Alien Covenant

[Santino]

It's very tense towards the end, wondering whether Newt will be killed by the aliens, or instead live until just after the credits to be killed off-screen while asleep.

 

[kabbes]

"Game over, man!"
"Nuke them from orbit, it's the only way to be sure"
"Get away from her, you bitch"
Everything said by Vasquez

Alien was a great film, but what lines does it have to compete with Aliens?

 

[belboid]

"Game over, man!"
"Nuke them from orbit, it's the only way to be sure"
"Get away from her, you bitch"
Everything said by Vasquez

Alien was a great film, but what lines does it have to compete with Aliens?

So, um, we think we should discuss the bonus situation..

I admire its purity. A survivor, unclouded by conscience, remorse, or delusions of morality.

Ash is a robot!

I can't lie to you about your chances, but... you have my sympathies

This is Ripley, last survivor of the Nostromo, signing off.

Here, Jonesy

 

[EastEnder]

So we're in agreement then? Orang Utan knows nothing & his views should be stricken from the record.

 

[Bungle73]

Just experienced a short 3D 360 VR thing where you're the alien breaking out someone's body from a scene in the movie. Pretty cool. Lots of blood.

 

[EastEnder]

Just experienced a short 3D 360 VR thing where you're the alien breaking out someone's body from a scene in the movie. Pretty cool. Lots of blood.

Can you choose which bit of the body you get to burst out of?

 

[Bungle73]

Can you choose which bit of the body you get to burst out of?

Which "part" would you like to be bursting out of?

Nah, it's a passive experience where you just sit back and watch. It only lasts a few minutes.

 

[Bungle73]

This is the best video I could find.......doesn't really show anything.



Edit: 'Alien: Covenant in Utero' on Oculus Rift is a disgusting and terrifying pleasure

 

[sleaterkinney]

 

[Johnny Vodka]

Average review in The Guardian, great review in The Independent.

 

[DotCommunist]

Here’s a sentence I’m just incredibly sad to type: Alien: Covenant is bad.


It’s not terrible. Director Ridley Scott didn’t make some kind of hugely annoying, incoherent movie or anything like that. There are a few pockets of enjoyment in what unfolds on screen and watching it is semi-pleasant. But after the credits roll, mulling over everything you just saw, the film continues to sour like milk left out in the sun. It was good for a little bit, but not for long, and that’s just not good enough for a franchise with this history.

hoping io9 reviewer got this wrong

 

[Johnny Vodka]

hoping io9 reviewer got this wrong

Probably. Sounds like a whinger.

 

[Orang Utan]

Probably. Sounds like a whinger.

Well, if you don't like a film, you should say so. Is that whinging?

 

[Johnny Vodka]

Well, if you don't like a film, you should say so. Is that whinging?

Yup. People whinged about Prometheus. It was a fun Alien film. Some people like moaning just for the sake of it. I expect this new film will be icky and entertaining.

 

[Orang Utan]

Yup. People whinged about Prometheus. It was a fun Alien film. Some people like moaning just for the sake of it. I expect this new film will be icky and entertaining.

So when people have a different opinion to you, they're whinging? that explains a lot about you

 

[stuff_it]

This is the film I was hoping for, not more planet-bound xenomorph-fleeing screams.

 

[Bungle73]

hoping io9 reviewer got this wrong

It's contradictory. One minute it's "bad", and the next it's "not terrible".......

 

[Orang Utan]

It's contradictory. One minute it's "bad", and the next it's "not terrible".......

bad but not terrible. that's not contradictory

 

[EastEnder]

Yup. People whinged about Prometheus. It was a fun Alien film. Some people like moaning just for the sake of it. I expect this new film will be icky and entertaining.

Expressing a difference of opinion is only "whinging" if you consider your opinion inherently more valid than everyone else's, which of course would make you somewhat of a tool.

Prometheus would've been an averagely passable attempt at the scary-alien-sci-fi genre if it'd been an independent film made by relative amateurs. As the then latest incarnation of what had been one of the best instances of this genre, created by perhaps the best in the field, it was a miserable letdown.

It's in much the same way that Star Wars The Phantom Menace would've been just an averagely naff sci-fi romp had it not been for that fact that it followed on the heels of one of the best trilogies of all time ever, thereby rendering it an astonishingly awful excuse for a film.

 

[Johnny Vodka]

So when people have a different opinion to you, they're whinging? that explains a lot about you

What are you on about? There are a lot of people on the internet just out to put something down... There are a lot of people that can't take something for what it is rather than what it isn't. "Here's the new Alien film. It doesn't have x, so I'll take a massive shit on it."

What I liked so much about Prometheus, I think, was the body horror. Actually, it probably did that better than any of the other Alien films. Which is why I look forward to this, though in all likelihood won't catch it until it's on the telly.

 

[Orang Utan]

No, you just think they are out to put something down and can't accept the fact that they might actually be saying what they think.

 

[bi0boy]

Anyone expecting anything out of Ridley Scott since like a million years ago will inevitably be disappointed.

 

[Johnny Vodka]

No, you just think they are out to put something down and can't accept the fact that they might actually be saying what they think.

Maybe they are saying what they think. Maybe they're griping just for the sake of it or due to stupidly high expectations? You don't accept these people exist in internetland? Did you read the Independent review? It sounds like if you enjoy the Alien concept, then it should be plenty entertaining. I hope.

 

[Johnny Vodka]

Anyone expecting anything out of Ridley Scott since like a million years ago will inevitably be disappointed.

Ridley Scott is generally overrated. Prometheus is actually one of his best films.

 

[Orang Utan]

I really wanted to like Prometheus but it was shit. Apparently feeling that way makes me a whinger.

 

[B.I.G]

I really wanted to like Prometheus but it was shit. Apparently feeling that way makes me a whinger.

In the vast majority. It was also extremely badly plotted.

 

[Johnny Vodka]

I really wanted to like Prometheus but it was shit. Apparently feeling that way makes me a whinger.

No, no, no. You're not known at all for being a contrarian whinger.

 

[B.I.G]

If he was contrarian he would have liked it!

 

[Johnny Vodka]

In the vast majority. It was also extremely badly plotted.

I'm not that bothered about plot. I just want some nice sets, a bit of tension and loads of things bursting out of people. Neither Alien or Aliens is loved for its plot.

 

[Johnny Vodka]

If he was contrarian he would have liked it!

Check Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes.