and flicks is cigarette away. What a bunch of idiots.
9) The Xenomorph comes out whole but miniature and grows to full size in like 10 minutes.
It mimics David almost as if seeing him as his father but that's all we see of that never to be touched on again. Just like when David is communicating with the Neomorph it's cut short and not touched upon again.
10) The movie is HEAVILY edited down. It's very clear that much of the film has been left on the cutting room floor. It's as if we're fast forwarding between many scenes. A directors cut better fix this mess. Although Scott didn't bother to do one with Prometheus so he'll probably be just as arrogant again and say what was in theatres was perfect and his intended vision.
Overall id say it's a terrible movie and does a huge disservice to the fans. I have no hope in the next installment. The franchise is pretty much dead to me :'(
I was very disappointed that they killed off Shaw offscreen.
If AVP is part of Alien's canon, David did not create the classic xenomorphs we know (eggs, facehugers, and chestbursters). In AVP 1 the pyramid with classical xenomorphs was over 2000 years old.
R.Scot messed it all
Dude, I´m from Brazil, I´m learning english, some times I make mistakes, diferent from you, native from USA.
But the cool thing about it, I can learn.
I wish they would explain some of these things better..
I waited 5 years for this shit???????????
2012: Not enough alien!!!
2017: Too much alien!!
People are never happy, the movie kicked ass and questions will be answered have faith
To me I took David saying how much he loved her as a twisted way of him appreciating her "sacrificing" herself for his creations.
Since she was the only human he had on the planet, she was necessary to create the perfect human killing machine.
So maybe he loved her for giving him the resources he needed to create his perfect being. He also used her voice as a distress beacon to lure the colonists. So she, in a way, also brought him more subjects.
Even though we know he killed her, he couldn't have done it without her.
WoahhItsMonica I'm 50/50 on if David killed Shaw. I mm kind of on the side she might of died in the crash in the planet. Everytime David talks about Shaw he looks really sad. So he's either sad that she dead because he cared for her then used her body or sad that he killed someone he cared about.
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Wow this movie was a major disappointment. It should have been about the engineers. We they did to Shaw was terrible. We need a movie about the Engineers; not Xenomorphs. Ridley has lost his mind. He originally was going to make this movie about the engineers and someone must have talked him out of it. What a waste.
To me it felt obvious that because David loved Shaw so much yet was an android and couldn't reproduce, he wanted to take something of his creation and combine it with shaws DNA so that they could have a "child" together. Of course it being a twisted way to look at it, but there have been crazy things done out of imagined love at least
Hey, great video. I have a question, in the third act when they get onboard The Covenant, why didn't the computer system 'Mother' realize that the android was David and not Walter? I mean if they're different models wouldn't Mother be able to pick up on that asap and indicate that to the surviving crew??
Just clicked to comment not going to watch 😂
Basically the movie sucked. It's confusing and rushed.
Tooth Grinder
edgy
Tooth Grinder maybe some people wanted more Shaw and egineers. but hey let's do this alien movie then go back in time again and do a movie inbetween. This is worse then the star wars sequence
My interpretation of Shaw's death was different from yours. David left the best of his creation (the xenomorph) for Shaw because its love for her. The best meant that he made Shaw the "mother" of its creation - i.e. David made use of Shaw's organs (womb) to make her the Alien Queen who will lay all the eggs for more procreation.
Poor Shaw, poor Daniels who died(?) hopeless in agony, poor unprotected fragile embryos. Ridley Scott is a sick mind.
I think Ridley Scott will cast Kirsten Stewart as the new Ripley for Alien 1,2,3 ..
hey guys spoiler alert "someday you will die". did i riun your life?
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SPOILER QUESTION
shouldn't there be 2 neomorphs? one killed by the captain at david's place. what about the other one?
lots of negatives in this movie but there are some good bits sprinkled throughout. Fassbender carried this movie like a boss.
Would've preferred having Shaw turned into the Xenomorph queen instead of this
Dam I was really hoping they were gonna get it right this time
what bugged me was how fast they grew without food. you turn your head and it's become a teen neomorph.
Oh hell no. Why, man? Why the hell would they do that to Shaw? That is such shit. She deserved so much more as a character. She went through so much in Prometheus. Maybe I'm just a sucker for Noomi Rapace, but come on man, that is some bullshit end to a great character.
Highly disappointed. Thanks for the warning, will avoid.
Prometheus sucked so I'm not surprised. Sad to have such a strong foundation and the creator is the reason the story is fucked up. Best thing about Ridley Scott Alien franchise is James Cameron.
dont forget about H.R GIger, the one who created this whole alien good (terror) vibe. So yea nowadays we're seeing Ridley Scott work's, which sucks. Alien would never be what it is with Ridley Scott alone, he's not a genious, just a smartass who knows how to steal other people's art and get credit/money from it.
Ridley Scott makes 10 bad movies in-between a good one.
phfff hardly.
even an average Ridley film is better than pretty much most of Hollywood trash. well except Exodus that was just weird
Will Walter return in the next movie?? It's revealed that Walter's update allows him to revive from death after David kills him the first time (those glowing circles on his neck). There is also a scene where David teaches Walter how to play the recorder (used to control the derelict ship), so is it possible that Walter will revive, and control the derelict ship in paradise to find the colonists?? Thoughts?
