In 1979 Ridley Scott’s Alien changed the landscape of both the sci-fi and horror movie genres. It also kickstarted a media franchise that is still alive and well today. The success of the 1979 classic has spawned sequels, novels, comic books, toys, and even video games.
The film franchise has three sequels, two prequels and has even crossed over to the Predator movie franchise. Moviegoers can expect to see more of the acid-spewing aliens on the big screen.
But if you are just getting into this popular film franchise you might need some help piecing it all together. Here is a breakdown of the Alien movie saga.
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Origin stories: Prometheus | 0:00
Alien: Covenant | 2:02
Alien | 4:21
Aliens | 5:56
Alien 3 | 8:24
Alien: Resurrection | 9:37
Evolution of an alien monster | 11:11
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What other sci-fi sagas do you want to see explained next?
Terminator, Predator, Robocop
Star Trek tv
Riddick series
To answer that last question about the other alien hives in the alien universe, there is LV-178
Dune
I wouldnt mind a whole movie about the engineers. That story had alot of potential.
Sean McGuire yeah alien covenant was supposed to be about that but they failed to capitalize on the subject.
Same here :/ But imagine an Engineers spinoff tv show
What about the people annihilated by the robot in alien covenant. They were also the Engineers' creation? It would be cool if the monstrous super-scary killing-machine alien types were de-emphasized, killed off. Would love to see movies about more human forms. More scenes of nature and spaceship landings in unfamiliar territory. Kind of bored with the monsters. They're so based on what we know. Why couldn't they engineer an equally scary flying and speaking one without the ridiculous deep-ocean fish "monster" look. I'm sure if creatures with that much power and designed to kill are engineered they don't have to look that way to do the damage.
@@aneshas like a sitcom? Lol
when i was a lil kid end of the 80s i watched aliens 1 and didnt liked it at all ... so i never watched any alien movies lol a few month ago i watched prometheus , i didnt knew it was a alien movie.. i really liked it alot... specially the engineers, to bad theres not much story about hem.... prometheus got me into alien movies lol so far the best alien ive seen...
The problem with prequels coming much later is that the technology you see in them is so much more advanced than the future depicted in the first films.
Mamo exactly. But it’s possible to create a retro look......and yet....they always fail to adhere to the canon, Star Wars, alien, predator, it’s always more shit as the films go on. They fail to create the same magic.
@@aliray1165 I agree, but in Star Wars I think it can be excused. The prequels displayed civilizations prior to the end of a massive galactic war. When the majority of civilized worlds lose their ability to live freely, you will see a decline in technology and how its used. Only the Empire had monopoly on advanced tech, and they had no oppositions so after the war itself they didn't have reasons to push technology further, rather they went a bit backwards with recreating their idea of a new world.
Mamo same with Star Wars, how further you go back, the more technology advanced
Not to mention that ret-coning David creating the xenomorphs we see in Alien completely undermines that film.
Agree. Particularly computers and screens. Ripley’s original ship looked like it was running DOS on monochrome command line monitors.
This dude is supposed to be an "exobiologist" yet continued trying to pet a creepy alien snake-thing despite it taking an obvious threat posture. This dude is supposed to be a geologist yet managed to get lost despite mapping the terrain with his drones (and wearing a device that tells him his location). This woman opened the ship's door just to tell the crew they can't come in. This other dude opened the door again to see what was outside when he had no reason to open it, or better yet, to kick a corpse. Shaw's "pregnancy" happened; no one cared, not even Shaw. This next dude woke up an Engineer like he was a long lost friend. This chick refused to take a few steps sideways. These are supposed to be some of the smartest minds on Earth; scientists and researchers and engineers. Who tf let them in space?
Well, perhaps because the smartest ones realized it was a bad idea, so they sent out anyone willing
They were the smartest ones. The Earth must been somewhere in the middle of the Idiocracy movie.
Stop, Stop! They’re already dead.
This happens in so many movies in all genres: profoundly self-defeating actions by the protagonists who are hardly ever supposed to be stupid. Maybe it's a deliberate dynamic to get the crowd engaged, like people screaming at the screen: "nooooo... don't go in there". It's a big part of why sci-fi and horror always make me laugh, which is also entertaining I guess. Maybe it's related to the adage "to boldly go..." which should be "to stupidly go...". Actually think of how stupid real space exploration in this day and age is. Stupidity rules alongside very clever tech advancements.
