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Re: New York Post article

[Nighthawk]

Re: access denied

[Kayberry]

I'm not convinced that it's all BS. "Alien" may be BS, but it's definitely a large creature, that destroys at least some part of NYC, maybe not all of it. There's only two reasons why you'd want to film it with handheld camcorders - you're being really cheap about it, or you want to tell the story from the perspective of the people witnessing the events as they unfold - and to do so, you would have to be viewing it after the fact since showing the camcorder's recording while it's recording it makes no sense unless you're being really cheap about the production. So this collaborates the idea that the movie's setting is after the events of 1-18-08, when government cleanup crews discover home videos and review them to find out what they were actually dealing with.

This is also very convenient production-wise. It allows a few of the home videos to be used for teaser trailers in their entirety, which don't have to appear in the actual movie; which means the actual movie will be all-new content that nobody has seen before, instead of having the trailer created from snippets of the actual film. It also allows the production to film in many different locations and on different days without any of the footage being linked to one central plot theme (No recurring characters at the shoot sites.) It also allows the main plot to be told in reverse, from what we already know about it "Big monster, NYC, destruction" to telling which direction it came from, to telling where it originally came from, to telling what created it.

It also means we may be reading too much into Rob's story. We may have to wait for the next teaser trailer release before we can pursue this further.

And those "Whooshes" would be created whenever the open end of a cylinder, tube, or jarlike object comes into wind resistance and air seeps into the object causing a reverberation (Like blowing air over an open bottle), in this case intermittently since the object is spinning and air resistance would not occur while the open end is facing towards and away from the direction it's heading in. It's also definitely a metallic object that's making the sound. Although I can tell it's pitch-adjusted during the trailer, it could be dismissed as a weak attempt at the doppler effect as the head is flying towards the camera. I encourage anyone with a metal pipe and a large open area to fling it end over end through the air and listen for a similar sound it makes.

[JimmieBJr]

While all the guessing about the monster in the movie might be fun and all, it really doesn't have much to do with the ARG, does it? It doesn't much matter, so far as I can see whether the beastie that's tear-assing around Manhattan is Godzilla, Leviathan, or Gozer the Destructor.

I'm fairly sure we've seen all we're going to see of the monster. Abrams isn't about to give away the biggest secret connected to the movie before the thing opens, so all we're doing is throwing a bunch of guesses at the wall and wondering which one will stick in six months.

Of course, I blame Abrams' people for this. They've given us scraps and gristle so far as an ARG goes - the faintest hunts that one exists, but no real way to get it started.

I suppose my point is that I'd be surprised if 200 posts in this thread were actually about the ARG and not some side-issue. It makes for some darned frustrating reading. The more I see it, the less inclined I am to pay attention to the movie when it comes out. I'm fairly sure that's not what Abrams intends.

[Centipede]

Re: access denied

[Nighthawk]

Damn it, now my QuickTime Pro installation decided "screw this, I've had enough. I'm outta here," and refuses to run.

Damn you, Abrams!

[What I've Done]

Well I'm new to this but I'm jumping on the bandwagon ether that or more lurking o.o . But heres a pic I have been trying to clear up

http://img248.imageshack.us/img248/9126/argpicture22ek6.jpg

I'm not sure if there's been on like it because I haven't looked though the whole tread and sorry if it is ;~; . I still have yet to clear it up though. If I'm interrupting any important conversations in this thread i'm very sorry D: I'll try to be careful.

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[EmmanuelGoldstein]

Re: access denied

[B'Fresh]

[Iamthequestion]

[EmmanuelGoldstein]

Well it's probably not being shot with your standard-grade consumer handheld. Rather easy to give the impression of that.

[Nighthawk]

OK, then. I'll take everybody's word for it... Besides, I hate to have to explain to my wife what I'm doing throwing metal pipes in the back yard. It's hard enough to explain what I've been doing sitting at the computer eighteen hours a day for the last five days.

[Nighthawk]

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