Prometheus is a beautiful vision and could have been amazing. It wasn't but the sequel should have doubled down on that vision. Trying to appease hurt everything afterwards. I think the Engineers are fascinating. Oh I loved that opening scene in Covenant. Diluting it with yet more alien stuff doesn't work. We've seen the xenomorph stuff already.

The Critical Drinker please upload more you are a brilliant KZfaqr and film critic it’s weird how much I relate to your opinions and humor stay genius pal

On the channel “Kroft talks about movies” he has a video on the Prometheus script and a lot of good info that makes me wish these movies had better direction. Cheers 🍻 great video !

Why are there Korean subtitles in the video? Are you aiming for the Korean market?

Are you still gonna do game reviews? Resident Evil 3 Remake will be out soon and it appears there's a lot to be discussed...

Predator 3 is good and fun, cmon.

Giga nah

now I understand Valve, dammit!

Not a joke.

Always two there are. No more no less.

LMAOOOO

You got a genuine belly laugh out me lol 😂

If there had been no solar flair, no distress call and no problems. They still would have died and it would have been about as interesting and fun to watch.

@Jangler333 means these dummies in the movie would find a way to kill themselves no matter what was happening.

Jangler333 getting strangled by a cordless phone is impossible, but the people in this movie are incompetent enough to actually manage it

LMAO😂

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and the dialogue about his character is so on-the-nose it feels like the scriptwriters & actors were taking the piss out of him. All that sarcastic-sounding "oh noooo...we'll really miss him, he was so amaaazing".

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yep. same goes for Terminator. They made just two good movies and done. I think they are in denial or something.

Neil Blomkamp had a direct sequel to Aliens lined up with Weaver, Bein and Henn set to return and the studio scrapped it in favor of this crap. What a great decision.

I accept games as aliens spiritual successor. Same marines, same technology. Cool new alien types. “Dark decent” is literally a masterpiece . It really feels like you are the commander and command your marines from iconic APC…

Seeing that Hollywood has forgotten how to make movies, let's hope they never make a sequel.

​@@barisk6855 and predator and jurassic park (although i am not the boggest fan of either of those sequels, so probably a good thing that they stopped at 2 movies each).

Bam. We just saved 200 million dollars.

Lmao exactly

Id pay for that sequel!

LOL!!!!! That's all folks.

Everything could’ve been avoided if they just put on some headgear and stop touching every fucking thing they encounter on an alien planet. It’s everything I hate about modern movies, forsaking common sense seems like the only way they know to move the plot forward.

Unfortunately that's nearly every movie that comes out anymore.

much like star wars 8

Kudos to CD for including it. However, while it is a good line, it is not original. Variations of it have been floating around since at least the 18th century. It's been linked to Samuel Johnson and Daniel Webster, among others. quoteinvestigator.com/2013/06/17/good-original/

@@chrismaddock5790 Or 7 . . . or 9.

@@donwhiteley3293 Fair point and well made good sir!

It was taken out of Prometheus, but the back story for the Engineers preparing to wipe out humanity was that Jesus was an alien here to teach humanity about peace and we killed him for it. So this sci-fi horror about dangerous aliens turned into an ancient alien movie about a robot who wants to play god and humanity being punished by our creators.

I like the philosophical angle, but it has to be well done and not use an idiot pilot, and then have it thrown away in the sequel

Old creators do get more reflective and philosophical, but good ones like Stephen King translate it into something that is entertaining, profound, or really out there. "My dad was ready to give up on life, and now I understand why" is a story that I wish happened more often in the real world. "This group of people you treated like shit, well, have fun doing without them for the foreseeable future", ditto. Probably my favourite example of a good creator who is getting more reflective and philosophical with old age is Paul Verhoeven. Because the younger and older Verhoeven have one thing in common that makes the reflection and philosophy an asset. The giving of zero fukks.

@@Istuckmyheaddownthetoiletincredible comment. 37 years old here, and I just had a conversation with my wife about how I never understood how fathers could just check out, but I think I understand now. And that’s wild. That perspective is something you only gainnwith Time and learning how life is yourself.

Pretty ironic considering how much damage these sequels did to his karma. I can smell the sulfur and burning hair already.

I guess he toned down his drinking.

Yes. The Rave scene always cheers me up.

he sounds mad and cringe. ranting about movies that have been put in a coffin a million times already. how funny.

Oh like the Golrafrinchiams ! It was a ship full of hair dressers, phone sanitizers, and middle managers. Too bad the rest of them died from a virus causes by an unsanitized phone.

Love a good Hitchhiker reference....

