Saw it this weekend. A few, rambling, disjointed thoughts.
1. I'm not going to speak ill of Scott. The last movie he directed before this one was "The Martian," which I loved.
2. Mostly the crew is smarter than Prometheus'. (I still will wear a full space suit on any new planet I visit, until a thorough investigation is completed. I've seen "War of the Worlds.")
3. Fassbender did an excellent job in both roles. The rest of the cast did an acceptable job.
4. This film seems to make "Aliens" null and void, both eliminating the queen, and ignoring the references to Arcturans, etc.
5. It eliminates "AvP." There was a time when I considered both of those the worst in the series. That time has passed.
6. Why did David crash the Juggernaut after he had already docked?
7. Why did the Covenant crew park 8km away from the source of the signal. At the very least, do a flyby first.
8. The face hugger embryos that David hocked up at the end were in perfectly sized containers to fit in the incubator. Convenient.
The original film had humans stumbling upon something completely alien - a derelict ship, whose pilot was physically a part of it (a very Giger-ish concept) carrying a ridiculously dangerous cargo. whatever the ship's purpose, it had nothing to do with us, which added to the mystery of it all, and suggested that space was far creepier and unsafe than we could imagine. (HP Lovecraft would have loved it.)
The further the franchise gets from that concept, the less it appeals to me.
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