Quote from: SM on Jun 12, 2017, 10:35:28 PM
Depends on what issues you have with it.
I think it'll be what ever gets added back in, if an extended cut releases, that will convince me. The story definitely isn't my favorite, but I'm unable to fully decide on that until I see for sure where the story is heading. My biggest issues with the movie are the pacing and the ending. The ending is just frustrating because it forces us to wait for the sequel, but it's not a "deal breaker" for me. The deal breaker, for me, is primarily the pacing, and adding in some of the deleted scenes might help in this respect. There are other things I had issues with too, but again, the pacing is what I disliked most. Thematically, it didn't feel like 'alien,' but neither did Prometheus so I can ultimately live with that.
But to be honest, I think I would have liked this movie far better if Ridley scott left the alien out, and just stuck with the neomorphs, and/or something else reminiscent of the alien. Heck, I would have like Prometheus better if covenant had a little more distance from 'alien' too! I understand that these aliens weren't supposed to be exactly the same iteration that appears in the original trilogy, and I understand that the novel says David found the alien left behind by the engineers indicating that he didn't create them from scratch. But it's still essentially the alien; it's too similar whereas the neomorphs were plenty different. Whether the inclusion of the alien works for me or not, will ultimately depend on how the sequel handles the alien going forward... which goes back to the frustration I had with the ending.
Other, more minor, issues aside. It really was the pacing for me. Every other film took its time to build up the suspense, including 'aliens,' but this just felt rushed and impatient.