@@therealstubot You got there before me. Too bad we can't have a real exodus today.

Ok, now that i think about this is actually a masterpiece! Mankind, fuck yeah!

They got somebody our f****** useless legislators

They didn't know they were in a horror movie..Star Trek did it all the time..Beam me down dressed as is.

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Perf ; )

Very Clever, Right On !

Good One!

Yeah. But you people make way too much out of the original. The repeat value is not there, because the effect of the film depends so much on suspense. But once you know when and where the monster is coming, the effect is lost. Thats why i think Aliens is the most timeless movie in the whole franchise. It depends on the characters and how they evolve throughout the whole movie, how much we care about Ripley, Newt, Hicks and even Hudson

@@LukeLovesRose I agree Aliens is the best of them all, but I made my point about Alien because TCD was using that film as his example.

@@LukeLovesRose. You are right. The scares are lacking after you know what’s coming and when. Idiot.

What was wrong with Ash vs Evil Dead?

I probably would have just topped myself after watching the three Lord of the Rings movies

damn that makes me sad now you say it that way :(

@@CrutchCricket It was shit.

I loved Ash & The Evil Dead 🤪

That's because she sucked

I've actually forgotten her name too lol

I honestly had no idea the whole crew was married couples, I do not know nor understand why I dont remember that.

We all did......... ...we all did.

@@samuelmartens9390 Must have sucked something to get there.

I still really enjoyed both of these movies almost solely off his performance.

These movies are pretty dumb from the start usually theyre very good until the middle/ end where it all falls apart. Ridley failed to build dread even in the beginning which sucks

I saw the original Alien at the theater. I went with a friend who was so freaked out when the alien burst out of John Hurt’s stomach that she spent the rest of the movie in the lobby. Those were the days!

You're right. This is not just an illusion of age, movies really aren't what they used to be.

I saw Alien when I was 18 and it scared the living shit out of me. I went back and sat through it again the next night.

You forgot, 80s: practical goreporn (better than cgi) lol

Why are both of you so right 😭

not all of them only the mainstream ones have you seen 'The Witch' 2016.. no jump scares pure psychological horror watch mark kermodes review

@@mikereyes2488 cgi helps (in movies like Jurassic Park or Terminator 2), you just have to know how much to use, use too much and you ruin the immersion and the effect.

@Azure Neko damn, dude. Settle down a bit, guy was only trying to say that there are good modern horror movies. Me, I would say Train to Busan, REC, 28 Days Later, The Conjuring, Midsommar, The Strangers, Cabin in the Woods, It part 1, and my personality favorite Sinister show that good horror movies are still being made.

So he's Deadpool?

Lol

You're dead right, however, you have to admit that if David stumbled out of the temple with both his arms and looking none the worse for wear, everybody would be noting it as a mistake, completely oblivious to the fact that none of the story characters witnessed their fight. It was going to attract knee-jerk criticisms if David appeared more unscathed than how we last saw Walter. Not to mention the fact that if the audience saw a fully attached Walter wandering onto the scene with Walter's accent, we'd all know it was David, and the deception would be spoiled (even though we all knew it was David anyway).

@@Aquascape_Dreaming it's not that complicated, they didn't see him get injured so why would he injure himself? It was simply so the audience could be fooled, it was lazy writting tying to save lazy writting. That's bad film making, it's not like they ignored a massive plot hole, they literally wrote one in as a half baked effort to fool the audience. And thats before we get to things like who cut the long grass when they landed, why do they not wear any kind of protection on an unknown world and what layed that massive alien egg? Now those deserve the knee jerk reaction lol.

I would have rathered the audience know it's him than leave him looking like complete simpleton.

Everyone thinking the other guy was the alien was totally accurate. In those conditions where your life is at risk, people turn.

I agree with that and thats why this movie pisses me off

Never caught on to that, but you're right. I never thought that's a dumb choice while watching The Thing. The creature is just smarter.

In the “Covenant” sequels the characters consistently make the most extinction worthy decisions imaginable.

And modern hollywood messed up a remake of that film.... mind boggling

FUCKING DEAD

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Lol

Why would he think that an open Subway store would exist on this planet that he could walk to, in the teeth of inclement weather, at 2 a.m?

That sounds too realistic for Jussie.

Best reviewer on KZfaq and not only that comes across as a very nice bloke. Love this channel.

It was set Post-Flood

*wort wort intensifies*

C-Drinker-sensei!!!! You should go less much into the Director and much more into the 'Lets look into the Decisions they made'-Part!

