There are a lot of people who didn’t like The Cloverfield Paradox, and I am not one of them.
 
This movie is an interesting science fiction film, but it was a little all over the place as well. From IMDb the plot summary is: Orbiting a planet on the brink of war, scientists test a device to solve an energy crisis, and end up face-to-face with a dark alternate reality.
 
On its own it isn’t a movie that really fits into the Cloverfield series as it doesn’t really have much to do with Clover until the very end of the movie.
 
Instead, as a science fiction movie, it isn’t that bad. There are parts that don’t fit. There are scenes from the space station and scenes from earth, and the two don’t go together and they don’t fit as much as they could. The scenes from earth seem to be attempts to keep the movie relevant in the Cloverfield series, but they don’t really work with the rest of the film.
 
The scenes in the space station are interesting, and the scenes on the space station should be a movie all on their own. There are moments where the acting and the conversations aren’t very believable. For example there is an oriental woman, Tam, and only one other person speaks the same language as her. It seems unrealistic for me to believe that no one can communicate with this one character but one other character. I feel that they should at least have had a better way of understanding each other.
 
There is one character, Mundy, who was great. He had all of the humorous scenes, and at one point something happens to him and then a moment later something else happens and it all adds up to a fun little moment that I enjoyed.
 
As a movie that is supposed to be part of a series this was not a good film to follow the last one. The only part of the movie that examines the monster is one scene at the end where the audience is given a glimpse of the monster.
 
Was this a good movie, not by any means, but it wasn’t awful either. It should have been edited so that there weren’t any scenes on earth, and it shouldn’t have been made as part of the Cloverfield series, because then it would have made more sense and would have been much better.

The Quiet Place, unlike many horror movies people have recommended to me in the past, was really quite good. Several people recommended It Follows to me because it was a slow burn, but I really did not enjoy most of it.

The Quiet Place is a quiet movie about an apocalypse of origins unknown. What the audience does see is a quick moving monster that kills quickly and for what seems like no reason. The movie begins with a a family on a quiet shopping spree, and while on their way home tragedy ensues. One of the three children, daughter Regan, is deaf, and possibly has been since birth. The parents are seen as a loving couple who try to find romance when they can, but what can you do when you live in a world without sound.

As life continues, and the family learns to live with the silence, and in silence, a relationship is ruptured due to the previous tragedy. Things escalate as it is revealed the mother is pregnant with a child and about to give birth. When that moment comes, everything that can go wrong, does. The alien monsters are blind and work through echo location, searching for their prey through even the slight sounds they make. They run towards the home the family has made, ready to eliminate them all. One by one the family has to fight for survival, and one by one they either live or die.

The ending of this movie was for a moment surprising, as a character is killed who I did not expect to be killed. There is a lot of anxiety in this movie that creates intense feelings of apprehension. One is walking carefully through this movie with the characters wondering who will live and who will die, or if the entire family will be executed.

I did enjoy this movie quite a bit. I would have liked a little more backstory into the alien monsters and how they came to be, but there were hints, although not enough for me to feel satisfied. This movie also reminded me of the movie Mars Attacks a little due to the way the aliens were killed in both movies.

I recommend a viewing of this. And although I am not reviewing it, I highly recommend BlacKkKlansman.

The description of ALIEN: COVENANT seems like it could be the plot description of any ALIEN movie. From IMDb - The crew of a colony ship, bound for a remote planet, discover an uncharted paradise with a threat beyond their imagination, and must attempt a harrowing escape. The only thing to change would be the type of ship.

ALIEN: COVENANT is a prequel to the original ALIEN movie and a sequel to ALIEN: PROMETHEUS. Some who saw PROMETHEUS wanted a sequel to explain what they had just watched in the train wreck that was PROMETHEUS. Those people had to be disappointed in what was given to them.

A group of colonists are on their way to settle a new planet. The journey is interrupted when an accident causes the ship to have difficulties in which the crew is needed. After waking most of the crew successfully, Walter (the new android), tells them what happened, how many crew members were lost, and how many colonists were lost. While on the outside fixing the solar wing one of the crew members experiences a disruption in their system. Later they find that what they are hearing is in a popular song from earth, so they decide that they need to look into where it is coming from. They find that the transmission is coming from a planet that might just be a good one to settle on, so the captain decides they must check it out, much to the chagrin of his second in command.

Once they get to the planet everything that can go wrong does, and when the survivors are finally back on the ship and ready to settle in again for the rest of the trip to the new planet they find that things aren't over, which seems to lead to another prequel to the original ALIEN movie.

Now, what did I think about this movie? I think it did not need to be made, and I don't feel like it adds anything to the ALIEN franchise. Not only were there several plot holes in this movie, but there was a lot of information that was changed throughout. For example, they kept saying that there were 2,000 colonists on the ship, even though there were a few whom were lost during the original incident which woke up some of the crew members. This became annoying throughout the movie as it was not the only thing that was inconsistent.

The only character who was at all interesting in the movie was the Android, played by Michael Fassbender, however, even he was annoying and inconsistent. This movie was full of idiotic moves that are tropes of horror movies, and the audience is really tired of these tropes. One of the things that was a blatant sign of laziness was the actions of the characters. People are being killed and one by one they walk off, which leads anyone watching to think what... well, they are dead, and SPOILER... they did die. All of the actions you expect in a horror movie, they happened in ALIEN: COVENANT.

People make stupid decisions that get them killed: Check.
People walk off on their own and get killed: Check.
People get sick and think that they can save the sick person: Check.
People die because they want to save the sick person: Check.
People die because they trust a stranger: Check.
People trust the stranger who tells them to look at something, which in turn kills them: Check.
People believe that the copy of what they trusted is actually the one they trusted, which gets them killed: Check.
People don't question anything that is going on, which kills them: Check.
The twist is exactly what you think it will be: Check.

So this movie was entirely predictable and unnecessary. I don't understand why anyone feels the need to go back and explain the beginnings of the alien creature. The new versions of things don't add as much to the story as they should, and the Engineers are just useless int he evolution of the alien creature. Lastly, there was at least one scene which tried to explain some things, and not only was it incomplete, but it didn't even explain itself.

So, will there be another Alien move, probably. Will I watch it, probably. Will it be any good, oh god I really don't think so. I think they should have stopped trying when they added Winona Ryder as an android, because she was just not good.