Alien: Covenant (2017)

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Wikidata Q20430699, film, IMDb tt2316204, TMDB 126889: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only film by that title.

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Who talked about it

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Came from

What the speakers say it drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

Aliens: 2 lines the host's read ×2

  1. lineage (lineage): Aliens ⇒ Alien: Covenant (the host's read). The loader and airlock set piece homages the power loader fight in Aliens.
    “But something about this feels closer to the power loader fight.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 1:55:53 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Back to the Future Part II: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. craft (craft): Back to the Future Part II ⇒ Alien: Covenant (the host's read). The double-Fassbender effect is an old trick established by Zemeckis in Back to the Future II.
    “once again, shit established by Zameckis and back to the future too.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 1:09:38 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Prometheus: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Prometheus ⇒ Alien: Covenant (the host's read). Covenant is half the Prometheus sequel Scott wanted and half a concession to a more normal Alien movie.
    “this is half, like Ridley Scott doing the Prometheus sequel he wanted to do and half”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:06:57 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

The Martian: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. industry (industry): The Martian ⇒ Alien: Covenant (the host's read). The Martian's success gave Scott leverage to make an odder Alien film.
    “I forgot that the previous film to this is the Martian”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 1:19:20 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Led to

What the speakers say drew on it, marked the same way.

No line says another film or person drew on it.

Connected to

Prometheus: 8 lines lineage ×2 contrast ×2 craft ×1 industry ×1 what-if ×1 theme ×1

  1. theme (theme): Prometheus → Alien: Covenant. Engineers, aliens, humans and androids all create something that destroys them, a cycle.
    “So then it's sort of mirroring what the humans are doing, and then the androids are their creation that are ultimately what destroys them.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 1:06:04 · Ben Hosley (0.80 sure it was them)

Alien: 4 lines lineage ×2 contrast ×1 industry ×1

  1. contrast (contrast): Alien: Covenant → Alien. Alien films usually give a calm before the storm in hypersleep; Covenant throws you straight into trauma.
    “rather than ever getting the sort of calm before the storm that you usually get an alien movies”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:17:42 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

Aliens: 4 lines lineage ×3 theme ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Alien: Covenant → Aliens. The loader and airlock set piece homages the power loader fight in Aliens.
    “But something about this feels closer to the power loader fight.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 1:55:53 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Alien Resurrection: 2 lines lineage ×1 verdict ×1

  1. verdict (verdict): Alien Resurrection → Alien: Covenant. David walked out of the Covenant press screening hearing grumbling that it was not their Alien; he does not get that anger.
    “I walked out of the press screening of covenant, and I remember one credit being like, I mean, that's just not my alien.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:43:47 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)

Blade Runner 2049: 2 lines programming ×1 what-if ×1

  1. what-if (what-if): Alien: Covenant → Blade Runner 2049. Wishes Scott had made 2049 and let Villeneuve make Covenant.
    “I sort of wish that Ridley had done Blade Runner and had let some new blood like Villeneuve do covenant.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 1:05:10 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Ridley Scott: 2 lines career ×1 craft ×1

  1. career (career): Ridley Scott → Alien: Covenant. Scott made Covenant, which may be better than Gladiator II.
    “he made, like, Covenant is maybe better than this.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 1:11:27 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)

Alien 3: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Alien: Covenant → Alien 3. Alien 3 had convicts.
    “Alien 3 convicts.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:29:45 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Avengers: Age of Ultron: 1 line contrast ×1

  1. contrast (contrast): Alien: Covenant → Avengers: Age of Ultron. The David and Walter scene resembles Ultron and Vision talking at the end of Age of Ultron.
    “much like Ultron and vision at the end of that movie”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 1:11:10 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Back to the Future Part II: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (craft): Alien: Covenant → Back to the Future Part II. The double-Fassbender effect is an old trick established by Zemeckis in Back to the Future II.
    “once again, shit established by Zameckis and back to the future too.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 1:09:38 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Billy Crudup: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (theme): Billy Crudup → Alien: Covenant. Crudup's calm comes from faith, not programming, so he plays an Android-like leader without being one.
    “Crudup does kind of have classic alien franchise Android energy, right?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 1:07:17 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Blade Runner: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (theme): Alien: Covenant → Blade Runner. Franchises like Alien and Blade Runner predict a first generation of androids that does horrid things and gets scaled back.
    “very much like in this franchise and Blade Runner”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 1:12:45 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Damon Lindelof: 1 line what-if ×1

