Renzatic on 23/2/2017 at 18:47
Why is Steve Jobs on that spaceship?
N'Al on 23/2/2017 at 19:53
Cause he's an alien?
Renzatic on 23/2/2017 at 20:39
Makes sense.
demagogue on 24/2/2017 at 00:14
Reposting my first reaction
Quote:
Dead crew walking.
Couldn't have a better story set up for them, so they better do it right or it'd be like ruining cereal.
Trailer gave the right signals so far at least.
Nicker on 24/2/2017 at 02:52
So are these the colonists Ripley finds in _Aliens_?
If so, what's the point? What's to reveal? What's to learn?
We know that Big Corporation Incorporated will trade human lives for weaponised alien bio-tech. We know just about everything there is to know about the alien life cycle. Prometheus ruined any chance of having a cogent back story.
What's left besides making us like a bunch of people so they can all die horribly?
I am predicting... Fuck You, Alien franchise.
Renault on 24/2/2017 at 02:55
Man, I totally missed the official trailer being released last December:
[video=youtube;TnYVZVxcUFk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnYVZVxcUFk[/video]
They upped the release date, originally it was supposed to be August.
<strike>It'll be interesting explaining how David is on this ship that's apparently coming from earth, when he and Shaw were headed to the Engineer's home planet (last we saw). And what is Shaw up to now?</strike>
OK, so apparently that's Fassbender playing a different android (Walter). But he's still listed in the credits as both Walter and David.
Renault on 24/2/2017 at 03:05
Quote Posted by Nicker
So are these the colonists Ripley finds in _Aliens_?
That doesn't really make any sense. The colonists from Aliens are fine and have been living there for 20 years before any kind of alien shows up. Plus the planet is initially inhabitable.
dj_ivocha on 24/2/2017 at 11:21
Quote Posted by Nicker
So are these the colonists Ripley finds in _Aliens_?
As I understand it, this movie's gonna be a prequel to Alien. Basically some time after the events in Prometheus, but before Alien. The events in Covenant would be likely a part of what causes Weyland-Yutani to act as it did in Alien and then during the years before Ripley wakes up in Aliens.
Vivian on 24/2/2017 at 11:42
They're connecting the mythos you see, or whatever cocaine drivel studio execs come out with. This looks ok. I do not like the lighting, or much of the writing (but hopefully it will be frightening, me). Galileo!
I'm not expecting much of this basically. We're not going to see gigers stuff realised in full glorious CGI-enhanced Ridley-with-all-the-money-o-vision, because he's decided this sort of shitty mesoamerican look is better, and Ridley is basically a creationist, except he actually seems to think that Dr Manhattan did us out of tadpoles, because fuck the entire fossil record, genetic evidence, etc. I think Ridley is currently the best living argument against the auteur idea. He's incredible at communicating ideas, especially if those ideas involved gloomily lit spaces, but he should definitely not be the one coming up with those ideas, otherwise you get the prometheus gorilla-zombie instead of the alien. His best work was done with other equally talented chaps, and now it's just him and a bunch of underlings it doesn't really work.