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[META] Abrams at Comic-Con
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 		Definitely a rusty spade!

PostPosted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 6:24 pm
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 		who cares about a name.. what we do know is it's an original creature. I have a gut feeling that we will probably not even see the entire monster in the movie. More than likely we'll see portions of it at a quick glance. ...if that. JJ likes to leave us in the dark to keep us wanting more. that bastard.

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 		Did Abrams say anything in an odd way, emphasize anything in particular? It could be he's being as cryptic as the Slusho! website...

Or leaving us hanging. Either way.

Is there any sort of stall around the con maybe with something that could be construed as a clue? Maybe at the stall where the t-shirts are being sold?

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 		Oh hell no, this is some BS! Where do we go from here? Wait until more pics are posted on 1-18-08, wait for themonstrousmovie.com to become active??? arrrrrgh!

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 		So true!
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Soci
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 		HAHAHAHAHA pretty damn much

PostPosted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 7:21 pm
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Agent Dixon wrote:
I have a gut feeling that we will probably not even see the entire monster in the movie. More than likely we'll see portions of it at a quick glance.

Sure, in first movie we will see a feet. And biggest advantage in Colverfield The Movie - Part 2 (probably 2009 or 2010) - will be, that we will see a hand/tail/tentacle/pecker (or whatever this creature can have) for a while ;o). I'm getting tired and i'm probably getting way too old, to wait for revealing of those ultra-mysteries.

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 		O.k. so I am watching Comic-Con on G4, and they are totally avoiding Cloverfield. It is making me mad. I want Oliva to rip Kevins head off, throw it at a booth, and have JJ tell us the title.
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havenward wrote:
Did Abrams say anything in an odd way, emphasize anything in particular? It could be he's being as cryptic as the Slusho! website...

Or leaving us hanging. Either way.

Is there any sort of stall around the con maybe with something that could be construed as a clue? Maybe at the stall where the t-shirts are being sold?



"JJ Abrams is brought up to the stage wearing an INFOCOM t-shirt. He says he wanted a monster movie for so long. He went to Japan and his son was looking at Godzilla toys and he thought, 'We need a monster movie.' But we need something insane and intense. He says its shooting and he's watched dailies and its better than the trailer. In the next six months we will get the real poster, the real trailer, real photos. He said "You think we'd call it Monstrous? No" He walks off stage and the Cloverfield teaser poster rolls down from the backdrop. The crowd goes wild. JJ Abrams didn't really reveal anything. Very disappointing." (long url to slashfilm.com commentary)

I doubt it's important in any way, but INFOCOM, game company, was aquired by Activision and then shut down in the early 90s.

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 		Don't give a rat's patoot about the title. Don't give a rat's patoot about the monster.

I want to know if this is an ARG and, if so, where the next clue can be found.

Anything else matters not even a little bit.
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Ecks51 wrote:
I doubt it's important in any way, but INFOCOM, game company, was aquired by Activision and then shut down in the early 90s.


Eeeeeeeeenteresting.

Infocom was more than a mere game company. It pioneered the type of game called "interactive fiction". You might have heard of Zork or Leather Goddesses of Phobos. They pretty much wrote the book on interactive fiction gaming as well as Easter Eggs.

Wikipedia has a surprisingly well-written article on the company. The part I found interesting is this:
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Infocom titles featured strong storytelling and rich descriptions, eschewing the day's primitive graphic capabilities, allowing users to use their own imaginations for the lavish and exotic locations the games described. Infocom's puzzles were unique in that they were usually tightly integrated into the storyline, and rarely did gamers feel like they were being made to jump through one arbitrary hoop after another, as was the case in many of the competitors' games. The puzzles were logical but also required close attention to the clues and hints given in the story, causing most gamers to keep copious notes as they went along.

Sometimes, though, Infocom threw in puzzles just for the humor of it—if the user never ran into these, they could still finish the game just fine. But discovering these early Easter Eggs was satisfying for some fans of the games. For example, one popular example was in the Enchanter game, which involved collecting magic spells to use in accomplishing the quest. One of these was a summoning spell, which the player needed to use to summon certain characters at different parts of the game. At one point the game mentions the "Implementers" who were responsible for creating the land of Zork. If the player tried to summon the Implementers, the game would suddenly produce a vision of Dave Lebling and Marc Blank at their computers, surprised at this "bug" in the game and working feverishly to fix it.

Third, the inclusion of "feelies"—imaginative props and extras tied to the game's theme—provided some copy protection against pirating. Some games were unsolvable without the extra content provided with the boxed game. And because of the cleverness and uniqueness of the feelies, users rarely felt like they were an intrusion or inconvenience, as was the case with most of the other copy-protection schemes of the time.

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 		So NYC gets eaten by a grue. Got it. I'm out.
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 8:34 pm
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kaliyuga
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 		Not just a grue. Bet it's an Ur-Grue.

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 		OK, so should we now start looking for links between Infocom and donkeys? Or cheese? Or *scratches head* ... ????

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