  1. what-if (what-if): Damon Lindelof → Alien: Covenant. Lindelof was first going to write it, then went back to TV after audiences were angry at his screenplays.
    “Lindeloff was going to write it and then I think would just sort of was like, you know what?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:09:03 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Free Fire: 1 line industry ×1

  1. industry (industry): Alien: Covenant → Free Fire. Free Fire used a different John Denver song instead.
    “Free Fire uses a different John Denver song.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:31:40 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2: 1 line programming ×1

  1. programming (programming): Alien: Covenant → Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. Covenant's weekend opened behind Guardians Vol. 2, #1 for the second weekend.
    “Oh, it's Gardens of Galaxy volume two.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 2:04:21 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

H.R. Giger: 1 line contrast ×1

  1. contrast (contrast): Alien: Covenant → H.R. Giger. The neomorph in Covenant lacks the Giger biomechanical kibble, with a more human, translucent-skinned look.
    “He does not have all of the HR Geiger biomechanical kibble all over his body.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 1:21:16 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

Hotel Chevalier: 1 line contrast ×1

  1. contrast (contrast): Alien: Covenant → Hotel Chevalier. Unlike the Hotel Chevalier prologue, the Covenant online extras did not stand alone as their own experience.
    “none of it even felt like hotel chevalier type stuff”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:18:53 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

James Franco: 1 line verdict ×1

  1. verdict (verdict): James Franco → Alien: Covenant. The cut online prologue with Franco should have stayed in the film because his death weighs on the lead.
    “I remember feeling very strongly, that should have been in the movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:17:08 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Katherine Waterston: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (filmography): Katherine Waterston → Alien: Covenant. Waterston is praised in Alien: Covenant and Inherent Vice, then Perry Mason and Fantastic Beasts.
    “So good in alien covenant.”
    The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 1:25:30 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Kingsman: The Golden Circle: 1 line industry ×1

  1. industry (industry): Alien: Covenant → Kingsman: The Golden Circle. Kingsman: The Golden Circle is another 2017 film that uses Country Roads.
    “Oh, oh, Kingsman, the Golden Circle.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:30:48 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Logan Lucky: 1 line industry ×1

  1. industry (industry): Alien: Covenant → Logan Lucky. Four 2017 films used Take Me Home, Country Roads as a plot point.
    “I remember this so vividly that it was 4 movies within this year.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:30:44 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

The Hobbit films: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (craft): Alien: Covenant → The Hobbit films. Acting to tennis balls on a green screen was exhausting for The Tick, and people say it was easy because of the Hobbit movies.
    “they do this shit with like the Hobbit movies, right?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 1:40:13 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)

The Lord of the Rings: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (craft): Alien: Covenant → The Lord of the Rings. New Zealand locations can't replicate what Peter Jackson did with it in Lord of the Rings, but still look like a newer earth.
    “you can never replicate the total stunning magic trick of Peter Jackson, like deploying it in Lord of the Rings”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:38:46 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

The Martian: 1 line industry ×1

  1. industry (industry): Alien: Covenant → The Martian. The Martian's success gave Scott leverage to make an odder Alien film.
    “I forgot that the previous film to this is the Martian”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 1:19:20 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

The Parent Trap: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (craft): Alien: Covenant → The Parent Trap. Same-actor twin roles are usually bad, but Fassbender's work here is good.
    “You don't like a parent trap.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 1:01:01 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Where it came up

What was said about it, by kind

career (2)

