Project Cloverfield

[23Magnum]

Talking about whale skin patterns and trying to prove a point other than yours is correct is illogical? Okay...
Let's say we make a bite mark on the previous picture I posted...

Interesting. Similar?

Oh wow you edited a photo in paint! I'm so totally convinced now. There's nothing to dispute that, I mean it's solid proof of how I could be so totally wrong.[/sarcasm]

Fine it's a whale, whatever you win, if you're only going to look at that one picture, but how about all of them in sequence?

And what's unreasonable, is your argument without admitting even just a little bit that you could be wrong and insinuating that I'm completely wrong.

Thinking your right and arguing your point is one thing, but being ignorant to others is totally disrespectful.

Except in one statement about the carcases not being whales(which I admitted now that they may or may not be), but with all the other evidence I don't see that they would be, I have never said my theory was fact.

My series of events went like this:

-Oil rig's drilling wakes up mom beast
-It attacks oil rig and tanker on surface
-Military blows the crap out of the beast
-Fishes the pieces out of the water and brings them to shore
-The baby(creature in the movie) comes to land looking for mommy, hence the 'attack'.

Make sense? No? Then what's your idea? (<----All I really wanted to hear in the first place, not why my theory was so flawed it wasn't possible in the slightest)

 

[Xavier]

magnum, plz let us know when u stop PMSin.

 

[The Kraken]

Calm down. I'm giving you an example to prove my point. If you want more pictures of wrinkly pruney sperm whales you can go to Google Images and see for yourself they look like that. I'm not not admitting I could be wrong, I'm just proving my point that I believe it's (they) a whale. besides, you can look at the mouth/jaw of the carcass too, matches up with that of a sperm whale...if you want to be stubborn and get worked up about this, be my guest. I'm just saying, there is more evidence that they are sperm whales than the kin of the monster.


"All I really wanted to hear in the first place, not why my theory was so flawed it wasn't possible in the slightest"

I'm not denouncing your theory about dead matriarchs, just that they aren't in that photograph. I NEVER said that is so flawed and implausible...just that that photograph is of dead sperm whales...please, if you can find it, quote me where I said that theory makes no sense.

 

[MARXXS]

Sorry guys the movie turned out really bad!! just saw it on Saturday. Its like the Blair Witch project and it was really poorly written with absolutely no info on how the monster cam to be or where it came from. The camera was poorly focused a lot of the time and very shaky throughout the entire movie, really not good for people who get motion sickness. J.J. Abram claims that he is doing something new but its anything far from that. The movie is actually really boring except for maybe a few parts. There was a lot of disappointed people in the theater. Taking a perspective from innocent bystanders view during a monster attack really isn't being that creative at all, obviously there is going to be a lot commotion that will make it really hard to figure out whats going on. Also leaving the audience with no creative idea on the monsters origin makes it really dry. This movie was talked up far to much for the publicity that it got! BIG DISAPPOINTMENT!!

 

[The Kraken]

Not that creative? Do you have another giant-monster attack movie that parallel this?

A few of my friends felt some motion sickness as well...maybe it's all those video games but I didn't feel any heh.

I think the point of a lot of the movie having no explanation is for the AUDIENCE to be creative. Also they are releasing a ton of post-release fun stuff to give hints.

 

[23Magnum]

@Xavier - Real mature. You can't arguing your point, so you resort to verbal bashing.

@Kraken - You never denounced my theory literally, but implied so by picking it apart. Ok so, they might be whales, how bout an idea of why they are there all chewed up like that, and also try linking it to the other pictures as well.

@Both of you and everyone - Sorry to act so defensively, but when I think up a good idea(in my opinion) I like to run with it and hate when people don't admittedly except it at all and start criticizing it right away. Also, I learned something today that may require me to get rid of a friend I don't want to loose, but I'm not seeing much of a choice in the matter, so some of my residual pissed off nature from that is leaking into my posts on the forum. I have anger issues, perhaps I should call Jack Nicholson, hehe. Goos-Fra-Ba. Ok, I feel a little better. Sorry everyone. Last thing I want is more enemies right now.

-Magnum

 

[Adam]

I was very impressed with the movie. Satisfying and exciting. From a film makers standpoint, one of the most original and well done movies I've seen. Favorite movie of all time? No, not in the top 10, but it was just what I thought it would be, and I'm left dying for more.... that's a good flick.

The mind's imagination is MUCH better than anything they could show on screen, and using that to it's advantage is what this movie really did right.

Good character development, good action, good suspense and pretty good actors. Great marketing!!

 

[Sean Bradley]

The pics from 1-18-08.com don't look like whales to me either, but then again I know that they're not supposed to be recognizable. This photo has been heavily photoshopped to alter distinguishing features.

