Alien: Covenant is GARBAGE (an analysis)

Pardon my ADHD-fueled rapid talking. I'm a huge fan of the series and have strong feelings about this new film. Here is my coverage...

[@cookie842]

This crap never happened nor will it find a home on my shelf.

[@adriel88_]

cookie842 the CGi alien was a joke all 4 alien movies are better than the trash prequels

[@zenith7024]

Strange how Scott even directed this trash

[@lepterfirefall]

I agree with you. while it was an okay film, there were still too many unanswered questions were left from prometheus while adding new ones. Are we realy meant to believe this was the engineers homeworld? just one city? where was the giant floating docking thing in the aftermath and why did the engineers ship end up crashing? full size eggs created from where? The fact that we went from back burster to practically full size neomorph in a few minutes was just plain silly. same with the comedy chestburster that waved and suddenly became full grown.

[@jneilson7568]

Both prequels are useless, but Covenant is even worse than Prometheus, full of terrible inconsistencies, ideas that actively undermine the originals (even 4) and full of unforgivable, idiotic characters. It's not even interesting enough to hate-watch. Even Prometheus took a few goes before I couldn't stand it again, but I've seen Covenant once in the cinema, then once more streaming, just to be sure. It's awful.

[@elton7110]

I wanted Shaw to be alive and ask them Why???

[@laoxiaohai3067]

Agree. I liked prometheus, but hated covenant. There are too much of junks and dumb logic I can spot from the film.

[@OtomoTenzi]

Total CA$H-GRAB and complete STINKER of a movie, that's fer shure...

[@jordanschunk57]

I absolutely loved prometheus but the sequel is soooooo god awful

[@nambelas]

Definitely AGREE. The only worthwhile selling point is the extreme level of violence. The rest is just predictable, fast-paced repetition from old scripts and theories. Covenant is a big budget B-Movie at best.

[@jeremyallen492]

And it's a farce at worst

[@anubusx]

It's garbage.

[@mysteriousfleas]

As somebody who comes from the same pedigree as you fandom-wise, even down to owning the same comics of which the that series was my absolute favorite as a kid, you're unfortunately having to contend with a lot shitty, basic detractors in the form of downvotes. Your assessment is spot-on, even if the idiot masses cannot see it.

[@mysteriousfleas]

The ultimate review of this movie.

[@kleedhamhobby]

Absolutely. It's pretty much unbelievable that this movie got made at all. Presumably credit was given for the prior careers of the principles. But come on! Essentially every single (human) character behaves as though they are utterly lacking in basic functional intelligence. These people would get exterminated trying to ride a bicycle to the beach! Given this complete lack of intelligence in the script, one is regrettably forced to the conclusion that the writer and director now lack functional intelligence. Ridley Scott has done a lot... surely to produce complete rubbish like this he must sadly be suffering from some form of dementia...?

[@OtomoTenzi]

100% AGREED!!!

[@zenith7024]

Maybe he doesn't care and just went for the money

[@Thelastskinbender]

Hahaha the intro to this video is so similar to what I posted about this movie.... "...AND ANOTHER THING! You don't lose the concept designer, art director, and director for a major movie and then just barrel on ahead with it, without even so much as a head nod to the original concept/design/artistry. You don't introduce new design elements (lifted, obstensibly, or rather poorly plagiarized from some of the more obscure works of said original designer) while losing ALL semblance of the original visual style of such a revolutionary artistic film with NO CONTEXT reference or continuity- what was with the new Egyptian theme elements!?!? Why was there only few examples of it and where did it go!? What did it relate to!? What was up with the super fascinating botanical and biological experimentation illustrations that you only see in backgrounds ever. Why was that that not explored further referenced, or referred to in the story- or prefaced or explained?! When you have a succesful, iconic, revolutionary visual masterpiece with a definitive style thst informed generations of extraterrestrla design, and you make a sequel/prequel/offshoot, with better available graphics and tech, you find a design who can EVOLVE that shit, you don't destroy it!!! The original episodes were driven my mystery, mystique, ominousness, suspense, and dread, as well as action. There was a morbid fascination inspired by the bio organic, a sense of grotesque and beautiful macabre. the first thing you see of the creature in this movie is a full on (immediate- like in hours) graphic birth sequence. And a full frontal and side view, followed by an action scene on par with fast and the furious seven. And then the second thing you see... is the same. And then the third thing you see....same. like WTF. WHO DID THIS!?!?"

