Alien Covenant: What went wrong edition

>>85863887
something something hubris
something Jesus creator and God stuff

It's literally the same movie as Prometheus but worse. Magneto was good though.

Don't worry, they brought guns. There isn't any problem you can't solve with a gun.

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>Crazed robot already lied about city being safe
>Captain witnessed crazed robot talking to alien
>Captain sees his decapitated crew member
>Come with me Captain
>Look at these slimy eggs
>"Are they safe?"
>"Yes"
>"oh ok"

>>85864088
you forgot the part where tin man explains that he has been creating the creatures and perfecting them, but that he is missing one crucial element, to a man who knows that these creatures are parasitic and are born out of host animals which have already all been driven to extinction. so look in the egg bro :^)

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>>85864088
>Look at these slimy eggs
>"Are they safe?"
>"Yes"
>"oh ok"

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>When you were hoping it wouldn't the obvious twist

>Muh late to the party post after webdl/bluray rip is released
>>85863887
>>85864088
>>85864317
>VLC

>>85864532
Why would I pay to see a bad film anon?

>>85864317
but we already know the alien survives so the twist is assured even when you're hoping it won't happen. it literally can't end with all the aliens being killed and the humans escaping. it's a common problem with prequels

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>>85864576
How did you know it was bad until you watched it?

>>85864588
David and his eggs could have been left on the planet and perhaps gotten off another way, he did have a working spaceship in the flashback.

Its still fairly unclear what planet the original Alien takes place on since there's so many candidates right now.

>Exploring weird alien world with no suits
>weird white aliens have been attacking us, I'm gonna go wash up by myself
>Alien killed that one woman and the rest find out.
>they decide to leave but split up again while they search for the captain

>>85864635
I actually only go to the cinema about once a year. I have a comfy giant tv why would I pay to see something that isn't a masterpiece?

Was there a special reason for why the eggs were so much bigger than usual?

What did David do all his experimentation on? I thought he wiped out all animal life on the planet when he dropped the bombs.

What did he do to Shaw?

>>85864720
You didn't know how it was until the credits rolled.

>>85864532
>Autism

The medbay scene was pretty cool.

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>>85864816
Reviews

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>>85864874
nigger I pirated this shit too, there's no reason to be dishonest about piracy

>>85864720
Its ok slowpoke, maybe some anons will still reply to your thread months after all discussions have been made here, maybe you can check some achieves to see what was already said.

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>>85864926
>You're only allowed to talk about a film if you PAID to see it at the designated time
>Paying to post
>Paying
>To
>Post
>$10

>>85865139
>Paying
You could've downloaded a camrip if you wanted to talk in the heat of the moment, but its ok, not all slowpokes want to do that right?

>We didn't get this film

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeMVrnYNwus

>We didn't get 5 minutes of exposition

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkXgRlRao5I

>>85863887

It gets even worse.

They find wheat and the entire crew basically throws out a couple of lines about it and don't ponder it any further.

Then they find an alien ship and after saying a couple of lines about it don't ponder it any further.

Then they find an entire alien city and kind of don't really think too hard about it.

Then they find a crazy android and they don't really think too hard about trusting him.

They just want to go back to the ship so they can continue their mission.

The whole thing is basically as if some rudimentary AI shat out an Alien script based on generic parameters

>>85863887
Go talk to actual scientist.

A organism that didn't develop on earth has about zero chance of infecting us due to how our immune system responds.

>>85864674
You mean the ship that he crashed that they stumble upon before finding the city?

>>85865548

Don't be dense.

Any lifeform that can be inhaled and thrives in nutrient-rich environments can multiply inside you and fuck you up in various ways.

And that's ignoring various airborne toxic materials that might not be lifeforms at all.

Pockets of toxic gas or pathogens can be localized and impossible to detect just from the ship's immediate surroundings.

Not to mention that in the movie itself THEY STEP ON A BAD FUNGUS AND IT INFECTS THEM, you dimwit.

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>>85865548
>I know how alien organisms work

Shit anon you should tell the world, you've proven alien life exists.

>>85864088
So like

did the movie at least hint or offer a way to understand how he got those eggs? Cause people talk about a Queen all the time, but maybe he did it like the Alien cocoon in Alien 1?

What the fuck am I saying, right, chestbursters are now Xenomorph Mini-Me's from birth, lel

>>85865641
toxins are another kettle of fish - those can fuck you up.

However actual pathogens - be viral, bacterial, fungal, or so on, has to have proteins that are close enough to the human norm to allow for infection. Alien life would be alien, and it would be like humans getting infected by a plant illness, which doesn't happen as we are too dissimilar.

The risks are if it produces a toxin, or if it causes such a strong immune response that your own immune system attacks healthy parts of the body.

The "Getting infected by alien pathogen" is a trope that is as old as science fiction. It is the major plot point for War of the Worlds after all. That said, the actual reality is that a alien life form would end up being too alien to infect you.

>>85865641
>THEY STEP ON A BAD FUNGUS
It's not a fungus. It's an egg cluster. David says it to the cap'n right before the egg scene.

>the canisters atomize in the atmosphere releasing the eggs which instantly hatch
>the resulting creatures (the microscopic bugs) swarm in and attack everyone
>some people are turned into that liquid goo, some are fossilized, others mutate and some become incubators for and birth differing kinds of neomorphs

>>85865726
Pathogens that infect humans come from species that are close to us - mammals mostly.

The chances that a alien species is going to be close genetically to humans is about nill.

But keep bitching about stuff you don't know about and sounding like a idiot who anyone who studies infectious illnesses as their life's work.

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>>85865769
It's obvious the eggs are actually Dr Shaws ovum, mutated with the virus. You see her dissected corpse, sans her womb, and then the drawing of her undergoing initial transformation

>>85865862
>once all life in the immediate area is extinguished or infected, the organisms hibernate until prey approaches, hence why the spores were released when he trod on them

>>85865908
anyways, it 1 am in Atlanta, so night all

>>85865908
>>85865845
>Assumptions the post

Also the Engineers literally created the Human race from their own DNA, and the black goo is designed to kill them.