@@nebula0697 Except…it doesn’t though, at least not in sci-fi. Scientists act like scientists and researchers actually know their stuff. In the first Alien movie everyone acted accordingly: the engineers had their wits about them with engineering, the health officer ACTUALLY knew what he was doing (to the point of sabotage), Ripley outright refused to let her friends back in due to that being a violation of quarantine despite those being her literal friends because…you know, unknown alien thing attached to a homeboy’s face, I could go on. If these same characters from Prometheus were in Alien, they would’ve been killed by the chestburster. That’s just how downright stupid and utterly incompetent they are in their roles. And don’t even get me started on Covenant.
I miss the days when I could watch a 10 minute KZhead video without being interrupted by an ad every two minutes.
Always trying to sell sum .thats why....to the government n its molded followers ...jusg replying on the ad comment ..have good day ..n i loved this movie so much meaning behind it ..u got to be a walking ego to not tbink any further than ur opinion ..drop the ego n actually use your brain
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The Engineers look like a handsome Squidward.
Spongebob: "He's not handsome... HE'S A HUNK!!!"
They do; they really do.
@@TrumpDoesntWipe no wonder he looks so familiar. squidward after rhinoplasty
Said already
Ridley Scott said they based the Engineer off of Elvis and ancient greek sculptures.
I disliked that Dr. Shaw died, i felt that a lot could have been done with her roaming the galaxy and picking apart the history of the Engineers.
Facts wasted potential
This!!!!!
Yeah, I'm still miffed about that. "Oh that character you were rooting for? We Alien 3'd them. Haha, we already got your money."
That would've been the sequel of Prometheus, but many ding-dongs wanted xenomorph, blood, acid killing etc.. In the next movie, so we got this 80's movie concept all over again.
Agreed
There are a few inaccuracies I noticed: 1. The gap between the engineer dissolving himself into water was billions of years (not millions) - it’s meant to signify the original source of all life on earth. 2. LV_233 is not where the engineers originated, it’s like a military installation. 3. They’re vases that contain the black goo and begin to leak it when the temperature/atmosphere changes when the group enters the mural room - they’re not eggs. 4. The engineers weren’t wiped out by a neo-morph - they considered the xenomorph as a deity (it’s the centrepiece of the mural in the mural/vase room). 5. The engineer is not ‘revived’ he’s just come out of hyper sleep.
I personally liked the mystery behind the xenomorph before the prequels were made. I preferred not knowing where it came from just imagining that it evolved out there in the universe as a very deadly preditory lifeform. The mystery behind it made it much more scary imo.
Well I don't think David actually made the xenomorphs. We know they existed long before Prometheus.
We don't even know if it is for sure that the Engineers engineered them.
@@easportsaxb8057 nah david did make xeno, but the deacon has been already there long before xeno
absolutely..I still see Alien 1,2 & 3 as separate & a never surpassed perfect Trilogie, no need for the rest..💥🔥❤🖤🙏
@@vincentzakuwan1521 how is that even possible? Covent takes place barely 2 decades before Alien's Nostromo. The crew of the Nostromo find ancient remains of an engineer in 2122, along with the alien eggs. Doesn't seem very logical that 2 decades after xenomorphs were first created by some random android and a space jockey takes some eggs with him for some reason to then crash land on a nearby planet, and aging really quickly somehow and being found a couple of years after by Wayland. I think that engineers kinda already created xenomorphs and deacons for millennia, but after their extinction on their homeworld due to David, the android believed he could cleanse the planet further and repopulate it with his own lifeforms. He created the neomorph as a new version but also decided to recreate the xenomorph and make it even more of a 'perfect organism', which would result in the new xenomorphs. These xenomorph seem to have even more human DNA (probably from Dr. Shaw) than the regular xenos.
I hope they make the sequel to Alien covenant so Ridley Scott gets to finish his trilogy.
Sequel is Called Alien: Awakening
Yes me too, and I hope that a sequel to the original qaudrilogy comes out to tell us what happened to Earth. Seems like this video is giving us some answers though when explaining the prequels..... And Aliens.
Cool name awakenings. However IMDb doesn’t have any name listed. Only days production is approved and it may take place between Prometheus and Covenant.
