Alien: Covenant

"it's his return to alien," they said. "it's more of a proper alien movie than prometheus 2." oh, were it so... it is so bad. so. bad. as bad as prometheus? well... at its worst, yes. i disengaged as soon as the female lead was saddled with that cheap, ugly-crying dead husband drama, which was about the time we learned her name. my expectations plummeted and never rose again. by the time the movie got to such lows as fassbender inexplicably kissing himself (i first wrote "killing himself", a freudian slip of typos) and the absolutely dreadful college student exchanges about sources of quotes... read more

6.5/10 better then prometheus but still not even in the same league of alien or aliens. the thing is that going forward these are not really alien movies rather prometheus franchise. read more

better than prometheus/10 read more

the characters were frustrating in their levels of freakish stupidity. read more

it had a lot of problems, but i was entertained throughout. read more

sure, all the elements are technically still there and everything looks sort of right, but at this point its like ridley scott propping his birthday party up with the remains of jerry goldsmith, dan obannon, and h.r. giger, singing “happy birthday to me.” full review on: https://www.back-row.com/home/2017/6/14/carlos-corner-sequels-dont-suck read more

5 alien covenant read more

a continuation of the prequel to link back round. some interesting bits but generally uninspiring. read more

if alien was a perfect movie, as i've suggested- time and time again, alien: covenant is the antithesis of that movie. it is muddled, un-scary, and insulting to anyone who cared about the lore. alien was perfect because of it's perfect mystery. the xenomorph was a terrifying onscreen presence because we knew so little about it. the imagery of the derelict spacecraft on lv-426 is striking, like a science fiction painting that we'll never have context to. why did it crash? how long has it been there? where did the aliens come from? these questions aren't ones you're supposed to answer. they're... read more

异形是配角，主角是分裂成两个矛盾自我而同时又不断演进自身思维情感逻辑的人类未来象征。斯科特的特点是用恰当的娱乐化形式承载相对严肃深入的主题而从不进行过度而泛滥的渲染。同时操英美两种不同英语口音，法叔一定对自己的语言天赋感到自豪 read more

film 83 of obligatory october of horror ii jumpscare counter: 0. there were a handful of moments that were kind of like jumpscares during the third quarter of the film but none of them actually scared me so i'm not counting them. when keeping it colonialism goes wrong. i mean, it was fine. i have no major criticisms. but if you asked me to praise alien covenant, i'd struggle to come up with anything i really genuinely liked. maybe the visuals but those are still just riffing on giger's designs which are now over 40 years old. maybe the acting from fassbender, i guess. it's absolutely okay and... read more

a little too much 'playing the hits' for me, I still wish these two Alien prequels had been their own thing but it was very fun read more

I do like this more than Prometheus but it does have really bad cliches and really does ruin the Xenomorph mythology a lot. Michael Fassbender does an excellent job and so does Danny McBride for not being an asshole in a lot of his films but I think this was and is a step in the wrong direction for the franchise. read more

Both a sequel to the underrated (if flawed) "Prometheus" and a prequel to the original "Alien", "Covenant" puts more effort in steering the franchise back towards the gory horror of its earliest progenitor than in developing characters that are anything more than alien fodder, awkwardly stitching the pseudo-philosophical element of the previous film onto yet another story of a space crew being wiped off by the now overly familiar, Giger-inspired, carnivorous monsters. Still visually intriguing but, as far as suspense goes, it's light years behind a competently made imitation such as " read more

I get what Scott was trying to accomplish in this movie, but so much of the movie is just boring uninteresting scenarios we've seen in sci-fi horror movies over the years. I'm all for David's god complex and having a hand in the Xenomorph evolution. That's one of the only new interesting bits going on here, I felt with Prometheus too, all the parts I thought were interesting needed way more time for proper world building and fleshing things out. It's seriously takes half the movie to start getting anywhere, and I would be fine with that if the characters and situations were interesting, but... read more

Compared to Prometheus there are quite a few more boring parts. Luckily the parts that are good are really good to make up for it. read more

best entry in the DCU yet (David Cinematic Universe) read more

一毛一样的套路 read more

i enjoyed this movie. read more