>>85865913
ok thats messed up, but thx m8

>>85865969
I am rather sure he is talking about reality, and not some space fantasy series that hasn't had a good entry since the early 1980s

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A FUCKING HELMET

>Spend two minutes on the fate of the Engineers and show some drawings of Shaw mutilated and a corpse on a table that looks nothing like her.

Fuck this movie.

>>85865913
And like all interesting parts of this movie, it ended up on the cutting room floor.

>>85866025
He's hypothesizing, we can't really know how we'd react to alien biology since we haven't y'know, interacted with any.

>>85866038
Davids entire arc about Shaw and his love for her was so stupid. If Prometheus were more fleshed out it would've made more sense

>>85866064
But you see her corpse, and the camera even pans over her entire body, atleast on the rip I saw, which had korean subs and ads.

>>85866073
True.
>send bugbears into space on an un-shielded shuttle
>introduce them to differing radiations from space
>see how they mutate
>develop one that could carry an extinction level pathogen
>send it back to earth

>>85866073
Well not him, but I know a biology professor that basically said the same thing he said. He went on about infections would not be the issue, but invasive species.

>>85866135
There was much more in deleted scenes.

>>85863887
>So let me get this straight, the entire premise of this movie is that advanced human faring civilization doesn't have basic biological or hazmat containment protocols in place
It's like you've never seen those webms and gifs from China.

>>85865378
>I just caught the foreshadowing of Franco's fate in this prolouge

oh god this hurts

>When its never explained that the "aliens" wiped out by David are not in fact Engineers they are inferior human like creatures

>>85866212
Infections could happen.
Some flora, like those native to australia, only bloom and grow when they're subjected to fire.
If a foreign body with the same properties were to hitch a ride on a meteorite and the resulting entry into earths atmosphere "activated" it (for lack of a better term) and it landed, spawned etc, it could lead to infections in species on earth.

>i have a bad feeling about this planet
fuck you ridley scott

>>85866238
Do you happen to have the uploads of those? Some anon said he'd do it in a thread

>>85865913
Or David is the original alien queen, and all these eggs came out right from his ass

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>>85866273
1

>>85866273
What males u think that, at the end of Prometheus they say theyre going to the Engineer homeworld, has Ridly gone dull senile?

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>>85866319
2

>>85866314
I wouldn't put it past scott to pull an ass jerk like this, but I highly doubt it. It would undermine davids thing with shaw even further

>>85866319
Aryan "true rules" Engineer
>>85866338
SubEngineers "happy " the nose knows" merchant" scum

>>85866273
this

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watched it with my mommy, I had fun

>>85864926
>>85865321
>camrip
no reason to do that to yourself

>>85866314
well in the end he regurgitated them in those plastic bag things that the fetuses grow in, which i just realized he wouldn't have known about

>>85866458
>watched it with my mommy, I had fun
Did the exact same thing. She hates the alien series and horror in general, but enjoyed this

>>85866495
They told him they were carrying fetus' when they first settle into his "home" and in his specimen room you can see a few different varieties of species in the same holders his embryos are in

>>85866538
for>>85866478

>>85863887
It was an above average sci fi movie with decent acting from Fassbender.

It just didn't give any answers to questions in Prometheus.

>>85866314
>Or David is the original alien queen, and all these eggs came out right from his ass
Mouth, not ass. One of the last scenes is literally David vomiting alien eggs.

i thought ridley said he didn't like the alien queen and so i took this movie as a massive retcon over aliens.
Also what the fuck happened, i thought Xenomorph's were meant to be intelligent. Shit was fucking dumb

>>85865418
Yes, but we get to listen about how smart Ridley Scott thinks he is through his Fassbender self insert.

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>>85864844
>they slip on the same blood puddle
>twice

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>>85863887
one thing that i personally liked in prometheus and covenant are the sets and environments and eh "world building"
the execution of the story was like watching a hangman game unfold with blacks playing
3 letterwords game that takes 4 hours to the unveiling of the word " ass "

seriously, i have seen more stupid shit make sense in videogames than ridley scotts shitty approved scripts

>>85866646
Yes, but they are small, to get these huge eggs,it was needed more time , a more natural process,and a super elastic composite anus.

>>85866725
>make a slapstick comedy
>call it horror

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>Men are written to be as stupid as possible
>Women are stupid and get hysterical and emotional at the slightest thing

Pretty certain if they put the women back to sleep, everything would have been resolved pretty fast.

Everyone was just way too fucking stupid. That moron captain who followed the android, alone, without informing any other member of his team where he was going after he saw the android basically be indifferent to an alien murder his comrade, and expressly telling the android he didn't trust him, was fucking stupid.

>>85865548
>nothing on another planet can kill you because you have a different immune system duh!

I dont think thats how that works anon. Couldn't this also theoretically work in the opposite direction and the pathogen has an increased effect because our immune system may be weaker?

This was the worst movie i've seen. It makes Prometheus look 'okay'.

There are so many logical gaps.

Why was there only a single person objecting to going to a completely unknown planet? Every one of these people are supposed to be screened for illogical behaviour. Every single person should have been put through tests that simulate crew deaths and the like.

The acting also felt way off even during the lead up to the first alien popping out.

Why was the black woman so fucking calm and stroking a dude who was twitching at 1000 miles an hour after being exposed to an unknown alien pathogen? Why did kate mara lock them both in like a fucking idiot?

>>85864844
laughed my fucking ass off, if it hadn't been for the rest of the movie i'd have thought it was a horror comedy

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>>85866802
>Watching it with gf
>During medbay scene
>Woman screaming incoherently
>Slipping all over the place ends up blowing up the ship
>Gf turns to me
>"Jesus christ women are useless"

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>>85866850
>Every one of these people are supposed to be screened for illogical behaviour. Every single person should have been put through tests that simulate crew deaths and the like.

