After watching Covenant, I became convinced that the only good

>>85883850
Agree. Covenant, like Prometheus, is a good movie just not a good Alien(s) movie.

>>85884820
Neither Prometheus or Covenant are good movies.

>>85883850
I submit that Prometheus is good.

>>85883850
Aliens was better
fuck this pseudo horror shit, give us more Colonial Marines

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>>85884820
> a good movie just not a good [blank] movie
>actually saying this unironically

>>85883850
What were those factors?

>>85884820
you're retarded, huh.

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>>85883850
>the only good Alien was the original
missing something aren't you?

I watched it today and I can say that it is a great part of a prequel

what the fuck are you bitching about? it's a fucking PREQUEL

>>85883850
You're absolutely right.

Go watch the Alien making of.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaHjNWzn73k

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>>85886454
>most of the people in this doc are now dead or near death

>>85886865
>Ridley is still alive and doing his best to run the franchise they poured so much effort and passion into right into the ground

>>85885074
Newness which induces surprise in the viewer. When you watch an Alien film today, you know what the eggs and face hugger do. You're not surprised or shocked by a monster bursting out of a person's chest.

The original Alien introduced all of that using a script where the characters, who were regular mining support staff, were also unknowing of the characteristic of the alien and thus ill equipped to fight a creature with acid for blood.

Any Alien sequel has to have a very, very good script to not be derivative of Alien (horror) or Aliens (an outstanding action movie that gave viewers a first glimpse at how a small military deployment would fare against a bunch of aliens).

Being that the aliens are essentially somewhat mindless bugs, they cannot engage in conversations with the humans to drive the plot. I think part of the disappointment with Prometheus and Alien: Covenant is that people want to see something new and surprising but what they got was what they had already seen in the first two films.