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Mystery Trailer for new JJ Abrams Movie

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Ok first of all:

- We need a new thread to make clear that the guy in the teaser says: 'I saw it. It's alive.' instead of 'I saw it. It's a lion.' :lol

Secondly: I'm really starting to think that this will be a Ctulhu movie.
 
AAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaagh, why can't we fools have the newest trailers in our theaters ?
And then Paramount is deleting the youtube ? Aaaagh
 
its the statue of liberty pissed off because the Cristo rei in brazil was elected the 7th wonder of the world and she wasn't.

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Buttonbasher said:
The statue of liberty's head is not to size right? It's much bigger than portrayed in the trailer!
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The Statue of Liberty's head is smaller then you would think it is. When I went up it, I remember thinking it was kinda small.
 
Just 15 minutes ago I just saw this damn trailer on Apple, having no clue what it is from the title, even though I specifically wanted to wait to see it in the theater tomorrow (I just knew there is a trailer for JJ's movie shot with handycam, didn't know anything about it). Only halfway through watching it, I realized what it is.

Damn great trailer though.
 
vangace said:
Winnetka, Los Angeles
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=O

I go there all the time!

I went to the Arclight in Hollywood to see it at midnight release day, and the same thing happened, people BOOED and stuff. But definitely looked interesting.
 
Nice.

Blair Witch Project + War of the Worlds.

Everyone keep in mind that this thing is budgeted at $30M though... so don't get your hopes up TOO high. Could very well be a sweet, sweet flick (if the trailer is any indication) but it won't be too "epic."
 
OMG.
Will it actually come out on 1-18-08 or it only takes place on that day ?

Edit: Title and OP should be changed to include the Apple Trailer.
 
Tr4nce said:
- We need a new thread to make clear that the guy in the teaser says: 'I saw it. It's alive.' instead of 'I saw it. It's a lion.' :lol
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dunno

sounds to me like "i saw it, it's a lion, it's huge"
 
I have to say I was not of fan of the trailer's ending. I was really liking the vibe, but the face of the Statue of Liberty? Cheese. I think I've seen the Statue of Liberty destroyed in a dozen films by now.
 
It seems to be about some alien lifeform that came in some pod (according to the viral site anyway) and was dormant in the earth for thousands/millions of years.

Yep, Chrono Trigger rip off!

Anyway I hope they won't explain too much stuff, and especially hope we won't really find out much about if it's alien and what not.

HP Lovecraft' stories were about how humans are nothing but tiny insects in a world of much greater conflicts over which we can do absolutely nothing, the movie should be seen from that perspective. Otherwise it loses major points:/
 
a Master Ninja said:
I have to say I was not of fan of the trailer's ending. I was really liking the vibe, but the face of the Statue of Liberty? Cheese. I think I've seen the Statue of Liberty destroyed in a dozen films by now.
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Plus the CG sucked on that bit.
 
Destructo Spin said:
The Film that you hear, would never ever get made by any movie company ever.
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i dunno

i think that a giant lion movie could be pretty awesome.

some great pulp jungle movie. set it in the 20s or 30s.

but i like the thought of something lovecraftian as well.
 
JJ Abrams says "Ethan Haas" has nothing to do with them:
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/33261

Dear Sir,

Thanks for your support of our little movie. I can't wait to talk to you more about it -- of course, knowing you, by the time we talk you'll know more than I will.

Regarding the online stuff you posted: yeah, we're doing some fun stuff on the web. But, obviously, if the movie doesn't kick some massive ASS, who gives a rat's about what's online? So as you can imagine, we're focusing mostly on THAT. For what it's worth, the only site of ours that people have even FOUND is the 1-18-08.com site. The others (like the Ethan Haas sites) have nothing to do with us.

Stay cool the rest of the summer -- and thanks per usual for AICN!