>Warning taking ship past 80kms will result in structural failure
>Risk of entire mission failure
>2000 lives need to be protected
>TAKE ER DOWN I SAID BOY
>YEEEEEHAW

>solar explosion wakes up crew in the middle of nowhere
>they find a transmission coming from a planet they somehow managed to miss
>planet is perfect in every way
>enter "i have a really bad feeling about this" cliché

Did David rape Shaw?

Can someone explain to me what David meant to Daniels when he lunged at her and started kissing her desu?

Creepy af omg!

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>>85866941
favorite scene

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wK8kK4hY6PA

did they explain what the bonus situation was?

>god makes man
>man makes robot
>robot makes synthetic life form that kills everything

>>85867244
>predator kills life form that kills everything
>predator kills predator

>>85864317
You can see the underside of his jaw a few minutes before hand, really made me mad that they would forget that bit of continuity

>>85868216
She sees him stapling his face back together.

After its been explicitly shown he regenerates.

It was a tense scene which I thought implied she knew and was going to do something.

But nope.

>>85866319
>>85866338
Same species but due to the heavy Roman inspirations in the design of the engineers I'd say it's a plebeian/patrician representation

>>85867244
BINGO! DINO DNA

the chick that got killed by the alien was super hot tho

>>85867017
He was going to force and embryo down her throat.

>>85868660
He regenerates but they still need to staple it so the regeneration can work properly.

It's like getting a really bad cut, stopping the bleeding, bandaging it, but not getting stitches, it might not heal properly, open again very easily or you get a nasty scar.

I guess they never explained how he cut his hand so perfectly like Walter.

It was just fucking shit

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>>85863982
Except in this case it made things worse like blowing by the ship kek

I enjoyed it more than Prometheus but I can understand why people hated it.

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What´s up with this guy?

He literally just stands there and plays simon says with david despite being a living weapon.

Shouldn't he get triggered after sensing the organic right behind david?

And if the planet was stripped of all it's animals, why aren't there any xeno around, do they live that short?

>>85863953
this, they made the same movie and took out anything good or memorable even, just leaving the dumb shit

We went from

>Prometheus, understanding and discovery

to

>Covenant, muh David is playing god


k, fuck you ridley scott

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>lands on an uncharted planet with no bonus situation

This is when you walk out of the theater.

>>85871533

How do you slip on blood? It's rather sticky for a liquid.

>>85871695

is this sped up? I really hope it is.

>>85871716
nope

it tried to cover Prometheus then switching to ALIEN MOVIE !!

the Alien part was just not good.
it felt rushed and boring.
the Fassbender vs Fassbender fight is MUCH more better than the Alien scene.

wish they didn't killed off the Engineers.
i wanted to know more about them.

don't know why FOX decided to cancelled the planned Alien 5 for Ridley Scott "planned" sequels/prequels.

the guy can direct.
i felt like the script could had been better.
should had been direct sequel to Prometheus no Alien bullshit.
now the Alien movies are all fucked because of this shit.

i like Prometheus better than this one.

that's it boys !! no more Alien movies until 2030 at least.

t-thanks Ridley

he probably did this so before he died nobody attempted doing another Alien film.

the crazy Madman !!!

>covenant sequel
>bunch of retarded weyland marines go to escobar6 or whatever the fucking original destination was called to find out where their colony is
>initiate exact same plot as previous 2 movies
>david survives and goes to acheron (LV-426)

>>85871901
how does David end up with a Engineer ship?

also why is that Engineer huge?

also that plot sounds a lot like Aliens.
pretty sure there's going to be a stronk women who needs no man on the Space Marine squad.

>>85865548
biochemistry tells us that organic life will always be built from the same basic molecules i.e. lipids, proteins and carbohydrates will be the same or similar

so on the one hand it is false to assume we are not compatible with alien microorganisms

on the other hand it is stupid to assume, just beacuse it is an alien world, the organisms there are more dangerous or complex than on earth

>>85871960
he builds it. How you might ask? Well, "idle hands are the devil's playground" also he has "been very busy"
they were always huge
the marine squad are all women of color

>>85871960
>how does David end up with a Engineer ship?
>also why is that Engineer huge?
you might wanna watch the ending of prometheus again

>>85863887
They wanted to target the survivalist niche while retaining a progressive tone.
Movies are nowadays made by committees balancing budgets.
And they ended up with Hard gay men, crazy christfags and the robot dick against the Aliens.

>>85872361
>survivalist niche
>bunch of idiots that have no idea what to do and break any precaution
more like they targeted idiots

>>85863887

>Pilot start blind-fire into a spaceship trying to hit the xenomorph
> Blow the whole thing up
>''How did this happen''

Weyland Corp. hiring retards n shit

The movie would have been better off if the story was told in a non linear way.

>>85872585
>putting explosives on a ship with guns

>>85872686
>yet another - Let me tell how I got here

>>85866725
>>85866861
YMS laughed at it so of course you did too

>>85872853
what's YMS

>>85865378
This is actually a good scene i wish they actually included it in the movie it would of made you actually give a shit about the cast

>>85866319
what if the guy in prometheus is just a really handsome Chad among the engineer race

>>85872700
it was a fuel cannister but this wasn't exactly well conveyed through direction

ridleys fault

>>85872036
>>85871960
>how does David end up with a Engineer ship?
He births it. Ship and ayylien are both biomecha

Physician here, you have a comically incorrect view in how pathogens work. Furthermore, your protein theory is shit because the planet has fucking wheat on it.

>>85865908
I'm a doctor and whoever told you this shit was incredibly wrong or your layman understanding of it was incredibly off. Pathogens just need warmth and nutrients to want to grow inside you. Your body has mechanisms to fight that off. However, pathogens also tend to have mechanisms to circumvent that. Hell, some pathogens even killing it off can make you incredibly sick.