I think the sequel got cancelled due to the bad earnings from Covenant
She's 70 years old now can't do it anymore
Honestly I wish they explored more David's character; his whole arc with him being the created creator was just so interesting, especially in an age when actual AI's may not be science fiction anymore...
His desire to be god too!
What happened to David in the Alien 1979 movie, which is supposed to be the sequel of alien covenant!?
If the creator wants to kill the creation then the alien should be killed by David himself because David killed his creator and engineers wants to kill human. Then what's the point of growing them
I've always loved the way that in Alien (the first one), they smoke cigarettes on board the space ship. Gives it a really gritty realistic feel. Unlike the sterile cleanliness of the latest.
The idea of the alien xenomorph has been one of the most terrifying things I've ever seen since I was a child. I love horror/sci-fi movies, but this thing gave me nightmares for quite some time.
"Alien's 2" is my all time favorite out of all of them
Man the story, cast, pacing, cinematography ..... Prometheus set up so much potential for Covenant
And then, womp womp womp
@@hihunter7 i watch covenant in hopes of I could watch more about the Engineers Why they came to earth ? How to created humans in earth ? How created engineers ? How engineers planet looks like ? Why do they want to destroy earth ? What was the planet we seen in Prometheus? Was that any research lab for engineers?
Both Prometheus and Covenant were hobbled by the studio. Have you seen Raised by Wolves?
@@thepolishpen not yet, is it about distant alien planets?
@@a_RedClaw how to learned English before to speaking dude
IMO David didn’t “create” the xenomorph, the engineers developed the bio tech needed in the black goo. He simply revived the species by actively seeding hosts with the goo.
Agreed, he just helped ensure there were alot of them. The way this video implies they evolved and that's why we see so many different types. I was always under the impression the xenomorph took on the characteristics of its host. Ones bred from humans stand upright, the one bred from a cow in Alien 2 ran on all fours and was far less intelligent
Not exactly! David didn't create the xenomorph, but he did create the face hugger, which took what the Engineers had done to another level and gave us new results from the pathogen /goo . The Deacon, the neomorph etc were organic looking creatures, while the Protomorph (the result of David's creation) was more biomechanical, and the closest albeit "prototype" to the classic Xenomorph. I see it as David taking the blueprint of what the black goo could achieve and studying it, experimenting, and then finalising it into what he felt was the perfect organism, so it's a creation of both the Engineers and David. Bruce Lee created jeet kun do, but would you say different knowing it was built on a foundation of Kung fu? which was around centuries before Bruce was born, same thing! It's this analogy that makes me lean more towards David being the "essential key" to the creation of the proto /Xenomorph, without him they would never have been.
@@Sarcastix7 if you also consider the AvP movies, you see indeed that the Predalien looks a lot different too
@@rockywaters9592 what about alien skull showing in predator 2 and AvP? Those are xenomorphs.
@@gutoguto8058 AVP pays no regard to the timeline of the true Alien franchise, as it's set in the current day of 2004. The timeline between the first Alien film and Alien covenant are in the years after 2100 are only 18yrs apart. Basically AVP is not canon.
Prometheus and the other one are two of the most underrated additions to an existing franchise.
Another world where the Aliens live on could be where the Predators found then to cultivate them for game. I would enjoy another Alien universe film, but I don't want the saga to be ruined, i feel the two prequels did a good job of wrapping things up
You didn't explain anything, just ran through the plots of all the films.
Samedt bro
ye i was waiting for at least a lil xplanation not just a run through of the plots..... i could have done that
What else did you need explained?
@@Tyijl not necessarily explained by this dude, but the studios should answer for their crimes: Alien Resurrection, Alien 3, Avp 2
Yea 😞
I remember seeing the first alien in the theater. I think it was 79. Scared the crap out of people. Folks weren't used to seeing stuff this scary. That's why jaws freaked people out. Now you can't scare people.
David, David’s, David 3, David Resurrection, Davetheus, David: Covenant
LMAO! Nailed it!
Ok you do the writing I do the fingering.
Why do you keep saying my name?
Davids* There's a reason why Aliens doesn't have an apostrophe in it you know.
Derek Kranz 😂😂👌👌👌
Need to find out about the engineers , what happened to them, their home world, and finish this series with a bang
Pretty sure David killed all of them.
@@Iampatrix The Engineers thta David killed, are not the only ones.
