Alien: Covenant/Alien Series thoughts.

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Overly Serious said:
I dislike Elli Fanning's character talking to the Predator in that tutor sort of way.
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The script (which still isn't public yet) has her android and some type of Weyland programming entity, like Mother, that talks to her constantly giving out exposition and clarification for the audience's sake. So you'll get lines from her explaining to the Predator that "you came here to hunt.....now we're both being hunted". To clue in the retards in the movie theaters what is happening. Or Mother will tell her "if you fail this mission you are in danger of being deactivated". They might have cut back on the dialog in the filmed or edited version, but in the original written version the android is throwing out quip filled lines and catchphrases once or twice per scene.
Overly Serious said:
I don't really get what Elle Fanning's character is supposed to be.
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She's one of a series of androids that look like her. There will be multiple Elle Fanning androids that she plays in the movie. One of the android models is charged with hunting down species of valuable aliens for Weyland-Yutani. If she fails her task they will take her android offline and recycle her parts. So she's fighting for her own survival just like the main Predator is also fighting for his space in his clan. This will be explained out loud to the audience at some point during the movie, likely very early.

There will be a bunch of scenes where her android is smashed up or partially destroyed. But she gets saved at the last second. And is able to resume the mission for Weyland. They've already shown in the trailer that she gets ripped in half (just like Bishop in Aliens).
Overly Serious said:
If you're going to do an explicit cross-over between Alien and Predator actually set in the timeline of Alien with Weyland-Yutani, it deserves far more integration into the actual Aliens franchise.
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This is basically a prequel to AvP3. And the first two movies were more Predator focused.
 
@TheHarbinger The sad thing is that I cannot tell if what you're saying is a genuine leak or if this slop has just become so predictable that you know without one.

I looked at the comments on the trailer and they had the astroturfed comments lined up ready to go. YouTube really needs to be knocked off its perch.

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Overly Serious said:
Everything about this looks stupid. I'm predicting a solid 2/5 movie, dropping to 1 for anybody emotionally invested in the franchise(s).
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I can't wait to see the fent addicts justify why they had to watch the poorly made AI shitslop film that they already mostly forgot when they went out.

Seriously, just because film standards are in the shitter doesn't mean you have to lower yours.
TheHarbinger said:
She's one of a series of androids that look like her. There will be multiple Elle Fanning androids that she plays in the movie.
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Oh piss off. I hated this gimmick in Covenant. It wasn't good in Nemesis either, for all Spiner did fine with it in the show. I hate this weird gimmick they use to give actors multiple slots like this, since it's going to result in some bullshit evil twin garbage.
Overly Serious said:
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Marketing department hands had AI type this pile of shit post.
 
Just call her Newt, don't even give a reason. Just Star Wars Sequel Trilogy it. They're already giving us a soft, sensitive Predator (with a heart of gold, no doubt!) who will play a great attack dog for the disabled girlboss (that's why she's halved, so they can cross "disabled" off their checklist). Have Newt guide the Predator (call him something fun, like Papa Bear) towards harvesting autism and fighting off the bad Predators. I hope we see female Predators who are just like the males, but shaped like body positive females and better fighters. Fucking potato-shaped 5'7" Predator girlbosses like the Jem'Hadar in the recent Trek trailer (I call it Trek for clarity, not in truth). No thought into maybe something interesting (like maybe all the females are Jabba the Hutt-style in palaces, where males compete with trophies for the right to mate? Or maybe the females are smarter and they're the scientists/engineers/scholars? That's just off the top of my head). Just fucking hand this shit off to the dangerhair genderblobs with the checklist, and just let them bullshit with AI until something resembling "coherent narrative motion picture" is stitched together! Goddamn it! Hallelujah, and holy shit! Where's the Tylenol?
 
Has anyone been watching Alien: Earth?

I'm a huge Alien fan and have been dying to see this show. I'm only on episode two so no spoilers yet please! What's y'alls thoughts so far on the show? I think there have been a few cringe moments like the "sir yes sir" bit.

I don't really care for the Human mind -> into synthetic body bit. I would have liked it better if maybe the main character was a synth instead.

