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My Titan would be a 120ft elephant (who could be a cousin to Behemoth). She awakens to avenge the deaths of elephant herds that have been slaughtered by poachers. Her main ability is that she can cause earthquakes by stomping her feet, she can also flood areas by spraying water from her trunk. her design resembles a giant African bush elephant, she has "mountain-like rocks" and some trees covering her back (similar to Methuselah) and her skin is heavily armored. Her local name is "Tembo wa jiwe", which translates to "Elephant of Stone", referencing her rock-like armor. Vibrations from her infrasound can travel nearly 72 miles. Like regular elephants, she grieves for the loss of others like her, mourning the loss of elephant herds and even burying them. 

funki

Beipiaosaurus was actually a dromaeosaur, not a therizinosaur like we thought, that just lost all its sharp raptor teeth and sickle claw

Also, recent studies on pterosaurs indicate that whenever they appeared, they were accompanied by a funky, 70s styled soundtrack.

Like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXCt17EXv5w 

Kattozilla

Burrowing raptors? 

Excavaraptors Confirmed!

How the mighty have fallen. Of course the Director said it's David... he's holding the suspense. It's David and Walter because Walter accepted David's plea and killing his body took on his mind with the nifty little plugin David has in his neck and Walter lacked. Quick as that. Bam cut open the David and take the embryo's himself. The differnce of course between the psychopathic murderer and the next gen is that Walter recognised the need to create an army of Xenomorphs to handle the Engineer threat. 

Charts have been updated.

Analysis of Godzilla vs. Kong's Japanese run:
At this point we can stop using covid as an excuse. Other films have overperformed in increasingly worse conditions. As of this writing, Fast & Furious 9 is still in the top 10 having accrued $28.1M/2.03M in attendance in just 4 weeks. The numbers embarrasses Godzilla vs. Kong's 9 week climb to $17.2M/1.25M in attendance. It's still the 2nd highest grossing Hollywood film of 2021, but what does that mean in Japan exactly?

The big issue is Japan is more interested in domestic films, while foreign (or Hollywood) movies have done progressively worse in the country for years. With less and less marketable Hollywood offerings lately, the scale seems to have tipped further.

For example, the Japanese production Tokyo Revengers opened 1 week after Godzilla vs. Kong and it currently sits at $36.6M/3.01M in attendance. Another Japanese film, Belle, opened 2 weeks after Godzilla vs. Kong and is at a whopping $50.8M/4.02M in attendance. Both movies are still in the top 10 after being in theaters for 7 and 8 weeks respectively. Godzilla vs. Kong fell out of the top 10 after week 5 and other Hollywood movies have done much worse. Black Widow, Jungle Cruise, Tom & Jerry and Wonder Woman 1984 all failed to hit $10M. The closest was Black Widow with only $8.2M and 0.6M in attendance.

Godzilla vs. Kong did better than most of the imports due to the curiosity of how Hollywood handles Japanese IP. But while Japanese Godzilla fans tend to like Godzilla vs. Kong, its general audience are lukewarm to how we handle their IP, preferring their own content. Another example is the CG remake of Pokemon: Mewtwo Strikes Back. It opened the same year as the big budget, Hollywood take on Pokemon, Detective Pikachu. But the Mewtwo Strikes Back remake still did better in Japan.

So as poorly as Godzilla vs. Kong did, there's two things in its favor: 1) It did okay for a Hollywood flick, especially in comparison to this year's slate and 2) Toho didn't lift a finger to make it. Toho loves the international spotlight too much to let Godzilla vs. Kong's performance deter them from wanting more. And the fact they keep the Japanese box office receipts sweetens the deal. (WB/Legendary doesn't see a cent of the money it makes in Japan.)

But if this were a Toho production, Godzilla would likely be going back on hiatus again.

