ALIEN: COVENANT (2017) MOVIE REACTION - THIS CAN'T BE HOW IT ENDS! - FIRST TIME WATCHING - REVIEW 

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Came for the Prometheus answers, stayed for the Fassbender on Fassbender action.

David didnt create the xeno's. The ship in ALIEN with the eggs was thousands of years old. In Prometheus there was the mural on the ceiling that showed an alien egg, and the xeno statue thing on the wall, both set before this film obviously. David was staying in the 'hall of records' on the Covenant planet. If yuo notice there were huge scrolls on massive shelves and all over the place. David just used those scrolls to create the eggs and Xeno's in this film. The engineers created the xeno's a LONG time ago as a weapon.

Quickest James Franco cameo ever

After hearing David said: "You will die. I will not." Weyland gave an upset response: "Bring me this tea." In the previous film that took place after, when Charlize Theron failed to get her answer from David, David teased her by asking: "A cup of tea?".

A line that stuck with me regarding these movies (Prometheus, Alien: Covenant) is this: "These movies are set in the Alien universe, but they are the story of David". Idk but that line opened me up to a heap of understanding for some of the overarching decisions made by Ridley Scott with regards to the story he wants to tell when I first heard it.

EVERY lifeform in Covenant: 1.) The Motes (aka Insects, Plants, Spores) 2.) The Bloodbursters (aka Baby Neos, Fetus, Larvae, Neo-Newborns, Newborns) I. The Backburster II. The Mouthburster 3.) The Neomorphs 4.) The Ovomorphs (aka Praeto-Eggs) 5.) The Praetohuggers 6.) The Praetoburster (aka Baby Praeto, Praeto-Newborn, Praeto-Infant, Imp) 7.) The Praetomorphs (aka Stalkers) 8.) The Planet 4 Humanoids - an unnamed race of humanoids that resembled The Engineers we saw in Prometheus but have since been confirmed to be one of their creations, like us humans. 9.) Silly Humans

I wish Ridley Scott would have ended his trilogy. It's such a shame he wasn't given the opportunity to do so. The themes addressed in Prometheus were so fascinating to me as well.

I spent more time hiding in lockers in Alien Isolation than I care to admit...... yet here I am.......🤣🤣🤣

This is without a doubt Michael Fassbender's movie , That beginning scene with him and a very underrated and brilliant Guy Pearce set the tone for the whole movie , and this movie was the ultimate manifestation of Ridley Scott's philosophy, the guy hates humanity with passion, and it really shows in this movie😂.

Losing Shaw off camera was kinda like losing Hicks and Newt off screen at the beginning of Alien 3.

The birth of the Neomorph (white Alien) and one of the most distressing and disgusting scenes in the saga.

This movie did to Elizabeth Shaw what Alien 3 did with Newt and Hicks. Which was one of the exact things fan had a huge problem with in that movie. It basically made the previous movies traumas and triumphs pointless. And it was a glaring indicator that they had written themselves into a corner and took they cheap and easy way out

I just had a epiphany. I really enjoyed watching this movie and then it hit me!!! you edited this & as far as I am aware, no one has ever given you props for the way you present these episodes. They are shorter versions of a movie but it's still got the detail in there even with large chunks missing and you kept me grip till the end. You guys are unbelievable❤

This wasn’t going to be the way it ended but the third movie was canceled. But alien Romulus connects these movies with the originals so… Stay off the narrative of this movie and just enjoy it.

I'm one of the few people who defends this film, it has flaws but still has some thought-provoking themes.

