Anyone see this closeup animated gif? At the least we know from this its a bipedal monster.

http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o306/WmHohenzollern/1195620248942.gif

You realize the original Godzilla was playing on the fears from Hiroshima. (This one isn’t up for debate, that was 100% about the bomb being dropped).

What else… oh yeah, Pat: “to the people complaining about the clowd of dust rolling down the street because it looks too much like 9/11… how else are they supposed to depict it?”

Nobody was complaining about that. Somebody said it looked similar, that was it. Nobody complained about it.

Anyways, it seems like a possibility, so why is everyone getting so pissed off at even mentioning it? Hilarious.

Also, Lovecraftian? Bah, Lovecraft was about people faced with something so horrible their sanity snaps. Far mor personal than what this looks like.

or, extend your complaining about that style of debris to everything that does it. scheduled building demolitions, collapsing bonfires, a fallen cake….. omg plz give it a rest.

This is entertainment. It uses special effects. When a building falls it creates a debri cloud. Buildings have been doing this long before 9/11. Shocking!!! Aircraft have been exploding into flames long before 9/11. Gravity has worked long before 9/11. Please tell me Sir Issac Newton was involved in the 9/11 plot. More importantly - monsters have been trashing cities long before 9/11.

Give it a rest and live life. Embrace this Lovecraftesque film and relax. 9/11 violated everyone of us.

Missed seeing the trailer? I know, it’s not like it’s all over the internet….Hey stupid….notice how most the shots and snipits from it don’t really have the feeling of ‘first person’ ie..inside the convience store, liberty’s head rolling down the street, shot of the explosion..ect…To me those shots feel more cinematic than handy cam…I don’t even notice.

BlairWitch bored me, never saw The Village. And If you think Godzilla is a stupid movie, Well that just means your talking out your ass because you don’t know the meaning behind them. Or, maybe you just think that the movies message about man’s negative impact on the enviorment and how were destroying our planet is trivial. The cheesy low budget style is part of the heritage, it’s expected.

I can only image what you think is a good movie…..

Have you written any scripts lately or had any of your ideas put trhough to production?

Anyway, I’m just hoping that this movie delivers. As far as ‘Giant monter movies’ go Toho’s Godzilla films set and still own the bar of measurement. I can’t recall Hollywood EVER putting out an ORIGINAL ‘Giant’ monster movie. I don’t include King Kong…it’s a big ape..big deal..They have movies with creatures, monsters and such but I’m talking Godzilla’esk…Big giant beasts or beast walking around and wreaking havoc. I think this is why so many people argue if this is just a re-make of something else..it’s kinda virgin territory for Hollywood.

I can’t wait to see how they do.

Based on the POV of the movie my first thought was “This is the older cousin of ‘The Blair Witch Project’ ” and the only concern I had was are they actually going to show the “thing” or not?

I think what is interesting here is the power of what happens when something is left to the imagination in film. It still works so it seems. Many preview clips leave me with the impression that I’d already seen the best parts but this one quickly drew me in with the irony of feeling a “trapped claustrophobia” while being in a city as large as New York. Also when I realized that what appeared to be tossed liked a mutant Frisbee was the head of the Statue of Liberty that wigged me out. For an older-ster who saw the original Planet of the Apes in the theater as a kid, that shock of realization was the same rush as the “oh wow…” at end of the Apes picture.

Someone mentioned how AVP-R like others has already shown you everything you’re going to see in the trailers, albeit briefly. Those kind of movies may not be your cup of tea but for me, I’d like to have to wonder a little bit about what the Predator Alien hybrid is going to look like and what the scenario is but now if I go, I’ll be sitting there predicting when the next kill scene I saw in the trailer is going to happen.

Anyway, back to Cloverfield, leaving the unknown has made me more likely to go see this movie than I probably would have otherwise.

I remember reading a blog a while back about past trailers that showed “too much” and basically ruined the movie. Some examples were the trailer for Castaway, Alien 3, and a few others I can’t remember. Even when the trailer for Beowulf came out, I said to myself, “I bet those are all the cool parts.” …and I was pretty much right.

Let’s hope the mystery remains and we are all blown away in January….not literally, of course…