 All right, so really Scott is back again for the sequel to Prometheus. Let's get into this. My name is Brandon Keith-Avery, and this is just my opinion. All right guys, welcome back. This is my review for Alien Covenant. I was looking forward to this film, thought it would be pretty good, but I wasn't like super duper excited over the moon for it. But I saw it, I was lucky and I saw it. This is directed by Ridley Scott, of course. He is the guy that directed the first Alien movie that came out in 1979. I saw that movie, of course. I thought it was great. James Cameron did the sequel, Aliens Plural, which I did not see, but everyone tells me that it's good. You know, there's kind of like a half and half as far as people saying it's Aliens or Aliens better. You know, some people are saying that Aliens is a great original movie, while Aliens is like a great action movie, or Aliens is a scary movie, excuse me. Did not see Aliens 3 or Aliens Resurrection. I did see Aliens versus Predator 1 and 2, and they were okay, they were just okay. Part two kind of sucked. And I also did see Prometheus. And I like Prometheus, and Prometheus came out in 2012. It wasn't necessarily an Aliens movie necessarily, but it was in the same universe if you haven't seen it. And that's what got me excited about it. And I thought it was a great movie, but this movie did have mixed reviews. Some liked it, some did not. A lot of people were complaining about plot holes in this movie. I couldn't think of any myself, or I can't think of any right now. So if you know of any, please put them in the comments section. Let's talk about it. But I did like this movie, but one thing that was disappointing in this movie is the way it ended. You know, it had to do with the engineers. And did they potentially, are they the ones that made man as humans? Are they the ones, are we seeds from them planting their seeds? So either offspring or where does man come from? Is kind of what this movie was dealing with. And it was entertaining, but it is, and you're like, okay, this is kind of like a part one and a two-part series. And so the Blomkamp guy that did District 9 and Chappy, which I hated that movie, and Elysium, which I love that movie, he was rumored to do Alien 5 that could possibly pick some of this stuff back up, but they got him out of there, brought really Scott back, and now he's doing Alien Covenant. And some people at the beginning didn't know where this was tying in with the story, but I will go ahead and say this is a sequel to Prometheus. I'm not gonna say how much time has passed from Prometheus to Alien Covenant, but I will say that it's a sequel. And while I did enjoy Prometheus, I did not enjoy Alien Covenant pretty much at all. And the reason why is I thought the story was horrible. The characters, none of them were likable and I barely remember them. And also Alien Covenant completely abandons pretty much everything that came before in Prometheus. And then the ending of this movie, I'm like, okay, what the hell? Why would you make this decision? I don't know where this movie can go from here. Now, something that I really did like about Prometheus is Elizabeth Shaw played by Numi or Naomi Rapace. Please excuse me if I did not pronounce her name correctly. I liked her character in Prometheus. She was, I mean, kind of slightly annoying at times, but nobody's perfect, but she just felt like somebody that I could relate to. She had a strong belief system and whether it's talking about God and they had those flashbacks with her and her father. Why do you believe this? And it's like, you know, I believe in this because I choose to. You have Charlize Theron's character in that movie that was just like really cold. And, you know, she had the thing going on with Idris Elba's character, you know, them getting it on. Then you had Michael Fassbender over here playing this robot, android type thing. You just had all these characters that I cared about and know Elizabeth Shaw character. She had like a boyfriend or a husband and they were getting it on. And, you know, I actually cared about these people. In Ellen Covenant, I did not care about anyone at all. Just the very beginning of the film, things happen and people die already and then you're just supposed to just get on board with them. But the person that comes in, Eric Banna, the captain of the ship, is that his name? I feel like, I don't feel like that's his name. I think it's not Eric Banna. It's, I don't even remember it. That's the thing. I don't even remember his name in the movie so I can't like look up his name like that's sad. I mean the only person that's Michael Fassbender and Danny McBride. Like I don't, and this guy is, you know this guy. The one of the main. Okay, yeah, Billy Kudrup. This guy, Orem. It took me that much, I had to do all of that to remember somebody that I saw in the movie. He's coming on to the scene, trying to save the day and give orders and stuff and he's just whack. I mean like, nobody wants to follow these guys. Just, I mean, come on guys. Well, we have to do this and the procedure says that we go one, two, three, X, Y. And I know you want to go to Q but we have to go to M first. I mean, come on guys, I'm trying. Okay, can you just, like