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[Im_RawnBurgundy]

[Calypso]

Exactly. I'v also heard that the Slusho website was up before the trailer was released so it could be that the drink was new and after people began to drink it they began to change.

[Im_RawnBurgundy]

I think I heard somewhere that the site was out first..could be. But no one would have found it..I think your getting on the somthing, Mr Trebeck.

[Kraker]

[Melampus]

[Calypso]

I lknow im adding fast but i may have found something on the websire.
On the happy talk page one of the quotes is "Help i'v had more than six is that bad?" Also another said "I'v just had seven slushos can i have a t-shirt XXXXL?" Maby if you injest a large amount of Slushos in a short time period something happens to you.

[Mephisto]

Could be some kind of hint if you look at it the right way.

[Im_RawnBurgundy]

[yrneh12]

Well, all we can really say is that the monster is definitely Japanese inspired (no duh, as Abrams himself stated. Well, not really, but heavily implied). It's nice to hear that we're finally getting our own giant, civilization destroying monster, but here's the big question: Who would win in a fight, our unnamed beast of a thing, or Godzilla? Yes, looking at the poster and the trailer, our monster may or may not be much bigger than the Japanese titan, but remember, Godzilla has taken on worse and beaten them.

[Almijisti]

There have been a few "American" movie monsters--the original King Kong being the greatest movie monster of all time and the standard against which all others are judged. But I get Abrams' point about King Kong being too sympathetic for what he wants--this is not just a clue, but a flat out statement that this monster is a real SOB, not some poor creature just trying to protect itself or its young. Abrams also said that Godzilla was too cute, but I'm assuming he's talking about the series of films that came after the original Tokyo-smashing Gojira of 1954 (leaving aside the fact that I always did think Godzilla was kind of cute). Even in 1954, however, the audience eventually sympathizes with Gojira.

Then there was the Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, another great monster movie, and a slew of giant-mutants during the bomb-scare years of the 1950s--but all the Harryhausen monsters were also sympathetic; also none of them became the sort of iconic creature that Abrams apparently wants.

What this monster looks like, other than being enormous, is anyone's guess though we have a pretty good idea that it travels through or over the water (artistic license in the poster notwithstanding--it comes to Manhattan from the SOL), and that it's aggressive. All great movie monsters (with the exception of Alien) have been sympathetic to a point, so it will be interesting to see if this "insane" monster can be established as a new monster icon.

[yrneh12]

[Helo]

We need a good monster movie. When was the last time we had one? Decades, maybe.

It's just like good horror flicks. I loved John Carpenter's Price of Darkness - it was freaky and cool.

[tinag222]

[Laurent / Celephaïs]

The stars are right

[MerRabbit]

As for good monster movies, check out The Host, that's a real good one. Just came out on DVD. Hasn't been a decade. Yikes you people are shortsighted.

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