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[darkgoob]

[Roe]

On another thread it was already established the camera JJ and company said was used for the film doesn't have night vision--a clear contradiciton for the film.

I'm not insulting, but please don't forget the ARG and this movie are about making money. I am pretty sure Panasonic paid to have their name and one of their camera brand names used. The camera was given away in some of the fan contests (whatever you want to call them) prior to the movie, as I recall.

The beginning of the movie does says it's an SD card, and from what I can tell, since this topc seems to really bother a lot of people, the SD card probably wouldn't allow a recording exactly like the movie suggests.

OK, suspension of reality. It's a film about a monster attacking NYC after all.

[alptraum]

[Roe]

By chance I reread the production notes for the film. I've pasted the relevant section dealing with these flashbacks people keep discussing below.

It just helps to put into context of why things were done in the film, from an artistic standpoint.


Quote:

Reeves also skillfully interweaves an important storyline throughout the film, that of Rob and Beth's (Odette Yustman) earlier relationship. Hud is unknowingly taping over an earlier recording Rob had made with the camera of intimate, quiet time spent with his mate. "You see their loving gaze. It's this small love story," says Reeves.

"So I began thinking, 'Isn't there some way to make that kind of a parallel story?'" The film actually begins with some of this footage – much of it shot by Michael Stahl-David himself using a small video camera. But additional portions also appear interspersed throughout the movie, typically after some shocking event has caused Hud to briefly shut off the camera, allowing a brief portion of Rob's original recording to play for the audience before Hud picks up the current action again.

"We're seeing the aftermath of two people who have longed to be together, and somehow finally come together, crosscut with this other event," the director explains. "By going back and forth between these two pieces, you end up heightening the drama. By looking back at this relationship and what it could have been, the audience starts to put the pieces together as to why Rob is so eager to rescue her."

"One of the things we thought was incredibly important in a movie with so much kineticism," notes Reeves, "was to have places where you could stop and reconnect with the characters. After going through these extreme experiences, we give them a chance to react to what they've been through before moving them to the next level. Having these dramatic interludes was extremely important. Without them, you'd just be watching a video game."

[Slusho Addict]

[TheRabbit]

The movie specifically states that the camera was found.
The movie states that what we are watching is the SD card used as evidence for the DoD.

They found the camera, it was in bad shape, they transfered everything to an SD card. Only plausable explanation I'm aware of.

We have no footage of the camera itself in the movie, Hud never looks into a mirror where you can see what kind of camera he's holding.

Don't try and argue that you can see what kind of camera it is in the press releases where they have a photo of Hud holding a video camera, as there are 3 different cameras that were actually used to film the movie, it doesn't work like that.

[darkgoob]

[mistermunky69]

I almost wish your dream theory was true. I really do.

Because then, maybe it would be Marlena's dream, and that would make her still alive.

other than that, im out.

[carnus]

 

[samuron]

The camera used by the character "Hud" allowed data to be recorded over, and had night vision capability.

The "part" of the camera was played, in one teaser promotional photo, by a Panasonic HD.

[CoffeeJedi]

You guys are funny.

I'd just like to also add that there isn't a camera that can record binaural audio in full Dolby Digital 5.1 channel surround sound with seat-shaking bass response either.

[golfguitarist]

hahaha, i agree with you coffee.

whether the movie was taped on a tape, or on a SD card, or transfered on to and SD card...... its still a good movie. And if you disprove that by saying that its "fake" b/c you couldnt do this or that with an SD card........... rememebr this movie is about a monster. The movie itself is fiction and fake. And if you watch some of the behind the scenes footage of the movie, they arent even filming with camcorders on all the shots. so what!

[danieltx13]

[Climhazzurd]

DG, why are you pushing this to be a dream? Pretty obvious it's your M.O. for pointing out this minor inconsistency.

Can you imagine if this were filmed mainstream monster movie style, only to have Rob awaken from his sleep in Japan, breathing frantically, then cut to credits?

I mean, it worked in Mr. Brooks but come on.

[theShaggy]

Holy guys, you know what I just realized?

Hud was filming the whole night, over EIGHT HOURS, but the HDC-SD1 only has a battery life of 97 minutes! Even if he kept turning it on and off, he didn't when the helicopter fell (and the sun came up while they were knocked out), and he used lights and night vision and stuff!

Guys this MUST NOT BE A REAL THING! OMG only artistic license could have done something like that. Maybe, though, it was intentional, that it's all a big conspiracy? The Government must have taken the footage and put a CGI Mister Grumpypantz on top of C'Thulhu, who is clearly paving the way for Voltron and Giant Lion to attack.

</sarcasm>

Chill out about the aberrant tech like that. If they went for utter, complete realism with everything, then the movie would not exist the way they wanted it to be filmed. It would just not be possible to tell the story in the time they were trying to tell it, in the way they wanted to tell it. To assume that the subtle license they take with it implies something as huge as "it was all a dream" is the most extreme type of nitpicking.

DG, do you have any other reason to think it's a dream?