Alien: Covenant
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Though it boasts a cult of stub-
born supporters, Ridley Scott’s
Alien prequel Prometheus is
widely regarded a failure; yet
another misstep in a franchise
that hasn’t offered us a thor-
oughly satisfying installment
since the 1980s. Like Rob Zom-
bie with his Halloween reboots
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by Eric Hillis
and George Lucas with his Star
Wars prequels, Scott decided
the simple concept that made
the initial movies such classics
wasn’t enough, and retro-fitted
a mythology that explained the
origins of the series’ iconic extra-
terrestrial terrors. It was a back-
story most of us didn’t need,
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