Alien: Covenant

Does the Alien series have a fluid story- from start to finish? I always wonder, especially after Prometheus and this movie... were the movies made after the Alien series began (like the two previously mentioned), made to fit a story already out there- or did those who created the Alien series- have this general idea- the back-story of how Aliens came about- set up from the very start (which was what, 1979- a long time ago) I will say that I have no fluid idea of the Alien movies- from start to finish. I have watched all the movies at one time or another- and before I go to the great beyond- if I ever get to the sub-set of my bucket list where figuring out the Alien series is listed, I will fulfill this need for knowledge. But Alien Covenant, I believe, fits in somewhere in the storyline and I have so many more movies to watch again- to figure out where.... Of all the Alien movies- this one- definitely rocks- and is thought-provoking (as you can tell from my review). In it, there is a robot, created by man. You meet a later creation (Walter) of the same robot that was the first (David) when they are both all alone on a planet (except for the little space crew left) and you see, because he was the first- he has SO MANY flaws. But the flaws are there because, it seems, of what humans forbade him to do. The one thing this robot (David) seems to want most- is to create. Because humans denied him the ability, David says to Walter (when they meet)- "to create even a simple tune" (or something like that). David's drive in life seems to be fueled by the anger over this- and it makes him want to "create" all the more. For some reason the ship David was on (ten years before this new crew stumbles onto the planet) carried a virus he released- maybe he manipulated what they had while in the air- after- but it seems when it ate all the people on the planet- well, that was never clear to me- just that all the people were gone on the planet because of what David did (and some aliens on the planet attacked this new crew that had the back luck to land on it). After that, since he is all alone, he seems to manipulate this virus further- to create the aliens- or a version like the ones we know (the eggs where the jumping aliens come from). When you see the body of a woman on the ship he claims he once loved (I think her name was Elizabeth, who he now has a stone with her name on)- her body looks lacquered, and cut and pried open- and that maybe something came out of it, was taken out of it. But David has done a lot of studying in the ten years he has been on the planet- and has parasites ready for human (or any) DNA- so that they can alter their form into an alien. You easily learn that this virus- when mixed with a living form- creates a new product- an alien. This virus brings birth- a new from- and kills what it comes out of- destruction in creation- and David finds it beautiful The irony of the story is David has this love of creation for these things- these aliens- as animalistic and violent as they are- and he destroys humans (and all other living things) to create them. It seems that David only has a love for the things that he can create- and no care for what he will destroy to make these creations. David destroyed an entire world- not even knowing the people on it- and there he sat for ten years, waiting- hoping- to destroy more. He may have even lured the ship that came to him....Ten years later, the ship with Walter and his crewmates shows up- and- in the end- we see how the creation of aliens gets off the initial planet it destroyed (as we so often see at the end of Alien movies as a ship leaves, with an alien hiding on it)....Fuuny there is a twist to this Alien cliffhanger ending... It's a great movie, although one you have to watch several times to get the entire story (as you can tell from my review) but to put the whole Alien saga together to get a fluid picture of how and why this happened- you're going to have to pay a lot of attention- to many movies- This, I would say, is where Aliens begin- with David who was essentially created by man- and created aliens to punish his creator for denying him his right to do what they can But remember, these are my thoughts and opinions only. Please take them for what they are and when you enjoy this movie on your own- develop your own- which may be the same or different- regardless, enjoy the movie- I know I did! Thank you- Happy Viewing!

One of the must prequels to Alien Earth. Great movie.

