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[jon-561]

[SPEC] Alleged Insider Post on IMDB

[stugots]

in before flaming........

[crashg60]

This is what I've been thinking lately about this film. Only time will tell I guess and I'll still be lurking around these threads until the release date to see what happens.

[LBJ]

Hmm all of that of what was posted was exactly what I was thinking about the movie.

[TVRotBrain]

This seems like another summation of everything that has been said already.

[crashg60]

We've speculated so much about this film that no matter what JJ comes up with for the film some dude is gonna be like....I knew it!...I was right! I'm still gonna see this no matter what though....no matter what anyone leaks or says.

[Ecks51]

[Melampus]

I agree - there's nothing terribly new about any of this. Also, the explanation for why it's not all Blair Witch style seems fishy. The trailer makes an implicit promise: that the whole movie will be in that style. To make it any other way would piss off more people than would a shaky camera, doncha' think?

To do it Blair Witch would allow them to not show too much of the monster, thus saving on budget and also upping the intensity at the same time. The idea of making a monster movie in that style is just too brilliant to let go. It would be action-packed and intense, while also being relatively cheap. To avoid these benefits because of fears that the shaky camera would irritate people is just silly. Blair Witch's shaky camera irritated a lot of people, but that movie made a LOT of money. So, I don't buy the explanation given; but then, what the hell do I know? I'm not an 'insider.'

[LBJ]

I would NOT watch this film if it had a handheld camera through the whole freaking movie. I think the description of the Camera was entirely plausible.

EDIT:Did you see The Bourne Ultimatum? A lot people were complaining because the whole movie was shot in the shaky camera effect because it made them dizzy. I didn't mind it though. But if your supposed to know that someone is holding the camera the whole time, they're going to make it a lot more shaky. To make it realistic.

EDIT Again: Also, it is just a teaser, a teaser trailer doesn't usually tell the plot or anything(Thats why we don't know anything about the movie) And sometimes they film a teaser trailer just to raise the hype for the movie. I have seen teasers that have a scene in them but they never had that scene in the actual movie. I'm not saying that Cloverfield will have this, but it could be possible that the movie will only have some handheld "moments" in the film.

[Kingpin]

[IronJ146]

I always find it kinda funny the lengths people go to sound convincing, to no avail but convolute and disrupt an environment (Making whole web pages, writing full synopsi like this one, and whatever other gamejacking goes on). Seems like these folk could find pretty good work somewhere doing the same things for legitimate projects if they put themselves in the right place, you know?

However, the article does make me feel a little better about some of the outlandish spec not coming to fruition if it is legit. The article seeemingly covered all the legal bases to keep someone out of disclosure agreement trouble, but really why blow so much of your load this early?

It's barely September. There're still whole semesters of school to go through, Halloween costumes to ponder, Christmas presents to buy, baseball playoffs and 97% of entire football seasons to play, four or five months of rent and bills to pay, my entire personal favorite season of Autumn to enjoy, and whatever million other things we generally look forward to coming up before this movie is released. I wonder if that's why I've been so fond of the Interpol song "Pace is the Trick" lately...

Anyway, my point is that I don't see a point for something official to come out by the means of an IMDB post by an anonymous anyone, but it does kinda put some of the more reasonable spec into one clean place.

[tstrel]

<-- Confused?

[IronJ146]

It normally results in "blue balls".

[Lawlbringer]

Hadoukens?

[lestat5891work]

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