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[Kai Orion]

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[Guest]

Give me enough rope...

[argossol]

Sometimes it helps when I log in. ^ 'Twas me.

[IronJ146]

Re: Give me enough rope...

[argossol]

There is no access above the statue's pedestal. Looking at the poster (Apple now has it as the background for the trailer), the claw marks on the head and shoulders make sense, but not the robe, which leads me to believe whatever it was climbed the statue or clung onto it with rear claws in order to rip the head off.

[Iamthequestion]

[Kaliyuga]

[The_Misfit]

I think we're overthinking this entirely....

The poster is a time line of what happens, how we see that may vary from person to person, but either way its not effecting much.

Looks like it crawls out of the water, attacks the SOL, then either tosses the head at the city (and then tosses it again once it gets there), or it carries it towards the city and then tosses it in further.

The poster is giving you an idea of whats going to transpire. Something comes from the water presumably, attacks the SOL, then ventures into the city for some more "fun".

[SLUSHO_ZOOM!]

Moving fast

[Rinoki]

Re: Moving fast

[Kayberry]

There's been one single fact that's bothered me ever since I saw the trailer. Let me paint you an image first:

You're watching Jurassic Park. It's at the part where they realize that the power's been cut off from the fences and the sheep is missing. Then, they start to feel tremors. The cup of water starts vibrating intermittently with each quake. And then you see T. Rex himself. Big creature, ground shakes as it walks.

You're watching Godzilla (The one with Matthew Broderick. Bueller?) Godzilla stomps around new york, and the camera vibrates with each step. Especially during the beginning of the taxi cab chase scene. Bigger creature, more ground shaking with each step.

You're watching the trailer. You hear a roar and there's a small quake. You see an explosion and you see people react to the shockwave. The head lands and there's likely a small vibration. But other than that, we expect that a giant walking monster, one we can figure is bigger than even Godzilla, make it well onto the island of manhattan without causing tremors with each step?

From 10 to 120 feet below the island of Manhattan there's hard bedrock. Between the surface and the bedrock there's an array of asphalt streets, subway tubes, utility lines inside service tubes, large reinforcement beams to the bedrock for the larger skyscrapers - in other words, lots of material to transfer vibrations through the earth more effectively than just the land itself. And the bedrock itself would also provide more surface to reverberate and reflect any stomping that would occur above. Invoking 9-11, along with other video of views of buildings collapsing from controllled explosions, you can see that a mass the size of a building crashing against the ground causes tremors that can be felt even from a good distance away.

The physics of everything, including Hollywood physics and real-life physics, would tell you that a building-sized monster should be causing small tremors with every step, yet we just don't see it in the trailer. Of course, we also don't see the monster - but we can assume it's on the island, since someone running away had seen it and a moment later we're dodging the head of the Statue of Liberty.

Of course, it could be omitted for enhancing the mystery of what's going on, but if we're going to be told "It's alive, and it's huge" we should be expecting a lot of tremorous stomping to occur from a living, giant monster.

[Atyxs]

What if it's sliding?

[Carnus]

 hrmm

[SLUSHO_ZOOM!]

Stomp overkill

[Kayberry]

Re: hrmm