My theory about the Derelict from the original Alien is that, since it was on LV-426 - a moon orbiting the same planet as LV-223 where Prometheus took place - is that he was transporting those eggs to LV-223 where the Plagiarus Praepotens (the black embryonic substance that facehuggers inject into their hosts, in essence, the baby Xenomorph) would be extracted from the Facehuggers and processed into the black goo bio weapon/Pathogen (this explains why all organisms that spawn from the black goo seem to be "Xenomorphic" in nature - they're sort of genetic offshoots of the same highly mutable organism). But unfortunately for that particular Engineer, one Facehugger got out and infected him. So he settled on the nearby moon of LV-426 and sent a message to his comrades that the cargo had been compromised and not to come rescue him. In this interpretation of events, David did not in fact create the Xenomorph but rather reverse engineered it from the Pathogen. The Xenomorph could then be interpretated as a creature that evolved out of nature, and the Engineers discovered it, learned that its highly adaptable biology could be used as a foundation for biotechnology, and consequently built their civilization and culture around genetic engineering (which is why there's a mural dedicated to a Xenomorph-like creature - perhaps the Deacon - in the temple in Prometheus. The Engineers may revere it to some extent as progenitor of their entire society). With regards to Alien: Covenant, there's a lot I like about the film. There's also a lot that I find frustrating. However, this head canon helps deal with a lot of the inconsistencies and leaps in logic the film has us as an audience make when relating it to the other films in the franchise. Without spoiling things for the new film, Alien: Romulus sort of backs up this idea that, if we consider the Xenomorph and the Pathogen as a sort of chicken/egg question, the chicken probably came first.

That moment of deflation when they saw Elizabeth's mutilated corpse is hilarious

54:16 it wasn’t david that brought something to the ship it was the guy who got the facehugger on him but was able to get it off, the one who’s face didn’t melt all the way. even though they got the facehugger off him it was still able to implant the egg in him. You can see him on the floor of the medbay with his chest open

Just to clarify: Prometheus landed on LV-223, Nostromo landed on LV-426, the two alien ships they saw were not the same. Chances are the engineers set out many outposts to weaponize the black goo, but eventually they all got out of control and died. The whole ALIEN franchise is about human beings dealing with the mess left by the engineers, much like how human trying to survive in the Wasteland of Mad Max, we don't need the detail of how the world became what it is, we just need to see how they deal with the leftovers.

44:30 Technically, this is not the Xenomorph XX121 as we've come to know them. At the time of filming this species was designated the Protomorph. Later, nearer the release of Alien Romulus, it became known as the Praetomorph. If the Xenomorph XX121 has the taxonomic designation of _linguafoeda acheronsis,_ then this would be either _linguafoeda quatroplanetaris_ for "Foul Tongue of Planet Four" or _linguafoeda primus_ for "First Foul Tongue".

This movie was the first time I ever walked out of a theater completely disappointed. The movie talks down to the audience throughout the movie, the biggest example of which was making us think that Walter beat David after they fought but then “surprise” it was David all along. And the movie actually retroactively corrects itself after the release saying the alien we see in the end is not the Xenomorph but something called the “Praetomorph”.

Fun fact: it's best to just consider these "prequels" as just spinoffs instead of an origin story for Xenomorph. David doesn't create the first Xenomorph. He just figures out the formula to create a Xenomorph through The Engineers materials and cookbooks. Even as you guys see in this movie, "The Protomorphs" aren't nearly as intelligent but more animalistic than the Xenomorphs. They straight up just kill and use a direct mean to deal with preys. Unlike the Xenomorphs that tends to use stealth and ambush tactics, also kills but sometimes drags certain number to build nest and eggmorph

From the visionary director who taught you that taking off your helmet on an alien world on day 1 is sound science, now teaches you after further study that you don't need one at all.

I refuse to believe the xenos came from David. If you think back their was a statue of one in prometheus, I think David was just following a recipe or how to make these creatures from the engineers.

15:15 "Time to go in and see what the hell is calling". That's exactly what is calling. Hell.

It just irritates me to an extreme degree that they go out on an unknown planet without at least some sort of space suit/hazard equipment.

The reason these movies don't jive with the original is because Scott never wanted to make another Alien movie. He was originally shopping around to produce a movie he wanted to do based on the book "Chariot of the Gods" This book was the first major work that put forward the "Alien Astronaut Theory." In which it is theorized that we humans were either created or influenced by aliens. Our old gods being aliens and what not. No studio was interested. Fox gave him a deal, that they would fund this movie, under the condition it would take place in the Alien franchise, so they could advertise "The director that started it all returns!" Once you realize what these movies aren't (Alien movies) and what they are (Chariot of the Gods) it all started to make more sense.

The fact they decided to explore the planet with no suits on is ridiculous. Even if they checked the air quality and saw there's plenty of O2, how are you not gonna take potential pathogens into account?

