Project Cloverfield a.k.a The JJ Abrams trailer before Transformers starts.

Alright, so I go into Transformers thinking it was going to be a kick ass movie (which it was) and so I get there 30 minutes early to avoid the huge crowd.

The previews start up, and there is a new Adam Sandler movie where everyone laughed and that was about it.

Then it cuts to a movie where the camera is nothing more than a home video camera capturing a going away party for some guy. Everyone is having a good time, drinking, laughing, telling the camera they'll miss the guy.

Then something like an earthquake hits, shaking the entire building and forcing the lights to go dim. The earthquake stops and everyone is going "What the hell was that? Let's go see if any is alright up on the roof." It was a big party.

So on the rooftop it seems everyone's alright, but the entire city is blacked out, and someone says that their friend should have left a day early. Then there it is, a roar, and the camera shifts to the left to see the middle of Manhattan go up in explosion. Everyone starts screaming and running, the camera cutting out as they run down the stairs.

Outside everyone is running towards and past the camera man and from above an object comes flying towards him, landing right behind him and skidding, it's the statue of liberties head, and then the monsterous roar sounds off again.

No title after that, just says "J.J. Abrams" and then 1-28-2008

From the roar I'm banking it's a giant monster movie, of course, but insted of it being big budget, it's all shot through people with video cameras. Needless to say with the set up of the trailer, it got my adrenaline going, which very few movies do that. I'd love to know more about this movie, but I guess no one even knew it was being made before it was shown before Transformers.

Any ideas of what it could be? I was personally hoping for another Godzilla

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Appearantly, rumors say, is that the whole movie is going to be shot with hand held cameras, from different civillians caught up in the matter.

Problem with Blair Witch is that th acting in it was god damn horrible, and unbelievable. you don't see anything in it but a god damn ear cut off, and some guy standing in the corner before some bitch gets knocked out. Hype is why anyone went and saw that movie, and it was a peice of shit.

This, however, actually shows you what's going on around them, and if you thought any of the camera was too shakey excluding them running down the stairs, well, never play a FPS as long as you live.

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Originally Posted by Divest

I can already see all the battery died, ran out of film, found a new battery and or film four hours later after all the exciting stuff happened bullshit coming from a mile away, but maybe they'll prove me wrong (hopefully).

i really can't see them doing this coming from a logical standpoint. I mean, the camera -might- get turned off from time to time, maybe they accidently hit it or something, I'm not sure.

But if I was running from a huge fucking monster, I wouldn't necessarily look at my camera and go "Fooey, my battery has run dead, I must scurry to the nearest retailer and purchase another!"

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

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Okay I don't knwo what the fuck it is about this movie, and what it's doing, but it's freaking me the fuck out.

www.1-18-08.com There are two things in that website that has to be noted. I put it in spoilers for those that want to find them for themselves. The two pictures definately have some weird shit going on in them.

Spoiler:

The picture of the two women, in the middle there is a face of the devil in their hair...BUT

if you photoshop or MSpaint it...split the picture down the middle, then line up each face...it forms a perfectly shapped face it seems...the two girls in that photo are the same girl.

And in the other picture, with the guy in the party...he is downing a drink, but...his eyes are pure black, and when you look closer, it looks like he's in pain, and spread like he's being crucified.

Dear god this has me freaked.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by Skexis

That would be so fucking badass. Some kind of mainstream media that could actually pay tribute to the lore.

I actually never had a problem with Blair Witch. I've always been about delayed gratification, so all the scare tactics without the monster was what made me enjoy the whole experience. Hell, I even liked the horrible sequel, to a certain extent. And I liked the acting as far as it was authentic. People who just behaved how they thought folks would in that situation, instead of trying too hard and making artifice out of acting.

I thought I heard somewhere that there wasn't even a script to the blair witch project. That they would just impromptuly add shit in there to freak the kids out.

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Originally Posted by LZ

The mystery has been cracked (not by me)

http://www.slusho.jp/index.html

Not even joking. Check this screenshot from about halfway into the trailer, after the news report:

You know what's funny, on that website it says "You can't just drink six" I think 3 times throughout that whole website, counting the japanese number...so the whole 666 things comes into play if i"m correct, and not just reading fully into it.

FELIPE NO

New picture is up at http://www.1-18-08.com/

four people, huge bright light behind them...can't see anything with the picture yet, but go at it people!

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

A forth picture is up at 1-18-08.com Seems that there is a military man escorting people out of the area or something, the picture is slightly blurred.

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Originally Posted by WolfDemon

According to my cousin, a lot of people think that it might be a Voltron movie. Apparently they get that from a line in the trailer right before the Statue of Liberty's head is thrown; a guy shouting "It's a lion! It's moving!"

He also pointed out how the destruction is very reminiscent of Lavos. Huge dome-shaped explosion, fireballs falling from the sky, etc. He doesn't think it's a Chrono Trigger movie, of course, but he thought it was kinda funny.

People actually thought it was a Power Rangers movie. Truth is though it's not a voltron movie, and while even I think he says "It's a lion, it's huge" people from the film have said he actually says "I'ts alive, it's huge!"

That, and already they have debunked several theories, even Cthuhlu since they said the monster is completely original, and organic. On top of that, a different company owns the rights to Voltron, so that's out.

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Originally Posted by Divest

Dammit, it's not going to be Cthulu? :/

Well, someone has leaked how the movie starts. There is a website that has an annoynamous source, (which could mean that it's completely false, but who knows) stating that the movie begins with either two children, or two police officers/detectives walking down a board walk of NYC and stumble across a camera left in the aftermath of the attack and begin to watch it.

