This scene happens near the gate as the crowds of Engineers tried to enter the palace in panic. There are brief flashes of black fingers either reaching out of a chest or if it's just fingers of the Engineers getting charcoal roasted, I can't be sure. But it was there.
Scene went like this:
* David on a plane opening the cargo bay.
* Shots of the organism being released onto the air.
* The crowds went from excited to panic.
* Cue Engineers and family running away but it's too late and the organism consumes them into charcoal
* More Engineers shown running towards the palace (?) but can't get past the gate.
* Near the gate more Engineers turned into black charcoal but there are flashes of things that look like fingers coming out/reaching out.
Why did Shaw even go into cryosleep? David's been on the planet for ten years, so they must have only been a couple of weeks or months away from it in Prometheus. It's hard to believe she even had time to repair him before they got there.
I actually had a debate with my friend after the film about whether the shit David dropped on the Engineers turned any of them into aliens. My impression was that most of them were vaporized or turned into statues or whatever, but my friend was convinced that some aliens started popping up towards the end. Trying to recall the scene is a bit of a nightmare because it happens very fast, it gets very dark, and I can't really say that I'm 100% sure nothing every popped out of any of them. I don't think it did a good job of making anything clear so it's hard to blame anyone from taking it one way or another.
Especially given how this is the films official poster:
Oh he's the worst. Just wait til he gets sad and depressed out of NOWHERE.Watching Prometheus and I'm currently dying at this slim Tom Hardy in the movie.
Watched this film yesterday and it's fucking garbage, easily the worst film I have seen in the last few months. David might have well just had a moustache so he could twirl it in every scene.
I gave Ridley Scott a second chance after Prometheus but he managed to double down on the stupid shit yet again and the next one is a fucking prequel to Covenant?! Yeah no I will keep my money and go see another Transformers film instead.
Oh he's the worst. Just wait til he gets sad and depressed out of NOWHERE.
I believe he misspoke, it's gonna be a sequel that shows the journey to their target planet and what's there. But it'll also deal with David's history with Shaw and what became of her weird Giger art alien corpse I guess?
Honestly I wouldn't be surprised if the planet they're going to actually becomes LV-426, and David's fuckshit directly sets up the events of the original Alien film. I think there was probably a more complete story in the film that was tampered so the studio could draw out another film.
I believe he misspoke, it's gonna be a sequel that shows the journey to their target planet and what's there. But it'll also deal with David's history with Shaw and what became of her weird Giger art alien corpse I guess?
Honestly I wouldn't be surprised if the planet they're going to actually becomes LV-426, and David's fuckshit directly sets up the events of the original Alien film. I think there was probably a more complete story in the film that was tampered so the studio could draw out another film.
I actually had a debate with my friend after the film about whether the shit David dropped on the Engineers turned any of them into aliens. My impression was that most of them were vaporized or turned into statues or whatever, but my friend was convinced that some aliens started popping up towards the end. Trying to recall the scene is a bit of a nightmare because it happens very fast, it gets very dark, and I can't really say that I'm 100% sure nothing every popped out of any of them. I don't think it did a good job of making anything clear so it's hard to blame anyone from taking it one way or another.
Especially given how this is the films official poster:
After two bad films which make it clear that Scott is the one obsessed with David, why would anyone give him the benefit of the doubt? The studio let him make the film he wanted. What he wanted blows.
Just came back from watching this. I thought the same thing. Something was starting to "form" and rise out of the bodies as they were breaking down/crystallising. It all happens so quick. In turn, it appeared that as whatever was forming out of the corpses was breaking down/crystallising just as quick as the host (engineers??).I actually had a debate with my friend after the film about whether the shit David dropped on the Engineers turned any of them into aliens. My impression was that most of them were vaporized or turned into statues or whatever, but my friend was convinced that some aliens started popping up towards the end. Trying to recall the scene is a bit of a nightmare because it happens very fast, it gets very dark, and I can't really say that I'm 100% sure nothing every popped out of any of them. I don't think it did a good job of making anything clear so it's hard to blame anyone from taking it one way or another.
Especially given how this is the films official poster:
Just came back from watching this. I thought the same thing. Something was starting to "form" and rise out of the bodies as they were breaking down/crystallising. It all happens so quick. In turn, it appeared that as whatever was forming out of the corpses was breaking down/crystallising just as quick as the host (engineers??).
Might have to wait until bluray release to see it more accurately.
Did Scott talk up all the mystery of the Engineers, like he literally said the inspiration and motivation for Prometheus and returning to the Alien universe was to explore what the pilot was all about back in the very first Alien, just to completely change his mind once filming began. After Prometheus and Covenant it seems all of this is story of David more than it is about Shaw, xenomorphs, or the Engineers.
Did it put on a little hat and do a dance after its synchronized Randy Orton pose with David?The miniature xenomorph raising its arms was like it was taken from a Simpsons spoof.
I can't believe they got rid of the cock-with-teeth baby form.
