I watched it last night and couldn't disagree more.
Aesthetically, you're correct, it looked amazing. There were clear influences from Alien Isolation too. And there were some interesting ideas with the aliens. But the film explicitly relies on the characters being idiots, and I mean being idiots and not just lacking in information. The film relies on positive reception with "winks and nods to the other films"..... what are these "winks and nods"? Blatant line repetition or scene replication. Because you liked those scenes in the other films, yeah? So you'll like those scenes done all over again but worse, right?
And then there's the contrivances. I know a contrived plot is generally a given for just about any horror, but this was a little too much. Between a door conveniently being too strong for young adults to smash but weak enough for handful of facehuggers to smash with ease (but later glass doors being too strong), and an elevator on a space station designed with a counter-weight system, it was just too much for me. Just silly little contrivances over and over and over.
Oh, and the rhythm of the plot? Do you want the second half of Covenant again, which was the second half of the original Aliens but worse? Congrats, you can have that yet again.
Honest to god, I would rather watch Alien Resurrection again. Because for as bad as that movie is, it's at least entertaining. Hell, I'll take Prometheus and Covenant over this.
If I wanted to watch the old scenes, I'd watch the originals films they're from. Not this film that does them again but worse. Is it without bad scenes? No, there were some good scenes, but they were few and far between.
I have a love-hate relationship with this film. I love Michael Wincott, Ron Pearlman and Gary Dourdan in the film, they added a much needed sense of unapologetic masculinity to the movie. But I also hate how quickly they take out Wincott and in such an embarrassing way. There are some cool elements to this film and also some obscene violence. It's a weird, grunge-arthouse style film that feels like a grotesque train wreck you can't look away from.
Michael Wincott is the coolest and I have no idea why he isn't in more movies. If I could trade my voice with anyone's it would be to have Michael Wincotts voice.
I watched it last night and couldn't disagree more.
Aesthetically, you're correct, it looked amazing. There were clear influences from Alien Isolation too. And there were some interesting ideas with the aliens. But the film explicitly relies on the characters being idiots, and I mean being idiots and not just lacking in information. The film relies on positive reception with "winks and nods to the other films"..... what are these "winks and nods"? Blatant line repetition or scene replication. Because you liked those scenes in the other films, yeah? So you'll like those scenes done all over again but worse, right?
And then there's the contrivances. I know a contrived plot is generally a given for just about any horror, but this was a little too much. Between a door conveniently being too strong for young adults to smash but weak enough for handful of facehuggers to smash with ease (but later glass doors being too strong), and an elevator on a space station designed with a counter-weight system, it was just too much for me. Just silly little contrivances over and over and over.
Oh, and the rhythm of the plot? Do you want the second half of Covenant again, which was the second half of the original Aliens but worse? Congrats, you can have that yet again.
Honest to god, I would rather watch Alien Resurrection again. Because for as bad as that movie is, it's at least entertaining. Hell, I'll take Prometheus and Covenant over this.
If I wanted to watch the old scenes, I'd watch the originals films they're from. Not this film that does them again but worse. Is it without bad scenes? No, there were some good scenes, but they were few and far between.
I guess what those critical of the movie was right, this movie is just Alien but for the zoomer generation.
I have a love-hate relationship with this film. I love Michael Wincott, Ron Pearlman and Gary Dourdan in the film, they added a much needed sense of unapologetic masculinity to the movie. But I also hate how quickly they take out Wincott and in such an embarrassing way. There are some cool elements to this film and also some obscene violence. It's a weird, grunge-arthouse style film that feels like a grotesque train wreck you can't look away from.
Michael Wincott is the coolest and I have no idea why he isn't in more movies. If I could trade my voice with anyone's it would be to have Michael Wincotts voice.
Awesome in the Crow and 90s Robin Hood.