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Alien: Covenant - The Prologue footage
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Probably because the second half of it is from the last 10 minutes of the movie. It was weird how they edited together footage from the very beginning and very end to make it look more like the OG Alien film. Ridley must've gotten pissed about it or something for them to go on a rampage of taking it down everywhere.
NealMcCauley
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Clip was officially uploaded: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8LJSuO4aXA
wesleyshark
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Oooo these are good
Bobby Roberts
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So it had nothing to do with being "from the last 10 minutes of the movie" then, they just didn't want it up on a channel that wasn't theirs.
Also, how do you know that's from the last 10 minutes of the movie? Are you just guessing or have you seen a screening of this thing and are using spoilers to make this determination?
And if they didn't want anything from the last 10 minutes getting out, why would they cut any part of that last 10 minutes into a commercial to be officially released weeks before the film comes out?
Muthur?
ldcommando
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Got tickets for next Wednesday.
Pls don't suck
Pls don't suck
BattleMonkey
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The explanation of the weapons, ugh. They aren't even modified to be sci fi like, they just literally are using todays weapons and tech. Guns from 150-200 years in the past?
Also silly when in prometheus they had guns shooting pew pew blue blasts and this is 10-20 years later?
Spiritwalker
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Bobby Roberts
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That's when I'm seeing it too. Then I gotta write about it.
I'm basically just hoping he has a handle on how to set up and stage effective scares. I dont expect much out of the story except it's utility as fuel for scares.
I'm basically just hoping he has a handle on how to set up and stage effective scares. I dont expect much out of the story except it's utility as fuel for scares.
CadetMahoney
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I'd love for this to be the canon spelling.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
It is
BattleMonkey
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I just want a simple monster flick, some decent tension and scares with some pretty Ridley imagery. Prometheus I tried again, and it just was such a pointless movie about nothing. Nothing is resolved, people die being stupid, just more questions.
Straight Edge
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MU-TH-UR
Cosmonaut X
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Is that all you bite, muthurfukur?!
One Eyed Willy
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4 meters above you
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wants to fuck an Asian grill.
I think that, luckily, we will finally be getting that. This time around the human characters just seem like colonists who wanna survive, not find god in space.
It seems they would be able to solve this. There is still the part where the movie will probably be dragged down by the engineer plot/muh biblical parallels, but there should be a good action suspense in there.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
edit: What does Alien's Rogue One moment even mean?
I had trouble with that and inserted "usually"
I took it to mean "better than I expected!"
Was just about to say this.
edit: What does Alien's Rogue One moment even mean?
It's the Alien prequel we never knew we wanted?
edit: What does Alien's Rogue One moment even mean?
The equivalent of the death star's weak point explanation, perhaps?
Rogue One moment? I don't know what this is or if it's a good thing. Are there random cameos by Ian Holm and Lance Henrikson? Do a large portion of the shots from the trailers not make it into the movie? Does it have an uncanny valley John Hurt? Or is it just a surpringly decent movie?
Based on the two preview scenes from last week, I definitely think this is still possible. I actually liked what I saw. After 5 shitty Alien sequels (and the last one being from Ridley), however, I'm still keeping my expectations low. With how low the bar's been set, I'd have thought someone would accidentally trip over it by now and make a decent Alien movie. Yet it's been over twenty years and they still haven't even topped Alien 3 (Alien 3!). I figure it might be wise if I go expecting disappointment then maybe I'll be pleasantly surprised.
Based on the two preview scenes from last week, I definitely think this is still possible. I actually liked what I saw. After 5 shitty Alien sequels (and the last one being from Ridley), however, I'm still keeping my expectations low. With how low the bar's been set, I'd have thought someone would accidentally trip over it by now and make a decent Alien movie. Yet it's been over twenty years and they still haven't even topped Alien 3 (Alien 3!). I figure it might be wise if I go expecting disappointment then maybe I'll be pleasantly surprised.
Bobby Roberts
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Also why did he throw his pass on the ground?
So the studio can trademark it no doubt.
Haha, good point.
This person saw the film and then had a total breakdown which rendered everything obsolete.
First up to be discarded? The invite.
Next up? Pants.
"Usually".
If this person somehow sees Rogue One as a genre yardstick I'd say that their taste in good films is a lot more and few between than usual.
As others have said I don't even know what how Rogue One fits in as a reference to Alien Covenant. I would love to have seen Sir Ridley's face when this person said it to him.
I can't wait till Daniels hands the alien genome plans to a CG young Ripley at the end.
Also if we are confused imagine how Ridley felt when (if) a stranger actually whispered this into his ear. u wat m8
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Also if I had to guess what it actually meant "prequel nobody asked for but lots of people will still watch and be pleasantly surprised with"
Bobby Roberts
Banned
I wonder if Ridley even saw this dude coming.
