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CLOVERFIELD trailer in HD and a glimpse, barely, of the creature!

Published at:  Nov 19, 2007 1:38:50 PM CST

Hey folks, Harry here... this is the perfect format to step frame by frame and gather what you can from the latest trailer for CLOVERFIELD, the J.J. Abrams produced creature feature. I can't wait to see this flick - and the context for what we're seeing in the trailers. I've heard from some folks that have actually seen CLOVERFIELD and they're very tight mouthed about what happens, but are thrilled by what did happen. Is 1-18-08 the new Christmas?





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  • Nov 19, 2007 1:47:30 PM CST

    Motion sickness...

    by -guyinthebackrow

    Is not my friend.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 1:48:28 PM CST

    sweet

    by ballsxcrew

    mmmm sound design is going to be amazing

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  • Nov 19, 2007 1:48:43 PM CST

    2nd

    by turbonerd

    who cares - someone screengrab the monster - i dont see it!

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  • Nov 19, 2007 1:49:54 PM CST

    Meh

    by lantern48

    they're hiding all the details because it's not going to be that good. This is how they're gonna get people to pay to see mediocrity.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 1:49:54 PM CST

    ahhhhh shucks

    by strokerx

    missed it...but i saw the trailer in front of Beowulf...seemed pretty intense. Though I was stoned out of my mind...so that may have helped. The shadow of the little monster reminded me of that turtle monster from Godzilla.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 1:50:10 PM CST

    dramamine

    by fxmulder35

    Back to Blair Witch territory. Movie looks super-cool. But I wonder if the whole movie is gonna be like that. With the herky-jerky thing going on. If so...wonder if they'll provide barf-bags at the door...cause 2 hrs of that is just gonna be AW-FULL!

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  • Nov 19, 2007 1:50:17 PM CST

    I'm glad he stuck with that name for the title

    by sith witch

    It has a nice ring to it; especially given that it's ironic in light of the disaster that thematically counters it.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 1:52:53 PM CST

    Too much hype

    by mr.king_maximus

    Good thing this is coming out in January. I'd hate to wait until the summer for the disappointment this movie will bring.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 1:53:07 PM CST

    Nice....

    by modlight

    Looks like it not only destroys cities, but makes women fat real quickly. Maybe the title should be Starbucks.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 1:53:53 PM CST

    the lion

    by lantern48

    I can't wait to see the lion!!! You conspiracy gus DIS see the lion in this trailer, right?

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  • Nov 19, 2007 1:57:04 PM CST

    I'm willing to lay down money...

    by dorkmanscott

    That even in the film, we're never going to clearly see the monster or find out what it is. Part of the choice to do it from the point of view of "some random kids who happen to have a camera on" is the choice, presumably, that they're NOT going to be in the right place at the right time to get all the information they want or need. They're just going to be trying to survive.

    Personally I like the idea, I've been hoping to see a movie like this since Blair Witch.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 1:57:04 PM CST

    I'll wait till your father gets, wait till your father gets

    by the knight

    wait till your father gets hooooome.... oh wait... I'll wait till I get my headphones...

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  • Nov 19, 2007 1:57:13 PM CST

    Was that one girl...

    by -guyinthebackrow

    exploding? Maybe she had the same noodles that John Hurt had.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 1:57:21 PM CST

    i dont get it

    by ballsxcrew

    really though...it does look pretty jerky, but NOWHERE near as disorienting as Blair Witch. and im sure that its not going to be shaky cam the whole time. there will be scenes where the characters are not running away, but are reacting to the attack (which seems to look like the whole point of the film, "I don't care what's out there, shes going to die.")

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  • Nov 19, 2007 1:58:37 PM CST

    Didn't WE create the hype?

    by skeletonparty

    As far as I know, they simply released a trailer and some related web sites.

    We freaked/geeked out and talked about it way too much.

    I really can't blame the marketing too much on this.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 1:58:46 PM CST

    as said: 1:29 . Giant Turtle = TMNT 2?

    by romoehlio

    plus: 1:12 - Alien Redux

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  • Nov 19, 2007 1:59:16 PM CST

    this is The Blair Witch Godzilla

    by cedar_room

    why all the hype on this site? This doesn't look anything extraordinary, and I really couldn't care less what the title is. And the way dates are written is Day-Month-Year.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 1:59:26 PM CST

    my qwicktime is bwoken

    by bigtexas42

    are there stills anywhere?

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  • Nov 19, 2007 2:00:37 PM CST

    I hope its good...

    by lovecraftian

    There seems to be a lot of this going around now... Mulberry Street, The Mist and now this... I just hope it proves to be worth the wait. If it's not... well I'll pay for it anyway. Hell, has to be better than Crazy Eights... Blech!

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  • Nov 19, 2007 2:04:57 PM CST

    I SUPPORT THE SHAKY CAM CTHULHU ON THIS ONE !

    by pound sand

    MNG, where you at? Come on and get in here 'cause I feel like dancing!

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  • Nov 19, 2007 2:06:05 PM CST

    Cedar Room re: Dates

    by shiftyeyeddog2

    I know much of the world goes Day-Month-Year, but in the US, as far back as I can remember, it has always been Month-Day-Year. And seeing how how this is a US movie, and the advertisement is for its US release, yes, they go Month-Day-Year.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 2:06:50 PM CST

    Who cares, Mr. Whipple just died.

    by grammaton cleric binks

    Watch Charmin sales go up this week.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 2:07:47 PM CST

    Blair Witch Godzilla, exactly

    by shiftyeyeddog2

    well put. I also think we'll never see the creature clearly, which is just a cop out for keeping the budget down, because WHY would the kids stand around pointing a camera at military people firing and not at the thing they are firing AT?!?

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  • Nov 19, 2007 2:07:48 PM CST

    And people gonna watch this? WOTW was 100 times better

    by proman1984

    And without the stupid shaky cam. Eat it!

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  • Nov 19, 2007 2:09:00 PM CST

    SkeletonParty, way to blow our minds.

    by modlight

    what are you trying to say, that this site and our excitement exists in a vacuum? That we hype things among ourselves to a point that we can't possbibly be pleased with the outcome and that pretty much the rest of the world just goes with whatever movie they can get tix for at the multiplex?

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  • Nov 19, 2007 2:10:04 PM CST

    I don't think the whole thing is in shaky cam

    by truphan

    Some of it in the trailer looked steadycam to me

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  • Nov 19, 2007 2:10:46 PM CST

    i think

    by ballsxcrew

    that part of the hype is the talent behind this film. it was made very cheaply (has been said by one of the actresses) so its all going to be camera work, sound design, and acting. i don't know, personally, im more excited about this than some dick shit getting way too much money to show some giant robots wrecking stuff, but still not actually show the work the animators did. This looks to be a project that a lot of people worked hard on and are very proud of. Not just some arrogant blockbuster in it for the money. you can't say that about a lot of american films (at least within the studio system) today. and then we can't say the marketing didn't work...even if people hate it, theyre still talking about it and spreading the word. Because no one knows ANYTHING, and everyone thinks thinks they know EVERYTHING.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 2:13:22 PM CST

    While I still don'T like the "documentary" approach...

    by derlanghaarige

    ...the trailer looks like this could be a famn cool nonstop action terror fest. (Of course every trailer looks its movie could be like this.)

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  • Nov 19, 2007 2:15:13 PM CST

    Blair Witch Meets Tri star Godzilla

    by le phantom

    Blair Witch POV shakey cam...Meets Tri star Godzilla...with a little of the Korean flick thrown in.

    And we'll get the sheep to all line up to see it with a Euro-tech yuppie idiot mystery ad campaign!!!

    I hope that I am wrong but it smells like the hype will outweigh the product.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 2:16:39 PM CST

    You can't tell me that monster ain't Cthulhu...

    by abin sur

    That big sonofabitch that walked behind the building? That is SO very much Cthulhu.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 2:17:05 PM CST

    IS IT GAMERA?

    by bringingsexyback

    WTF my Quicktime is broken too. Damn you Steve JObs

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  • Nov 19, 2007 2:17:17 PM CST

    yeah

    by ballsxcrew

    its a lion. and we've never EVER heard that.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 2:18:05 PM CST

    CTHULHU

    by gch888

    It would be unbelievably cool if these creatures are in fact the Great Old Ones and the movie is a modern retelling of the Cthulhu mythos. However I doubt it very much as I suspect the average popcorn munching cinema goer won't know anything about the works of H.P. Lovecraft.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 2:18:52 PM CST

    It"s written by Drew Goddard

    by ianrewel

    COUNT ME IN!

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  • Nov 19, 2007 2:19:48 PM CST

    It's actually Bowser.

    by pops freshemeyer

    This is a prequel to the new Super Mario Bros. movie.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 2:19:59 PM CST

    unless the monster is made of smoke or fire

    by datascream

    it wasn't in the trailer from what I could tell. I saw a lot of explosions (cool), a silhouette of some chick getting inflated (sad, but cool) and lots of running around. I think people are just seeing monsters. However it looks like a fun flick. Honestly I hope they never show the monster in the movie at all. Else people will get the Godzilla feeling...if ya know what I mean.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 2:20:27 PM CST

    King Kong Escapes Michael Bay

    by le phantom

    why not just give the bayster 150 million and let him do a remake of "King Kong Escapes"! 2 big cgi monkeys flipping each other into buildings might be moderately amusin!

    Then we will let Tarantino do a 3 hour version of "War Of The Gargantuas", where the monsters do wire -fu and sit around talkin' sh*t!!!

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  • Nov 19, 2007 2:22:07 PM CST

    Grumpy Grumpies!

    by hyphenatedwords

    My goodness. I really think Harry should change the name from Talkback to Bitchback. Better yet, at the bottom of each article have two buttons. On the left, Talk, on the right, Bitch, then list them in two columns like pros and cons.

    Because honestly, people, this looks fantastic. Most people couldn't wet dream a concept as well as Abrahms can.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 2:22:23 PM CST

    It's Voltron! I'm writing a book about dwarf-giants!

    by laserhead

    R.I.P. MRX67


    I already miss the insanity, kiddo.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 2:24:40 PM CST

    I like Bowser Idea

    by claudiomonster

    Think of the possibilities ...

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  • Nov 19, 2007 2:24:46 PM CST

    Oh and by the way its

    by emeraldboy

    monsters. This film has more than one. and what the hell was going on in the scene with those er, whatever they are dressed in blue and that woman. I think it looks epic looking. Remember the trailer is 2 mins 6 secs.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 2:25:36 PM CST

    Looks like a great story that

    by veritasses

    might be ruined with vomit inducing shaky cam. I hope that's not the case. Directors really need to keep that stuff to a minimum. Damn hard to tell what's going on while everything's jerking around too.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 2:25:52 PM CST

    modlight, I find it odd to complain about the hype.

    by skeletonparty

    It seems to me complaining about the hype assigns unspoken blame on the marketing when, in this case, the blame seems unwarranted as the marketing doesn't seem unusual.

    And, Cedar Room, there is no eighteenth month. The date is month-day-year.

    Movie looks great to me. Sure, there will be shaky-cam home movie stuff. But some of the surviving film should be from News agencies and professionals so we should get some smooth coverage, too.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 2:27:15 PM CST

    chick was definitely exploding

    by drewlicious

    If you go frame by frame she swells right up. Can't wait to see it, hope it comes to the Arclight so I can reserve a seat because I don't even want to risk sitting in the front row for this one. I'll get a headahce.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 2:28:22 PM CST

    Datascream:

    by barry egan

    This is JJ so there is a good chance the monster is made of smoke.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 2:28:28 PM CST

    arclight

    by ballsxcrew

    this would be incredible at arclight

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  • Nov 19, 2007 2:29:18 PM CST

    CUE MR. NICE GAIUS...did someone say 'CHTHULU'?

    by pennsy

  • Nov 19, 2007 2:29:58 PM CST

    Skeleton, I agree

    by modlight

    With Viral Marketing, the hype is directly proportionate to the people's response to it. And if people are sick of it already they probably shouldn't have gone out to buy posters for a movie they haven't seen yet. I think it looks great, and I think the rest of America (who has more time on their hands) loved the teaser, and will probably love this too and flock to this movie.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 2:30:00 PM CST

    Monster Concept Art

    by iceman88

    I've seen this a couple different times and have no idea if its real or not but its worth a look.

    http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d143/ORCA_DA_BOMA/cloverfield-monster-picture.jpg

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  • Nov 19, 2007 2:30:51 PM CST

    DID SOMEBODY SAY CTHULHU?

    by mr. nice gaius

    Awww yeah! Excuse me while I que up one of my block rockin' beats!C, c, c, cT, t, t, tH, h, h, hU, u, u, uL, l, l, lH, h, h, hU, u, u, uCTHULHU!!!We can dance like CthulhuWe can answer to his callWatch him kick Lady Liberty's headdown the road like a soccer ballSay, we can dance like CthulhuLive it up while the livin's goodCause once he awakens, the world starts shakin'and there goes the neighborhoodSay, we can dance, we can danceGreat Old Ones are in controlWe can dance, we can danceHear them callin' the callWe can dance, we can danceTerror makes you go in a tranceWe can dance, we can danceEverybody's shitting their p-a-a-ntsThe Cthulhu DanceThe Cthulhu DanceThe Cthulhu DanceYEAH!It's the CTHULHU DANCE!!!

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  • Nov 19, 2007 2:32:10 PM CST

    drewlicious & The Arclight...

    by -guyinthebackrow

    I hate standing in lines too, but I what I hate more is The Arclight. I know what fucking movie I'm about to see! You don't have to fucking introduce yourself and then the goddamn movie!

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  • Nov 19, 2007 2:32:44 PM CST

    Clap Clap Clap

    by chrth

    I definitely support Mr Nice Gaius on this one.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 2:33:20 PM CST

    I liked it

    by imageburn13

    feels real lost-ish. I think they even borrowed smokeys sound effect.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 2:33:29 PM CST

    No Wonder the Military is Losing To a Parade Balloon

    by aquatarkusman

    All the good shit is getting sandblasted in Iraq.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 2:36:18 PM CST

    Good thing talkbackers opinions don't matter

    by mattmanreturns

    Otherwise Snakes on a Plane would've been the biggest movie of last year. I just don't understand it... Abrams releases an obscure shakycam trailer for a monster movie and you guys go nuts. The world of movies would be a very sad place if you guys had any control.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 2:38:36 PM CST

    Did the Statue of Liberty Head get bigger?

    by skeletonparty

    Looks like the SOL Head is bigger now. Am I wrong?


    Also, when they are in the convenience store (00.01.20) off-camera guys says, "Rob, Rob, I saw it. Rob, Rob, it's a lion!" and then the glass explodes just like when a lion hits glass.

    But seriously, did anyone notice the statue head is bigger?

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  • Nov 19, 2007 2:38:41 PM CST

    Thank you as always, MNG...

    by abin sur

    That was a rousing rendition. You know, if it IS Cthulhu, it would really be a win-win...the average moviegoer won't care as long as they get a kick-ass monster movie, and at the same time J.J. would CEMENT his geek cred with those that know all about the big guy.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 2:38:54 PM CST

    already happened

    by ballsxcrew

    the world of movies is already turning into a sad place brother. if beowulf's success turns film into that kind of garbage, there will be many tortured souls turning in their graves. this film on the other hand is exactly what it looks like. a cult film for people who love giant monster movies.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 2:40:53 PM CST

    Finally, we can see downtown New York destroyed again

    by thick mcrunfast

    Thank you, J.J. Abrams...thank you. (Just kidding, you suck. Thanks in advance for completely killing off Star Trek, too. Did I mention you suck?)

