from the trailer
You can clearly see the bridge of the nose and the top of the brow
That trailer is fucking class, i hope it leads to another game.
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Alien Covenant - Trailer 2
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That trailer is fucking class, i hope it leads to another game.
Bobby Roberts
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This is one of the classier votes of no confidence in the thread. I dig it.
Everyone who is desperate for great Alien Material should read the current Aliens: Defiance Comicbook.
Great book about the struggle of a female Colonial Marine and a turned Wey-Yu-Synthetic to fight booth the attempts of the USCM Corps and Weyland-Yutani to get hold on a Xenomorph.
It also acknowledges Alien: Isolation.
Great book about the struggle of a female Colonial Marine and a turned Wey-Yu-Synthetic to fight booth the attempts of the USCM Corps and Weyland-Yutani to get hold on a Xenomorph.
It also acknowledges Alien: Isolation.
wait come back
MarkRenton
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At this point I can see Sir Ridley doing an Alien prequel that's an Ellen Brockovitch style court room drama where the Space Jockeys take the spaceship manufacturer to court because their craft are constantly fucking crashing.
CaviarMeths
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Because Aliens works better if we don't know exactly what happened at Hadley's Hope.
In fact, when asking the question of why any prequel doesn't exist, the correct answer is "because <movie> works better when we don't know exactly what happened at <backstory event that happened before the movie>." Even bad screenwriters know that there's value in a mysterious background of a setting or character that the audience benefits from not knowing in full. And Cameron has fantastic sensibilities as a storyteller. Everything about Hadley's Hope that he wanted you to know, he told you all about it in the director's cut of Aliens.
FoxnHurley
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from the trailer
You can clearly see the bridge of the nose and the top of the brow
Good catch! I'm digging the xenomorphs' design in this movie: they looks feral, agile, and mean as hell. I wonder if there will be any practical shots of them rather than the use of CGI. Stan Winston's team would undoubtedly have a blast making costumes for these revised xenomorphs.
Makes me think about the chestbuster that came out of the engineer in Prometheus.
That thing was already the size of a normal xeno after coming out,imagine what it would look like if it can still grow.
This was no Chestbuster, it was something else.
plasmawave
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Much better trailer than the first one.
I bet if this was the first trailer people would be a lot more positive about this movie.
I bet if this was the first trailer people would be a lot more positive about this movie.
CaviarMeths
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Well, I don't really either, but I'm watching this anyway because I'm a slut for Alien and sci-fi.
timetokill
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Reading this thread I'm realizing...
I don't remember shit from Prometheus besides that stupid rolling disc scene
I think I wiped it from memory out of disappointment
But now I don't know what the fuck anybody is talking about
I don't remember shit from Prometheus besides that stupid rolling disc scene
I think I wiped it from memory out of disappointment
But now I don't know what the fuck anybody is talking about
It might sound funny but what I'm waiting to see is the "psychology" of this new alien. Will it be a mindless killer or will it be more subtle like in the first two movies? (dc of the first movie)
In the first two movies, none of the aliens were actively trying to kill anyone, they were capturing people (harming them if they resist) to bring them in their lair for reproduction.
The alien being some kind of mindless killer is actually quite a big misconception. They are just looking to constantly expand and survive like parasites.
In the first two movies, none of the aliens were actively trying to kill anyone, they were capturing people (harming them if they resist) to bring them in their lair for reproduction.
The alien being some kind of mindless killer is actually quite a big misconception. They are just looking to constantly expand and survive like parasites.
The DC might not be canon, but it shows the original motivation of the Alien. Also the first kill wasn't exactly a first kill, since we later discover he was turned into an egg. Lambert died because she did not survive the brutal rape.
Mr. Pointy
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I'd be a pissed off xenomorph too if colonists were trying to steal my superwheat.
Those Hiroshima style black frozen oversized dudes in front of the big building seem to be the engineers.
"They are dead, they are all dead".
And then we will have a scene with a wannabe Tom Hardy scientist drowning his frustration over his collapsed life long dream of finding aliens with a black good infested whiskey.
That sheer frustration after the first hour of touching down on an alien planet and only finding massive temples, artifacts and dead bodies for study was just too immense.
