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[SPEC] No Slusho bad side effects or experiments on people.
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iconsumer
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 		 [SPEC] No Slusho bad side effects or experiments on people.
Slusho has already been out in the world for a long time on the Asian market IG.
I'd like to remind people that Slusho has been on the Asian market for quite some time (so much so it's the second most popular frozen beverage).

That being the case :

1) Why would they need to experiment on Jamie when they have a gigantic population already drinking the stuff?

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2) Seeing as Slusho has been out in the world, consumed by millions of people already, if there were some side effects to be noticed and cause a ripple in the world, and the movie/ARG is based some what on reality, you would think the IG characters would mention having heard about the odd behavior ensuing over seas due to Slusho consumption.

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Please. Someone tell me how I'm wrong here, because at this point it is really blowing my mind that people are still throwing around the idea that somehow Slusho is going to affect anyone in the film (in terms of super powers, side effects, or experiments, etc. etc.)

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 		Good observation, iconsumer
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 		Re: [SPEC] No Slusho bad side effects or experiments on peop
Slusho has already been out in the world for a long time on the Asian market IG.
iconsumer wrote:
I'd like to remind people that Slusho has been on the Asian market for quite some time (so much so it's the second most popular frozen beverage).

That being the case :

1) Why would they need to experiment on Jamie when they have a gigantic population already drinking the stuff?

and

2) Seeing as Slusho has been out in the world, consumed by millions of people already, if there were some side effects to be noticed and cause a ripple in the world, and the movie/ARG is based some what on reality, you would think the IG characters would mention having heard about the odd behavior ensuing over seas due to Slusho consumption.

- - -

Please. Someone tell me how I'm wrong here, because at this point it is really blowing my mind that people are still throwing around the idea that somehow Slusho is going to affect anyone in the film (in terms of super powers, side effects, or experiments, etc. etc.)

Brownie


Finally... someone hits the nail squarely on the head.

It's been said many times in this forum that Slusho is not a main player in the monster theme. It's just a distraction, a sideshow.

Maybe iconsumer's concise points can finally put this idea to rest.
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 		I agree. Many companies like to imply that their product will make you feel more awake or aware. Sometimes they go as far as implying that you are somehow "better" for consuming their product. Also, if you have ever seen commercials from Japan they can be, to put it mildly, over the top with their enthusiam.

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Finch wrote:
I agree. Many companies like to imply that their product will make you feel more awake or aware. Sometimes they go as far as implying that you are somehow "better" for consuming their product. Also, if you have ever seen commercials from Japan they can be, to put it mildly, over the top with their enthusiam.


Exactly. Everything related to Slusho is just marketing hype.

... and for those quoting the restaurant critics review as proof of the DSI's side effects, you need to read his other reviews as well. He always used very dramatic imagery to describe how the food effected his palette, DSI laden or not. Razz

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iconsumer wrote:
1) Why would they need to experiment on Jamie when they have a gigantic population already drinking the stuff?


methinks that slusho has been tested within any side effects beforehand on the japanese public. To be sure and to do a thorough research they need to experiment on a member of public from another area of the world as their dietry requirements and metabolysm could be different then that of our aisan counterparts. (excuse my spelling, is early here in uk)

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iconsumer wrote:
2) Seeing as Slusho has been out in the world, consumed by millions of people already, if there were some side effects to be noticed and cause a ripple in the world, and the movie/ARG is based some what on reality, you would think the IG characters would mention having heard about the odd behavior ensuing over seas due to Slusho consumption.


like i have said their metabolyms may be immune from aquatic side effects through eating aquatic animals more then the US and other forign countries (sushi etc). Like consuming harmless amounts of poison to build up an immunity to it.

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 		Actually, still doesn't count a few things out of the picture.

Hidden Side-effects- Maybe something's still dormant and awakes on 1-18-08? Or maybe its affecting them even know they don't know it. (A la signaling to alien civilizations, one of my original theories was that Slusho!'s secret ingredient was signaling an Alien Ark to land on earth, after I found that the music on Slusho.jp was ARK in morse code, but I guess thats out of the picture)

Isn't there ALREADY side-effects?- People acting nuts about Slusho, being addicted to it, talking in bad engrish(Bad even for Japanese), etc? Maybe the point of SLUSHO! is to turn all of the globe into Engrish-speaking Slusho-addicted zombies? Razz

Maybe Slusho! doesn't know about the Secret Ingredient's power. Maybe its giving off some kind of field that causes people to be mind-controlled. Maybe Tagruato is actually the good people, distributing a Secret Ingredient that actually prevents the Monster from coming? (Would explain why the Monster isn't attacking Tokyo or similar IG)

I'm full of so many half-baked theories that I could make 5,000 Monster movies and still not be done.