JJ
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It would have been awesome if this trailer had popped up without any information whatsoever about who was behind it. No production company, no producers, no recognizable cast, nothing. Then we'd have some crazy mystery like that series of videos from William Gibson's Pattern Recognition.
 
A couple of things...

1. This immediately reminded me of the "monster" in Lost.
2. The fact that the guy says "it's alive" seems to imply that it's something that wouldn't normally be alive I think?

Whatever the case - I'm super intrigued and can't wait to see it.
 
FoneBone said:
This, however, is probably linked:
http://www.slusho.jp

"Slusho" is reportedly the movie's current code name (or, at least, the name under which shooting is being done).
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weird

the registrant for that site is both Satoshi Karashima and jackoway tyerman wertheimer

and if you google the names, they're in entertainment law Kara as a laywer and jacko as the shortened form of a longer firm (Jackoway Tyerman Wertheimer Austen Mandelbaum & Morris).
 
I get a strong cthulhu vibe from all of this, as other posters have. A friend was telling me that there was some sort of decoding going on at a different site, and that the words that came out were cthulhufhtagn ("cthulhu waits dreaming" or "cthulhu waits", in case you`re not up on your Lovecraftian lore).

I have to ask my buddy for details, but I`ll be sure to ask him when I get off work in an hour.

Also, wasn`t it stated on other sites that Ethan Haas was the name of the character played by the person holding the camera (you get to see the actor`s face when he picks up the camera in the chaos after the explosion) in another show that was produced by Abrams?

Also, on Ethanhaaswasright, there`s some significance with the stars, which were always a significant part of the rise of the Great Old Ones (led by the dark priest Cthulhu).

Just my thoughts.
 
thetrin said:
I get a strong cthulhu vibe from all of this, as other posters have. A friend was telling me that there was some sort of decoding going on at a different site, and that the words that came out were cthulhufhtagn ("cthulhu waits dreaming" or "cthulhu waits", in case you`re not up on your Lovecraftian lore).

I have to ask my buddy for details, but I`ll be sure to ask him when I get off work in an hour.

Also, wasn`t it stated on other sites that Ethan Haas was the name of the character played by the person holding the camera (you get to see the actor`s face when he picks up the camera in the chaos after the explosion) in another show that was produced by Abrams?

Also, on Ethanhaaswasright, there`s some significance with the stars, which were always a significant part of the rise of the Great Old Ones (led by the dark priest Cthulhu).

Just my thoughts.
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this makes me happy, but not.

happy because if it does well i'd love to see a good adapt. of at the mountains of madness

sad because, i dunno. ct mythos in nyc?
 
Just watched the trailer. It definitely did a great job of getting the viewer interested although I do agree it may have been even more mysterious if they didn't state the producer or company behind it. It just ending with the date would have been wonderful.
 
starchild excalibur said:
Just watched the trailer. It definitely did a great job of getting the viewer interested although I do agree it may have been even more mysterious if they didn't state the producer or company behind it. It just ending with the date would have been wonderful.
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I have a bad feeling that it's going to be one of those "OMG A MONSTAR!!!" movies that talks about an unseen creature for the vast majority of the time. You'll see build-up, you'll see resolution, but you won't actually see the creature do anything. I got this vibe very early on in Lost and never watched the show again because of it...I don't know what it was but all I remember is that something that seemed very large was chasing people and rocking trees around.
 
The movie is going to be called "MacGuffin" and the monster is a MacGuffin and it will be your typical JJ Abrams bullshit with lots and lots of in your face innuendo and not much happening and certainly with no resolution at the end. JJ Abrams is a fu<king hack and people who still fall for his "plot devices" after all these years and all these disappointments are just gullible idiots.
 
Smiling Bandit said:
The movie is going to be called "MacGuffin" and the monster is a MacGuffin and it will be your typical JJ Abrams bullshit with lots and lots of in your face innuendo and not much happening and certainly with no resolution at the end. JJ Abrams is a fu<king hack and people who still fall for his "plot devices" after all these years and all these disappointments are just gullible idiots.
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plus this movie would have looked retarded even if jj abrams weren't attached to it.
 
