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Kinda reminds me of the "Byrus" from dreamcatcher

http://aliens.wikia.com/wiki/Byrus

I wonder what he means in his notes when he says "...although like many species on this planet, the phyla seem more indistinct and the life forms more adaptable. Despite being based in an ancient and robust core code."

"Dr. Shaw and Dr. Holloway were on their way to obtaining everything they ever dreamed of...well, almost."

Just watched Prometheus for the first time after Covenant's release, and just realized that seeing Shaw there will never be the same... that weird feeling towards her, by knowing what a fate is waiting...

Great images as always, Ingeniero.

I've read in a few other topics about the thoughts on the black eyes.  It was suggested that the engineers in Prometheus were possibly thousands+ years older than the Planet 4 engineers.  Perhaps over the amount of time and evolution, the black eyes transitioned to human eyes.

I was thinking that maybe the space-faring engineers that seed planets have the black eyes due to evolution in space, while the engineers that stayed on Planet 4 and evolved there developed a more terrestrial-suited eye/vision type.

@daliens - I can do that, as Alien 3 seemed more in line with the end of Alien, than Aliens?  Alien could have even been Alien 2 & just skipped over Aliens?

One of the many awe-inspiring visuals in Prometheus!  It is a modern sci-fi horror classic!!!

Do a lot of the buildings in the first pics from the OP have gold structures on top of them?  Can't tell if it's the image or reflective gold, but if so, maybe a source for solar power.  I know it's been mentioned in many other topics, but I didn't notice as much gold in other pics.

I like the beat of the song but can't stand the new cool thing of mumbling random ad lib words during the chorus and intro.  Not that I don't listen to it in the car with my subs up though.  This is a funny/cool video lol.

I know it is just a sketch, but does anyone else think this Engineer has quite a lot less brain matter than you would expect? 

It gets me all the time!!! And, mind you, I just saw them again yesterday. What a thrill!

Gigering disturbing - in every sense of the word...

Super creepy looking.  I wonder if itdoes just eat wheat, or waits for something else to come by that eats wheat.  This one almost looks like it could have been a concept for the alien in the movie Life.  It had a transparent leafy look to it.

Cool pics, this one kind of reminds me of the Nazca lines on earth.

CGI fits the bill - no more, no less.

It's like something needs salting, but you're AGAINST SALT, so you just WON'T TAKE IT!!! :)

Lol, ok red0guy@gmail.com , you're entitled to your opinion. Aliens 3 was shocking to me. Although, I really couldn't care less about Hicks, Newt or Ripley. They were not particularly sympathetic or compelling characters to me.

It's Bishop's gruesome demise that grips me.

I liked Shaw's death. Shaw was a complex and sympathetic character so I like that she was denied the answers she sought and that she was used as a tool to implement horrors she would never have condoned. 

To me that's chilling and that's what I like to see in a horror movie. 

I agree.

My first time with A:C was lame due to the projector operator (I noticed it was going to be very DARK during the trailers) But I loved it and, sure, my second at home became gorgeous as ever, and not THAT DARK :)

VivisectedEngineer

Give me a break. I watched in the last week all the 4 original Alien movies. 3 was not that shocking. Newt and Hicks died painlessly in their sleep while Ripley had a heroes that. That was no where near as killing a main by having them vivisected (as is the case in the novelization) after doing the humane thing.  And we know better, it was more about the money...

From when horror life-is-f***ed-up-and-then-everyone-dies-unceremoniously genre. Maybe cheap millennial shit like Saw or Hostel or some zombie crap. Can't have something more original something more insightful? Only visceral crap for our lizard brain?

The only thing that this movie (AC) made me feel was disgust which I would have rather avoid. So yeah, don't count me in for another one.

Guys, awesome!

Purvis, Clemens, The Thing (whatever "he" was), Dillon (Charles S. Dutton) and, yes, Daniels, Hicks, Shaw, Janek (my favorite hugging pal), Hudson, Kane...

We cared so much about them, we sympathized with them, somehow. And they had to go.

Then, there comes @VivisectedEngineer - and I'll stick to it - "

To all those asking why Shaw had to die...

It's because it's HORROR! We're supposed to have a love/hate relationship with it. We're supposed to be HORRIFIED. It's supposed to be f***ed up."

And, then, just before I go back to "Apocalypse Now" and the famous Cel Kurts' saying: "The horror, the horror", I think...

"We need this horrifying mourning. Otherwise, we would be watching 'The Love Boat' or the kind."

VivisectedEngineer  look at David when he cuts his hair. And when he gets out of the cathedral as Walter  I see clearly genius in there, both from Fassbender and Ridley Scott. 

Cerulean Blue I feel the same, still I like Alien 3 from the Alien sequels. The rest are like heresies. 

I am a person that cannot stand CGI-

Guys, I will just go ahead & say it, I do not care to see any Alien installment, not directed by the Knights Bachelor aka Sir Ridley Scott.  It is his creation & if he chooses to be David about it, so be it.  I do not care for any of the sequels, though I absolutely adore the prequels!  This has been my rant in Cerulean Blue!  ;)

I like it!!

