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Alien: Covenant (2017)

Bald Move Prestige

Bald Move

Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.51K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2017

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Jim and A.Ron have seen Alien: Covenant, and declare it to be gorgeous, ambitious, and filled to the brim lofty ideas, but that it’s also really, really stupid. Which is a shame, since that’s a flaw that mired it’s predecessor, Prometheus. Ridley Scott still knows how to shoot a film, no doubt, but has he forgotten how to put smart, sharply defined characters in peril without them being the dumbest, pettiest, most one dimensional humans alive? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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uh... first round bald movie tonight we're talking about the latest

1:07.3

uh... installment in the alien anthology uh... pantheon zoology the latest

1:14.7

sequel to a prequel that I've seen

1:18.4

that uh... defined a generation

1:20.5

uh... alien covenant uh... what's Alien Covenant. What did you think about this film, Jim? I thought it was pretty good.

1:31.4

I'm roughly where I was at with Prometheus after watching it. Mostly good.

1:37.5

Some real dumb character decisions that we could talk about, but mostly good.

1:41.0

Yeah, that's my take as as well that everything you could say about

1:45.0

Prometheus you could say about Covenant and all it has all the same strengths like I

1:49.8

thought there was a really good world building it looks gorgeous to sound as amazing it was scary it was gross yeah

1:56.4

but a lot like Prometheus the plot requires unfathomable stupidity from characters who should have known better to get into motion.

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