Fast Karate for the Gentleman

He runs the city, he can go where he wants! I guess the monster was on a big shopping excursion, or maybe a bar crawl. Who knows?

And if you want to point fingers at the spoiler, Goki broke the chain. I just gave up and continued the spoilage.

Man, I look at the trailers, and my approximation of the film is "woah dude, wassup dude, going to japan dude, yeah dude! yeah dude! woah giant monster woah shaky cam! woah!" It'd be funnier if I was tlaking to you face to face, doing the actions and voices. But I hope the film proves me wrong if I ever see it.

I don't think there's a lot of "dude" talk going on.

I've found peace with this flick, but this got linked around on my email chain today, so I figured I'd pass it along if anyone wanted to glean anymore info on things that were left unexplained:

http://imdb.com/title/tt1060277/faq#.2.1.42

Prove me wrong cloverfield! prove me wrong!

Edit: i just checked the link out, man, i need to see this movie.

That spoilers web page was very informative, and makes me think all the directing and producing staff are smug pricks. Also it makes it so I don't even have to see the movie to know about it.

That is such a bunch of shit it's not even funny. A movie shouldn't need to have 15 accessory websites and backwards speech and all these other shitty gimmicks to fill in the story. Again write the fucking story well instead of relying on a bunch of obscure shit that no one can even possibly know while they are watching the movie.

I love movies where I watch and go damn...I should pay more attention and maybe second viewing it will all sink in like when I first watched The Usual Suspects when it first came out. Yes it's obvious but I was 12 and more interested in the popcorn at the time ok? But when a movie purposefully doesn't include information and expects the viewer to read some crappy websites afterwards to get the "real meaning" that's just lazy garbage.

I like the spoiler effect on IMDB. [spoiler]I think that Lily might have been the only survivor. That would be cool, because I love her tits[/spoiler]

I'm sticking with the idea that you don't have to know all there is about the story to get it. Still, I was disappointed that the military knew NOTHING! Come on, at least know when it touched down, or its place of origin.

When they come to the makeshift medical center, the Military should have given them a bit more information. Maybe it would have helped more for the audience if the military did at least know of where the monster originated from.

The more I think of this, the more I think that this "low budget" movie was a ploy to get a bigger movie made. I think part of the reason details were left out were for mystery, and partly for a tease to get people who enjoyed the movie to come back for more.

I propose a counter-hypothesis: I think the creators went into the process with only the scarcest idea of the monster's genesis and motivations, knowing full well that they could count on rampant Internet speculation to fill in any holes that they deliberately left out. That's why there's all this crap about a some nigh-invisible satellite splashing down, and the so-called "multiple monster" theory...

It's okay to leave some things to the imagination, but to not provide even the smallest glint of explanation - even on the viral web-sites - strikes me as asinine. At the very least, I should get the impression that creators knew exactly what it was that they were creating.

I don't get that feeling at all.

Lost feels like its getting made up as it goes along as well, but I know for a fact there is a hard, set outline of where that show is going and what the answers are to the major mysteries. Of course, where that is and what those answers are, I don't know. I suspect they are not going to be as deep and fulfilling as we hope.

I say this because I really think the Abrams crew doesn't come up with fully cooked ideas. Like, THEY don't think they're coming into a project missing information, but what they consider a complete premise just isn't. I haven't seen Alias or anything. But I thinking the failings of Abram's project to explain things fully is just that he doesn't do details, period.

God, where are the days when films we're just normal and were good because of the story, not because some new age directors think making a bunch of shit up will make it awesome?

They are very few and far between. I basically watch movies for entertainment, but don't expect to be as fulfilled as much as compared to reading.

For example, His Dark Materials Trilogy. I got into the series from watching The Golden Compass. The movie was pretty cool, however it had a good number of flaws. However, it got me interested in reading the novels, and I'm on the 3rd book and the series is pretty damn awesome.

I don't think they will make a sequel to the movie due to the box office numbers, but if they do I can only hope they do a better job than the first one.

(Lost does not feel as made up on the fly as the Star Wars Prequels, but it's television. You kinda have to make some element of it up as you go along, but you can at least have a framework to go off on.

Plus if, for example, one of your actors decides that babysitting or starring in GI Joe is better than fighting a smoke monster, then you have to change your plans up.

Until I see Jack saying "noooo" like Frankenstein on Lost, I'll go on believing that they have that show handled)

I don't for a second believe that they have any fucking clue about what they're doing on Lost. I would be shocked if they think more than three episodes in advance.

At least we [spoiler]have an ending[/spoiler]. How they get to that in 3 seasons, I am biting my nails for.