After watching Alien: Romulus, I couldn't help but reflect on how Alien: Covenant stands out in comparison. While Romulus felt like a forced rehash of familiar elements, Covenant genuinely explored different themes, variations of the Alien lifecycle, and introduced new species, providing an opportunity to expand the universe with fresh elements. Fede, by contrast, you’ve unintentionally made us appreciate Covenant even more.
There is also a new creature in Romulus, you forget It? And much more terryfing and interesting that the only new variation that appeared in Covenant.
shareThat creature was a lame reminiscent of the Alien baby as in Alien: Resurrection. It was not even terrifying; just creepy!
And the Black Goo DOES NOT have Engineer's DNA. The Black goo was originally manufactured by the Engineers as a Bio-weapon using DNA of the Protomorph (Original creature proposed in Prometheus and as reflected in the Mural of the Black Goo brewing room) so the following mutations will result into variations carrying its predatory characteristics. It was shocking to see the logical inconsistency of the alien baby emerging as a Xeno-Engineer Hybrid. This was just a desperate contrivance to tie up with Prometheus.
It was a lost opportunity. Had they used the concepts of Ultramorph or a different version of Deacon; it would have been truly terrifying and marked the launch of a new creature while saying good bye to the over-played Xenomorphs.
That's your subjectif opinión, for me this creature IS infinitely more terryfing that the Pulp creature from Resurrection.
And everything that happened in Prometheus is lame, it's absurd trying to make sense of It, but this film extracts the only good possible sense of It (a gloo that mutantes and changes DNA).
Logical inconsistency is logical inconsistency irrespective of whether you liked Prometheus or not.
And it's also true that Fede could have remained consistent, created a new variation and yet made it terrifying.
It's impossible to be consistent with something that didn't have sense/consistency in the first place.
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The whole movie, I don't even know where to start. Even Ridley had to make Covenant like a sort of apology for It, his worst film ever.
Oh Wow! So convenient.
I'm sure when asked by your teacher what's the square root of 256, you would have replied 'I don't know where to start but it's like...how 3 is for 9'
Enough chatting with you!
Ok, let's review the movie: if you touch the Engineers' black liquid it turns into an eel that strangles you, if you drink it you turn into a big-headed zombie, if you fuck infected with it you get the woman pregnant with a mollusk that turns into a giant in two hours and then infects an Engineer (who wants to destroy the Earth for reasons not explained, by the way) with a xenomorph, take that!
Not to mention the schizophrenic tone or the characters, who are supposed to be very well-educated scientists but behave like retarded teenagers from a bad 90s slasher (smoking joints inside the astronaut suit!).
One of the biggest Hollywood disasters ever.
if you touch
if you fuck infected with it
that turns into a giant in two hours
infects an Engineer....with a xenomorph, take that!
Of course, xenomorphs were born because an Engineer was infected by a mollusk product of a pregnant woman infected by the black gloo, very logic and not convoluted at all 👌
And what about the zombie with the Big head? And the scientists Who are afraid of some fossils but seconds after touch a eel made of Black gloo like if It is a cute cat?
It's amazing you try to defend a film that looks like a Troma production made with 100 millions budget. Romulus takes its ideas (Engineer, black gloo) and makes them good with a fantastic horror atmosphere.
Of course, xenomorphs were born because an Engineer was infected by a mollusk product of a pregnant woman infected by the black gloo, very logic and not convoluted at all
And what about the zombie with the Big head? And the scientists Who are afraid of some fossils but seconds after touch a eel made of Black gloo like if It is a cute cat?
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If you think it makes sense for a scientist to touch a black snake on a hostile planet like it's a kitten (after being scared by some fucking fossils!) I simply can't take you seriously.
Oh, and the geologist Who is lost in the cave just after he cartographies It 🤦
And it's not me who makes the movie look ridiculous, it's the script, which is a pure aberration, the fault of Damon Lindelof, true cancer of Hollywood. Seriously, you can go scene by scene analyzing how ridiculous it is. It wouldn't be bad if it were a comedy, but the fact that it takes such an interesting subject as the possible alien origin of humanity and the Ancient Astronauts theory and destroys it in this way is unforgivable.
Seriously, it's such a disaster that Ridley Scott had to brutally eliminate both the Engineers and Dr. Shaw in Alien Covenant, like an apology for the worst film in his filmography.
Agreed on all accounts.
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