>>85873351
it's horribly filmed though

>>85866212
Gross oversimplification. Viruses might have an issue replicating (assuming alien organisms don't have DNA and/or are silica based life). Fungus, parasites, and bacteria won't have any issues with that

>>85875464
Well that's because his son directed it.

>>85863887
yup, thats pretty much it. it's like the first one. you know like poetry so that they rhyme.

>>85863887
I thought the same thing.
And that was just the tip of the iceberg.

I really can't believe Ridley was associated with this pile of dogshit of a film.

Whoever wrote the script had a limited imagination and lack of scientific knowledge.

>>85864317
It's not an obvious twist, it's dramatic irony

>>85863887
Yeah but they look /fa/ as fuck

>>85863887
Did you miss all the mentions of lots of the crew being religious and Weyland Corp not trusting them? Maybe they didn't care that much about their survival and just wanted them off Earth?

>>85866319
>>85866338
I wondered about this too, but then I figured comparing a Navy Seal to a crowd of civilians would look odd to aliens too.

>>85866478
They tell him it's a colonisation ship, so he'd probably have guessed they'd have an embryo freezer, or if not he could rig something up with another coolant system, like from the engines or life support. He may also have asked one of them off-screen, it's not much of a stretch.

>dood let's blow all of our budget on a flashback sequence lmao
the rest of the flick felt low budget with no locations

>>85876848
It was incredibly obvious. Once again the crew were retards not verifying. There's a scene where Ridley lite looks like she's catching on but she never follows up before going in a position of trust with him. Dumb dumb dumb.

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>>85876871
is /fa/ the objectively worst board on 4chan?

>>85871301
>I guess they never explained how he cut his hand so perfectly like Walter.
No, but it's pretty obvious he'd have access to some xeno blood with all those samples he'd been collecting, or from the recently killed Guardian which would be fresher

>>85863887
>basic biological or hazmat containment protocols in place
They do, they scanned the planet and the computer said it was safe. 'Safe' isn't the same as 'you absolutely cannot die there', because even on Earth, the only inhabitable planet that we know of, there exist diseases, parasites, natural disasters and other kinds of phenomena that can unexpectedly kill you and can't be gotten rid of.

>>85877243
The movie has extensive physical sets, those aren't cheap.

>>85864720
>not paying 20 bucks a month and seeing everything that interests you
ill see 3 films back to back in imax in a day if i feel like it
cinema is church

>>85873351
they changed the script so much that they couldnt use it
cut out francos character and cut out another table scene
and they cut out all of davids flashbacks
but they left in the generic bullshit alien horror schlock
fucking sickens me

>>85877184
it's funny because they only mention it to him yet when he is on the ship the alien embryos are the perfect size and fits perfectly into the fetus machine

>>85866311
theyre on the official youtube channel along with the original franco opening
they posted them before the movie came out to generate hype, when in reality they were posting the only interesting scenes that were cut from the theatrical version

>David has blond hair
>Walter has black hair
>David suddenly has black hair

Really doodles my noodle

>>85865913
i know its an homage to the geiger painting, but i cant figure out the reason for the protruding face bones
doesnt make any sense

>>85866109
it was showing the dangers of an AI developing emotions
love, music composition, creation, etc
these are all things that you do not want in an ai
they were the most horrifying aspects of the whole film, not the stupid fucking aliens
they fucked up

>>85865549

He didn't crash it though? I thought that was a lie.

>>85863887
unknown alien world that looks just like Alaska LOL

>>85870577
>>85877116

They have completely different eyes. The primitives have human eyes.

Why is the queen-egg system superior to a floaty nanobot that can fly in your ear? It's a lot easier to float into an ear than it is to wait for someone's faces to be near so you can rape it.

>>85879107
airborne pathogen already seems perfect. i dont know what David meant by perfecting it.

it also doesnt deal with the egg before chicken problem. how did the fucking egg come before the queen? how does the queen form?

Prometheus had literal pictures of xenomorphs inside the temple. Now David suddenly invents them!

Fuck this franchise. I don't consider anything after aliens canon.

>arrive on engineer's home planet 10's of thousands of years after they were known to be kicking about
>apparently the entire population is in one small city, walled up for some reason

>>85864674
>Its still fairly unclear what planet the original Alien takes place on
it's implied that's Origae-6

>>85879281
David also wipes out the engineers with their own weapon! A malfunctioning android accomplishes so much. True pottery

>>85879281

That xeno looking blue creature popped out of the Engineer. So the Engineers had to be aware of that form of black goo monster.

The movie sucks and Ridley shouldn't get a pass for it but a case can be made that Engineers knew of xeno-type beings.

Why the fuck was everything made of stone? I thought the engineers were advanced

>>85879297
it was 2k years not tens of thousands

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>>85879297
>ancient space faring civilization who literally invented humans are now wearing rags and helplessly die like cattle for the sake of the retarded plot

Where did the wound on David's chin go?

>>85878987
simple reasoning for this, the soldiers or any of them that go spacefaring are actually genetically engineered slightly to make the long periods of no-activity like hibernating and practically living in space bearable, these could also be the top people of their society
try to compare our astronauts to them but with slight modifications to make life in space easier etc...

>>85879451

Its never made clear in Prometheus or Covenant but since 2,000 years passed between the first Engineer attempt at destroying Earth and the lone Engineer waking up to try again must have meant a cataclysm involving the black goo happened.

Most Engineers died out leaving only a single secluded city of semi-primitve/Mad Max level survivors that David wiped out.

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>>85863887
>be Shaw, strong womyn protagonist
>crazy android killed almost all crew
>repair him because I don't need no man
>get harvested for reproductive organs and killed
>mfw

>>85879582
that's a cool idea but the movie failed to put that across

>>85879582

The movie literally never said that though

Just watched it... What a mess.
The clips they uploaded on youtube with Shaw and David and the rest of the crew weren't even in the fucking movie....
Who the fuck reads a script like this and says "Yeah, alright, lets start shooting!"?

