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stumpcity t1_j43dyk8 wrote

Reply to comment by SortOfHorrific in FX's ‘Alien’ Series Gearing Up For Production This Year; Noah Hawley Will Start Production After Finishing 'Fargo' Season 5 by SanderSo47

Covenant is a better movie than Prometheus is. Or at least it's more consistent at being what it's trying to be. Prometheus literally doesn't know what it wants to be and halfway through becomes a half-assed Blade Runner movie instead of an Alien one.

Covenant knows what it wants to be from jump and sticks to that pretty solidly. Prometheus is just a confused, frustrating mess (which makes sense once you watch the making-of documentary on the blu-ray).

I wouldn't say either of them are as good as the Alien 3 "assembly cut," which isn't a GREAT movie by any stretch, but is at least - fundamentally broken as it is, even in its best version - better at being a thematic closer to Ellen Ripley's story than either Prometheus or Covenant are at being chapters in the birth of the Alien.

edit: what in the world about those 3 paragraphs is setting people off. Jesus Christ.

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tehkory t1_j43scbd wrote

You said nice things about Prometheus; people who hate Prometheus hate that.

You said nice things about Covenant; people who hate Covenant hate that.

You said nice things about Alien3; people who hate Alien3 hate that.

Then you edited; people who hate edits about downvotes hate that.

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stumpcity t1_j43tql0 wrote

So what you're saying is I'm right and people hate that.

I should be used to this by now.

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Asiriya t1_j44ea63 wrote

I don’t see how Covenant knows what it wants to be. It goes from philosophising in the opening establishing the same tone as Prometheus to a really dumb slasher, interlaced with moments of Prometheus-like intrigue where it can’t help but fill in the blanks between the films (and that stuff being far more interesting than the slasher the film actually is). Then it’s never sure if it wants to be an alien film or an android film - I don’t think it’s nearly as deft as the original was at juggling both.

I know the Prometheus script had a dozen hands on it but what happened during production, I’ve never seen the BTS you mentioned.

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stumpcity t1_j44jjn2 wrote

Ridley Scott basically got wine drunk every day and messed up whatever was working that day

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sweetpeapickle t1_j47l2eb wrote

You did not mention Jesus Christ before, so I don't think he has anything to do with setting people off.

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VeteranSergeant t1_j4853oa wrote

> Covenant is a better movie than Prometheus is

This sounds like a gingivitis vs lip cancer argument. I'd rather just not have either.

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