Blomkamp has moved on from Alien 5 - CONFIRMED

BigDave

option 3 is presupposes that Walter is still functional as the Engineers have not invented binary logic, have they...? Or they don't care ...

Big Dave

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Alien was not his baby, it was more like a result of a collaborative effort (Scott, Giger, etcetera). It is a good movie but it is not a result of a one man show.
If me makes movies for himself then he can not be surprised if many people think that they are bad. Nope, the criticism of Prometheus and AC is still valid if you ask me, if Scott agrees or not is his thing. As much as he does movies for himself that is as much as I have the right to think what ever about their quality. When something sucks I say it because that is simply how I am as a person even though you got to choose your words according to the situation sometimes.


Prometheus got tome things right but it should have been closer to the Xeno and had better human characters. Some ambiguity is OK but Prometheus got too much of it if they expect a majority sit down many hours again and again they are wrong. They should have gotten a better connection to the monster (not actual Xenos, I agree) and better characters.

Exactly, the Zombie Fifield was lame and using the Xeno version should have been better as far as story-telling is concerned. Not only the Zombie version was a mistake but there were other things that it did wrong.

Maybe Scott and Fox felt that it was all that was needed but Scott is not a story teller, he is a visualist. I don’t think that he has a clue about what makes good writing. Yes keeping Prometheus away from the Xeno was a mistake although it was far from my biggest problem with it. Perhaps they thought that many persons would be pleased if they only brought the Xeno back but the problems with Prometheus were more than that but Fox and Ridley didn’t seem to understand that so we got lame characters again which I think that more people had problems with in P compared to the lack of Xenos.

Sure, I agree that it was good that they didn’t do A5.

“I dont think AC was bad because of the Xenomorph, just in some respects it was bad in how it was handled.”

This but that was just one thing that I had a problem with, my biggest problem was how they wrote the characters. They had not traits that stood out so no one became memorable. You could easily see who was who in Alien 1-3 but in Covenant they were mostly like blank papers. Sure they just threw in the Xeno and had it killed a short time after, if I remember it correctly (something that I am not sure if I do).

Yes I agree that the Xeno shouldn’t be on-screen for most of the movie and I like the ideas of the Engineers in theory it is just that it wasn’t handled well. Having it about David is worse since I find that far less interesting.

How to maintain it over 3 movies: I agree that they need something new it is just that I don’t like that they went the AI way. I would gladly see more of the Engineers and their connection to it, not make David responsible for it and have better human characters.

The Neomorph was fine and handled better than the Xeno even though they should have done the scenes with the Xeno better.

Prometheus had many issues but not having a Xeno in it was a very small problem compared to other things and if you search for criticism of Prometheus you will see that more people had issues with lame characters than not having a Xeno in it, search google for it. I am not too worried about that compared to other things (bad human characters mostly, and the Engineers could have been written better o at least had been better done on the screen). OK but I think that both Ridley and Fox misunderstood what the criticism was about, it was not mainly about no Xeno, it was that the characters were lame, that seems to be the main complaint.

"We will see Xenomorphs vs Engineers vs Humans and get the events that lead to Alien, and then leave it open for FOX to explore the Engineers in other movies if they go down well."

That is a very interesting idea but unfortunately AC did not work so now I have many doubts about the next one.

"They was not expecting the disappointment and back lash that Alien Covenant had got."

Mainly because of crappy human characters aside from Oram, and since the director was mostly interested in robots because that is how it turned out on the screen at least.

Alright maybe the characters were not crappy like in Prometheus but they did not have distinctive character traits.