Just bullshitting with someone famous while smoking a cigar and pounding down a big gulp full of wine.
Next thing he knows, its a set of lips next to his ruddy ears.
"This is your Rogue One moment, mate."
He just stands stock still, waiting for the icy heat of steel perforating his kidneys. But nothing happens.
"What the fuck was all that about?"
"I dunno, some soused cunt stumbled up and stumbled away before I realized what was going on."
"Who?"
"That fucker over there, threw his pass on the ground and is trying to take a picture of it without falling over."
"Get my car. Now."
Just bullshitting with someone famous while smoking a cigar and pounding down a big gulp full of wine.
Next thing he knows, its a set of lips next to his ruddy ears.
"This is your Rogue One moment, mate."
He just stands stock still, waiting for the icy heat of steel perforating his kidneys. But nothing happens.
"What the fuck was all that about?"
"I dunno, some soused cunt stumbled up and stumbled away before I realized what was going on."
"Who?"
"That fucker over there, threw his pass on the ground and is trying to take a picture of it without falling over."
"Get my car. Now."
edit: What does Alien's Rogue One moment even mean?
An Alien Queen shows up at the end and all of the nerds in the audience bust their collectives nuts when she turns on her red lightsaber.
Garcia el Gringo
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Scott talked a bit about the future of his Alien movies (further confusing me on how many Alien prequel movies he plans to make, sounds like it's the next one now that ties explicitly back into the original) and directly confirms that the Jockey in the original Alien is a being in a suit. "You know full well by that point who the affectionately termed Space Jockey is, the guy sitting in the seat. People thought it was a skeleton, but it was a suit." So that "who" potentially adds more fuel to the (just speculation)
fire. Deads any suit deniers for LV-426 (something I considered regardless of all the suit/Jockey comments Scott made during Prometheus).
Aaaand I'm sure I came across accurate Covenant spoilers last night. It was the case where someone led with some untagged concise shit that you read and comprehend before you realized you shoulda bailed out. My fault for not removing myself from the conversations full stop and also due to my naivete thinking places would approach Gaf-tier spoiler etiquette/moderation.
Anyway, that mostly changes how I'd post about Alien here in these next two weeks. Here's hoping that there's tons of fun stuff to speculate about post-Covenant. I'll be ecstatic if my prospect to see the film a day early (here in the US) for free pans out, even if it won't mean the same thing to me as before (getting slightly ahead of the statute of limitations on spoilers).
Disappointing, but at least I'm going in squeaky clean on the Twin Peaks revival this month 🙌 I don't browse dangerously there.
Fassbender is the Space Jockey
Aaaand I'm sure I came across accurate Covenant spoilers last night. It was the case where someone led with some untagged concise shit that you read and comprehend before you realized you shoulda bailed out. My fault for not removing myself from the conversations full stop and also due to my naivete thinking places would approach Gaf-tier spoiler etiquette/moderation.
Anyway, that mostly changes how I'd post about Alien here in these next two weeks. Here's hoping that there's tons of fun stuff to speculate about post-Covenant. I'll be ecstatic if my prospect to see the film a day early (here in the US) for free pans out, even if it won't mean the same thing to me as before (getting slightly ahead of the statute of limitations on spoilers).
Disappointing, but at least I'm going in squeaky clean on the Twin Peaks revival this month 🙌 I don't browse dangerously there.
I have demanded an explanation. If he gives one I will share. I wish he'd said citizen kane
bonesmccoy
Banned
edit: What does Alien's Rogue One moment even mean?
Gritty prequel to a loved scifi film where everyone dies at the end and the robot character ends up more relatable than the actors portraying humans?
Now the mystery of the alien covenant premier ticket being thrown on the ground isn't lore anymore 😢
Insane Metal
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So I was on facebook just now and there was Covenant's trailer playing and the post saying "on theaters on may 11th"
I thought it was only on the 19th.
I'm in Brazil btw. Guess I'll have to review the movie to you guys
I thought it was only on the 19th.
I'm in Brazil btw. Guess I'll have to review the movie to you guys
CassidyIzABeast
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edit: What does Alien's Rogue One moment even mean?
Ash is in the hanger watching at the Covenant leaves for its mission.
A facehugger speaks and says, "All these humans keep egging me on" as a bad dad joke
ldcommando
Banned
2 prologues? I just saw one... is there another?
Maybe it is going to break new ground
Brazil here as well, friend. Got mine for may 10th
edit: What does Alien's Rogue One moment even mean?
Maybe it is going to break new ground
So I was on facebook just now and there was Covenant's trailer playing and the post saying "on theaters on may 11th"
I thought it was only on the 19th.
I'm in Brazil btw. Guess I'll have to review the movie to you guys
Brazil here as well, friend. Got mine for may 10th
So I was on facebook just now and there was Covenant's trailer playing and the post saying "on theaters on may 11th"
I thought it was only on the 19th.
