I am disappointed in...

[Colonel Frank Grimes]

I'm disappointed in Aliens:Covenant. It was bad. Despite all the technological advancements in the film industry sci-fi/horror/action films have become worse. I refer to this sad reality as the Lucas Effect. Lucas' second incarnation as a film director with the Star Wars pre-sequels ushered in an age of special effects over story and character development. You can't have a successful film (successful in that it survives the test of time) without the audience having an emotional investment in the characters. This is why Alien still holds up as a great film. You have an opportunity to know the characters well enough to care about their fate. There is too much time now given to special effects and over the top action sequences. It takes away from the film. Instead of moving the story along the special effects/action sequences become the story and the consequence is we don't care about the characters.



Awesome.



Not awesome.

btw, that first scene in the trailer where they're all together enjoying each other's company was deleted from the film. I watched the deleted scene and it was a great scene to not only allow the audience to get to know the characters in a normal situation but to also reveal the tension between particular characters, which prepares the audience for the tension to come to the surface later in the film and so it doesn't seem forced.

[Visitor_22]

Alien 1 movie was the far ahead of the time...

One of the best science-fiction horror films of All Time...

Nuff said.

[Zephyrus]

I saw the trailer and decided not to watch it.
No sane person would send niggers to space.

[LieDetector]

thought we were going to see and learn more about the Engineers but I guess not. All we got to see was an average predictable Alien movie.

I saw the trailer and decided not to watch it.
No sane person would send niggers to space.

[Coolguy1]

The movie did not do enough to answer the questions that were raised in Prometheus. I left the movie theatre disappointed to say the least. On top of this, we don't know whether the Engineers that David bombed were actually engineers or one of their creations, their physical appearance was different as compared to those in Prometheus.