Maybe they already took the path that the Holy Rings burned into the divine beyond...

dang more of them uuuuuhhhhhh I guess I need to get my warthog

Yeah was one of the movies where I blasted out laughing so much that people got angry. That only happend to me in transformers before.

You went to see it ? - 150 XP Game over.

I had same reaction with the egg part, I even went with "Dude should have sat on it" ...so many angry nerds

I remember when the ''You blow & I'll do the fingering''-scene with the 2 Fassbenders and the flute came up, the entire movie theater was loughing their collective arses off. This is one of the most unintenionally funny shit,I've seen in a movie.

I wasn't laughing, i was yelling, kill her. It was so stupid, that for first time, i wanted alien to win and end that scene. True story

Nitpicky

Actually no. Hair growth can show the passage of time. Anyone who has colored their hair knows this. After ten years, the blond would have been fully grown out, unless it’s different for a robot or he bleached it again. It’s an inaccuracy on a big level, but they left it in to let us know it was David…visually.

Amazing film

Yup, and while playing Alien Isolation I thought "If they ever make this into a movie, Emily Blunt needs to play Amanda!"

Great movie!

Feel like the mantle has been taken up by some gaming protagonists - Jesse frome Control or Alloy from Horizon Zero Dawn are some of the best that come to mind. Agree though - would love to see that kind of character return to strength in movies

I love Emily Blunt.

And the female Engineer told us she did not know how to use an iron nail ..

I love that wheat bit lmao

One of the most compelling moments of the film. No movie has so profoundly thrown everything I thought about wheat into question..

Lmao

C1V1L WAR is wheat a euphemism for ass sex?

no, he watched a disney movie

Alien 3 is criminally underrated as it is

I have often wondered that. Of course the first four HAD Ripley, but once we entered the prequel era, why'd the "final lady" trope have to stick? If I were making an Alien movie, I wouldn't have a female lead end up being the sole survivor, for fear of being COMPARED to Ripley. We don't need to try and top Ripley, she's already great. TRY SOMETHING NEW.

Elizabeth Shaw wasn't that of a "Ripley" character, she was something interesting and i loved her for that.

The so called "strong woman" or something like that.

@@elgranlugus7267 Shaw was definitely her own thing, with the existential crisis stuff. But it still came down to "we gotta have her walking around in an enclosure, armed with one weapon, with the alien coming for her." Better than Covenant, at least.

Yup

That's one of the common problems I have with the horror genre. Yes, the heart of fear is based on a sense of powerlessness. But it seems like a lot of writers think that impotence can be expressed when the characters are incompetent or irrational to the point they are more of a danger to themselves than whatever is out to get them. A crew of settlers who are on a mission beyond support or backup with thousands of lives on the line are less well-equipped to deal with a crisis than a bunch of "space truckers." It's sad that Drinker isn't wrong when he says almost none of them deserve to survive. If the Covenant had ended any better for them, it would have been due to blind luck. And that is not very satisfying.

But simply to destroy one of the greatest races to ever walk (engineers) is beyond idiotic and ridiculous. Why? There absolutely had to a way to convince these beings that we are intelligent and advanced, to learn from their creators, not to commit xenocide. It was revolting to say the least and despicable to be generous to this film. What a pile of garbage that cheats reasonably intelligent people and dumbs them down.

Thats my biggest pet peeve in horror. The monster or whatever isn't deadly or anything it's just that everyone is a complete moron.

Terrible script writing by 2nd grade school special needs kids is the reason for this film"s 9,963.685 problems. Worst movie ever made!

This.

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I guess you didn't see the "cameron cut".

I guess the captain had never seen an Alien film.

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That was the most DUMB part of the movie - I couldn't believe it!!!🙄🙄🙄....

I honestly would have appreciated the honesty.

@@thefreshestslice4105 I would appreciate them just not doing it.

More like Alien Crash And Burn.

This comment needs WAY more upvotes

What does that make Aliens Colonial Marines from 2013?

I couldn't watch thru Prometheus. Silliness and pretentious, unexciting storytelling did it for me. To land on an unknown planet and go out to explore without the gear - like you were in New Zealand - was enough for me.

Watching this now after seeing this film a number of times since release makes me realize how overblown a lot of these critiques are tbh.

That is still faint praise 😞

Ridley has been a disappointment over the years. ALien was not his personal opus. Yes he did a great job in his part but there were many other big players that made that film. It kind of offends me when they say 'Scott's ALien". It is not his story and he even said something stupid about the creature hiding inside the Narsicus shuttle because he was in his final stage and dying. After all that crap fron the egg to live for what... a day? I liked separate directors for the sequels as it worked better than him coming back and making the same movie with curve balls that don't come anywhere near the plate.