>>85871748
They didn't kill off the engineers, its confirmed that is not their home planet.

You could assume a spacefaring civilization would look more high-tech. Its likely branch of them which they sometimes visit like gods on flying disks, which is why they all gathered in something akin to a stadium when they saw one of the ships return

>>85879693
can you post the clips?

>>85866458
cute

So what is the next film even going to be about?

>>85866338
I wanna fuck the female

>>85878377
Could have taken his hair after killing him, or colored quickly

ending was meh as fuck and i saw it coming and kinda of poorly explained, if at all
how did david kill walter and rip off his hand exactly like walter's etc
other than that i enjoyed it

>>85879752
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeMVrnYNwus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkXgRlRao5I

>>85879777

An unsourced news report came out recently saying Fox is going to reboot the franchise since Covenant flopped.

>>85879777
David going back in time and becoming Hitler

>>85879811

>or colored quickly

With what? he cant just nip down to the local fucking hair dressers can he

>>85879824

>Reboot

It from where though? From Alien? From before Alien? From after Alien?

>>85879821
thanks

>>85879493
But its not the same civilization and not their main planet

>>85863887
>Lets land on this planet we know nothing about
>Lets go out of the ship without any safety suits
>Lets go find where this random signal came from
I could go on
The whole plot relies on characters being stupid

>>85879872

Think it mentions the reboot taking place after Alien Ressurection.

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>somebody spits blood and is obviously getting fucked up in some way
>I know what I will do
>I will seal lock the door so the other crew member can't get out if anything happens
>nothing happens yet
>let's wait till the horror happens
>NOW I'm going to go in when one is dead and the other is getting killed

WOW

>>85876584
kek

>Crew is stranded since their ship blew up
>Oh no worries we'll just convert this part of the other ship in 5 minutes to suddenly make it so it can land and pick you up

I mean really

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I just finished watching The mummy 2017 and it was far better than Covenant.

I really can't fathom how they managed to fuck up so badly

>>85880144

I dont get why this was considered a flop

>125 mill budget
>450 mill at box office

Seems decent enough to me, not every film makes 800+ mill

>>85871566
she was a woman

>>85880144
I just finished watching it too and agree it was much better than covenant. Wasn't great by any stretch but entertaining enough

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>>85866395
>SubEngineers "happy " the nose knows" merchant" scum

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8LJSuO4aXA
remember how literally none of these fucking scenes were in
there could have been an ending where danny FUCKING mcbride was dead at the end
and where there was some actual character devolopment
and maybe you could get to like the lady when she's fighting for her life
fucking GOD WHY IS NONE OF THIS IN THE MOVIE I DONT UNDERSTAND

>>85880144
AAUAUUAAAUAAGH
AAUAUUAAAUAAGH

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>Shaw: David what's happening to me?!!!!
>David: You're beautiful :)

>>85881358
probably some exec thinking it was too much

>>85879561
or the simple reasoning is those engineers are just another experiment or just a colony

Look at the city, the only similar looking shit to anything we've seen before is the docking device. Prometheus specifically says the base/ship in that movie was remote with nothing around because it was for testing. It follows that if you found another isolated site, it could be a testing area too. Why would the Engineers exist only in one, pretty small city? Is their homeworld or entire civilization just a city and not planet wide? That shit makes no sense.

>>85881414
>t.analpained ridley cocksucker

was still better than covenant, what does that tell ya

>>85882550
thought it was an engineer colony

>>85882590
Did you not see the trailer for the mummy

>>85882702
I did

>>85882726
Then what are you trying to say
did you respond to the wrong person

honestly you are all fucking retarded.


this movie was totally ok and like 100 times better than prometheus.


>NO NEED FOR MASKS OR SUITS GUYS
they were planning on colonizing the planet sooner or later they would have taken of the mask anyway

you just had to have a pointless scene were one dude either cracks the mask or just takes it off anyway which wastes 3 minutes screentime (and happened exactly like that in prometheus aready)


everyone blames ridley scott but complaining about this shit is way more senile

>>85865418
>Then they find a crazy android and they don't really think too hard about trusting him.
they find the android before the city and he also saves the lives of the entire ground crew.

i guess that evokes trust, doesnt it?

also he is a synthethic which are known by the crew to be 100% trustworthy. no one could expect that he was a unique hitler prototype.

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>>85866731
>the execution of the story was like watching a hangman game unfold with blacks playing

>>85865340
i dont understand why shaw trusted david, didnt she know he was behind a lot of the shenanigans on prometheus?

I thought having the two different types of Xenomorphs was an awful idea.

Firstly the Neomorphs seemed way more deadly than the traditional Xenomorphs, as they were easily able to infect people, gestated quickly, were dangerous from birth, and grew quickly as well. It seems to be implied that they aren't as intelligent as Xenomorphs, but to be honest with the rate at which they could potentially reproduce, who cares? Made David trying to 'perfect' them seem a fairly pointless endeavour.

I would have much preferred it if the Neomorphs weren't in the film at all. I think it would have worked much better if it was more creepy Gothic Mansion horror in space, with the protagonists exploring the devastated eerie planet before coming across David in the capital. They then could have had him creepily wander round refusing to directly answer questions on what happened. All of a sudden a Xenomorphs turns up and starts picking the crew off one by one. The rest of the film plays out pretty similarly. They could reveal still that David created the eggs by fucking about with the black goo, but he used Shaw as the host for the Xenomorph. Maybe he could think of it as like his and Shaw's daughter or something?

Like Prometheus it felt like there was the kernel of a good film in there but it just didn't really come together.

>>85879835
Literally anything. The ink he made to do he drawings with, ash, it could even be the bioweapon.

>>85864753
Your third question answers your second one

>>85863887
What does David do with the with the sleeping people?

