I loved Alien: Covenant. It actually reminded me of The Lost World: Jurassic Park a few times while I was watching it (particularly the use of those giant, Redwood-like trees), and even my Dad thought the Neomorphs acted like Velociraptors. Alien: Covenant does a lot of call backs to both Prometheus and the original Alien movie. It adds nicely to the mythos, but doesn't bog itself down with a lot of blatant references like I feel it could have. I saw a lot of Spielbergian directorial style in Prometheus, and I see a lot of The Lost World in Alien: Covenant. It's a natural continuation sequel like The Lost World is, not just a sequel to Prometheus, but a sequel to the franchise in general. I think that Covenant, like Prometheus, will find its appreciation in the years to come. It's a thinking movie, like Prometheus was. It leaves you with thoughts to ponder. It definitely terrified me a couple times. And it's good horror, too. It's bloody, like Michael Myers in space, but it doesn't use cheap jump scares. The shower scene in particular came back into my mind when I took a shower tonight before dinner. The movie had the perfect kind of squick that Giger would have LOVED. He always went for that kind of "let's freak out the men in the audience" kind of sexual horror, and I liked the usage of some more of his designs in the Engineer city. Oh, and that they used some of Giger's art as David's drawings. A nice tribute to Giger, I feel.
