J.J. Abrams directing untitled Godzilla meets The Blair Witch Project in NYC movie?

The monster was putting him out of his misery.

i like that rob had token mention of gogol bordello. like some hipster friend of his probably played it at a party and he was drunk going 'hey what's this? from ukraine? you're shittin me bro"

oh wait that's how i discovered them

Finally saw this last night, I liked it. But, uh, what camera has a battery that lasts 24 hours? (I'm sure this was discussed way upthread, but I've avoided it for fear of spoilers) Not to mention working just fine after being dropped a bunch of times... yadda yadda

But, uh, what camera has a battery that lasts 24 hours?

not the one in the film, which is on for about 80 minutes all in.

See, I don't buy that. There were obviously lots of edits removed from the footage and I'm willing to bet that Hudd wasn't taking the time to power off the camera completely every time he stopped filming. Minor quibble really, but the fact that it kept working after all the beatings it took was a little more amazing.

There were obviously lots of edits removed from the footage

no, don't think so.

Minor quibble really, but the fact that it kept working after all the beatings it took was a little more amazing.

minor quibble really, but the fact that a giant a giant seamonster attakced new york was even more amazing.

a little 30 second version of this film with camera manufacturer logo at the end and caption saying 'our shit don't break' = good advert

Hahaha, obviously bigger suspensions of disbelief were made, but the camera thing kept sticking in my head during the last twenty minutes. At the outset of the film, they way they put that notice on the screen about this being from one camera found in Central Park, led me to think that maybe the footage would be from multiple cameras. Apparently that idea was saved for the sequel.

Yeah I'm pretty sure the whole idea is that the only cuts are when Hud actually turned the camera off, that the 80 minutes you see are the whole contents of the tape or disc or whatever. Also, it starts late at night and seems to end early in the morning, so that's only like 8-10 hours.

you think he'd turn the camera off in the subway station tho

i totally thought about the battery thing but was also like whatever. maybe he had another battery pack.

i'm pretty sure the idea is it isn't edited. the tape is the tape. otherwise they would have edited out the fragments of rob and beth's big day out (?).

more of a gaffe to me was the the taped-over stuff on a memory card. dont work like that. still, whatevs.

glad they left the shot of beth in bed in

agreed, slocki. i don't really care, but i wonder how they justified that to themselves (given that if there's one thing these people people should know about, it's how cameras work, right?!).

You know, the more I think about it though (which I don't know why I'm bothering) but there had to be footage cut from the party scene. I mean, Hudd talks about how he had been getting testimonials to Rob from everyone at the party, but there were only like, what, four in the movie?

agreed, slocki. i don't really care, but i wonder how they justified that to themselves (given that if there's one thing these people people should know about, it's how cameras work, right?!).

-- Jordan, Friday, February 8, 2008 4:57 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

i don't know why they didn't just say it was a tape. hdv is a tape format. it would certainly not be inconceivable.

You know, the more I think about it though (which I don't know why I'm bothering) but there had to be footage cut from the party scene. I mean, Hudd talks about how he had been getting testimonials to Rob from everyone at the party, but there were only like, what, four in the movie?

Uh. The entire point of that is that Hud didn't know how to use the camera and was fucking up the recording of the testimonials.

I really don't think he was that incompetent with the recording. Whatevs, stupid point to be arguing in the movie.

let's get back to that bridge issue.

hahahaha

i wonder what the dvd of this is going to be like, as fas as extra footage?

they should do an inverted version of the movie that's mostly abotu coney island happy day with flashes of monsters and chaos.

Even better -- have the Coney Island happy day stuff come six weeks AFTER the monster.

"Yeah, it's a pity how Hud and Marlena died and all that but at least we got out of the rubble in Central Park. That was kinda scary there for a moment!"

"Ha ha ha!"

*silhouetted kiss against the smoking ruins of Nathan's*

that would have been a good twist!

i don't think they would say "it's a pity," though.

So much for verisimilitude.

they should do an inverted version of the movie where the monster is having a going-away party with his monster friends, and everything's cool until he gets lost on a beer run and winds up in Manhattan.

hahahha.

Considering all the extra photos and websites and exterior backstory that was put together for the campaign, they should be able to put something pretty cool together for the DVD release, with or without outtake footage.

Extra footage shows someone sitting over on Staten Island watching it all from a rooftop. "Whoa, weird."

i'm stoked to have all that slusho information in one place. xp

they should do an inverted version of the movie where the monster is having a going-away party with his monster friends, and everything's cool until he gets lost on a beer run and winds up in Manhattan.

-- Jordan, Friday, February 8, 2008 5:38 PM (35 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

omg yes yes yes.

tracy morgan could be in that version.

"I'm a BIG MONSTER, and I need a BIG SHREDDER."

I really don't think he was that incompetent with the recording. Whatevs, stupid point to be arguing in the movie.

I know you said whatevs, but Hud's initial camera incompetence was completely sledgehammered by the movie:

- Lily kept saying "Whatever you do, DO NOT GIVE THE CAMERA TO HUD".
- Jason kept asking "Can you handle this? Do you know what you're doing? Are you going to be okay?" when he passed the camera over.

This was followed by 5 minutes of Hud filming himself asking people to give testimonials and then the camera cutting them off as they started intermingled with jump cuts of the camera wildly spinning around filming nothing; it isn't until the Marlena/Beth testimonials come around that Hud masters what's going on with the camera.

tracy morgan could be in that version.

-- That one guy that hit it and quit it, Friday, February 8, 2008 1:15 PM (36 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Tracy: I don't want to disappoint our Japanese public - especially Godzilla. Hahaha! I'm just kidding, I know he doesn't care what humans do.

i think i've watched that episode at least 50 times now.

BANTER

so good

Cringed a little at sudden appearance of mob of ethnic looters.

seemed a pretty multiculti mob to me?

maybe just me though.

i just saw this tonight. god, is this ilx's longest ever thread. waited right through the credits, it's prob been mentioned above but the payoff is "hell monster" and i really liked that. it's like, after all the speculation, it's actually a hell monster. more films should end like that. (speaking as an atheist it's comfortable to be spooked).

what do you mean? someone says hell monster?

it was probably the usher

after all the overblown music at the end. we waited because we heard there was something more after the credits and maybe it was my wishful self after 10 mins or so but it sounds like the music fades into the white noise at the end of the tape but you hear "hell monster" and then that's it, the end of the tape.

nsfw

Isn't that more like someone whispers oh my god it's full of stars or whatever but if you play it backwards he's saying it's alive? There's some unutterably tedious youtube dork explaining it all, probably linked to above if you can be bothered to wade through.

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yeah is this ilx's longest film thread?