Chinese Edit of Covenant Has No Aliens?

[Elmazalman]

Looks like the dorsal tubes disappear as it enters the opening?

[SM]

Looks like the fold down the back as it squeezes through the hole, though it's hard to tell.  Have to wait for the Blu-ray for a clearer view.

[Predaker]

The dorsal tubes fold in, the only thing that vanishes quickly is a shadow from the legs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvTZr50QeG8

I see the tubes pass through the floor. I watched it several times to be sure. It looks worse and worse the more I look at it. Does Prometheus have any mistakes like that? Or any other major movie of recent years?

Pretty sure this isn't from the final cut, because when I saw it in the theater the tubes folded down as the alien passed through. I was watching for it after reading about it here 

[Highland]

Aside from the tube thing, the shot just doesn't look very good. To me anyway.

[Ingwar]

Looks like they're folding down to me.

Because they're folding. It's just very quick sequence and it's hard to tell.

[Nukiemorph]

I first saw the film in an IMAX and the tubes bothered me in this shot.  I remember them folding, but kind of blobbing against the opening like they were made of Flubber. ('MEMBER FLUBBER???)

Then I saw it again on a smaller screen and it just looked like they were folding against the edge.  All of the CG looked much better on the smaller screen, so I'm sure the blu-ray on my 46" TV will improve it further...

[tleilaxu]

They are DEFINITELY clipping/disappearing, which is weird because the CGI during the terraforming bay sequence is top notch.

[Kane's other son]

CGI shots are scrutinized and worked-upon until budget or time runs out. It's not a video game engine running real time renders and therefore there's zero chance of clipping or any other such glaring mistake.

[Evanus]

I've seen clipping before in some older films/documentaries, but that was when CGI was still relatively young.

I doubt the dorsal tubes are actually clipping through the ground here, they just fold back real quickly.

[Protozoid]

Watched it several more times and still see the tubes pass through the floor. If someone wants to post screen grabs, that would settle it. We'll know next month when home video versions arrive. I hope it was fixed, because I can't unsee it, now.

[echobbase79]

Yeah, the tubes just disappear in the floor. Not a big deal though. It's a quick moment and doesn't irk me like it once did.

[426Buddy]

To me it looked like they just folded back and i waited and looked for it because of all the complaining over it here.

[BR1XER]

That, or the dorsal tubes were always imagined to be relatively firm, until Ridley and co. decided that they'd flop and bend like Jell-O.

And that'd be why it looks so poorly executed: an optical illusion produced from an unnecessary change.

[tleilaxu]

That, or the dorsal tubes were always imagined to be relatively firm, until Ridley and co. decided that they'd flop and bend like Jell-O.

And that'd be why it looks so poorly executed: an optical illusion produced from an unnecessary change.

The only optical illusion here is observational bias due to not wanting to find flaws in something you like, if you ask me. They CLEARLY clip/fade out, bros.

[Predaker]

That, or the dorsal tubes were always imagined to be relatively firm, until Ridley and co. decided that they'd flop and bend like Jell-O.

And that'd be why it looks so poorly executed: an optical illusion produced from an unnecessary change.

The only optical illusion here is observational bias due to not wanting to find flaws in something you like, if you ask me. They CLEARLY clip/fade out, bros.

...or how about the fact that most all of these pre-release trailers and teasers have unfinished CGI in them.