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[TwelfthMonkey]

[ConfusedCthulhu]

[TwelfthMonkey]

if that is the monster I want a written apology from JJ



LOL

[Katw0man]

[Cthulhu]

I, too have wondered about that strange tree-like structure seen in the middle of the poster. However, many threads have stated it is simply smoke.Supposedly.

[rjharris1960]

not smoke.

[I'M HUGE!]

[fleabit]

I started a post I think the day after the poster was released on another forum, thinking that was indeed the creature. I did all sorts of zooming in, negatives, etc.. and I don't think it's smoke. Simply because smoke never, ever looks like that. There are some "tendrils" that are looped. Smoke does not react like the things in that image. If you zoom in far enough, you can find on other side, things that look like eyespots.

Or put it another way. This isn't a picture, it's a painting, an artists rendering. There is plenty of other smoke in that picture. Why would he deviate on that one spot? Over the moon?

Also consider this. The poster is a sequence of events. It's not a static picture. There are bits of the Statue of Liberty that are flying off, as if it were just attacked. There is a water trail, as if the monster just went into the city. There is an explosion! Look to the left and down from the moon by the building. There is an explosion. If you negative the poster, you can see lines going out from between the building as to indicate force of an explosion. And that thing is right by the explosion.

So no, I don't think it's smoke, I think it's the critter. When I thought of that in fact, I was really thinking "huh, it IS Cthulhu! Because it looks like his head from behind, his head raised up, tentacles spread wide.

[heytheyfoundabody]

[ConfusedCthulhu]

To be honest, I am well aware of the possibility that it is just smoke, and there is no way to be sure one way or another what it is. I think this image is a perfect example of how people choose what they "want" to believe from something almost perfectly ambiguous (can go one way or another).
To say with any kind of certainty one way or another whether that is smoke or part of the beast is really only a matter of opinion.
I cannot rule out the possibility because of how foreign it looks in comparison to the smoke around it and in comparison to real smoke. Also i think it is a bit poetic to sneak in an ambiguous part of the monster right under our noses (goes with the theme of ambiguity throughout the Cloverfield viral marketing and probably most of the movie).

[Cthulhu]

'heytheyfoundabody' is right. Remember when we spotted the monster's face in the clouds on the same poster? Of course, this is still a plausible theory. I still visualize nothing but smoke, though.

[ConfusedCthulhu]

Just out of curiosity does anyone have a link to a higher res poster image than 608k? I would like it for my desktop

[saneman]

In the end, can this even be proven one way or another? No matter what the monster ends up looking like, people can say, "Yeah, I see the monster there." What's currently supposed to be a tentacle or whatever will just get retconned in people's heads into a kneecap, eyestalk or what have you after the fact.

Anyway, I think it's clear from the poster that the monster is the Playboy Bunny.

[zooboomafoo]

Yeah I can see that. I notice it right when I first look at it, I'd probably even notice that without being told (in the zoomed in pic).

So the monster is........... Treebeard???


Seriously though, a tentacled monster is WAY scarier than a godzilla/t-rex monster.

[underwaterdonkey]