WickedAngel said:
I have a bad feeling that it's going to be one of those "OMG A MONSTAR!!!" movies that talks about an unseen creature for the vast majority of the time. You'll see build-up, you'll see resolution, but you won't actually see the creature do anything. I got this vibe very early on in Lost and never watched the show again because of it...I don't know what it was but all I remember is that something that seemed very large was chasing people and rocking trees around.
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They haven't exactly answered what it is, but they've shown it many times up close an personal, and it's not really close to being the island's biggest mystery.


AICN just wrote up some rumor control on this movie, nothing much new:
RUMOR CONTROL! Let’s Talk About CLOVERFIELD/SLUSHO/1-18-08!

Hey, everyone. ”Moriarty” here.

If we’re going to talk rumors about INDY 4 this morning, we’ve definitely got to spend a little time talking about CLOVERFIELD.

Now, before you say, “well, how do we know you know anything?!”, let’s take a look back at the first mention of the film here on the site. On June 21st, before the first screening of TRANSFORMERS with the trailer attached, before anyone outside of Paramount had mentioned word one about the film anywhere, we broke the entire story here on the site. Check it out for yourself.

That story was also used to challenge the veracity of a blog that claimed to be about the production of THE DARK TOWER. I’ve since learned that the guy who ran that blog may well have been hired to be on an Abrams film... just not the one he thought he was working on. That may have been the first leak on CLOVERFIELD, but he didn’t know enough to make it worthwhile. I followed up this piece with more details on June 25th, and together, those two stories became the basis of almost everything you’ve read since.

When I wrote that story, I didn’t realize that Abrams was going to be pursuing a sort of veil of complete secrecy around the film, and I didn’t know he’d be creating a game leading up to the release. I actually feel bad that we sort of spelled it out as completely as we did. The one thing that he should be happy about is that no one really knew what the hell CLOVERFIELD was, so they didn’t read the article when I ran it. It certainly didn’t set the world on fire until people saw the trailer themselves, at which point we got flooded with e-mails asking, “What is that trailer? Why don’t you know anything about it yet?”

Well, 90% of everything that’s out there now came from one source, guys. Me. I broke the following facts about CLOVERFIELD exclusively: The title being a cover. It being a giant monster movie shot as if from a hand-held video camera. The low budget on the movie. The fact that Drew Goddard is writing it, and that Matt Reeves is directing it. The fact that the creature is nicknamed “the Parasite” by those working on the film. I described the trailer beat-for-beat before anyone outside the studio had seen it.

And yet nobody is citing us as the source of that information. Check out this asshole. And, yes, I just called you an asshole, Kirk Montgomery, because you’ve passed off other people’s work of the last two weeks as some sort of exclusive on your part. You didn’t learn anything “exclusively,” since everything in your article is regurgitated from other sources. You’re not the first person to simply re-run the information we broke about the movie in the past ten days, but you make it sound in your article like no one else anywhere has already written about the viral marketing sites or the way it’s being shot or the budget. There’s not a single piece of new reportage in your piece, and the way you try to make it sound like you somehow broke this wide open makes you... well... an asshole.

I don’t blame him, though. I’m sure he was told to write a story about this by his editor, and that’s because this has become a huge deal very quickly. Already, we’re starting to see some backlash in the talkbacks, as people talk about the film being overhyped. Fandom moves so fast these days that they’re starting to reject movies that are still shooting based solely on things like release dates or their own illogical expectations. Case in point: the way people started to get really attached to their pet theories about what this film is. “It’s VOLTRON!” “No, it’s a LOST tie-in!” “It’s not a movie at all! It’s just a LOST season four promo!” “No, it’s GODZILLA!” “No, it’s C’thulu!”