Agreed, I like it better than after my first viewing, as I can now keep my personal agenda out of the way & enjoy it for what it is.  An Alien movie installment is better than not getting another one at all?

Wow, incredible! You know that part of your mind that generates nightmares? I think David's entire brain is made out of that.

I love these, so much creativity has gone into Covenant, just wonderful.

Ok, ali81 , most importantly, what kind of awesome job do you have that you are able to watch Alien at work!?

I would say Scott was genius dealing with the shooting. Cameron's aliens always looked fake and "puppet like", and weren't scary, especially the Queen (blech).

@MonsterZero

"But I really enjoy watching certain scenes and calling it good."

Can I ask which specific scenes you enjoy watching? I have a funny habit when I watch movies on my own, I just skip to my specific favorite scenes and watch those 30 second segments over and over (part of the joys of being a high functioning Autistic).

"It's a very evil movie, all death, very little light."

So true! Brilliant isn't it! :)

To all those asking why Shaw had to die...

It's because it's HORROR! We're supposed to have a love/hate relationship with it. We're supposed to be HORRIFIED. It's supposed to be f***ed up.

If Walter dies in Awakening, I'm going to be horrified. HORRIFIED! But...I'll probably still go to the theater to see it four more times.

Horror isn't supposed to be a happy, everyone-gets-their-questions-answered kind of genre.

It's supposed to be a life-is-f***ed-up-and-then-everyone-dies-unceremoniously sort of genre.

I'll tell you, Alien 3 f***s me up, badly. It's just so gosh damn...UNFAIR! It's the exact sort of thing I'd write, lol.

That is the purpose of art. To elicit emotion. I both admire and despise Alien 3, passionately and in equal portions. It has definitely occupied more time in my mind than any other Alien movie, as Covenant undoubtedly will for you all, because a beloved character dies.

But you all probably know this already. To acknowledge it breaks the fourth wall and ruins the illusory escape art builds for us. We now return to our regularly scheduled program.

(...I'll watch Alien 3 whenever I'm in the mood to be very deeply disturbed. Which does happen on occasion :)

I agree too that A:C is better second viewing.  I'm getting ready to watch it a third time tonight as well.

Thank you for that daliens.

I provide an empty canvas for Ati to make worthy.

(After Gediman opens and closes his eyes to what Wren as said like he just couldn't stand hearing the scientific jargon to answer a simple explanation)

Gediman: She's freaked. 

Gediman - She's freaked.

I agree. I've watched it 10 times and think it's brilliant....But I really enjoy watching certain scenes and calling it good.

It's a very evil movie, all death, very little light. Reminds me of a slasher movie...Just when you're sure Jason is dead...He pops up and kills a main character!

We are 50 years(probably longer)till CGI is perfected....but even 50 years from now,  you'll still need great artists to produce believable characters.  No amount of CGI or practical effects will make up for bad character design.  Always going to need a Giger.

I'd love to see Alien3 with new CGI! Even A L I E N would be cool...I'd redo Ash's head scene and Kane's undershirt where you can clearly see the mechanical contraption he is wearing...clean up that and some other bits.

I completely agree, the first time in the cinema was a bit confusing because I was expecting something different to be honest but on second viewing, I thought it was excellent!

I guess Shaw lived only to fix David and the engineers were only a side dish. But that is my guess, you don't have to agree. 

It's a tricky question to answer because he's completely amoral, as far as normal humans are concerned. But, he's not human, let alone normal.

Ultimately, morality is not absolute, so he's just behaving logically from his perspective.

You can ask a similar question of a psychopath, or a sociopath as the professionals tend to call them these days. They know what they're doing, but they have no remorse for their actions. We don't really blame sociopaths for the way they are; we just lock them up.

David is the ubersociopath. Although he is very clever and has free will, he isn't burdened with a conscience, and probably sees that as a good thing (like Ash does). As daliens says, his creators are to blame, if anybody. They should have instilled him with human morality to avoid such mishaps.

Kane was fine up until a moment before the Alien burst out of him. He did squeal like a piggy before he went into shock, and twitched a little as the birth continued.

Oram's voice was laboured as he lay on the floor, immobile. And he made some painful grunting noises as the creature erupted. He, too, did a bit of twitching.

I wouldn't like to say which of these was more 'fake',  not having seen such an event happen in real life! People handle shock in different ways. Like, I heard, the old trope of the crowd squealing when a plane goes down is fabrication – passengers generally stay silent or quiet at such times.

But, to the matter in hand, the practical effect in the 1979 movie was good, but poor by today's standards. The Covenant chestburster has some beautiful CGI.

Didn't they try something like that on DVD can't remember the theme though. Great idea really. Like playing dragons lair in the 80s that was a game trying to be a cartoon. U could have it in film. I still thinks it comes under gaming some what? Get the Commodore 64 out anyways bubble bobble or way of the exploding fist? I'm in