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[Spoilers] Major concerns for Covenant and following Alien movies

Inquisitor Fifield

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This topic is meant for those who couldnt help themselves and watched the leaked 10min footage of the sneak peek.

So spoilers ahead..

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Also I want to lay aside the arguments we used to have here shortly, so no sarcasm intented.

Overall I must say I am impressed by what we got to see in the 10minutes of footage - except for the (baby)neomorphs design and especially its behaviour. Way too animalistic and hyperactive. The movement has strong resemblance of a monkey or macaque thats attacking or fleeing (look it up and compare no joke lol)

Ofcourse thats not really a big deal and still makes a terrifying monster - but:

Do we really want the Alien and its relatives to be more animal than humanoid spawned demons? The Neomorphs and Proto/Xenomorph we got to see in the trailers and footage thus far all walked on their 4 legs, extremely fast and animalistic in motion.

I have the increasing concern, that this design choice of animal like Aliens had to be made for box office reasons.

The asian market, esply. the chinese, has some regulations for (horror)creatures and what not. I dont know the cultural or political reasons for this but its a fact. For example in video games such as mmorpgs the monsters like sceletons, undead, abominations, zombies and other humanoid baddies have to be altered (to look more like humans&animals and without visible bones/intestines etc.) to get censorship approval for the chinese market.

Also I cant imagine Ridley deciding to use this kind of pretty ordinarily behaviour for his creatures just by himself. The artworks and unused Prometheus artworks for neomorphs and deacon -like creatures all had them looking way more humanoid and undefinable than what the back- and throatbursters looked and moved like.

Remember the Alien back then used to lurk, stand, crouch, float down chains, just lay there in between some pipes, or just drop from the ceiling and erect almost in slow motion which all was way scarier and outlandish than running and jumping space monkeys..

But thats just a concern for a possible incoming disappointment, we have to wait for the movie luckily.

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joylitt
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Inquisitor your description reminded me of the space monkey from "Lost In Space" LOL I also watched those 10 minutes and being very much averse to cgi, I didn't have any qualms about the creatures' looks or behavior.

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sadly i was thinking the same thing about the wild monkey behavior and "cute" noises. I was also thinking that the CGI was "meh" especially when the backburster falls onto the floor and dude flails backwards from the table. THAT part looked straight out of a video game. 

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Side note: Remember back in the day we were lucky to see graphics good enough in games to give you a decent facsimile of the original movie? Now, the games look as good as the movies and we have the option of comparing them to how they stack up to game graphics.

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