Niles Guy That should’ve happened after Prometheus but they ruined it
David happened, it was clearly shown in Alien covenant and even in this video dude mentioned it
Sadly Alien covenant has already abondoned this storyline.
There are so many things wrong in this video it's as if the folks at Looper haven't actually seen the movies.
Thomas Fonager the narrator in this video hasn’t seen half films he’s talking about.
Good old Blighty I bet the narrator hates sci-fi.
They even repeated a couple parts. This was just thrown together in as little time as possible obviously.
What did they say? That was wrong?
@@MartinGarcia-fi2is well.. He states that a protohuman drinks a poison.. the engineer drinks the black goo. He implies that they had trouble getting to LV-223. There was no trouble. He then states a garbled mess about the engineers never standing a chance, because they were killed by a neomorph. We don't see the neomorph untill Covenant. David didn't create the xenomorph.. he created A xenomorph. Origae-6 is not one of the few remaining inhabitable planets in the universe.. it is just one of the MANY inhabitable ones. Only two of the alien movies feature terraformers and travelling into space is not only for the privileged.. I'm two minutes in. Shall I keep going?
that actually makes sense...good job. I have a renewed appreciation for Ridley Scott's brain and the movie, itself.
Is it actually explained or is this a recap of every movie like every other “explained” video?!
If you had to ask...
It’s bothp
More explanation than I expected. Still recap thought
@gottfer 🤣
It is pretty much just a summary of the plots of the movies in in-universe timeline order.
The saga has not been told yet - Ridley Scott "The third prequel is in process" - We have yet to learn what the engineers are, what they want, where they came from and all that.
"I'm sorry, I can't do that, Dave." HAL
Open the pod bay doors HAL.
"HA" L
"Yes, I'd like to hear it HAL, sing it for me." - Dave
I realize time is extremely important when producing and editing videos on KZhead and elsewhere. Well done on English grammar and putting it together as quickly / seamlessly as you did I really enjoyed that alien history montage!
Need to know more of the engineers and why they wanted to destroy everything and why they made the alien xenomorphs
Look up Kroft movie videos on KZhead he explains why the Engineers wanted to destroy their creation (humans).
@@kristinachaney7391 What happened to David in the Alien 1979 movie, which is supposed to be the sequel of alien covenant!?
@@kristinachaney7391 plus the xenomoephs were created by David, not by engineers.
That should be the last movie title of the Alien franchise, Ailen: Finally Explained...
A badly informed recap made by someone who scanned over a recap in Entertainment Weekly. So many mistakes
Deanna LeBrun Agreed.
Deanna LeBrun ya didn't he even get the order of movies wrong? Lol
How was the order of the movies wrong
Yeah, this is pretty shit lol
Deanna LeBrun yeah I was confused watching this I was looking for a comment to better explain
That was the best video I have seen yet that a great job effectively explaining the movies and the evolution of the alien and the androids.
No movie after Aliens is canonical is all the explanation we need.
Fr? Bc I've only seen up to Aliens.
There's a lot of aliens comics that I will like to see become live action in the near future
There are also a lot of Paperbacks that would make good movies. Especially, the ones where the Aliens GET to Earth.
Ripley was brought out of hyper-sleep on Gateway Station not the Colonial Marine spaceship.
I want an actual Prometheus 2.
That would be the Ship getting to the Planet. Then landing, and then waiting for the eggs to hatch. And when that happens the facehuggers hunt down their incubation bodies and then form sac incubaters with the bodies. The finall stage will be the painful human death of the Xenomorphs busting through their ribs. How long would that take.
@@beauxguidry5373 about 2 hours
I want to watch a separate prometheus movie,
Of course we know that xenomorphs survive on other planets. The Predators cultivate them in an attempt to create a perfect hunt. Yall left out an important movie.
That was really good. Thanks for explaining it so well.
Great summary. Ties it all together nicely. Thanks!
I love the "Alien" saga , watched each one .
Actually it occurs to me that the Prometheus timeline invalidates the original AvP. The xenomorph hadn’t been developed by David at that time so it just becomes a “what-if” story not part of canon. Which is a bit sad given it’s got Lance Henriksen there, tying in with bishop... It also makes the Alien skull on the Predator ship in Predator 2 a “huh?” moment, too. I’m not sad about AvP Requiem getting binned by this, though.
