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[m_talon]

There was one thing that Clover had that Zilla (the Tristar version) didn't, and that was a sense of spite. Zilla just ran all over town dodging fire for most of the movie. Only twice did he/she ever go on the offensive. Once during the helicopter fight and the cab chase. Of those, the cab chase was more of a "you killed my babies" reaction than true aggression. It's like they went way out of their way to make Zilla a creature with predictable behavior, and that crippled the whole movie.

Clover, on the other hand, gives out as much mayhem as he gets. He throws trucks, smashes tanks, and swats helicopters. Even though it's not shown, we know he wrecks a tanker and decapitates the SoL. Heck, he even EATS people. Those behaviors right there make Clover much more of a menace, even if he is doing it as part of a childish tantrum. Unlike Zilla, you never get the sense that if you left Clover alone he'd just swim off. Clover would probably stick around eating folks and knocking the tops off buildings until he got bored and moved on to the Hamptons (sequel?).

As my final proof, I offer two similar scenes from the movies. In both movies, main characters go eye to eye with the monsters. In Tristar's movie, Zilla just goes over to munch fish after staring down Matthew Broderick. In Cloverfield, the monster munches our cameraman.

Clovey didn't HAVE to eat Hud...it's not like he was a large meal compared to the whales he chewed on prior to arriving in NYC (according to the ARG). He didn't even stick around to finish the leftovers, or have a two lover dessert. Instead, it almost seemed like he did it out of pure spite, as if to say "how dare you point that thing at me, you ant". That's a reaction we'd expect out of the REAL Godzilla, and I for one am glad they did it.

[pegassissy]

Most of you guys are joking right? Cause if a huge thing attacked nyc for real, and disrupted my happy little campus, ild want him killed. Plus the fact that you know...hes freakin 1000x bigger than me

[lapierre520]

Pretty sure the designer and director were trying the whole time to make the audience empathetic towards Clover, worked for me, obviously worked for some other people.

Also, on a side note, PETA is disgusting and full of hypocrites, and the internet needs to grow up and stop being homophobic.

[FatmanRising]

Yeah, my stance is pretty much f**k PETA.

Though, personally, I wanted them to kill the thing. Whether or not it was its fault, it was still destroying buildings and killing people by the bushel. *shrug*

[lapierre520]

Yeah, but also i think one of the underlying themes of the movie is like... if Clover meant no harm and he was just looking around. What is the right thing to do? Do you kill something you know nothing about because it poses a threat? Also, the equivalent of a human to Clover is like an ant to a human, humans kill ants all the time, because they don't really hurt us... they just annoy us. Clover wasn't wounded by any of our weapons he was just annoyed and scared, so if he wiped us out isn't that fair in a way, because we do the same thing to species smaller than us. Maybe Clover is the new top of the food chain and we either evolve or die out.

Sorry about the rant, maybe I'm just a geeky film student over-analyzing an awesome monster movie.

[Cole]

[avpruler]

[Chris a Clef]

[My_Name_Is_Dan]

[Monstrous]

MGP really stands for Mega-girly pimp

[skatehimrock]

they prolly think MGP is kind of cute because...remember..he is a baby..
btw does anyone know where i can get a good big image of his face before eating hud?
like the HD one?
or whatever the one that looks rele detailed..
Anyone????

[sami_kaye]

[Cole]

[Chris a Clef]

[m_talon]