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nendo · 05-20-2008, 06:57 PM

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Originally Posted by WeeMadRach

What I wanna know is what is the big Teddy Hansen/Slusho/Tagruato conspiracy, and is Rob a part of it?

nargh probably not. matt reeves said himself that he wasn't that involved in the marketing of the film. not sure about jj but i think that was just designed to keep people interested. big mystery type feeling. but i don't realy think it all that important in the film sense.

wmgreene · 05-21-2008, 02:44 PM

I know it has been said that it was just done for effect, but what could possibly cause the quake and blackout at the introdution to the night of terror? I think it is just too significant to be just for effect. For the power failure, a major power line must have been severed. These probably criss cross NY harbor so I think it's feasible the monster could have broken one or more, but the power outage seems to coincide with the shaking. I think there was some other event that occurred at the early stage of the attack that has not been revealed. I think the military was tracking the monster to NY. My guess is that they tried to hit it while it was still in the water, making a desparate last attempt when it got so close to the city. Maybe they packed an old sub full of high explosive and rammed it underwater. It was a technique the government had experminted with in WWII: Packing beat-up heavy bobers with something like 25 tons of torpex and rigging them with radio controlled flight systems and trying to fly them into Nazi Submarine penns and other targets. With the oil rig incident, the militaries and governments of the world could not have let that go unchecked. Maybe they didn't know it could live on land. Anyway, if they did try to bomb it underwater, it must have been a massive blast to shake the city. Probably 100 or 1000 tons of TNT. Anybody else think the government was onto the monster?

nendo · 05-21-2008, 04:23 PM

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Originally Posted by wmgreene

I know it has been said that it was just done for effect, but what could possibly cause the quake and blackout at the introdution to the night of terror? I think it is just too significant to be just for effect.

only because u want it to be

think about it. movies does this sort of stuff all the time to move the story on

with a massive quack and blackout what could possibly move the story on that woudl still keep you in suspense?

there sat on a balcony and they randomly put on a tv and there a new article. the quack and blackout is most probably just a means to move the story on.

engel · 05-21-2008, 05:56 PM

I'm confused, was clover a huge duck or something??

Seriously though nendo, you need to put a little more effort into spell checking, its often very difficult to follow what you are saying because of all the typos.

wmgreene · 05-22-2008, 01:25 PM

Of course, it's total speculation. I'm grateful to my current employer, but I would love to be making movies like Cloverfield. There's so much creativity there; I can't imagine how fun it must have been to be on that project. I just don't think I'll get tired of this film until a sequel comes out, which if JJ or someone else takes seriously, will probably leave us even more in suspense for #3.

Anyway, sure, the quake on the balcony sets up the action of the movie. But it's still a massive shock wave tearing through lower Manhattan. From my sense of Clover's size and strength, I don't think it was capable of producing a shock like that. I'm just thinking what might make sense. There happened to be a show on last night about the development of the atomic and hydrogen bombs. They showed tests of underground and underwater explosions, and showed that they had effects to substantial distances like a single-jolt earthquake. A similar blast above ground creates a pressure wave in the air instead of a siesmic wave in the ground.

I'd be totally into hearing other people's ideas, which is why I'm trying to keep posts in the appropriate thread. I know it's just a movie, and there can just be a quake just to push the storyline, but, with all respect for your opinion nendo, then it's not an "unanswered question", instead it's a non-question and it comes off like you would prefer people didn't speculate. Maybe I missed a rule for this forum. I'm looking for a place to talk about the movie as a work of fiction, not as a Hollywood formula. I agree that with most movies many spectacular events are "just because", but I think this movie is different, unique. Does anyone agree? I mean, the line "It's still alive" at the end of the movie (which I sampled and reversed myself to verify) indicates there's more to be told, even though Rob and Beth's affirmation of their love is a perfectly acceptable conclusion to the film (in which the story line, in my opinion, is actually more about them than the monster - but that's a whole new topic).

Chris · 05-27-2008, 09:03 AM

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Originally Posted by engel

I'm confused, was clover a huge duck or something??

Seriously though nendo, you need to put a little more effort into spell checking, its often very difficult to follow what you are saying because of all the typos.

AMEN! Every time I read something Nendo writes, I'm always left scratching my head, wondering what the duck just happened...lol

05-21-2008, 02:44 PM	#22 (permalink)
wmgreene Junior Member Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 19	Maybe the first earthquake was an attack on the monster I know it has been said that it was just done for effect, but what could possibly cause the quake and blackout at the introdution to the night of terror? I think it is just too significant to be just for effect. For the power failure, a major power line must have been severed. These probably criss cross NY harbor so I think it's feasible the monster could have broken one or more, but the power outage seems to coincide with the shaking. I think there was some other event that occurred at the early stage of the attack that has not been revealed. I think the military was tracking the monster to NY. My guess is that they tried to hit it while it was still in the water, making a desparate last attempt when it got so close to the city. Maybe they packed an old sub full of high explosive and rammed it underwater. It was a technique the government had experminted with in WWII: Packing beat-up heavy bobers with something like 25 tons of torpex and rigging them with radio controlled flight systems and trying to fly them into Nazi Submarine penns and other targets. With the oil rig incident, the militaries and governments of the world could not have let that go unchecked. Maybe they didn't know it could live on land. Anyway, if they did try to bomb it underwater, it must have been a massive blast to shake the city. Probably 100 or 1000 tons of TNT. Anybody else think the government was onto the monster?

05-21-2008, 05:56 PM	#24 (permalink)
engel Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: U.S. 447 Posts: 546	I'm confused, was clover a huge duck or something?? Seriously though nendo, you need to put a little more effort into spell checking, its often very difficult to follow what you are saying because of all the typos. __________________ I'm back!

05-22-2008, 01:25 PM	#25 (permalink)
wmgreene Junior Member Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 19	Of course, it's total speculation. I'm grateful to my current employer, but I would love to be making movies like Cloverfield. There's so much creativity there; I can't imagine how fun it must have been to be on that project. I just don't think I'll get tired of this film until a sequel comes out, which if JJ or someone else takes seriously, will probably leave us even more in suspense for #3. Anyway, sure, the quake on the balcony sets up the action of the movie. But it's still a massive shock wave tearing through lower Manhattan. From my sense of Clover's size and strength, I don't think it was capable of producing a shock like that. I'm just thinking what might make sense. There happened to be a show on last night about the development of the atomic and hydrogen bombs. They showed tests of underground and underwater explosions, and showed that they had effects to substantial distances like a single-jolt earthquake. A similar blast above ground creates a pressure wave in the air instead of a siesmic wave in the ground. I'd be totally into hearing other people's ideas, which is why I'm trying to keep posts in the appropriate thread. I know it's just a movie, and there can just be a quake just to push the storyline, but, with all respect for your opinion nendo, then it's not an "unanswered question", instead it's a non-question and it comes off like you would prefer people didn't speculate. Maybe I missed a rule for this forum. I'm looking for a place to talk about the movie as a work of fiction, not as a Hollywood formula. I agree that with most movies many spectacular events are "just because", but I think this movie is different, unique. Does anyone agree? I mean, the line "It's still alive" at the end of the movie (which I sampled and reversed myself to verify) indicates there's more to be told, even though Rob and Beth's affirmation of their love is a perfectly acceptable conclusion to the film (in which the story line, in my opinion, is actually more about them than the monster - but that's a whole new topic).

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