Comparison:

Godzilla (2014)
- Screens (at opening): 427
- Opening weekend: $5.0 million
- (Opening weekend counting Friday:) $6.7 million
- TOTAL GROSS: $31 million
- TOTAL ATTENDANCE: 2.23 million

Shin Godzilla (2016)
- Screens (at opening): 448
- Opening weekend: $6.1 million
- (Opening weekend counting Friday:) $8.2 million
- TOTAL GROSS: $79.2 million
- TOTAL ATTENDANCE: 5.69 million

Kong: Skull Island (2017)
- Screens (at opening): 676
- Opening weekend: $3.4 million
- TOTAL GROSS: $17.7 million
- TOTAL ATTENDANCE: 1.34 million

Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters (2017)
- Screens (at opening): 158
- Opening weekend: $1.3 million
- TOTAL GROSS: $3.1 million (est.)
- TOTAL ATTENDANCE: 169,000 (est.)
(Last official number before dropping from top 10: $3 million)

Godzilla: City on the Edge of Battle (2018)
- Screens (at opening): 159
- Opening weekend: $945,000
- TOTAL GROSS: $1.7 million (est.)
- TOTAL ATTENDANCE: 93,100 (est.)
(Last official number before dropping from top 10: $945,000)

Godzilla: The Planet Eater (2018)
- Screens (at opening): 158
- Opening weekend: $901,000
- TOTAL GROSS: $2.6 million (est.)
- TOTAL ATTENDANCE: 142,400 (est.)
(Last official number before dropping from top 10: $1.9 Million)

Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019)
- Screens (at opening): 431
- Opening weekend: $6.3 million
- (Opening weekend counting Friday:) $8.6 million
- TOTAL GROSS: $25.8 million
- TOTAL ATTENDANCE: 1.91 million

Godzilla vs. Kong (2021)
- Screens (at opening): 366
- Opening weekend: $4.3 million
- (Opening weekend counting Friday:) $5.6 million
- TOTAL GROSS: $17.2 million
- TOTAL ATTENDANCE: 1.25 million

Godzilla Series attendance numbers:

Attendance including recent giant monster/kaiju films:

YeOldFossil

He did beat Godzilla in round 2 without help with the axe and Godzilla was out for a while.

gorgosaurus

yes exactly

Kong killed Mecha G. He delivered the final blow and chopped off the head. Kong had helped, but he was the one that physically did the act. It was the least he could do after Adam decided to make Kong fuckin useless against Godzilla in a movie called Godzilla vs Kong. Like how do you introduce an anti-Godzilla axe and have it not seriously damage Godzilla when it hits him in the head? Why make Kong need help every fight when you build him up to be this alpha Titan that is going to finish a war between their ancestors. The next director better show Kong to be a beast like he always was and I don’t want to see a human anywhere near those fights. Kong handles his own fights and always has.

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Kattozilla

That’s the reason dinos went extinct! No because of a meteor! The raptors made so many holes that dinos fell into them and died. The avian flying dinos survived because they could fly out.

Monster_Zero

Why do you think so?

My answer for BEST HUMAN CHARACTER is Maia Simmons

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Of course we can do the analysis. But every analysis is based on films and material that were made AFTER the other Alien films were made. Aliens brings in conspiracy theory, Alien 3 brings in the possibility of mutation by host / later on RS actually used this for both Covenant and Prometheus. But all of this material comes from the films AFTER Aliens none of it comes from BEFORE Aliens. This loses the essence of where the searchers are looking for the essence. Would they have thought of this or that idea BEFORE these movies?

I doubt anyone would have doubted for a second that it was an alien skeleton before seeing Prometheus flat. After all, the inspiration for the skeleton is found in Planet of the Vampires. The crazy suit idea is probably the stupidest I've ever seen.

The resemblance, I can easily explain. H.R. Giger was tasked with creating everything. The complete lifecycle of Alien, the Spaceship, I recommend the book H.R. Giger ALIEN Giger painted Biomechanoid style, in all his works we find elements of sex, death and technology. It is quite laughable where we find elements of female genitalia in his paintings. Yes and in many places in the film... I'll give you a hint, facehugger, alien spaceship entrances.

