15 Movie Moments That Pissed Off Fans Most In 2017

10. Shaw Dies Off-Screen - Alien: Covenant

Alien Covenant Shaw
20th Century Fox

Though most fans who had been following the production of Alien: Covenant weren't expecting Elizabeth Shaw (Noomi Rapace) to play a significant part in the movie's narrative, the fact she doesn't even appear alive in the film is, frankly, a slap in the face from Ridley Scott.

It appears that the entirety of Rapace's time working on the film was for a viral video released shortly before the movie itself, while in Covenant Shaw only appears as a corpse, by way of a grotesque special effects mannequin, of course.

Considering how invested many fans were in Shaw's journey, it felt like such a lame cop-out to kill her off-screen, and horrifying though it was, it would've been far more interesting to actually see her death play out in the movie, with Rapace getting a proper supporting role.

This, combined with the Engineers basically being blown out of the franchise's airlock, so to speak, left those fans intrigued by Prometheus understandably infuriated.

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