It's not the same person. He was infected by an alien parasite that changed his memories and now controls him. .. lols

If you wanna be SUPER depressed, he did an ama on reddit and one of his replies was something like "what makes my films good is how I never repeat my work, its always original" lmao dude ok. It was in the raised by wolves subreddit, and that show is literally a copy of his later alien films.

Exactly what I never managed to grasp about him.

What a load of crap. Prometheus was a good movie but morons with no brain kept thinking it was supposed to be another Alien movie even though Ridley Scott had said otherwise. It was only supposed to be part of the same universe. You guys caused it to flop which in turn caused the studios to push Scott into making another Alien movie. Now you have a series that is neither the Sci-fi it was intended to be or fits the original series. What a waste of a good story.

Bravo. Well done. ✌️

Its also obnoxiously pretentious to quote such an iconic poem. Breaking Bad earned that amazing reference and didn't even say the lines from the poem in the show. It reminds me of the turgid use of "Do not go gentle into that good night" in Interstellar. Just quote from the classics and people will assume your story makes sense (though Interstellar is a way better movie).

@@BollocksUtwat Nolan has made some great movies like Dunkirk and Imsomnia. But, jeez do I hate his “intellectual”, “conceptually profound” movies like Inception and Interstellar. Very pretentious imo. And I didn’t see Tenant”, but that’s because I didn’t have to. LoL. Did you see it, and if so, what’d you think?

20 years? Try 2.

@@kennybeans6115 Most pretentious yet. I wanted to love it. Music wasn't as good as Zimmer, which was a major disadvantage. Scenes felt emotionless, lot of references to age old puzzles and paradoxes as parallels which are obeyed without question in the story and never explored (hero is told to do this by a character), no work done to get characters invested in. Villain is driven by primitive motivations. Music is more pretentious in my opinion, a parody of Zimmer (his soundtrack 747 is nearly a knockoff of Supermarine), blaring music in places that didn't need it.

She was level headed and smart and sexy in a kick ass kind of way. This prune face can’t act her way out of a paper bag and is utterly lacking any sex appeal or charm

And Sigourney actually LOOKS intelligent. Not every actor does. Whether she actually is or not, she has that face that gives you the idea that she knows what she's doing.

Are you 6 feet tall?

Nova uhhh... who me? No but I’m 5’10

Ripley, in a lot of ways, represents motherhood. She's strong, intelligent, fierce and fights for her survival. But, the reason she is all of these things is because she's fighting to return home to her daughter.

Ridley never wanted to make an "Alien" movie, he wanted to make a separate franchise that just existed next to Alien just like Blade Runner which is also in the same universe. Scott was forced to by the studio to tie it into Alien. In fact all that stupid fan service was forced upon him, that's well known

Funny thing is. Aliens fans do understand it. You, quite simply, don’t, not everyone does but at least admit you don’t understand it, before you say it’s shit.

Scott Scott “you’re just not smart enough to understand the complexities of this stupid movie” take a chill pill there bud, your fedora is in the stratosphere

thinkwithurdipstick it’s got nothing to do with smarts, you either played detective and followed the breadcrumb trail or you didn’t. If you did, you get rewarded with the context. If you didn’t, you cry that the franchise is ruined.

thinkwithurdipstick equally as funny, if you actually took the time to play detective you’d realise this was actually one of the greatest stories ever imagined. There’s a few simple questions that you only need answer in order to gain a better understanding. I find some people just need a nudge in the right direction to find the firs bread crumb. Here’s something for you to ponder, a questions and then I’ll give you the correct answer. Maybe that will give you the first bread crumb. Q: Who chooses the crew to pilot a star ship? A: Mother.

Yea, the legend of the auteur director sorta ruins a lot of things when people start thinking everyone of them has to be like that. Watching an interview where Scott is being argued with by the screenwriter from Bladerunner about the meaning and value of various concepts in the story highlights how Scott is annoying in his instincts for story.

Alien is turning into Terminator where a fairly simple premise is expanded into a universe that sucks.

@@jbbrolic Yep. That's the curse of financially-motivated sequels: an initially straightforward premise that was adequate to sustain a single film - i.e. "an alien gets loose on a spaceship" and "soldiers from the future come to mess with the present" - gets embellished way beyond its natural capacity. The original films in both franchises already told their stories in full, and anything that wasn't fully spelled-out or shown was probably best left to the imagination anyway. Even the first sequels to those films, as highly-regarded as they both are, don't really add anything of worth STORY-wise. They mostly just confirm (and show) things that had already been suggested. And the further they go with additional sequels the deeper the suckage gets, exploring aspects of the story that were best left mysterious. IIRC, the only thing Alien 3 added was the notion that aliens take on characteristics of whatever organism they gestate in. And the only thing T3 added (in a deleted scene) was an amusing explanation of why T-800s look and talk the way they do.