[@iTubeYourDadsMinge]

As somewhat of an outsider, and not a die hard fan, but one who has always really enjoyed the lore and originality of the movies, may I propose a notion to those who are die hards of this legendary franchise? We’re Prometheus and Covenant not just the works of a genius gone mad, Ridley Scott, after he drank far too much wine, and decided to ‘incorporate much vulva’s’ in everything possible on screen? These two movies scream to me that they were handed back to the genius who started it all, but the said genius is now old, flimsy, and has completely lost sight of what made his original works so excellent. If we back and take that view, perhaps we can stop wasting our time complaining about things like ‘there were too many unanswered questions’, and instead view this from the more comfortable perspective, that an old man past his prime, has simply made some sequels which we can happily choose to just ignore if we want to?

[@Nerdcrusher]

He was never a genius.

[@horion7185]

Ridley mixed his Films with Alien and Prometheus

[@nambelas]

A rehash.

[@jrbisc99]

I really enjoyed prometheus. It wasn't perfect but it was a fun sci-fi film. I desperately wanted to know more about the creators and instead all we get is, they all died and she put a diabolical robot back together for some strange ass reason 🙄

[@jonnelsonguitar]

It still hurts thinking about this film.😢

[@DejaVuJT]

I just cannot understand HOW this film somehow managed to be even worse than Prometheus. It defies all logic. It's fucking stupid, stupid STUPID garbage.

[@Wayner71]

My theory is that Scott is now old and doesn't give a shit anymore. He just wants a paycheck now. Let the bad writers write mulch, he thinks. As for wrecking the lore of Alien and ruining all of our long held beliefs about the mythos, he doesn't care less. In fact, Covenant could be seen as the ultimate pisstake. It is so bad and so damned stupid, it couldn't be unplanned.

[@cliffordhayes4288]

In hindsight, I think the prequels would have worked much better as a several-season TV series (that R/S could have produced rather than directed), and R/S should have kept his original idea of a non-Alien sci fi adventure movie as a separate project. I wouldn’t be surprised if the rest of the prequel story ends up being made for TV.

[@BluePatch-pc7sx]

The real problem with Covenant is TMI, too much information, what makes Bigfoot, Werewolf and Vampires scary is all you know is that they kill. They take a great Syfy movie from the 70's and made it about finding our creators. After that did not work they made it about rogue robots. They through in some gays and a muslim and biracial couple to make it more PC, hell they even released it on mothers day in the UK. Sad really

[@sullivanclements3290]

I myself disagree with you

[@sullivanclements3290]

I liked the movie very much yes I will say the ending was very predictable but I liked most everything else the movie was gorgeous so I think you are very wrong

[@SlipstreamFirst]

Sullivan Clements I respect your civility and appreciate the response. I wanted to love it. I really do. Maybe I'll cool in a week and approach it again.

[@rino7789]

What is it that Alien fans want to see in an upcoming movie? What would satisfy you?

[@SlipstreamFirst]

Intelligence.

[@paulvarda5318]

do you have a video on what Paradise was supposed to be?

[@PyroNexus22]

I'm sorry, but even if Covenant is garbage, it's still better than Resurrection.

[@deadschooled]

No

[@OtomoTenzi]

100% HATED the script, the plot, the actors, hated the way they looked, dressed, talked, and acted in this abysmal garbage trainwreck hopeless shitpile of a B-movie... NOTHING was even close or cannon about it from the first 2 or 3 Alien movies. NO sense of fear, dread or any real suspense at all. I honestly expected ALOT MORE from Ridley Scott! Does 'method acting' even exist anymore?

[@edgarallandoh1485]

Agree, it was fan service and Ridley should have stuck to his guns, ignored the internet, and made a true Prometheus sequel.

