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DJ RANN
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Registered: May 2001
Location: Hollywood....
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I honestly can't figure out why you bother to post.
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Mar-15-2018 15:24
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DJ RANN
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: May 2001
Location: Hollywood....
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So I finally watched Alien:Covenant yesterday.
SPOILERS AHEAD
Perfect sunday afternoon entertainment. Was it amazing? No
Was it a total abomination worthy of all the 1/10 votes on IMDB? Don't be daft.
It was probably 4.5 or 5/10.
Yes, there's plenty about it that doesn't make sense at all (I have no idea why pathogen bombs were dropped or how he even got around to dropping them on the engineer colony, or what that humanoid looking alien was about) but was it big budget, slickly produced sicfi that jotted along at a decent pace? Yep.
Fassbender acted circles around most of the cast and it's beautifully shot in places. It does feel however as if some of the film was palmed off to a sub director. There's moments of Scott, then there's moments that feel like any other working director.
I will say in hindsight it makes Prometheus look *even* better as it was much more cohesive in aesthetic and atmosphere, and also feel that Scott using 6 different VFX houses for Covenent was a mistake that clearly visible throughout the film.
I doubt I'd watch it again, but I'll gladly say I've seen a dozen other far worse decent budget scifi films. I also think people have a rose tinted nostalgia for the the first Alien(s) films - when the baby alien first pops out of the tummy, it looks like a hand puppet and and speeds across the floor like a muppet running. I actually giggle when I see it now.
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Apr-16-2018 18:34
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SYSTEM-J
IDKFA.
Registered: Sep 2003
Location: Manchester
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Apr-16-2018 19:06
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DJ RANN
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: May 2001
Location: Hollywood....
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quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
You've just validated my decision not to bother seeing it when it was in the cinema.
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I'd agree that it wasn't worth the price of entry in to cinema but perfectly fine fodder on a large home TV. (and that ** was for you and PKC lol)
quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
This just in: 39 year old film has dated special effects. Next you'll be telling us that Jaws is overrated because the shark looks fake. |
Not really, and Jaws is actually a great case in point of the exact opposite; Because the mechanic shark kept breaking down, they could barely show any of it and in the first Jaws you barely ever see the shark until the end...and what you do, looks pretty real. Spielberg said it was a blessing in disguise as it added so much more tension and mystique to the film. That's kinda my point, that Alien had poor animatronics and it showed in graphic detail. The rest of the film is pretty much a masterstroke (even discounting some of the overacting in it by Weaver).
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Apr-16-2018 19:30
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