Alien Covenant Trailer Released
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ViewtifulJC
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boredandlazy
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As someone who has been a fan of the Alien franchise since childhood I wasn't scared by this trailer, but without going into any real depth I didn't see anything wrong with it. In fact I wasn't really aware this was coming out so soon, so I was more excited watching it that anything. For the record I enjoyed Prometheus a lot, taking into account some rather stupid actions from certain characters. 
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No idea about the script, but the movie the trailer was advertising, looks like shit.
Sho_Nuff82
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Why is Fassbender in this? A prequel to Prometheus?
SuperBanana
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Sequel.
DrunkShogun
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Still cautious on the films quality but seemed ok. Not a fan of the shower scene scene at the end because it's a bit of a horror cliche that I thought alien was above.
Rated-Rsuperstar
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Awful. Looks like a rehash of alien with all of the prometheus bullshit carried over. Along with a bonus slasher sex scene taken from every horror movie ever.
Okay, this looks a lot better than I gave it credit for. Thought it was gonna be a cheesy scifi-action movie like Aliens, but it looks like its leaning more to the horror side. Smart move.
Edit: Oh, this is the Ridley Scott one! I've been going about this movie thinking it was the upcoming Neil Blomkamp project. That makes a lot more sense and leaves me way more excited.
Edit: Oh, this is the Ridley Scott one! I've been going about this movie thinking it was the upcoming Neil Blomkamp project. That makes a lot more sense and leaves me way more excited.
MrCunningham
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I agree that this trailer doesn't look as good as the first Prometheus trailer, but then again, Prometheus was a pretty trashy movie.
Yet again, individual scenes look great with a lot of nicer cinematography, but the trailer editing is a bit... ehh...
Yet again, individual scenes look great with a lot of nicer cinematography, but the trailer editing is a bit... ehh...
Soapbox Killer
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"Covenant"
Ship or the mission name I think.
SMG
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Never seen Alien?
The more I think about this, the only real complaint I have is that it doesn't show us anything we haven't seen before. This is a problem Terminator faces as well. After 1 and 2, where do you go?
Every screenwriter I know thinks these videos are full of shit.
Every screenwriter I know thinks these videos are full of shit.
I know of lots of folks who do stuff I enjoy, but the key is that almost all of them have employment or experience in the fields they're discussing. I generally find that anything coming from people who are just fans isn't very good. A non-fan of Aliens films with experience making movies could give you a much better YouTube criticism than a nerd who's loved Aliens movies his whole life.
Jawmuncher
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Looked alright. Was hoping for a better trailer.
His character is part of a series of androids that look the same.
http://alienanthology.wikia.com/wiki/David_(Synthetic)
Lights and Waves
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That was a pretty bad trailer. I'm going to watch this film regardless!
didnt they fly to the engineer planet at the end ?
That's the Blomkamp project.
Sho_Nuff82
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His character was probably the best part of that film, so I'm cautiously optimistic.
Scott just needs to get back to "most people in my horror film are behaving with logical self-interest", rather than the last film's "I'm a PhD-level intellect who's going to place my hand in this garbage disposal to see what happens." The best sci-fi/horror films are when the characters do almost everything right but it's still not good enough to escape their fate.
onepiecefan
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Hmm looks a touch more like Prometheus' than I'd hoped, but nevertheless will still watch.
TheLostBigBoss
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I'm getting really tired of characters doing stupid things in order for bad things to happen.
Alien planet and you don't have some type of fucking suit to filter the air, and you don't notice your obvious looking spore things on the ground?
Alien planet and you don't have some type of fucking suit to filter the air, and you don't notice your obvious looking spore things on the ground?
andythinkpad
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Another inferior remake of original Alien. Stop Scott!
Nope, Blomkamp is making a sequel to Aliens.
TheLostBigBoss
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...Yea, that's what he just said (Or was, that project is on hold/canned)
Future PhaZe
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So blomkamps project in preproduction hell because of his film. Ugh.
â Narayan
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Looks lame to me.
Didn't like Prometheus, either.
Didn't like Prometheus, either.
That's not half as surprising as Kenny Fucking Powers in this.
I think it's more like this movie will tie into Prometheus somehow, like why the android acted the way he did in Prometheus -- that germ thing in the trailer is most likely the cause.
