metallicon: EXACTLY. It looked AWFUL. It is so obviously superimposed.
There are many ways CGI sucks. Almost all 3D rendered objects suck. Superimposing fake things
on top of real things also sucks. It was totally unnecessary to show this shot, especially when it looks
so fake. ALIEN COVENENANT just dropped huge for this second week. Of course, Ridley and MGM are
going to come up with reasons which are not the real reasons for why this is so but had they just done
the film with the sensibilities ALIEN was done with... Sensibilities they seem to have lost... It would have
cleaned up at the box office. Every interview with Ridley is like he's poo pooing the old, traditional f/x in
ALIEN but this modern crap is not the way to go. The old f/x still hold up damn well. Even the brief shot of
the ALIEN when it's walking towards Lambert is awesome and it was just a model. In fact, it's probably my
favorite shot of the creature in the entire series.
On a good note, maybe the negative reviews and fact it's dropping quick at the box office will make Ridley
recut the damn thing and release a better version on the Bluray!
LUMA PICTURES - Working to pull you out of the picture -
In charge of pointless, fake looking CGI fire and fake looking super imposed cgi spores!