Why, you might ask?

To make fanboys argue over such senseless things.


These pictures are designed to make you want to know more but don't really contain any information, just like all the images in the Cloverfield marketing campaign... they're a tease with no real solution. Theres probably a dozen different ways the pictures could be arranged into a narrative. Your theory sounds plausable, and is pretty congruent with the backstory of the contact with the oil tanker and drilling rig.. but nobody will ever know for sure.

Directors and writers know that loose ends like this drive fanboys nuts... it's like shooting fish in a barrel.


BTW wikipedia now lists the 'I had a good day' meteor as an intentional hint at a future sequel.. Matt Reeves said he had the segment put in specifically for that purpose.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloverfield

Maybe further clues on the sequence of events will be answere in the Manga prequel.. until then... it's just guesses, no need to get upset about it.

 

[Xavier]

lol @ magnum, dude, you get pissed because you tell us your THEORY, then we try to disprove it. is that not what you wanted to happen? or did you just want us to go, YES!! thats exactly right. Any criticism you get about your theory you have a freak over and lash out. uncool.

 

[kerotan 36]

The ending of the movie sucked!! And there were some many unanswered questions

 

[timecon]

Sorry, I went and saw that I was in the back row, I have never gotten motion sickness in my life till I saw this movie I almost lost it, like the concept hated the movie, I just hope star trek is better

 

[The Kraken]

Dude, I'm all for your theory, totally plausible, I'm just saying that the evidence in that picture points to sperm whales. Bite marks = monster chomping on them? A creature that big has to eat SOMETHING.

 

[kerotan 36]

Uhh have none of you seen it?

 

[The Kraken]

No! Why would we debate over a movie we've actually seen?? jk

What do you mean? Are any of our points totally contradictory to the movie?

 

[abandonship]

Sorry guys the movie turned out really bad!! just saw it on Saturday. Its like the Blair Witch project and it was really poorly written with absolutely no info on how the monster cam to be or where it came from. The camera was poorly focused a lot of the time and very shaky throughout the entire movie, really not good for people who get motion sickness. J.J. Abram claims that he is doing something new but its anything far from that. The movie is actually really boring except for maybe a few parts. There was a lot of disappointed people in the theater. Taking a perspective from innocent bystanders view during a monster attack really isn't being that creative at all, obviously there is going to be a lot commotion that will make it really hard to figure out whats going on. Also leaving the audience with no creative idea on the monsters origin makes it really dry. This movie was talked up far to much for the publicity that it got! BIG DISAPPOINTMENT!!

really? did you see the same movie as me?

 

[Xavier]

really? did you see the same movie as me?

He must have seen 27 dresses by accident

 

[Belakor]

The ending of the movie sucked!! And there were some many unanswered questions

I take it you've never watched Lost? Unanswered questions are what Abrams does best

I just went back to see it again, still thought it was awesome and I finally saw the 'I had a good day' meteor/satellite... there are some videos of it on youtube but I wouldn't expect to see it in them, it's hard enough to see it on the big screen.

Edit: Just found the English translation of the Cloverfield Manga I didn't realize that they had started releasing them

 

[Xavier]

cool.

And for all you people touting this movie, the point of it wasnt to explain the monster or anything like that, its SUPPOSED to be from a bunch of semi/fully drunk 20something yearolds who just happened to have a camera in the middle of the attack.

 

[23Magnum]

[stating the obvious]

And for all you people touting this movie, the point of it wasnt to explain the monster or anything like that, its SUPPOSED to be from a bunch of semi/fully drunk 20something yearolds who just happened to have a camera in the middle of the attack.

[/stating the obvious]

 

[Skullcandy Girl]

As far as the military prescense in NYC, there are soliders EVERYWHERE. You walk around Wall Street or any kind of transportation hub (penn station, grand central times square), there are fully armed and armored soliders with assault rifles in the middle of the street and chilling in the subway stations etc, and there is hardware stationed on Manhattan. There are some bases on Manhattan and West Point is about 40 miles from NYC(I think). Also, the movie doesn't (and couldn't) address the fact there are about 12 bridges to get into Manhattan from all the boroughs, and some are WAAAAAAY uptown, about 26 miles from where the monster attacks Lower Manhattan. Mean old monster trampled most of midtown and downtown, haha I hope it didn't get the museums too XD. If this thing is a baby how big are the full grown monsters?
Also, wasn't the camera running off the "Sony SD card"? I thought I saw that at the begining when the time code and bars and tones where, granted the camera wasn't on for the entire time, who knows.

The writers and producers really did a good job researching the city I think they were in Bloomingdales when they got out of the subway tunnel.

There's a cloverfield Manga now?? Cheeky bastards hahaha. Geez these guys are marketing geniuses