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[6slushos]

[Fignut the Elder]

[mistermunky69]

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[BC.Cloverhead]

From the NY Post...

[moose162]

I made sure to look for it this time. did anyone else notice that it slowed down right before it hit the water? I thought that was incredibly strange.

[drspanklebum]

I finally got a chance to see the movie tonight and caught the thing falling into the water right away (whoever says it doesn't exist is a liar - cuz it happened and was fairly obvious).. first thing i thought of was that satellite. No way was it the monster - it came from the sea, not space. It has a fin on the tail and the red gill type things above its eyes - adaptations from living under water. It is also much much too big to make the splash that it made. The object wasn't that far off in the distance, and the monster was 200 ft tall..... think about it.

My guess - probably nothing more than an interesting little tie-in w/the ARG.

F'ing sweet movie though, everything I had been waiting for

[xboyonfirex]

HERE'S WHAT SCARES ME:

Okay, so we've heard J.J. Abrams' production quote about how it's been underwater for thousands of years... But that never had any direct influence on the movie in any way... there was no indication of that. Buuuut, w/ the last scene showing something fall in the water, that does give some sort of 'origin' indication to the general public.

General public being people that don't know about the back story[satellite].

I'm afraid of the idea that Matt Reeves, or another director, will play off that direction in a sequel. If J.J. Abrams doesn't sign his name to the sequel, if it's totally in someone else's hands and they decide to follow along w/ the 'origin indication' that was given in the movie, it'll no longer be a monster that's thousands of years old, but an alien that fell to earth just months earlier and rapidly grew.

[Cloverfield92]

JJ confirmed it already that it was a satellite

[emperor]

No way the falling object ( yes, it was there....saw the movie twice and saw it plain as day both times...) was the monster. Though it was far off, it was still WAAAY too close to shore to be the monster.

[emperor]

[Roe]

Where does JJ confirm it was the satellite?

I saw on IMBd they said JJ confirmed it, but their link was to a different site that had no quotes from JJ confirming it was the satellite. Rather, their information was from a poster who speculated it was.

http://imdb.com/title/tt1060277/faq#.2.1.50
http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/10946



The satellite which fell is a Japanese Government satellite by the way.

"Tagruato used the Hatsui satellite to try to identify a rogue piece that is thought to have fallen off of the Japanese Government's "ChimpanzIII" satellite" http://www.tagruato.jp/headlines.php?story=news_08_01_03

[Fignut the Elder]

[oxymorgan]

I think JJ Abrhams told us that the monster has been down there for thousands and thousands of years to make sure we (the arg players) knew. This way we know it can't be the monster, so what is it? It's a perfect way to keep things going, even after the movie is over.

Also, I think JJ Abrams wouldn't forget or construe something as simple as where the monster came from. It's his brainchild really, chances are he knows it's backstory.

[guerra001]

back to the original thought...yes it could be the sattelite, even though it was very monster looking...

I suspect it was done for people not following the VMC to kinda have an understanding of where the monster came from, but for all those who have followed its supposed to be the sattelite...but its jus my two cents

[Saiyan King]

The first time i saw the movie i didnt see it. Everyone kept swearing they saw and i said you all were crazy. people showed grainy bootlegs and pics with areas circled and i still didnt see it. Went tonight to see it for the second time and sure enough because i knew where to look and when i did see it. but damn its so small and hard to see i definitely see how i missed it the first time . so to all the i said were crazy i give my deepest and most heart felt apologies.