And when it turns out to be none of those things, fans are going to hold it against the movie, as if they were promised something. But they weren’t. They’ve been projecting, and they’ve gotten invested in their own ideas, and now they’re going to be mad when the film isn’t what they decided it should be.

Relax. Seriously. In a way, I don’t think JJ Abrams had any idea how much his teaser would set people off, but in another way, I think he got exactly what he wanted.

I have a theory about Abrams. I think he was a biiiiiig fan of Disneyland growing up. One of the great things about going to Disney (I lived near Orlando as a kid, so I always think about the Magic Kingdom when I think of the parks) is the way they don’t just have rides. The rides actually begin the moment you step into the park. Everything on the property is about setting a mood, getting you ready for the rides. When you’re standing in line, you get gradually immersed in these environments that drop you into the world you’re about to visit. Like the grave stones outside the Haunted Mansion or the docks on the Jungle Cruise or the ramps up into Space Mountain. You start the ride before you start the ride, and I think that sums up the attitude JJ Abrams and Bad Robot have towards entertainment now. Don’t scream at Abrams that he owes you all the answers right now. He doesn’t. Not yet. He’s got six months to go before this film comes out, so all he’s trying to do is get you intrigued. Hooked a bit. I’d say he more than accomplished that task. Now let him give you the bread crumbs as a game, and enjoy it. You’ll get onto the ride soon enough, and then it’ll be over, and why rush that? Why not enjoy the build-up?

When you get overexcited, you get an Ethan Haas situation, and people spend a lot of energy that they shouldn’t spend in the wrong direction. To be clear, all the Ethan Haas sites are interesting and well-coordinated, but none of them have anything to do with CLOVERFIELD. Instead, they are marketing for an upcoming game called ALPHA OMEGA by Mindstorm Labs. Cool stuff, but it’s not connected to the film at all.

I think the one thing that’s undisputable about the trailer is that it worked. It got people talking. Not putting a title on the teaser was a genius idea, and someone deserves a promotion for that one touch. I think that, more than anything, got people buzzing. People seem intrigued at the idea of a whole film being shot like that, and that’s pretty much what you’ll get. The film starts with a rescue crew cleaning up after the entire incident, and one of them finds a camera. They rewind the tape, press play... and the playback is the movie that unfolds.

I promise... we’ll keep you updated as more things break on this one, but for now, I think people are actually overanalyzing and they’re starting to invent things, create sites to support their crazy theories, and it’s all turning into such an overwhelming sound that it’s going to start to turn some people off.

Me? I’m excited and intrigued, and I look forward to learning more about the film as it develops.
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Yeah, ****tard Abrams is like totally innocent. He only likes to tease people and afterwards offers no conclusion. Look at all his work. Anybody still out there who believes Lost will have resolutions to only a fraction of its 'secrets'? Hell, no.

'Oh, I didn't know people would get emotional over this kind of teaser.' Yeah, **** you, Abrams asshole.
 
Smiling Bandit said:
Yeah, ****tard Abrams is like totally innocent. He only likes to tease people and afterwards offers no conclusion. Look at all his work. Anybody still out there who believes Lost will have resolutions to only a fraction of its 'secrets'? Hell, no.

'Oh, I didn't know people would get emotional over this kind of teaser.' Yeah, **** you, Abrams asshole.
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Abrams isn't writing or directing this...his name is added as producer since the director is pretty unknown. It is done all the time. This isn't "his" film. He is busy with Star Trek which he is directing.
 
Smiling Bandit said:
Yeah, ****tard Abrams is like totally innocent. He only likes to tease people and afterwards offers no conclusion. Look at all his work. Anybody still out there who believes Lost will have resolutions to only a fraction of its 'secrets'? Hell, no.

'Oh, I didn't know people would get emotional over this kind of teaser.' Yeah, **** you, Abrams asshole.
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Yea, and LindelCuse is working on Lost now..I don't think Abrams has been there since S1.
 
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