NO DAVID DIDN'T CREATE THE XENO NO MATTER WHAT RIDLEY SAYS!! He's literally ruined his legacy with this film and arrogantly tried to take ownership of the Alien franchise. Disney/Fox essentially dumped him after Covanant. Fede Álvarez said he disagreed with Ridley Scott about how the Alien came to be... he described it as primordial so ancient basically.

The scene with the alien coming out of the dudes back in the med bay has to be the MOST AGGRIVATING moment in movie history. SSSoooooo many goofy bad decisions; like who tf slips on the blood....TWICE?!?! looses the gun; GETS the foot crushed in the door....SHOOTS the explosive tanks....

I know people seemed to hate it, but I kind of love that the crew were just a bunch of scared normal people. They were selected to be leaders of a colony. People to build a community on some barren world, not warriors or badasses. And through this, they were terribly equipped for when they encountered hostile a malicious forces

The xenomorph is the final result of the engineers's (failed?) experience to recreate their god's blood. Life incarnate, a perfect bioweapon, the ultimate punishment.

Currently going through a bad bout of depression so this reaction was so uplifting & a great tonic. Ari & Denise always give great reactions & there love for movies shines in every video they do plus there post movie discussions are always informative & on point & you are one of my favourite reaction channels. My main gripe with this movie was killing Shaw even worse off screen, I think it was a wasted opportunity to explore her & David's relationship & felt there was a lot more to her character.

Given that there’s a mural of the xenomorph on that engineer sheep in Prometheus, I think it’s safe to say that David didn’t really create the xenomorphs but instead resurrected them. Yeah this movie has quite a few flaws with it but honestly the chestburster scene with David present is a standout for me, it’s such a different take that’s genuinely beautiful compared to all the body horror that we’ve seen before.

Worth noting, the planet David killed wasn’t the Engineer home world. It was another seed world like Earth-A species crafted by the Engineers. As you may have seen, the ones David brought genocide upon were not very technically advanced.

Poor Walter, I think he's aware and perceptive to a degree but clearly isn't as homicidal as David But I think the 'sentience' as it were was stronger in David nothing can quite put the life and power into something as outpacing death.

David, in his own hubris, believed he engineered the Xenos. He didn't. The Engineers weaponized the Xeno DNA. David just helped it go back to its original form. The Xenomorphs are thousands of years old. AVP shows us that. The ship in Alien was thousands if years old as well.

So what do you guys think? Should they have finished the trilogy or was it better to jump ship and focus on another story instead?

55:35 the Xenomorphs have visible eye sockets under their dome, so i always asumed that the Xenomorphs worked like the Barreleye, a fish with it's eyes on the inside of it's head, with the xenomorph eyes being black and thus not visible.

Im regards to David creating the xenomorphs, no he didn't. The "pathogen" as it was referred to in Aliens: Fireteam Elite is a self-adapting and self-evolving viral mutagen that always comes to a final end-point. All David did was speed up the process of the eventual "final iteration" of this mutagen. The xenomorph already existed, all he did was tinker with a machine that was already in motion and was going to arrive at the same result. He wasnt half as clever as he thought he was. As the xenomorph is called the perfect organism the pathogen is the perfect form of "forced evolutionary virus". It always at some point regardless of outside input or manipulation will end up creating a xenomorph because the xenomorph is the perfect evolutionary survivor.

The planet they landed on wasnt the planet of the Engineers but on another civilization that the Engineers had created. There is a Theory about who created the Engineers but just a theory based on what we saw in Prometheus. In the cargo room where the Engineers ran into and when the team from Prometheus went inside, they saw head statues of Engineers surrounding and maybe even worshipping a big figure of a Xenomorph. They theory is that a more advanced and smarter race of Xenomorphs had created the Engineers. Then those Xenomorph had died out and now the Engineers were trying to create more Xenomorphs. Like I said, its just a theory.

21:53 never heard that one before. I don’t know why I laughed so hard at it. 😂

Cool reaction! 120:50 Great point Denise! When I first saw this following Prometheus, felt a bit let down from not doing more with where Prometheus left off, yet over the years when I've rewatched, I enjoyed it more. Had the time to led go of any expectation of what the film "should" or could've been

For more context out of the previous film the best you could do is see the deleted scene where David and the Engineer talked. If you youtube search prometheus explained, you might see a 90 second interview Tarantino did about Prometheus. If you type prometheus explained acidglow, you might find some of the best explanations on youtube for that movie.

