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Stoat-ROW ROW FIGHT THE POWAH
19:43 / 10.08.07
...b-b-but Cthulhu's an alien... aren't all the Elder Gods?
 
 
epona
00:19 / 11.08.07
oh. *facepalm* oh yes you are right.

*meep*
 
 
Deculture Decedent
00:27 / 11.08.07
Cthulu's an alien, Voltron's for fighting space things, and it could have been an American.... Spacegodzilla! It's not, but it could have been.

Cthulu wouldn't have stopped with Manhattan, certainly. But I'd pay real money to see a Voltron knock-off wandering the streets like a great stalking lizard being baited with dumptrucks of fish. In shakey, handheld Blair Witchy style.
 
 
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09:36 / 11.08.07
Look's good! I just hate the waiting with stuff like this. -_-
 
 
Kali is proud of her country
(prev. Always Pro Neil Gaiman Kali)
16:41 / 11.08.07
The sort-of death knell for the Voltron theory.
 
 
Jack Fear
21:57 / 19.11.07
New, more expansive trailer, with—if you squint—an actual glimpse of the monster. There's a hard carapace. Now I'm thinking Gamera.

Also, shockingly, "Cloverfield" appears to be the actual, real, honest-to-god title, rather than a "Blue Harvest"-style fakeout.
 
 
H3ct0r L1m4
01:32 / 20.11.07
"I want a monster movie, I've wanted one for so long. I was in Japan with my son and all he wanted to do is go to toy stores. And we saw all these Godzilla toys, and I thought, we need our own monster, and not King Kong, King Kong's adorable. I wanted something that was just insane and intense.[...]"

that Bloop recording put the scares on me..

and well, if it's Gamera, is it "our monster"?


badass gamera with paws that could take the head out of the statue of liberty


i don't know if by "our" he meant "one we've created" or "Western".
 
 
endquote
20:12 / 20.11.07
I can't wait to not see this movie.
 
 
Nuke Kids on the Bloc
20:24 / 20.11.07
Can someone add "But it might be" to the end of the abstract, please?
 
 
Nuke Kids on the Bloc
20:29 / 20.11.07
Anyway, I CAN wait for this movie to come out but am very interested to see how this movie makes use of Blair Witchian camera direction, in terms of special effects and it's effect on the plot.

Speaking of which, I'd quite like to see entire bits of this movie skipped in places for dramatic effect in-terms of the camera/s not always being on/being shut off/running out of power. Think of the "missing reels" in Deathproof. As a survivors-eye-view of a horror film this could be a great tool. The horror you imagine is worse than the horror you see, etc.
 
 
Boboss
21:41 / 20.11.07
I think you've pretty much summed up the appeal right there.

I've wanted to see a whole slew of other horror movies done in a BW style for some time now.
 
 
Kali is proud of her country
(prev. Always Pro Neil Gaiman Kali)
21:54 / 20.11.07
Am I missing the huge carapace? The whole trailer is so dark and jerky, I can't tell what's what.
 
 
Jack Fear
22:07 / 20.11.07
Sixth photo down. And remember, "Tagruota" is an anagram for "A TORTUGA."
 
 
Kali is proud of her country
(prev. Always Pro Neil Gaiman Kali)
23:14 / 20.11.07
I think it's a carapace. The guy who posted a comment about the image says it's either that or dust and debris kicked up.
 
 
Phex: Dorset Doom
23:24 / 20.11.07
Well duuuh...

So in addition to the carapace turtle Tortuga monster we also have those two smaller monsters pulling somebody in half in picture five. So the Gamera Tortoro monster has babies? And they're bears?
 
 
Kali is proud of her country
(prev. Always Pro Neil Gaiman Kali)
23:54 / 20.11.07
Actually, it's mentioned that since the hypothetical name of the creature in Cloverfield was called "The Parasite", it also means that the fifth pic down could possibly be what happens to someone who become infected. Certainly looks like someone who's suffering from something terrible being aided by suited government types.
 
 
Jack Fear
00:03 / 21.11.07
Or maybe she's just wearing a really unflattering dress.
 
