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As the thread title suggests, I finally got around to viewing this movie from Ridley Scott. Rented on-demand for $5.99.
My thoughts:
This movie predicts the coming extinction of the human race. It shows how it will come. It shows who will cause it and how. It shows how humans will react to it.
But is it the 'alien monsters' that will cause our extinction? Not really. In the same way an assassin carries out his assigned task, the alien monsters are just a tool for the job.
Is it the 'Engineers' that will cause our extinction? Not really, though they did create the alien monsters. It is suggested in the movie 'Prometheus' that these same 'Engineers' also created us. For what purpose an answer has not really been supplied. Afterall it was Shaw and David that went on a trek to confront these engineers on this very topic.
There is a bleak and fearful inevitability of doom in the atmosphere. Like in that other Ridley Scott movie; The Counsellor, there is this sense of loss and despair. Of dread in knowing that we are no longer at the top of the food chain. The dread of vastly superior predators that will end us in bloody, horrific and painful death.
There is no fun. There is no humor. There is misery.
All this comes from the brain of Ridley Scott. I used to be a fan, but not lately. Not since The Counselor, and certainly not after this horror flick.
That said, I really enjoyed the cgi and F/X in the outer space and aboard ship sequences. Top notch special effects and movie-set decor.
-Steve
Follow Ups:
And neither has the shock value of Alien.
This reminded me too much of Aliens, which I liked well enough.
Lots of action and a philosophical approach really beginning to get botched in
Alien 3 and then Resurrection and continuing on a murky path.
Whether as a prequel, sequel or whatever time frame he chooses to set his story
in, he's mostly repeating himself and now, others.
There's not enough story to keep the series going beyond action/adventure and as
action/adventure it jut isn't going to be what it's already been.
As action/adventure it is only OK, not great but not boring either.
A good streamer.
Really though no need for another one.
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
The Sigouney series, which supposedly follows in time, has us chasing down these pets, trying to do all kinds of clandestine experiments with them. "Alien Resurrection" was set 200 years after her death by one of the creepies in "Aliens 3".
The latter day pets were genetically engineered/manufactured by David, the pissed off android, based on original stocks made by the blue magoos. We have his motives laid out for us, but the "engineers" motives were left undefined with room for speculation.
The engineers failed at our extermination, and by inference from the Aliens sequels, so did David.
We continue with no reference to whether our survival is a good or bad thing. Looks ugly in all directions. All hail the master race.
I was careful not to add any overt spoilers in my op, and I will try not to add any now.Yes, Covenant leaves room for a sequel, or even a series of sequels. The new dynamic added to the reboot is that there is now a determined effort and plan to exterminate the human race. This much of a spoiler, I think, won't spoil it for those who have not seen Covenant yet.
-Steve
Edits: 08/20/17
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...Covenant was a disappointment on many levels. Pretty decent CGI was a minorr saving grace as already noted.
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and perfect musculature are the ultimate white supremacists. Maybe that's why they are killing all the species that don't turn out like themselves?
I loved 'The Counselor' for the story and dialog. Yes, it was doom on a popsicle stick but it worked for me. Bardem was great and Diaz performance was so demanding for her range that she was frayed. Still, it's a great reminder not to put that nest egg in a drug deal that will make you rich.
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With regard to Gladiator, there were some 'disturbing' sequences between the new Emperor Commodus, his sister and with sinister and disgusting implications pointing to his sister's son. A fictitious element presented to the viewer from the mind of Ridley Scott.Thelma and Louise. He directed this, but did not write it. Even though Thelma and Louise were doomed, there was a lively spirit and interaction between the characters that made for an entertaining movie, I thought.
1492? I skipped that. No need to see it.
BlackHawk Down? An Englishman (Scott) directs a movie about US actions in Somalia during the Clinton administration. The actual US involvement in that action left nothing for anyone to cheer about. Neither should the movie. So what.
-Steve
Edits: 08/20/17
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"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
that I can remember.Certainly any aspect of the "Alien" series of films has not provided such nor
much of a rosy portrayal of the future human condition. A few great and humourous
lines here and there, but the overall prediction remains rather bleak.Then there's Blade Runner. I wouldn't be looking for much humour or fun in the sequel
due soon at a theater near you.I'm looking forward to seeing Covenant and expect much from it.
No humour or fun times though.
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination"-Michael McClure
Edits: 08/19/17
re: Blade Runner. Having read both the novel by PKD and seen the movie of the novel, I think that the film adaptation was faithful enough to the book. I don't feel that Ridley Scott screwed it up. Rather, he brought the novel to the big screen with visual excitement.
I think Syd Mead, the conceptual artist behind the set design, really deserves credit for the atmospherics and mood that were part of the movie. More so than the novel which reads sort of dry and lacking in visual description.
However what Scott will do with the up-coming sequel remains to be seen. I hope he doesn't turn it into something repellant.
-Steve
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