Quote from: City Hunter Yautja on Aug 15, 2022, 10:42:34 PMQuote from: Immortan Jonesy on Jun 20, 2022, 12:01:19 AMQuote from: NecronomIV on Jun 18, 2022, 11:17:00 AMI'm really interested to see how we'll be feeling about Covenant for it's 10 year anniversary. It seems a good amount of time to be able to step back and judge something. Partly I suppose it will depend on whether the story is actually ever finished.
For myself, I appreciated the design, look, direction and acting. Didn't really like the story and the direction it went in very much.
If it was its own thing, it would be 5/5. The med-bay scene I was literally biting my nails (the soundtrack was excellent). And I walked out of the theatre thinking it was, in many ways, a bleaker ending than ALIEN 3 (and that's a good thing).
But parts of it I found sour and unpalatable (no Shaw, David creating the xenomorphs) and unconsidered (absurdly short incubation times) and a loss opportunity (show us a glorious, strange and alien Engineer society and world, not Ancient Rome Post Holocaust). So I can only really give it 3/5 and feel sad about it.
With everything and its flaws, Prometheus was something like a 'Promised Land'
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I love Prometheus, it isn't perfect (what really is save Alien 1979?), but the wonder it displays and invoked in me is unique. It capture the Odyssey on positive level, while Covenant stays in Hades most of the time.
Yes, even with better scripting/editing,
PROMETHEUS is a pretty unique "Alien" movie, and while it's true that each installment of the IP has its director's touch; they're all movies about people getting killed by the Alien.
Prometheus tried to be Alien's 2001: A Space Odyssey. The music, the shots, the scope...it definitely wasn't meant to be Amityville in space like
ALIEN. And yet, the premise of the 1979 film is the plot of a B-movie that, thanks to its perfect storm of talent, ended up being a landmark in sci-fi-horror. Just thinking in a 'perfect storm'
Prometheus makes me a bit nostalgic. Also, the
"Who Made Them?" like an almost cliffhanger, as everything practically follows the line of a Columbus-style voyage of discovery. After all, Ridley Scott directed
1492: Conquest of Paradise, which presents us with something that is discovered, but only future explorations will reveal its true condition.
About the sequel, too bad
Covenant didn't have 'Arrogant God vs. Raging monster' moments.