Alien: Covenant (2017)

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🗓️ 18 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? This podcast is an abridged version of the full, spoiler-filled discussion available only to our club members. Check out our Club Bald Move page to find out how you can gain access to ALL of our premium content! Join the discussion: Email | Forums Follow us: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook Leave Us A Review on Apple Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:09.3	we're talking about the latest
1:18.0	sequel to a sequel to a prequel that defined a generation alien covenant.
1:28.0	What did you think about this film, Jim?
1:32.0	I thought it was pretty good. about this film, Jim?
1:32.6	I thought it was pretty good.
1:35.9	I'm roughly where I was at with Prometheus after watching it.
1:39.4	Mostly good.
1:41.1	Some real dumb character decisions that we could talk about but mostly good.
1:44.4	Yeah, that's my take as well that everything you could say about Prometheus you could say
1:49.5	about Covenant and all it has all the same strengths like I thought there was a really good
1:54.4	world building it looks gorgeous to sound was amazing it was scary it was gross
1:58.8	yeah but a lot like Prometheus the plot requires unfathomable stupidity from
2:07.5	characters who should have known better to get into motion and I don't even
2:11.6	know why because it seems like in this universe there's a
2:16.8	million different ways you could have things go wrong without the characters being
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