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Alien: Covenant
Went in with an open mind. I'm firmly on team "Prometheus", and thought it was a nice change in direction for a tired franchise. Not perfect, but still one of the better sci-fi flicks of the past while.
I really had no idea of the connection to that universe this movie had, as I stayed away from spoilers for the most part, and went in blind. I fucking HATED the first 40 minutes or so of this movie. Felt like the tired, cliche horror flick I was dreading they'd go back to, after the mixed reactions "Prometheus" received. While on a mission to colonize a planet a bagillion light years away, when they hear a transmission from a much closer planet, so they just scrap their initial mission they likely planned out for years, to chase down the random transmission. Yup. We're in stupidville already. They get to the planet, and some of crew gets infected by some strange spores, and of course aliens start bursting out, and it's a standard Alien movie. Oh', but they changed where the aliens burst out from. "Back bursters" now. Wow. Real original. Oh', and what pops out is a pink, not scary at all, something-or-other-morph, that bounces around everywhere, while biting people.
At that point, I figured, "Welp, this is the stupid shit the 'true' Alien fans wanted. Just some dumb monster movie we've seen a billion times". Ahhh, but then David saves the movie, it becomes a true sequel to "Prometheus", and gives the audience something more to chew on, rather than just some more aliens in the dark. Now, it's not all great, as the pedestrian philosophy is laid on a little thick, but it was a nice change of pace from the same old shit, and breathed life into a new, memorable villain, and continued to take the franchise down the fresh(but admittedly polarizing) path it laid out with "Prometheus".
Overall, it was far from perfect, and a step down from Prometheus, but I liked it. It was a good balancing act, even if the horror elements were a little lame, and the philosophical elements were a little heavy handed. I felt it all came together quite nicely in the end.
7/10
Went in with an open mind. I'm firmly on team "Prometheus", and thought it was a nice change in direction for a tired franchise. Not perfect, but still one of the better sci-fi flicks of the past while.
I really had no idea of the connection to that universe this movie had, as I stayed away from spoilers for the most part, and went in blind. I fucking HATED the first 40 minutes or so of this movie. Felt like the tired, cliche horror flick I was dreading they'd go back to, after the mixed reactions "Prometheus" received. While on a mission to colonize a planet a bagillion light years away, when they hear a transmission from a much closer planet, so they just scrap their initial mission they likely planned out for years, to chase down the random transmission. Yup. We're in stupidville already. They get to the planet, and some of crew gets infected by some strange spores, and of course aliens start bursting out, and it's a standard Alien movie. Oh', but they changed where the aliens burst out from. "Back bursters" now. Wow. Real original. Oh', and what pops out is a pink, not scary at all, something-or-other-morph, that bounces around everywhere, while biting people.
At that point, I figured, "Welp, this is the stupid shit the 'true' Alien fans wanted. Just some dumb monster movie we've seen a billion times". Ahhh, but then David saves the movie, it becomes a true sequel to "Prometheus", and gives the audience something more to chew on, rather than just some more aliens in the dark. Now, it's not all great, as the pedestrian philosophy is laid on a little thick, but it was a nice change of pace from the same old shit, and breathed life into a new, memorable villain, and continued to take the franchise down the fresh(but admittedly polarizing) path it laid out with "Prometheus".
Overall, it was far from perfect, and a step down from Prometheus, but I liked it. It was a good balancing act, even if the horror elements were a little lame, and the philosophical elements were a little heavy handed. I felt it all came together quite nicely in the end.
7/10