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the hatred of Synths feels a little out of place considering the timeline.

In Prometheus it was okay since Human-like Synths were relatively new, although the viral site indicated that most people where fine with the Synthetics in general.

Alien Covenant, we see a lack of Synth prejudice with Walter

Alien, the crew were more surprised that Ash was a robot then genuine hate

Aliens, everyone was fine with Bishop except for Ripley (until they became friends)

Alien 3, no Synth hatred

Alien Resurrection, I think this is the only time were we saw people genuine hated synths for well uprising against mankind (a hallmark of Joss Weadon lore, everything he writes about Robots always includes this)

PS. I hate the toaster analogy when describing a fully sapient robot. A toaster was never given intelligence nor a will to survive. The biological equivalent to the toaster analogy is someone getting upset for killing a weed. You can't compare humans to a weed just like you can't compare a thinking/feeling robot with a simple kitchen appliance. 

Picture 1, Reminds of an old ALIEN still

Picture 2, Nice ALIENS call back

I hope this movie is good, we need a good alien movie

05/14/2024a:
In its 2nd weekend, Godzilla x Kong remained at #2 with 1.266 Billion Yen ($7.45 Million) and an attendance of 856,851 in 11 days. (Movie Web Media Editor-and-Chief, FranSpeech) At the moment it is the lowest-attended live-action Godzilla movie in Japan, but that should change by next weekend.

05/14/2024a:
By its 3rd weekend Godzilla x Kong has dropped from #2 to #5 at the box office. It sits at 1.442 Billion Yen ($9.4 Million) and has still yet to break 1 million in attendance with 978,118. It is roughly tied with Godzilla vs. Megalon as the second least-attended, live-action Godzilla film. It should finally break 1 million next week and surpass Pacific Rim's final gross of 1.48 Billion Yen. (Movie Web Media Editor-and-Chief, FranSpeech)

Third weekend comparisons:
Shin Godzilla:
3.36 Billion Yen/$32.6 Million/>2.59M attendance
Godzilla Minus One:
2.85 Billion Yen/$18.9 Million/~1.84M attendance
Shin Ultraman:
2.69 Billion Yen/$21.2 Million/1.77M attendance
Godzilla: King of the Monsters:
2.21 Billion Yen/$20.5 Million/1.51M attendance
Godzilla 2014:
2.05 Billion Yen/$20.1 Million/1.42M attendance
Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire:
1.44 Billion Yen/$9.4 Million/0.98 attendance
Godzilla vs. Kong:
1.40 Billion Yen/$12.9 Million/0.90M attendance

05/14/2024c:
As of Thursday, May 9th tracking has finally ended for Godzilla Minus One. After 28 weeks in theaters, only 90 theaters are now showing it in Japan and the number is dwindling. So it's unlikely it will move the needle much now. Its legendary run has placed it as the following:

- 1st highest-grossing live-action domestic film of the Reiwa Political Era.
- 1st highest-grossing domestic live-action 2023 film in Japan.
- 1st live-action Japanese film to pass 7 Billion Yen in 5 years.
- 2nd highest-grossing/attended kaiju film in last 13 years.
- 4th highest-grossing domestic 2023 film in Japan.
- 4th live-action Japanese film to pass 6 Billion Yen in 10 years.
- 5th highest-grossing 2023 film in Japan.
- 8th most attended Godzilla movie in Japan.
- 96th highest-grossing movie in Japan.

Godzilla Minus One ends its tracking with 7.59 Billion Yen ($51.6 Million) and an attendance of 5.04 Million. Congratulations to Godzilla Minus One's team and Toho for the historic box office run. We'll update if actuals ever get released. (Eiga Ranking, Kogyotsushin)

Final Charts Update:

05/14/2024b:
Weekend 27 is the final weekend for tracking Godzilla Minus One. It has accumulated 7.58 Billion Yen ($51.5 Million). It has officially broken 5 million in attendance with 5.03 Million in Attendance! Only 7 other Godzilla movies have surpassed 5 million in attendance and it now joins Shin Godzilla as a recent title to achieve this benchmark! (Toho)

05/14/2024a:
In weekend 26 Godzilla Minus One finally fell out of the top 10, but it still had a solid boost from the Golden Week start which is counted as a four-day weekend. It's hit a total of 7.52 Billion Yen($51.1 Million) and an attendance of 4.99 Million. (Eiga Ranking, Toho)

YES

Well there is no need for that because Gigan will appear in the new MonsterVerse anime: Monarch G-Team 

Wow these are magnificent.. makes me wish they continued on with exploring more of the Prometheus mythos on film. The visuals of that film are still awe-inspiring. Great post, thanks for sharing Nebula!

What actually makes a good Alien movie is the mystery, the unanswered questions. I hope this one will deliver also on that front and leave us wanting for more.

I am not very thrilled though about the young siblings' perspective, who don't know how to open the f*cking airlock. I just hope it is not a Twilight saga with aliens.

I'm getting Megalophobia vibes. 

Fantastic!

I'd like to see something more claustrophobic. No place to run. Like the A L I E N... tight corridors. Bishop crawling in the pipe always freaks me out!

The game definitely looks good but i'm still waiting for Aliens Isolation 2.

Design, lighting, composition, everything looks perfect. Epic job!

So much talent, i love them all!

You got talent. Keep it up!

Love the pencil art.

Where is the Xenomorph?

It looks amazing, i'm following him on IG now.

It's set after Godzilla Aftershock, so there's no contradiction. Not yet at least. 

That camera angle on the xeno makes it look even more terrifying..

That practical Xenomorph looks amazing.

It looks like this film will have many visual callbacks to the first two films. 

Always remarkable the capacity for Human empathy towards machines throughout films but especially Alien, the fact we can have compassion for artificial life. It's like feeling bad for a toaster for being used on bagels every day lol. Foreshadowing a bizarre future where man and machine coexist and the lines become blurred even further.

Hard to see what's in the background, but something tells me it's a hive.

Also, according to Entertainment Weekly: "Alien: Romulus is set between the events of Alien and Aliens, and Alvarez was a stickler for communicating that through specific details. The gun that Spaeny is wielding in the photo above, for instance, is meant to be halfway between the flamethrower Ripley wielded against the original Xenomorph and the pulse rifle used in Aliens.

The same scrutiny was applied to the Xenomorph’s design, which Alvarez promises is closer to H.R. Giger’s original creation than any other iteration."

New one via Entertainment Weekly!

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Well we dodged a bullet on that one

I would like to see a fully grown Deacon, maybe one day in the future we will get a more fleshed out understanding on the Deacon and Neomorph lifecycle

Via V Scooper:

"It's the name of their colony, just like "Hadley's Hope", JACKSON would be part of the name in this one from ALIEN: ROMULUS A heavy militarized and gritty city with a inherent hate to the synths, we'll see a lot of their lifestyle."

Poor synths.

Nice, thanks for sharing! A xeno once again lurking in low-visibility environments, the perfect set up for scares! 

Maybe we'll get some Alien Isolation-esque POV scenes while the protagonists are hiding. That was one of the most terrifying aspects about the game imo, stuck in a room under a table with only one way out (medical level for instance) and the xeno's lanky legs walking past the table, in and out of the room at irregular intervals. Slightest mistake and it's game over, at least on nightmare mode. 

New image!

Strong Alien: Isolation vibes

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Agreed, the aesthetic of this film looks perfect and very on brand. Haven't seen anything yet that makes my eye twitch!

Yeah I'm not sad Alien 5 got canned, especially now, lol.