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[saneman]

Re: [Spec] Alive: The monster's name?

[tre]

I gotta agree that its an odd thing to say. I def don't think its the monsters name though.

If I were to say something was alive then that means it was either dead and came back to life, or it never had life to begin with and now it suddenly does.
If all of a sudden a huge monster came out of the water and started destroying my city, the last thing I'm gonna say is its alive. That would be an obvious observation. In my opinion, whatever it is, nobody expected it to be alive until it was too late. I could be wrong though.

[eliwein]

Re: [Spec] Alive: The monster's name?

[Slusho Addict]

[casemyo]

Re: [Spec] Alive: The monster's name?

[Saiyan King]

[Slusho Addict]

Yeah that promo pic in the store looks like it's from before the attack, where they're wearing different clothes.
They're looking for Jason when the SOL head lands, and the only place we see him is inside the store.
Store scene follows the head landing, possibly with the monster sighting between them, or just after.

[Ivo]

I must say the level of useless specualtion in these forums has increased dramatically in recent days. Maybe the monster is related to George Bush. Sheesh. Do people even think anymore before blathering on and on about nothing? "It's alive" would be comparable to an R-rated: "Holy-Jesus-Fucking-Shit There's some huge fuckin' thing tearin' up the city. Oh Shit, we are all gonna die!"

[cogitosam]

I could be utterly wrong, but it seems to me the two statements are meant to convince Rob that the thing that was earlier found apparently dead (on the ocean floor?) is very thing now attacking New York--thus "it's alive!"

[Transparent Blue]

I don't think they're saying "it's alive!" because it was something previously discovered dead. If that were the case, they would've said "it's still alive", and they'd have to mention what it is e.g.

"I saw it, it's [name of thing], it's (still) alive, it's huge!"

Otherwise everyone would go "What's alive?", then the guy would have to explain that it's "that previously dead thing" which he would've said in the first place unless he's completely retarded.

[saneman]

[StayPuftMarshmallowMan]

If it was found dead then they would probably know what it is. Rob says "SOMETHING is attacking the city" not "The thing we found dead earlier is attacking the city". They have no clue what it is. Also they marine claims that he doesnt know what it is but its winning. They dont know what it is. They have never seen this monster before.

[GrOwLeR]

I really do believe now that there is something of major importance to the exclamation of "it's alive". Remember there was some guy who was telling some supposed inside info about the movie said that that was a very important clue, and now we get it again in the second trailer as if almost to say "look guys, you missed it the first time so here it is again":. I'm almost thinking that it might be "lion" or something other than alive just because we are obviously missing something rather obvious with this line/clue!

[Caerwiden]

[OliMango]

Ok people, the whole thing with 'it's alive' is to let people know that in the move there is something alive that is causing all the destruction.

If someone who has never heard of Cloverfield watches the trailer, he might think that it could be about a nuclear bomb, natural disaster or something like that. The line 'it's alive' helps to tell the person that the thing causing the destruction is in fact alive, letting the person know that it's a movie about something big and alive attacking a city.