Aliens vs Predator is not canon for the Alien series though and it has nothing to do with the original Alien story, was not approved of by the creator Ridley Scott and without copyright permiossion the production company behing the Predator series decided to merge the two universes after the success of the unofficial fan fiction Alien vs Predator books
Great explanation that I enjoyed watching. Thank you for sharing.
Watching these for the first time ever and was told to watch the AVP 2 films first. They are stand alone I'm gathering and I was confused as to where they fit in with the story line!! Thanks to this I get it.
GOD I love this series so much. I'd love to see more other monstrous alien species invollved, but, the xenomorph is near and dear to my heart.
So... it's in your chest? :-)
sneer....spoken like a true fanboy. Plot? Who cares? Just gimme monsters and violence....
@@FuzzyElf yes.
TLDW Version: They had enough ideas to make two excellent films. Then, corporate greed took over and we got the mess that is everything else.
touche!!
Cannot wait for another.
What I do not get, is why the walls of the alien hive have the same texture/structure as the insides of the protohuman ship, even on LV426? Did the aliens have a genetic memory about those ship interiors, and so built their hives to look like those?
Oh man, don't ge into so deep. It's just a fiction
What happened to David in the Alien 1979 movie, which is supposed to be the sequel of alien covenant!?
@@AmanVerma-qh9jv Good question too!
What about the Wayland connection with the Tyrrell corporation from Blade Runner.
You missed the games: aliens colonial marines and alien isolation, also the chronology from AvP which actually mentions the xenomortph on earth thousands of years before it was “created” by David :)
All I want is to know more about the engineers and their society. Give us an engineer movie Ridley!!!
A recap with a healthy sprinkle of incorrect information.
In my opinion the 1979 first alien film was pure gold. I rewatch it from time to time, and there's nothing that compares to it. The thing that makes the Xenomorph such a scary creature is the ambiguous nature of it. In the original film you have no idea where this creature comes from. And there's a lot of power to that. The scenes of the derelict spaceship, and the cave with the xenomorph eggs are my favorite shots in the film. Your imagination just runs wild at the mystery of those scenes. That is if you haven't seen the other films. I appreciate what Ridley Scott tried to do with the Prometheus origin prequels, but it felt like they just fell short. People are always starving for an origin story, but I think this one should have been left alone. Keep the aliens origin a Mystery, and let the viewers imagination run wild with theories. That's what makes a good monster/ villain
Saying this now is useless, the „damage“ is already done.
The more you explain,the less you acomplish. Mystery was the key of the Alien, a totally perfect creature,a brillant and infernal predator. That mystery ended after the controversial David Fincher's Alien 3. What they are doing now I don't give a shit tbh xD
You didnt explain or theorize 2 of the most important questions in the entire saga.1. how did the xenomorph eggs and the engineer ship get to lv426? 2. If david killed all of the engineers and he eventually creates the eggs, it could be said that the engineers never actually had any contact with said xenomorph?
The engineers crated the genetic code to make xenomorphs which David just re-engineered to make his own with shaws dna
100% That's why they need at least one more movie to connect Alien Covenant to Alien. Most likely we would need two movies to make the connections. But It may be able to be accomplished with one.
great analysis, answers a lot of questions. Thank you
02:07 I never noticed before, but the black goo is dropping in the form of a double-helix.
"one of the sad lessons never learned by human beings was to leave the thing alone..." In a nutshell, the problem with every film after Aliens.
pretty much
The only abomination in Resurrection was the movie itself.
Agreed, it should have never existed.
naw, I liked it. Had a sense of humour to it and didn't take itself too seriously. "I thought you were dead" "yeah, I get that a lot".
@@muskokamike127 That's cool that you liked it, but that isn't what Dan O'Bannon wanted from his creation. It was meant to be sci-fi horror, the only humour was for character development.
@@muskokamike127 yeah, well as we know the Alien franchise is known and loved for its comedic elements and fun dialogues.
@@solokom there's all kinds of humour in the series.....just not woopie cushions and poo poo jokes though.
