It opened on May 12th over here.
As a fellow Prometheus fan, I think you'll enjoy it.
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Saw it tonight. Pretty damn good...
If you didn't like Prometheus, chances are you won't like Covenant either. It's only in the last third of the movie that we get into anything like traditional Alien territory.
I liked the movie a lot, and it sure raises a lot more compelling Alien mythos/canon questions.
Some good plot twists... but I won't go into spoilers...
Recommended.
Interestingly, I had to complete a questionnaire about the movie for the distributors... and it wasn't even a preview showing or anything.Leave a comment:
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There's a new spot airing during NBA playoffs.
They show a wide angle of David dropping the urns. You can also see him in the background of the post facehugger attack.
That prelude video makes me wonder if Ridley is imploying some Blade Runner themes. It feels like David cracks from the solitude of the journey, ala Roy Batty and space combat.
His motivation to wipe out the engineers really has my interest. There are a few implications in the video, such as feeling appreciation and learning about the engineers.
The Covenant title probably works on a few levels. In general religious text, it's a blood bond from God. So the Alien is the result of bonding humans to whatever happened to the Engineers. I'm now wondering if we're going to see a fight between the Alien and the neomorph. The original assumption was the Alien spawned from the neomorph, but it appears David evolved the facehugger.Leave a comment:
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Alien: Covenant Prologue: The Crossing
(This also serves equally well as an epilogue to Prometheus.)
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Originally, no eyes. They have a snake-like sense of organisms around them. It was clarified in the novel tie-ins. One scene had Bishop moving about the lower hive and since he wasn't "alive" they ignored him. Bishop then contemplates staying on LV426 and studying the species. That's the android motivation Scott and co. had for Ash in Alien and he's decided to expand on it with Covenant.
Alien3 added vision because Fincher approached the movie with a film school dbag's mentality. I was around Fox after its release. He was despised for making a movie, as he would put it, "was for my friends".Leave a comment:
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A bit off topic...
Something I've always wondered, does the Alien have eyes or does it go by smell ?Leave a comment:
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That's one of the most haunting and beautiful posters I have ever seen in my life, wow...I want one badly, lol...Leave a comment:
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When I saw the trailer in the theater before Logan, I couldn't help but think: "I've seen this movie already many times." I hope they don't just make the same old movie again. Prometheus, with its problems, was still something new and different. Aliens needs a new take on things, not just the same old "alien gets stuck in someone's guts and kills everyone" movie. I'd like to see more of the Engineers and their home world.Leave a comment:
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