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Saevitia
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AzureWolf wrote:
I wonder how long this thread will get based on one measly rumor Rolling Eyes


Well, considering Iron Man 2 opens tonight, probably not very far, unless we actually see something like a clue or a web-address in the trailer. XD
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@RasGold

That's just a fan making up entries with random "viral" elements. Look at his other posts.

But yes, we should really all just keep schtum till someone sees the teaser.

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AzureWolf wrote:
I wonder how long this thread will get based on one measly rumor Rolling Eyes


The original Cloverfield thread was in this forum for about 70 pages on rumor alone.
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Rogi Ocnorb
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Euchre wrote:
...Cloverfield didn't gross more than big name character based summer blockbusters, but it did set the record for a January release (usually where movies are sent to die), made a profit several times over, and set some records for traffic on these very forums.

Rogi, love you too. Bet you're a joy at parties.
(If you don't have something nice to say, why hop on the thread and say anything at all?)


You know, you're making my point for me.
How much of that traffic had any meaningful content? It's okay to digress once in a while; But page after page of nothing gets annoying fast. I'm even okay with a ton of hyper-speculation. But that's not what the vast majority of posts were in the last go-round.

I'm worried that:
    *There will be a flood of gibberish topics pushing games that people actually put effort into down the list and into obscurity before their time.

    *New people coming to unfiction won't see it for what it can be and assume it's just another internet asshattery site.

    *People like me who don't see how 99% this content relates at all to ARGs will not speak up and allow a dismissive, vocal minority to push them away.

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I gotta say, I made a post in the Archived Cloverfield thread about the Super 8 story purely because of the speculated Cloverfield connection (I guess the nature of the trailer's release too) - the idea being to alert people to a potentially inbound ARG.

I never thought much of the ARG for Cloverfield personally, but as has been pointed out it does have it's fans.

My point is I'm a little surprised to see so much speculation already.
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New follow up on Aintitcool, but basically says the same thing as the Bloody Disgusting post:

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/44947

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Well, as for me, Cloverfield ARG/E was my first Alternate Reality thing I have experienced as such (actually, from my present perspective I have to admit, I have experienced ARGs before, even on the end of 90ies, but I haven't known it were called ARG).

Short, Cloverfield was for me the entrance to this awesome entertainment dimension. They won me already on communication with characters, where your goal were to avoid any meta and to act like a normal participant of their reality. So this was pretty cool challenge, but after all the fake companies were popping out, I said to myself, that ARGs is my life.

I agree woth people, who weren't happy about this ARGs abrupt end/implosion/? But the months of contacting characters, searching for hints and, hehe, translating Kishin from Japanese, make me kinda JJ Abrams devotee.

Even because of
1) his mystery box, and
2) our imagination (which surely were the major tool in this campaign).

I know, this is not everybodies beer, (like people say in Germany), but If it were a small glimpse of JJ Abrams, I'd be there. Even at actions, which completely failed (like DWY).
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Nighthawk wrote:
AzureWolf wrote:
I wonder how long this thread will get based on one measly rumor Rolling Eyes


The original Cloverfield thread was in this forum for about 70 pages on rumor alone.


Heck I remember one thread that was about 70 pages just talking about pastries...


As for the Draw of Cloverfield, for me I first learned of ARGs because of it. I was trying to learn about the movie on my own and found a blog dedicated to the movie "cloverfield Clues" I think it was. In many of the postings they mentioned "the fine folks at unFiction discovered..." Once I saw the film and realized there was no more "cloverfield Clues" to follow I came here. So it is for nostalgia reasons that I hope there is some "there" there because I would have liked to have followed the original knowing what I know now.
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Fishjp wrote:

Heck I remember one thread that was about 70 pages just talking about pastries...


Very Happy goodtimes goodtimes

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Okay so now the word is: NOT Cloverfield related:

http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2010/05/jj_abrams_super_8_has_absolute.html

However, since there will most probably be an ARG tie-in (JJ Abrams after all), we shouldn't abandon this thread/speculation or anything

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Mr_Nekomata
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This is all in hopes of another ARG for the next movie?

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Saevitia
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Okay so now the word is: NOT Cloverfield related:


Guys, you know what my first thought when I heard 'Super 8' was? House of Leaves.

I know its a stretch, and I don't expect it to be true, but that's what I thought first. LOL
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House of Leaves would be sweet too.
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greetings from missouri

Hey guys, ITS BEEN A WHILE

imma throw in my 2 cents,

ok with the trailer info given, and my knowledge on the Cloverfeild backstory(thank you Manga) Ima call this unrelated, as JJ said, but still related or not.

THIS IS GONNA BE SWEET!!!!!!

I exspaect to see little easter eggs in the trailer, to keep us running in circles, like slusho did for cloverfeild, gave us a bit of backstory but not enough to do anything with.

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Just heard of the whole Super 8 thing.

Alright - another JJ Abrams thing! Very Happy

This is gonna be fun. Did the Cloverfield and Star Trek ARG's (the ONLY ARG's I've done). Looking forward to that good ol' familiar obsession. ... And Hi, again, Kosmo, by the way.

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