>>85878377
>>85879811
>>85879835
>>85883596
Don't you guys pay attention to anything? They both have black hair but David dyes his blonde (as we see in Prometheus), his roots are black, he just cuts it to the same style as Walter.

>>85863887
>Expedition crew doesn't wear any form of biological protection gear, promptly get infected from a biological threat
>Ship 2IC who becomes captain is supposedly a religious man of faith, yet the only thing that shows off his """faith""" are his random 'quotes' about having faith, leading his flock or whatever - he doesn't wear any sort of religious paraphenalia (like Dr Shaw who wore a cross at least)

>Black goo makes spores because ???

>Two crewmembers die from slipping on blood

>Two of the security mercs are gay lovers (briefly shown in a 15 second scene) where this has literally 0 consequence to the story or their characters before or after this one shoehorned scene

>Engineer civilization have very alien looking spacecraft, but all their buildings and clothing are Greco-Roman-esque because ???
>David kisses Walter because ???
>David confuses himself between Byron and Shelly because ???
>Hey dude, look in this egg lmao XDD
>Mother can't differentiate between walter or David
>David inexplicably gets a full grown alium onto the Covenant
>David wants to destroy humans - despite humans having created all the things he loves (art, music, philosophy, etc) with the 'perfect lifeform' (alien) despite his obsession with creation

Once again Fassbender carries this series singlehandedly. The score was good too.

>>85884491
>>Two of the security mercs are gay lovers (briefly shown in a 15 second scene) where this has literally 0 consequence to the story or their characters before or after this one shoehorned scene

It's clearly stated that everyone on the ship is in a relationship with someone else. The fact that some of these relationships are homosexual has as much bearing on the plot as the heterosexual ones really.

>David confuses himself between Byron and Shelly because ???

They clearly explain this in the film. David had been alone on the planet for so long has neural pathways had started to degrade, he was effectively going mad, and the fact he was getting things incorrect he should have known proved that.

>Mother can't differentiate between walter or David

This is actually an excellent point that I hadn't considered before. Surely a futuristic computer should have security measures that prevent another of the same model of Android to access it. They could probably hand wave this away as David somehow knowing Weyland tech back door access codes though.

>>85884807
>The fact that some of these relationships are homosexual has as much bearing on the plot as the heterosexual ones really.
It's stupid though, how are two homos going to help colonise a planet? Is one of them a tranny woman pretending to be a man?

>>85884807
>David somehow knowing Weyland tech back door access codes though
isnt this what happens in the movie?

>>85864088
I felt like turning it off right here, I probably should have given how the rest of the flick goes.

>>85864088

Out of all the stupidity (and there is a lot), this is the one scene that cannot be defended in any way, it's just the most ridiculous scene when it comes to stupidity. Can't really think of a scene that had more forced stupidity than the interaction between these two from the moment he sees him talking to the weird Alien to his death.

>>85884807

David is Walter.

>>85884807
>Surely a futuristic computer should have security measures that prevent another of the same model of Android to access it
Why would a Weyland Corp computer not trust another Weyland Corp computer?

>>85884925
He uses his own security code which must have been assigned to him before the Prometheus mission and Mother has a record of.

>>85879229
He was using Shaw's body as an egg factory, wasn't he?

>>85879656

are you, by any chance, a Marvel fan?

>>85881414
I kek'd.
Funny how you can hear that in Tom Cruise's voice.

>>85884491
>Engineer civilization have very alien looking spacecraft, but all their buildings and clothing are Greco-Roman-esque because ???
because H.R Giger the one that designed the space ship and created the alien from a real human skull and some condoms died a long time ago

>>85885315
>must have been assigned to him before the Prometheus mission

you mean when his creator told him that he can do anything he wants?

im sure david was more important than "mother"

>>85880144

I felt like it tried and failed to hit the golden balance of fun and scary that the first one hit, but it was definitely a 6.5+/10

>>85879821
yeah fuck me. where did that movie go?

>>85879821
do you think there'll be a directors cut?

>>85885536
>fun and scary
the first one had literally no fun in it

>>85880144
It was alright. I didn't much care for Mr. Hyde though, I thought that was lazy. I don't think he needs to turn into the Hulk or anything but there could have been more of a transformation. I also preferred the look of the Mummy when she wasn't fully restored, they should have kept her that way the whole film.

>>85885674

What?


>What?

Ridley has lost his fucking mind
what the fuck was it supposed to be?
a sci-fi slasher with big action setpieces?
the whole thing was a fucking mess and the worst thing about it is that it didn't advance the plot or add a single thing to the series. It may as well just not exist

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>>85885770
fucking idiots

>>85885706
Personally I didn't like the whole Prodigium aspect of the film, I think it would have been a lot better if it'd just been Tom and his gf and maybe a couple of other treasurehunters/egyptologists, arcanists. I guess the Prodigium might have been a linking factor in the whole monsters universe they were trying to create but I just didn't think it came off well.

>>85864088
laughed my ass off at this part

>>85883174
>saves the lives of the entire ground crew
shots flair and blinds everybody who has a fucking gun

ok

>>85885824
he should've just done alien again instead of going full retard and make prometheus v1.5

>>85885828

Oh fuck right off mate, nobody gives a shit about your petty bullshit

>>85878377
> suddenly has exactly same shape acid burned hand

>Bad Alien Films
Alien vs. Predator: Requiem

>Good Alien Films
The rest

I feel really bad for people who can't enjoy these films.

>>85885894
the first one you're talking about is a remake, this new one is a remake of a remake

>>85885914
it wasnt acid burned it was chewed

>slips on blood

>>85885923
>bad alien films
aliens, alien3, alien resurrection, avp, avp2, prometheus and covenant

>good alien films
alien

>>85885923
covenant is in the same tier as AVP for me

>>85885994
I'd say the same, but I really liked AvP and I'm guessing you didn't, the best alien films are the atmospheric ones.

>>85885854
Super secret organizations like that are boring and dime a dozen in movies like this. Couldn't they think of something better? I guess not.