He just had his own style. And Scott was captivated. So he didn't interfere. That's why the cave is so close in design to the ship. Giger was a genius, and without his Alien, the film would have lost xy percent of its quality. If there was a weird octopus running around, it probably wouldn't be the same as the monster without eyes.

Giger's world is fascinating, I recommend the Necronomicon. Alien and his other books. Perfect. So I wouldn't look for a deeper idea. It's just that the design was used. The pyramid was supposed to look like that, there were even hieroglyphic characters and drawings, you can easily find that too.

In the Mother the whole point of the secret message was simple, BRING THE alien lifeform EVEN IF EVERYONE WAS TO DIE. that's why it was kept secret, Ripley's words about the armory are more of a joke. The clause said: If you find anything that indicates intelligent life, you must investigate, or no bonus. And the secret addendum for the android was:IF YOU FIND SOMETHING IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT IT KILLS THE POSSESSION... that's why the android was there. That clause has been in there for a long time, no one on the crew is surprised when Ash says it, Parker is just pissed. We can speculate that the order AT WHATEVER HAPPENS was given later, and an android was added to the crew there in case of bioinfection. The organism may contain viruses, etc.
But of course anyone can make up any theory they want. The sequel to The Thing is a tragedy on the level of Aliens :D but I understand it's good for earnings money. That's why I enjoy Alien vs Predator, it's not playing at anything. Just like Godzilla vs Kong. Also absolute nonsense, but entertaining. If Superman and Alien Queen ever fight, I have no problem with it... 

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Kattozilla

H m m m 

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THAT'S PERFECT.

Like an HBO Max supercut movie called: Rise of The Titans.

sonictiger

Honestly I don’t think KOTM has the worst writing ever. I think it is a bit rushed and has a lack of focus. The ideas could have worked but the exposition and little mistakes in setup and writing pulled it back. 

I think recutting KOTM and GvK into one movie could would strip away most of the bad elements.

I know good writing, and the MonsterVerse isn't really that as KOTM first made it so it looked like Madison saved the world by luring Ghidorah and the other Titans to Godzilla and Mothra's location and then later had a forced redemption cop-out by having Emma sacrifice herself when there was no setup for it and so apparently she saved the world.

Now that's an example of bad writing.

But to go back to a FEW things..

I think that YES with ALIEN it was Ambiguous, there was a LOT of Mystery.

Somethings we also Dont Know for sure would be.

The Eggs are in a Cave..... this could be Kanes Assumption.

The Space Jockey was a Skeleton.... again this could be a Assumption by Dallas.

Could the ALIEN be Killed?... again we do-not have enough to Conclude from ALIEN if it could be KILLED.

Then it comes down to STUDY with a Magnify Glass at Details, then you come up with things like thats a ODD SKELETON..... and that we are LOOKING at some STORAGE FACILITY for the Eggs that seems TOO LARGE to be Part of the SHIP and would seem more likely to be UNDERGROUND and Dug Out of a Cave etc.

What Dawned on me, even before the DVD Release and Wide Spread Internet, was that the SHIP had some Shared Aesthetic to the Xenomorph, and the PILOT had seemed Purposely Engineered to ATTACH to the Chair....

After i saw ALIENS in the 80's i was Drawn to Conclude that the Space Jockey Race had been Getting the Eggs from somewhere and STORING them either in a Lower Cargo Hold (thats Buried) or a Underground Storage Facility.

But what BUGGED ME (No Pun Intended) was the Xenomorph Hive did seem to Aesthetically Connect to the Egg Chamber and Derelict Ship.. and so i was ALWAYS WONDERING...... as to WHY...

Either ONE comes from the Other or Same Source.

1) Xenomorphs are Engineered on to Obtain the Derelict Bio-Mechanical Aesthetic.

2) The Space Jockey Engineer both the Derelict/Cargo Hold and the Xenomorph.

3) That the Space Jockey, Derelict, Cargo Hold and Xenomorph are Created/Engineered by something ELSE we have YET to see.