What are you talking about? He said I saw the devil when I was a kid, or 11 years old, or something like that. What he meant was that he already saw the worst thing he could see and nothing could scare him. He didn't say David was the devil. How the hell did you reach to that conclusion?
Another fail in a string of failers from Ridley
another fail in a string of pathetic cynical audiences, who all think they can make better films from their armchairs.
Alien Covenant story is so bad!
About that facehugger/burnt face mentioned around the 12 minute mark, I understood that it was David who introduced the pathogen when exchanging the patch. The new patch was the enabler to get the 'spores' or which ever parasitic method it was into the system.
in prometheous, there were walls of xenomorph sculpture. If David is the one that create / design the xenomorph, how do you explain the prometheous wall sculpture??
Thank you, I thought I was the only one who saw it coming. This was a relief.
Also a shame. I really felt that screwed up that last thing. If that could have been Walter, wow, that would haven been a hell of a kicker.
As for Shaw, what she become is very reminiscent of some of Giger's original art. So that's spot on in my mind. It's a great, if very morbid and subtle shout out.
Pretty good review thanks. I do feel that Oram's decision to follow David and peer into the egg WAS in keeping with character though. Don't forget it was HIS poor decision to change course and check out this new planet that started the chain of events, relying on his blind faith that it was the correct thing to do so not too much of a stretch to think he would make another poor choice. Also, regarding David and Shaw, he MUST have woken her from Cryosleep before killing her, as there was a recording of Shaw piloting the engineers ship and singing "take me home" there's more to the story on that issue, hopefully it will be expanded on. solid 8 out of 10 from me, I loved it.
Guys, if david created the xenomorph as stated by RS. what about the bodies of engineers chest bursted out in prometheus?
i would appreciate if someone can answer this q as i have been waiting 5 years for a ans (prometheus)
Still doesn't explain how Xenos were around when the first human civilizations were being made with the predators or is AVP not cannon?
The reason why people hatin now is because they dont understand that Ridley Scott is trying to make these films reminiscent to the bible. Lots of references to the bible is being displayed and thats why Ridley regretted leaving the Alien franchise back in the early 80's
You don't know what happened to Shaw, ten years passed. She could have succumbed to the spores.
Could the fast growing of the Xenomorphs be explain since it wasn't the fully developed version in the original films? Same with the Facehuggers quickly impregnating the host?
I hate what happened to Shaw.She was my favourite character in Prometheus and was expecting her to show up in this movie.Super sad. I couldn't get over her death after the movie.
Can anybody answer this but how did Shaw's/David's derelict ship end up crashed on the side of the mountain after showing it docking above the engineers city when David drops the amulets?
Neomorphs were OP, the incubation period was almost nothing, they came out huge, and seemed immune to bullets most the time.
we will hopefully learn more about the engineers in the next film
i liked in the beginning when waylin tried to put david back in his place by telling him to give him a drink but later state he isnt made serve
My theory about why the engineer that was awakened in Prometheus went berserk is that he escaped David's mass killing of the engineers in Covenant. Somehow he time traveled, because if you watch the scene in Prometheus again it sure looked like he recognized David. If not maybe he just somehow recognized the evil in David.
i want to talk about the point you made about one of the security personnel being impregnated in like 2 seconds.
when i saw the movie, what i thought was that david did something while the others were all ready to go to cryosleep, perhaps gave him one of the face huggers he had kept swallowed, to the poor guy while he was unconscious on the med bay, which resulted in the alien being suddenly born.
i might be wrong cause i only got a glimpse of the corpse. i just remember it having its chest burst open.
In the soundtrack, 'Chest Burster' is perfection.
Naturally, all film viewers attach themselves emotionally into a story or situation by tethering their emotions to that of a character they can relate. In this case, that would typically be the person being killed by the chest burster... But Jed/Ridley truly had a moment of brilliant vision when they constructed this tune for this situation because the tune itself instantly took the fear out of the scene and put all viewers into the mind, not of the person being killed but into the character who set everything in motion. The character was watching his 'child' being born and this piece of music forced all viewers to focus on that and it's beauty, rather than the gore, which one would think couldn't be overmatched. Yet another demonstration of the power of music. Amazing. Surprising. Beautiful.
Regarding how the security guard got impregnated - there's a scene where "Walter" tends to his face wound, and very deliberately places a new bandage on his face. I think that's where he was impregnated as there was lots of focus on this wound througout
I thought the interesting point about the David and Walter switch was that although we saw David reaching for the knife, he was also giving Walter the choice to help or not and we never saw what happened there.
Did anyone catch the reference to Arnold Bocklin's painting, The Isle of the Dead?
Thanks for the review! I am bummed out I really wanted answers and follow up from Prometheus and shaw. I do not care about the aliens so much as we have seen it all, what more is there to see when it cones to them. This sounds so disappointing.
Thank you for the review. I guess I can wait for the free tv release then.