Also a little detail, Denise was actually correct with the final xeno looking different. This one is called the protomorph and it is more muscular and animalistic, making it slightly more primitive than the xenomorphs we know as their anatomy is way more biomechanical. Also the white ones are called neomorphs.

Oh my!!! I love this one, despite the poor reception. It was fun.

The detail you missed on how an alien got on the ship was that it burst from Lope’s chest overnight - he had also been hit with a facehugger.

Every "Alien" movie: someone gets infected Outside the ship > basically everyone else becomes dumb as they ignore the protocols in place > just let's them back onto the ship, resulting in horror.

I hope that Riley Scott makes a film that tie into the last scene from Alien Covenant and not let this be the end of the story.

Trust me. A lot of us want to see Ridley Scott complete his prequel trilogy. A lot of us want to see David, the most infuriating android ever put on film get his comeuppance

These aren't particularly Alien-franchise movies, but since there are so few sci-fi horror or thriller movies out there, I'd like to point out a few suspenseful sci-fi recommendations for your channel backlog: - Event Horizon (1997) - Pandorum (2009), probably the most similar to the Alien-atmosphere - Sunshine (2007) *Weyland* It should be known by now that Weyland wasn't always the frontrunner in space from playing Alien: Isolation. There were other competitors like Seegson back in the days that invented viable FTL before Weyland. Seeing how in _Aliens_ the company's called "Weyland-Yutani" it implies that the merger made them a much more competitive player in the field, since those merger names generally mean two big-shots have joined forces. So I don't know how big Weyland was back in the days like in Covenant, considering it's a prequel to the original movie, but we do know that they were ruthlessly pursuing opportunities. The most horrendous realization is that Walter, after being the successor model to David, is eventually being replaced by the model Ash. That really doesn't seem like a better upgrade to me. Sure, Ash was more human in behavior and response, but it had all the ethics and personality of David. Which makes you wonder what Weyland industries thought when they made Ash.

Just to clarify, the white aliens in the movie are Neomorphs and the one that keeps looking like a Xenomorph is not actually a Xenomorph, it is a Protomorph

I hope we get to see you react to "Alien Romulus" when we can. I saw it at the cinema and it was such a good movie.

I didn't like this movie. Killing Killing Shaw of screen was unfair. Hope you guys are enjoyed it love you guys you are amazing ❤❤❤

honestly, i could watch an entire movie of guy pierce and michael fassbender as david and weyland.

For a little more backstory, watch 'The Crossing' from the special features. It bridges the gap a little more between Prometheus and Covenant and shows how David and Shaw's relationship grew. (Noomi features in this) Also with the special features, check out David's Lab scene - shows him 'working' on Shaw's body and explaining his intentions.

In the movie Prometheus, they cut a scene from the movie. In that deleted scene they explain why they creat humankind. The Engineers want to study another version of them, they watched the first organism in the planet, they saw the firsts animals and finally mankind. The engineers help mankind evolved, learned new things, and construct millions of civilizations. This Aliens saw that this new life form they creat (Humankind, another version of them), was learning faster and evolving with all the teachings the engineers gave to them. Each civilization welcome the engineers( The Engineers were coming each year to see the progress humans creat with alot of new knowledge they learned or creat). But the Engineers saw the true nature of mankind, what they didn't like is that the humans where killing each other for resources, lands or other things. So the engineers send a child to save humankind and teach humanity how to be peacefull and how to work each other( This is the reason why they cut that scene from prometheus, because that child was actually Jesus and that scene will cause alot of people to be mad because they where adding religious things and saying that Jesus was an alien), in the end the alien they send to restore peace, was killed and the engineers saw humankind as a barbaric and dangerous creation, and the only way to killed mankind is deploying a dangerous virus that we saw in prometheus. At some point maybe one of the engineers got infected with the virus and spread the caos all over the alien base we saw in prometheus and thats why humankind continue living and yes maybe one of the engineers was trapped on that ship and decide to go to sleep and thinking that he will be rescue by his own people.