The ONE THING that Definitely Stood out for me with ALIEN was that SPECIAL ORDER 937 to me had Indicated the Company had SOME knowledge of what they MAY be dealing with.

I think Ripley would be aware of any Company Policy to Investigate Worlds they come Across that had LIFE... she seemed Really Pissed Off about Discovering that the Company had KNOWN they are going to Investigate something.  So its NOT that Special Order means the Company knows 100% what they was getting into... but would seem the could be Aware that something is ON the Moon and they want to get a SPECIMEN without the Crew (Apart from Ash) having any Knowledge about.

@Andy77

Well i have to agree with a LOT of what your Saying... with ALIEN it was Mysterious a ENIGMA....there was a LOT that we just Dont Know!  And so IF you ONLY go and Watch the Theatrical Release and you do-not look at NOTHING ELSE... no other Source, Comments, Concepts, Drafts.

Then there is a LOT of Mystery.... and the PROBLEM you have when you do any Sequels is the Stuff it could SHOW would NOT match with Everyone's Speculation to WHAT the Answers would be.

As ALIEN was ALONE... then Every Fan can Speculate, Dream or Wish for WHAT they would Think/Like... but WHEN someone makes Sequels and Prequels then the Answers or things they go to SHOW will NEVER Please everyone...

WHY i had Mentioned the Movie THE THING.... this was the same as ALIEN with the Mystery etc... and so in Hindsight i think had the 2011 Prequel had Never Been Made then the ORIGINAL would have had more of that Enigma/Magic and Mystery.

Lets say we had a THING Prequel thats SET BEFORE the 2011 Movie...  You have a Humanoid Species who are Genetically Engineering stuff and come up with a VIRUS.... this Overruns their Planet and Teaches them to NOT go and Play God... we show Survivors of the World running away to Flying Saucers to Escape and we see that ONE of them Decides to Head to Earth.... but then Reveal ONE of the Crew is a THING and Kills the others... and Mutates into the FORM that was DUG from the ICE in the 2011 Prequel.

Then you make a Sequel to The Thing where McReady is in a Mental Institute he is Informed by someone that the Military have the Space Ship and have a Sample of the DNA of the Organism....  McReady breaks out and then goes on to STOP the Outpost who are trying to Experiment with the VIRUS/Organism.

These could MAYBE go and Work.... but they could also Bomb! or maybe they are SO SO... but in any Case you would get some PURIST who would Dislike the IDEA that you are Making Prequels/Sequels to the ORIGINAL, were as the BEST THING would had been to have JUST the Original.

"That First Time we see the Derelict, the Pilot Chamber and Pilot, the Egg Cargo Hold.... this to me is ONE of the GREATEST Set of Scenes in Sci-Fi History."

Indeed. And those scenes are utterly... alien!

When I saw Alien, I was 15 years old and it was 1982. That's when I wanted an explanation above all else. And when I saw Aliens, I was excited at first. Hooray for action, combat, explanation. That's what the success of Aliens is based on. JC knew exactly what he was doing.

But as the years went by, I, who loved Alien despite my initial enthusiasm, suddenly understood the tragedy that Aliens caused for the original Alien.

RS quite deliberately left out the explanation. Alien is a de facto gothic horror film. Humans have no chance of survival, although they don't know it at first. The audience doesn't know why or what it's all about. And that's the amazing thing.

There's a spaceship. Who built it? When was it built? We'll never know. There's a dead pilot. Something killed him from the inside. No other crew. The next storyline will explain why. If Nostromo hadn't taken off, the situation would have repeated itself. A dead body with bones outside and no one around.

Now that I think about it in the discussion, it's better that Alien didn't include the scene with Dallas and Brett's cocoons. It left a mystery. By the way, the alien ship wasn't carrying eggs. Kane clearly says "It's a cave, hot as the tropics". So the alien ship landed over the egg cave instead of the pyramid.

