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[Q] Date of Attack
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Matthew.Davidlane
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[Q] Date of Attack

After reading the interview with Reeves ive got a lil question:

If 01-18-08 is the date that WE get to see the footage on the camera, that means that the attack will already have happened before 01-18-08,

we know it hasn't already happened due to the ARG so does anyone think that the attack will happen IG?

• EDIT - saying that, the pictures on the website all have 01-18-08 on them so Im confused Confused

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Re: [Q] Date of Attack

Matthew.Davidlane wrote:
After reading the interview with Reeves ive got a lil question:

If 01-18-08 is the date that WE get to see the footage on the camera, that means that the attack will already have happened before 01-18-08,

we know it hasn't already happened due to the ARG so does anyone think that the attack will happen IG?

• EDIT - saying that, the pictures on the website all have 01-18-08 on them so Im confused Confused


The attack supposedly happens on 01-18-08... I do believe some people have spec'd that the movie forget all that, I'm now stumped too. Thanks! Sad lol

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you know what, i like the idea. i think that the attack will happen ig. Than the photos on the site are time stamped 1-18-08 because that is when the military catagorized them. HOLY SHIT what if the attack happens ig like this coming week. the tidowave event sets off a chain of events that culmintates some time soon with the monster attack. no probably not but i would love it if that did happen, but it would just leave too many questions un-answered, i.e. does randy ever contact jamie, what is randy's green mobile, is jamie truly a dumb whore or is it just an act. you know things like that.

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Matthew.Davidlane
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phantomjester wrote:
what if the attack happens ig like this coming week.


I think that if the attack did happen IG it would probably happen in early January

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phantomjester wrote:
you know what, i like the idea. i think that the attack will happen ig. Than the photos on the site are time stamped 1-18-08 because that is when the military catagorized them.


It would be reasonable, but why does the pictures on the 1-18-08.com dated with various time data (12:04-01:24)?

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Matthew.Davidlane
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kosmopol wrote:
It would be reasonable, but why does the pictures on the 1-18-08.com dated with various time data (12:04-01:24)?


This is what I am confused about, I cant piece it all together.

At first i thought that the pictures were OOG and just for the movie, because we know that it hasn't happened yet, but the time date???
Confused Confused Confused

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I don't think JJ and co have thought through the process of IG scheduling of events through.

I would have thought that Robs leaving do would be sometime beginning of Jan, as he would be starting his work in japan sometime around then (being when everyone returns to work).

Maybe.... the time stamps on the photos are stamps from the miliary categorising the photos for evidence??? that would explain why they are there.

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The timestamps are the kind that are printed right into the pictures. If the military is printing them, how does Jamie manage to inscribe one with inane crap from a party? What about Hawk's inscription?
This is where the date issues get stupid. Why make such a fat continuity error?
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Matthew.Davidlane wrote:
After reading the interview with Reeves ive got a lil question:

If 01-18-08 is the date that WE get to see the footage on the camera, that means that the attack will already have happened before 01-18-08,

we know it hasn't already happened due to the ARG so does anyone think that the attack will happen IG?

• EDIT - saying that, the pictures on the website all have 01-18-08 on them so Im confused

I think if what Reeves says about the date is true, then we might see something IG for this. I speculated about this in another thread, but I don't feel like looking for it now.

OT- Perhaps tidowave is a militant group and the event is the bombing/capsizing of the Tagruato tanker with the hopes of drawing public attention to Tagruato's actions? Something goes awry and the monster is unleashed on NYC and we get word about the attack through them.

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Euchre wrote:
The timestamps are the kind that are printed right into the pictures. If the military is printing them, how does Jamie manage to inscribe one with inane crap from a party? What about Hawk's inscription?
This is where the date issues get stupid. Why make such a fat continuity error?


my big issue with the writings on the back of the pics is this:
Do they have an old school polaroid camera? probably not, so assuming that all of those pics come from the going away party and later on (aside from the chef obviously) than how did those writings get on the back anyway. unless hawk and jamie some how live and find the cameras later on and decide to reminicse about the worst experience of their lives and write really fu@%ing morbid messages on the backs of them to their dead friends, than it makes no sense at all. which brings me to my theory. The pics are there for one reason and one reason only, to give us hints(after all they gave us jamieandteddy.com, tagruato and some names.), they mean nothing ig or in the movie beyond that. The time stamps are there solely for reassurance that they are ig and from the night of the event. so not too much should be read into the times and dates on the pics. that's my take at least

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Matthew.Davidlane
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I heard this theory somewhere before, i think its fits quite well:

the pictures on the website are pictures on a coffee table, and you (us) are looking down at them after the attack on the city.

maybe the website is set in the future, you know how JJ does things

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Im sure the party dudes had time to take some shots, on a regular
digital camera...(Before the 'going away party' really gets going)
Download pic's onto PC, print them onto nice glossy paper...
And scribble stuff on the back, It would not take that long to do.

I suppose Rob's freinds thought it a cool idea, to have a 'leaving town'
Visual record to present to the 'main' dude...

After all, they are filming the party... Rolling Eyes
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Roztox wrote:
Im sure the party dudes had time to take some shots, on a regular
digital camera...(Before the 'going away party' really gets going)
Download pic's onto PC, print them onto nice glossy paper...
And scribble stuff on the back, It would not take that long to do.


So you think they stopped and happily printed at least three of the photos *after* the initial attack, oblivious of the building-sized monster trotting through town? Razz

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Matthew.Davidlane
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Nighthawk wrote:
Roztox wrote:
Im sure the party dudes had time to take some shots, on a regular
digital camera...(Before the 'going away party' really gets going)
Download pic's onto PC, print them onto nice glossy paper...
And scribble stuff on the back, It would not take that long to do.


So you think they stopped and happily printed at least three of the photos *after* the initial attack, oblivious of the building-sized monster trotting through town? Razz


The speed of technology these days, it still amazes me Very Happy

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The 1-18-08 website is Meta

Nighthawk wrote:
So you think they stopped and happily printed at least three of the photos *after* the initial attack, oblivious of the building-sized monster trotting through town?


I believe the incongruity of having photos ( with writing on the back ) is due to the fact that first and foremost this is an advertising campaign, not an ARE for *our* sake.

Hence I'm of the opinion it is a meta-site, spanning in-game and out-of game.

Smile

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