So I guess it's a prequel side story?
I don't think we'll know what happen after Prometheus anytime soon.
Hmmm.
Some nice shots but no surprise there. Not really feeling it though. Seems like follow on from Prometheus (which I expected) with random injection of original Alien because of blowback on that aspect (or lack thereof) of Prometheus.
Backbusters feels too hammy in a "hey instead of chestburters why not backbusters" kind of way.
And an Alien in the shower with a nude couple... that's so odd, cliche and oddly full of potential given the (long absent) strong sexual undercurrent in original Alien I just don't know how to judge it.
From the content/context I'm worried it's going to be another bag of interesting but only halt deceleration (or baked) ideas with a of office boosting (they hope) injection of gore and Alien/Aliens DNA.
It'll be interesting to critique like Prometheus before it but again it feels like another oddly disjointed unnecessary prequel to a film that was always suitably mysterious precisely because it didn't have a backstory explaining everything.
Unless reviews are terrible I'll give it a shit (edit: shot but that's quite the Freudian slip) in cinema though even if just for the visuals.
Some nice shots but no surprise there. Not really feeling it though. Seems like follow on from Prometheus (which I expected) with random injection of original Alien because of blowback on that aspect (or lack thereof) of Prometheus.
Backbusters feels too hammy in a "hey instead of chestburters why not backbusters" kind of way.
And an Alien in the shower with a nude couple... that's so odd, cliche and oddly full of potential given the (long absent) strong sexual undercurrent in original Alien I just don't know how to judge it.
From the content/context I'm worried it's going to be another bag of interesting but only halt deceleration (or baked) ideas with a of office boosting (they hope) injection of gore and Alien/Aliens DNA.
It'll be interesting to critique like Prometheus before it but again it feels like another oddly disjointed unnecessary prequel to a film that was always suitably mysterious precisely because it didn't have a backstory explaining everything.
Unless reviews are terrible I'll give it a shit (edit: shot but that's quite the Freudian slip) in cinema though even if just for the visuals.
TheLostBigBoss
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Danny McBride looks really dope in this movie, and in the last shot, he's going to probably kick some ass.
The Hermit
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Yuppp
No going anywhere near this one, not after Prometheus.
That was my fault though, I found out Lindelof wrote it after I watched...
Soldiussnaku
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Trailer was meh to me.
Not a good first impression.
Not a good first impression.
SolidusDave
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That looks somehow cheap as hell.
If this is like Prometheus but without the redeeming visual qualities...
Also, I'm not sure I like the plot that was shown.
A non-military crew + Fassbender 2 robot are send out, probably to track a signal of the crashed Engineer's ship that what's-her-name launched with the help of Fassbender 1's head at the end of Prometheus.
The plan after Prometheus was to find the Engineers' home planet but doesn't seem like they managed. Seems more like a random planet and the black goo from the ship's weapons spilled and modified the lifeforms. The insect in the trailer will mutate that male crewmember whose spine seems to be piercing through his skin in the closed room. Basically a zombie-thing like the scientist who was bit by the black-goo-infused snake in Prometheus.
Considering it seems to be classic looking facehuggers and possibly a classic alien, they will somehow link this to the original Alien movie. But it seems to cheapen everything by basically repeating the setup of the first movie?
If this is like Prometheus but without the redeeming visual qualities...
Also, I'm not sure I like the plot that was shown.
A non-military crew + Fassbender 2 robot are send out, probably to track a signal of the crashed Engineer's ship that what's-her-name launched with the help of Fassbender 1's head at the end of Prometheus.
The plan after Prometheus was to find the Engineers' home planet but doesn't seem like they managed. Seems more like a random planet and the black goo from the ship's weapons spilled and modified the lifeforms. The insect in the trailer will mutate that male crewmember whose spine seems to be piercing through his skin in the closed room. Basically a zombie-thing like the scientist who was bit by the black-goo-infused snake in Prometheus.
Considering it seems to be classic looking facehuggers and possibly a classic alien, they will somehow link this to the original Alien movie. But it seems to cheapen everything by basically repeating the setup of the first movie?
Yup,
other then that it seems as by the numbers as possible.
With a different director, this would just be "another one of those".
The Alien being something scary died with 3.
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