Idk how I never realized Prometheus was part of the alien franchise....they didnt really pitch it as such so I had no idea and when I saw Prometheus I had only seen one of the alien movies and didnt really remember it because it was like 15 years ago but it all would have made a lot more sense and been more intriguing if I knew that
Perfectly explained to me, who loves movies but is slow on putting the plots together, tip top job
Oh... my wife, who passed away nine years ago at 39 years of age, could figure out ANYTHING. I'd ask "Why in the HELL ______________???", and she'd respond BOOMBOOMBOOM! I'd be like "OHHHHH, OK. THAT makes sense!" : )
@@kentuckybowl-o-sticks firstly so so sorry for your loss 🙏🏼 me and my family over the last 2 years have lost my wife’s nan and grandad, but we work on through and remember them good times so stay strong and remember you had something special and you loved her. As for the complex movies I have a few not many, Prometheus, ALL of the Matrix movies and Inception (still to watch the head F*** that is Tenet apparently it’s complex lol) On brighter news I got some wonderful new 4K’s over the past few weeks, The Exorcist, The Sting, The Blob (I absolutely love the remake) and Memento, so I have a few to watch, I can’t say how nice it was to get not just a reply but a kind from the heart reply You look after yourself and keep the vids coming Love, Purpose n Peace MCD
@@kentuckybowl-o-sticksoh and I highly recommend “Unhinged” with Mr Crowe, absolutely dope af movie and pretty insane
“He’s the closest thing to a son I will ever have…” and his daughter is standing right there. Wow.
If you follow the chronological order like this, everything starts to not make sense at the original Alien film, as the space jockey is completely different and the story line shatters here. The original story line isn't cohesive with Ridley's re-imagined engineer based storyline at all. It all kind of feels like a money factory from alien resurrection.
Ich bin froh das hier noch einmal alles was der Film erklärt, erklärt wird! Unfassbar.
Thank you for this video.
The Blombkamp film with Ripley and Hicks taking on and blowing up Weiland Yutani.....oh yeahhh
Brilliantly comprehensive review of the whole Alien Anthology in a short condensed time, thanks!!!
I never noticed hybrid Ripley's green nails, despite watching it quite a few times.
Ripley actually left Jones the Cat behind when she went back with the Marines. There's a scene in Aliens where she tells the cat he's staying behind that's why he survived.
It's very interesting how they have been working with time lines of the whole saga... firstly comes Prometheus then Alien: Covenant and Alien to Alien 4.
I can't believe this movie was made 8 years ago, lots of references in this movie were included in Lost in space, Raise by wolves movies, etc all of them still my favorite movie I've ever watched. can't wait for the next SciFi movie series🎞🤩
Fantastic explanation of the Alien films...😁👍
Wow 😳 that about sums it up. Well done.
Several mistakes in your explanation, but I appreciate the gesture of making this. The Alien Saga is a great series - with the story of Ellen Ripley being one of greatest achievements in sci-fi cinema. The franchise despite its criticisms has remained classy even at its lowest point - Which is still a place most franchises wish they could attain.
wasn’t really his lol, he read this off a wikipedia page word for word haha
Yeah, fr! Even the newer films are still miles better than Star Wars or arguably any remake IP in Hollywood.
3 minutes in and I'm already confused and need to go back to the beginning
yep - I want a hard copy of the timeline & plot - just like a family tree chart!
16 years after Alien Covenant story comes Alien Movie 1, Good to know. Thanks.
Prometheus is one of my fav movies
This movie was incredible!
We just pretend that there only 2 movies made. There is no saga. Just Alien and Aliens.
Prometeus and Convenant are great prequels to those two
@@sybaritesphynx8057 No
And Prometheus.....allegedly
Alien³ waz excellent. Shoulda ended there.
@@shahfacekillah alien 3 is pretty good. Except for when they disgracefully kill two of your favourite characters at the start for no reason whatsoever
Should have a full film just about the engineers.
this video makes the saga seem coherent and good...
I really loved Prometheus, but Alien Covenant ruined it.. Ridley Scott made a huge mistake killing off Elizabeth Shaw and the Engineers. Or just the storyline of the engineers. That was a very interesting plot. I wanted to know more about them and their civilization. I wanted to see Shaw confront an engineer. It's such a shame they parted from that storyline.
The engineers are in advanced race of aliens, I'm sure they still exist. If Shaw would of confronted an engineer, it would of snapped her neck like a twig. Remember, they don't like humans.
@@GranPuba just because one engineer didn't favor human beings doesn't mean they're all like that. The engineers that were on the planet were more of a militarized group tasked with destroying the earth because they didn't follow their ways. But let's say she went to the engineer homeworld. I'm sure many of them didn't agree with destroying humanity. It would have been really great to see Shaw confront one of them.withndifferent views. Also the planet in Covenant was a world seeded by the engineers. So they weren't exactly engineers. They seemed more of a docile civilization. But we barely got to see them to know what they were like because they were immediately killed off.. along with Shaw.
