So, we should have all seen this trailer before Transformers. It's J.J. Abram's new movie dubbed 'Cloverfield'.
I've spent the past couple hours reading up on it all, and there's just so much to take in already.
For us Lost fans, this seems to be right up our alley, at least all the mystery so far.
Giant monster movie? Godzilla? Voltron? Cthulhu?
What do you guys think?
Trailer:
http://www.circa1978.com/catch/ehwr/
ARG (Alternate Reality Game):
http://www.ethanhaaswasright.com/
Solution for ARG:
http://thebraxcave.com/2007/07/05/solution-for-ethan-haas-was-right/
Found in the html source on the ARG website:
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war came, no longer from the elemental nor from the stars rain of fire. The world was again remade, and the glow was as the coming of the sun upon the Earth. The children of the gods were again too few, scattered and divided and among them walked the ancients and those whose thoughts were not as to the towers and the marvels, but to the End and the destruction of the Earth and to the fires from which nothing could escape
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Strange movie website:
http://www.1-18-08.com/
Another movie website?:
http://ethanhaaswaswrong.blogspot.com/
A forum with lots of discussion over the movie trailer and the ARG:
http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=19964&start=60
Can't wait to find out what this all leads up to.
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Otherwise, still looks cool.
Looks badass, whatever it is.
cant wait.
The rumour mill suggests that this is going to a movie shot entirely on handycams like Blair Witch was, except with a high budget.
This is kinda funny cause I just picked up Dagon this weekend.
...what is that flippery sound coming from down the hall?
A google search for "lovecraft lied" shows some hits of enthusiastic debate in recent years over the legitimacy of the necronomicon, and speculation that Lovecraft was pressured by certain groups to lie by saying that he was merely inferring the existence of a fictional artifact for use as a storytelling prop. I guess some people will believe anything.
Either way, nice little psychological manipulation from Abrams; ORLY? well that creature certainly looks real! Grar! OMGWTF! etc.
Also if anyone hasnt seen The Descent, watch it! Not directly lovecraft but certainly has a great bleak mood to it and imo a film that best captures the feel of his story's.
But whatever the baddie is ... oh GAWD this looks cool. Reminds me of the Marvels point of view, but with more screaming.
I hope its a lovecraft influenced movie Now go play that Ugly Call of Cthulhu game I worked on a few years ago!!
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sweet! I love that game. I sought it out and bought it when it first came out.
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Voltron?
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It's just all speculation. There's a point in the trailer where someone is heard saying, 'It's a lion, it's huge!', but really, after slowing it down, he says, 'it's alive, it's huge!'.
A Voltron script was leaked a while back and the invasion described in the script fits very well with the trailer, though, it's really just a generic 'New York explosions' scene.
Plus, the lions wouldn't be attacking New York.
So it's just a rumor that goes nowhere.
http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/11808/
I saw the trailer at transformers today and it was like the second thing I thought.
First was another shitty "core" movie
Evangalion?
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i doubt it... Eva doesnt have giant sphere puzzles, people named Van or Haas who is some sort of propeht..
It looks very inspired by Neill Blomkamp, only without as much charm and realism.
JJ Abrams said we've only found one of the websites for the movie so far.
hopefully the hype that this movie is getting is not going to be better than the film
*dives in for more*
-caseyjones
i clicked on a link and an email window popped up. I sent off the email and got this back.
I think Im safe, for now. Wherever I go it isnt long before they find me.
It seems The Mezin are connected to every aspect of humanity, from culture and religion to our most advanced technology
I have to be more careful contacting all of you. When I began I thought I could safely speak about his writings and perhaps save us all...
but now it seems I will have to find a more subtle way to share his visions.
If this is the first message you have received from me do not give up hope! There are others that have gone before you, the way has been found, you only need to search and you will find the answers you seek. We will all have a role to play. We are getting stronger, our voices will be heard!
I have more of Haass writings, once I find a secure way to transmit them I will leave you clues to find them.
The more I read the more I realize Haas was right
Oh this is getting good.
I also did the puzzle thing on the site and now it's like a big code decryptor type thing.
That website is obviously connected to the film. JJ is only spreading dis-information to feed the hype machine by saying it's not.
Also the story is sounding more and more like the story from chrono trigger
poster for the movie. think i read that "Monstrous" is NOT the title of the film and was added by someone to this image.
looking less and less likey that the Ethan Haas stuff is related (though we might know in a couple days what that is).
also on the http://www.1-18-08.com/ site if you get the two party photos out from under the others and shake them they will flip over to show little postcard type messages.
Gotta be based on Cthulu
And yeah, that "monstrous" text was 'shop'd in. It's just a teaser image. Neat one...
JJ Abrams said himself that he wants the United States to have their own Godzilla-like monster. Something as iconic as Godzilla to the American people.
yeah, it's definitely not Godzilla.
JJ Abrams said himself that he wants the United States to have their own Godzilla-like monster. Something as iconic as Godzilla to the American people.
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you've already got one
cloverfield = ghostbusters 3!
you've already got one
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awesome!
Personally I'm mostly excited for this movie. Mostly, i say, because even though i love monster movies, i love the research that goes into stuff like that... The movie is said to be shot with digicams.. and that can get annoying.
Also, if you go to the slushi website they have for the movie, there's different animals who say random things in the comments section.
one of them is BLOOP. Bloop is actually the code name for a sound the government picked up in the middle of the ocean. They said the sound would have to have come from a beast way bigger than a Blue Whale, the largest animal known on the planet.
you can find out more about it if you wiki BLOOP.
maddness: do you mean the 1-18-08 site with the pictures? last time i tried that site a couple months ago it redirected to the official Paramount site.
*edit* just tried it again. goes to the site with the pictures again.