New Alien movie

Thanks, Richard!  I haven't seen Covenant, and agree that Prometheus was EXCELLENT!

My nephew had never seen any of the Alien franchise movies, so we went to see Prometheus on the big screen (iMax), and when we got home, I dialed up the first "Alien" movie.  Watching them in that sequence, and in rapid order, was fantastic!  

Its basically become a template movie that been borrowed and copied many times. I love it but the general look was very important, Scott didn't have spaceships flying about and zapping each other, that kind of sci fi I find very tiresome. Instead he took his lead from Kubrick and went for the vast emptiness and isolation of space. He was also a talented artist and story boarded the whole thing. It wouldn't have got made and financed otherwise. Things came together very nicely on Alien. Prometheus was a decent reboot and captured the mood and atmosphere with some decent character actors to keep it fun. Covenant was just a film anyone could have made and resorted to a lot of CGI. Its not terrible, just pointless and not adding anything at all. Its really a place mat for the next film. Scott was always keen to take the story to the home planet and show the general weirdness of it. Its a real shame that film will never be made. Someone who also had an active interest in the Alien franchise was the very talented Joss Whedon of Buffy fame. He wrote the original screenplay for Alien 4 but apparently it got butchered somewhat and he then disassociated himself from the whole project. Whedon has had something of a chequered history with the film industry it seems. Serenity was great though!