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Alien: Covenant immediate first impressions

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Chris

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Hey everyone, 

As you know I attended the world premiere of Alien: Covenant yesterday. My full review I will post later but here is a brief run down of my first impressions... 

The film is very much Alien. With having some nods to Prometheus it definitely leans more on the Alien / Aliens side of the mythology. However, while being an Alien focused sequel, the story is really about David. 

As you can imagine Fassbender once again stole the show with his remarkable performance as David and Walter. Though, the rest of the cast did fare much better than those in Prometheus. 

The film was enjoyable overall, but I do have a few gripes which I will explain at length in my spoiler-filled review.

Covenant is a worthy entry into the Alien series, but like Prometheus, it has a lot of explaining to do before we get to the 1979 original.

I have a second viewing planned for the 10th and I hear repeat viewings are necessary for this movie.

Expect a fill rundown soon, though!

Predator: Badlands - coming November 7th, 2025

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dk
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A Director's Cut was a question I posed to Chris for the interview (fingers crossed).

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I was afraid it was gonna be fast paced. Just like Prometheus where it felt rushed. Hopefully the directors cut brings a healtht dose of more screen time. 

Is there an agenda the mods are not telling us about? ;)

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meh. it doesn't sound like everything i've been hoping and waiting on for so damn long..... especially the few spoilers i've read on here have truly disappointed me. once again, meh.... 

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Looking forward to reading both reviews by you hopefully tomorrow night. I think people to need to realize Alien: Covenant is more of a continuation of Prometheus and it's story and not so much a direct prequel to Alien sadly. 

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i enjoyed prometheus. big time. i was just hoping that there would be big shockers, that all the trailers would at least be somewhat misleading.... 

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How do you know they cut a lot? Is the editing that bad we could make out missing pieces of the puzzles?

Also is David's workshop shown a lot as you said it's his story? (plz answer with yes or no) I hope this is not breaking the embargo and NDA? If yes then I can wait till tomorrow

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I think it's safe to say since this is a Ridley Scott film, there is no Alien queen. Sadly no Deacon either but as we learned a week or two ago, the Neomorphs share that goblin shark inspiration that the Deacon had. 

I have to be careful with what I say but with regards to pacing it's easy to follow what's going on. Never was I lost or having to think hard about what was going on. I think a better term would be much was accelerated.

I will say though, that many of the theories we shared here were very close to on the money.

Predator: Badlands - coming November 7th, 2025

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@Chris

Whose theories? ;P

Eine Theorie die nicht auf Etwas solidem basiert ist für gewöhnlich nur Geschwätz.

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The Queen is Dead!!  HOORAY!!

Ok, hit me with the full Spoiler Review!!

TY Chris!

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Someone burn David already.. 

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No Deacon. No Queen. Two types of aliens are the ones shown off in the trailers. David is a bastard. 

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Arnold Arthur Spamming The Chief? Kids these days- no respect!

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