Cloverfield.

[Avenger2099]

Hmmm... well then that's kind of bad character design on their part. I mean that monster just did not look like something that would come outta the ocean, same with the bugs/parasites it dropped. For one legs seemed to be it's main form of transportation, something that has lived underwater for thousands of years would probably have fins. Ah well.

[Sutibaru]

Originally Posted by Avenger2099

Hmmm... well then that's kind of bad character design on their part. I mean that monster just did not look like something that would come outta the ocean, same with the bugs/parasites it dropped. For one legs seemed to be it's main form of transportation, something that has lived underwater for thousands of years would probably have fins. Ah well.

That is why Whalezilla > Cloverkaiju.

[vidgamer85]

Originally Posted by Avenger2099

Hmmm... well then that's kind of bad character design on their part. I mean that monster just did not look like something that would come outta the ocean, same with the bugs/parasites it dropped. For one legs seemed to be it's main form of transportation, something that has lived underwater for thousands of years would probably have fins. Ah well.

And when did that stop Godzilla from swimming well?
Besides, the key is that it lived on the bottom of the ocean. It has a tail-fin for swimming, as well as long fingers that could double as fins, but it's normally going to be walking on the ocean floor. The explanation in the other topic seems to fit best: It came to the surface to follow its primary food source (sea-bed nectar), which Tagruato had mined out of its home.

Anyway, back to the topic at hand. The cause of the...erm, a'sploding people was most likely as Suti said, catastrophic bodily failure caused by an anticoagulant (keeps blood from clotting) that the parasites inject into their prey. It's just...too strong for humans to handle.

[Avenger2099]

Actually Godzilla had the whole Iguana like tail thing going on, which would help it to swim. I didn't see a tail fin on the creature at all, though admitedly you never get an especially good view of it. All in all it just didn't look like something that came from the bottom of the ocean, for one why were it's eyes so well developed? If you live on the ocean floor you probably have very weak eyes and very acute other senses.

I like your idea with the parasites though, that makes sense.

Also I didn't participate in the ARG-like thingy they had going so that whole thing about the food source is new to me. Interesting though.

[Sutibaru]

There was one film in which sea louses hung to godzilla that mutated and grew giant on him attacked by detaching from him. Sorry but other than the concept, Cloverfield is lacking originality in my eyes.

[Drybones]

Originally Posted by Avenger2099

Actually Godzilla had the whole Iguana like tail thing going on, which would help it to swim. I didn't see a tail fin on the creature at all, though admitedly you never get an especially good view of it. All in all it just didn't look like something that came from the bottom of the ocean, for one why were it's eyes so well developed? If you live on the ocean floor you probably have very weak eyes and very acute other senses.

I like your idea with the parasites though, that makes sense.

Also I didn't participate in the ARG-like thingy they had going so that whole thing about the food source is new to me. Interesting though.

Its the SBN. It improves eye sight. I can like you to the fake FDA article if you like.

On the take of the monsters design. I thought it was pretty original, not a robot, not a lizard, not a bug. I mean its pretty hard to classify it as just one thing which you can do with nearly every other giant monster ever.

[vidgamer85]

Heck, I'd like to see it. I had no idea how far their viral marketing went that far. All I knew about was the two fake sites and the Oil rig attack.

Hard to make something completely original nowadays. Doesn't matter what it is, I can guarantee you that on some level it's been done before. The only time originality should be an issue is if it's a blatant ripoff...or absolutely horrible.

[Drybones]

Originally Posted by vidgamer85

Heck, I'd like to see it. I had no idea how far their viral marketing went that far. All I knew about was the two fake sites and the Oil rig attack.

Hard to make something completely original nowadays. Doesn't matter what it is, I can guarantee you that on some level it's been done before. The only time originality should be an issue is if it's a blatant ripoff...or absolutely horrible.

Here it is on Wiki.

[TrumanGrace]

Originally Posted by Sutibaru

There was one film in which sea louses hung to godzilla that mutated and grew giant on him attacked by detaching from him. Sorry but other than the concept, Cloverfield is lacking originality in my eyes.

to be fair, there aren't very many ways to really make a giant monster movie original.

The fact that you called the concept original is likely more than you'll see of any of them. I'd give the presentation originality, but that's about as far as you can get for it in that particular genre.

[Snotling]

Ok, I would like to state that I am a great fan of this movie. Firts, I'm fed up with all the happy endings, human interest, and boyscout morals that Hollywood has been spoonfeeding the public with for the last 50 or so years. This movie is not ABOUT a monster it's a movie WITH monsters. The movie being filmed strictly from the limited point of view of one character (Hud) is what makes it original along with the whole "we know nothing" going on.

Think of any disaster you might find yourself in... huricane, tsunami... anything. It takes you by surprise you don't know how long it will last and how it will all end for you or for everyone around you. You don't get updates from scientists or from politicians as to how this or that happens... what you should be doing or thinking and what kind of help is comming where and when.

If you were filming those events your movie would end when you die or find yourself incapacitated... which is exactly what happens to the main characters in the movie, the footage ends with them.

You don't get any answers they didn't. so you actually lived the disaster with them. It's a disaster movie in which the disaster happens to be a monster attack.

as far as realism is questionned, well it's as realistic as you could expect from an unrealistic event ahppenning in the real world.

The whole Slusho/Tagruato viral thing, maybe the DVD or a sequel will reveal some removed scenes that tie the knot but as far as the current movie is concerned all you see is a slusho t-shirt on a secondary character (the first on to die in a verry "red shirt" kinda way)

Slusho t-shirts and Slusho drinks have been sean in other JJ Abrams productions, I haven't sean any of those but if you did... did the characters wearing or drinking Slusho die early?

There might be nothing more to it than that...JJ Abrams equivalent of a Redshirt.

[Sutibaru]

Originally Posted by TrumanGrace

to be fair, there aren't very many ways to really make a giant monster movie original.

The fact that you called the concept original is likely more than you'll see of any of them. I'd give the presentation originality, but that's about as far as you can get for it in that particular genre.

Yes but I know of many people raving about how original of a film it was. Therefor why I must say it is not.

[vaxon]

someone told me this was here,yeah a baby parasite bites her and after about an hour you bleed and blow up boom went the chick and everyone else in the movie,cant wait for the sequel!!(listen to the radio broadcast at the end of the credits,im not gonna spoil it)i love that movie,everyone stood up and clapped after it ended