I'm in Brazil btw. Guess I'll have to review the movie to you guys
Costa Rica here, I got tickets for May 11th
Insane Metal
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So we got lucky
adamsappel
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Hey, look, it's just a guy in a space suit!
Goddamnit, Ridley. You dressed up your own children in spacesuits to make the Space Jockey look even bigger. It's not an Engineer in a suit! It's not
Michael Fassbender
wesleyshark
Banned
I really don't understand why people are upset over this. We haven't seen the connection yet, and who/what that actually was. So far, it still works.Hey, look, it's just a guy in a space suit!
Goddamnit, Ridley. You dressed up your own children in spacesuits to make the Space Jockey look even bigger. It's not an Engineer in a suit! It's not! Nothing fossilizes in 30 years! Go home, Ridley, you're drunk.Michael Fassbender
Psychoward
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Just watched this prologue
so they did a direct follow up to Prometheus and meeting the creators in a 2:40 teaser but made an entire film about covenant... why?
so they did a direct follow up to Prometheus and meeting the creators in a 2:40 teaser but made an entire film about covenant... why?
Eppy Thatcher
God's had his chance.
So after watching this a few different times I've got some weird guesses to what happened here...
so - WHAT IF - while Shaw slept David spends his time really learning their ways. Enough to come to really understand that the Engineers, despite being our creators, are actually full on terribly heartless and objectively dangerous/evil. Perhaps he learns of plans by the engineers to fully obliterate other sentient species in the galaxy.
When he goes to inform Shaw of this and starts to open the cryo-pod she is in he realizes that the ship has recognized that there was no Engineer DNA in the bed and either started to alter her per some weird ship algorithm OR just stopped providing life support and David doesn't notice because really.. why would he? Especially while he's trying to study up on these beings so he doesn't get his head ripped off again.
He returns to the pod and finds the one human who treated him with any compassion and decency dead. Even their most basic life support tech has it in for anything that isn't Engineer. They are - simply put - just dangerous. No matter what. So David hatches a plan... arrives at the planet and unleashes the bomb payload of the ship on their home planet.
I'm sure someone has already talked about this exact idea in this exact thread but I had to type it all out cause this is one of the only ways that I can imagine being ok with the crew from Covenant being on the Engineer planet.
so - WHAT IF - while Shaw slept David spends his time really learning their ways. Enough to come to really understand that the Engineers, despite being our creators, are actually full on terribly heartless and objectively dangerous/evil. Perhaps he learns of plans by the engineers to fully obliterate other sentient species in the galaxy.
When he goes to inform Shaw of this and starts to open the cryo-pod she is in he realizes that the ship has recognized that there was no Engineer DNA in the bed and either started to alter her per some weird ship algorithm OR just stopped providing life support and David doesn't notice because really.. why would he? Especially while he's trying to study up on these beings so he doesn't get his head ripped off again.
He returns to the pod and finds the one human who treated him with any compassion and decency dead. Even their most basic life support tech has it in for anything that isn't Engineer. They are - simply put - just dangerous. No matter what. So David hatches a plan... arrives at the planet and unleashes the bomb payload of the ship on their home planet.
I'm sure someone has already talked about this exact idea in this exact thread but I had to type it all out cause this is one of the only ways that I can imagine being ok with the crew from Covenant being on the Engineer planet.
Because it doesn't match at all and it's a retcon. It doesn't work.
Anyway, I'm going to see the movie tuesday evening. I'll post a little feedback.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
David isn't going to be a good guy here
Eppy Thatcher
God's had his chance.
I wouldn't necessarily call the massacre of a bunch of Engineers out of some personal anger/grudge something a good guy would do though yah?
And also i thought i was so clever until i started going back and reading the thread some more and yah i'm a repeatin piece of shit.
Didn't even notice all the engineers on the ground and the goo containers lined up to drop at the end of the trailer. What a fuckin waste of some lore though. I guess most everyone but myself hates the Engineers and they just decided to kill all of them wholesome for this movie but they a crazy space faring species so it's not like they're all dead.
And like.. i would of really enjoyed a crazy scary movie wrapped up in an engineer city. Instead of another forest. Aliens like look like us in a kind of scary/superior fashion hunting us down with really scary surgical precision would be cool but... ya. Xenomorphs it is. I really hope the new Predator movie is good :-(
edit: I think i might be having a stroke cause gawt dayum this post was hard to read.
Nah, I Think David is a malfunctioning Android that Peter Weiland didn't t care to fix since he was so full of him. He let David do whatever he wanted like a 5 year old spoiled child.
Eppy Thatcher
God's had his chance.
So like... basically he shows up and is like "That whole goo business was righteous af and now I have a whole planet and nobody trying to keep me in check. Biology/Chem class 301 is in session, muffuckas"
Drops bombs/mic, rips own head off.
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