i just watched it(finally...), it was good.

couple things to think of

the origin of the monster. i didn't see anything fell really, just some splashed water...so i have my doubts on that. even if its true i don't believe it wether brought or woke up the monster. according to the viral marketing of the oil rig destruction in the middle of the atlantic...how would that thing swim from coney island to the middle of the atlantic ocean, destroy the oil rig and then come back to new york. TidoWave was involved in it, they were there at the moment of the incident...could be related. Other fact is that the chuai station opened in sept.2007 and the movie was developed in apr/may 07 or 08?

my theory? deep sea creature...tagruato (deep sea drilling), slusho (chemicals), tidowave (eco-terrorism) & bevVo (investment) are involved.

another thing is...how hud got killed. it sounded like the monster was chewing him and just thrw his half body (if so...it would be dumb from rob trying to find out if he was ok)...or just a little bite

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Judging by everything I've read in this thread the movie seems lame. I'll pass.

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Originally posted by cmay119 Does the US still have an arsenal of Nuclear Weapons equal to that of the Hiroshima or Nagasaki Bombs? If they did, they would be able to use one of them instead of a modern day Hydrogen bomb that has far more destructive capabilities. That way they'd be able to keep the explosion within Manhatten instead of taking out a huge junk of the East Coast. Should still be effective enough to kill any living thing within the blast radius, right? I'm just suprised in the first place that normal artillery wasn't enough to injure/kill a flesh & bone monster, whether it be gigantic or not.

This is right on. As soon as you talk nukes people start thinking 20 megaton warheads, but the B61 nuclear bomb can have a variable yeild between .3 and 170 kilotons and a single low yeild detonation would cause limited damage. If you figure Hiroshima was about a 16 kiloton bomb lets say you need half that to kill the monster. So you drop an 8kt bomb on Manhattan. Go here:

Effects of a Nuclear Explosion on New York

You can see that the serious damage from the explosion would be limited to a relatively small area. If you air burst to minimize radioactive fallout it probably starts to look like a pretty attractive option considering what they already threw at the monster with no success.

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So I see further proof is needed that this movie sucks.
Consider this:
When was the first teaser for Cloverfield shown? Before Transformers. You'll certainly all agree that Transformers is one of the worst movies of 2007. When was the first trailer shown? Before Beowulf, and just like Transformers, that movie is utter crap.
The reason for this is simple. Cloverfield has the same target audience as Transformers and Beowulf: people who watch shit movies. And that's because Cloverfield itself is shit.

Quod erat demonstrandum!

Really, really entertaining movie.

Wouldn't the EMP from a nuclear warhead kind of fuck with the recovery of any digital information from a camera? Also, I doubt Rob and Beth died after the bridge at the end collapsed. They were both like "I love you" and that's not what you say when a bridge falls on you. Trust me, I've had it happen before. It's not fun.

There are most certainly different sizes of monsters in the movie. Perhaps the one that ate Hud at the end was one of the small ones earlier and just metabolizes New Yorkers really fast.

I liked that the movie didn't have any music. Seemed like far less of a movie in that sense and it's definitely something most other films aren't brave enough to try out.

Not getting full shots of the creature at all times did wonders for the film. Not actually seeing it well until the middle of the film lets the viewer envision a far more terrible creature in their own minds - and that is basically everything that horror is made of: what you do not see is often far worse than what you do.

Great movie. Definitely worth seeing in the theater over video/download.

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Plot was weak.

Weak SAUCE.

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Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On Really, really entertaining movie. Wouldn't the EMP from a nuclear warhead kind of fuck with the recovery of any digital information from a camera?

Most likely not. Since the camera runs on batteries and does not contain a large amount of metal there is a decent chance it would survive and continue to work. Even if the camera is effected by EMP the recording would survive fine, especially if it was one of those cameras that records onto the little DVD discs.

i just got free tix through work for this weekend, gonna go see it a third time. I MUST catch the splashdown at the end or i will march my ass up to the projector and be like "rewind this shit, i have to see it!"

I still have the most convincing 'that can't happen.' It says at the very beginning that it's an SD card. The largest SD card made right now will only get you 6 hours of video at the LOWEST quality setting on a good camcorder (less than 3 hours if you have it on 'high').

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Originally posted by inconspicuous I still have the most convincing 'that can't happen.' It says at the very beginning that it's an SD card. The largest SD card made right now will only get you 6 hours of video at the LOWEST quality setting on a good camcorder (less than 3 hours if you have it on 'high').

Its a movie lol of course it can't happen. A giant monster can't destroy a whole city either but they made that happen

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Originally posted by XaNaX Its a movie lol of course it can't happen. A giant monster can't destroy a whole city either but they made that happen

It's more likely that a giant monster would spring up out of the Earth's core than it is that a 128GB SD card would.

when the ads for this movie were first on, i thought i was the only one with no idea of what the movie was supposed to be about. i would like to see this movie. thanks for the review.

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Originally posted by inconspicuous AndreaCKY772. just. so. dumb.