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Alien: Covenant - Barney's Five Second Reviews
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What's super annoying to me after not one but TWO prequels to Alien is that we STILL don't have an answer to what happened on LV-426 that caused the original engineer spacecraft to be there with more eggs than a sushi buffet
Also if the comics do Aliens v John Wick, I'm out.
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One good thing that I will say about Covenant is that as sudden and stupid the chestburster scene is, it's the best one since the first Alien. Absolutely brutal. I just wish it was an actual chestburster.
hey I'm not getting enough love for my choice of thumbnail for this movie. I think it perfectly shows just how stupid everything is. A jedi knight to the rescue?
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The not wanting to acknowledge passage of time thing is aggravating. Anyone else notice that when they decide to hit up the new planet they say it will take just weeks. Scene cuts and they're approaching it. I'm fine with skipping monotony, but they should have had a fade or something to acknowledge it wasn't remotely close to the previous scene in terms of time.
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It is such a relief to shed the burden of devotion to a series. I can now sit comfortably in my own private universe where only the first two films exist. I'm very close to feeling the same way about Star Wars.
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Gregarius wrote: After hating Prometheus so much, I knew I wasn't going to see this one. Every review I read confirms the wisdom of that decision.
It is such a relief to shed the burden of devotion to a series. I can now sit comfortably in my own private universe where only the first two films exist. I'm very close to feeling the same way about Star Wars.
I skipped the entire Star Wars prequel trilogy, because I was still unhappy about Return of the Jedi. The Force Awakens turned out to be a waste of time, but I liked Rogue One.
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charlest wrote: I also read that he intended Covenant to be a sequel to Prometheus and get much more into the Engineers, but many fans complained about Prometheus so he abandoned that and tried to bridge the gap more clearly to Alien.
And this is where the big failure was. "Just another Alien movie" is exactly what I did NOT want to see. And like Barney was saying the screenplay was sorely lacking. A completely competent film in nearly every aspect outside of that. A decent popcorn flick and nothing more. Another nitpick being the unimaginitive designs of the new hybrids or whatever you want to call them. A severe lack of creativity going on in this film, sadly. Which is what I want from science fiction. Unfortunately, hollywood does not take ANY chances in this century. You can't play it safe and make good art.
The next installment: "Captain, we're getting a distress signal from the sexbot planet". =P
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