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  • Nov 19, 2007 2:42:23 PM CST

    no subject

    by omar b

    Watched it twice and didnt see anything.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 2:44:59 PM CST

    Jesus, what a bunch of pussies . . .

    by nice marmot

    . . . the shaky cam made me fwow up. Waaaaaahhhhh . . .

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  • Nov 19, 2007 2:45:11 PM CST

    MattmanReturns...

    by abin sur

    Good thing your opinion doesn't matter...dude, you should really be careful when posing a circular argument. Microsoft Excel will nail you on it EVERY TIME.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 2:47:21 PM CST

    thanks MNG as always good shit

    by kloipy

    here's a still boys and girls
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/fengschwing/2048237092/

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  • Nov 19, 2007 2:47:49 PM CST

    i didn't take the still shot

    by kloipy

    but I did find it

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  • Nov 19, 2007 2:47:53 PM CST

    Wow, that actually looks horrible.

    by samlowry27

    The acting looks completely horrid. Which is what 90% of this will be, a bunch of crappy 20-something actors trying to prove their worth. You can just sense what this movie will be like from that trailer. I will be on the edge of my seat though... because I will be running back and forth to the toilet to puke my brains out due to the motion sickness.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 2:49:40 PM CST

    after the fact

    by salacious_crumb

    From the preamble (the area formerly known as Central Park?) and the digi-scramble of the soldier's face, I am going to guess that this movie is told both in the context of what happened on 01/18/08 and then the human response to it. Like how Bay's (godawful)Pearl Harbor is both the day that lived in infamy and the derring do that followed. Since we keep hearing that the whole thing wont be Blair Witch-y handheld--though the trailers dont show this. That could explain why the name of the site, and why the pics it shows is 01/18/08. That way you get the huge distruction and disaster, AND you get the monster's comeuppance!If NY and other places have laid in ruin for YEARS after this initial attack, then there is no sympathy for Cthulhu (or whatever) when they destroy him in the final act.

    And that would pack them into the theatres because people (especially the red states) would equate it with 9/11--and people with a direct connection to 9/11 could watch because it isnt 9/11. If that isnt the movie that they have made then they should go back to the drawing board with some smart writers...what? Writers are on strike? Well good luck to us all.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 2:50:13 PM CST

    Thanks Kloipy...

    by abin sur

    Cthulhu in all his glory!

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  • Nov 19, 2007 2:51:35 PM CST

    Cthulhu is my homie

    by kloipy

    we went to the Miskatonic University together. GO WHITEFISH!

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  • Nov 19, 2007 2:51:44 PM CST

    CTHULHU DANCE Fans...

    by mr. nice gaius

    I hope to be 'queing up (aka cooking up) a B-side once CLOVERFIELD's ad blitz really kicks in.The MNG Counter-viral Marketing Campaign will be in full effect!

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  • Nov 19, 2007 2:53:00 PM CST

    MNG: Make us a promise

    by kloipy

    You gotta go see the movie and when we first glimpse our tentacled friend, you gotta get up and rock that fucking song for the world to see

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  • Nov 19, 2007 2:53:43 PM CST

    no subject

    by salacious_crumb

    additionally the shaky cam made me almost as nauseous as "2 girls 1 cup"

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  • Nov 19, 2007 2:53:49 PM CST

    So Basically this is RAMPAGE! the Movie

    by dogsoup

    I get to be the lizard guy! Somebody else can be the wolfman.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 2:54:07 PM CST

    MNG - GOOD STUFF

    by bringingsexyback

    You should record it and post on YouTube before some dipshit steals it and does it first.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 2:54:29 PM CST

    Godzilla meets Blair Witch meets WOTW

    by crackerfarmboy

    Hopefully the "tiny monster" thing isn't true.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 2:54:46 PM CST

    MNG and ALL Cthulhu fans

    by kloipy

    You NEED to check out the canadian band "The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets" They've been making H.P. hard rock for years.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 2:55:38 PM CST

    Damnit. It isn't Cthulu at all...

    by purityofessence

    It's the ghost of Marlon Brando, back from the grave to punish the current state of film for its sins.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 2:55:47 PM CST

    what it is

    by mc-909

    a giant fucking mutated WHALE.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 2:55:56 PM CST

    That's a Band Name?

    by aquatarkusman

    Makes Strawberry Alarm Clock seem subdued by comparison.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 2:55:59 PM CST

    check them out here

    by kloipy

    http://www.thickets.net/

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  • Nov 19, 2007 2:56:02 PM CST

    seriously

    by mc-909

  • Nov 19, 2007 2:57:30 PM CST

    godzilla ...indepenence day...whatever

    by zom-bot.com

    it'll be next year's godzilla/jurrassic park/indepednence day/WOTW...etc....and that's not a bad thing. most every couple years we get one.but AICN needs to admit that that's all it's gonna be. It's not going to break any ground or reveal some new technique that will change the way action movies are made for the next few years, ala MATRIX. If you like monster movies, i'm sure we'll be pleased.If you are looking for the next big thing, it ain't here...Nothing they present will llive up to the bullshit mystery they have snarkily fed us for months.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 2:58:07 PM CST

    IT'S THE SMOG MONSTER

    by bringingsexyback

    Appropriate since the planet is melting from pollution.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 2:58:45 PM CST

    It's a whale

    by mc-909

    A giant mutated fucking whale. I am not going to say this again.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 2:59:23 PM CST

    what is it MC-909?

    by kloipy

  • Nov 19, 2007 2:59:45 PM CST

    MAN IN SUIT

    by the edges hat

    ...who's covered in dots which are captured by a computer and recreate him as an authentic Japanese rubber Godzilla Man In Suit

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  • Nov 19, 2007 2:59:46 PM CST

    I was right. The Statue of Liberty head is way better now.

    by skeletonparty

    I've got still frames of the teaser SOL and the trailer SOL and it is a totally different CG model at a different scale. Much much better.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 3:00:05 PM CST

    A whale.

    by mc-909

    A giant mutated fucking whale...that can walk.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 3:00:17 PM CST

    Has anybody

    by mastes360

    Ever got a link that someone has posted on the talkback to work?.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 3:01:15 PM CST

    I thought you weren't going to say it again!

    by kloipy

    YOU LIED TO US ALL

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  • Nov 19, 2007 3:01:38 PM CST

    A whale with parasites

    by mc-909

    ...like barnacles...only they're giant mutated undersea fucking crustaceans. That can walk.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 3:01:49 PM CST

    motion-sickness?

    by mrjoker

    please. "Blair Witch Style" handheld camera technique doesn't give anyone motion sickness.
    Your only being negative because it's something different than you're used to.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 3:01:53 PM CST

    IT'S A LION!

    by pennsy

    OK, it's not. ;)

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  • Nov 19, 2007 3:01:59 PM CST

    MC-909, is THIS what you're talking about?

    by abin sur

    http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix/gigantos.htm

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  • Nov 19, 2007 3:02:23 PM CST

    delete the spaces my friend

    by kloipy

  • Nov 19, 2007 3:02:27 PM CST

    sorry Kloipy

    by mc-909

    I just wanted to be sure we're all clear on this: it is a giant mutated fucking whale that can walk.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 3:03:19 PM CST

    those aren't little creatures...

    by preacher2

    I watched that scene about 20 times and have come to the conclusion they are men in puffy hazard suits with misleading sound effects laid over the scene.

    Look at the shadows, they have hands, they are not attacking the girl they are trying to take her away.

    Watch the scene carefully, if they were monsters attacking a girl behind a thin sheet of plastic, would that guy being sitting there so calmly in the foreground?

    What is interseting about that scene is the shadow of the girl Watch it frame by frame, towards the end of that sequence, and this could just be a visual trick brought on by the plastic, but she seems to start expanding, swelling up, it looks weird.

    Anyway, just want to say that unless that scene is an outtake from TMNT: The Secret of the Ooze, those are merely guys in bio-hazard suits trying to subdue a woman who may or may not be having some sort of reaction to something that is causing her to possibly swell up...

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  • Nov 19, 2007 3:03:24 PM CST

    if this is along the same vein as indepedence day-

    by zom-bot.com

    then maybe in 12 years we'll be treated to a high contrast tiling of some monumental scene from Cloverfield in the background of AICN instead of this tired old one from ID4

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  • Nov 19, 2007 3:04:05 PM CST

    that's ok man, just busting your balls

    by kloipy

  • Nov 19, 2007 3:05:03 PM CST

    it's actually Leprechaun 7

    by kloipy

    Honey I blew up the Leprechaun

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  • Nov 19, 2007 3:06:54 PM CST

    CTHULHU...

    by gaiusbaltarsmojo

    ...will be handing you your ass come 1-18-08! I for one am confident! Who's with me! Anyone...?

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  • Nov 19, 2007 3:07:34 PM CST

    Wait, a Whale? Then that means it's

    by chrth

    Leviathan.
    Job 3:7 May that night be barren;
    may no shout of joy be heard in it.

    8 May those who curse the sea curse that day,
    those who are ready to rouse Leviathan.

    9 May its morning stars become dark;
    may it wait for daylight in vain
    and not see the first rays of dawn,

    10 for it did not shut the doors of the womb on me
    to hide trouble from my eyes.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 3:08:43 PM CST

    its like a spikey turtle

    by jeanluc dickhard

    unghhhh very gay ....

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  • Nov 19, 2007 3:10:19 PM CST

    ew

    by ballsxcrew

    no religious mythos involved in this one.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 3:11:25 PM CST

    Save the Whales

    by mc-909

    ...or the Whales will kill us. A green movie where mother nature fights back. Yay. Seriously though. It's a whale. With killer barnacles.

    Remember the Slusho site, "undersea ingredients"? Remember JJ Abrams saying the monster would be "uniquely American"? Remember the inclusion of several "little monsters"...all I'm saying is that barnacles and parasites grow off whales...and whales live underwater...and they do live predominantly in American waters...so...

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  • Nov 19, 2007 3:12:04 PM CST

    After JeanLuc Dickhard's comment...

    by gaiusbaltarsmojo

    ...should I have written 'HANDLING your ass come 1-18-08?'

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  • Nov 19, 2007 3:12:21 PM CST

    "do live predominantly in American waters"

    by chrth

    Of course. SINCE AMERICA OWNS THE SEAS!!!!

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  • Nov 19, 2007 3:12:31 PM CST

    How many times can the Statue of Liberty get blowed up?

    by bmacsmith

    move on. shit. there are plenty of other things to blow up real good.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 3:13:34 PM CST

    chrth

    by mc-909

    All of em', baby!

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  • Nov 19, 2007 3:16:02 PM CST

    star trek whales/ jj

    by zom-bot.com

    ha ha this movie is going to tie in with abrahm's star trek, which involves time travel, much like that one star trek movie where if we didn't save the whales, the whale race from the future would wipe us out. well, here they are.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 3:16:20 PM CST

    THAT's WHAT THAT IS!

    by simplesandwiches

    Thanks Zom-Bot...I could never interpret exactly what the AICN background was.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 3:17:55 PM CST

    This is shlock

    by epictetus

    It's so ironic that this Robert Hawkins dude was just radically celebrating his big birthday party when suddenly everything CHANGED man!
    I guess he was drinking because he sounded something like this, "Approsimably thevin hoursth ago..."That kid makes Micah from Heroes look like Laurence Olivier.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 3:19:08 PM CST

    Between Half Way and Three Quarters IN

    by a g

    There be the monster. Just after the shop windows explode in and the army start shooting up. And yes, it looks like Cthulu.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 3:19:33 PM CST

    lol

    by mastes360

    I was just freeze framing and the monster looks like a giant 'Alien' off the Alien films.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 3:19:36 PM CST

    statue of liberty

    by zom-bot.com

    yeah, beating up on lady liberty is pretty old hat. I wonder how many idiot children see the torn open statue in Cloverfield adwork and have no idea about the ending of planet of the apes?..because all they know is the shhitty tim burton one.
    what a fucking world........when i saw the liberty head getting knocked off the first time, i was hoping it was a giant confused rock'em sock'em robot attacking NYC...which would be more entertaining.....also, NYC getting destroyed means the end of the world and the fall of mankind, btw.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 3:21:30 PM CST

    Why the Statue of Liberty gets blown up

    by chrth

    Because the French built it, and if the Maginot Line proved anything it proved that the French are lousy engineers.
    Just kidding. Sheesh, I'm coming off like some Right Wing Christian Nut in this talkback. Imminent CTHULHU arrival always makes me this way.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 3:21:53 PM CST

    That kid makes Micah from Heroes look like Laurence Olivier.

    by zom-bot.com

    HA HA HA HA HA
    ....ps you're welcome simplesandwiches- this background has been bugging me for a while- seeing as how this site prides itself on being 'up to the minute' to date itself so horribly.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 3:22:58 PM CST

    skywalkerfamily...

    by cameron1

    Davey Jones' design borrows heavily from Cthulu so by saying it looks like Dave Jones you kinda support the Cthulu idea, but I just wanted you to know that it's not POTC Abrams is potentially ripping off, it's Lovecraft.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 3:24:29 PM CST

    It's a whale.

    by mc-909

  • Nov 19, 2007 3:25:01 PM CST

    Free Willy 4: Payback's A Bitch

    by kloipy

  • Nov 19, 2007 3:26:33 PM CST

    And the Biohazrd suit guys...

    by cameron1

    are just that, as that section starts there's a few frames where you can clearly see the light shining through the transparent mask of the suit. But check out what happens to the woman, she seems to inflate like a balloon.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 3:27:42 PM CST

    For anyone interested

    by skeletonparty

    I screen captured the same frame of the Statue of Liberty head from the teaser and the trailer and posted them at http://tinyurl.com/24n4bp

    Interestingly, the CG model head switches in the middle of the whip-pan to the landing. The head that hits the building and smashes the PT Cruiser is the same from the teaser. Then it switches models on the whip. Kinda cool.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 3:27:48 PM CST

    how can people hate on this?

    by strikeanywhere

    I can see people not being super excited about it but how can anyone say this movie will suck based off of what we've seen?

    At the very least it looks like a fun monster movie

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  • Nov 19, 2007 3:28:17 PM CST

    It's Kathy Bates! It's Huge!

    by kloipy

    I knew it all along. Feed the Bates people!

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  • Nov 19, 2007 3:31:49 PM CST

    The creature is loosely based on...

    by epictetus

    Those creepy Mighty Morphin Power Rangers villians who wear foam suits, jump up and down while talking, point in random directions while laughing, and adjust their headpieces in the middle of the scene so they can see where they are going.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 3:31:56 PM CST

    CTHULHU

    by greygeek

    OR a giant rip-off of the same. Either way, I guess he has my money. I am a sucker for a giant, rampaging monster.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 3:32:06 PM CST

    For Fucks Sake!

    by shogunmaster

    .. IT'S ROSIE O'DONNELL!