@@eden20111 i agree, "engineers" on that moon were more like a secret project i think even their own nation didnt know about and also they probably didnt even know about humanity. There can be many theories on why did "engineers" wanted to "destroy" humanity but for me best looking one is that the "engineers" created humanity for future reaserch. Maybe humans were made as hosts for the black goo exeriments to create other life forms. They cant test it in their own planet obviously and they need a lot of hosts for decent testing. It should have been a very secret project tho bcs no one ever came to help or investigate the ones on that moon where they died and in millions of years no one from the planet ever visited Earth to see their creation
@@GranPuba one didnt like humans bcs he was on the mission to wipe em humans out. I doubt people in their society would just kill her, bcs they are super civilized
Okay I'm going to reply to the both of you at the same time. You both are making assumptions that you couldn't possibly know. You're assuming this wasn't their home planet. Based on what? You're assuming that only a few didn't like humans on Earth. What do we know? A spaceship of engineers (more than one) we're tasked with coming to Earth and wiping out humanity. That we do know. One of you is assuming Earth was a thing executed by a few. How could you know that? We know that they were trying to respawn their "God" or prophet, through his blood, in us. We know from that script that they sent one of their own to show us "the way" it "Jesus". And we (humanity) killed him. This angered them to the point they decided to send biological warfare to us. The idea that some of them probably didn't want to harm us is irrelevant and unknowable. Fact is, they wanted us dead. You two are assuming that it was just a few renegades. As for "doubt they would kill her because they're super civilized". No, what makes you say that? They sent a ship to destroy Earth. You're assuming their benevolent, we don't know that. As for Shaw going to their planet. You're assuming they'll welcome her with open arms. Even after the fact they sent a destroyer out after us. So the idea that it'd be cool to see how she would of interacted with them, is a pipedream. Grounded in you're own imagination. Scott hasn't showed these engineers as anything but despised of us. The beginning of the movie and the hieroglyphs on the wall, were most likely before humanity really developed, if at all. Also keep in mind, the Predators are in this universe. And that in itself is a big wrench to throw in the wheel. 🤷 P. S. Sorry for the long double person reply. I'm was in the middle of downloading music. 👍
One question that always lurks in my mind is how the F an alien grows from like 2-3kg up to 100+ kg without getting any food. I know that black goo accelerates everything but according to the law of conservation of mass, "Mass can never be created from nothing..."
The mass comes from the plot, duh
I wondered the same thing. I assumed the extra mass came from eating crew members who don't appear in the film (the kind that get sent down to an alien planet in Star Trek only to get zapped as soon as they get there). BTW, what does alien poop look like, do you think?
Maybe from respiration aka the air ?
Yep. Me too....the size of the thing that kills the engineer is massive. How???
Fantastic work. Going to be the spine of my Alien campaign in the new RPG.
The bas-relief seen in Prometheus is a rabbit-duck illusion, an image that can be interpreted in two ways. As Prometheus is a film from the Alien franchise, we think of the xenomorph and in the bas-relief we see a xenomorph, but if we change perspective, then we see the image of an ampoule, like those found inside the Engineer spaceship on LV-223, which disperses the mutagenic liquid. In practice, the sequence of the bas-relief was not put in Prometheus as a clue to indicate the existence of xenomorphs in the distant past, but as a reference to the 1979 film.
One big problem is if David created the zenomorph then how did it appear on earth in the present in the alien vs predator movies . Time travel is a weak answer
I believe the predators brought a frozen queen to earth for the hunt. But idk abojt the other appearance. Maybe it was a standalone movie.
This didn’t explain the series or open story gaps as much as summarize what’s already been made .
The prequel to the original Alien film is quite confusing, they made the plot too complex so it wasn't too interesting. I find the movie "LIFE" more interesting as a replacement for Aliens franchise. I hope they make sequels.
