Review of Alien: Covenant (2017) by Jfitz33 — 18 May 2017

This is quite likely Ridley Scott's best directed movie. It is quite a bit better than Prometheus, which I find to be an excellent film, although maybe not quite as good as the first Alien but far better than the train wreck that was James Cameron's Aliens and the films that followed.

The people who dislike this movie are uneducated and unintelligible people who have no respect for true art and merely crave senseless violence and gore instead of a symbolic, beautiful, and disturbing existential masterpieces that touches on topics of creation, religion, sexuality, narcissism, and taboos.

This film is very much like a puzzle and it unlocks a new piece to its deep and complex story upon each additional viewing instead of spoon-feeding it's plot to the troglodyte marvel super hero movie watching crowd and wannabe elitist pseudo-intellectuals who praise films such as La La Land and Moonlight that seem to be surrounding it and making their absolutely absurd opinions quite clear.

Their hatred for this film is born of a fear of inferiority. This film challenges their intelligence and is over their heads so in turn they place themselves above it and point down to say, "look how dumb this movie is".

The diminishing intellect of the populace is why we can't have nice things like Alien: Covenant and instead are given a slew of cookie cutter oscar movies and dull superhero and action movies.