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  • Nov 19, 2007 3:33:49 PM CST

    BLLLLLLLLLLLLLAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRFFFFFFFFFF!!!!!

    by spyguy

    Sorry, all that shaky-cam made me hurl. Good thing I'm not paying $8.50 for this.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 3:34:09 PM CST

    IT'S ONE OF HARRY'S TURDS!!!!

    by bringingsexyback

    Sorry Harry but it's true.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 3:35:11 PM CST

    Tinyurl seems to be having a problem

    by skeletonparty

    so I'll post the not tiny url:

    http://img128.imageshack.us/my.php?image=solheadcomparebs6.jpg

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  • Nov 19, 2007 3:36:51 PM CST

    By the way...

    by greygeek

    1. They would be Deep Ones, not Old Ones. 2. Yes, the Liberty head is bigger and better rendered. 3. I have discovered through arcane study that Cthulhu is, in fact, a lion.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 3:37:05 PM CST

    here's the monster for those who didn't see it before

    by kloipy

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/f engschwing/2048237092/

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  • Nov 19, 2007 3:39:10 PM CST

    No no no! Leviathan was a huge 8-sided die...

    by darth macchio

    Didn't you see Hellraiser 2: Hellbound (Satanic Boogaloo)? When they finally got through the labyrinth they came upon Leviathan who was this giant 8-sided die (presumeably from a giant set of evil dice)...who rotated kinda slow and had a darkness coming out of him instead of light (think an evil floating lighthouse with darkness for light and.well...floating...and spinning.)

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  • Nov 19, 2007 3:39:27 PM CST

    Shia Lebouf us a whale.

    by mc-909

  • Nov 19, 2007 3:39:46 PM CST

    Shia Lebouf IS a whale. Damnit.

    by mc-909

  • Nov 19, 2007 3:40:16 PM CST

    Abin Sur, I never said my opinion mattered

    by mattmanreturns

    My point holds up to scrutiny, none the less. Talkbackers made a huge deal about Snakes on a Plane... it bombed. Now everyone is excited over a few glimpses of footage, lapping at Abram's heels. Enjoy your Godzilla ripoff and exploding Statue of Liberty head.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 3:40:53 PM CST

    Who needs Shia?

    by epictetus

    When you have marble mouthed Robert Hawkins?
    "APPROSIMABLY!"

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  • Nov 19, 2007 3:41:39 PM CST

    Cthulhu fucked a moron???

    by skeletonparty

    Holy crap!

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  • Nov 19, 2007 3:42:23 PM CST

    Pass

    by drtobiasfunke

    Nothing worse than bad actors and shaky cams.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 3:43:24 PM CST

    Apropos Crystal...

    by alliejamison

    what's up with the teaser for that movie? I mean...the one with the Crystal Skull...

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  • Nov 19, 2007 3:45:22 PM CST

    "uniquely American" whale does make sense

    by laserhead

    When it comes to whales, who's the iconic whale everyone knows?

    What's arguably the greatest American novel ever written, recognized the world over as a masterpiece?

    Moby-Dick. I'm just saying, Moby Dick is American, uniquely so, so a big walking whale could be uniquely American. I have no idea if it'd make a good monster, though.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 3:45:32 PM CST

    Fuck all the naysayers...

    by duncanhines

    This movie looks awesome.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 3:48:26 PM CST

    Kurzinski Valentine

    by greygeek

    Please switch to decaf.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 3:49:15 PM CST

    the monster

    by ballsxcrew

    hahaha he does look like a giant version of alien. http://tinyurl.com/2h8egc

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  • Nov 19, 2007 3:52:25 PM CST

    Looks alright

    by montypigeon

    It all depends on the monster because the actors can't act.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 3:52:28 PM CST

    Yeah Kurzinski

    by mc-909

    I do think though that a whale would be a new and original monster.

    Also, it's a whale. Or a dolphin. Or a whale with dolphins in its mouth.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 3:52:40 PM CST

    yeah, this isn't from the movie

    by laserhead

    but it's a damn fine monster design:
    http://dougbot.com/forum/slusho.jpg


    I'd be happy if it ended up looking that cool.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 3:54:51 PM CST

    also american

    by zom-bot.com

    cthulhuluthululu is also american, and most of lovecraft's stuff took place in new england, after all. Then again, the rushmore heads and paul bunyan are giant american things too. heh heh

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  • Nov 19, 2007 4:00:29 PM CST

    maybe?

    by digitalbeachwar

    ...it's a giant Wal-Mart monster set out to destroy America's economy?!

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  • Nov 19, 2007 4:00:40 PM CST

    Reminds me of "Signs" - and that's a GOOD thing!

    by leonthecleaner

    Like this big Hollywood-epic action sci-fi movie, but seen through the eyes of how any regular Joe would experience it. No jet-pilot President in this one.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 4:00:55 PM CST

    No one lives that sees the monster!

    by football

    That'll be the ending. Each person that picks up the camera and films a bit more ends up dead until another wannabe Peter Greengrass stumbles upon the camera and continues the filming. Even when they think they've escaped in the helicopter they end up crashing. The film must of been retreaved from the crashed helicopter is my guess... and we only ever get to glimpse the monster throughout fragmented snapshots the entire time. I bet ya

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  • Nov 19, 2007 4:03:04 PM CST

    All I know is it walked up on American soil..

    by skeletonparty

    now it is going to get free health care and a driver's license with MY tax dollars.

    It will probably be in my son's class and have special needs.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 4:04:00 PM CST

    Don't understand the dislike

    by turd furgeson

    This looks pretty slick to me... As long as they don't do an over the top "Danny Boyle" style 3rd act with some rediculous reveal, it'll be cool. At least we'll have some fun at the movies in January..

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  • Nov 19, 2007 4:05:48 PM CST

    as long

    by el borak

    as long as it's big and scary and fucks shit up i'm interested.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 4:07:24 PM CST

    good

    by alliejamison

    After all the non-news hysteria for Cloverfield this trailer resurrected and refreshed my excitement. This is not going to be a marketing campagin but an actual movie. Can't wait to finally see all the shaky cam extravaganza.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 4:07:45 PM CST

    Uh, that fat woman exploding

    by wickedmonster

    reminded me of Slither. Now that was cool...and disgusting.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 4:07:49 PM CST

    Maybe it ties in with...

    by the edges hat

    the new X-Files movie!
    Only Mulder and Scully could find out what it is...well Mulder will and it'll run away just as Scully gets there. with a torch.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 4:12:31 PM CST

    It better not be a freaking huge whale, whales don't make good g

    by pelos_locos

    First of all, whales are mammals. The only good giant monster mammal is King Kong. Giant fucking monsters should all be reptilian or marine non-mammal. Also, the most American monsters ever are taxes and giant turkeys, since turkeys were at some point considered to be the national bird. Besides giant monster turkeys make excellent hungry man tv dinners. In conclusion, the monster is an aquatic turkey, not a freaking whale.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 4:12:36 PM CST

    Imagine the Cries of the Nerds

    by thenorthlander

    If they'd kept 1-18-08 as the title, and in three years when the remake comes out everybody would be yelling 11808INO!

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  • Nov 19, 2007 4:12:54 PM CST

    I wonder if that girl pops like the boxer in the Comebacks

    by skeletonparty

    That would be cool.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 4:18:01 PM CST

    i figured it out

    by zom-bot.com

    giant monster comes out of ocean..causes havoc and destruction unintentionally (it's just giant and confused)....then dies- of natural causes...because it was some unknown whale like sea creature beaching itself before it dies...a lifecycle so long we've never seen one before. What's left of new york is unlivable, through ruin or decomposition. over time, the vast waste of new york is reclaimed by plantlife (and of all things, clovers- which frequent areas of decay- and the new huge flat 'park' city is renamed 'cloverfield'. credits roll, you want your $8.50 back.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 4:19:04 PM CST

    Gamera is back

    by purgatori

    and he's fucking pissed.

    Cloverfield! The revenge of Gamera.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 4:19:36 PM CST

    Please don't compare this movie to GINO

    by raymar

    Looks more like the original Godzilla or Godzilla 1985 (ie the monster actually destroys things)

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  • Nov 19, 2007 4:23:59 PM CST

    Here she is before she blows up.

    by l.h.puttgrass

    This is the woman between the two guys in the biohazard suits behind the tarp. Mind the spaces. http://www.saveangel.org/forum/index .php?showtopic=8723

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  • The fact that they're not marketing it as Lovecraft makes me think it is Lovecraft. I don't know much about his work other than what I've read in summaries but on a basic level it sounds fantastic and perfect for a big screen treatment. if you come out and say it's Lovecraft people will have no idea what it is and will be turned off by it. But if you just get them in the theater on the mystery and the trailers they won't care what it is, they'll just be entertained.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 4:26:17 PM CST

    here's the thing. . .

    by la.cucaracha

    This monster is going to start at New York, continuing on to the rest of the world but missing on thing.

    Will Smith.

    He then hides out in a destroyed NYC with his faithul dog Cthuthu and waits.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 4:27:20 PM CST

    the beauty and irony of my theory

    by zom-bot.com

    is that we get killed by the normal behaviour of a giant peaceful creature. what we perceive as 'attack' is just a giant creature moving through the environment. the attacks by the parasites on humans is also a natural event relative to our scale to the creature...it's nothing personal or horrible, we just got in the way. good idea for a short story, but not a 2 hour movie....so what the fuck is this thing about?

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  • Freeze frame the 'white noise' in quicktime. They're 'magic eye' pictures! I can make out a cartoony whale tail in one and someone's head in another. Was always crap at these :(

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  • Nov 19, 2007 4:34:09 PM CST

    Teaser is much better tan the trailer...

    by underdogthe3rd

    Oh, well.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 4:37:46 PM CST

    Here's more pics. May be spoilery. I don't know.

    by l.h.puttgrass

    http://tinyurl.com/ysy3kg
    Looks like she got infected by the creature.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 4:44:43 PM CST

    Sorry, the link is on the left side.

    by l.h.puttgrass

    "pictures" down on the left.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 4:45:44 PM CST

    Who's behind the curtain

    by darthrazor

    If I were a betting man, I would say that it is Lizzy Caplan who is behind the curtain being pulled by the 2 guys in containment suits. There is a spoiler pic of this before she is behind the curtain where there are two men in blue containment suits pulling her away. Its the pic of her with blood coming out of her eyes.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 4:46:16 PM CST

    I Support the Mutated Whale on This One

    by dogsoup

    But his barnacles can kiss my fucking ass.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 4:48:06 PM CST

    Slushozoom.com updated last week

    by techspec

    Seems the pictures had the title all along.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 4:50:59 PM CST

    If they are stereograms, I can't get them to work.

    by skeletonparty

    Anyone have any success with this?

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  • Nov 19, 2007 4:55:31 PM CST

    fake shake cam

    by bcfreeb

    Looks like they took hollywood models/actors, meticulously lit scenes, shot handheld with better-than-warranted HD cameras that they "floated around" to make it feel somewhat amateurish (while still making sure to compose a shot as desired), and reacted in a scooby-doo big eyes way.

    Oh wait....they did.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 4:56:57 PM CST

    A Giant Davey Jones?!!??

    by renonevada2000

    Does he sing "Daydream Believer" before he crushes New York?

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  • Nov 19, 2007 4:57:06 PM CST

    from slusho.jp

    by mc-909

    Under "History":

    "Noriko Yoshida dedicated her life to refreshment. Her classmates called her the Smallest Whale because she would drink endless amounts of beverage at every meal"

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  • Nov 19, 2007 4:58:09 PM CST

    inflated?

    by bigtexas42

    OK, so i haven't watched the clip yet, but from what im reading, some chick "inflates" "blows up" or something, and then "pops" or "explodes"? am i reading this right? is it like "dig-dug"? theres some little guy in a spacesuit with a bicycle pump inflating everyone in new york (a commentary on the epidemic of obeisity, perhaps) until they die? this is a strange movie.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 4:58:37 PM CST

    PalsyCam

    by aboriginal

    Greengrass perfected the art of the big screen action barf cinema. On TV your eyes can keep good track of the imagery, but on a 30 foot screen its like getting whacked around for 90 minutes and then try to stand up. The snack counter better offer up dramamine and cue the iguana.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 5:01:06 PM CST

    also...

    by mc-909

    "...everyone who drinks a slusho...becomes a small whale like Nariko".

    Just saying.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 5:08:47 PM CST

    "Surprise!" in the Begining

    by darthrazor

    Has any one else noticed that the actor in the door with Rob in the begining of the trailer is not the same actor who was there in the begining of the teaser - Looks like they may have done some significant reshoots on this already.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 5:09:37 PM CST

    With JJ behind this film, I thought the "Monster" would be

    by finky089

    Felicity finally rampaging through NYC looking for "Ben! BEN!! BEEEEEEEEEEN!!!!"

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  • Nov 19, 2007 5:11:02 PM CST

    did the guy filming also bring lighting equipment?

    by thenorthlander

    Seems from the trailer all people's faces are very well lit, considdering it's shot with a small cell phone camera.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 5:15:11 PM CST

    The Parasite emerging @ 1:44

    by darthrazor

    Its quick, a single frame but pause and advance frame by frame around this time - Now Look closely this is a person slumped over with one of the parasites emeging from his/her body, It looks like it has crab/spider like appendages near the persons legs/ankles and there are tentacle like arms with cillia or "feelers" emerging. Anyone elese see this?

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  • Nov 19, 2007 5:15:13 PM CST

    and...

    by mc-909

    Slusho.jp refers to "Nariko's" brother as "Ganu"...

    According to Wikipedia, Ganu is a festival originating from where?

    Wait for it.

    Wales.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 5:15:16 PM CST

    My theory - There are going to be two big monsters in this film

    by gornpirate

    I think the big one being fired at by the army guys in the clip, let's call him Monster A, is kind of like Gamera. Big Turlte/Flying Lizard thing. The other monster, let's call it Monster B, we won't really know about it until the end because the characters and audience will think they are the same creature. It will be even weirder and shoot "quills" that infect it's victim with it's parastic young who start bursting out of infected humans from the first attack. Monster A emerged from the depths to kill Monster B and it's young.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 5:18:43 PM CST

    coelacanth. . .

    by aboriginal

    Life came from the oceans and now comes DEATH.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 5:19:12 PM CST

    They're not magic eye stereograms.

    by thenorthlander

    BUT, I do have to agree that putting single frame stereograms in a movie is an idea that would be beyond awsomedome. I'm stealing that.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 5:21:04 PM CST

    Solider @ 1:00

    by darthrazor

    Any reason why his face would be digitized out of the shot - is this some major plot point we're not supposed to see coming when watching the film?

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  • Nov 19, 2007 5:23:28 PM CST

    My thought on the digitized face--

    by pompoulus

    The first thing I thought was it was being used to protect the identity of survivors, which implies... yeeeah.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 5:23:43 PM CST

    Lovecraft sucks!!!

    by pdennett316

    And cthulu is a pussy....doesn't even deserve a capital letter, the useless fucker.
    This film looks excellent fun, how do you put paragraph breaks in?