>They brought wood with them so the captain could build a log cabin
>Nobody is surprised that they find a planet covered with trees identical to what you'd find on Earth
This is the only thing that really bothered me, that's only slightly less surprising than finding wheat to be honest.

>>85885984
Aliens was at least a well made action film even if it diverted from the true horror theme of the 1st.

you all agree Ridley is a fucking hack and someone needs to rip off the Alien franchise from his retarded brain

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>>85864088

>>85863887
>hey guys lets put everyone in charge of 1000s of frozen lives a couple, this is totally not to force drama and surely wont lead to them endangering those other lives they have personal connection to right.
>lets not wait for the storm to pass on this distant alien world we havent been on, thus we can create even more of a liability for the crew when we cant reach them.
>lets kust stick our faces in plants and spores because were on a distant alien world without suits. I mean we have a walking kung fu magneto bot that we could send alone to mitigate risk but whatever man.
>in this great future we only have modern day guns that basically make us all look like a band of faggot /k/ goers taking a brisk walk in the woods.
Sci fi is saved guys.

>>85886706
the whole movie is terrible because no one acts or has equipment on par of the super advanced future setting
for starters, anyone with common sense would think twice before stepping out in an unknown planet with no protection whatsoever and it all goes downhill from then

its obvious Ridley never "got" what made the first Alien movie good and is butthurt about it

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>west virginia
>mountain momma
>take me home
>country roads

>Untrained people in unimaginable situations under vast pressure make stupid decisions
>FUCK U RIDLEY HACKK!!!

Why doesn't Cameron get the same accusation for his retarded Marines acting even stupider in Aliens? Is it just because you saw that as a kid?

>>85886410
everything that came after alien ruined the film completely
alien left me terrified of the dark for 5 years straight, it wouldn't have the same effect today because everyone's seen the xenomorph already

>>85886855
You know what really drove that home to me? His "homage" to the deleted scene from the original.

Watch that scene with the head in the fountain. He's trying to evoke the dread of the original, but clearly doesn't understand(or has forgotten) what made that scene work.

>>85887033
these people should be highly trained given what they are doing

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>>85866064
Nope
its in the movie

>>85887308
Why would people who are trained to sleep for the entire spaceflight to an empty planet which they'll terraform, build houses on and fuck like bunnies to colonise be trained at fighting xenomorphs (which nobody has heard of)?

>>85887453
I'm not saying they're trained to fight aliens, but they certainly have some weapons training. And they have all kinds of other training to be in the position they are as crew for the ship. Saying they are untrained is not true.

>>85887571
They are not trained to fight aliens and were retarded
The Marines were trained to fight aliens and were retarded

Stop dodging the point with semantic bullshit.

>>85887453
The problem comes from every single decision they make.

They're a colony ship. You don't divert the ship and endanger your entire crew to investigate a random signal. You report it and keep on moving.

If you *do* have a compelling reason to investigate, you do so observing the sort of hazmat protocols you'd use in literally any unknown environment.

That's the distinction between these films and the first two. In Alien, they were suited up for a hostile environment. In Aliens, they were on a planet that the corporation had already vetted and cleared for terraforming.

>>85887726
I don't care who is retarded, I'm just saying they're not untrained.

>>85887784
You misinterpreted my post, I assumed people would understand that I was referring to what they were trained to do (marines are trained to fight, colonists are not), not saying they're literal cavemen who have never been taught anything in their entire lives.

>>85887435
Download Windows Activator anon

>>85887435

how is her body so perfectly preserved, hasn't it been 10 years

>>85887962
bioweapon magic

>>85887914
its windows 10
>>85887962
black goo did it

>>85887962
By being kept alive for some of those years while David made the xenos. And there may not be any bacteria which can break down humans, either because they don't exist on this planet or the bioweapon killed them too.

>>85887571
I doubt they have enough space suits for the entire away team, the lander didn't have an airlock either.

>>85887435

That dummy looks nothing like Elizabeth Shaw/Noomi. Is it really supposed to be her?

The movie also had some drawings of Shaw where it did look like her and that her head was sliced in half with guts hanging out of it.

>>85888118
second part was meant for >>85887765

>>85888189
>I doubt they have enough space suits for the entire away team, the lander didn't have an airlock either.

And that's the sort of thing we're criticizing. It's immersion-shattering.

>>85887878
Yeah, I guess I did. I'm sure we can agree that being highly trained, having some training, or even none, everyone in this universe seems prone to the same bad decision making. Like you said there in your first post, pressure when your life is on the line, even training sometimes will abandon you.

>>85888493
That's not needed on their mission, and you don't take stuff into space you don't need because it's expensive. Maybe sci-fi isn't the genre for you?

>>85888619
If you're not carrying the sort of things you need to explore, then you don't fucking explore. You don't get to have it both ways without looking retarded.

>>85883054
just because you can breathe the air doesn't mean you take off your (or don't wear a) helmet

>david created the xenomorphs
>the xenomorphs in Alien are found stored in an Engineer ship manned BY an Engineer
Someone needs to stop Ridley Scott.

>>85887308
yeah highly trained farmers and colonists

>>85890292
>manned BY an Engineer
you dont know that

>>85890292
>>85890435
The armour goes around whoever gets in the chair, after Prometheus I wondered if they'd find David's head inside it.

>>85863887
did they outfit their expedition with a fucking Northface catalog holy shit

>>85890493
Yes, they did.

>>85876871
this

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Why do Aliens see worms everywhere?

>>85888082
Windows Activator works for Windows 10

>>85884491
>>Mother can't differentiate between walter or David
When? She calls him David at the end, but I don't recall her ever calling him Walter.

>>85892761
>She calls him David
No shit, because David reveals he's really David and not Walter, and uses some backdoor security code.

>>85892957
So when did she not know he was Walter? And it wasn't a backdoor, it was his real security code.