  1. career (career): Ridley Scott → Alien: Covenant. Scott made Covenant, which may be better than Gladiator II.
    “he made, like, Covenant is maybe better than this.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 1:11:27 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. career (filmography): Katherine Waterston → Alien: Covenant. Waterston is praised in Alien: Covenant and Inherent Vice, then Perry Mason and Fantastic Beasts.
    “So good in alien covenant.”
    The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 1:25:30 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

contrast (6)

  1. contrast (contrast): Alien: Covenant → Alien. Alien films usually give a calm before the storm in hypersleep; Covenant throws you straight into trauma.
    “rather than ever getting the sort of calm before the storm that you usually get an alien movies”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:17:42 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. contrast (contrast): Alien: Covenant → Hotel Chevalier. Unlike the Hotel Chevalier prologue, the Covenant online extras did not stand alone as their own experience.
    “none of it even felt like hotel chevalier type stuff”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:18:53 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. contrast (contrast): Alien: Covenant → Prometheus. The lush wet planet is not the ruined dusty Prometheus world.
    “I like that it's not the ruined, dusty Prometheus world”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:39:43 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  4. contrast (contrast): Alien: Covenant → Avengers: Age of Ultron. The David and Walter scene resembles Ultron and Vision talking at the end of Age of Ultron.
    “much like Ultron and vision at the end of that movie”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 1:11:10 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  5. contrast (contrast): Alien: Covenant → H.R. Giger. The neomorph in Covenant lacks the Giger biomechanical kibble, with a more human, translucent-skinned look.
    “He does not have all of the HR Geiger biomechanical kibble all over his body.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 1:21:16 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  6. contrast (contrast): Alien: Covenant → Prometheus. Unlike Prometheus, Covenant doesn't ignore what others contributed to the franchise.
    “Unlike Prometheus, which just ignores everything else that anyone else contributed to the franchise.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 1:56:09 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

craft (6)

  1. craft (craft): Alien: Covenant → Prometheus. The Fox logo is washed out here where Prometheus's was really blue.
    “Prometheus is really blue and this is a little more just kind of washed out, I feel like.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:06:23 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. craft (craft): Alien: Covenant → The Lord of the Rings. New Zealand locations can't replicate what Peter Jackson did with it in Lord of the Rings, but still look like a newer earth.
    “you can never replicate the total stunning magic trick of Peter Jackson, like deploying it in Lord of the Rings”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:38:46 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. craft (craft): Alien: Covenant → The Parent Trap. Same-actor twin roles are usually bad, but Fassbender's work here is good.
    “You don't like a parent trap.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 1:01:01 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  4. craft (craft): Alien: Covenant → Back to the Future Part II. The double-Fassbender effect is an old trick established by Zemeckis in Back to the Future II.
    “once again, shit established by Zameckis and back to the future too.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 1:09:38 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  5. craft (craft): Alien: Covenant → The Hobbit films. Acting to tennis balls on a green screen was exhausting for The Tick, and people say it was easy because of the Hobbit movies.
    “they do this shit with like the Hobbit movies, right?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 1:40:13 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  6. craft (craft): Ridley Scott → Alien: Covenant. Scott's advertising background means he always keeps in mind that he's selling a product.
    “Ridley, it feels like always keeps in mind like, ultimately, I'm trying to sell a product”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 1:54:27 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

industry (6)

  1. industry (industry): Alien: Covenant → Prometheus. Prometheus's marketing left it unclear whether it was an Alien film; Covenant's marketing was the opposite, selling the Alien iconography.
    “how much of this is going to be directly an alien franchise film or not”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:08:07 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)
  2. industry (industry): Alien: Covenant → Logan Lucky. Four 2017 films used Take Me Home, Country Roads as a plot point.
    “I remember this so vividly that it was 4 movies within this year.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:30:44 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. industry (industry): Alien: Covenant → Kingsman: The Golden Circle. Kingsman: The Golden Circle is another 2017 film that uses Country Roads.
    “Oh, oh, Kingsman, the Golden Circle.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:30:48 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  4. industry (industry): Alien: Covenant → Free Fire. Free Fire used a different John Denver song instead.
    “Free Fire uses a different John Denver song.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:31:40 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  5. industry (industry): Alien: Covenant → The Martian. The Martian's success gave Scott leverage to make an odder Alien film.
    “I forgot that the previous film to this is the Martian”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 1:19:20 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  6. industry (industry): Alien: Covenant → Alien. Covenant checks the studio boxes (sex scene, shower kill) in the weirdest way.
    “Watching Ridley Scott clearly coming out of a meeting with Fox where they're like, look, we'll give you $90 million, but you got to give us these 10 things.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 1:53:24 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

lineage (9)