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  • Nov 19, 2007 5:27:55 PM CST

    but, MC-909....

    by legokenobi

    is it a whale? inquiring minds want to know.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 5:28:40 PM CST

    I don't see the parasite at 1:44

    by skeletonparty

    I see somebody lurching forward on the balls of their feet and reaching a hand forward. This person is obscured by possibly another person in silhouette wearing capri pants. I don't think anyone can tell what is going on there.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 5:30:27 PM CST

    use the html tag for paragraph breaks or line breaks.

    by skeletonparty

    If you want paragraphs use or but remove the spaces.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 5:32:01 PM CST

    wow. a giant turtle. still looks cool though...still excited

    by the_one_man_gang

    pretty sure its a turtle though. the little monsters looked like they had lion heads in silhouette...

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  • Nov 19, 2007 5:33:53 PM CST

    SkeletonParty

    by darthrazor

    Are you watching in Hi-Def? On the right hand side of the person there are definitely tentancle like appendages and there are the crab like finger claws near their legs

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  • Nov 19, 2007 5:34:47 PM CST

    Looks good

    by cobbio

    I didn't participate in the internet hype when this first hit the internet, so I'm seeing it clean. And I think it looks pretty good.
    And it's a low-budget movie written by Drew Goddard? Hell yes. I'm there.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 5:35:31 PM CST

    BLAH. Fuck Cloverfield.

    by jackbauer24

    Seriously, I don't get what the big deal with it is - it really doesn't look that exciting to me. It'll just be your standard monster/end of the world movie but instead of decent special effects and cinematography, it'll be shot wiggly-jiggly handheld with lots of unscripted people shouting "Oh my God!" and "Heather, that is so not cool.".

    Wahey.

    You want my opinion (rhetorical q) you're all marketing stooges. You fell for it with Blair Witch and now you're falling for it again, but moreso. How is it exciting that they're NOT SHOWING US ANYTHING about the movie. To me that says, they have nothing to show. Plus I hate JJ Abrams. The man is the most shameless self-promoter since Quentin Tarantino. He's not even directing the fucking thing and yet his name is plastered all over the product. I'd like to see any of you guys name the director of the movie right now without looking it up. It's the same with Lost - he wrote and directed one episode and everyone thinks he's the mastermind behind the entire thing. Most casual viewers probably don't even know who Lindelof and Cuse are (I love Lost, by the way). So hey, if the movie does turn out to be good - you can bet it won't be because of JJ Abrams (alias - meh. MI III - meh. Star Trek XI - will be meh, trust me) End rant.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 5:36:46 PM CST

    Blow up woman

    by darthrazor

    Right on Budgie smuggler! those are the pics - right before it happens - Lizzy Caplan bites it like Yaphet Kotto in Live an Let Die

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  • Nov 19, 2007 5:40:05 PM CST

    and there is no magic eye shit there. retard.

    by the_one_man_gang

  • Nov 19, 2007 5:42:06 PM CST

    Hmm...

    by cobbio

    DarthRazor, I think that's stretching it. You can't tell me you see anything in that half-second of film. Tentacles? Not. Crablike finger claws? I agree with SkeletonParty: it's just non-specific shadows.
    Sorry.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 5:49:34 PM CST

    Re: Hmm...

    by darthrazor

    I have looked at this a while on the higher resolutions an I'm pretty sure there is something there in this half a second - Just giving my opinion on this sorry you don't see the same thing maybe we can settle it on the talkback after we actually see what this is about.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 5:57:29 PM CST

    Blair Witch Project + Godzilla = Cloverfield

    by stewiegriffin

    They better have a damn good story and a knockout ending...that's all I have to say.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 6:01:37 PM CST

    And I didn't see any little monsters

    by stewiegriffin

    It looked like the silhouette of a woman being handled by two guys in bio suites

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  • Nov 19, 2007 6:01:53 PM CST

    This looks amazing

    by gozu

    Honestly, it's been too long since a good monster movie. Well, less than a year, but still, good monster movies are like Jello. There's always room for Jello.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 6:06:18 PM CST

    And I agree with SkeletonParty

    by stewiegriffin

    you dweebs are the ones who created all the hype, the media has barely even touched this flick and the studio isn't exactly plastering ads for it all over the place. Maybe they know something you morons don't know.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 6:07:16 PM CST

    DID I SEE A GIANT STAY PUFT MAN JUST THEN?

    by metaluna

    I need my glasses cleaning. Is it me or is this just Godzilla for the slacker gen?

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  • Nov 19, 2007 6:08:36 PM CST

    No Monster

    by bombadils_bane10

    I think at this point with all the online chitter chatter there is no way the Monster will ever be satisfying. This leaves only one option...never show the monster. We will never see what this bad boy looks like.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 6:10:54 PM CST

    Stewiegriffin

    by bombadils_bane10

    It's hilarious that you call everyone here a dweeb yet you're posting on the same site and about the same movie. By the by, Family Guy is horrible.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 6:13:07 PM CST

    Heres an High Def image of the monster

    by hegele

    I captured the quick glimpse from the trailer.

    http://img511.imageshack.us/my.php?image=cloverfieldmonsterwg5.jpg

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  • Nov 19, 2007 6:14:37 PM CST

    Re: And I didn't see any little monsters

    by darthrazor

    You are correct - this scene does not have any of the little monsters - just the expanding woman and the Bio suited men. I am focusing on the Scene @1:44 with the silouette of the figure and the alien looking appendages

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  • Nov 19, 2007 6:14:53 PM CST

    BLAIR WITCH GODZILLA!

    by mike_d

  • Nov 19, 2007 6:15:46 PM CST

    guyinthebackrow

    by drewlicious

    I'm confused. Are you saying they've made you give your name when you bought a ticket? That's never happened to me before. I've had almost nothing but good experiences there because the employees are so polite. I had just the one where I saw Joshua and for some bizarres reason at 11:00 at night there was a family with two kids 11 and under behind me. Kept talking through the whole thing. Watching a movie about a little monster and I've got two of them behind me. Go figure. And the movie sucked too. I go to the arclight to avoid the sort of problem and I usually do.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 6:17:22 PM CST

    mrjoker...

    by -guyinthebackrow

  • Nov 19, 2007 6:18:57 PM CST

    I really really wanna know...

    by dirkd13"

    ...how the hell you're supposed to pronounce Cthulu. Help appreciated.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 6:19:59 PM CST

    drewlicious...

    by -guyinthebackrow

    No, I was talking about how before every movie some guy comes out and introduces the film. I hate that. I'm not exactly sure why. I mean... I like the fact that there aren't commercials, but I just hate the introduction. I know what movie I'm about to see, I bought a ticket, I want to see it, so stop annoying me with all this, "Hi, everybody, welcome to The Arclight," stuff. It just gets under my skin.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 6:20:31 PM CST

    I really really wanna know...

    by darthrazor

    I've heard and english Lovecraft scholar pronouce it "Coo-too-Loo"

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  • Nov 19, 2007 6:23:02 PM CST

    This stupid movie

    by thegoddamedbatman

    It's not out for two months, I am already sick of it. Usually when the hype for a movie hits, I am the sucker who buys into it. This movie has so much hype I've burned out and I only just learned it's title. Lame.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 6:23:30 PM CST

    Unfortunately

    by thegoddamedbatman

    They'll probably still get my eight bucks.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 6:31:13 PM CST

    Hi-Res screenshot of the monster HERE

    by vesuvio

    http://tinyurl.com/277gne .. I think that pretty much settle all the discussions.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 6:32:18 PM CST

    When I end up being right....

    by hard8

    just remember I fucking called it.

    It's Chutulu. The brief shot of the monster clearly shows it's got tenticles on it's head.

    Chutulu comes from the sea. The poster cleary shows a wake in NY harbor heading
    toward a path of destruction.

    carry on.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 6:48:28 PM CST

    agreed, i could live without the introduction....

    by drewlicious

    But I'll gladly put up with it if it means no screaming babies in the movie theater. It's either this or put up with the mongloids that always manage to sit next to me at the Burbank 16.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 6:50:09 PM CST

    Darth Razor and frame 1:44

    by skeletonparty

    Darth, I think that image is of three people. Probably Rob and his two female companions. They are leaving a dark hall and entering a lit hallway with a stair rail.

    The girl in the lead is best seen. She appears to be tip-toeing down the hall, maybe looking down the stairs.

    In the foreground shadows are the silhouettes of a girl in capri pants walking toward the stairs hunched over like she's in pain. On her right is a figure in long pants also hunched over. Perhaps he's helping the injured girl.

    I don't see any cilia or creature popping out.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 6:50:27 PM CST

    Looks great except for the acting

    by industrykiller!

    which looks pretty damn bad. Especially that lead guy who I don't read any panic in at all when he's talking to the camera and that over the top deep voiced soldier. "Whatever it is, it's winning!"? Gimme a break.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 6:52:10 PM CST

    I dunno, I just can't help but get excited for this flick.

    by novaman5000

    It looks like alot of fun.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 6:52:11 PM CST

    it's not lion.

    by errockk

    he says "Rob, Rob, I saw it. It's a lie!" not lion you silly poop

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  • Nov 19, 2007 6:59:14 PM CST

    The way they SHOULD be doing it

    by performingmonkey

    What should happen in Cloverfield is there IS no monster, it's the government trying to fuck everyone up by blowing the shit out of the city and projecting holograms of planes, er I mean (bwaha) holograms of monsters. Now THAT would rule. I don't want yet another monster movie, I want something more interesting, more frightening. The guy holding the camera could discover the truth about what's happening and he's arrested. The camera footage he shot survives and is played for the U.S. audience. We cut to non-handheld camera stuff and we see the guy being interrogated. Suddenly King Kong and Godzilla appear and start beating the shit out of each other. Then Cthulu destroys them all. The end. And it's all a conspiracy!!

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  • Nov 19, 2007 7:03:00 PM CST

    Nice Vesuvio. You finally convinced me.

    by pelos_locos

    Much appreciated. That definitely throws my theory of a giant aquatic turkey out the window. Damn it!
    So it is a lion. Is it a lion whale though? That is the question.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 7:03:35 PM CST

    here's my take on the creature

    by el borak

    after hours and hours of studying and examining the picture this is what i have come up with.

    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v376/thejeditraitor/cloverfieldfishman.jpg

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  • Nov 19, 2007 7:05:20 PM CST

    i say cthulhu as...

    by el borak

    kah-thoo-loo

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  • Nov 19, 2007 7:09:32 PM CST

    The correct pronuntiation of chutulu is actually.

    by pelos_locos

    Jerome. It is a translation from the ancient Nahuatl, which was spoken by the ancient residents of Arkham, Arizona, before the arrival of Spain to the new world.
    Other pronunciations are Chuy (as in "chewy"), Lorenz and PoomChakalaka.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 7:10:46 PM CST

    I've changed my mind.

    by hard8

    they don't say it's a lion...
    they say "I saw it. It's ALIVE"
    That can mean only one thing.......

    It's the Morgan Stanley building doing a major hostile takeover of Manhatten.

    carry on.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 7:12:12 PM CST

    I've seen the trailer half a dozen times...

    by the dum guy

  • Nov 19, 2007 7:12:18 PM CST

    Darth Razor and frame 1:44 continued

    by skeletonparty

    I made a little gif showing what I think that frame depicts.

    Please check out http://preview.tinyurl.com/277966

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  • Nov 19, 2007 7:13:59 PM CST

    I've seen the trailer half a dozen times...

    by the dum guy

    On the big screen, and I can't make out a single shot of the big monster, only some silhouette of one the little ones.It looks like a man in a suit.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 7:16:49 PM CST

    here's the tiny url

    by el borak

    cloverfield fishman

    http://tinyurl.com/ynqlo6

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  • Nov 19, 2007 7:21:13 PM CST

    Awww... Crap!

    by darthrazor

    SkeletonParty - I hate compelling evidence - I'm sold after that last image - I believe you are correct sir.

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  • "[Phantom Nov 19th, 2007
    02:15:13 PM]
    Blair Witch POV shakey cam...Meets Tri star Godzilla...with a little of the Korean flick thrown in. And we'll get the sheep to all line up to see it with a Euro-tech yuppie idiot mystery ad campaign!!! I hope that I am wrong but it smells like the hype will outweigh the product." MAN YOU ARE SO RIGHT ON! THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT I THOUGHT AFTER WATCHING THE TRAILER.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 7:39:09 PM CST

    Sorry JJ & Friends

    by jonquixote

    I tend to like your work. And the premise sounds cool and all, but that tiny trailer on my monitor had enough static and quick cuts to make me sick to my stomach. In fact, it was so nausea-inducing, it actually pissed me off. If you think I'm gonna buy a $12 ticket for a headache in January, you're outta your gourd. I don't want to see your movie. I kinda want an apology.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 7:41:17 PM CST

    1-18-08

    by steve_dooku

    Been a while since I went to the website, what does the Japanese say on the back of the photo of the cook with the pan of noodles?

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  • Nov 19, 2007 7:51:15 PM CST

    its must have a GIGANTIC wee-wee!

    by themasterofnonsense

    imagine its cum load!

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  • Nov 19, 2007 8:10:02 PM CST

    If you think about it . . .

    by turingtestee

    Cthulhu has a face and head that with the ring of tentacles might come off as slightly lionish . . . not to support the whole lion thing (which does seem to be dying off anyway).
    I think Football is right . . . no one will see the creature and live.
    We in the audience might not see it either. God, I hope not.
    Didnt notice the chick swelling up until reading a post . . . gnarley
    At 1:44 might they be chased by something throwing a shadow from the other room?
    Havent been stoked on a movie like this since . . . um, well . . . Land of the Dead, and . . . yeah, that one was a real winner.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 8:12:50 PM CST

    So it's basically "Moby Dick II: The Revenge"?

    by jackpumpkinhead

    But in shake cam glory?

    By the way, sadly, nobody could make an adaptation of Moby Dick today without morons chuckling and making "jokes" about it. Probably along the lines of "Mo' pussy!"

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  • Nov 19, 2007 8:14:16 PM CST

    By the way, the movie's concept is laughable.

    by jackpumpkinhead

    If JJ Abrams had any concept of how the real world works, he would have known that the monster would have quickly been taken down by the Powerpuff Girls.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 8:27:01 PM CST

    Monster Movie with a twist

    by salacious_crumb

    You guys are looking at the wrong things. 1)In the context of the movie this is footage that was found in the area once known as Central Park 2)There is a scene where a soldier's face, is digitally obscured.
    This along with assertions that there will be non shaky parts of the movie, tells me that parts of this movie will be told AFTER 01-18-08. My guess is that film will be set in the future and that the "archival" Cloverfield footage(which will end up being named for someone--ala the Zapruder films)will tell the story to kids of how the monsters took over the earth.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 8:39:11 PM CST

    Sooo is this a remake of...

    by series7

    Gojira-Minira-Gabara: Oru kaijû daishingeki, because what I saw of that monster looked like mini godzilla - Minira. AWESOME!!!!!!!!!

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  • Nov 19, 2007 8:45:41 PM CST

    The world is ending

    by noahtall

    Harry linked to the apple trailer website and didn't say "Glorious Quicktime"Either that or Microsoft started paying him or Apple stopped paying him.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 8:56:58 PM CST

    stupid talkback

    by burgerking

    Why when I want to view talkback does it just load a blank page. fuck

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  • Nov 19, 2007 9:03:29 PM CST

    how bad ass

    by frrrrunkis

    lost/cloverfield crossover, This is the price way pay for not key in the numbers and letting the hatch explode.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 9:04:45 PM CST

    Ultra Peepi?

    by red_weed

    Probably not. That chick totally explodes or something. Maybe she is the smallest whale.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 9:07:36 PM CST

    ?

    by frrrrunkis

    it there a main site giving a rundown of what is bull and what is believed as fact about the slusho the drilling company. the off shore rig?