Oh and James Franko played the Captain that burnt up in the fire. Just had to subscribe again, thanks RU-vid

28:09 I love the detail of the shotgun fraying the cargo netting when it's shot towards the xenomorph/decan thing

After seeing Alien Romulus, I really need Scott to come back and finish his prequel series. I need a definitive conclusion

On Shaw's offscreen death - According to the facebook posts of a concept artist that worked on Covenant (dane hallett), Shaw got killed because someone in production just didn't get along with Noomi Rapace. Ridley really liked Noomi and his initial plans for the story were for Shaw to be hiding in the planet and helping the Covenant crew escape David. However, Ridley still managed to shoot a little viral piece "the Crossing" with Noomi, depicting Shaw and David while en route to Planet 4. Recently, Fede Alvarez has commented that he'd love to be able to finish the Prequels storyline one day... and Romulus is being a big success.... so there's hope!

The third film that would close the story of the prequels was titled: ALIEN: AWAKENING, but it ended up being discarded...

I am quickly absolutely LOVING these two.. Another great duo to add to my reactor portfolio!

Covenants' crew was carefully selected, Through a wall-mart lottery shuffle.

I am kinda new to your channel only been watching you guys a couple of weeks but I got to say I just LOVE your content and the genuine reaction and interest in the movies you watch. I even have one headphone in listening to you guys when I’m at work just as entertaining just hearing your content as it is watching along.

So as weird as this is David did not actually create the Xenomorphs. Ridley Scott talks about this a little bit but you’ve got the Xenomorph mural in Prometheus, and the ship from Alien is extremely old. Far older than David. I can’t say much about this since you guys aren’t caught up but essentially David just recreated them.

These Xenomorphs are less evolved from the Xenomorphs from Ripley's era because these are the predecessors, they will have less distinct marks then the Xenos from future films.

hot take: David is the best and most interesting character in the entire movie franchise

David didn't create the xenomorph in the original movie but he created copies of the xenomorph but they were not 100% also xenomorph were around during ancient times seen in predator vs alien

Every teenager in Romulus has more IQ than all Covenant & Prometheus SCIENTISTS! combined 😢😂

36:08 Yeah, theorist's have speculated that landing on an Alien planet, would take months of testing on human blood to determine if humans would survive the air, water, and flora. 1:06:16

This movie was basically an overcorrection. After Prometheus there were a lot of complaints that there wasn't enough Xeno in the movie about the supposed "origins" of the Xenomorphs And sadly, it suffers because of it. Instead of taking the cool stuff from Prometheus (it ain't perfect but there are some really cool ideas in it) it basically killed everything that Prometheus did and just focused more on shock. The characters make some of the dumbest decisions in movie history (Instead of this planet that we carefully canvassed for years and have been traveling for years to, let's land on a planet we know nothing about. On top of that, let's not wear ANY protection!) and also makes absolutely no sense in terms of how the proto-aliens are formed (just some black gas from some plants entering an ear canal or a nose) There are some good themes in Covenant too but it's just overshadowed by all the stupidity and non-sensicalness. Visually spectacular. I promise you, Alien Romulus is MUCH better. Not perfect either, but genuinely feels like a proper sequel to Alien.

The medbay sequence and build up to it is a Top 5 moment in the entire Alien franchise for me. The music is phenomenal and the way it’s directed is so, so good.

Let's go!!! If you appreciated the prequels, you might like the TV Series "Raised by Wolves", which has been produced by Ridley Scott AFAIK... Sadly, they cancelled it after two seasons. :(

Someone in the comments mentioned PITCH BLACK. If you haven’t seen it, it’s a must watch reaction.

This was the last ALIEN movie that Ridley Scott directed as he knew that he was slowly losing his touch when it comes to making these kinds of movies.

What I find fascinating and terrifying is the moment David was 'born' he immediately questioned and saw his creator as a lesser being

The movie predators is good maybe check it out

As you can see, the xenomorphs take on the characteristics of the host from which the chestbuster comes out. In fact, the Neomorph in "Covenant" is more similar to humans because it has not yet been genetically modified like the future chestbusters generated by facehuggers from "Alien" (1979) onwards, while the Deacon that came out of the engineer in "Prometheus" is white because the engineer has white skin. They are still at the dawn of their evolution. Another example, there are two versions of chestbusters in "Alien 3": one that comes out of a dog (in the "Theatrical" version) and one that comes out of an ox (in the "Assembly Cut" version); this type of xenomorph is called Runner, precisely because it runs after its victims and tries to kill them all, unlike the other types of xenomorph that come out of humans who instead try to preserve some to generate the Queen. This denotes a lower intelligence in the first type of Runner, precisely because the physical and mental traits inherited from the animal host possess a less developed intelligence than the xenomorphs that inherit these traits from their human hosts.