Yup, it's officially crossed whatever suspension of disbelief I can hold.
Maybe Scott'll make a half decent movie for the first time in a while, but it's hard for me to not look at this premise as glorified fanfiction. It's so dumb.
Damn guess I'm a hater. Last supper trailer tainted everything because I know it's going to be forced "feel sad because this was this person's LOVE getting rekt" scenes. Not to mention the probable IQ levels of the geniuses from Prometheus.
Still can't wait to watch for the cool visuals though.
Still can't wait to watch for the cool visuals though.
D.Lo
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To be fair on the manufacturer, one was being piloted by an elephant-like alien who had its chest burst open, another was being flown by a disembodied head, and the other had Stringer Bell deliberately crash into it causing it to doughnut roll.
That concept is way more disturbing and scary. This movie has too aliens though the fly in your ear kind and the facehugger kind right? Also it looked like there was a big presumably Scottish alien (the one trying to head butt Danny mcbride) and a dog sized one that was going mental in the corn field.
General_Zod
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If leaks and stuff are to be believed,
we have 3 different types of aliens in this film i think fast bender even talked about it at the start of the year on a radio show or something not sure where the links are to confirm this but i;m pretty sure thats what I heard haha
Jason's Ultimatum
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These prequels are so unnecessary. The mystery of the xenomorphs should've been kept mystery. Sequels would've been better.
D.Lo
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Aliens vs Lawyers. Finally the humans have a chance to win.
Lol! This is wonderful!!
Zoe
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Isn't it only two? I figured this was the same one as in Prometheus.
Yes there were multiples domes housing multiple ships.
wesleyshark
Banned
Yeah there were two ships used. The one that crashed and the one that Shaw and David used to leave the planet.
Paradise Lost
wesleyshark
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What's wrong with that?
Unless the Android can turn into a fossil in just 50 years... No.
D.Lo
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So how did another ship, piloted by an engineer, have a cargo full of Xenomorph eggs?
Answer? A wizard did it (Lindolf).
TheLostBigBoss
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I really, really hope McBride makes it out of this somehow.
He at least seams to be a non-red shirt
He at least seams to be a non-red shirt
Apparently we need four movies to explain that
D.Lo
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This whole thing is such a mess.
Prometheus looked so promising, it could have been so simple even maintaining its basic premise to still have worked. Take away the 'same DNA' shit, take away the 'it's a military base', have the crew land on a dead planet and find bunch of nasty experiments, find out the creators of humanity (who look like the Elephant Space Jockeys, none of that 'it's a suit' shit) were assholes but now all dead, go through some horror tropes with some of the nasty bio experiments, maybe they are able to 'nuke it from orbit' at the end, and the stinger is that a log shows a ship that left a thousand years ago crashed in a nearby system, and a character sends the info to Weylan Yutani (who eventually sends the Nostromo to check it out). Also obviously fix up all the shit dialogue and characters and stupid scenes.
EDIT: My actual theory back in the day from Alien was that the Space Jockeys did not create the Xenos, they were just another intelligent species who had harvested them from somewhere else, possibly with some genetic modification or something, and were using them as a weapon in some kind of ancient interplanetary war. Of course some escaped causing the ship to crash (there were probably other jockeys and other stuff on the ship, the Nostromo crew didn't do an extensive search). Weylan Yutani somehow learned of the crashed ship through some translated messages they found somewhere when researching the lost Jockey civilisation, knowing the weaponised Aliens could have survived.
wesleyshark
Banned
I'm probably in the minority for this opinion, but the actual premise of Prometheus is much better than if they had simplified it to something along these lines with a "throwaway" plot point about the ship we see in Alien. I like that they are digging into everything and explaining it.
Ridley needs to step away from the franchise before he harms his legacy. You made Alien, dude. It was and is great. Stop trying to remake it. Jesus.
I mean yeah, this aesthetically looks fantastic but it's also beat for beat the bones of Alien, just like Prometheus was. I'll be passing on this one and continuing to wait for Blomkamps take on the universe.
I mean yeah, this aesthetically looks fantastic but it's also beat for beat the bones of Alien, just like Prometheus was. I'll be passing on this one and continuing to wait for Blomkamps take on the universe.
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