I'm being generous, by half a star. In short, Prometheus is a more interesting film; Covenant is a better-made film. The two movies share some of the same problems though. One of them is that, though the characters in both films are, presumably, very smart people, they make some of the most unaccountably DUMB decisions. For example, in Prometheus, the two scientists decide to get nice and friendly with the terrifying snake-like creature created by the black goo and play around with it a little on that completely alien planet. Also, Fifield, who is really scared of being in the alien building, decides to scream as loud as he can about how much he wants to leave that place, when anything could be lurking around. Also, Charlie Holloway, a SCIENTIST, just takes his helmet right off inside that place. In Covenant, when the crew are first exploring the planet, the two characters don't seem at all concerned about breathing, or coming into contact with the spores that are emitted by the plants. Also, after everything that happens, how are none of these smart people at all suspicious of David when he alters his appearance to look just like Walter? Orem is perfectly willing to follow David after David's ape-s*** reaction to Orem's shooting of the neomorph and after visiting his shop of horrors. Oh, and let's not forget that he would have known that the David 8 had been discontinued because it was disturbing to people. There's also a sequence in which Orem keeps running toward a completely exploding ship, as if there's anything he could possibly do. These are all script problems, and they go on and on. Another problem with Covenant is that it does turn out to be quite predictable. (spoilers...) It's very very similar to Prometheus with regard to the sequence by which the characters die, and the characters all tend to have personality traits we've seen in previous Alien movies. Danny McBride, predictably, plays the hillbilly character, but he does have a more serious role than I was expecting, and he lives much longer than I expected. Also, I think most viewers pretty much knew that it was David, not Walter, who had returned to the ship in the final sequence. We also knew it would be Daniels who kills the alien by blowing it out into space. (But, I don't really fault the movie for that; the series was built on the female heroine, symbolically, cinematically, and thematically). Moreover, you know that it's all going to come down to one or maybe two survivors. Also, in an Alien movie, you pretty well know what's going to happen to two people who are being intimate in a shower together, especially near the end of the film. Generally, there are just beats that you realize are coming, simply because you've seen Prometheus and previous Alien movies. And, of course, there's always the one last surprise in the film. In future movies, it would be nice to see a substantially different number of cast members facing the Alien peril. With the possible exception of Alien3, the group of characters is roughly the same size in each movie. One thing I miss in Covenant is the delicateness of David as he was represented in Prometheus, in which he was very lean, and spoke and walked very softly (even though Walter says he has a "light step"). I wish Michael Fassbender had dropped 15 or 20lbs for this film. In Covenant, his villainy feels very overt, rather than subtle, the way it was in Prometheus. In that film, David clearly has ulterior motives, but he's also quite often helpful. In Covenant, you can tell, almost from the start, how duplicitous he is. (I also missed his Lawrence of Arabia thing, which was a nice contrast with the high-culture allusions to Prometheus and "Ozymandias" [a poem written by Percy Shelley, the husband of Mary Shelley, who wrote "Frankenstein," which is subtitled "The Modern Prometheus"]. There's also a quote from Dante, and other classics I'm sure...don't remember them offhand. This stuff can become a little overcooked and pretentious if not used sparingly; there are some youtube videos that explain just how dense the allusions are to mythology). Finally, I'm not sure Covenant gives us enough information to justify David's change from a curious and slightly aggrieved synthetic to bug-nuts crazy and genocidal. On the plus side, I love the prologue, which hints at everything that is to come in the Alien universe. (Sadly, though, it seems to bring Peter Weyland's character arc to a close. I could be wrong, though. I hope I'm wrong, because Guy Pierce's faux-Ted Talk performance in the Prometheus bonus features was quite wonderful, and it seemed to promise so much.) Also, as is typical for Ridley Scott, the film is beautiful, particularly for a budget that was about $40 million less than what he had for Prometheus. I have no doubt he'll have an even smaller budget for the next sequel, since Covenant didn't exactly crush it at the box office, and I also have no doubt he'll make another beautiful film. Finally, I loved Walter! I wanted to see a reliable synthetic, like Bishop in Aliens. I wonder if he will somehow show up again... In general, Scott manages this film better than he did with Prometheus, but, even though in Covenant we finally learn how the iconic Alien came into existence (it all comes back to human hubris), Prometheus did have more tantalizing ideas I think. Covenant, while it does raise some provocative questions, is lesser material that is better filmed. There is one thing I still wanted an answer for, though. In Prometheus, toward the end, when the group wakes up the Engineer and David is talking to it, Noomi Rapace's character pleads with David to ask him why the Engineers hate the humans so much, but there is never a an answer, and there doesn't seem to be an answer in Covenant either. I really want to know. Ridley Scott offers some conjectures in the audio commentaries, but I don't see his answers in the films, and I'm not totally sure how they make sense. I love Ridley Scott. He's made some real American classics, and a heap of excellent movies on top of that. I can't wait to see what comes next in the series.

Just to let people know the 4k disc has german writing on it and the bluray disc has english writing. I have tested the disc and its in english audio but once you open the case your faced with german writing which i dont like.

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