It's a good thing there were no hints. It remained a mystery. I think Ripley's words "they probably wanted the monster for the armaments factory" is a deliberate hoax. The command in the Mother is not to fly to a specific planet. It's a command to investigate ANY source of intelligent life and import a sample. Unfortunately, Aliens uses this phrase to build a story to confuse the viewer.

Alien is a polished gem, and anything extra already cancels it out. Even the cocoon scene. The goal is total mystery. No hint of explanation.

There's a similar case in the history of literature. E A Poe and his book on A G Pym. The hero reaches the South Seas at a time when the existence or size of Antarctica was unknown. And when the mystical atmosphere is at its peak a giant white glowing figure appears and the book ends. That's all we learn.

Jules Verne did not understand this Poe's idea of deliberately not revealing the point or wanted to capitalize on it and wrote the novel The Ice Sphinx where the expedition to Antarctica explains everything. The death of Pym, making a mystical figure into an ice stump looking like a sphinx, etc. Someone was happy and the explanation.

Back to RS. The creation of Prometheus and Covenant were his biggest failures. He decided to suppress the other movies of the original Alien and shattered the mythology with more nonsense than one would expect. He got tangled up in his own thoughts and got stuck in them.

Yes, Aliens was the gateway to the creation of the Alien universe. Hence the many video games, comics and various sequels, etc. For me, Alien will always remain as a one-off. Untouchable. Mount Everest. And everything around it whether Aliens , , Alien 3, AvP or Covenant are just avalanches that have fallen from its slopes. The mountain would remain a mountain even if a thousand avalanches fell from it.

All the attempts to figure out "how it was" are the acts of children who want to know more and so they make stuff up. Fabulating. Usually to their own detriment  

1) Where did the eggs come from in the cave? We don't know.
2) why and where did the alien ship come from? We don't know.
3) Was the Alien intelligent or was it driven by perfect instincts? We don't know.

The sad thing is, after Scott built such a perfect structure, he joined the others who tried to destroy it for money. To no avail. In this, Alien is truly indestructible and has infected countless writers and audiences even without eggs. And it remains what it was meant to be. A mystery.

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I like AVPR better than AVP 04, yeah it has a direct to video quality but I grew up on both hollywood movies and direct-to-video movies. Used to watch alot of sci-fi original movies back in the day.

As for the rest, well said Big Dave

i know nothing about good writing so i couldn't tell you lol

Even if Kong killed mechaG or not, can't we agree that Kong "won" the battle, but Godzilla won the war?

"I think people get confused when they hear, Character Development. To me what separates good writing from bad writing is Intention. A character does not need to undergo a grand Change or much change at all to be considered a good character. While that does make it interesting it does not mean that the story will succeed. One reason is narrative tension. This keeeps the audience invested, and the character changing does not usually keep the tension. Rather it makes a story interesting another way to engage the audience."

Nail meet head.

Some Interesting ART....

Its ok to give Alternative Canon/Stories.... just HOPE that the TV Series or any Future Movies are NOT too much like these.

Xenomorph Chickens?

Nah Give me Prometheus/AC Black Goo infected KFC Nuggets!

I think that while ALIEN was a Masterpiece it maybe could have become one of those CULT Movies...like The Thing and Blade Runner etc....

And so i would AGREE that ALIENS was the Movie that made the Franchise more Familiar, by that if you Showed EVERYONE on the Planet and Asked or Talked about the Franchise....

I think MORE would be Familiar with ALIENS over ALIEN. To the General Population then YES that does Stand Out more.  The Alien Franchise which Includes the Video Games. Comics, Novels and Cross-Overs (AVP) do seem to be more Synonymous and Connected to Camerons Aliens... rather than Ridley Scotts Original.

For me and maybe for Many i was Younger when i saw ALIENS... and the Action and Bravado was more my Cuppa Tea but i also LOVED the First Movie and was Disapointed with the 3rd.....  But as i Grew Older then Alien 3 had Grown on me, and Aliens started to NOT be as Great... but still Good.....