What's Neil Blomkamp doing anyhow now that Old Man Ridley booted him out and fucked the Alien franchise for good? Is he working on a sequel to Chappie?I really wish that one dude had gotten a chance to make his proposed Alien 5 instead of Ridley Scott doing this.
I think he somehow took over Walter's body, I mean he's got the exact same scars, did have the hole under the chin and even the hair was slightly different, not to mention his voice was all f*cked up in that last fight scene.Understand the complaints but my expectations were never that high, so I enjoyed it. Thought the ending was really good although again it's fairly silly how in a split second David managed to both run back, change AND burn his arm off in just the right way. But whatever.
Did it put on a little hat and do a dance after its synchronized Randy Orton pose with David?
What's Neil Blomkamp doing anyhow now that Old Man Ridley booted him out and fucked the Alien franchise for good? Is he working on a sequel to Chappie?
I spoiled myself on this movie explicitly so I would NOT be part of the problem.I'm part of the problem. I'll be there day one for each installment, just to see what they do to the series. At least Scott has a good knack for visuals. His movies remain pretty to look at.
I spoiled myself on this movie explicitly so I would NOT be part of the problem.
That and I needed to make an informed decision on whether to take my Dad to this or Guardians of the Galaxy 2 for Father's Day.
Needless to say, Guardians rehash is winning the day.
The crew landing in a completely new planet with no helmet on as a precaution is one of the dumbest things ever. Goddamn that was so incredibly stupid.
I need to make up for last year's debacle of Independence Day: Resurgence... which I had little say over as it's the sequel to one of my Dad's all-time favorite films.GotG2 on a father's day is what we call 'nailing it.' Good choice.
As a fellow "Dad" I was more than happier my son suggested we see GotG2 rather than Covenant. One's fun, joyous and has some nice father themes. The other is another knife in the gut for those of us who were there originally with Alien.I spoiled myself on this movie explicitly so I would NOT be part of the problem.
That and I needed to make an informed decision on whether to take my Dad to this or Guardians of the Galaxy 2 for Father's Day.
Needless to say, Guardians rehash is winning the day.
I thought that was really weird, especially given how every other alien film, Prometheus included, has gone to great pains to be careful about it. But they'd just landed in a giant puddle of what they just assumed was water. I think I'd probably just chalk it up to "we've got amazing sneakers!"The crew landing in a completely new planet with no helmet on as a precaution is one of the dumbest things ever. Goddamn that was so incredibly stupid.
Ironically, The Simpsons made this almost exact same joke in their Rigel VII alien abduction episode a couple years ago.
What about the guy who was like "I know wheat!!" and proceeded to take something on an unknown alien planet and... I think put it in his mouth?!
I thought that was really weird, especially given how every other alien film, Prometheus included, has gone to great pains to be careful about it. But they'd just landed in a giant puddle of what they just assumed was water. I think I'd probably just chalk it up to "we've got amazing sneakers!"
Scott, after seeing people complained about Prometheus crew removing helmet, probably said: "Fuck the helmet."
Covenant is definitely a better film than Prometheus.
It is still fucking shit.
- No one wearing a helmet when disembarking on an uncharted alien world full of potential deadly pathogens.
- Crew selected for trillion dollar research mission are ragtag group of hotheads instead of dispassionate, professional scientists.
- Sniff the spores!
- No one seems to be in awe of the existence of a giant crashed alien ship
- No one seems to be in awe of the remarkable ancient civilization with its Pompeii graveyard of humanoids
- Everyone is perfectly happy to stay overnight at David's ancient temple hotel. Shower included!
- Daniels doesn't inform the Covenant crew that there are hostile aliens on the surface
- Crew is comprised of husbands and wives who are split up between the ship and the surface and may not have cool heads in stressful situations.
- Billy Crudup isn't put off by David's laboratory of horrors and willingly goes down into his basement of death. Then willingly peers into an egg.
- Xenomorph is entirely overexposed and isn't scary in 2017. Creature effects are subpar.
- Shocking Walter and David switcheroo shocks everyone in the audience
Watched this film yesterday and it's fucking garbage, easily the worst film I have seen in the last few months. David might have well just had a moustache so he could twirl it in every scene.
I gave Ridley Scott a second chance after Prometheus but he managed to double down on the stupid shit yet again and the next one is a fucking prequel to Covenant?! Yeah no I will keep my money and go see another Transformers film instead.
What's the point in jumping to the third film then doing the second? Why didn't he just make it in order? Strange.
The crew landing in a completely new planet with no helmet on as a precaution is one of the dumbest things ever. Goddamn that was so incredibly stupid.
So is the franchise salvageable? I've written it off. We still have Alien and Aliens that can't be tainted by this garbage.
I think whatever was forming/crystallising was just the casts/husks around the Engineers. It looked like an homage to Pompeii.
What about the guy who was like "I know wheat!!" and proceeded to take something on an unknown alien planet and... I think put it in his mouth?!