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 		You guys, it's pretty obvious by now that "slusho" is not important by itself, but rather the secret ingrediant which is probably going to play somewhat of a role.

I would also like to add in that everything seems obvious now (or at least to me).

Slusho was a subsidiary of a worldwide drilling company that discovered something while drilling for oil.

It is quite obvious that Tagruato is going to play a role in this movie, and that slowly we will find out how the group of characters are related to it.

To me, the next websites that are released will not be that amazing, because they are just subsidiaries. We have to now keep an eye on the myspace pages because they can shed light on what is going on, and why they are the people in the movie.

The only thing left about the "Slusho" phenomenon that keeps me interested is that article on the Tagruato website which was oh-so-very disturbing.

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 		just a thought
I honestly think that none of this will really be touched upon in the movie itself. It could be that the movie is a basic monster movie and the info we're getting now is just the back story. Like to make my point, the movie may show that a drilling company is what disturbs the beast itself and all the workers are killed. They may not say that it was Tagruato co., besides showing the name on the machine, but just show it happen. All the work we're doing is probably laying the groundwork for a back story...Maybe this is already known, but I just want to say that a major player in the back story may not be big in the movie itself...

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 		Re: just a thought
NYC5 wrote:
I honestly think that none of this will really be touched upon in the movie itself. It could be that the movie is a basic monster movie and the info we're getting now is just the back story. Like to make my point, the movie may show that a drilling company is what disturbs the beast itself and all the workers are killed. They may not say that it was Tagruato co., besides showing the name on the machine, but just show it happen. All the work we're doing is probably laying the groundwork for a back story...Maybe this is already known, but I just want to say that a major player in the back story may not be big in the movie itself...

I disagree that all of this will be wholesale left out of the movie. The number of pointers in the teaser shown in theaters is too great to then abandon it all for the movie itself. Consider how a largely non-techie, non-internet oriented person would approach a movie that's just nearly devoid of plot, after seeing a teaser that later bears almost no connection to the final movie product. If the movie is just a rush of action with such a sparse to nonexistent plot, it'd basically suck. That's not good moviemaking or marketing. JJ in his own public statements on the matter has made comments tying the movie project to the websites very strongly.

For another perspective, consider a movie based on pre-existing content like Batman, or even better - Sin City. If you had never read about any of either of those, the movie would have to explain most of it to you or it'd be a train wreck of inscrutable images. Sin City did that pretty well, and I can say that based on my own experiences. I had never read the graphic novel and never heard of it before the movie came out. In the case of Batman, a huge percentage of the population has some knowledge of the story, so there is less of a need to expound on the basic story - yet twice in the iterations of the movies it has been done. (It's done because the fans of the pre-existing material can enjoy seeing that part of the story become live action.) If that basic story is covered poorly, you can really hose the whole movie too - as evidenced by Dune (David Lynch production).
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Kraker wrote:
You guys, it's pretty obvious by now that "slusho" is not important by itself, but rather the secret ingrediant which is probably going to play somewhat of a role.

I would also like to add in that everything seems obvious now (or at least to me).

Slusho was a subsidiary of a worldwide drilling company that discovered something while drilling for oil.

It is quite obvious that Tagruato is going to play a role in this movie, and that slowly we will find out how the group of characters are related to it.

To me, the next websites that are released will not be that amazing, because they are just subsidiaries. We have to now keep an eye on the myspace pages because they can shed light on what is going on, and why they are the people in the movie.

The only thing left about the "Slusho" phenomenon that keeps me interested is that article on the Tagruato website which was oh-so-very disturbing.


This seems to be the most plausible explanation.

It looks like Slusho! will be a minor player in the movie.

It's completely possible that the previous emphasis on Slusho! was put in place so that when we found the Tagurato website, we'd be able to connect the dots. That way it would be obvious to us that Tagurato is connected to the movie.

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 		I think the idea is that some huge corporation can show how benevolent they are, "we make SLUSHO!, happy times! much power! yay!" how can we possibly be evil? Sure we're drilling for who knows what, and we may disturb or develop some sorta monster that goes ape-scat in New York, but comeonnnn, SLUSHO! HAPPY!" It's like redbull takes up stem-cell research. "Redbull gives you WIIIIINNNNGS!"

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 		another thought is the new ocean mining rig they are building to mine near the atlantic ridge. maybe there is something wrong with the special ingredient from that particular spot. so why test it on japanese market that you know is fine? try it out on americans, see how it effects us. maybe send a monster after us for bombing heroshima.

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Perhaps Sluso has no effect on HUMANS, but maybe the "secret ingredient" in Slusho is a pheromone for the monster.

Maybe the monster is just looking for love in New York after all. How Romantic. Surprised

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 		oooooooo........poor jaime. looks like an infection is the least of her worries. maybe the gift is a giant condom for the creature?

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