ALIEN / PROMETHEUS / COVENANT / ROMULUS - SPOILERS INBOUND!!

yeah I dunno. Rick & Morty isn't a marketing scheme usually. Pop culture reference does not equal advertising. Tbh watching that show, I rarely thought of Back to the Future at all? I mean, you haven't seen it so not sure where what you say is coming from tbqhbbq.

It's a goode show btw.

  On 5/14/2017 at 5:21 PM, phling said:

yeah I dunno. Rick & Morty isn't a marketing scheme usually. Pop culture reference does not equal advertising. Tbh watching that show, I rarely thought of Back to the Future at all? I mean, you haven't seen it so not sure where what you say is coming from tbqhbbq.

It's a goode show btw.

I'm not saying it's a marketing scheme or anything negative, only that there's a thin line between a sponsored scene like that (aside from direct ads) and what animated shows naturally do. I'm not completely unfamiliar with the show, it originated from Back to the Future parody and it's strange to deny characters' likeliness visually and as archetypes (Doc wasn't an original character himself, a mish-mash of Einstein and various imaginary mad scientists).

I think we should stop this discussion and reflect.

That makes the show look very bad.

7/10

SQUEE EDIT: I know we all hate Prometheus but there's no reason to spoil Alien Covenant

Saw it in the BFI IMAX last night, annoyingly our seats were right at the front, so spent most of the movie craning my neck to see the whole screen, and certain scenes were quite hard to follow from being too close, looked very impressive when I was given time to take in a scene though, literally had to turn my head left and right to take it all in. The set design was really very impressive, lots of epic reveals as they fly down to and wander around the planet, design of the gear/spaceships/etc was all great too, just looked great overall, CGI was all very well done as well. Music was great, seems like they were making more of an effort to borrow cues from the originals.

Acting was an improvement from Prometheus probably, though Waterson had less presence than Rapace, was a fairly dull lead tbh, but she was fine. Danny McBride surprised me in it, was quite good. The supporting cast weren't fleshed out to any significant degree, so it was similar to Prometheus in that regard, they had far less clunky dialog to deliver though so it wasn't a big deal to me.

ultimately though it wasn't as good as Prometheus, the plot just wasn't interesting enough for me, and too many rehashed ideas from the originals. definitely an unsatisfying series of answers to the questions posed in Prometheus.

is this shit in 3d?

no

hmmm, says it is on wikipedia

but no theaters list it as 3d. guess not.

So I just back from seeing it.

It wasn't that bad. Sure there are things in that made me go "why?!" but it blows Prometheus out of the water and shits all over it - but I still wouldn't say that it's a good movie. But it's decent.

The first 40 minutes or so are just fine. Then stuff starts happening and I guess that was where Ridley Scott dozed off - or woke up - because that's when it really starts shitting the bed. It gets better near the end though.

Anyway, ill say more when I've had time to digest it and once everyone has seen it

shruggy. was good fun tho. need to see it again to see if i can work out if it is a any good. methinks not. but bias. and jaded.

got IMAX tickets for Sunday.

from reading all the opinions on the internet it feels like I've already seen it tho

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Sounds like you need to get IMAX tickets to the internet.

going all in without an IMAX ticket is dangerous, they said.

Just saw that there covenant film and it were pants.

Few nice scenes but predictable as fuck and none of the characters had any character. Caze's review is pretty spot on imo.

Tasty subs in the cinema though.

Holy shit this film delivered. Great bridge between Prometheus and Alien in every sense. I wasn't looking to get to know these characters like some were, i just wanted more of the bigger picture. As the credits rolled a knew I was in the midst of a potentially profound experience. Hopefully they get straight to work on the next one.

aLIEWN: CONFLICTn't

yes. these conflicting opinions are outrageous.

I've decided to take it for what it is and like this film, even if it's stupid/bad. Just don't wanna come out the theater disappointed.

older coworker of mine who is a longtime Alien fan said it wasn't as bad as Prometheus.

  On 5/19/2017 at 1:12 AM, usagi said:

older coworker of mine who is a longtime Alien fan said it wasn't as bad as Prometheus.

It's better than Prometheus. No doubt about that. It's also better than Resurrection. A lot of people hate on Alien3 which I actually think is pretty decent. So, I think it's the fourth best Alien movie there is.

I'm still digesting Covenant though. It had a couple of pretty cool scenes, the soundtrack was way better with lots of homages to the original Alien soundtrack, but that stupid theme from Prometheus showed up again at one point and it made me want to burn the theatre down.

Haven't seen it yet, but how can I take this film serious if it doesn't even have a dedicated thread on Watmm?!

  On 5/19/2017 at 8:02 PM, t yst r said:

Haven't seen it yet, but how can I take this film serious if it doesn't even have a dedicated thread on Watmm?!

Not gonna search right now but I think it does actually.

Changed the topic title, now this is also a COVENANT thread!

lol