I'm shocked at the comments on here not liking the origin story with the prequels. David is the one the best villians to ever exist in any movie in my opinion. The Engineers created humans who created AI aka David, who then wants to become the ultimate creator and rise above them and destroy them. David manipulating Shaw then killing her then using her dead body and reproductive organs to create eggs and facehuggers, and then later the Queen (that's what his plan was with the woman he tricked at the end of Covenant) so the xenomorphs could reproduce on their own is absolutely brilliant and sent chills down my spine that few horror movies have been able to do. I was blown away by it, especially when you watch the Kroft videos on KZhead that explain more of what David did with Shaw and why the Engineers wanted to destroy mankind. The ending of Covenant was so disturbing and terrifying to me, I absolutely love it. That's far, far more terrifying than the xenomorph just naturally evolving.
Nicely explained! But I couldn't understand what happened to David in the Alien 1979 movie, which is supposed to be the sequel of alien covenant!?
They DID NOT travel to the engineers home world. Those people look radically different than engineers
Where were they then? From everything I've read, it was their homeworld.
Ripley didn't swan dive into a steel mold, it was lead. The Alien managed to escape anyway and Ripley blew it apart with cold water because it was so hot.
That was really good, huge fan of all alien movies, I think were all great
Thx 4 explaining this 4 the biggest alien and predagor fan
One thing missed about the alien: since it needs a meat sack to gestate, it also takes on some of the characteristics of the host.
Wow a lot of incorrect statements in this video. I couldnt even finish watching it. This would give new people the wrong idea. "Last habitable planet in the universe", where did you get that from?
The aliens shaped changed depending on the host. So in Alien 3, the alien that came out of the dog was a four legged version while the aliens from the humans were two legged. And back when the original movie came out, a companion book was released which I had read and it confirmed that it was strictly taking its shape from its host. And now you know.
CORRECT, THAT'S TO STICK TO THE STORY LINE THAT IT WORKS ON THE HOST'S DNA. IT'S QUITE AMAZING HOW MANY ATHEISTS LOVE THESE MOVIES BUT DO NOT BELIEVE IN THE BIBLE, THEY ARE BASED ON BIBLICAL INFORMATION. TAKE LV223 FOR EXAMPLE- LEVITICUS 22:3- "Say to them: 'For the generations to come, if any of your descendants is ceremonially unclean and yet comes near the sacred offerings that the Israelites consecrate to the LORD, that person must be cut off from my presence. I am the LORD."
I REALIZE THAT WAS RANDOM INFORMATION, BUT IF YOU LOOK UP THE MEANING OF THE BIBLE, YOU CAN EASILY COMPARE THE TWO. SATAN'S MAIN GOAL IS TO INFECT/PERVERT GOD'S CREATION, THE MORE HUMANS SATAN CAN MAKE UNCLEAN/UNHOLY, THE MORE HE WILL TAKE FROM GOD. VERY SIMILAR TO THE ALIENS TRYING TO WIPE OUT THE HUMAN RACE.
Wtf are you smoking? In what universe is the Bible relevant to a discussion of the Alien movies? Please leave your bible thumping to your cabin in the woods and cancel your account.
Another example of a story not being able to stop because someone needs to make money. There should just have been 2 Alien films, 2 Terminator films, 2 Planet of the Apes, 1 2001. The sequels curl themselves into nonsense logistical knots in order to turn a great concept into a franchise in order to fatten some studios collective wallets. Those films I mentioned were terrific stories. All good stories have to have the basics: A beginning, a middle , and an end. (Continuing sagas that were designed that way are another story) A good ending makes for a good story. Dragging it out for hopeful box office turns them inevitably into dreck.
David created one type of Protomorph, but no the actual Xenomorphs.
Lekzie69 Aliens were on the murals in Prometheus
What no mention of Blade Runner or Predator? 🤷
Blade runner really ?
@Urban Atheist 🤔... Annnd the movies.
Urban Atheist thanks
Urban Atheist @MrC was there not the alien skull in predator 2?
Urban Atheist nice one, I vaguely remember the pirate story. It’s a shame they can’t get the tie ins to just work. I guess back then, they were just really good stories. Now it’s a really good story, but then gets diluted somewhere along the way so profit can be maximised, and they just lose something, that’s the cynic in me. Anyway thanks for the detailed response, love the knowledge.
My favourite franchise of my favourite movies...love it. 👍
This would all make perfect sense, except for in Alien vs Predator. In this movie they find a pyramid that had been used for centuries for Predators to prove themselves. How could they fight the Aliens if David hadn't invented them yet?
Exactly this! Unless people are completely disregarding the avp franchise.