Yeaaa another video, was waiting for it

"Not a single braincell in here!" And there it is. That's the movie. This is one of the best looking and best sounding films I ever wanted to LOVE... and I just COULD NOT get over all the dumbass choices these characters make.

You wanted body horror? 25:48 - here ya go! 30:14 Meet the Neomorph...i'nt he CUTE? 🥰 38:03 "What is that, if not love?" "Duty." "I know better 😏." _(Because I'm a better and more experienced liar than you could hope to be.)_

4:28-5:05 "Bring me this tea, David" - One of the most poignant scenes in recent films elevated by one single line of dialogue, IMO. The scene's intent and message is lost on so many people it actually makes me mad lol

i like this movie as much as the first.

Awesome reaction from you two like always. Can't wait until Ridley Scott comes up with the answers in his planned season finale. He is still planning on doing Prometheus 3. But no idea how long we have to wait. On his latest interviews he mentioned that he did not like some of the things done in Prometheus and Covenant and he is thinking about additional 3 movies or a longer prometheus trilogy finale. At least Alien Romulus became the biggest success since Alien and Aliens and we can look forward on a planned Romulus sequel and another Alien vs Predator movie possible directed by Fede Alvarez. Alien 5 script is still on the table too. But Alien 5 is still on a Rumor table. Last info on Alien 5 was after Alien TV Season. Would love to know what you two think or hope in this regard.

You guys are too harsh on this movie. We know about Xenos . They didn’t. That’s why that woman hugged the guy convulsing. Because she’s thinking about compassion, not Xenos because SHE DOESNT KNOW THEY EXIST. People really abandon logic in search or logic. A monster is coming towards the woman and I myself wouldn’t be thinking about the ship. You guys and other people complain that they weren’t prepared but, prepared for what? Monsters? They don’t know about them. As far as we know, there aren’t any other creatures out there so why being so scared of the reading say the planet is viable for humans. People love to think that they would do better but perhaps you guys would suck too. One of the details that was left out from the original story of Prometheus is that Vickers hired unqualified people to sabotage her father’s mission. She was jealous of the relationship Peter Weyland had with David. Weyland didn’t love her daughter the way he did his own creation. The original story was severely changed. Prometheus is pretty awesome. I’d like to add that getting a definitive answer to those questions about creation might’ve had a negative effect because we may not get an answer that make perfect sense because being alive just doesn’t make sense. We’re just alive 🤷🏻‍♂️ However, we did pose a threat to the world because our makers realized we also were capable of creation but we’re dangerous because we killed our messiah. I’m not making this up.

Just incase this helps; The white Alien birthed from the spores is called the 'Neomorph' And according to official expanded material, the Xenomorph david creates in this film is actually called the 'Praetomorph', it's implied to be David's recreation of the Engineer's original design of the Xenomorph, as seen in the original movies.

As a fan of the Alien series, and someone who generally tries to focus on the good aspects of any movie I watch, I absolutely HATE this film. I hate the story, I hate the new characters, I hate how many insanely dumb decisions are made (apparently no one in this film has any kind of self-preservation instincts), I hate the unceremonious end for Shaw (one of the good aspects of Prometheus that I enjoyed), the Xeno looks terrible and is shown WAY too much, I hate the idea of David creating the Aliens, etc. Fastbender is very good in both roles, and it's the only stuff in here that I actually like. But the good-to-bad ratio is swung so far in one direction that there's no saving it for me.

