Started by yhe1, Feb 26, 2019, 07:49:55 PM
Total Members Voted: 31
Quote from: Necronomicon II on Feb 27, 2019, 09:00:02 AMThey're not even remotely comparable, see my signature.
Quote from: Huggs on Feb 27, 2019, 09:29:40 AMQuote from: Necronomicon II on Feb 27, 2019, 09:00:02 AMThey're not even remotely comparable, see my signature. What if the predators were harvesting big dick serum?
Quote from: Xenomrph on Feb 27, 2019, 11:02:39 AMIn the sense of actually being disrespectful to real-life people, then I'd say 'The Predator', but in terms of giving the middle-finger to the fans, the trophy goes to 'Covenant'.
Quote from: Oasis Nadrama on Feb 28, 2019, 04:01:18 AMStill of the opinion that Alien Covenant is an undeliberate but very strong celebration of rape culture.
Quote from: Local Trouble on Feb 28, 2019, 04:20:20 AMQuote from: Oasis Nadrama on Feb 28, 2019, 04:01:18 AMStill of the opinion that Alien Covenant is an undeliberate but very strong celebration of rape culture.Totally. 5 o'clock.
Quote from: SiL on Feb 28, 2019, 04:24:15 AMPretty sure the whole franchise is pretty ... pretty specific on the "rape is bad" thing. It's literally about rape monsters raping people and then they die horribly. Covenant is about a literally dickless incel inventing said rape monster specifically to rape and murder people.At what point do we get to the "...and that's a good thing!"?
QuoteThe fact David is the bad guy doesn't escape me either. (I was surprised you didn't bring it up if you were to dismiss the "rape culture" political criticism.)Alien is about rape, okay. David is the bad guy, okay. Really, all of this is taken into account and all of this is okay.The trouble comes from the fact David is incredibly enhanced and iconized. David is the true star of the movie.(...)The movie doesn't say David is right, but it romanticizes and idealizes him, while clearly establishing him as a symbolic, thematic and literal rapist (how do you call someone who literally organizes the unwilling penetration and fecundation of other individuals?).The rapist depicted as beautiful, cunning and fascinating; as well as the deepest character in the movie: this is rape culture.