by jellydonut25 » Wed May 24, 2017 4:31 pm
Not only is Covenant a movie devoid of characters, where things just happen, just....because reasons, Ridley Scott has collapsed the Alien Universe in on itself. With Prometheus, he expanded things: Who are the Engineers? Why did they create humanity? Why did they then seek to destroy humanity? What was their culture like? What was the black goo? Prometheus left a lot of good questions to expand on and take this universe into a totally different place.
With Covenant, Ridley Scott says, "F*** you. They're all dead. Shut up. Black goo." And ensures that there will be no more Alien movies that open the universe, and the franchise will henceforth stagnate into "Aliens killing people." This is a franchise-killer.
Beyond that, it's a BAD movie. Like, even if you strip away the Prometheus-killing nonsense that has retrograded this series into just being the same thing over and over for the rest of time, it's a bad Alien film. Who are the characters? What are their purposes? What arc does ANY character in the entire film have? This thing is devoid of characterization or dramatic thrust. Stuff just happens.
I to this day still enjoy Prometheus (though it seems utterly pointless now), but I think I'm out on this franchise.