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Lord-Tice
Title: FF-UK: London CR
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Aug '01
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Date Posted:
2/12 4:40am
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RE: Cloverfield....I love it!
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Saw it yesterday evening and really enjoyed it. I think it got the balance of pretty much everything spot on, and while you could shudder at the romantic edge the film had, it did need something like that and I think they just about got away with it.
The monster was great too, and for some reason I enjoyed egging him/her/it on!
Coz, I did indeed see the same thing as you at the end. My theory is that it's come from space, fell into the ocean and with-in a month has grown to its hugmungous size under the cover of the sea. I haven't read any other theories out there so I assume this might be a common theory.
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Ramble_Boba
Title: CR Emeritus: FF Northern UK
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2/12 5:31am
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The t-shirt that Rob's brother was wearing was something like 'Slush-o', a drink of some sort that has been connected in the viral marketing of the film with a full website.
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timbolton
Title: Assistant CR
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Date Posted:
2/12 11:22am
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For all those interested in Cloverfield's mysteries, and the online "game" (which went from the website, to myspace to youtube and elsewhere) that gave clues to characters and the lead-up to the monster appearing - check here
http://cloverfield.despoiler.org/index.php?title=Main_Page
Not sure how they got hold of these, but there are production notes to Cloverfield here
http://download.cloverfieldclues.com/cloverfieldproductionnotes.htm
According to the notes the monster's origin isn't fully known, but it was asleep under the sea for quite some time, it's a baby and when it wakes up is distressed - hence it attacking the city. It scratches off the "fleas" (which are dangerous to humans - the exploding lady isn't explained in the notes btw). There is no explanation why it picked up the Statue's head and then chucked it, though that was a symbolic film thing I guess.
From looking into the top link, the thing that fell into the water was a satellite supposedly - there was a lot of dodgy company in Japan stuff going on, something about an oil rig owned by that company that wasn't drilling for oil, and I think that is what woke the monster up.
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Lord-Tice
Title: FF-UK: London CR
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2/13 3:59am
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That Slusho! site is great, lol.
Also hints at a secret ingredient for the drink that can only be found in the deep sea...interesting. The dodgy Satellite makes sense though, must be one of SONY's 
I also recorded and flipped the audio at the end, and it says "It's still alive", referring to the monster we all presume.
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SithLordDarthRichie
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2/13 8:51am
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Wasn't Operation Hammer Blow another word for a nuclear strike?
I'd be suprised the creature would survive that and the general punishment it took in the film.
No-one is safe! 
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jamierichards
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2/13 3:01pm
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it's a mistake,when they comment on the monster being still alive...
what they are seeing is the mother.
and she's pissed off.
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Ramble_Boba
Title: CR Emeritus: FF Northern UK
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2/13 3:23pm
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Yeah, she would be pissed off if her new born got killed by lousy humans who didn't even try to befriend it.
Also, Richie, Zilla was not a good monster, looked like a cast off from Jurassic Park, not a Godzilla type kaiju. And against the real Godzilla, he gets destroyed without even putting up a fight.
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malkieD2
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Date Posted:
2/14 1:54pm
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That movie was amazing - not often that something 'different' is combined well with what is essentially a monster run and hide movie. I was gripped, and found it totally believable. The SFX looked excellent, and the acting (almost sort of) worked.
However, I certainly don't want a sequel - I can't see where they can go other than down.
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SithLordDarthRichie
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2/14 4:08pm
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Alas, the Hollywood money-machine rolls onward.
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