[@scannaunderscore1]

Never needed to exisit, and neither did Prometheus really

[@proudofyourroots9575]

You can see how/why ridley ruined it b watching that interview he gave when he looks half drunk, talking about how he decided to merge alien 5 and promotheus sequel . its so clearly 2 movies stitched together

[@LukeLovesRose]

I strongly disagree. I think youre short-changing Prometheus and Covenant based on expectations set forth by the previous Alien franchise. Its nowhere near as innovative or exciting as Alien or Aliens. Thats a lot to live up to. But both movies look beautiful af. Theyre fascinating af. And when the Aliens or Alien hybrids start attacking, both movies get exciting af. I love the character and evolution of David. He has become the slimiest and most intriguing android ever put on film

[@TomJones-op9nj]

I just ….why god why …rewatched the movie (a bit of ..ahem …fast forwarding ) ….I will not go over the hundreds of incongruous inept nonsensical actions senseless dialogues ridiculous plot points that simply dominate the entire movie…not picking on the actors many of them did the best they could with what they were given… in fact there were …my opinion…some very good performances…the …helix inspired death drop of the black goo ….well if the rest of the movie had been good …that scene would have ruined it for me….sadly I understand the point ….that scene simply doesn’t make the the high minded point that was implied…the movie as a whole …well quite frankly that was the problem …it wasn’t a whole movie ….it never started what it never finished

[@davestar4718]

Covenant comes below AVP requiem for me.

[@guerrilla1044]

Now now...we were all disappointed but you can't say this was worse than Resurrection... And the growth rate was obnoxious and ridiculous in the original

[@foetaltreborus2017]

SADLY Ridley has lost his youthful mo jo....to.much money & no one to say NO to him....

[@ikaros21]

Covenant is a great addition to the alien saga. Regarding the sex scene in the shower. It has been said from the original alien and also the comics (expanded universe) that certain people from the crew would engage in sex as a way of pain or stress reliever. I"m a big alien fan myself but I'm surprise you fail to mention that!

[@94SexyStang]

It was too Predictable and stupid!.......you kept thinking that maybe "something" will change at the last minute to save the movie, but Nope it gets worse, lol.

[@jamieeaton7839]

This movie was so bad! I'm more than pissed I love the alien movie's. All I can say is why? This has no right even being made wow!

[@bud389]

How did Shaw manage to fully repair David to full working order with such limited tools? How did David manage to destroy an Engineer civilization despite them being a world-ending galaxy-crossing species? How did David manage to "create" the Alien species when in the original Alien the engineer ship is regarded as being "ancient" and far older than the events depicted in Covenant? Why did David do a complete face-turn from Prometheus, who needed human approval to perform any action that would endanger human life, to a homicidal maniac? Oh, it's a poorly written schlock now? Okay. P.S. The political comment you made halfway through your analysis made me cringe.

[@davidcunningham9282]

i'd rated this as the worst movie i'd ever seen until matrix 4 came along. if prometheus was idiots and assholes in space, covenant was the fast and furious in space

[@AncientOne777]

I will never accpet alien covenant as canon. As in my opinion it ruins Aliens lore and is a major recon for the engineers and predators. So i will only ever see it as a Bad spin off.

[@datatsushi2016]

You sound like Tom Pearl 🤔

[@N0rseman]

Alien Covenant is garbage, proceeds to show the Prometheus ship as thumbnail.

[@user-ni2eh3ob4n]

I hated the ending!

[@chrisdigiuseppe7717]

Alien Covenant makes Alien 4 seem like a cinematic masterpiece.

[@PrinceGastronome]

Wow, even I won't go that far :)

[@chrisdigiuseppe7717]

lol oh man I would. I didn't like Alien 4 when it came out, but after how bad these assholes in Hollywood have fucked up my favorite franchise, Alien 4 feels like the red-headed step child I've grown to love. :P

[@abirdwitharms]

That really is reaching, the Xenomorphs look awful in that film. Not to mention the horrible characters, Ripley included. It was like watching a completely different main character in the story.

