Quote from: Nukiemorph on Oct 12, 2021, 11:22:26 PM
He seriously has it in his head that Covenant did poorly because people are bored of the alien.
Not because people don't want the alien explained,
or because his explanation was too bold for most people,
or because people are nitpicky about helmets,
or because people are grumpy that Shaw got Newted,
or because the movie came out during summer in between Wonder Woman and Pirates 5.
No, it must be because the stupid studio made him include the greatest movie monster of all time. Sure.
Or because of
Prometheus' rather lukewarm reception, and the fact that people just really weren't clamoring for another film following up on that one. Aliens in the "flesh" or not,
Covenant is, at the end of the day, still a direct
Prometheus sequel, and while Ridley definitely seems to favor
Prometheus over its successor, in all actuality
Prometheus rubbed a lot of the audience the wrong way for reasons that weren't just the lack of Alien.
Prometheus, on a structural level, is an absolute mess of a film. I really dig so much of the core of the movie, its ideas and concepts that it explores, but as a movie itself? It's easily the most poorly made of the six film lot, with a script that's all over the place and editing that is somehow even messier than the script. None of it really holds together under any slight scrutiny. I have a big soft spot for it because it is gorgeous and because I really dig so many of its core ideas, but most people in the general audience are just going to brush off a film as mangled as that one and I don't really blame them for doing so.
Covenant, in my opinion, not only expands on
Prometheus' core ideas and concepts to make them even more interesting, but is also a much more competently made film with a much tighter script and pacing that isn't headache-inducing... but at that point it was too late for the general audience. I think people just didn't care to check out another one coming directly off of
Prometheus at that point, and the presence of a capital-A Alien is really neither here nor there at the end of the day for the audience at large.