Alien: Covenant was amazing

I thought the flute scene was incredible. Homoerotic and beautiful, wierd, science fiction at its science fiction best.

@Dr. Connors, I am totally in agreement with you on every post you have made.  It is great that us as humans, see things with different eyes.  Because I can't see nor agree with the people who loved this film did.  And I been on the flip side as well; where I really enjoyed a film and many thought it stunk.  My wife's favorite movie is The Fifth Element and that is far from my favorite movie lol.

Japes I'm with you on that. That terminator brother karate style fight felt really goofy in there. I actually like the idea of them fighting, but they way it was choreographed or something felt very out of place, like we were suddenly watching Batman or something. Haha, the only other super cringe inducing part for me was when the xeno Chest bursted out of Oram and it was like mimicking David, I thought that part was really kind of dumb, and that baby xeno was bad design/cgi. 

Otherwise an enjoyable flick, I loved David, and I liked the creatures and stuff. I'd say it was just as good as Prometheus, but with more action scenes. I'd love some more Engineer stuff though, hope they don't drop them all together now. The engineers are the most interesting thing to me, but I was always in the PRO-metheus camp. :)

SPOLIERS

Franchise fatigue!

I just felt like I'd seen a lot of it before - crew being woken early, interception of a stange signal, change of course, visit to an alien world with a crashed ship, crew memebers get infected, alien get's on board, a cliff hanger, let's try and blow it out of the airlock. The most interesting parts (engineer homeworld, David's lab, explanation of how he created the egg) were all rushed and given far too little screen time. And the 'big chap' CGI was poor. It looked like a 90s computer game!

I liked the facehugger embryos though, and the homage to Böcklin's (and indeed Giger's) Isle of The Dead. And most of the film was shot beauftifully.

I'm seeing it again tonight, ho hum, perhaps I'll enjoy it more this time..

I hate what this film did with the mythology. Just threw out all the interesting ideas presented in Prometheus. And the writing with David just didn't make sense. He has daddy issues. That's a really stupid direction to take the series. It's ruined. Thanks a lot morons who complained about Prometheus because Ridley actually changed what he wanted to do and ruined everything.

The first half of the film was a solid horror movie because that is what Ridley does well. But the action scenes were dark, not particularly engaging and felt very tacked on.

Seriously, David created the xenos and he can control them? That's effing stupid. He's an android mad scientist with daddy issues. DUMB!

We waited 5 years for them to throw out everything mysterious and interesting about Prometheus. I'm pissed.

I'm glad he changed direction from prometheus. Covenant is a better film in my opinion than prometheus. Prometheus is a better film because of covenant. Covenant basically fixed the train wreck that was prometheus.

I'm happy:)

@colonialsoldier    Yeah man, it's tough when you look forward to a movie and you are totally let down. It feels like a punch in the gut or a punch in the face. Ridley said Prometheus was a mistake and he was gonna right his wrongs, this movie is barely a step up from the previous entry. Characters still do stupid stuff, let me touch this spore. Why don't they have some kind of space suits on again, like they take them off in Prometheus, yes this planet is like Earth but who knows what you could always breathe in or what could go in your ear, haha. Man, I need to watch Aliens so bad. As much as I'm not a Cameron fan overall Aliens is great never have I needed that departure, which was always welcome, from ALIEN to Aliens than I do now. Great characters, great action, great set pieces and I still love ALIEN but Ridley is ruining it. @PatientLeech   Yes all the David stuff is dumb I agree completely.

I also thought it was just plain silly when David palyed the theme tune to Prometheus on the flute..

^ drop your linen

Yeah, wtf was that?? Horrible...

Curt conners why wast so much time talking about not liking the movie?Prometheus is one of my favorite movies and you have already posted more than I ever have.

@nofacewilly - You are going to have your proponents and opponents of the film.  I am going to be very honest about my disappointment on the film and why the series has not gotten better since Aliens.  Even though you have fans that love Prometheus on this board; I think that movie was trash as well.  It was lucky to make the money that it did.

Thank you @colonialsoldier and perfectly said. @nofacewilly  I am expressing my disgust for something that I am passionate about and feel that I wasted all this time expecting this movie too be good and time I put in caring about it was all for nothing and don't get me started about Poopmetheus. This site is about people's opinions, this is mine.

@japes, agree on the fight scene.  Androids fighting would know to damage the eyes emediately. 

And what was so damn flammable it that cryo chamber?  Were they pumping pure oxygen into it???  Great design.  Silly nonsense.

Prometheus was better.  Sorry not sorry.  Better more memorable individualistic characters who you actually gave a crap about unlike the James Franco we never got to know.  Who cares if he burned.  Not gonna rehash again why I love Prometheus so much more, but I did.  Alien Covenant shouldn't have had that many crew members?  15???!!!  How many did Alien have?  Like 7? These AC crew members were just food for the aliens, I forgot about half of them within 5 seconds.

Maybe it should have been called Alien: Convenient, as in ultra convenient that a colonization ship arrived and convenient that David's little embryos where ready and the perfect size for the deep freezer.  LOL.  I did like Daniels and T as characters though.

Yeah it's just bad writing, directing, everything

The more I think about it the more I think I hated Alien Covenant.  I know I said earlier I didn't. Lol

@spear it's called a movie. Don't be ridiculous. Have you even noticed in super great movies if something wouldn't have happened there would be no movie. In alien if they didn't go to the beacon there is no movie. 

Dont be ridiculous. In starwars if Luke wouldn't have chased r2 he would of been dead. You are being ridiculous along with many other closed minded people. Hip to be edgy right?

Yeah it's not total shit like Prometheus is in my opinion, take that oneeyedwilly, I know that's not his name. Covenant is just very poopy. Like you didn't totally shit your pants but had a really bad shart.

I loved it,..it gives us plenty to chew on. it was intellectual, horrifying and nostalgic to both alien and prometheus. Ridley did his thing and will hit us again with another strong shot. I Literally just got back home from my 2nd watching today.