first post on neogaf yeah
saw it a few days ago:
pros:
- stunning visuals (landing scene, pov during the storm when landing looks awesome and incredbile believeable, and so on... thats what Ridley really can do best, great visuals)
- very good & unique musical score, the med bay scene has such a tension driving score, love it, also other themes are nice
- good casting, they all fit their roles, even McBride & Franco
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cons
- the dumb story, they receive a unknown signal which represents a 90s song and jeopardise the whole mission .. can it get even more dumber? YES! they constantly split up to get killed one by one, that´s slasher movie cliché.. one even says "I´m right back, I have to fresh up" and what happens.. dead.... noone asks any questions to David, no one acts believable after the first attack, it does no make ANY sense, seriously the worst I´ve seen in a long time, and even Prometheus makes more sense than this... sad but true
- the xenomorph looks bad,too much cgi and no good cgi...moves to fluid
- the neomoprh sucks and looks weak compared to the giger design, should have left out
- the david plays god idea does not fit the original Alien movies at all
- missing the good prologue Scenes in the final movie
- missing all scenes from the muthur Trailer (looks like a total different movie)
- the horrible dropship fight scene, what the fuck was that? feels totally out of place
- the even more horrible loading bay scene...when she knocks the metal and the Alien look over to her and starts jumping/screaming into the camera, thats simply not an Alien movie...its something Michael bay is known for... then the final "fight" is so weak with all the debris in space, damn it.. it was awful
my theory about the queen was this:
human gets oraly infected by david by the goo -> infected human has sex and infects other human and infectections evolves-> evolved infectection gets extratcted -> extracted Monster infects engineer -> queen gets born
I thought, that is such a rare infection chain and would make sense. Even the deacon looked more queen like than a xenomorph.
In a sequel, the engineers would come back to the planet, leave with the queen on board and crash on lv-426, bceause they got killed by the chestburster (dead spacejockey) and the queen places all the eggs. There Alien 1 would beginn ...
but Alien covenant destroys this theory by adding the religious stuff to it...
I watched over 30 interviews with ridley scott. He is such an asshole in those interviews and the interviewers have no balls asking about the plot holes. Ridley says, after Prometheus they checked the social media and they all missed the xenomorphs and so he gave them xenomorphs...