>>85892233
parasites

Watched this at an Outdoor theater during a thunderstorm.

It perfectly added to the stormy atmosphere of the film. Made the whole thing a really memorable experience desu.

>>85893027
When they got back on the Covenant. Why would mother not inform them that it wasn't Walter, but David?

>>85893503
Why WOULD it?
I'm more bothered Final Girl couldn't figure out the switcheroo. Walter is supposed to be able to regenerate an sheeit.

>>85893624
>can detect foreign lifeform
>Systems require fingerprints routinely
>can't figure out one robot isn't another
bravo scott

>>85893838
I wish she was more suspicious of him. She waited until she was locked in the cyropod before even thinking about questioning his identity. What the fuck, lady.

>>85893838
Fingerprints are probably identical, and recognition of David model(s) is apparently hardcoded into the system.
Again: why would Mother announce the switcheroo?

>>85893838

Does an android have fingerprints?

Is there any reason why Mother would have been programmed to draw attention to the fact that previously there had been one Weyland Yutani android onboard and now there was another Weyland Yutani android on board?

>>85893838
mother did identify him as david and not walter
david only had to trick the crew and not address mother directly

>>85893988
mother is just a simple AI tasked with making sure nothing fucks with the ship she had no real intelligence

>>85893970
>Again why would she announce
Why WOULDN'T she? There's already the pretense that Mother can identify foreign lifeforms. Why WOULDN'T she also be able to ID that Walther is not actually Walter, but David? Why would she not be able to notice the difference between two different model androids?

>>85893990
I have no idea, but surely there's a way to differentiate between Androids beyond what 'security code' they tell to mother.

>>85894357

She did, she called David by name.She had no reason to tell the crew.

>>85894357
some other way to differentiate two androids who talk, walk, act and look the same in every single way possible?

>>85894357
why would she? she's nothing more than a souped up operating system

>>85894491
Why wouldnt she?

>>85894357
At this point, I have serious doubts regarding your intellectual well-being.

>>85865845
Don't you think they should be suspicious on the grounds that they found earth-like vegetation on that planet? They found frickin wheat, how is that not an environment close enough to infect humans.

>>85894443
>Super advanced AI that can detect neutron waves or whatever, run the complexity of a spaceship and also monitor the vitals of over 2000 people, and 1 android
>Can't differentiate between two android models
Sure is convenient writing.

>>85894624
At this point, I have serious doubts regarding your ability to bait, or even explain a point of view.

>>85894533
That's not how it works. Computers don't do things unless they're programmed to. Even an AI. There needs to be a reason why someone would make Mother alert the crew to a change in android.

>>85863887
It's actually incredible how fucking similar this piece of shit is to Prometheus, which was itself a massive pile of shit. Like shouldn't someone have stepped in at some point and said "Hey Ridley, look man, we love ya, but this is the exact same movie that you just made a couple of years ago"?

>>85894663
the neutrino burst was an imminent threat, its detection of the burst would indicate that a solar event was happening and would damage the ship and its cargo
and for the last time she was able to differentiate between walter and david

>>85894663
>Super advanced AI that can detect neutron waves or whatever
Any electronic equiptment can detect that by the fact it gets completely anally destroyed by it

>and also monitor the vitals of over 2000 people, and 1 android
Nope, that's what Walter was there to do

>>Can't differentiate between two android models
It can and did.

Prove you're not a troll if you want another (You).

>>85887033
>>85887453
Astronauts are screened extensively for emotional stability among a host of other things.

You don't staff your fucking flight crew with overemotional slack jawed retards.

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>>85894948
Does the screening involve a test to make sure that having their wife get infected by aliens which murder everyone doesn't make them behave strangely at all?

And don't dodge the question: explain Aliens.

>>85895119
>not wearing hermetically sealed suits on an unexplored planet

>>85895365
>not wearing hermetically sealed suits on planet where everyone has disappeared without trace for unknown reasons after being told to investigate an alien spaceship, again without hemetically sealed suits

Don't dodge the question: explain Aliens.

>>85863887
I've just watched this.
8/10

>>85895494
because of the terraforming machine that makes sure nothing dangerous is in the air

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>the people that are going to colonize a planet are smokers and idiots

>>85895731
why do you think they were sent away in the first place

>>85895731
>They were the 'B' Ark
Suddenly it all makes sense.

>>85895494
>colonists were there with no problem for several decades
>planet was confirmed dead before that, hostile atmosphere before terraforming
>terraformer scrubbed entire atmosphere, presumably killing anything that might have been living there
>Ripley told company how the xenos worked (via physical parasite, not pathogens)
>warned company that colonists were in danger from xenos
>company sent in marines on a "bug hunt"
>knows how xenos work, atmosphere confirmed safe to begin with, so not really worried about pathogens

hurr durr

>>85895865
>>terraformer scrubbed entire atmosphere, presumably killing anything that might have been living there
Do you see where you and they went wrong? Nobody believed Ripley except the Jew Lawyer, who didn't tell anyone what was going on, the dumb Spic marine prevented Ripley telling anyone else what was going on, why do you think it was logical for the marines not to wear protection when they had no idea if an alien pathogen had been discovered and taken out the planet, but it was stupid for the Covenant crew to think that the planet they knew a human survived on was safe?

It's because you saw Aliens as a child. hurr durr.

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>>85895731
>tfw you desperately try to defend Covenant from day one
>it's so shitty and full of plot holes that you keep getting BTFO by people who don't even give a shit
>slowly losing sense of self
>only one more "lol why no helmets?" comment away from filling your pockets with rocks and walking into a lake

>>85896100
because they thought it was just another bug hunt

>>85896100
>they had no idea if an alien pathogen had been discovered

Why would they think it was an alien pathogen? The planet was completely dead before the colonists arrived.

The planet in Covenant had its own ecosystem, which made alien pathogens likely.

>>85896545
Because the company told the colonists to investigate an alien ship shortly before contact was lost. Did you watch the movie?