Quote from: Engineer on May 22, 2017, 07:22:22 PM
I agree. Isolation was the best entry in the series since the original trilogy in my opinion...
yes, i feel like isolation is really, really really so good that it feels like a movie in itself.
it's so good, that it should have been an actual movie.
still, the fact is, that we're saying that, is really because covenant didn't deliver at all.
what a mess.
i can't grasp on how many ingredients for a great movie there was and how utterly flabbergasted i am that it is so severely underwhelming and stupid.
A moment of awe and wonder and confusion about the derelict should have been present. Exploring the derelict could have been absolutely great,
to then get infected somehow. Decide to go back to the lander - which should have been damaged in such way during the landing that it needs repairs to be able to lift off again. Some body scans show that apart from 2 crewmembers, the rest of the crew is in perfect health.
They leave the 2 sick crewmembers that have gotten a detection of 'foreign cells presence' and the 2 girls that die in the movie stay with them to run tests and try to 'heal' them. scans show a tumor-like growth on the back of one of the members and around the throat/lungs of the other member, which causes one severe back pain, and the other respitory problems. they demand repairs go about harder because they must go to quarantine aboard the covenant to do professional work.
meanwhile, the rest of the team took off again to set up a campsite or a more suitable landing location for better transfer from ship to ground.
quickly, the scenario unfolds of the back and throatbuster. ejogo's character is in medbay with both of the sick members when they start shaking violently and calls for faris to get to sickbay fast as she was doing repairs to the ship so they can take off. ejogo's character gets attacked by one of the neomorphs and when faris tries to get it off with a knife it bleeds acid harms ejogo's character more, then the other neo comes after faris, who tries to escape but slips and has her gun in between the door which causes the neo to escape, after her. she kicks it away outside with a fire extinguisher, to which it bails away and the other neo sees her so she grabs a gun and fires at it. she uses the flamethrower function but sets the compartment on fire and is still attacked, then shoots around, and causes a explosive canister to combust and BOOM. gone lander.
the rest of the team already heard the commotion, runs to them, and is too late and immediately gets attacked. walter does his heroic saving of daniels,
and then david appears,
after a minute when they calm down on what just happened, he says they need to go away as it's not safe in the open, and he can provide shelter. they follow him through the field of corpses, which is much more emphasized on, and shown much more the horror.
when they enter the citadel or the temple, they look around in confusion and say 'stop!' loudly when david guides them further, demanding explanations for what the fck is going and what the fck has happened here and how the hell he got here, and also where is shaw. they found her necklace but where the hell is she?
david explains that she didn't make it. walter demands he tells them what has happened there and what this place is.
david then explains what happened after prometheus. we are shown the prologue scene with shaw. the docking. the vase dropping.
he tells them that he had no control over what was happening as the ship was in some sort of auto-pilot function and he watched the devestation below as the ship they were on was a weapon of mass extermination.
That the planet was not the homeworld of the engineers they ran into on lv-223. the ship they were on left that planet 2000 years ago, and the civilization that has the same human DNA as the engineers on LV-223 was waiting for their return. They had built their city around a vast circle in the ground, where tthe scorpionaut was hidden within for all that time untill the return of the juggernaut with david and shaw. They worshipped the centre, and when suddenly the juggernaut entered the atmosphere, the scorpinaut appeared, and the civilization ran in amaze and religious fanatism towards the machines they had no idea of the doom it was carrying, offering things to the gods they thought were returning to take them into walhalla.
the vases were dropped like bombs and were then subsequentially shot by some electrostatic weapon in one hard beam which shot a powerfull supersonic wave of thunder to the ground, instantly charring, electrocuting and killing every living thing in a radius of 30 miles.
david claims then that whilst trying to stop the mayhem unfolding, shaw tried to pilot the ship away from the docking station and ignited it's engines - nothing like you have ever seen before, brilliantly simple and logical - but were catapulted into the mountains in doing so, the shock being so violent it killed shaw upon impact.
the video they shaw was a recording of shaw whilst leaving lv-223. the impact caused the signal to be broadcast, and out of respect for shaw's fate, david decided to leave it, not expecting anybody to arrive there anyway.
"but now you are here". please, make yourselves at home.
well i'll stop here, as i would only clog this thread with what i personally feel would have been endlessly better and more open.
so sad.
i can only hope for a directors' cut to fix some of the issues and atleast make it bareable.