Cloverfield craze?

Evil · Sun 12/08/2007 21:29:20

After thinking about it, I liked Stupot's idea that Abrahms is just toying with us and that it could be a spoof movie.

Then I thought, if there are monsters attacking major cities, isn't there a small Statue of Liberty in Las Vegas? Not that the city is of that magnitude like it is in the trailer, but there isn't a date associated with when this event took place. Maybe it's set in the future?

Kinoko · Mon 13/08/2007 03:50:09

I doubt all these theories about the head. Just how much smaller than it should be is it? Is it like 90% of the original size? 85? If it's somewhere like 50%, ... I don't know. Seems like a straight out mistake that people are reading too much into.

MrColossal · Mon 13/08/2007 05:43:58

Agreed. Abrams may bring with him a certain kind of marketing but he also brings with him a group of wanna be detectives who dissect everything in a "Why does he close his eyes on frame 154?! IT'S THE KEY TO THE WHOLE THING!" kind of way. Just wait for more announcements and see what happens!

Stupot · Mon 13/08/2007 05:59:37

I watched the trailer again and did a bit of research (okay, i know Wikipedia doesn't really count as research but...) and I concluded that the Statues head IS too small, but not really as small as I, and others, have made it out to be.

This is a very average approximation of real maths, but the fact that the head IS too small, cannot really be doubted, but I must confess, I always thought the real head would be a LOT larger.

[EDIT]
Jeez, I must be bored.
I was going to check out the Slusho.jp address which is in Marunouchi, Tokyo, but I've got a strong feeling it's a false address.
36-40-10... for a start that 36 I'm pretty sure would never go up to 36... Shinjuku only goes up to about 20. Could be wrong but it's too hot to go on wild goose chases.

Evil · Mon 13/08/2007 08:00:14

I think this picture gives a better visual of how big the actual head is.

And if that's not enough, the crown and hair makes the head HUGE.

Sure, it's probably an accident. They've got film to edit and other effects to produce, but you'd think if it's that obvious to all of us, it'd be SUPER obvious to them.

Brad Newsom · Mon 13/08/2007 08:16:36

I think we are so use to seeing this that gave us the assumption that the head was HUGE!

lol

Anyways, I guess your right, it is the correct size. Ive never been to the statue of liberty, but I always thought it was bigger.

Evil · Mon 13/08/2007 08:30:02

I've never seen Escape from New York, but do they show the head in the movie at that scale? Because that's HUGE. Bigger mistake than Abrams.

After doing a little googling there are a bunch of websites that have looked into Slusho and all this stuff, and it's very obvious that they are feeding clues to the public. If these clues will lead us there or not, I guess we'll just have to wait until it's release.

But it is fun to speculate.

LGM · Mon 13/08/2007 18:03:06

Well the statue of liberty, from head to foot, is about 300 feet high. So with crown and such, the head has got to be at least 30 feet tall. Theoretically, the head would get stuck on the roofs of the buildings. It would be too big to bounce through the street like that and not smash everything and everyone on it's way through.

Evil · Mon 13/08/2007 19:53:20

Theorertically, giant monsters would have no desire to destroy major cities and eat people.

Redwall · Mon 13/08/2007 20:27:45

Maybe it was happy to find someone its size but got frustrated when the stuck-up bitch wouldn't talk to it. So it smacked her head off.

Indie Boy · Mon 13/08/2007 20:40:42

Quote from: Redwall on Mon 13/08/2007 20:27:45
Maybe it was happy to find someone its size but got frustrated when the stuck-up bitch wouldn't talk to it. So it smacked her head off.

Maybe its a kind of Voodoo Monster that shrinks people's heads too

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Redwall I think we have solved the problem of what the monster is

veryweirdguy · Mon 19/11/2007 20:48:00

Just if anyone's interested, the new trailer is available:

http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=21492

Although apparantly it's playing in front of Beowulf? So watch it there if you're gonna watch that.

I'm still very much interested in it, looks like it's going to be a different movie at any rate.

I will most definitely be seeing it when it comes out so I don't get spoiled in the slightest.

ALSO, for bonus amusement value, have a browse around various forums on the net (such as IMDB) and read all the theories about how the monster is Godzilla, or Cthulhu. or a giant lion, or whatever.

m0ds · Tue 20/11/2007 01:16:43

Cheers dude! Hadn't seen it in such great quality

Still looking good! Someone is mutating in that video! And if thats a "mutation" at 1:39 then goddamn lol that's weird! But you hear strange scuttling sounds. And the giant thingymabob looks like one too. ODDNESS. Should be a cool movie, camera shake my give me a headache though, hehe.

ps Damn them, they rinsed the ambigious alive/lion line AGAIN!!!

LimpingFish · Tue 20/11/2007 02:21:42

According to Abrams, it's not based on any franchise; film or otherwise.

To tell you the truth, I'd pretty much forgotten about it.

Maybe everyone is slowly mutating, piece by piece, into a giant organic mass, ala Greg Bear's Blood Music.

Or maybe it's a killer foodstuff, ala Larry Cohen's The Stuff (the Slusho references, and such).

Who knows?

Stupot · Tue 20/11/2007 18:12:46

It seems to be something which the characters can see, but the camera can't. I can't think of any real life phenomenon that is visible to the human eye but invisible to cameras and I can't see how that would make an exciting movie, so I'll rule that one out.

[Edit]
I've just watched it again... we do catch a glimpse of something huge and nasty, so rule the above sentence out.
[edit 2]
Shit thats its head!!!!!!!!!!!! Its head is the size of a skyscraper!!!!... I hate internet abbreviations, but... O!!! M!!! G!!!

Are we to draw from this trailer that "Cloverfield" is indeed the official title and not just some codename as we'd previously been led to believe?

Also.. i haven't examined it properly, but it looked to me like they've made that Statue of Liberty head bigger in this trailer compared to the last one we saw... maybe J J has been reading this thread

LimpingFish · Tue 20/11/2007 18:21:45

Quote from: Stupot on Tue 20/11/2007 18:12:46
Also.. i haven't examined it properly, but it looked to me like they've made that Statue of Liberty head bigger in this trailer compared to the last one we saw... maybe J J has been reading this thread

I thought the same. It does look bigger.

tube · Tue 20/11/2007 19:26:21

One word: Meh.

More words: That trailer fails to induce the slightest inkling of interest in me. I might watch the movie if I was bored and didn't have to pay for it. And anything that gets this much hype is bound to disappoint.

But who knows, the movie might still turn out to be awesome. Time (and friends) will tell.

Tuomas · Tue 20/11/2007 19:38:48

Quote from: tube on Tue 20/11/2007 19:26:21
That trailer fails to induce the slightest inkling of interest in me. I might watch the movie if I was bored and didn't have to pay for it. And anything that gets this much hype is bound to disappoint.

Just like Lost. My words exactly.

Stupot · Tue 20/11/2007 19:52:04

But...
It's head is the size of a skyscraper!!!!!!!!
Well I don't mind watching it before you guys and telling you whether or not to bother seeing it.

MrColossal · Tue 20/11/2007 21:56:17

Is it really that over hyped? The last I heard about this was back when the first teaser came out months ago.

Cloverfield craze?

m0ds