none of the cast resonatedOh boy, buckle up for Covenant then. Honestly, thinking back on it covenant only has like 3 characters you'll even remember and none of them even do anything. One is only important for being stupid and annoying, one is only important because they're the main character, and the other is Danny McBride. All of them stupid, even the inconsequential ones, they don't even really feel like characters. They're just plot devices plugged in.
It feels like halo where once 343 took over and the story become more convoluted witht he origin of humanity. I think we just want more xenomorphs, not engineer guys. The lore of the franchise is definitely worse but I will say I was intrigued.
Man it was the exact opposite for me. Been ages since I've seen it but I remember the first 30 - 45 minutes being good and I felt like I was watching the next classic sci-fi movie.
Then it got real dumb real fast lol
Wish I had hulu still.
I still think skipping resurrection is a mistake
you almost gave prometheus the same score as you gave the og alien movie? what in the hell.
and you skipped terrible movies to see a terrible movie? well ok.
i feel like there's not much else to the franchise besides the AvP movies (which are their own category of terrible). did you play the game yet?
I enjoy Prometheus and Covenant, but they aren't great. Kinda wish they were their own thing rather than part of the Alien universe.
Oh boy, buckle up for Covenant then. Honestly, thinking back on it covenant only has like 3 characters you'll even remember and none of them even do anything. One is only important for being stupid and annoying, one is only important because they're the main character, and the other is Danny McBride. All of them stupid, even the inconsequential ones, they don't even really feel like characters. They're just plot devices plugged in.
Though, I'll admit the visuals are really good and it has interesting monsters. It definitely leans into the Alien side more than Prometheus. But man, the characters are just awful.
you almost gave prometheus the same score as you gave the og alien movie? what in the hell.
and you skipped terrible movies to see a terrible movie? well ok.
i feel like there's not much else to the franchise besides the AvP movies (which are their own category of terrible). did you play the game yet?
Imagine rating Prometheus the same as Alien
I will say this.. The Prometheus soundtrack is something...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzI3AdpA9e4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x83SXBc1sV0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfBGhVWDbP4
Agreed on all points.
Prometheus has potential as an idea, but it's just better off as far removed from Alien as possible, in my opinion. The space jockey in the the first movie was clearly meant to be something bizarre/inhuman, and retrofitting a tall guy with a fancy mask into place just kills the creativity that went into it.
I still think skipping resurrection is a mistake
The fact that the traditional alien is on the cover gets me more excited to watch covenant
Yea the problem with Prometheus is demystifing the Alien imo.
It being a genetically made weapon means it is something humans can make and is actually a cousin to humanity.
I kinda feel like the whole Aliens universe was made worse by examining "how they came to be". I'd rather they have just been left as a weird scary alien threat that we knew next to nothing about. Their origins just didn't need to be examined.
I like Prometheus, I don't think it's as good as the first two and I'd definitely give the edge to Romulus, but it's probably my 4th favorite out of the franchise.
I liked Prometheus, but it does feel very detached from the rest of the franchise. It's a better film than Alien 3 and Resurrection, but at least those two still feel like they fit what Alien is all about.
Covenant is easily the worst of the franchise in my opinion.
I think if TC plans on seeing Romulus, then they should go back and watch both Alien 3 and Resurrection. Romulus makes Resurrection more worth the watch in my opinion. And you kinda need to see Alien 3 to set up Resurrection.
Prometheus would have been decent as a standalone non-Alien franchise movie. It'd still suffer from some of the dumbest characters in a movie ever but it wouldn't have been as terrible as it was. The only thing Covenant did was make the stupid characters in Prometheus look like fucking geniuses.
3 and Resurrection are both bad too, but are also both much better than Prometheus and Covenant by wide margins.
Also, yes, Romulus is also far and away the 3rd best of the series.
First AvP was pretty cool, second was an awkward train wreck though
It had amazing sets.
That's about where my praise ends >_>
The original Alien is one the greatest movies ever made (my personal favorite). I like Prometheus quite a bit, I thought it was a really good horror sci-fi movie with some really interesting concepts. I think it gets unfairly criticized because some of the characters act kind of dumb at times (there are some cut scenes that help with that some). Most horror movies have characters doing dumb things. Most people I know seem to like it quite a bit, but hardcore Alien fans like to pick it apart.
Ah man if theyre even dumber in covenant, this might be rough
Also Ive never been to space before, who am I to negatively judge the people here
tbh I didn't have any interest in AVP either... until I watched it. But I did enjoy most of the movies (minus AVP2 and the one where they got kidnapped).Predators? That one was awesome.
Recently rewatched the Alien series and I find every movie has the cast make stupid decisions, Prometheus wasn't really unique there.It was in the sense that they were Earth's greatest scientists.
I think if Prometheus was like 3 hours long it would have been a much better movie. So much content got cut out that we were left with far too many questions. I still enjoyed the movie
Prometheus rocked if you didn't put any thought into it.
Reminder that for Alien Covenant they thought it was OK to film the character development scenes, but then cut them from the movie and instead just have them uploaded to youtube.
That's some "Palpatine announces he's alive via Fortnite" shit right there.
AvP1 and 2 are the only two in the series I haven't seen yetI believe the fucking geologist got lost. And he had a robots routing him pathways and still got lost.
I hear they're not good by any means but the concept is so strong, it makes me want to see it.
Yeah. lol Like it made complete sense that the characters in the other characters would make poor decisions and if you took a look at what they were thinking or feeling internally, it was entirely logically consistent with their characters or understandable. And a lot of the decisions they made weren't even as dumb. But with Prometheus, it's like everybody was insisting on acting as stupidly as possible.
I kinda feel like the whole Aliens universe was made worse by examining "how they came to be". I'd rather they have just been left as a weird scary alien threat that we knew next to nothing about. Their origins just didn't need to be examined.
I remember enjoying Prometheus and Covenant when I first watched them, but I can't remember much of anything about them so it makes me question myself.