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

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well so what if it is? there's only ten thousand posts of such similar bollocks throughout the whole of this thread, the only thing being this was one that got in the film. jeez, sorry for not wading through twenty thousand posts of fucking about.

x-post to matt2, give it a listen, the film didn't hit me thatn hard.

I think Matt was just offering that the point had been brought up, not belittling you.

I was just talking bollocks really, "hell monster" would've been a lot better anyway.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBHjgej9jp8&NR=1

apparently the voice is saying 'help us' but when reversed it's saying 'it's still alive'.

who talks like that??

Are you aware of Garfield = yes.

I wish the characters had more of this personality.

there was a fair bit of it, considering. like when hud mispronounces 'crevice'.

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i was a little over-defensive there, blame the staropramen and my slight shame at joining the party abt a year and however-many-thousand posts too late.

I liked this film a lot.

I liked the hint that the monster was basically a take on Cthulhu. There were some bits early on where peopel went catatonic purely as a result of seeing him... kind of a shame they did not play that further.

yeah i got the cthulhu thing too. s'why i thought it said "hell monster" at the end there.

everyone at the party seemed really california, or at least not new yorkers. not sure how to explain what i mean by that

brooklyn bridge collapse was my favorite part

this movie is pretty awesome seen late at night on your own television

is it rly cause i was thinking it was gonna suck on a tiny tv at home

nope! i can't imagine it on any other format actually, especially the way it opens with color bars, test tone, etc - also it makes it harder to make out details of the beast (good thing!)

the more i think about this the more the cast seems flown in from the set of "i still know what you did last summer" - dumb, incredibly "good-looking", etc - exactly what you want from horror protagonists - but this was more than a horror movie (wasn't it?) so yeah, some interesting people wouldn't have been out of place