Probably the worst thing this movie did was on how they ruined the character of David. There’s actually a prologue scene to this movie that is on RU-vid that for some reason was not put in the final film that shows when Elizabeth Shaw is repairing David by attaching his head back to his body and how he actually feels gratitude towards her and looks out for her by having her be put in stasis for the trip to the engineer home world. And while she was in stasis, he was actually loading up the pathogen to use on the engineers as soon as they arrived. Killing them all before they ever got the answers to their questions as to why the engineers wanted to kill humanity, which was the whole reason they were going there in the first place. And then to make things even worse, he experiments on her which was not only disgusting but completely unnecessary. He could’ve experimented on any of the other engineers bodies, but instead he chose to experiment on her, the only person that ever showed him any sign of respect. The only good and memorable thing of this movie is something that was completely unintentionally funny when David is teaching Walter how to play the flute and says “I’ll do the fingering”.🤣🤣🤣

Eventho Alien is a cult classic, for me watching Aliens on VHS back when it was released as a kid with some childhood friends, blew our mind. It was exciting, terrifying and claustrophobic. Having Ripley back on that planet, being chased through thouse tight corridors and ventilation shafts, not knowing if there was a facehugger or an alien around the corner really built up this amazing tension back then. And I still to this day hear people talking about that tension and claustrophobic feeling it gave them the first time they watched it. After seeing what Ridley Scott did with Prometheus and Covenant I really wish they would have gone with Neill Blomkamp´s vision for a followup to Aliens instead. The small fragments we did get back then when the project was under somekind of development looked amazing - Ripley in somekind of Alien exoskeleton suit, Hicks being alive with his scar from the alien acid in the face, and that big hangar room where they had the Derelic ship. This might only be gossip of course, but I heard Sigourney Weaver was onboard for Neills vision/movie. But that Ridley Scott went in and said - No im the creator, I have something else in mind....And we ended up with these two movies. I actually felt Prometheus was a really good looking movie, with great acting. But Covenant feels really bland, and weird. I mean in the Alien movies with Ripley we where introduced to this smart and strong heroine which in Alien I believe was a first for it´s genre. In Covenant people where laughing in the cinema at how "unsmart" the characters where, like slipping in the blood twice? For me it feels more like Ridley Scott wanted to get James Cameron´s Aliens away from the franchise he started for his own sake. In the end I just see these two movies as something else, just like the Alien vs Predator movies. Altho I haven´t seen Alien: Romulus yet, and that one might retkon some of the mess I feel Covenant left, or so I hope. Been really fun watching you guys watch through these movies, thank you for sharing it with us.

When Ridley Scott makes a movie god flips coin, and sadly it landed on tails. He thought it would be a clever and terrifying idea if David was the one that actually invented the final form of the Xenomorphs but narratively and canonically it doesn’t make any sense at all.

The reason why the engineers wanted us dead is because time and time again they went out of their way to help us but it proved to be in vein. They even went as far as ( according to Ridley Scott’s original script) that the engineers went as far as taking one of our own, taking him to “heaven” showing him the secrets of life. And when they sent him back to us we crucified him. There’s multiple videos explaining this on RU-vid.

00:27:32 Would you boop?

The actor who played sha kept saying yes and no to doing the next movie. At the time she was free to commit, they had moved on and settled a story that became Covenant. There was an unmade short film about Shaw and David going to “Paradise” the last thing she saw was the engineers home from the ship before David snapped her neck and killed them all with the weapon

Hot take: this is my favorite Alien movie, followed by Prometheus. They're just more my thing. Prometheus got so much flack for not being more like an Alien movie that they went more an Alien movie in this one and then this one got flack for not being a direct Prometheus sequel. Go figure. Fickle fans. David is by far the most evil villain I've ever seen and I felt like I shouldn't be watching this just because of how twisted he is. The alien in the original seemed kind of biomechanical and the lore of David makes me wonder how it happened. Also, that eerie two note score that pops up now and then is so spooky.

To clarify David didn’t create the xenomorphs just a variation of them. Like the ship on LV-426 is thousands of years old and that was a different ship than the one in here. The white ones are called Neomorphs and the other one is a Prateomorph. ( How do I know this?,Fandom and Google ) But really enjoy this one also and the soundtrack was amazing The only thing I’m upset about is the ending because now we are left off with a major cliffhanger and why some people was hoping/wondering if Romulus was connected or not. But I heard some say it kinda is because I haven’t watched it yet myself 💀

This movie has SO many plotholes for the sake of "muh horror" WHY didn't a group on one of the biggest colony missions ever, just randomly decide to go to an unkown planet , with no suits or actual precautions whatsoever??

I love the scene were the white Xenos attack the crew out in the open. We almost never see them attack from the front like that and it's terrifying.

Covenant is just an underrated masterpiece, just like Prometheus.