I'd have to say that from now on, almost every single monster flick/action flick with explosions happening in NYC is going to be said to have a tie-in with 9/11.
Seriously, it's a movie. Tie ins or not, a monster smashing up the city is still pretty neat.
I saw the movie on the 17th (Yes, Hong Kong released the movie on the 17th, with our GMT+8 time, which means that we got to see if half a day earlier than the rest of the world.) and I also was a follower of the viral marketing campaign and I must say that it actually made the movie "that much more" interesting if you know where to look.
Spoilers below, stop if you don't want to read:
You've been warned once
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You've been warned twice
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Too late now, it starts below (going from the start of the movie to the end)
Rob's party:
Rob's going to Japan to work for a company call Tagurato.
Somebody is spotted in Rob's party sporting a Slusho T-shirt.
The tanker:
The tanker that capsized belongs to Tagurato (you can actually see the Logo on the boat as the boat is listing towards the camera)
Tagurato:
Tagurato is a oil drilling company/deep sea exploration company along with several subsidies, such as Slusho.
The company owns a oil-drilling platform, which has recently collapsed (without explosions and with a roar heard in the video) that is near the Mid-Atlantic ridge.
The company is known to be rich enough to have its own security force (private army).
Other subsidiaries:
Slusho (cold slushy drink thing)
Bold Futura (High-tech, secretive about its customers, maybe the military developing branch.)
ParaFUN (Oil/Wax products, seems to be nothing special)
(medical research group specialising in the use of marine biology and science to search for cures?)
Bold Futura:
Recently hurled a satellite into space. Might have fallen back into the Atlantic near Coney Island (Coney Island Scene below)
Chuai Station:
Recently collapsed without so much as a explosion. A found camera phone footage shows armed men within the station and what seems to be guns being fired towards the ocean before the station collapsed. A person "identified" only as the Whistle-blower ha sent a note to the public declaring that there was no oil to be found at the Chuai station and that there is a secret being covered up there. A dark spot (thought to be a oil stain) appears in the footage before the station's collapse.
A roar is heard as the station finally goes down when all of a sudden debris fly out of the water like missiles and hits a lifeboat.
Slusho:
Slusho's active ingredients is DSN (Deep Sea Nectar)
Nobody knows what DSN is other than the fact that it's from the sea.
Slusho is known to have mood lifting and strength enhancing effects for what seems to be all animals.
Fed to: Dogs, fish (yellow-tails) and humans.
It seems that Slusho goes bad when exposed to heat.
Recently approved by the FDA for sale and consumption in America.
The monster:
Nicknamed "Mr Grumpy Pants" by the Internet community, it seems to be of epic proportions. At least the height of the statue of liberty when on all fours, amphibious. Relatively quick/agile. Incredible strength (Statue of Liberty heads are 1)Not aerodynamic and 2)Are not bouncy. It would take a lot for the SoL head to fly, hit a building and then rebound.)
The body seems to be carrying a host of smaller organisms.
What the military used to try take it down:
M1A(?) Abrams tanks, M16s, M270 MRLS (just think rockets, lots of them), AT4 (a rocket designed to punch a hole in light armour), F-16s, a B-2 on a carpet bombing run, F-18s and finally (in the last scene) what seems to be a MOAB or a Fuel Air bomb (perhaps maybe even a tactical nuke)
Is it dead?
No
How am I sure?
After the credits (which did take 5 minutes..maybe more before it ended) you could hear what seems to be a whispered "Help us", but if you play it in reverse, it says "It's still alive."
Cloverfield - Hidden Message
The smaller wee beasties:
The size of a medium sized dog, quick, agile. Shape similar to the spiders from Starship Troopers. Very much like insects, they fall down from Grumpy Pants, can hang upside from tunnels and such, possess night vision. (You'll know if you've see the movie). Bite releases "something" to make people explode.
About the "We have a bite scene":
No, those are not mutants behind the thing, those are humans in hazmat suits becuase nobody wants the blood of explody people all over your shirt.
The helicopter scene:
After the thing got bombed and much elation that the thing was hit, the thing lunges at the helicopter which is possibly 50-70 stories above the ground. So that thing is pretty tall when standing on two feet/leaping.
Last part of the Coney Island Scene:
If you look at the boat you see in the video and pay attention to it, you can actually see "something" splash into the water. I've personally been unable to see it, but I have people tell me about it. It's something you have to pay attention to.
TBC~ Have to go out and rewatch it
Update: Tagurato's main website is down, possibly due to actions from a enviromental group bent on taking it down called T.I.D.O Wave.
T.I.D.O Wave's website has been locked up by the FBI ~ In-game.
1-18-08.com - 1 18 08 Resources and Information. - Some very interesting pictures, some obviously photoshopped by a not very adept computer user, some rather disturbing. If you open it for 6 minutes, you can hear the monster's roar. Big source of clues for those who are interested.
One of the pictures (the badly photoshopper/night vision one) shows the Navy pounding it with everything along with an A-10 mid right of the photo. A-10s are ground based planes, which means that either 1) The monster is getting close to the coast or 2) We have unskilled photoshoppers.
Request: Can someone add to a estimate of the size of the bite based on the wound on the sperm whales head? Identifying body parts of marine mammals have never been a strong point of mine.