So, if we take the fact that Cthuhlu is indeed an almighty creature of destruction, bringing the end of the world with it, one would think that there would be no survivors in the world period.

Then again, Cthuhlu probably has never taken on Hilary Clinton either.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by Kilroy

Is it just me, or are there several humans in the trailer that looks... odd? I mean, like they have extra parts or scales or something attached to them?

I'm not sure, I didn't see anyone with scales in the trailer, but something else intrigued me to no end.

Go and watch the trailer again, and when it gets to around 1:10 to 1:20 mark, as the soldiers are running by, in the background there is a screen, where it seems two men are dragging a screaming woman...and just before it cuts out, her abdomen like, expands as if something is bursting from it.

At least that's what the shadow looks like.

Yeah, Skexis got the picture right, just not at the right part. The second one.

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Originally Posted by Inhert

I really hope it will not be Godzilla, I think it would be lame to have all that hype and mystery only to end up being "Godzilla 2 the movie" >.>

The monster obviously has wings, from the little .gif that Divest posted.

So any fear that it's Godzilla is blown out the window.


It's been stated several times taht this monster is supposed to be original, nothing from lore or any other movies...so it should be intersting to see what exactly it is. It does seem quite reptillian, that is for sure.

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Originally Posted by jouhou

Wings??... I don't see any wings. Perhaps you're hoping to see wing. Anyway, a more solid fact that it isn't Godzilla is that there are no spikes on the monster's back.

If you look at the creature's back, there are two curved apendages coming out from his back. Maybe 'wings' isn't the proper word...mainly because they are definately too small to actually have the beast fly.

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Originally Posted by Divest

It's actually Rampage, the movie adaptation.

Sorry guys, didn't mean to spoil it for you.

That's already been done. Godzilla vs. King Kong anyone?

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Now that I think about it, it's just going to be a live action, CG Barney episode.

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Originally Posted by Django!

I was pretty excited for this movie when the internet theorized it was a Cthulu flick.

Now? Not so much.

Okay who here honestly believes anyone will be able to make a DECENT Cthulu movie?

I hate to say it, but all of the movies based of Lovecraft stuff...have been utterly fucking terrible.

Prove me wrong.

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Originally Posted by Dark Nation

I didn't know there was a SINGLE movie based on Lovecraft mythos.

Trust me, the acting alone deserves it's own Lovecraft story. It's fucking scarier than the content it's trying to portray.

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Are you guys that desperate to put a face onto the monster that you'll actually start believing that it looks like something that it isn't?

I mean, burn me at the stake if it does happen to be a giant, mutated whale, but seriously people...look at the .gif on the last page. That thing is way too vertical and slender to even be considered a whale...

The shoulderblades on it's back, perhaps wings or whatnot...it isn't no whale. I'm as psyched to find out what this beast is as much as the next person in this thread...but you know what, ten to one odds say that we won't even SEE the damn thing in it's full glory at all in the film. Perhaps a face, or a tail, or a leg...but never the whole thing.

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Originally Posted by Divest

I think the Cloverfield monster has pretty much been revealed. I really hope this isn't it but it looks like the monster from the trailer.

I think that's a big negative on that image there Divest. A few pages back you posted a .gif of that cleaned up image from the trailer of the beast. I can't see it cause the bandwith was exceeded, but I distinctly remember that the beast had a completely different body structure than what that picture had.

Whereas the thing above seems like a hunchback of sorts, the beast in the .gif was more upright, meaning the head I believe was held up higher than what its back would be.

Still, awesome image

Edit: Now that I think about it, the image leads me to believe that the creature would have a HELL of a time throwing anything with the way it's arms are structured. Just my two cents though >.> so who knows.

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Have any of you seen the new image at 1-18-08.com and the new videos that have come out in 3 different languages?

It all involves some oil drilling structure out in the atlantic becoming totally and completely destroyed/submerged under the water, and the footage is of it's destruction.

At the end of the english news report it shows footage from a bunch of people inside a lifeboat getting away from the collapsing rig...and as soon as the entire thing falls underwater, a few seconds later, several HUGE peices of debris shoot up out of the water and easily fly 100-200 feet into the air.

This beasite is big, this beastie is powerful, and from that image you linked Divest, it seems kinda too rhinoish ;____;

I was speaking idiomatically.

You know, with a closely kept movie such as this one...I'd be surprised if Abrams actually ALLOWED screeners to be seen.

That's just my thought on that whole spoiler issue above.

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Originally Posted by Divest

Hm. I'm not sure if I even believe the spoilers dude but assuming it is true, Megalith needs to shut the fuck up or use spoiler tags.

In megalith's defense, the above user above him didn't use spoiler's at all when he let loose with his big ol' campus review of the movie.

Dr. Uzuki edited that post and put spoiler tags in for the tard. As to why he didn't edit Megalith's post in the same manor is beyond me, but that's why Megalith didn't use spoilers.

FELIPE NO

Also, to further discredit the spoiler guy above and megalith (even though he was just posing a question), the newest clip out on television of Cloverfield is only about nine seconds long.

Seven seconds into it you hear the monster roaring, the military shooting at it, and a large ammount of smoke. It is VERY possible, if you loop that short segment again and again like I did, to see that the monster has a very, VERY huge arms, and several tentacles on it's body someplace. So it still is up in the air about what it -could- be.

And shame on you Divest. You should know that it wouldn't be a tripod or anything like that from that .gif you posted :P The monster is BULKY.

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I hate to say this, and what really bothers me is that I don't think STILL the concept art or super paco's discription can be right on par with each other.

I mean...ugh...it just doens't seem right, especially from that .gif that we've all seen. it DOESN'T.

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