@@blatherskite3009 Yea I wonder how many people realize both Aliens and T2 are just recapitulations of the first film but taken to a greater extent. They even pretty brazenly mirror the structure of the originals down to the finale. At least Aliens has the novel concept of the Vietnam war allegory that nicely carries on from the worker's at the mercy of corporate sleaze in the first film. It also correctly ties financial interests of the company to the military's adventurism. Aliens in many ways is the more interesting film over T2. T2 is just world building and a bigger budget look at what worked well in the first film. And its no accident that usually when I watch Aliens I feel like turning it off just after Hudson, Vasquez, and Gorman die, since that's when the film becomes nothing but a rehash of the first.

@@BollocksUtwat Yep. At least the only "harm" (imho) that Aliens did was taking the original film's almost-unkillable xeno and turning it into mere cannon-fodder: squealing bugs getting gunned-down in droves. It gave the sequel its own feel, though, and didn't fundamentally change the fact that even a single alien would still be big trouble for some civilians. By contrast, I'd say T2 actively harms the original film's story - because as soon as you get into the concept of sending ANOTHER Terminator back in time to have a 2nd run-up at the mission, it opens up too many "timey-wimey" cans of worms ... like why didn't they just send it 100 years further back in time and snuff the Connor's great-grandpa in an era when few people would even understand what a cyborg was, let alone have access to effective weaponry to fight it with, even if they did manage to survive long enough to work out what was going on... Neither film adds much substance to the story ... but that was maybe a blessing when you consider what abominations can result when film-makers DO decide to expand the lore and provide answers to things that were better left mysterious (Prometheus, Highlander II, etc.)

I hope that he knew what a shitshow this movie is gonna be so he made fun of it.

I need an adult

@@MBison-im2qy I am an adult!

I can imagine the conversation on set with that line - "Seriously, you want me to say this....well Ok...I'll see if I can get through it with out corpsing"

gamefan987 I don’t know bro he played magneto in dark Phoenix. Dude is good but is only looking out for the paycheck. He doesn’t give a shit if the script is trash

Is this all true?

@@rustyshackelford4224 From what I was able to put together, pretty much.

@@1fishmob He really didn't do a good job then.

Riddley can direct other people’s scripts. His ….

I'd watch david vs predator

David II The ReDaviding

David Revolution David Reloaded

Beauty and the David Bohemian David David Balboa Interview with the David David's Angels David, Where's my Car?

David Wars the Phantom Arsehole David Wars Attack of the Davids David Wars Revenge of the Shit David Wars A New Dope David Wars David Strikes Back David Wars Return of the David

Offering to do the fingering doesn't help.

He's a great actor who sucks at choosing good movies. Dark Phoenix anybody?

@Victor VonDoom agreed, I didn't mind it in the cinema, second watch I saw it for what it was 👎

@Victor VonDoom yep, when you played in 2 previous ones you can't just walk away. Also the only good part of that movie were scenes where he ask Jane to f**k off his island and then went to kill her (what any sane person watching movie would do by that point)

Even the best of fingering could not save this one

Why?

... which is not entirely a bad thing. The Drinker's critiques are themselves artistically crafted so at least we have that and the laugh value of the (mostly) crap being passed off as "films" nowadays. I cannot conceive how such utter trash could come into existence: the new Matrix movie, the woke Terminator, Star Wars part 9, Charlie's Angels, The Eternals, 335, etc. wtf 😑

@@RogueReplicant yeah brah every minute could your last your breath smells of badgers arse and my robot dildo machine needs lubricating

oh no, we hit bottom on the next film in this prequel trilogy. The Disney-made Alien movie. Those two words shouldn't be in the same book together. Imagine the product of that unholy union.

@@Odious_One I sincerely hope you're kidding. Disney. Alien. tf 😑

@@RogueReplicant I wish I was but, Disney bought Fox's media assets last year for 70 billion dollars. Along with other media companies. So all of the franchises that Fox owned is now owned by Disney. Like Predator, Die Hard, X-files, Planet of the Apes, and Alien just to name a few. The movie "Prey" is Predator with Disney's Influence. Say goodbye to most of the good sci fi franchises from the last 50 years.

