No.
Just f**king no.
Right from the begining. No, I have no issue with david creating the Alien. Actually, the story of Covenant is extremely interesting - considering the plot twist in future movies we already know - that Covenant members will become the The Derelict Cargo Bay Eggs.
The idea and passion behind portraying david is outstanding - You can clearly see sir Ridley is grasping at things... what it makes You to be a human, what makes You human, what makes You what You really are. What it is to live your life... and die like human creator or... try to create. It's a beautiful idea. The passion of creation.
But lets face it.. it's f**king ruined. There are some beautiful ideas there... but they're ruined. By lack of additional influence. 79' Alien was just... f**king marvelous. It took the same, repeated ad nauseam ideas and made it different. By then, as a small kid, I've seen lots of horror movies. Alien was different. Not because of just direction - but because of f**king perfect combination of weirdness from standard, yet unusal script by O'Bannon Starbeast, perfect visuals of Ridely Scott, outstanding design by HR Giger, and all the work of whole crew making the fukcing movie. Crew infected by that movie. By combining excellent minds, oh irony, the perfect organism was made.
Space Jockey and his ship was something nothing human mind can comprehend. Ship build of bones and even maybe flesh at some time? Pilot being part of the ship. The f**king out of this world mysteries hidden beneath the ship. It was something outlandish. Something mind blowing. Something... alien.
That's what makes perfect organism.
The new entries are fine. Prometheus, even though shitting as hell on all Gigers work, had excellent, brilliant even, design choices - ironically based on Gigers designs. They were so much captivating, that even dumb as shit script couldn't ruin the f**king amazing experience - of discovering your god's lair and realizing it's just one of many military installations with sole purpose to erase everything. And not by using bullets. By using f**king nightmares.
Alien for me is that's.. alien. Something you can't understand. Something, where you can't find similarities to your earthilng life. You may find some similiraties... but then it's making your familiar memories turning inside out. It was birliantly amplified by Aliens - yeah, it was a sequel turning horror into action movie, but f**k, Queen design, all Her lair... sure it's bugs for grunts, but it's so f**king Giger like you just can't complain. And I won't even start on Alien 3, because it... well, even when butchered by the studio, tripliefied the feelling of being unease. And it actually asks f**king questions without any exposition on the screen whatsover. So there's that.
And here's covenant. Movie, that, I shit You not, had me at the end of the seat for first 30 mins. Yeah, I know those scenes were f**king trope, but as a whole combined experience were great.
And there it goes. Landing, stupid expolring (I love f**king short stories from our eastern border - going like that without helmets because things - almost like expoling f**king Zone for the first time - and those were amaizng stories from 70ties so I lover it and f**k off), and tension is excellent! And neomorphs... - holy shit, david-neomorph one was f**king amazing.
But all the time after david takes refugees to the temple - sledgehammer to the face. Because You know what? If there ever was a space race engineering life on most habital planets they can find - they will look like f**king rome citizens.
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Or Venece. Or very old Constantinopol. No.
You think they were advanced biomechanical beings from outer space? NO. It's just f**king vatican, and they all live in stone like homes, and david's laboratory is in a f**king cave with papiruses on the wooden shelves.
You thought engineers biomechanical base (let's be honest, it's not their homeworld) will be out of this world? Like.. alien? No, it's just the same shit from history channel. Do you feel safe now?
That batshit insane creatures from outerspace from '79? Nah, they are just a copy of Rome? And greece, combined. All the human culture combined!
Do you feel safe now while watching the movie? Do You feel safe and at home? Maybe excellent shots in the middle of the movie copying 1920-1940 asthetics make feel You better, hmm? You know, like Nosferatu, or maybe Cabinet of dr. Caligari? Things You know, things You recognize? You know, everything is human like! Do You feel safe now?
just... f**k. NO.
NO. f**kING NO. The last thing thing I wanted to see in Alien prequel was that it's not alien. It's just the same f**king sight in the same f**king city - city you go to sightseeing in Your own f**king country - or other one, when You go to a trip. Yeah. Excellent.That's what everyone wants. f**king copy of Rome.
Everything is f**king human. There's nothing left of Alien.
f**k THIS MOVIE.