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  • Nov 19, 2007 9:11:03 PM CST

    Headache

    by beelkay

    I don't care how good it is...if it's shaky cam more than 5 minutes, I ain't watchin' it.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 9:15:12 PM CST

    CLOVERFIELD is an anagram for....

    by wackybantha

    ...Teenaged Mutant Ninja Turtles!!!

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  • Nov 19, 2007 9:38:39 PM CST

    OBVIOUSLY, what's going to happen IS...

    by cornponious

    that i don't believe there are going to be any small monsters that are going to jump off the big monster. And, if by chance there are, they are not going to be biting anybody. This is not how people get infected. it's the "deep sea honey" or whatever the crap it's called, that infects people. I think this is probably eggs or something like that, and people who ingest it become infected, or impregnated in some way, with small monsters.

    That's what i think anyway. I have no idea if this idea has already been vollied around. I'm just sayin'...

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  • Nov 19, 2007 9:40:52 PM CST

    my guess is they never show us the monster clearly

    by slappy jones

    that is my guess anyway. we will never get a clear shot of the monster

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  • Nov 19, 2007 9:53:22 PM CST

    GIANT KILLER

    by zom-bot.com

    does anyone remember a comic (was it dark horse) called giant killer?
    where a very hell-boy like monster with a samurai sword was trained by the government or something to take on the giant monsters that were suddenly appearing? it was an awesome little premise...there were twenty-six monsters, one for every letter of the alphabet, including the 'hero' monster, Jack (?)... but some were quite lovecraftian, others very japanese, others american b-movie style...and i'm pretty sure there was one whose breath turned people into zombies.
    ........hmmm. I think I know what J.J. was reading when he came up with this 'original' concept.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 9:59:32 PM CST

    Have any of you actually read Lovecraft?!

    by hardboiled wonderland

    If people think Cthulhu is all about a giant monster destroying a big city ala Godzilla, then they've never read a single fucking HP Lovecraft story in their sad little lives. Cthulhu should NEVER be a cool gimmicky substitute for Godzilla. And last time I checked, Cthulhu wasn't created by Slusho. Cloverfield is NOT Cthulhu.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 10:00:16 PM CST

    my bad

    by zom-bot.com

    it was a DC comic- take out the space between giant and killer....i can't find any pics of the monsters, but i know the cthulu looking one had a 'mane' of tentacles... or one did.
    http://www.dynamicforces.com/images/giant killer1danbrereton.jpg

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  • Nov 19, 2007 10:01:22 PM CST

    Watchmen

    by aversiontherapy2

    Reminds of the big scene, except it's moving.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 10:02:09 PM CST

    maybe this is ghostbusters 3

    by zom-bot.com

    and destroying the statue of liberty is their own way of laughing at the horrible mistakes of ghostbusters 2

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  • Nov 19, 2007 10:04:34 PM CST

    It moves like an octopus/squid

    by hardboiled wonderland

    Watch the trailer closely, specifically how the monster moves. That's a giant octopus or squid.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 10:04:40 PM CST

    I think this has been metioned

    by frrrrunkis

    anyone remember the episode of "The real ghostbusters" the call of Cthulhu. The cult members wore squid facemasks. i have no point

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  • Nov 19, 2007 10:09:21 PM CST

    GODZILLA/GOJIRA

    by zom-bot.com

    some of you may already know, godzilla's true name is GOJIRA....
    a combination of two Japanese words: gorira (ゴリラ, lit. "gorilla"?) and kujira (クジラ, lit. "whale"?)...godzilla is just a name for the american audiences, but it took over.......gorilla and whale...as described by a fisherman that first encounters godzilla.....but the point i'm trying to make is WHALE.......

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  • Nov 19, 2007 10:12:47 PM CST

    which makes me think

    by zom-bot.com

    JJ thought it would be witty to give us the literal version of GOJIRA..a bipedal whale monster.....who says he doesn't fight off a giant squid like enemy? squids and whales are natural enemies. factoid.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 10:24:46 PM CST

    This could still be VOLTRON

    by ye not guilty

    I'm pretty sure I saw some flying robots or something at one point in this trailer. Could have been lions, I'm not sure.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 10:29:38 PM CST

    a simple search of sites

    by zom-bot.com

    merely googling the words 'cloverfield monster' will get you a ton of info, and many sites have JJ even stating that it is not cthulu, but a very squid like monster with claws.......god i hope not. squid and crustaceans are not even the same...species....plus the poster and site art are pretty heavy on the whole 'three claw slash marks' on the buildings and stuff.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 10:46:11 PM CST

    You can see the monster at...

    by lord_galvatron

    1:29, right between the buildings.It looks like its backside... or ass end of it. Also I think the girl was not expanding... it could be that the monsters are tearing her apart. But at that moment Kurt Russell was laughing, so it's ok.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 10:57:48 PM CST

    skywalkerfamily...

    by d_t

    ...probably in fear of the upcoming AYCE (and the devastation from the AICN staff).

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  • God help us all.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 11:06:49 PM CST

    fan art or not

    by zom-bot.com

    that whale monster is the most sensible thing by this point....

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  • Nov 19, 2007 11:07:08 PM CST

    Bombadils_Bane10

    by stewiegriffin

    By and by, I don't give a f*** what you think douche.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 11:10:30 PM CST

    Oh boy...

    by boober

    If this movie is GB w/out the humor w. Blairwitchcam then it will be bad. Not even a Gozer-summoned Muslim Extremist could save this one with explosions etc.

    If it ends up being two monsters fighting, then awesome surprise. But it better be T-rex kills Spinosaurus awesome. That JP3 shiz was the worst cop-out ever. "Here Mr. fish-eating Spinosaur, let me bite down on your neck with a force that is twice that of the next deadliest predator ever to exist."
    "Oh, ok, NP Mr. T-rex. Stevey says I get to win, so I am gonna twist your head and snap your neck like a twig."

    GTF outtahere wit'datsh!t!

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  • Nov 19, 2007 11:11:21 PM CST

    PS look at the claw marks in Lady Liberty

    by boober

    A whale, mutated or not, doesn't do that.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 11:12:40 PM CST

    ahem...

    by mc-909

    Like I said earlier:

    Notice all the whale references on the Slusho.jp site. Not to mention the most subversive of them all: "Nakiro's" brother's name is "Ganu"...Ganu is a festival in WALES.

    It's a giant fucking mutated whale that can walk. I am not going to say this again.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 11:25:14 PM CST

    I hate Apple.

    by yeti

    Name - Yeti
    Age - mmmmffy-somthing
    Hobby - Hating

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  • Nov 19, 2007 11:31:26 PM CST

    fan art.

    by djbry

    http://www.jjabrams. net/showthread.php?t=118

    although... i smoke crack

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  • Nov 19, 2007 11:43:35 PM CST

    70's fashion smells like pee.

    by cenobite

    ... no really. Enough with all the poo browns, vomit greens and booger yellows. It wasn't attractive back in the 70's... it ain't cool now.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 11:45:16 PM CST

    djbry

    by mc-909

    If that thing isn't official it fucking should be.

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  • Nov 19, 2007 11:50:57 PM CST

    Great...so mutant giant squid vs. mutant sperm whale...

    by boober

    Someone call Aquaman and Submariner. Chuckle.

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  • Nov 20, 2007 12:00:12 AM CST

    Book of Revelations angle???

    by boober

    Just a thought. Enough nastiness in there to get the ole concept artist in all of us fired up. Chok up the girl to pestilence.

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  • Nov 20, 2007 12:05:03 AM CST

    MC909 said it's a whale

    by badmrwonka

    and as he pointed out, he's NOT going to say it again, people...not after he's already said it 10 times...countdown until he says it again?

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  • Nov 20, 2007 12:54:00 AM CST

    It IS a Whale

    by bobman46

    Only, it's not a whale- they cast a bunch of Dolphins taped together that does - what they think - to be a convincing Whale ACCENT. Much like- yet again- casting a non scotsman as scottie. Yup, taped dolphins- hunners of them.

    Also, that bit in the trailer that have people all going, "oh there are little turtle things" - sorry if this has been pointed out but I can't be arse reading all the talkbacks- but IT'S GUYS IN CONTAINMENT SUITS BEHIND A SCREEN! Look at them- least- I hope it is cos if it's little turtle monsters, their outlines look shite!

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  • Nov 20, 2007 12:58:25 AM CST

    el borak

    by slkboxrman

    nice try , but if u watch the trailer the monster is moving to the right not the left so unless its going backwards that cant be his head

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  • Nov 20, 2007 1:30:54 AM CST

    Looks nice but this shaky cam stuff...

    by motoko kusanagi

    ...is F(gunshot)ING ANNOYING already...

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  • Nov 20, 2007 2:11:29 AM CST

    are the bursts of static..

    by inspectordoppler

    stereographic-o-thingies? Like those magic eye books, where you stare at them for an hour and get a headache then see something in 3-d? Looks similar. I've always been bad at them, couldn't make anything out, but the thought of other people now staring intently at a still frame of static for half an hour with their eyes crossed makes me happy.

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  • Nov 20, 2007 2:12:07 AM CST

    What Would Be Cool...

    by micturatingbenjamin

    This looks fun to me, but what would be cool is that the first thirty minutes or so are just clips of the carnage, basically the footage we've already seen, and the real story is a hardcore troop of guys trying to get the tape from the remains of Central Park out of New York, in normal, non-camera inside a paint mixer-vision.

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  • Nov 20, 2007 2:14:24 AM CST

    Ooooooooo Scary Monster

    by weirdmetamorphosis

    (in a Japanese voice) GODZILLA! GODZILLA! lol

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  • Nov 20, 2007 2:14:35 AM CST

    Picture of the damned thing already...

    by micturatingbenjamin

    It's uh...Something...I don't really know what to call this.
    http://cloverfieldclues.blogspot.com/

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  • Nov 20, 2007 2:38:50 AM CST

    IT'S NOT A FUCKING LION!!

    by maniaq

    I think we've established it's not "little creatures" but guys in Hazmat suits? Just one more thing - I don't think the girl blows up. Her torso expands, yes, but not her legs or her head - only her torso - LIKE SHE'S TAKING OFF HER CLOTHES


    http://tinyurl.com/26usle

    frame by frame

    bitches ;)

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  • Nov 20, 2007 2:44:29 AM CST

    This is no Monster... Its just Harry going apeshit

    by sleeptones

    hahahahah

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  • Nov 20, 2007 2:46:11 AM CST

    It's...

    by tj donkey show

    ...Dinosaur Neil. I can't believe I'm the only one that's come with him.

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  • Nov 20, 2007 3:09:12 AM CST

    Can't wait for the reaction...

    by 'cholera's ghost

    when the camera zooms in on the lion. Which it has TWICE been CLEARLY stated to be in the trailers. Open your ears! Fuck you people, lions are freakin' scary, and this is going to be the awesomest lion movie evahhhh!

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  • Nov 20, 2007 3:31:42 AM CST

    IT IS NOT A FUCKING LION!

    by maniaq

    from the interview with Lizzy Caplan someone posted previously :

    "There’s all this YouTube stuff about analyzing the trailer. People are seeing things that aren’t there and making up stuff that isn’t true. There’s this one still of me and Jessica Lucas, who’s another actress in the film, and people thought there was some crazy lion behind us. But people are wrong."

    Enough with the crazy lion theories - oh and Lizzy doesn't blow up

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  • Nov 20, 2007 4:01:58 AM CST

    BLAIRZILLA -- that silhouette looks like a giant hamster

    by killakane

    This either succeeds or fails on the strength of the monster(s) and the implied terror of the shaky cam verite footage. The vibe is semi-there, but that shadow does'nt suggest a particularly terrifying mini-critter on the rampage. What worries me about this is that all the film's going to be viewed in FPP jarring hand held video with fragmentary shots of events (and I imagine fleeting glimses of the creature(s). Still not so sure about this one, would like to read some test screening feedback...

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  • Nov 20, 2007 4:08:59 AM CST

    Blairwitch Project meets Independence day meets Godzilla98

    by orionsangels

  • Nov 20, 2007 4:20:51 AM CST

    omg yeah, I thought it was hamster people or something haha!

    by orionsangels

    It's actually two men in chemical suits trying to control a woman who's stomach seems to implode.

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  • Nov 20, 2007 5:11:28 AM CST

    "WHATEVER IT IS, IT'S WOMEN!"

    by henrydalton

    Isn't that what he said? I'm thinking the whole thing is a massive anti-feminist rant by J. J. Abrams.

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  • Nov 20, 2007 5:25:28 AM CST

    This reminds me of the best x-files

    by emeraldboy

    episode that I ever saw. It all kicks off in a run down house and a dead guy in a bath tub. It tells the story of the arrival of the aliens. These little jumping spider crab like aliens which live in the stomach of their victims and go from human to human after growing large enough to crawl out of the stomachs of their victims and entering the mouth of the next person.

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  • Nov 20, 2007 5:35:27 AM CST

    Shit

    by maxthesilent

    Nice idea but the acting looks shit, which pretty much destroys any chance the movie has of succeeding on the level it's clearly intended.

    Blast BLAIR WITCH all you want (and if you do, you suck), but that movie worked because it was all improvised. Every line in this trailer is clearly scripted. All that's missing is a token black friend saying "I got a baaaad feeling about this!"

    My guess is, Abrams is such an maddeningly oblique cunt you'll never actually see the monster, and the Hugo Boss advert that is the cast of this movie will just gawk off-camera the whole time.

    If this movie sucks as badly as LOST derailed then God help THE DARK TOWER.

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  • Nov 20, 2007 5:35:51 AM CST

    More news leaked on WP - monster's origin revealed

    by jackpumpkinhead

    They got to the origin of the monster - turns out it really does come from Japan: http://tinyurl.com/3d3pdh

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  • Nov 20, 2007 6:02:35 AM CST

    she wasn't inflating

    by yo mom's goat

    she was getting torn to pieces... hence the "guts spilling out" sound effect. That's the way I saw it anyways...

    I just don't know why black bears would attack women in the middle of a Godzilla movie.

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  • http://tinyurl.com/yq9x2v ... apparently, Maniaq and the rest were right.

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  • Nov 20, 2007 6:09:41 AM CST

    90 mins of shaky cam

    by palewook

    and a reality tv look. wow, just, wow. where did he come up with something so original?

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  • Nov 20, 2007 6:30:36 AM CST

    LINO is in fact a TURTLE = TMNT 2

    by romoehlio

    radiation gone wrong, check - turtle in NY, check - action ensues, check - see?

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  • Nov 20, 2007 6:32:02 AM CST

    LINO is purpose! see TINO for reference...

    by romoehlio

    but LINO = LION hmmmm....??

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  • Nov 20, 2007 6:33:24 AM CST

    DAMN YOU JJ ABRAMS...

    by romoehlio

    show us the TURTLE already

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  • Nov 20, 2007 6:43:02 AM CST

    Something more terrifiyng and inexplicable

    by emeraldboy

  • Nov 20, 2007 6:44:50 AM CST

    Something more terrifying and inexplicable

    by emeraldboy

    is AINC'S WHITE SCREEN OF DOOM!! no one knows its origins and strikes without warning.

