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His recent movies make me doubt his genius as a director


He's really messed up his legacy with his recent movies like Alien: Covenant. What a piece of shit that was. Makes you think if his earlier movies were flukes or due to the people around him.

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You have no eye if you can't see the quality of his work...

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Alien Covenant kicks ass.

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I actually really enjoyed Covenant. It’s far from the quality of Alien and I’m not sure I even consider it canon, but as an atmospheric space horror with stunning visuals and hideous creatures… it really delivers.

Plus Fassbender is excellent as David, and I like some of the ‘creator’ ideas.

I much preferred it to Prometheus.

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i've actually been a scott agnostic through all of his career. the only film of his i've ever truly liked a lot was alien. he's made some other perfectly decent movies, i'm sure, but nothing that inspired anything more than a tepid attitude from me.

at least, that was the case until i watched the last duel yesterday morning. that movie was absolutely terrific, and i'm now possibly willing to go back and re-watch some of his films to see if i need to re-evaluate some stuff.

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He used to be a great filmmaker but now he's just old.

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Well The Last Duel was great and House of Gucci looks good too.

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