  1. lineage (lineage): Alien: Covenant → Prometheus. Covenant is half the Prometheus sequel Scott wanted and half a concession to a more normal Alien movie.
    “this is half, like Ridley Scott doing the Prometheus sequel he wanted to do and half”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:06:57 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (lineage): Alien: Covenant → Alien. Each Alien film has a different workforce; the original had blue-collar miners.
    “Like that's, you know, blue collar minors.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:29:38 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  3. lineage (lineage): Alien: Covenant → Aliens. Aliens had Marines.
    “Aliens, you got Marines.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:29:41 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  4. lineage (lineage): Alien: Covenant → Alien 3. Alien 3 had convicts.
    “Alien 3 convicts.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:29:45 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  5. lineage (lineage): Alien: Covenant → Alien Resurrection. The fourth film had pirates.
    “Alien four, I guess.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:29:48 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  6. lineage (lineage): Alien: Covenant → Prometheus. Prometheus had pioneering scientists; Covenant has crunchy colonists.
    “Prometheus, you know, where we're in, where it's full on like pioneering scientist types.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:29:59 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  7. lineage (lineage): Alien: Covenant → Aliens. The shoulder-mounted GoPro cameras are carried over from the Marines in Aliens.
    “which the Marines all have in aliens”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:40:52 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  8. lineage (lineage): Alien: Covenant → Aliens. The loader and airlock set piece homages the power loader fight in Aliens.
    “But something about this feels closer to the power loader fight.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 1:55:53 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  9. lineage (lineage): Alien: Covenant → Alien. David's closing log-talk to the ship echoes Ripley's.
    “talking to the ship in the way that Ripley did.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 2:01:39 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

programming (2)

  1. programming (programming): Alien: Covenant → Blade Runner 2049. Both came out in 2017, by two generations of sci-fi.
    “This is the same year as Blade Runner 2049.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 1:04:43 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. programming (programming): Alien: Covenant → Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. Covenant's weekend opened behind Guardians Vol. 2, #1 for the second weekend.
    “Oh, it's Gardens of Galaxy volume two.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 2:04:21 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

theme (4)

  1. theme (theme): Alien: Covenant → Aliens. Covenant is a haunted house about grief; even Ripley and Newt were more PTSD than grief.
    “Even Ripley and Newt were haunted by death.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:57:59 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. theme (theme): Prometheus → Alien: Covenant. Engineers, aliens, humans and androids all create something that destroys them, a cycle.
    “So then it's sort of mirroring what the humans are doing, and then the androids are their creation that are ultimately what destroys them.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 1:06:04 · Ben Hosley (0.80 sure it was them)
  3. theme (theme): Billy Crudup → Alien: Covenant. Crudup's calm comes from faith, not programming, so he plays an Android-like leader without being one.
    “Crudup does kind of have classic alien franchise Android energy, right?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 1:07:17 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  4. theme (theme): Alien: Covenant → Blade Runner. Franchises like Alien and Blade Runner predict a first generation of androids that does horrid things and gets scaled back.
    “very much like in this franchise and Blade Runner”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 1:12:45 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

verdict (2)

  1. verdict (verdict): James Franco → Alien: Covenant. The cut online prologue with Franco should have stayed in the film because his death weighs on the lead.
    “I remember feeling very strongly, that should have been in the movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:17:08 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. verdict (verdict): Alien Resurrection → Alien: Covenant. David walked out of the Covenant press screening hearing grumbling that it was not their Alien; he does not get that anger.
    “I walked out of the press screening of covenant, and I remember one credit being like, I mean, that's just not my alien.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:43:47 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)

what-if (3)

