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OliMango · Entrenched Joined: 07 Oct 2007 Posts: 1189 Location: Vegas

[RANT] So "Cloverfield" has nothing to do with the movie.

dazed118 · Veteran Joined: 27 Dec 2007 Posts: 106 Location: SC

Oh come on, the military has had all kinds of crazy names for operations.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military_operations

And you too can make up your own cockamamy military strike names.

http://www.ubique.ch/codename/

The name of the movie and the film within is irrelavant. The content of the movie is what we're after. Well, that's what I'm going for.

**Posted:** Thu Dec 27, 2007 1:42 pm

Toilet Explorer

Re: [RANT] So "Cloverfield" has nothing to do with the movie

**Posted:** Thu Dec 27, 2007 2:00 pm

rocksmars · Unfettered Joined: 19 Dec 2007 Posts: 305

Actually I am a complete noob to ARGs but the whole thing for Cloverfield seems pretty lame to me. How is this compared to previous ARGs?

Other than figuring out TIDO from some pics and the password for jamienadteddy.com there has been nothing to do. Everything is just a release of information, it might has well have been straight adverts.

Cloverfield means nothing, just a cover that they were afraid to lose because of name recognition. 1-18-08 means nothing except the release date.

Slusho is fun but again has seemingly nothing substantial to do with the film.

The MySpazz pages are pathetic, obviously updated by the same employee all at once and then neglected for weeks.

TIDOwave has what seems like clues but yield nothing.

Jaime's videos are the lamest ever, does anyone act like that? The dialog and acting are terrible. Who in the world would not even bother to listen to the end of a recording? Could she use the word "prick" a few more times?

Tagruato site is cool but is inert with dead tags. Why create subsidiaries and not even bother to give fans a fake site to at least read and pass the time with?

Sorry to be so down on this but I expected more. It's not like it costs millions of dollars to do this stuff.

Forgot something, REALLY, REALLY lame to send out memos and not put them in every order when it's obvious people are ordering to try to get one. Ditto for the Whistle Blower's email, it should have gone to anyone who supplied and email address to Tagruato or Slusho.

1-18-08 SLUSHOMAKESUHAPPY · Account Disabled Joined: 01 Dec 2007 Posts: 274

**Posted:** Thu Dec 27, 2007 2:07 pm

Toilet Explorer · **1-18-08 SLUSHOMAKESUHAPPY wrote:**

**Posted:** Thu Dec 27, 2007 2:12 pm

KLind

Just because of that coincidence doesn't mean that they haven't worked the name into the film. They've already mentioned that it has a deeper meaning you will learn in the film.

**Posted:** Thu Dec 27, 2007 4:36 pm

OliMango · Entrenched Joined: 07 Oct 2007 Posts: 1189 Location: Vegas

**Posted:** Thu Dec 27, 2007 5:22 pm

Ryomi · Decorated Joined: 25 Aug 2007 Posts: 150

OliMango.... The NIN year Zero ARG. Now give me five bucks

**Posted:** Thu Dec 27, 2007 5:25 pm

OliMango · Entrenched Joined: 07 Oct 2007 Posts: 1189 Location: Vegas

**Posted:** Thu Dec 27, 2007 5:27 pm

rocksmars · Unfettered Joined: 19 Dec 2007 Posts: 305

Oli,

As i said I am a noob to this stuff. But if Cloverfield is typical then this is pretty lame. This has been going on for months and almost everything related to it except the ordering and shipping of the Slusho! stuff could have been made by one person. It just doesn't seem like much of an effort.

**Posted:** Thu Dec 27, 2007 5:28 pm

OliMango · Entrenched Joined: 07 Oct 2007 Posts: 1189 Location: Vegas

**Posted:** Thu Dec 27, 2007 5:30 pm

NYC5

The Dark Knight ARG

**Posted:** Thu Dec 27, 2007 5:33 pm

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rocksmars · Unfettered Joined: 19 Dec 2007 Posts: 305

It would be an effort to keep secret if there was much going on.
Basically it's a bunch of cross references on 4 web sites and some very sparse MySpace pages. Updates at an average of once a week at best. One person could have created and maintained those easily.

It's very easy to keep a secret if only one person knows it and s/he's job depends on it.

**Posted:** Thu Dec 27, 2007 5:35 pm

OliMango · Entrenched Joined: 07 Oct 2007 Posts: 1189 Location: Vegas

Re: The Dark Knight ARG

**Posted:** Thu Dec 27, 2007 5:38 pm