Alien had a single Xenomorph. It was awesome. Aliens had a bunch, a nest, and a Queen, and it was superb. Alien3 had one, and was sort of good. Then I stopped caring.

@@waltercomunello121 Alien Resurrection had some weird hybrid things.

@@mikespearwood3914 I honestly think that movie gets a bad reputation undeservedly. It was a good movie, as an action horror movie. For what it is, its good. It has its issues don't get me wrong, but it was still fun.

@@a.r.hollowayauthor7210 I agree. The thing with the first 4 Alien movies is that shouldn't really be looked at as a series with distinct continuity like Star Wars or Star Trek, but as four distinct films with roughly the same concept: Ripley battles aliens, but by four very distinct directors with very distinct tones, and they all match their time period wonderfully. Alien, with it's 70s cinema inspired realism and small but talented cast that is a suspenseful slow burn. Aliens, a tight and fast action movie done by one of the better action movie directors, filled with Vietnam allegories and slick 80s stylings and sensibilities. Not scary, but exciting. Alien 3, to me, is the thinking man's Alien movie. It's more about interpersonal relationships and the battle with the self rather than just the creature. But then, it's a hard look at the 80s/90s AIDS epidemic, the directing and sets are dark and moody and far more grunge, if you will, and, frankly, some of the best acting of the series, but meddled on by the suits at FOX, which undeniably ruined what could have been an Amazing first film by a great director in Fincher. Then there's Resurrection. The first one with a non-English speaking director. Jean Jeunet. If you've ever seen his work, well, Resurrection totally matches the odd and off-beat European/French sensibilities that most of Jeunet's work embodies. That, and his cast. See City of Lost Children, then watch Resurrection, and suddenly it makes sense. Four distinct directors, four distinct movies.

I raised sheep growing up. We lived next to a railroad track which is, to this day, still frequented by trains spanning 100+ carts. These sheep would get out of the pasture and up onto the train tracks. When a train would come, the sheep would run on the tracks for as long as they could before being rammed by the train. As an 8 year old boy, witnessing the shear amount of blood and gore of 10 sheep being rammed by a huge train, I can attest that sheep are indeed EXTREMELY stupid. All they had to do was take less than 10 steps to either the left or right to avoid being hit. How sad is it that space fairing humans are just as stupid as sheep?

@@DylanPWN That sounds... Like a really fucked up scene to witness as a kid man. Damn

@@matiasquevedo6554 Spam. Yeah, you've tried it, but you never saw it made.......until that fateful day when your world was defined just a little sharper than you liked.

Did you have to clean up the mess? Or did you say "Nah fuck it, it will be fine"

Also known as "the Promethean school of running away"

And they just had to try to give her Ripleys hair cut. Instead of being original they go for the nostalgia and it just looks completely stupid on her because her face is weird.

That would make her an excellent Star Trek Discovery character.

To be fair, her husband (James Franco) had just died a sudden, gruesome death. But, yeah. She looks more like a Lambert than a Ripley.

OMG she basically cried through fantastic beasts and where to find them. So annoying.

@@BulletTooth504 If they had turned Daniels into Ripley that would have been a travesty to Alien and Aliens (I pretend the other movies don't exist). I was okay with Daniels being a Ripley-lite.

I dont remember him having a beard? Just his hair had grown out but yes I thought exactly the same thing about that.

They had to show how long he‘d been there without using difficult makeup

Sorry can't replace Sigourney weaver it's like trying to repeat the lottery Hollywood don't have originality no more what can u expect when Hollywood think name alone or all star cast is reasonable for spending then bomb at box office get what they deserve

He got the cool dad firmware update

Androids are meant to blend in with humans to give them a sense of comfort , friendship , relationship , to make us feel we are in the company of other human beings . Otherwise to answer your question why bother with the skin , eyes , nails , etc , etc , strip it down to be as cost effective and resourceful as possible , like you said. But you would be left with something that in no way would look human . I mean why not give it four arms instead of two ? surely that would make it more productive , and so on .......

This movie is what fox think alien fans want. Ridley Scott ideas is different and only few glimpse can be seen in deleted scenes.

Kevin Sisler ahahahhaha so true, i just keep rewatching first 4 alien movies and its enough for me

Hollywood's revenge on us for not liking Prometheus.

