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[KitsuneRisu`]

[SPEC] Simplified Monster Theory

[golf]

[KitsuneRisu]

[Lambo_Diablo_Svtt]

Except... do you honestly think those robots could make that roaring noise they just added to 1-18-08.com?

[KitsuneRisu]

Err... why not?

What exactly does it sound like it comes from? Either way, it's a presumption, isn't it?

This roar has an equal amount of chance coming from a robot, 'bloop', or a constipated giant mutant elephant.

The point is, we don't know. And you obviously didn't understand my theory completely or very well - I specifically highlighted that roar.

I quote myself -
"Listening to the roar of the creature on the newly relaunched 1-18-08.com, (recording found at cloverfieldclues.com), I can safely say that while it sounds organic, it doesn't necessarily have to be so. "

And I also never said that the robots found on the Slusho.jp site were robots. We only know them as robots, and refer to them as robots simply because that's how they appear on the website. Keeping with the 'lore' of the world that Cloverfield takes place in, why can't these representations be a caricature of their true natures? You are accepting it at face value.

1. The robots don't have to be robots. No one said they were.

2. Why can't a robotic creature have an organic sounding roar in the first place? If you took proper recording equipment, went to the zoo, and recorded a lion, and played it back, would that sound like a robot, or a lion? And you are forgetting that ALL. EVERY SINGLE MONSTER SOUND in the history of all movies ever are played back on 'robots', that is, digital formats. So I do not see any problem whatsoever with robots making roars that sound vaguely organic.

3. I said in my hypothesis, I didn't think the robots were really robots. I said they were organic creatures that were found, and being bred to become monsters. When did I ever say that they were artifical constructs?

[golf]

What is it with lions.

OMG A LION GET IN THE CAR!!!1!

[Guest]

this is the smartest person online. i've been saying since this whole thing came out that everyone is looking FAR too deeply into things and that the clues are probably right in our faces.

[someguyY]

It's not a damn robot. It's a giant monster. If JJ wanted to make "our own" Godzilla, he wouldn't make it a stupid robot called Chocolate Rage.

[Anteros]

KitsuneRisu wrote:

[golf]

Nice come back, Yay for classic movie lines!!!

I cant see it being 6 robots or fruit coloured creatures.

That just has silly written all over it.

[Lambo_Diablo_Svtt]

[KitsuneRisu]

Golf and someguyY, I tried to be nice, but forget it. You guys go straight to the moron list.

For the third time, I am not suggesting that the monster is a robot. I never did, I never will. Please, please learn basic comprehension before you come up with all your "OMGWTFBBQ it can't be a ROBUTZZZ NEUUU".

I hate the idea that it's a robot.

But you know what? I never said that it was.

And yes, I implied that the monsters were disguised as the mascots but please, obviously their real names won't be Chocolate Rage or Banana Anime. For God's sake, doesn't anyone here know how to use a bit of common sense? Obviously not someguyY or golf, huh.

Anteros, I appreciate your imput, but I still don't think so. These are extremely campy posters from, as you said it, OLD movies. Right now we're trying to put applicable theory on what someone would say if you were there in that situation.

Just ask yourself. WOULD you say 'It's alive'? Sure, they used it as a phrase in many famous old movies. But If you saw this movie as the actual movie poster for Project Cloverfield, would you take it seriously under today's context? Isn't it a fact that most old movies had dialogue that was extremely cheesy by today's standards, and lines that are classic merely because no one would ever, EVER say them?

Sure, I agree with you 100% that it's a monster movie tradition. But since when has J.J. Abrams ever stuck with tradition? I'm sure his hit show Lost was so popular because it took cliche'd lines and scenes from 50 year old shows.

No, I'm afraid that I can use this as logic. You haven't disproven my point. You have merely shown that it has been done somewhere else.

If you really want to disprove me, all you need to do is give me a logical reason why someone would call something alive when it's quite damn obvious it's alive. The only reasons would be that it isn't something that's obviously alive, or not meant to be alive in the first place.

And no, again, you can't say that 'oh, they did it in a bunch of movies before, so obviously it's the same thing, and they're just doing it again'.

Not to mention that these are POSTERS. Taglines on posters are common. But as a line of dialogue in the movie itself? Go and find me some quotes. Actual lines from the movie. Not posters, not captions. I am pretty sure there are a lot less. And in the Godzilla poster, it wasn't even being said by a cartoon man running away! For god's sake, it was in a small white box beside the title. You're seriously using that?

Lambo_Diablo_Svtt

[golf]

I lost my common sense years ago... and please forward a copy of the moron list... I wanna see who else is on it!
It sounds brilliant.

Oh and one thing. You are forgetting what your arguing about a bit. Your last post sort of said it would be too cliche for JJ Abrams to put "its alive" in the script. But he has.

[Lambo_Diablo_Svtt]

sorry if i came across as a little snippy sounding, because i didnt intend to.

Anyways I never specificly SAID you were wrong. At one point i said you might be right or wrong, its just so hard to guarantee anything about the movie at this point since theres hardly any concrete evidence about the monster.

Also about the robot thing, I can see where your comming from now. I was kind of going on the basis that whatever the thing is in this movie was NOT man-made, because that would just be cheesy IMO.

I respect the fact that you have your own opinion, I just dont really agree with it yet. For now it still seems like just a waiting game until JJ or Paramount decideds to drop us some more concrete evidence.

[KitsuneRisu]