Well, if I saw something like that but as big as me on a New York street, I would suddenly remember an important appointment I had elsewhere. Anywhere elsewhere.
Damn - I was rooting for Giant Isopods - they are the coolest thing.
My nomination for creepiest marine parasite is Sacculina.
No Timmy, it’s not a pod…barnacle.
Sailboat
Slow mo of the monster here, as well as a nice picture of Kristin Bell
(she’s drinking “Slusho!” which ha some tie to the movie)
http://www.mania.com/56698.html
Brian
That slo-mo clearly (to my eye) shows a bipedal, lizard-ish monster in the same general category as Godzilla.
And it’s got terrifyingly huge… knees?
I’m not so sure- heck, it may well be whatever was depicted in the fan-art.
The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms was released in 1953. Gojira was only one year behind it, not five years; it was released in 1954.
I’d also say that there are subtle enough differences between the two that you can’t really call Beast an “American Godzilla” movie. The Rhedosaurus from Beast is “just” a dinosaur, unfrozen and awakened by an atomic test in the arctic. Gojira was allegedly created by atomic testing, thus representing the first true “atomic monster”. Granted, Beast established many of the “atomic monster” movie tropes that Gojira would use, but I think the overall themes between the two were different enough. It’s been long enough since I’ve seen either that I can’t provide details, though.
I’ll have to disagree with you on that – The theme in both is the horror wrought by atomic testing. Gojira wasn’t created by atomic testing - he, too, was awakened by it, as was the trilobite that shows up in his footprint.
Gojira’s ontribution was that, for the first time, the Monster was huge, bigger than the city he was trashing. Previous Beasts that Rampaged, including TBf20kF, were dwarfed by their cities. Godzilla dwarfed his city (It helped that postwar Tokyo was still dominated by small buildings, in contrast to the skyscrapers of NYC). Godzilla was The Atomic Bomb Incarnate, more than TBf20kF was.
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I dunno, besides a giant, mutant Torgo, it looks to me as if the monster has almost a shell on it’s back, look at the line extending up from the leg, looks shell-like to me
Maybe the monster is really sweet, and full of meat, we could try to kill it with a forklift…
or not, I don’t care…
One of the characters in the first trailer was wearing a Slusho t-shirt. That led some people to find this site.
There’s also the Tagruato Corporation which has something to do with the movie as well. (They have ties to Slusho, apparently. Their activities may also have something to do with the appearance of the monster; they are involved in deep-sea drilling and the like.)
There are also MySpace pages for all of the main characters in the trailers. I don’t have links to them handy, but this guy has been tracking everything known about the movie on his site and has links and transcriptions of all the seemingly important data.
The more I look at the ad copy on the Apple QuickTime movie trailer site (the picture of the decapitated Statue of Liberty and the damaged skyscrapers of New York) the more I’m starting to think this may be a “Gamera” style film
specifically, look at the impact damage in the skyscrapers that are facing the wake left by the creature, they look like a large, low lying oval shape has smashed through them, an oval shape much like the shell from a giant flying turtle, perhaps?..
also, the damage near the top of the left skyscraper, the three parralel scars, looks like it might have been made by a turtlesque “hand”, three distinct claw marks
the wake itself is low and shallow, as if a large oval shape had displaced the water in it’s path
I try not to get my hopes up about movies; we’ve all been burned that way. This is one of those cases where the basic idea – a giant monster attack, filmed verite style by ordinary people – could either fall flat or absolutely rock, depending on how well they carry it out.
Gamera? I’m thinking Gorgo, or Monster from a Prehistoric Planet, with a touch of Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
Did you read the history of Slusho? That Japanese corporation is incorporating monster gametes into their delicious frozen drinks, and I think the Momma monster is unhappy about this.
Maybe when a person has ingested enough they mutate into a baby monster.
Wow… So the crab has crabs.
While I’m not surprised that the trailer still doesn’t tell much, I do appreciate the fact that they’re keeping whatever this monstrosity is a well-guarded secret. All the best classics of horror and suspense are so great because they mastered the slow reveal … you don’t see the monster in its full glory right away, only glimpses or sounds. Alien, Friday the 13th, the T-Rex and Raptors in Jurassic Park, and The Terminator are good examples.
Part of me is hoping they buck the trend in overzealously applying CG effects and show as little footage of the menace as possible. Given the “amateur handheld” look of the film, that might be an easy excuse to do so.
I dunno, the apparent mass of the ‘torso’ seems awfully top-heavy for those skinny legs-- to my eyes it looks like the ass-end of a Diplodocus (or a Rhedosaurus, I suppose). Additionally, the movement of the far leg seems a bit odd, almost as if it had another limb joint up near the body. Combine that with the shell-like appearance and it suggests an invertebrate of some kind.
Maybe it’s a giant mole cricket.
This is fun. But how can all this be squared with the apparent hints in the viral ad sites of the monster as a mutated human? And what, oh what does any of this have to do with “Slusho?” Because right now, the “Slusho” hook seems like the stupidest part of the entire premise. In fact the very name “Slusho” makes me hope that it doesn’t even appear in the film.
Concerning the ostensible title ‘Cloverfield’, the beginning of the trailer mentions that Central Park has been codenamed Cloverfield. Is this due to something they find there? Is that the camerman’s last name, and where they find the tape? (ala Blair Witch). Probably unlikely.
Also, not sure if the whole Cthulu thing has been debunked, but has it been brought to anyone’s attenton that Lovecraft contains the word Clover… Coincidence? I THINK NOT!
Ack! Wrong thread! Thank goodness for the edit button.
Tell me again the address of the person who invented the push-up bra? I need to send some money. 