Overall then ALIEN was my Favorite and i think as RS had said for me i became Unsensitised to the Franchise as FAR as the Xenomorph because i had seen it OVER and OVER in Various Mediums.... what KEPT the First ALIEN Movie as Enigmatic for me was the MYSTERY....

That First Time we see the Derelict, the Pilot Chamber and Pilot, the Egg Cargo Hold.... this to me is ONE of the GREATEST Set of Scenes in Sci-Fi History.

The Xenomorph was something we had NEVER really seen it was Unique, it was Iconic...it was a ENIGMA.... but then when you have something that is SHOWN in Mass and Too Many Times then it LOOSES that Sparkle/Enigma it once had.

This is NOT to say that Aliens had Killed it Off.....  i think the Downfall Started with Alien Resurrection and then AVPR basically made a Mockery of Sorts of it.

I cant Blame JC for the Queen.... he had Free Reign to Explore the Idea as the Egg Morph Scene was NOT a Part of the Original (DC Cut aside).  But when you look at Eggs.... then you think well they have to be LAID by something.

And if that Something can LAY MANY EGGS... then your Conclusion would be that maybe they have to be like a Ant, Bee or Termite and so you can Understand as to HOW the Hive/Queen came to be.

The Existence of the Queen did OPEN the Debate about the Origins of the Xenomorph as FAR as to give some Credit to the Idea that the Xenomorph was NOT a Creation but a Ancient Organism.....

It seems that THIS would have been something that JC would have Touched On had he MADE the Sequel to ALIENS... This would make the Xenomorph become more Closer to the Original Starbeast.

Ridley Scott had however thought the Xenomorph as a Engineered Killing Machine that the Space Jockey had Created....But this does-not make the Queen as something that does-not FIT with a Engineered Weapon... the Queen actually Offers some Benefit as a Weapon.... but also Offers some Flaws.

But even if ALIENS had Never Existed and the Egg Morph was shown in ALIEN then IF the Notion was the Xenomorph was a Creation by the Space Jockey then it would STILL have Flaws as well as Pros to being a Bio-Weapon.

I think EVERYONE has a Different Take well can have a Varied Take on the Franchise and likes and Dislikes and Everyone is Entitled to that.  There may even be some who like AVRP ;)  (I actually think the Pred-Alien and Procreation was Interesting but a BIT RAPID).

I liked Ford Brody, he wasn't bland, just military.

I mean Ren seemed like he was there to, connect the universe? Honestly it’s not that big of a problem  he was decent in my opinion.

monsterzero9

i don’t think it’s ironic,

sequels don’t tend to be as good

SasquaDash

I do think Reiwa has a better grasp so far of how to make characters with clear motivations and personalities, the most aggretious errors in human writing would be the Godzilla Trilogy.

This next bit is my opinion.

I think people get confused when they hear, Character Development. To me what separates good writing from bad writing is Intention. A character does not need to undergo a grand Change or much change at all to be considered a good character. While that does make it interesting it does not mean that the story will succeed. One reason is narrative tension. This keeeps the audience invested, and the character changing does not usually keep the tension. Rather it makes a story interesting another way to engage the audience. Take the movie interstellar. Using the science to drive the plot and the tension around whether Cooper will be with his kids again. ALthough he has arcs of choosing to sacrifice himself he does not change on a significant level. (Note he never chooses to let go until he sees his daughter again.) Yet many don’t criticize the movie on this level, because it doesn’t rely on it. Either way this narrative style is either hit or miss

best: ishiro serizawa

worst: ren serizawa

how ironic

HinikunaGoji

Yeah, I agree, while Ford isn't the most amazing character, I don't think he deserves the hate. I've seen some reviews that label him as nothing more than a "bland chunk of wood" and I don't think that's really fair. There is a lot of depth to his character, unfortunately most people overlook this due to Aaron Taylor Johnson's performance. I definitely like him better than some other Godzilla protagonists, especially compared to some of the Reiwa series characters.  

SasquaDash

sonictiger

I don’t think Ford deserves that much hate, he’s better than most recent characters we’ve seen.