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  • Nov 20, 2007 7:19:21 AM CST

    wsod

    by ironic_name

  • Nov 20, 2007 7:29:19 AM CST

    The Host

    by mjdeviant

    Doesn't anybody else think this is going to VERY similar story-wise? Government creates creature on accident, creature attacks city, government tries to kill creature, makes things worse. I know, you kind of can't avoid that. I'm as psyched as anyone over this but I can't let that feeling go.

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  • Nov 20, 2007 7:29:35 AM CST

    mousepad

    by john l raiser

    http://cgi.ebay.com/JJ-Abrams-1-18-08-Cloverfield-Slusho-Cthulhu-Mouse-Pad_W0QQitemZ170170098489QQihZ007QQcategoryZ62048QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem#ebayphotohosting

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  • Nov 20, 2007 7:56:41 AM CST

    She's exploding, because...

    by hardboiled wonderland

    ... she drank too much Slusho.

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  • Nov 20, 2007 8:01:04 AM CST

    The Mousepad pic is NOT Cloverfield

    by hardboiled wonderland

    Don't be a fucking nuffnuff. The pic on the (fake) mousepad is from an MMORPG being developed called The Secret World. http://www.dark daysarecoming.com

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  • Nov 20, 2007 8:08:24 AM CST

    the smoke monster from LOST

    by zom-bot.com

    that's what it is. because LOST has yet to explain what the fuck the smoke monster was. admit it, JJ and crew make the shit up as they go along sometimes. I have a feeling this too will leave us all pissed and guessing.

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  • Nov 20, 2007 8:10:46 AM CST

    did ppl really think those hazmat guys were bugs?

    by ironic_name

    http://dougbot.com/forum/cloverfieldPart2.jpgkurz.. shit blood!

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  • Nov 20, 2007 8:12:33 AM CST

    white screen of doom!

    by ironic_name

  • Nov 20, 2007 8:13:29 AM CST

    whysoserious.com

    by that 70s venom

    Click on Joker and there's a new message at the bottom saying something about envelope glue.

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  • Nov 20, 2007 8:14:34 AM CST

    fix the site

    by ironic_name

  • Nov 20, 2007 8:27:09 AM CST

    The smaller ones are not monsters...

    by wadi77

    I think those are government people with big protective suits.

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  • Nov 20, 2007 8:34:19 AM CST

    ah, talkbacker attitude

    by zom-bot.com

    it's funny that the response to my smoke monster JOKE was first met with decent,proper response- but then was reposted with an edit to put me down.....why bother? The difference between my negativity and your was mine was a joke, and yours is just more righteous talkbacker media expert attitude. thanks for the laugh.

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  • Nov 20, 2007 8:35:52 AM CST

    this site

    by zom-bot.com

    ...runs like it was 1995 all over again.

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  • Nov 20, 2007 8:39:08 AM CST

    MJDeViant

    by ironic_name

    no, it'll be more supernatural..with more monsters.and a plague.

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  • Nov 20, 2007 8:47:27 AM CST

    Looking forward to being on ground zero

    by troytheboy

    as a kid watching monster movies or movies like Jurassic park i always used to wonder what'd it be like to be in a situation like this. i often dream of being at home one day and a t-rex is running around the neighbourhood. so this "ground zero" point of view is what's most interesting for me. not just following a protagonist, the military etc etc.

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  • Nov 20, 2007 8:58:57 AM CST

    It's VoltronCthulhuShiaLabeoufLionT-RexZilla!!!

    by that 70s venom

    LOOK OUT EVERYONE!!!

    IT'S VOLTRONCTHULHUSHIALABEOUFLIONT-REXZILLA!!!!!!

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  • Nov 20, 2007 9:13:46 AM CST

    I had this dream once....

    by darth macchio

    ...as a kid about Godzilla attacking my city. It was very real and really scary no matter how cartoon-ish it seems now. He was a few miles off but you could see him plain as day towering above the skyline...smoke and fire and continuous noise of explosions and the ground shaking with his every step...now I didn't think "holy shit! it's Godzilla!!" in the dream. I thought, "Holy shit, we're all gonna die!". Complete and utter destruction (aka 'total fucking destruction'). Amazed and terrified at the same time...I woke up to quick to find out what happened but to think of the giant monster concept in reality isn't like actually seeing it...even if only in a dream.

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  • Nov 20, 2007 9:21:36 AM CST

    Talkbackers...you're not funny

    by dannyocean01

    So enough with the tedious fucking, 'IT'S A LION NOOBZZZZ' type comments. It wasn't funny the first time, it will never be funny. SO SHUT THE FUCK UP.

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  • Nov 20, 2007 9:26:39 AM CST

    Is this Herbie Goes Bananas?

    by ghostball

    So glad they're re-screening this-Can't wait!

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  • Nov 20, 2007 9:27:14 AM CST

    It's a whale.

    by mc-909

    Lions don't come from the fucking ocean. Or did you guys not know that?

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  • Nov 20, 2007 10:04:49 AM CST

    ok, my beef. And it's not with Cloverfield...

    by lerkst

    This film could be fantastic. I wouldn't be surprised if it is. But 'From JJ Abrams' WHO THE FUCK CARES....he didn't direct it, he didn't even right it. It should be 'from director Matt Reeves' or even mention the writer. Abrahms, or however you spell his name, just produced it. Give the credit where it's do, or don't even bother.

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  • Nov 20, 2007 10:22:30 AM CST

    monster revealed

    by irc-hollywood

    http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=1390694335&size=l

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  • Nov 20, 2007 10:23:27 AM CST

    Slurm Queen

    by bobjustbob

    Maybe Slusho is a codename for Slurm. This means that the Slurm Queen has returned to looking for Fry!

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  • Nov 20, 2007 10:25:51 AM CST

    What about this...

    by the inspector

    Take a look just below center of the frame (it's a screengrab I did from one of the final scenes from the trailer):
    http://tinyurl.com/2t3pwa

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  • Nov 20, 2007 10:27:31 AM CST

    Voltron

    by nuck81

    Why would anybody honestly think this was Voltron?

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  • Nov 20, 2007 10:30:02 AM CST

    haha

    by ballsxcrew

    JUST PRODUCED IT? haha. guess that doesnt mean much...wait, yes, yes it does. were you there during pre-production? do you know exactly what he did? plus it is sad to say, but had his name not been attached a lot of people probably wouldnt have given it the time of day. ps vesuvious, that was fecking hilarious, started off the day on a posi note.

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  • Nov 20, 2007 10:37:06 AM CST

    IMAGINAAAAATION IMAGINAAAAAAAAATION...

    by canvasseamonkey

    it's an ill tempered mutated sea bass

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  • Nov 20, 2007 10:37:13 AM CST

    Hazmat suits, not turtles

    by skeletonparty

    The guys are in blue hazmat suits and are pulling on her arms. Her middle expands at a terrifying rate and juicy bubbly sounds emit.

    I don't think she's going to be okay.

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  • Nov 20, 2007 10:38:19 AM CST

    irc hollywood

    by palewook

    not sure if thats the real critter or not, but looks authentic. (shortened the url for you also) http://tinyurl.com/26bcq5

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  • Nov 20, 2007 10:48:17 AM CST

    Palewook: That's the same "Dougbot" fan-art...

    by the inspector

    That stuff was debunked months ago. It's fan art.

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  • Nov 20, 2007 10:49:37 AM CST

    Hey, is this Voltron!?

    by finky089

    Kidding. The monster speculation is fun and you guys have come up with some interesting screen grabs, gifs, etc, but i honestly think the BEST part of it all...is reading the talkbacks about it.

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  • Nov 20, 2007 11:11:30 AM CST

    The Monster that Challenged the World?

    by artyfufkin

    Watch this instead. Save your money, JJ got PLENTY stock, man. Hollywood should be ashamd of themselves, no wonder we get all our movies "pasar hitam" down here.

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  • Nov 20, 2007 11:13:31 AM CST

    doubt it, the scale looks too big palewook

    by canvasseamonkey

    no way it could fit through the streets at that size,it looks cool though, except for the whale head

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  • Nov 20, 2007 11:26:31 AM CST

    The Right Big Monster Formula

    by le phantom

    Giant pissed off monster + Fleeing people running in terror + A lot of destroyed real estate = Good, fun monster flick

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  • Nov 20, 2007 11:37:02 AM CST

    Cloverfield VS. Godzilla

    by that 70s venom

    Cloverfield VS. Godzilla. It is an inevitable spin-off. Hitting theatres in 2010.

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  • Nov 20, 2007 11:54:21 AM CST

    2010: The Year We Make Contact

    by atari

    I highly underrated movie.



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  • Nov 20, 2007 12:10:23 PM CST

    hey Kurzinski

    by mc-909

    have you seen that fan art of the Cloverfield monster? It's a whale.

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  • Nov 20, 2007 12:16:34 PM CST

    Darth Macchio's dream

    by 'cholera's ghost

    I had one like it to. Your brain doesn't go "wow!", it goes into complete terror "we're all gonna die!" mode. Doing a film from the little guy's perspective is the only way to make this kind of movie actually scary.

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  • Nov 20, 2007 12:19:43 PM CST

    The White Screen of Doom...

    by kid z

    ...returns! Be afraid, be very afraid, because this time, it's personal, and will blow you to the back of the Talkback, and no one can hear you scream, GOSH!

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  • Nov 20, 2007 12:22:41 PM CST

    OK, I give up!!

    by atari

    It is a whale

    I see five lights

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  • Nov 20, 2007 12:27:28 PM CST

    Maniaq, MC-909

    by 'cholera's ghost

    Maniaq, the people in this movie are just horrified that we busted their monster identity wide open, so they're desperately trying to throw us off. Sure maybe it wasn't a "crazy lion" in that one scene, but that doesn't mean it's not a lion. It's a lion. Face it. Ya heard. And MC-909, it could of course, be a Sea Lion.

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  • Nov 20, 2007 12:28:15 PM CST

    What I see:

    by the inspector

    What I'm seeing here:
    http://tinyurl.com/2t3pwa
    Reminds me of what I saw here (just in terms of design) back in '87:
    http://tinyurl.com/39rfno

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  • Nov 20, 2007 12:36:36 PM CST

    Cholera's Ghost

    by mc-909

    Nice one.

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  • Nov 20, 2007 12:43:50 PM CST

    It's da WHITE SCREEN OF DOOMMMMM!!!!

    by l.h.puttgrass

    Now you will know why you fear the light! You will all drown in lakes of milk! What's wrong with it Harry? It's all wack, Man!

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  • Nov 20, 2007 12:45:48 PM CST

    It's like I'm snow-blind!

    by l.h.puttgrass

    I can't see! Ahhhhhh!

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  • Nov 20, 2007 1:06:56 PM CST

    It's not Gamera, it's...

    by david assholehoff

    http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff101/DavidAssholehoff/cloverfield.jpg

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  • Nov 20, 2007 1:19:14 PM CST

    Oops

    by david assholehoff

    http://preview.tinyurl.com/ytye2m

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  • Nov 20, 2007 1:21:18 PM CST

    Comingsoon.net

    by mastes360

    Has a slowed down vid fro the trailer and i have to say that it reminds me totaly of Godzilla from the Hollywood remake.....except it seems to have a big head.

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  • Nov 20, 2007 1:46:42 PM CST

    Doh! clicked on L.H.'s post...now WSOD has me...

    by just pillow talk

    Damn you L.H.Puttgrass!

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  • Nov 20, 2007 1:47:12 PM CST

    Haven't enjoyed a talkback this much...

    by bangoskank

    since the horsefucker one. Congrats people, it no longer matters if the movie is any good, because I have been entertained. I agree with Spamster, though.... that fan art has been out for months, but after seeing the film caps from the trailer, they might be the real deal after all. Though only time will tell.
    I am curious to know how much blood KV shat, I've been waiting for that all day.

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  • Nov 20, 2007 1:51:12 PM CST

    This is what monster film used to be

    by emeraldboy

    back in the days of the original and best king kong. even Jaws did. You got glimpses of the monster, here and there and monster attacked someone, it was done with shadow and menance and you knew the poor schlubs were in trouble the moment they turned. The directors of such of movies would play with you. pretending that someone was not going to be in trouble and then whack, poor guy gets eaten. What is differnt this time is that nobody gets to become the hero or whatever. Everyone dies. even the hero.

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  • Nov 20, 2007 2:15:15 PM CST

    DARTH MR. BELVEDERE is all that n a dime Sack, wiggazzzz!

    by darthmrbelvedere

  • Nov 20, 2007 2:29:03 PM CST

    Due to Harry's new Quantum Server...

    by kid z

    ... all postings for this Talkback exist in a parallel universe and appear only as white screens in our quantum dimensional state.

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  • Nov 20, 2007 2:33:13 PM CST

    Only Bill Pardy can save us now...

    by mondo47

    Inflato-people, mini-monsters and a great big monster... you'd be forgiven for thinking this was Slither 2. Mike Rooker Vs. New York, anyone?
    I'm not going to bag on Cloverfield until I've seen it, and I quite liked Slither for the beer and chips fodder it was, but I doubt I'm going to have a straight face through any of it now. If it isn't meant to be total B-Grade material, it sure looks like it to me.

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  • Nov 20, 2007 3:09:33 PM CST

    SWEET

    by itsdefinitelyvoltron

    I'm so psyched for this movie! At long last!

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  • Nov 20, 2007 3:13:36 PM CST

    Hey! I'm at work and there's no WSOD!!

    by l.h.puttgrass

    What gives with that?Harry?! Fix something!! PLEASE!!

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  • Nov 20, 2007 3:15:20 PM CST

    That two legged gorilla thing...

    by starlesswinter

    ...is pretty lame and is a very typical monster design. I know it looks like the same creature in the trailer, but I will be disappointed if that turns out to be true. I liked the whale-thing much better.

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  • Nov 20, 2007 3:16:14 PM CST

    Hey Rodo! Look in your Temp. Internet Files!

    by l.h.puttgrass

    Do a Disk Clean Up and view the files.

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  • Nov 20, 2007 3:19:26 PM CST

    Gills?

    by starlesswinter

    If the gorilla thing IS the real monster, where are its gills? It comes from the water, does it not?

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  • Nov 20, 2007 3:20:30 PM CST

    put your right tentacle in...

    by bigtexas42

    animated gif=monster doing the hokey pokey. THAT is what it's all about.

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  • Nov 20, 2007 3:43:12 PM CST

    If the gorilla monster is correct

    by thepilgrim

    Then this film fucking sucks. The eyes are normal- bullshit they should look like fish eyes. He has a normal primate nose. Again doesnt make sense, and those cubbed mutant feet- yeah that makes sense... No gills a spine a strange tail that doesnt looks like it works correctly in the water. Mouth with normal tounge and primate like teeth. That design is lame as hell. Reminds me of the Barnum Mermaid- A monkeys body attached to a fish- Hey maybe thats what inspired the monster...

