Incredible vfx...

incredible vfx, some of the best of all time with incredibly well integrated CG that complements the excellent set and prop/costume design

incredible soundtrack that elicits a feeling of grandisoseness/mystique/horror that fit perfectly with the films events and is great on its own

Cutie Repace

Charlize Theron/Idris Elba combo for kino supreme

Amazing direction with a myriad of beautiful wide shots and framing

Great creature and world design that pays homage to Giger without explicitly ripping him off

intense and thrilling; entertaining with strong characters

and you guys hated it because some characters behaved foolishly and were obsessed with how it related to Alien. its FAR superior to what came after and you NEED to apologize.

Covenant > Prometheus

as usual with Ridley Scott the theatrical cut destroyed the movie and made the characters seem retarded.

nah it was trash in every possible way

I liked it, same with Covenant, but holy fuck they couldn't have written the characters more retarded.
David and Walter carried the films. They both shit over Romulus.

Is there a directors cut?

But the script is shit, doe.

incredible vfx, some of the best of all time with incredibly well integrated CG that complements the excellent set and prop/costume design

incredible soundtrack that elicits a feeling of grandisoseness/mystique/horror that fit perfectly with the films events and is great on its own

Cutie Repace

Amazing direction with a myriad of beautiful wide shots and framing

Great creature and world design that pays homage to Giger without explicitly ripping him off

intense and thrilling; entertaining with strong characters

Real.

world design

Uhh what, you mean that generic area of planet they land on and the even more generic catacomb ship they explore?

yes but no. the additional scenes are on the Blu-ray extras but not edited back into the movie.

take helmets off on completely alien planet that could have any sort of unknown bacteria in the air

don't even wear masks when they dissect the engineer head

biologist tries to "snake charm" a fucking alien cobra thing

dumb cunt runs away from giant falling object instead of running to the side

It was like a parody at times

Midwit.

Too bad about the dumb script though and skipping over the main plot for covenant. Covenant is still superior in many ways but the soundtrack is awful.

Romulus was awful. Notice no one talks about it any more. Instantly forgotten. All the hype was manufactured shill campaigns. Covenant actually was trying something new and had more of the spirit of the original alien.

some characters behaved foolishly

understatement of the century

you can't just handwave nonsensical behavior because you like the flashing lights and shiny objects like a fucking magpie

Yeah and the characters getting lost going back to the ship and getting stuck over night was dumb. Why didn't they radio asking for directions earlier? Wasn't one of them the map expert too? LOL

but the soundtrack is awful

youtube.com/watch?v=MKpXDLi3-cI

youtube.com/watch?v=XKZEyR7uC3k

youtube.com/watch?v=2s7jonGYGgA

if every question about a character's motivations for doing something has to be answered "because the story required it," it's not a good movie

David dyed his hair cuz he thought Lawrence of Arabia was cool

Midwit.

you can't even articulate why you think i'm wrong so really who is the midwit here champ

Hot take but
Alien > Aliens > Prometheus > Covenant > AvP > 3 > Romulus > 4

it completely destroyed the movie "Alien" and destroyed all of its mystique.

Ridley Scott has committed many crimes but Prometheus is biggest.

Midwit.

Nta but I love how retards that think they're smart constantly call others midwits

no franchise has ever been made better by adding a prequel

Midwit.

The video game Alien Isolation is better than 90% of the movies Tbh.

It also bothered me that they entered the planets atmosphere and immediately saw the base. I mean at least put a line in there how they surveyed the planet in orbit to know where to enter the atmosphere.

Nope, it needs to be pre-planned and intended, which are the good ones. These bullshit ones where they make up something decades later and pretend that's actually what happened minutes before the movie are idiotic.

I honestly believe Ridley had some good potential of a series in this. His biggest mistakes were pretending it's connected to Alien and letting Lindelof put mystery boxes in it. Ridley wanted a psycho android story and humans meeting an anicent alien creator and being disappointed story. He loves 'meeting makers and being upset' stories.

The only movie I ever walked out on, it was an abomination.

Lindelof/Abrams involvement is the source of all the problems

All the human characters act like retards, and the religious themes in it are explored very poorly while it portrays itself as a very smart and deep film.

Alien>Alien^3>Aliens>Prometheus>Alien Resurrection>Alien Covenant

Probably the most talked and the most threads made about this movie and that other one

Whomever decided it needed to bear the Alien name was the problem. It's extremely obvious that it has no relation to Alien. However, that decision hamstrung the movie and set it up for failure. No "prequel" and you get:

a different, far more interesting planet instead of barren rock world

not having to crash the alien ship at the end

not having to pretend the engineer was in the space jockey suit

not being confinsed to boring tunnels that had a tiny resemblance to the movie

Instead, the skies the limit where they could have tons of giger-esque monstrous structures to explore. They could have discovered the Covenant 'peaceful' engineers then had the angry engineer show up pissed at the humans. They could have had the black goo other things than make people into xeno shapes

none of that means anything

IF THE WRITING FUCKING SUCKS

Sure but how would that stop Lindelof from shitting up the script?

no he meant

everything is a touchscreen ipad now for some reason even though its earlier than alien OG

as usual with Ridley Scott

It's called senility.

No, Romulus bad still wont excuse fucking up the lore by making the biomechanical space jockeys to albino avatars in suits
Its was also filled with sof sci fi elements with Star trek gloss with no distinction between the alien tech and human tech, which kills the fear of the unknown feel
Sincerely kill yourself

it portrays itself as a very smart and deep film.

how so