Originally Posted by Frazod:
I'll go see it. As long as it's Ridley Scott ripping off himself, I'll be okay with it. Hell, I really enjoyed the last one, even though the characters were dumb as a bag of shit and I still don't understand why the big bald albino guy hated everybody.
It's all good. I was just giving everyone a head's up in terms of expectations.
Also, I see everything through the "I'm going to recommend spending $17 dollars a ticket plus $4 dollars for parking?" lens.
I accidentally learned a pretty big spoiler about the plot. If anyone is interested in sharing my spoiler misery:
Spoiler!
So, this movie takes place after Prometheus but before the older Alien movies.
David the android from Prometheus, figures out the alien ship and the star map the weird "Creators" left. He then travels to their home planet. That planet is the same one that the Alien: Covenant crew are headed to. David has been there for a long long time.
He's been secretly doing experiments with the xenomorphs in his spare time on the planet. When the Covenant crew arrives, he unleashes the xenomorphs on them, as another experiment. That's how the entire series starts, and what Ripley ends up encountering in Alien.
Ticket prices are so ridiculous out here that there are very few films that I need to see in a theater.
I hear you - they aren't cheap here. Plus, I go to one of the theaters where food and alcohol is served to avoid free range brats. By the time you factor in ticket prices plus the food, for my wife and I to go to the movies it costs about $65-70, and neither of us is drinking.
As a result, I've grown very selective about what I see in the theater. I figure I'll see this, Dunkirk, and after that, probably nothing until the new Blade Runner comes out. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Fish:
I accidentally learned a pretty big spoiler about the plot. If anyone is interested in sharing my spoiler misery:
Spoiler!
So, this movie takes place after Prometheus but before the older Alien movies.
David the android from Prometheus, figures out the alien ship and the star map the weird "Creators" left. He then travels to their home planet. That planet is the same one that the Alien: Covenant crew are headed to. David has been there for a long long time.
He's been secretly doing experiments with the xenomorphs in his spare time on the planet. When the Covenant crew arrives, he unleashes the xenomorphs on them, as another experiment. That's how the entire series starts, and what Ripley ends up encountering in Alien.
This looks good and overall has positive reviews. I didn't care much for Prometheus so I'm hoping this is a big improvement over that one (biggest problem was the characters were so stupid and made bad choices through out the film). [Reply]
In this day and age nothing is going to compare to the originals. The first two Alien movies were polar opposites from one another, but they were both amazing. As long as this movie entertains me, I'm not expecting to see Gladiator, but as long as I don't see Alien Resurrection then sign me up! From what I hear the body gore in this movie is awesome, and they've kinda abandoned the Engineer arc in the second half to squeeze in an Alien movie. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Fish:
I accidentally learned a pretty big spoiler about the plot. If anyone is interested in sharing my spoiler misery:
Spoiler!
So, this movie takes place after Prometheus but before the older Alien movies.
David the android from Prometheus, figures out the alien ship and the star map the weird "Creators" left. He then travels to their home planet. That planet is the same one that the Alien: Covenant crew are headed to. David has been there for a long long time.
He's been secretly doing experiments with the xenomorphs in his spare time on the planet. When the Covenant crew arrives, he unleashes the xenomorphs on them, as another experiment. That's how the entire series starts, and what Ripley ends up encountering in Alien.
Originally Posted by Frazod:
I hear you - they aren't cheap here. Plus, I go to one of the theaters where food and alcohol is served to avoid free range brats. By the time you factor in ticket prices plus the food, for my wife and I to go to the movies it costs about $65-70, and neither of us is drinking.
As a result, I've grown very selective about what I see in the theater. I figure I'll see this, Dunkirk, and after that, probably nothing until the new Blade Runner comes out.
That sounds like here in Hollywood. I took my Dad and oldest to see Rogue One on opening night. $60 dollars for three tickets, $15 for popcorn and a drink for the kid, $6 dollars parking. It was totally worth it because Rogue One was awesome (and maybe the best Star Wars movie yet) but I can't justify doing that for animated films, comedies and so on. I'd rather wait a few months and purchase the Blu Ray/DVD/Digital Copy combo for $19.99, throw the movies on VUDU so the kids can watch them on their iPads, and call it a day. Plus, Disney has an exclusive deal with Netflix so even the animated films and Marvel films are showing in no time.
I'd love to see Dunkirk in IMAX (I saw the 10 minute trailer before Rogue One in IMAX) and it was absolutely amazing. But the nearest IMAX is at Universal Citywalk and it's freaking $20 dollars for parking and $28 for an IMAX ticket.
Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud:
That sounds like here in Hollywood. I took my Dad and oldest to see Rogue One on opening night. $60 dollars for three tickets, $15 for popcorn and a drink for the kid, $6 dollars parking. It was totally worth it because Rogue One was awesome (and maybe the best Star Wars movie yet) but I can't justify doing that for animated films, comedies and so on. I'd rather wait a few months and purchase the Blu Ray/DVD/Digital Copy combo for $19.99, throw the movies on VUDU so the kids can watch them on their iPads, and call it a day. Plus, Disney has an exclusive deal with Netflix so even the animated films and Marvel films are showing in no time.
I'd love to see Dunkirk in IMAX (I saw the 10 minute trailer before Rogue One in IMAX) and it was absolutely amazing. But the nearest IMAX is at Universal Citywalk and it's freaking $20 dollars for parking and $28 for an IMAX ticket.
I might just wait for a screener.
Damn, they even gig you for parking? That's brutal. Only in downtown Chicago does that crap happen around here.
And I agree with you on Rogue One. The more I think about it the more I like it. [Reply]