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  • Nov 20, 2007 3:43:56 PM CST

    so I guess it's NOT A LION then

    by maniaq

    whoever said this talkback is like when you're screaming at the stupid blonde on screen who's walking into the trap not to be such an idiot is absolutely dead on (pardon the pun) only it's not a light switch being flicked on and off that doesn't work - it's the talkback! DAMN YOU WSOD!!!

    p.s. the webmaster reckons they've been having "cache issues" and they thought they had it fixed - they are soooo wrong!

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  • Nov 20, 2007 3:53:22 PM CST

    i said it last night

    by zom-bot.com

    they probably thought it would be neat to go with the literal translation of godzilla- which was originally GOJIRA which is a mix of the japanese words for 'gorilla' and 'whale'.

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  • Nov 20, 2007 3:56:56 PM CST

    white screen

    by mc-909

    Does the white screen mean I've been banned? What gives?

    Also, that sculpture cannot be the creature. I'm not a JJ Abrams fan, and in fact don't even watch Lost...but I know that anyone in JJ's position of power is not stupid enough to greenlight an event movie where that fucking thing is the monster. It looks like that thing from Creepshow.

    I really do hope it's a whale (and I hope it looks just like that "fanart"). Whales are epic by themselves and in my opinion would make a great monster for an event movie.

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  • Nov 20, 2007 3:57:42 PM CST

    a quick search

    by zom-bot.com

    i did a google image search for 'cloverfield monster'yesterday and found the same thing, but i couldn't possibly believe that was the real monster.....whoa no!

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  • Nov 20, 2007 3:59:34 PM CST

    And whaddya know -- it looks like the creature head from my scre

    by the inspector

    http://tinyurl.com/2t3pwa

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  • Nov 20, 2007 4:01:18 PM CST

    "from my screen grab" was how that should have ended

    by the inspector

    Damn no-edit post button...

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  • Nov 20, 2007 4:07:17 PM CST

    Hope denied

    by mattb127

    I doubt this is Cthulhu, though my heart wants it to be...A.) JJ Abrams always IMPLIES that he'll promise the moon, but never delivers, EVER, and B.) It would sort of ruin the Cthulhu thing, wouldn't it? I mean, Cthulhu mythos isn't exactly about a giant monster running around trampling shit. It's about a slow, sinister, conspiratorial creeping menace and existential terror... it's not Godzilla.

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  • Nov 20, 2007 4:16:36 PM CST

    mutant?

    by zom-bot.com

    (if that IS the monster)- then based on A)the factt hat is is precariously balanced on two 'arm'legs..B) has weak rear 'nubbins' and C) has a clawed tail----i'm guessing it's gonna be a cautionary tale about mutation...sigh. I'd love to hear how a claw works at the end of a spine, and how something that lives underwater (granted- if that's the case) grew huge muscular limbs instead of swimming apparatus...and why it looks like they literraly took an angry orangutan face, swede it onto a backwards t-rex body, and then decided they had to be different and throw a claw on the end of a tail. i would have drawn that in 1st grade. maybe that's the point though. :/

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  • Nov 20, 2007 4:24:36 PM CST

    colverfield secrecy vs dark knight

    by zom-bot.com

    people have bitched about the batman campaign not giving up enough details and pics- well, it's not coming out until june or july and we know what the joker looks like, and quite alot of details. this thing is coming out in two months and we are just learning what the hell is going on.....was the secrecy worth it? not really. i don't know what i expected, but most of us were right, secret hype for little payoff. but who knows, maybe the movie as a whole will be okay.

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  • Nov 20, 2007 4:26:57 PM CST

    the ape lizard mutant thing . . not cloverfield's monster

    by mundungus

    If you guys are refering to this set of images as the monster.

    http://img117.imageshack.us/my.php?image=cloverfieldmonsterlm6.jpg

    .. This was posted several months ago and was shown to be one in an artist's collection of fantastic beasts. Nothing to do with cloverfield.

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  • Nov 20, 2007 4:28:16 PM CST

    don't mean to hog the board, but

    by zom-bot.com

    also, based on the animation provided, and the model comparisons, it almost seems like the same model at the same angle in the preview, and that they just drag the solid image across instead of a 'walk'.

    could the released 'leak' of the model picture around the same day as the trailer be a ruse to throw us off the real monster?

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  • Nov 20, 2007 4:37:17 PM CST

    Gorilla-thing looks familiar...

    by mondo47

    http://www.menagerieproductions.com/fig/fig_idm.html

    Possible kiljoy alert - I saw this thing a while back and thought it was an interesting take on the Id Monster, seems he gets around...

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  • Nov 20, 2007 4:45:34 PM CST

    Mondo47's right...

    by the inspector

    http://tinyurl.com/2cne5d

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  • Nov 20, 2007 4:57:00 PM CST

    Rodo, do a Google search on "Tony McVey Id Monster"

    by the inspector

    http://tinyurl.com/2jqp9k
    http://tinyurl.com/39j3el
    The pics you found are cut-off right at the spot where the copyright starts...

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  • Nov 20, 2007 5:07:54 PM CST

    Rodo, you cunt.

    by i_am_your_fucking_god

    You fucking arrogant geek PRICK. Shut the fuck up with your spastic internerd 'FTW' shit and fucking admit you're wrong. This picture was posited as the Cloverfield monster on a variety of forums in July or thereabouts, just after the first trailer was released. Unsurprisingly, it was disproved almost instantaneously when someone found a link to the artist's site. This sculpture was created in 2003. It is not 'disinformation' or whatever the fuck else your arrogant geek mind may want to call it. It's very rare to find an internet poster whose tone, especially when dicussing a matter as ultimately trivial as the monster in a fucking movie, as as purely fucking ANNOYING as yours. And as for you, Valentine... keep up with that shit and I'll fucking have you stabbed. You heard. Cunts.

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  • Nov 20, 2007 5:16:24 PM CST

    Hate to burst your bubble, Rodo

    by slone13

    But that is not the Cloverfield Monster.

    That's pretty much all I'm gonna say right now, as I sit here typing this in my office on the __th floor of the Paramount Plaza building at 1633 Broadway in NYC. Where there happens to be all sorts of Cloverfield related info around.

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  • Nov 20, 2007 5:27:33 PM CST

    I think there's a similarity...

    by el_pollo_diablo

    Between how much you assclowns obsess over this crap, and how little you get laid. I'm just sayin'.

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  • Nov 20, 2007 5:46:18 PM CST

    The site went down because it exceeded its bandwidth transfer li

    by blunderbu55

    ....you fucking morons.

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  • Nov 20, 2007 5:47:40 PM CST

    And it looks like I exceeded the subject line limit

    by blunderbu55

    You're still all fucking morons, though.

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  • Nov 20, 2007 6:28:34 PM CST

    mode_7

    by slone13

    I frequent this board because I love movies. I also happen to work in the industry and have contributed "insider info" and reviews to this site a number of times.

    In this particular case I happen to be rather good friends with a few people involved in Cloverfield. And while I'm not interested in spoiling anything related to this film because of my relationship with those involved, I could not sit idly by while a number of people started sucking their own dicks, claiming they'd ID'd the Monster when they had done nothing of the sort.

    Now get your ass back to Boystown.

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  • Nov 20, 2007 6:31:31 PM CST

    Both Mondo AND Rodo are right

    by vesuvio

    "The original invisible menace was created by Disney artists on loan to MGM, and looked like an ape-LION hybrid..." So, that's it. It's a huge ApeLionWhale. Kudos for you too, MC-909.

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  • Nov 20, 2007 6:43:34 PM CST

    Kurzinski Valentine . . .

    by mundungus

    Not can't. The word is won't. Like I would spend time re-verifying some BS from three months ago. I'll leave it to others... hey wait, look at that. Good Luck next time Sherlocks.

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  • http://tinyurl.com/2p2had ...quick, it might be pulled down by Paramount at any time!!

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  • Nov 20, 2007 7:07:17 PM CST

    I_am_your_fucking_GOD

    by al swearengen

    Hey, cocksucker. Your post reeks of catpiss.

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  • Nov 20, 2007 7:15:08 PM CST

    La.Cucaracha

    by super cucaracha

    Nice name man. We cool.

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  • Nov 20, 2007 7:16:54 PM CST

    I agree! ... It's Harry's monstrous turds

    by super cucaracha

    Watch out beeeatches!

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  • Nov 20, 2007 7:27:50 PM CST

    We all know its Harry.

    by still_rusted

    The movie's about Harry getting upset after finding out that it was late and Popeye's Chicken is closed

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  • Nov 20, 2007 7:48:31 PM CST

    years ago months ago

    by zom-bot.com

    who gives a shit. production for movies often goes that far back.....i don't care enough about the movie to really get in an arguement, but the side by side comparisons pretty much cinch it.....And as an artist, i can tell you we often post pictures of the work we've done for clients before the product is released to the public....so the fact that 'an artist posted his creation months ago' means shit to trying to prove it ain't cloverfield.

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  • Nov 20, 2007 7:53:27 PM CST

    So the smaller ones are actually parasites..

    by wadi77

  • Nov 20, 2007 7:58:47 PM CST

    GIANTKILLER

    by zom-bot.com

    i still say a live action movie of DC's GIANTKILLER comic would have been a more entertaining way to get giant monsters and a 'zombie' (or in this case 'popping')plague on screen together....

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  • Nov 20, 2007 8:14:30 PM CST

    Is something blowing up?

    by turingtestee

    Or is the creature throwing/breathing fireballs at the beginning of the trailer? I think the chick is blowing up and not ripping off clothes (she may even be naked) There was a picture floating around of a model of a pillbug-looking crusteacian (too lazy to spellcheck) saying something like 'whatever this is it will f*ing kill you'. Anyone else see that?

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  • Nov 20, 2007 9:12:36 PM CST

    Any possibility of Gamera here?

    by wellesfan

    Gamera basically spits fireballs. A giant turtle could have giant sea lice. It would make more sense than a giant mutant whale -gorilla attacking from the ocean. Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris is a must see for giant monster fans, by the way.

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  • Nov 20, 2007 9:53:07 PM CST

    Possible spoilers: I saw a drawing of the creature.

    by omegaman

    I think its legit. Its srot of looked like a sloth, except that it had a whales tail and its body looked like a flea. It had many arms too, at least they looked like arms that hung down. It walks on two legs dragging its long tail. It has human sized crab-like creatures that live on it too. The apparently jump off and attack people too. Thats all I can remember, Ill post a link if people are interested.

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  • Nov 20, 2007 10:45:43 PM CST

    Don't go into the white!

    by 'cholera's ghost

    Stay away from the white! Fucking WSoD. Anyway, so the gorilla thing was disproven. Hmmm...I guess that means that ruling out a lion at this point is, shall we say, a LITTLE premature, hmmmm?

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  • Nov 20, 2007 11:33:04 PM CST

    despite the sculpture debate

    by theredtoad

    the gifs from the trailer are pretty good

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  • Nov 20, 2007 11:34:03 PM CST

    Omegaman

    by ironic_name

    http://dougbot.com/forum/clove rfieldPart2.jpg

    notreal.

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  • Nov 20, 2007 11:53:42 PM CST

    Blah title

    by jhechanova

    Cloverfield is not a kickass title.

    It should've followed the teaser theme and resulted in "Monstrous".

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  • Nov 20, 2007 11:54:19 PM CST

    people come outta the woodwork to show the same

    by ironic_name

  • Nov 20, 2007 11:55:17 PM CST

    ...dougbot art, fucking get off my fucking internet!

    by ironic_name

  • Nov 20, 2007 11:56:53 PM CST

    and cloverfield is better than monstrous so..

    by ironic_name

  • Nov 20, 2007 11:58:52 PM CST

    Lost

    by igotocollege

    The monster in Cloverfield sounds exactly like the monster in Lost.

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  • Nov 20, 2007 11:59:06 PM CST

    GETOFF MY FUCKING INTERNET MOUTHBREATHERS!

    by ironic_name

  • Nov 21, 2007 12:02:03 AM CST

    Cthulhu right out of WikiPedia

    by david assholehoff

    Don't know if this has been mentioned yet, but the definition on Wikipedia talks about "Cthulhi". This fits the smaller creatures to a T.

    "Star-spawn of Cthulhu

    The star-spawn of Cthulhu, or Cthulhi, have a physical simility with Cthulhu himself, but are of far smaller size. This race arrived with him, but relatively little is known about them. On earth they built the city R'lyeh, which later sank in the ocean, and where they still dwell with Cthulhu. A few are rumored to have escaped this incident, and can be found in hidden places on Earth."

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  • Nov 21, 2007 12:04:57 AM CST

    IGoToCollege, Kurzinski Valentine, wellesfan

    by ironic_name

    http://tinyurl.com/2r3mkr

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  • Nov 21, 2007 12:18:56 AM CST

    http://tinyurl.com/2mkwyo

    by ironic_name

    http://www.grumps.nl/pics/normal_GetOffMyInternet-ba.jpg

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  • Nov 21, 2007 12:20:15 AM CST

    Awww man, that's funny.

    by l.h.puttgrass

    Get the fuck off the internet!Indeed.

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  • Nov 21, 2007 12:39:17 AM CST

    The Blair Witch Godzilla

    by ronaldlark

    Cedar_Room is right.

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  • Nov 21, 2007 12:41:56 AM CST

    ATTN: ENTERTAINMENT TYPE PEOPLE

    by shermdawg

    It doesn't matter which side I support in the ongoing writers strike. No, what matters is...I just realized that because of said strike, it will prevent one of the most beloved american late night traditions from happening... Guessing what pies Dave's mom baked for Thanksgiving. Now sure, I suppose it will still take place, untelevised mind you, but we won't be able to play along, nor will we be left on the edge of our seats in anticipation as the identity of the second pie is revealed. (The first is pumkin. It's always pumkin.) Will it be fruit based? Chocolate? Or will Pecan make it's long overdue comeback? THE WORLD NEEDS TO KNOW! So I'm asking you, could you please show a little holiday spirit and set aside your differences? Just for one night. Could you do that? For moi? Who knows? Maybe letting an elderly lady showing off her pie, and a fridge full of beer and slimjims is the first step in getting this mess straightened out. The world is watching. It's your move now. -Sherm

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  • Nov 21, 2007 12:49:31 AM CST

    Hmmmm..Didn't TOHO do a movie like this a few decades ago?

    by conspiracy

    oooooohh....woooooow.

    yet another simple minded Monster attacks city, mans weapons can't stop it movie. Fuck me Hirohito TOHO did this decades ago when the idea was actually kinda original! "But Wait", you say; "this is filmed in that "hip" hand held camera style..", "Like Blair Witch"! "Isn't that Fuckin Rad"?

    hmmmmm...nope.

    Really...if this had been a disturbing, dark, Lovecraftian Cthulhu mythos film; that'd have been fun...but yet another monster run amok...yaawwwwn.

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  • Nov 21, 2007 1:24:05 AM CST

    MC 909

    by badmrwonka

    you mentioned a whale 4 or 5 times since you said you wouldn't mention it an more. can you say it again? it's getting to be like a joke that's not funny, but you say it enough times that it starts to actually get funny..

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  • Nov 21, 2007 1:57:22 AM CST

    Dolphin noises at 1:40-1:44

    by mixiboi

    Listen and you'll hear the familiar noise of out bottomnose friends...Like in The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror skit a couple of years back.