  1. what-if (what-if): Damon Lindelof → Alien: Covenant. Lindelof was first going to write it, then went back to TV after audiences were angry at his screenplays.
    “Lindeloff was going to write it and then I think would just sort of was like, you know what?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:09:03 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. what-if (what-if): Alien: Covenant → Prometheus. If Prometheus had doubled its gross, a direct Prometheus 2 with Rapace would have followed.
    “I mean, if Prometheus had made literally double what it made.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:47:44 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. what-if (what-if): Alien: Covenant → Blade Runner 2049. Wishes Scott had made 2049 and let Villeneuve make Covenant.
    “I sort of wish that Ridley had done Blade Runner and had let some new blood like Villeneuve do covenant.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 1:05:10 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Fun items about it

  1. fun, about Alien: Covenant: Originally titled Alien: Paradise Lost; Damon Lindelof was going to write it before bailing, then John Logan, with a first script by the Transcendence writer and a Michael Green rewrite.
    “Initially, it was going to be called Alien Paradise Lost.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:08:57 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Alien: Covenant: The online prologue with James Franco and Noomi Rapace is not in the film; the initial cut ran about 2.5 hours and Scott trimmed the franchise stuff.
    “it was this thing with James Franco, who is not in this movie, although you see him in like photos.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:12:52 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Alien: Covenant: The Franco footage cooks him alive and Griffin says the 10-second prologue would have made the film's emotional start stronger.
    “you kind of really benefit from seeing him for 10 seconds alive, you know?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:17:11 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about Alien: Covenant: Griffin's theater memory: texters in the row ahead; he let his guard down and missed the second Fassbender swap.
    “the people in the row in front of me would not stop texting.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:20:42 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about Alien: Covenant: Take Me Home, Country Roads is a plot point in four 2017 movies; Karen Han wrote an article about it.
    “What's insane about it is not only do 4 movies all use this one song in such a short period of time, but all 4 of them use it as a plot point.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:31:09 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  6. fun, about Alien: Covenant: Kill count: a seizure, chest burster reversed to a back burster, then a neomorph in a wheat field; the hosts call it more haunted house than slasher.
    “you think there's going to be a chest burster, and instead it breaks out of his fucking back”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:56:25 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  7. fun, about Alien: Covenant: The flute lesson scene: David teaches Walter with lines about the fingering, which the hosts note makes the sexual overtones unmistakable.
    “Gentle pressure on the holes, Ben.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 1:10:30 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  8. fun, about Alien: Covenant: Two Fassbenders: Scott shoots long takes with the actor against himself and objects passed between them; the flute lesson is the highlight.
    “So Fastbender is having to do extended takes that have to match up with the other side of the footage.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 1:11:29 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  9. fun, about Alien: Covenant: The egg-room scene people call silly: one host defends Crudup as a man of faith led by something greater.
    “come on, stick your face in these eggs”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 1:26:21 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  10. fun, about Alien: Covenant: Merchandise for the movie showed an earlier, practical-looking xenomorph design before the creature was redone in CGI late in production.
    “All of the merchandise for this movie had an incorrect xenomorph design.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 1:41:32 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  11. fun, about Alien: Covenant: Watching Scott fulfill ten studio demands from Fox for a roughly $90 million budget in the weirdest way.
    “we'll give you $90 million, but you got to give us these 10 things”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 1:53:24 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  12. fun, about Alien: Covenant: The finale plays Wagner's Entry of the Gods into Valhalla; one host loves watching with captions on so bluntness shows.
    “Inter Valhalla is playing.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 1:59:44 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  13. fun, about Alien: Covenant: The evil robot wins at the end, which the hosts note is something Scott got a studio to accept.
    “The evil robot unambiguously triumphs.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 2:00:10 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  14. fun, about Alien: Covenant: Box office: opened to $36M on May 19, 2017, made 74M domestic and 238M worldwide, about half Prometheus's budget.
    “It did, because it only made 74 domestic, 238 worldwide total.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 2:03:20 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Who the speakers said made it

As said on the shows, not checked against the real credits.