 
Kali is proud of her country
(prev. Always Pro Neil Gaiman Kali)
01:45 / 21.11.07
There is that, yes.
 
 
H3ct0r L1m4
02:17 / 21.11.07
monster shot in slow motion

apparently it has skinny legs.
 
 
Kali is proud of her country
(prev. Always Pro Neil Gaiman Kali)
02:31 / 21.11.07
Now THAT I can see. Thanks, Hector.
 
 
Dead Megatron
11:12 / 21.11.07
Actually, it's mentioned that since the hypothetical name of the creature in Cloverfield was called "The Parasite", it also means that the fifth pic down could possibly be what happens to someone who become infected.

The rumors I'm getting from Ain't It Cool News is two-folded: that pieces of the monster that get blown away (say, scales for instance) turn into smaller versions of the original monster; and also people who get attacked and do not die turn into smaller versions of the original monster, werewolf-like.

Whichever is the right one, or both, it reminds me of the Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot plot
 
 
Keith, like a scientist
15:31 / 21.11.07
That slo-mo video kind of puts the kibosh on Gamera, doesn't it?

Really curious now what the deal is with the monster. Old property? New property? Will be interesting to find out!
 
 
grant
16:08 / 21.11.07
Anybody here seen any of the post-2000 Gamera movies? They're a *lot* like live-action anime, with sort of a two-way possession happening between a teenage girl and a giant, prehistoric turtle monster. Their personalities merge.

That doesn't sound dissimilar to that parasite description there....
 
 
akira
16:38 / 21.11.07
I think the guy that is making it has actually said somewhere that the monster is entirely new.
 
 
Nuke Kids on the Bloc
16:47 / 21.11.07
With the combination of BIG DAMN MONSTER and (potential) body horror, well, it might not be a Cthulhu film in name but the feel sounds very close.

I am the excitement.
 
 
grant
18:03 / 21.11.07
the monster is entirely new.

I don't think this is possible.
 
 
Stoat-ROW ROW FIGHT THE POWAH
20:37 / 21.11.07
I hope it *attempts* to be new.

I can't fucking wait for this. (Mind you, I just got Rickrolled with a fake YouTube link purporting to be a new trailer...)
 
 
akira
20:39 / 21.11.07
entirely new

OK robbed from other places but given a new name.
 
 
Kali is proud of her country
(prev. Always Pro Neil Gaiman Kali)
20:52 / 21.11.07
I think Abrams' comment about a less cuddly King Kong and his son's fascination with Japanese toys should bring us to:

Entirely new?

Not really. Probably an homage and re-imagining of sorts for Western culture.

Leastways, that's how it sounds to me.
 
 
Phex: Dorset Doom
22:54 / 21.11.07
It'd be hard to imagine an 'entirely new' form of monster, since we'll always draw inspiration from real-life animals that frighten us- reptiles, insects, parasites. Godzilla is a lizard, Mothra is an insect, John Carpenter's The Thing is a parasite, the Alien from Alien is a lizard-insect-parasite- has there ever been a movie monster that didn't exhibit traits of real-life animals?
 
 
Mistletoffelees
(prev. Mist van der Rohe)
23:10 / 21.11.07
has there ever been a movie monster that didn't exhibit traits of real-life animals?

There was the ball monster from Dark Star. But did it hop on wicked webbed feet?
 
 
Nuke Kids on the Bloc
23:43 / 21.11.07
has there ever been a movie monster that didn't exhibit traits of real-life animals?

The crystalline entity from Star Trek was pretty freaky; and there's the Angel from Evangelion whose imposing body was actually it's shadow, it's real body being the shadow underneath it. Please to be confused.
 
 
Kali is proud of her country
(prev. Always Pro Neil Gaiman Kali)
00:12 / 22.11.07
Fair enough.
 
 
Nuke Kids on the Bloc
00:36 / 22.11.07
LOL @ Parkman pushing it on a dolley.
 
 
Mistletoffelees
(prev. Mist van der Rohe)
00:54 / 22.11.07
Also, Parkman was eaten on LOST by a monster that didn't exhibit traits of real-life animals.
 
  

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