[@chrisdigiuseppe7717]

The characters & acting are quite a bit better than anything in the franchise since, imo. And yeah, I know it wasn't good - that's my point! I did think the Neomorph in Covenant was cool. But like everything else in the movie they royally fucked that up.

[@abirdwitharms]

How so? I thought it was greatly portrayed, the only scene I reasonably had quarrels with was David being an Alien whisperer. It made the Alien much less intimidating for me knowing it could be tamed like a Wolf. But it's Design, Anatomy, and Nature is spot on, It leaves a hole in my heart knowing that we may not see it in the franchise again. The acting in Covenant is very well done, but the most of the characters have very little to offer as they had no time to develop. It was action at every corner, and only a select few of the characters had any real screen time to themselves (Daniels, Oram, David, Walter.) They simply fit too much into the film.

[@AmpPum4]

Only worst thing after covenant is audi o for this video… ow boy it sucks ball deep

[@ZatoichiBlindSword]

First off, your idea David had no tech to begin creation is wildly speculative. You had no idea what tech he had access to on either the ship or ground city. No one cares that we didn't require an origin of the species. Ridley wanted it as an unexpected revelation, and it was a good one at that. It makes perfect sense that David wanted to create something that did not have the flaws of his own creators, because he felt he would be successful in doing so, given time, unhindered by hypocrisy or the ego that humans suffered ("We made you because we COULD.") His creation would have no ego and thus act of (as Ash said) purity. This film was more about the dangers of A.I. besting man, how our actions twisted a free-thinking robot, than what happened to Shaw...a fact I love, finding out "hey, no happy ending for her...", a far more believable result that her talking to a bunch of dudes who hate humans, who would've killed her anyway. David was far along the path to making perfection than as you speculate after he nuked the engineers (if that's really who they were, looking nothing like the Prometheus Engs Also, throwing your liberal slap about Trump society and then thinking SAW series was good when it was the same movie six times casts serious doubt on your logic with this series.

[@SlipstreamFirst]

I threw the liberal slap because I knew it would get a reaction...and I never said the SAW series was good--I actually despise that series. Thanks for the comments though.

[@jollyfighter7319]

The only thing I disagree with you is that alien 3 is better than alien 4. Alien 3 was horrible

[@vernefits1953]

great video. characters are dumb and boring.

[@abirdwitharms]

Please allow community contribution for this video, I have a hard time getting my points together when I have an even harder time keeping track of your perspective. I hope that doesn't sound rude, I'd personally love to add CC so you can interact with other people's varying opinions on this topic.

[@nephuraito]

You bring the gestarion rate of an alien vs predator movie... wow

[@coolhand1966]

it was Baddass.

[@chrisdigiuseppe7717]

it fucking sucked

[@coolhand1966]

you fucking suck

[@chrisdigiuseppe7717]

You're a goddamn baby.

[@SlipstreamFirst]

Now now. You're both wrong. :) Act civilized.

[@chrisdigiuseppe7717]

You have a cool screen name. So, I aquiesce. :)

[@aaronwolfe9640]

I just wish it were more logical in how the colonists deal with danger. I still find enjoyment in the movie.

[@deadschooled]

Yep, this movie is dog shit garbage and contradicts every film in the franchise, especially Prometheus and Alien 1.

[@KermitHitler]

A movie so terrible, so atrocious that it beggars belief

[@IvanReeves-ep5jm]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@NekoKingGodzilla]

No it is not as bad as alien resurrection not even close

[@SlipstreamFirst]

On a second watching, I think Covenant would be classes as better than Resurrection, but that is not much of bar to raise above.

[@ikaros21]

Alien covenant is a great addition to the alien saga and Yes, way better than Resurrection. it is also in a different level than alien 1, 2 and 3 and It can not be compared to them

[@darj617]

If by a different level you mean the basement, then yes, Covenant is certainly on a different level from Alien 1-3 and Prometheus.

[@deadschooled]

I could shit in a bowl and film it and it would be a better movie than Covenant. Resurrection is better by 100 miles.