that's how his character is at the very beginning of the movie. And you guys are going off into space trying to colonize another planet because you know, we don't know why you're leaving Earth and you wanted to colonize another planet. But this is the people that are left in charge. Okay, and like everyone else just follows suit and then there are no one is following orders. And when it comes to their decision-making skills it's just ridiculous. They're using emotion instead of logic. I know that you are like, you're there with some people and that should probably even be a rule that says you can't do that because it'll be a conflict of interest and judgment while you're on this trip, trying to colonize another planet going across the galaxy or wherever the hell you're going. But no one is following orders. People are replacing logic with emotion and just the computer is like, if you go to these depths in the ship, you will die. Hey, I wanna do it anyway because like we gotta, I mean, it's like, come on, use your common sense, use your better judgment and none of the characters are doing that at all. Excuse me, and it's just really frustrating. And then the movie just completely abandons what came in Prometheus. I mean, I don't know who they didn't address to engineers at all. They didn't address who made human beings, where they come from, like they tease us in Prometheus. Just none of that. I don't wanna spoil it for you, but we get a brief glimpse of the two characters that ended this movie. And if you've seen it, you know who I'm talking about, David and Elizabeth Shaw. I mean, we get a brief glimpse of that. And then the alien coven is just kinds of pertains. In my opinion that this thing didn't, you know, like it didn't exist. And I know it was supposed to be in a parallel world, but you have to understand, like, you knew at the end of this movie that people were frustrated. It came out in 2012, this is five years later now, you could have did a better job to wrap that up, even if you wanted to have Ellen go this way and more Prometheus go this way, you just could have really, Scott, I just feel that you could have did a better job tying all that together. And, you know, giving the film some hope and the fans some hope that people that like this, because I mean, I don't know, I just didn't like it at all. So the characters, I mean, the story abandoned what came before, the characters really sucked. And it's just like, these guys are space travelers. They should be mentally prepared to run into anything they come in contact with. And as soon as things get a little rough, one character is like just panicking beyond belief. And I'm just like, if this is how you react to certain situations, who is the person that approved you to go on this mission? It just doesn't make any damn sense. That's like some of, they chose the worst of the worst instead of the best of the best, you know, I mean, it's like, oh, I don't want to spoil it for you, but it's just so frustrating. And it's like, at the very beginning of this movie, humans are dying, not because of aliens or killing them because of stupid clumsiness. Really, are you serious? Clumsiness is killing people instead of the aliens. I don't want to see that crap. I want to see some aliens kicking the human's ass and the humans giving everything they possibly can to survive. And it's just nothing like that. They're dying because of this stupid clumsiness. And that is just something that I don't want to see. And then like the highlight of this film is a hand-to-hand battle between two individuals. Yeah, this is an alien movie. There's also a giant plot hole in the middle of it. I'm like, wait a minute. If you say you did this, then why did you show me this? I mean, I can't spoil it for you. And then this, the way this movie ended was just trash. I'm like, really? Where can the movie go from here? I mean like, and there's supposed to be two more sequels after this one? Where can the movie go? I have no idea. There's no happy ending. It doesn't always have to be a happy ending. Like Saw wasn't necessarily a happy ending, but I respect that for some reason. But this, I just don't. I mean, I wish I was gonna talk spoilers, but I just don't care. This movie, this was not good to me. I was very frustrated as soon as they started doing all that clumsy crap towards them. Again, I'm like, what the hell is this? But guys, if I had to rate this movie out of a one out of 10, I would give this movie a three out of 10. Yes, a three out of 10. But that's just my opinion. Have you seen Ellen Covenant yet? Do you want to see it? Have I turned you on? Have I turned you off? Do you agree with me or do you disagree with me? Let me know in the comment section below. Let's get this conversation going and keep it flowing. Guys, I want to go to the red carpet premiere of Marvel's Black Panther that comes out February of 2018. Is it likely that I'll go? Who knows? It's a long shot, but I'm going for it. So help me out by sharing this video 1,000 times. If you also like this video, you can give me the thumbs up. And if you don't like the video, that's fine. Just leave me a comment below why and still give me a thumbs up. 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