Alien: Covenant - Do The Prequels Harm The Original 1979 Film? (Review/Analysis)

Disclaimer: Alien is my favorite movie. Biased opinion incoming...

Ridley Scott's Alien prequels, which consists of Prometheus and the recently released Alien: Covenant, both shed light on the origins of the Alien and serve as a backstory to Scott's original 1979 classic.

Yet despite admirable ambitions, neither is able to capture the magic of the earlier films. Covenant in particular is extremely divisive, not only in terms of the quality of the film itself, but for the direction it takes with what it reveals about the Alien's creation.

In this video I discuss my own personal reaction to Alien: Covenant and assess it's quality in comparison to both Prometheus and the original Alien, as well as explain why I am not particularly fond of where it takes the Alien's origins.

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Footage Used:

Alien (1979)
Aliens (1986)
Alien 3 (1992)
Alien: Resurrection (1997)
AVP: Alien vs. Predator (2004)
Prometheus (2012)
Alien: Covenant (2017)
Jurassic World (2015)
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)

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