Quote from: Ragonk_Force on Dec 26, 2016, 02:37:45 AM
Ill assume, you didnt like the trailer. May i ask what you were expecting in the trailer, that you didnt see?
My issue is mostly with the trailer itself. The trailer for
Prometheus did an excellent job of creating a sense of rising tension. You get a sense of the growing mystery and discovery and dread -- more than the finished film, as far as I'm concerned. It was a really good piece of advertising.
This trailer starts with a gory kill and then throws as many flashes of action and "horror" at you as it can. It feels like it was outsourced to a company that specialises in slasher movie trailers. It advertises the film as a largely mindless series of death scenes strung together on a thin plot.
I was expecting a better-edited trailer that created an actual sense of tension.
Alien's trailer nailed this,
Prometheus' trailer nailed this, so it wasn't much to ask for this to follow suit. It didn't.
There are flashes in it I really like, but every piece of footage they showed surrounding the Aliens and neomorphs and what have you lacked any sense of imagination or creativity. It portrays the film as bottom-of-the-barrel sci fi horror and that's really disappointing. Monster shows up, snarls, blood, next scene.
Arguably, that's how
Alien goes, too -- but that's not how the trailer showed it. It showed it as an intense, claustrophobic nightmare and left the generic aspects of the story to the film itself. So I have hope for
Covenant the movie, but no love for
Covenant the trailer.