[@mikcurius3779]

its not garbage exactly is just dissapointing and poor

[@SlipstreamFirst]

Yeah, maybe I was a bit harsh. But when you love a series as much as I do, the reaction was amplified because it was so disappointing and poor

[@mysteriousfleas]

The whole "android created the xenomorph" twist was pure garbage. The newborn is something I'd rather accept as canon than that. Scott took the potential concept of graduating from biological horror to "existential horror" in perhaps realizing that the engineers created human beings on a whim and decided in their ennui of being all-powerful beings that had mastered the creation of life itself that something diametrically opposing their own existence was preferable, hence the xenomorph. Scott definitely indicated that direction given the content of the mural in Prometheus. Instead they opted for one of the most disgustingly pretentious, dunning-kruger appealing plot twists and just made the evil android "out-create" the engineers. It also leads absolutely nowhere, as opposed to perhaps presaging a conflict between humans and engineers or a few films of various bands of humans trying to stop the dissemination of the xenomorph by the engineers themselves. Instead they have done a potentially permanent injury to the exposition of the first film and will have to somehow shoehorn a fantastically lame explanation as to why many egg pods found their way into the engineer's ship. I'm sure David just put them there because he thought it would improve the feng shui of the ship...

[@CYMANITE]

perfect review of the film, a real let down for the series

[@SlipstreamFirst]

Thank you.

[@user-or6yn8pm3c]

Walked out of it. Bad movie.

[@SouthPark333Gaming]

Covenant is a beautiful movie, David's idea of life is some of the most interesting stuff I have ever seen!

[@SouthPark333Gaming]

plus ever since I saw prometheus I knew David would Kill (you know)

[@SouthPark333Gaming]

but I agree with you on the twist in the third act, but it's a nice idea I guess.

[@moshabraf]

It only LOOKS beautiful, as do all Ridley Scott movies.

[@bud389]

You clearly haven't seen very much then.

[@17superjack]

I actually thought this movie was okay, and I feel like when the sequel comes out people will judge it less harshly. It seemed more like a set up for a new movie then its own full movie, which I know isn't good. Regardless I enjoyed the movie.

[@romanmarquez5205]

this was one of my favorite in the alien franchise.. even if there was no suspense everyone has already seen it so in my opinion making everything on the nose is excusable and logical because we all know what will happen regardless it was more about symbology... this is going to be a slow digest.. this film was wrought with symbolism from start to finish. A friend of mine was angry when I told him this and said you shouldn't need a philosophy degree to understand a movie... I think it's nice and very great...

[@dradra2day]

Ridley said that there is another higher life above the engineers...the deep rooted ground work will come together in the coming films. Not everything can come at once.

[@PrinceGastronome]

Sure it will...

[@jasoneaton4520]

Didnt Ridley lose his brother recently ? He's grieving. Causes all kinds of desires to DISCONNECT from "reality" as we commonly conceive it, and kind of retreat within himself. The pain is like an ocean, huge, unfathomable, but invisible to others. Only time will heal it. During that time, his life will slowly unravel and he will sink to a lower level, or standard. But in 10 or 20 years he'll come out much wiser, stronger and smarter.

[@milkman78gel]

Mixed reviews and crying about Prometheus and many upset they didn't show any Alien. Ridley said that was reasons for bringing big guy back. But now more crying and butt hurt, can't make fan boys happy. Same crying about Star Wars prequels and even The Force Awakens. I enjoyed it , thought it was excellent. I went into move just happy to be seeing Alien film in theaters again , instead of beating off to nostalgia. Smh

[@mysteriousfleas]

That's a shitty argument, the proper course of action would be to stay the course and make improvements, not shovel over the past film and potentially retcon the original. Your false dichotomy is just that, false.

[@aaronmichaels807]

How dare you...I like it because I'm a fan, bad or not. However, money is another matter, that is on Fox and the viewers to render results...I loved it.

[@RG4242421]

Total Bullshit .... I saw the film at a media event and I can tell you 70 to 80 percent in the audience loved it and people clapped ...you think way too much it's just a fucking Movie which happens to be great...please go back to writing at your local newspaper...Geeeez⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 5 out of 5 stars son.

[@tomebasic2843]

80 of the audience were as dumb as the ship crew from the movie, it seems...