ALIEN Convenant

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I'm not particularly looking forward to this new film... from the trailers I've seen of it. It looks too similar to the first one, so yeah, I would've hoped they'd try something new.

Sure, the movie is a turd but still sort of mindless fun. It's kind of like straight to DVD movie. And let's rant about it: I seem to realize that I didn't like "Prometheus" not because it seems to me as stretched last 20 mins of "Tommyknockers" but because Scott didn't have any fun in it. While "C" is very derivative Scott did find some fun in some scenes like when Katherine Waterston is waking up. She is in the freezer and it starts shaking and then waking up, it looked interesting and I was under impression that Katherine Waterston had more interesting presence then all of the other actors in "P". I remember how Theron was boring and useless (like a decoration for a movie) and I remember thinking in that scene where she is sitting on the couch how Scott probably spent more time picking that couch and pillows on it then on the script. Plus there was more action in this because it seems they concluded that the "mysterious" part of "C" didn't work.

in that it has scenes from the original Alien film (such as the massive dead creature in a chair) that were never explained in the first one, but which make sense in light of this one (or they did when I watched it last... I've completely forgotten now what all that was about ).

To be honest "Prometheus" didn't make any sense to me and in "Covenant" it seems they distanced themselves from it as much as they could and to be honest  if I bother to think more about "Covenant" I would probably conclude that it didn't make much sense especially for AvP movies and that it turned Alien movies into Battlestar Galactica.

Okay, well please don't give me any spoilers cos I'm actually going to see it now When I wrote all that I a) didn't know it was already out in the cinemas and b) just thought I'd probably do what I usually do which is wait for it to come out on DVD (ie it takes a lot to get me to go to the cinema usually). But since I'm making a day of it, I'm choosing to think positively about the film But if it's still a dud, at least we can all have fun ranting about it

But anyway, the potential spoilers here are not really spoilers for me because I don't know Tommyknockers or Battlestar Galactica, so all's good   I can talk about Prometheus though. Personally, I liked it... I liked the whole evolution angle. But some of it it did seem a little bit too Hollywood (as opposed to gritty)... like the ion storm or whatever that they faced... such a scene would never have happened in the earlier films... but I guess that's 'progress' for you  As to 'C', I'll be happy if it's a) gritty over Hollywood, b) has more than one alien, and c) has an alien queen... but again, please don't tell me... as much as I want to know, I don't want to know more since I'm going to see it