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  • Nov 21, 2007 2:02:00 AM CST

    Lion after all?(trailer screenshot)

    by asgardtehgreat

    This is NOT photoshopped or anything!
    Look at the lion-head, its looking right at you!
    http://tinyurl.com/2dcm2z

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  • Nov 21, 2007 2:05:58 AM CST

    I only wish there is a supernatural feeling

    by pelos_locos

    to the movie instead of a sci-fi approach. I am kind of tired of mutations or aliens. Nowadays everything is explained with a mutation: zombies (Resident evil, Doom (bastards! it was a portal to hell!!!!)), superheroes, monsters, the flu, your mom or aliens: slither, venom, etc.
    Other than Hellboy, I do not recall a recent movie with a giant supernatural monster or monsters.
    And whoever said lions do not come from the sea....sea lion, cat fish, tiger shark,.....so there is still a chance that this monster is a marine feline.

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  • Nov 21, 2007 2:07:11 AM CST

    Like 9/1 ...

    by mixiboi

    You are just seeing things in the dustploom, Asgard....Dolphins is where it's at, FLIPPER'S REVENGE!!!

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  • Nov 21, 2007 2:09:48 AM CST

    Why no supernatural

    by mixiboi

    Supernatural=Creationism and Hollywood likes to stay far away from Godism... See The Golden Compass for example.

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  • Nov 21, 2007 2:27:19 AM CST

    IT'S NOT A FUCKING LION!!

    by maniaq

    Looks like that sculpture has been debunked as the monster, although I'd like to pose a possibility for ppl to ponder:

    We saw that they changed the head of the Statue of Liberty between the teaser and the trailer - like one was an unfinished version of the other. Maybe the brief glimpse of the monster we see in this trailer is just another TEMP model - like that head - and we have not actually seen ANYTHING of the monster that will actually appear in the final product?

    Either way, it's not going to be a FUCKING LION!

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  • Nov 21, 2007 3:06:52 AM CST

    A fucking lion

    by 'cholera's ghost

    A lion with the strength to tear apart a city is more than capable of swimming the ocean. Crossing the Atlantic, even. Also the guy in the convenience store goes "Robbie, Robbie, Robbie...it's a lion", then as SkeletonParty pointed out, the glass shatters, exactly the way it would when a lion hits glass. Think about it.

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  • Nov 21, 2007 4:07:29 AM CST

    Cthulhu

    by iowa snot client

    Cthulhu Cthulhu bo Cthulhu, banana fanna fo Fthulhu, fee fy mo Mthulhu... Cthulhu!

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  • Nov 21, 2007 4:46:25 AM CST

    Kurzinski Valentine

    by ironic_name

    I read your post about the maquette, and thats an honest mistake
    but you actually think that "mean girls" girl pops?then you - sonny, are a new and special kind of idiot.now get the fuck off my internet, 'afore I rip your arm off.

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  • Nov 21, 2007 4:56:50 AM CST

    the bleeding is from a plague

    by ironic_name

    the monster is a pseudo hindu, pseudo babylonian collective fear monster.or not.

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  • Nov 21, 2007 5:28:21 AM CST

    The monster is

    by emeraldboy

    A Giant Igauna. Cloverfield is a remake of the host and JJ should come out put his hands and say that this is the case. In the korean movie it was american company that created the monster. but in JJ's movie it is japanese company that does the toxic dumping leading to the destruction of NY. the monster is possibly a hybrid creature. Whale/chameleon/iguana/squid creature. There are more monsters in this movie and ones that we havent seen yet. Take the scene with the copter. maybe there is a fyling monster.

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  • Nov 21, 2007 5:33:10 AM CST

    Can't see the monster?

    by magnius

    Are people in this forum blind? You clearly see the Skyscraper size monster as it disappears behind a skyrise!! It's clearly some leathery creature...not smoke!! It really helps if you watch the trailer with your eyes open...just a free tip!

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  • Nov 21, 2007 6:29:58 AM CST

    it's Warwick Davis dressed up as Kathy Bates...

    by just pillow talk

    and samurai monkeys fly out of his ass causing mayhem and terror.

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  • Nov 21, 2007 7:25:55 AM CST

    Bob is the one who brought back HRG

    by jaymrobinson

    Claire told him that she would give him as much blood as he wants if he left her father alone. So, obviously Bob will use HRG as leverage (so they will keep him locked up).

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  • Nov 21, 2007 7:26:21 AM CST

    oops wrong forum

    by jaymrobinson

  • Nov 21, 2007 7:42:00 AM CST

    jaymrobinson

    by atari

    I still think it's Adams blood, not Clairebear.

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  • Nov 21, 2007 8:12:04 AM CST

    just pillow talk, i'd probably watch that

    by ironic_name

  • Nov 21, 2007 8:20:37 AM CST

    samurai monkeys = world's salvation

    by just pillow talk

  • Nov 21, 2007 8:29:20 AM CST

    Too

    by shaw

  • Nov 21, 2007 8:45:13 AM CST

    Warwick Davis and Kathy Bates YAY Pillow

    by kloipy

    Keeping my dreams alive, brother!

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  • Nov 21, 2007 8:58:51 AM CST

    It's a whale.

    by mc-909

    I hope this movie doesn't blow(hole). Hopefully it will be whale-y good.

    Haha. It's a whale. No, it's Frank Whaley from......wait for it............Swimming with Sharks.

    It's a fucking whale.

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  • Nov 21, 2007 9:05:12 AM CST

    NO MC-909 as Pillow and I confirmed

    by kloipy

    it is Kathy Bates with tiny warwick davis's climbing out of her gaping maw; ie vagina

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  • Nov 21, 2007 9:13:24 AM CST

    Another closer shot, with stills...

    by fish tank

    If a "%20" or two appears in this link, remove it. http://www.iwatchstuff.com/2007/11/cloverfield_monster_still_unde.php

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  • Nov 21, 2007 9:19:02 AM CST

    Kloipy..there will always be non-believers...

    by just pillow talk

    nothing pales in comparison to the WHITE SCREEN OF DOOM though. Will nothing stop your tyrannic rule????

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  • Nov 21, 2007 9:30:22 AM CST

    Here's a picture of the monster *NEW*

    by kloipy

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/7681479@N05/508887899/

    this one is scary!

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  • Nov 21, 2007 9:47:36 AM CST

    Blair Witch Meets Godzilla

    by abominable snowcone

    Looks cool, the reality TV-shakey cam stuff...but I can't get emotionally invested in a cast of 20-something carefree Gen Ys.

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  • Nov 21, 2007 9:52:48 AM CST

    People assume it's a lizard monster

    by abominable snowcone

    or something, when in fact the true giant menace in "Cloverfield" is this:
    http://tinyurl.com/292ssx

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  • Nov 21, 2007 9:54:51 AM CST

    WTF - there's a real Cthulhu movie coming out ??

    by pumaman

    http://cthulhuthemovie.com/

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  • Nov 21, 2007 9:55:58 AM CST

    don't bother with that one Pumaman

    by kloipy

    it's shit

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  • Nov 21, 2007 9:56:27 AM CST

    Is there a name for the haircut

    by abominable snowcone

    that all these 20ish guys have in movies that make them deliberately look like they just rolled out of bed? You know, that whole rooster-bedhead-I'm too hip to brush but wouldn't you know I did brush it into this shape for an hour haircut?

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  • Nov 21, 2007 10:09:47 AM CST

    a name for the haircut -

    by finky089

    I'd call it "lame" but perhaps that's b/c my jewfro does that shit on its own and I've been trying for years to keep it tamed. Unlike those wanna-be's who have to get it "styled" that way.

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  • Nov 21, 2007 10:12:01 AM CST

    And, as long as I'm lurking here...

    by finky089

    Is it possible that most of us on this board will eventually be underwhelmed with whatever the Cloverfield monster turns out to be after so much speculation? At this point I would find it most amusing for it to actually BE Kathy Bates. <P. Of course, that might cease the need for the Feed The Bates Foundation..... :-/

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  • Nov 21, 2007 10:13:03 AM CST

    Somebody find the replign machine and go forward

    by finky089

    in time to find out what the monster is. Is Orcus the time traveler around? John Titor, please help us!

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  • Nov 21, 2007 10:18:53 AM CST

    Finky

    by kloipy

    didn't you see the picture I just posted! JJ confirmed that it is the monster!

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  • Nov 21, 2007 10:19:38 AM CST

    Thar she blows

    by kloipy

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/7 681479@N05/508887899/

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  • Nov 21, 2007 10:42:30 AM CST

    ya know what would be awesome?

    by just pillow talk

    If the WHITE PAGE OF FUCKING DOOM would leave me in peace. That would just be peachy.

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  • Nov 21, 2007 10:45:20 AM CST

    Kloipy...I was going to post that pic....

    by just pillow talk

    But you've used that one before, though I can't imagine a more reprehensible pic of THE Bates.Yo finky...I think Orcus only goes to the past. The future is a scary place.

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  • Nov 21, 2007 10:56:07 AM CST

    IIIIINUK-CHUCK!!!

    by ironic_name

    coffee.. in.. my pants.. area...

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  • Nov 21, 2007 10:57:08 AM CST

    my time travel machine goes one minute forward

    by ironic_name

    every sixty seconds.

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  • Nov 21, 2007 11:00:03 AM CST

    that wenches titties were nice in beowulf

    by ironic_name

    especially in 3d at imax.."how 'bout a quick gobble?"

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  • Nov 21, 2007 11:34:29 AM CST

    Pillow, I found a worse one

    by kloipy

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/51052604@N00/10234932/

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  • Nov 21, 2007 11:59:30 AM CST

    The Statue head IS BIGGER!

    by batzilla

    and a little different from the "teaser" trailer. The top part of the head in this new trailer is broken off and the head is about 20% larger. I watched both frame by frame and this new head is much better. : )

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  • Nov 21, 2007 12:00:47 PM CST

    batzilla

    by kloipy

    you really need to get a life man

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  • Nov 21, 2007 12:12:28 PM CST

    Revenge of the seafood brought to you by slusho

    by chutch

    a giant walking whale and a band of mutant crabs attack nyc. awesome. now just like all those voltron fucks, i'm gonna have to hate on the retarded cthulu followers, because this ain't it. btw lovecraft wasn't that good of a writer and most of his shit was racist. oh and the this trailer stole heavily from the style of the latest MGS4 trailer. bet this is typical january crap flick.

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  • Nov 21, 2007 12:59:33 PM CST

    Teaser is 100x better than the Trailer

    by drathan

    Something is lost in the trailer, I dont know what exactly, but it feels like an ad for a blockbuster movie. The teaser didnt feel that way. Ah well. I regret the hours I sunk analyzing the frigging swf files off slusho.jp ...

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  • Nov 21, 2007 2:20:10 PM CST

    You guys amaze me

    by ericst1

    When the first trailer for this movie came out I was so fucking excited.

    I usually try to stay away from the AICN boards because a lot of you guys have so much pent up anger that you let go on these boards that it kills the fun of posting/reading.

    Why do you guys waste your time posting BS pics? We all know what's real...why can't we all patiently wait until something official comes along? It's almost December...in less than two months we'll all see this flick. Until then why not stop the hate and have fun with this thing?

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  • Nov 21, 2007 2:32:18 PM CST

    EricST1, are you calling me a liar mother fucker

    by kloipy

    I told you Kathy Bates is the monster so you better damn well believe it

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  • Nov 21, 2007 2:40:34 PM CST

    She's going to hobble NYC

    by shaw

    Because she's its number one fan

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  • Nov 21, 2007 3:11:40 PM CST

    Dearest Kloipy

    by ericst1

    the joke of posting fat, disgusting women wasn't even clever the first time...we get it...they're gross and look like monsters...haha...ha...ha...ehhh

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  • Nov 21, 2007 3:23:24 PM CST

    This hype is fun

    by ufoclub1977

    Can't wait to see this...


    check out this homemade horror gem of a monster movie:

    http://youtube.com/watch?v=DM_If7Dj_Z8

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  • Nov 21, 2007 4:14:52 PM CST

    The monster is a giant Isopod.

    by fexfx

    What you see in the preview is a head on view of it beginning to turn.

    Do a google image search for Isopod.

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  • "Bust fools like a Dino-zor!"

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  • Nov 21, 2007 6:02:16 PM CST

    How come no one thinks it could be Mothra?

    by kirttrik

  • Nov 21, 2007 6:03:43 PM CST

    So all the rumors are dead on...

    by kirttrik

    ...kinda disappointing.

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  • Nov 21, 2007 10:55:43 PM CST

    JJs kid found the monster in a store?

    by boober

    Is this a verifiable rumor. His kid found a small rubber/plastic toy monster and JJ just went SoC with it?

    Has it been talked about or refuted that Cloverfield could be a semi-remake/different angle on THIS:(?) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045546/usercomments

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  • Nov 21, 2007 11:01:23 PM CST

    Yeah, this isn't so much..Godzilla meets Blair..

    by boober

    as it is "The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms" meets Blair-cam.

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  • Nov 21, 2007 11:07:18 PM CST

    Rodo

    by lethargy

    Do people tell you to shut the F when ever you try to talk to them? I'm sorry if you are attempting to be funny or ironic, but most people would have to work really hard to post come up crap with that lame. Stop it. Just stop. Think about things for a few days. When you start to feel some genuine shame, come back and share it. And maybe one day someone will "suck it", after you stop babbling nonsense, get a job, and quit playing with transformer dolls. Yes, they're Dolls.

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  • Nov 22, 2007 12:45:55 AM CST

    wsod

    by ironic_name

  • Nov 22, 2007 12:47:24 AM CST

    white screen of doom!

    by ironic_name

  • Nov 22, 2007 5:42:35 AM CST

    Rodo, we're not listening because

    by the inspector

    we all went here
    http://tinyurl.com/3belkw

    and saw the damn thing lined up side-by-side with two dozen other sculptures all displayed the same way with a description identifying exactly what it is.
    You keep insisting the same thing over and over, despite evidence to the contrary, and the rest of us have moved on.

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  • Nov 22, 2007 1:36:27 PM CST

    Looks like some kind of Bat monster to me.

    by elgordo

    So maybe it's Batzilla.
    Here is a grab from the trailer
    http://tinyurl.com/3d6fyv
    Here it is outlined.
    http://tinyurl.com/2mg3rv

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  • Nov 22, 2007 7:20:25 PM CST

    Was that.....

    by theprofessional

    Man-Bear-Pig!?! It may be produced by JJ Abrams but it was created and directed by Trey Parker and Matt Stone.

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  • Nov 22, 2007 7:27:52 PM CST

    if we don't see the monster, we riot

    by ericst1

    i don't know how...but that would really be some bullshiz

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  • Nov 23, 2007 2:19:29 PM CST

    From the lack of posts it would seem that...

    by l.h.puttgrass

    the monster frenzy is over. For now. And what have we learned? The monster is possibly:Rosie O'Donnell Kathy Bates A whale A mutated whale-squid thing A giant fish-man? Something only seen as a shaky-cam blur. Everybody's favorite, CTHULHU!! Voltron?. jeez... In other words, SQUAT! We got squat. So until the next trailer, the monster frenzy is over. For now.

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  • Nov 26, 2007 6:15:21 PM CST

    This movie is going to rule the universe

    by skeletonparty

    I hope I'm not disappointed.

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