But can it kill Xenomorphs?

Best to investigate Trump and his cronies in real time, it minimizes the damage he can do. The investigations have already exposed numerous senator's insider trading attempts to profit from the pandemic. It's also revealed the reason Trump refused WHO tests and put us months behind S Korea...the company that makes the American test donated over $1.5 million to political campaigns this year. That must be why it was worth waiting months to get them at all and still be in short supply. They paid for the contract.

So, Democrats work hard to try to save the lives of their constituents, Trump, because he has nothing better to do besides play more golf, wrote a nasty political smear filled with ignorance and self congratulatory lies. Keep in mind, he's admitted he's so incompetent that his impeachment, which he claimed was a nothing burger, distracted him from having time to properly deal with Coronavirus....but he had plenty of time to golf.

Trump was pushed to enact a travel ban from China a month after the danger was clear to everyone with a brain, it was not him dragging the CDC like he claims, but he had dragged his feet so long that most airlines had cancelled those flights well before he acted....but not before numerous infected were here. January first he should have acted. That would have made a difference.

Trump called this a flu until it was too late, telling the nation there's no need to prepare through February. This led to panic when reality hit us hard.

Trump publicly said that if Democrats aren't nice enough to him his Whitehouse won't respond to their state. That's politics being played with millions of lives by Trump.

Trump has publicly told governors to go find supplies on their own, don't look to the Fed to procure and distribute necessary medical devices, then ordered the Fed to bid against those states for that same equipment. That's playing politics with citizens lives.

Trump STILL refuses to order a nation wide shelter in place order because he doesn't want any responsibility for one. That's playing politics.

Trump inexplicably didn't use the defense production act until last Friday, but he's used it reportedly hundreds of thousands of times to procure materials for the military....chemicals for missiles, materials for aircraft carriers, using the law to put the military orders first in line repeatedly. That's playing politics.

Trump reluctantly had ventilators sent to a few hard hit states, <5% of the numbers needed, but shipped broken units to Democratic states and told them they need to be appreciative (translation, kiss his ass on TV) or he won't send more. Again, playing politics with citizens lives.

Also don't forget Trump ended the CDC international pandemic detection program last September, months before the outbreak in China. This program was designed to detect and protect from New viral outbreaks, and would have given America a fighting chance to avoid any infections at all had it not been killed by Trump.

This kind of ignorant propaganda is exactly what I expect from @bobknight33. Using Trump's statements as if they're fact is incredibly dumb, Bobby. Even you admit the man doesn't tell the truth, you just prefer his divisive lies to the truth.

Hilarious you tag this philosophy, it's not...news, it's not.....*lies , that's a proper tag. *facepalm
I would downvote, but this drivel isn't worth watching through. I was at my lie limit under one minute in.

BTW, someone should remind him, nuking them from orbit didn't stop the xenomorphs....it didn't even stop that outbreak of xenomorphs, it only exposed the ignorance of the Space Marines for thinking "nuke em" answers all problems. So dumb Bobby.

The face part opened up, but the "ears" pop open and uncover whenever they're trying to listen closely.

I any case, armored just means they have some resistance to small arms fire, like the bugs in Starship Troopers or xenomorphs in the Aliens universe. Unless the monsters in this movie are covered in adamantium, I find it hard to believe that they can wipe out the world's militaries in such a short time.

Also, they would have to defeat the world's armies first, as securing the food supply would be one of the top priorities of any army. No military is going to sit around waiting to slowly starve to death.

It would be funnier if the xenomorphs smoked.

My biggest complaints about Covenant:

1. David killed ALL the engineers? How? Why would that be the only city on that planet? Makes no sense though I guess it can be implied that all life was *eventually* killed by the black spores.

2. The chestbuster morphing into a mini-xenomorph so quickly was retarded and looked so out of place. Also the gestation period was ridiculously fast.

3. No hazard/bio-suits when landing on an unknown planet with almost your entire bridge/command crew? Come on...

4. The stupid back/throat-bursters. I almost laughed when the first back-burster was revealed. Why even introduce them at all? More time could have been spent with David getting someone impregnated by a facehugger.

5. The whole premise of Alien is that no one really knows what the hell it is or where it came from. That mystery and uncertainty lends more weight to the terror of the xenomorph. Why do movies always have to try and explain every detail - leaving it up to the viewer's imagination can be so much more effective (e.g. see explanation of "The Force"...f.u. George Lucas lol...)

6. David creating the xenomorphs just doesn't make sense either. Why would he create something that requires a host when there is no life remaining on the planet and he couldn't have known that a ship would arrive carrying people to impregnate?

7. Having the xenos walk around in bright lighting doesn't make them appear very menacing. Alien and Aliens were all about claustrophobic environments, dim lighting, and surprise attacks.

8. Yes, let's do exactly what the clearly scheming android told us to do and walk right up to that slimy egg that just opened. You would think that these people should be smart, right? They are the custodians of over 1000 colonists, starship pilots, and scientists and clearly hold high ranking positions yet frequently make some of the WORST choices possible. Ripley might have just been a lieutenant of a simple cargo hauler but the idiots of the Covenant make her look like a genius.

That was pretty cool but I refuse to accept that horrible Alien's 4 hybrid as an Alien - screw that. The only Alien is the original or the warrior xenomorph from Aliens. Still a very well done short.

Maybe I'm just jaded... but I don't see anything that interesting here. It looks pretty, but what doesn't these days?

I'm glad the trailer doesn't outline the whole plot, but this is the other extreme. There's no hook here. What's the concept?

Prometheus, for all it's flaws, had a great concept. It was just let down by lousy writing and characters. (when you're watching an Alien movie and you're routing for the xenomorphs, the writers have fucked up).

This? As @rebuilder said, a space queen?

I hope I'm wrong. I hope the Wachowskis can still do something amazing.

Looks like she has a budding career as a xenomorph.

A. Alien
B. Beatle Juice
C. Chucky
D. Dracula
E. ET (Extra Terrestrial)
F. Freddy Kruger
G. Godzilla
H. Incredible Hulk
I. Incubus (?)
J. Jason Voorhees
K. King Kong
L. Hannibal Lecter
M. The Mummy
N. Nosferatu
O. Octopus (??)
P. Pinhead
Q. Queen of the Damned
R. Razorback
S. Satan
T. Terminator
U. Uruk-hai
V. Darth Vader
W. Werewolf
X. Xenomorph (?)
Y. Yeti
Z. Zombies

he has said in a in interview there won't be any xenomorphs in this movie, so even if it is a prequel, it's still a pretty big leap from the rest of the movies.

Alien(s). Only the first two. Game over, man!

I heart xenomorphs and Jonesy the interstellar house cat.

(Out of the options given though, LotR.)

Tags for this video have been changed from 'parasite, behaviour, host, hairworm, yuuuuuuuck' to 'parasite, behaviour, host, hairworm, Gordian worm, tapeworm, xenomorph, bug hunt' - edited by my15minutes

found this as well, among the "parasite" tagged clips:
http://www.videosift.com/video/Cricket-Infected-with-Parasitic-Gordian-Worm

no dupe factor, tho, as yours is a distinct improvement.

and i voted for both, especially since thx to tedbater there, we easily found out what this diabolical xenomorph is called...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordian_worm

and most fittingly, i might add.

A lot of people are annoyed at the way James Cameron turned the xenomorphs into ants for the sequel to Alien. I think it's a fascinating and scary concept.

This reminds me of HR Giger (the artist who produced Aliens Xenomorphs & sets).