The cast hasn't been so bad tho. So far I'm liking this guy, he's a company man just doing his job, love the dedication.
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It's ass, and while you probably will cope and enjoy the mid-late run since he gets more important in it, the ending sucks fucking shit.

In fairness, I have been consistent with saying that I think Welcome to Earf was fucked out of any chances of being good the moment they chose to make this a prequel to Alien.
 
Evil Peter Griffin said:
The final episode is called "The Real Monsters." They’re really going to do the whole humans are the real monsters with a fucking xenomorph. I gave this show a fair shot in the beginning but then it went to shit so fast.
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I dont know which species is worse, you don't see them fucking up franchises for a goddamn percentage
 
Alien: Earth started promising but then slowly started going downhill and eventually turned into a absolute landslide of shit to a point I don't even gonna watch then next season anymore. But not sure what else I was expecting from Disney.
 
vittek said:
Alien: Earth started promising but then slowly started going downhill and eventually turned into a absolute landslide of shit to a point I don't even gonna watch then next season anymore. But not sure what else I was expecting from Disney.
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I think it's pretty unlikely that we'll see a second season.
The show is wildly expensive and its numbers are shit, it never made the Neilson charts and after bumping along at the bottom of the original series chart, it completely fell off that by episode 5.
Nobody is watching this show.
 
Solomon Bundy said:
Also, Grace Randolph apparently liked it. This bodes ill.
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It's a Disney style movie. Predator gets exiled for being an outsider and gets sent away to a different planet because he doesn't fit in (the movie is like the high school loner into hero story just with Predators). He bonds with new unique jungle friends (including a robot) that have a cartoon style design like Baby Yoda or the talking teacups from Beauty And The Beast (meant to sell merchandise). They have adventures in the jungle that are written like a series of video game levels. Fight some small enemies then fight the boss and level up to new powers. The robot is strapped to the Predator and talks like Ratchet and Clank.

Eventually the Predator loses his gear and needs to prove himself without weapons like how Arnold only relied in the jungle and terrain to defeat the Predator in the first movie. The Predator wins because this is a feel good summer movie (released in the fall). And returns home to have more adventures. Maybe he'll fight against Weyland Yutani or a xenomorph in the sequel. The Predator also kills his father in an overt "we are ending the old ways" fourth wall break on how the old Predator style movies are done. The old Predators are dead and it' Disney time now. Disney runs the franchise. James Cameron endorsed.

Disney has their public relations teams ready to take over IMDB and reddit the second the movie is released in theaters.
 
I for one can't wait to see the fent addicts that are Aliens and Predator fans try to justify why the ugly, shitslop film that cut gore from it and is solely here to forcibly weld two IPs together into a crappy eternity isn't in fact an ugly motherfucker shitslop film that's rated PG-13 and written like dogshit with meh acting.

It looks cheap enough I'm betting it'll limp on like Romulus did to justify even more shitslop now that they need a new rotting horse carcass to whip until it shits out rusty nickels to plunder.
 
I'm almost getting a Tron Ares feel from Badlands. The (reported) budget is $100M, higher than any other Predator film, even adjusting for inflation. While that's less than half of Ares, I could still see this failing hard enough for them to just retire the franchise from the big screen.

Then again, with no niggers or faggots front and center in the film*, maybe the Chinese will eat this slop enough to make it succeed.

* Obviously the Predator is a gay nigger (from outer space) to any hetero white eyes, I'm not sure the average Chinaman will see it that way. Makes you wonder.
 
Your Starter for 10 said:
I'm almost getting a Tron Ares feel from Badlands. The (reported) budget is $100M, higher than any other Predator film, even adjusting for inflation. While that's less than half of Ares, I could still see this failing hard enough for them to just retire the franchise from the big screen.

Then again, with no niggers or faggots front and center in the film*, maybe the Chinese will eat this slop enough to make it succeed.

* Obviously the Predator is a gay nigger (from outer space) to any hetero white eyes, I'm not sure the average Chinaman will see it that way. Makes you wonder.
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Good. Let it die. And take Alien with it. At least Terminator is finally dead (RIP)
 
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