That hanger bay fight was and still is amazing

​@@theexiledv2323 Here's a semi-random fact for you: My first computer was a rubber key 48k zx spectrum and I had a game on it called "SWIV", which was a great shooter for it's time. When it was loading (which took several minutes) if you held down the S and W keys (for Sigourney Weaver, I assume) the border went black when it loaded instead of going to the title screen. At that point if you hit Enter you heard a clip of Ripley saying her "Get away from her you bitch!" line. That was the first time I heard a computer talk which was amazing. :)

@@cord113 I heard a rumor about alien 1 that Lance Hendrickson was supposed to be the lead and weaver was to be the synthetic at times I still wonder how the alien franchise would be if that roll swapped happened

@@theexiledv2323 I'm not sure about it being Lance Hendrickson, but according to Ridley Scott the part of Ripley was originally written for a man. I think one of the things that made the first couple of movies so great is that her being a woman just wasn't an issue. She was simply a person dealing with some really crappy situations, the fact she was a woman was basically irrelevant.

@@cord113 I watched some game play of SWIV it reminds me of old NES shooters like tiger heli or thundercade

In the book they don't believe that Eden can exist either but their computer survey indicates no problems right down to the molecular level. The spores were generated from inorganic inactive goop, and not detected. The prequel book to Convenant also explains why the crew was so bad (hesitant contractors on a one-way mission) Still pretty lame, but that's the canonical explanation for you.

To say nothing of, that the people are named after their state of origin. Hence you get some big, podgy bloke called Tennessee. He should praise the Lord on his knees that he wasn't born English. He might have ended up as Milton Keynes. Really, the inability of US people to give their children proper names is contemptible.

@@nobbynoris you’re acting as if Americans don’t by and large use the exact same names as people in the UK do…like John, George, Mary, Rick, Joe, etc.

@@nobbynoris Naming your kid fucking "Milton" is practically child abuse. What next? Poindexter? Lester? You would willingly provide.your kid with an effete, poncy name just to have get bullied?

@@nobbynoris the inability of Europeans, especially the British, to not be mad about America's existence, on the other hand, will always be hilarious. I guess that's the one thing you have a loicense for.

Absolutely!

Superb

Why do people not like alien 3? I haven't seen it in a long time but when I did I loved it, what was bad about it cause whatever was bad about it I didn't see it back then.

For that to become to be well represented on screen akira kurasawa would have to be in charge. His "Dreams" gave me the same uneasy feeling i get when i have a bad dream

That would probably be the best plot twist in a movie ever...

General Grievous bruh moment

General Grievous An arrogant and ignorant comment.

@General Grievous he's named after a character from the prequels guys what did you expect?

@General Grievous not true, Blade runner 2049 is better than the original IMO because it took what the original had and improved on it. Alien covenant on the other hand took what the original had said fuck that and made up an whole new (worse) backstory. It didn't even use what little Prometheus had to it's benefit.

@General Grievous also the sequels are way better than the prequels.

I think part of the problem too is that they can't think of new variations of Xenomorphs. There should be some kind of unexpected evolution or adaptation of them on a different planet which makes their behavior unpredictable and hard to counter. Kind of like in the Halo series they added new flood types in each game so it had a fresh feel.

I consider "David" to be rogue AI, the Technological Singularity.

It's not even about David, he was about as coherent, menacing and compelling as the Church people who come knocking on my door every Sunday. The antagonists of this movie are the crew, every single death was from their own stupidity which made their deaths meaningless. That crew would have managed to kill themselves standing still in a Starbucks coffee queue.

You don't like origin stories clearly.

@@DonovanAP just not poorly done ones.

That's what made the first two alien movies great. You had professionals of one kind or another and there were perverse things going on that compromised their ability to survive, but their professionalism made it a good running fight to the climactic ending. Resourceful and competent people pulling out all the stops to survive.

actual professionals would have just stuck to the mission.

@@DeltaPi314 That's why Alien needed that whole thing about the corporation ordering them, threatening them with losing their pay, and in Aliens having Paul Reiser order the colonists without warning them and not warning the Marines either. Neither time did anyone really want to go there. I'm not sure why I'm supposed to sympathize with the plight of the colonists in either Prom or Cov.

A team of actual professionals would act like professionals. They would send home the coordinates of the location they heard the radio transmission, and continue with the mission they were assigned to do. Or maybe the captain was the only professional and the others were newborn clones, with no life experience whatsoever, that would explain everything.

@@DeltaPi314 "Should we check out this planet?" "No."

Awesome scene lol

"Did you people watch the show?!?"

Awesome! Droid Tales (Star Wars Lego) made fun of it, too. Mynocks. We should take a look and make sure they're not eating our cables. But wear your oxygen masks in case this is the one place in our galaxy that doesn't have a breathable atmosphere. Nope. Don't need oxygen here either.

"You have a last name." DO I! DO I!!!!!

