"There is an explanation for this, you know?" - "I don't wanna hear your goddamn explanation!"

Rating: 1/10 (7 August 2017)

In Alien (1979) there is that moment when Ripley is communicating with mother, discovers what's the order 937, and the synthetic appears at her side willing to unfold the reasons behind. But Ripley is just trying to run away, and she doesn't care about reasons.
In that moment there was an open door to fully explain the whole thing, the writer could have gone on and use the android to put a light in the dark. But Ripley moves away, and the movie shuts that moment down. That leads to something: there were the movie does not arrive, my imagination would do. And that's why I believe that Alien is so powerful. It is a door towards a complex future, as deep and obscure as I want to dream. More in detail: - There are reasons backing up the reactions and choices of the characters. - They do mistakes, they scream, cry, sweat, bleed, and they are all scared to the death. - The technology is realistic, not even dated in the Nostromo. And it is secondary to the plot. - The conspiracy of the "Corporation" setting profits ahead of human lives is again realistic. - The figure of the android is deep, and one could spend hours thinking whether it goes through a "malfunction" driven by contradictory orders (as HAL in 2001 space odyssey). - The music makes one uncomfortable. - Every single scene is well thought and in line with the previous and the next one. -...
Then Prometheus happens... bringing light to that universe and showing that the spacey jokey is not an ancient civilization, but engineers that created humans; they walk still around, and they do act as bad guys.
Then Covenant happens... and suddenly the alien is a creature breed by an evil android.
All the beauty of the unknown is perverted. And worst of all, it looks like the people behind the writing were aware of the difficulty to reach the imagination boosted by the initial movie, so they have created twists and turns. They desperately try so hard, that fail miserably.

Why the people in the ship is so plain and take critical decisions without a good thought? - Why do they explore a new world naked? I ended up thinking that they die because they want to. So I don't care much about the people in the screen, they are idiots and they deserve what happens to them. - Btw, aren't there any actors in the market able to show better the emotions and reactions that one would imagine for this movie? - Why David kills the engineers-like in the world? Why is he having such contradictory decisions? When he is asked why, he decides to explain everything. In a matter of seconds, with images overlapping one another, he says it all. But it's confusing, as if the director would expect that the viewer is able to cope with everything in seconds. And still, why then there were alien-like reliefs in the Prometheus building? - It doesn't matter anyway: it is understood that David is the decision behind it all. A very small vessel for such a potential universe. - The black goo, the jellyfish-like flying spores,... between Prometheus and Covenant there are so many twists about that thing that is easy to not care anymore.

So at the end, I don't care. I don't care more about the aliens, the black goo, the spores, the engineers,... This movie is awful, together with Prometheus, because they two kill the spirit of the original movies. They are too bad to be true.