@@Sandman_10372 -Ripley lol

Tom Campbell i never pay for that blackmail is much cheaper

Same

Dick?

Big brain comment

"They call me Dick."

They should've named him Dick because he pulled a dick move

Michelangelo, *_duh!_*

@Kyle O'Connor yo I said the same thing when I was watching it as well. For scientist not only from the future, but responsible for the lives of those in cryo sleep they are stupid as hell smh

@@redraven5874 Yup. The crew of Prometheus at least had an excuse to be that dumb, they'd been hired by a desperate dying trillionaire who was so paranoid, he didn't tell anyone what the mission was, so only the incompetents with no better offers signed up for his multi year mystery tour. The crew of the Covenant were supposed to be actually competent people who were responsible for the lives of thousands of others, but they were a bunch of idiots. The crew of the Nostromo were far more sensible.

@jimbobeire Right on bro. Let's face it, this movie was all about making money not for our enjoyment.

I know it’s so dam annoying and even if for some reason the ship carried no CBRN equipment you have a walking intelligent android that can’t get sick or become infected

Even nasa irl made the moon astronauts quarantined for 2 weeks because we didnt know if there were any moon pathogens

exactly

but more than anything else, fingering.

Not like there was a lot about Prometheus that was ok or interesting, so there's that...

@@waltercomunello121 I'll do the fingering :)

@@Jake-fw5te Yeah, that scene was ok.

@George White Good one.

@George White A movie is not good because your entitled ass thinks it is.

@George White I watched those two movies long before I watched or read any review of it so I had no expectations on its quality but was a fan of the franchise. But when I watched Prometheus and Covenant, I didn't like them. I didn't need someone else to tell me that.

@George White And what is your defense of these two movies? Why are they enjoyable?

@George White So if someone doesn't enjoy something you like, they're mentally ill? I have a simple reason to dislike them: I didn't enjoy it. Like that part were the alien was surgically removed but no one really cares. Wasn't finding alien life a big reason why they're there? A very traumatic incident just happened but hey look, some old guy. And what about the flaws this video talks about? They're all incorrect?

Same with games. Liberals have got a good foothold in most entertainment now.

@@Theninjagecko always 1 to bring something into the discussion that has nothing to do with it. Lol

Nope. There’s still a lot of great movies being released every year.

07foxmulder lol like what? Movies today are crap compared to what we used to get.

Hunter Sisk Shit movies have been made since day one. It’s not something new. You’re cherry-picking, what you feel is, the very best films throughout history and assuming that was the norm. Every decade had just as many bad movies as good ones. More recent films like No Country For Old Men, Letters From Iwo Jima, Zodiac, Once Upon a Time In Hollywood, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Drive and Sicario are all fantastic. To imply that good films just stopped being produced on **insert arbitrary date** is ridiculous. If you can’t appreciate modern cinema you’re either a snob or don’t watch enough of it.

Yes. No.1 aspect is you have to care about the characters.

It should we well-known and understood to these modern Hollywood morons that if the audience doesn't care about the characters or even hates them, then that audience not only doesn't care what happens to said characters, they're even hoping that they all die. As well, 'Covenant' as well as 'Prometheus' had too MANY characters, so, even if you like one or two of them, there's no time to get to know them all.

Lmao yeah I kept telling myself "fuck these characters seriously" lol.

The movie was poorly written, and directed.

That was exactly what I thought… the scene of the two women fighting the first pseudo xenomorph is so fucking absurd and stupid that I literally found myself rooting for the cute little white killer machine. I was like “these dumbasses are too stupid please get rid of them”. Lmao what a shame of a script.

That 'reveal' was obvious, You are meant to see it coming.

@@harnois75 Yes, Ridley says exactly that in the commentary.

@@stingfan4. No, that’s a guy with his ego bruised being revisionist. He can’t produce or write SF well.

Saved ME 120 minutes of my life.

It's true: people can enjoy a harshly critical spray of shit about something they know nothing about and aren't interested in. The Drinker knows this and has a few clips where he recommends movies based on their good qualities.

It saved you more time than that you'll spend an enternity pondering the idiocy in covenant I don't even wanna think about the overwhelming plot holes because it gives me incredible stress

@@billyhaigh9274 I completely understand. If you look for what's right and good about things your day ends with a string of good memories and you suffer much less stress. Most of the stress in my life is worrying about other people, so shitting on movies and being mean to strangers on the internet is actually mentally and physically poisonous, not worth much time.

He is doing us all a service by watching this crap so we don't have to, plus these videos are far more entertaining than the movies themselves.