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CLOVERFIELD
Topic Started: Jun 1 2008, 02:37 PM (1,652 Views)
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Yup. I made this topic to write our opinions and/or hypothesis about The cloverfield monster, Slusho, or any other thing related to cloverfield
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I like Cloverfield! It is the best giant monster movie I saw!

Clover's physiology is very unique, so were the parasites. The movie was quite realistic as well.

It was awesome! :)
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I really liked this flick. I don't see how people saw "9/11 references". If you want to look at it in that way, I think that is even better. Godzilla appeared in 1954, 9 years after the events of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and has become a monster movie legend. Cloverfield came out 7 years after 9/11, the aftermath of which has mostly mellowed out. And it wasn't even intentional references to 9/11, just similarities through the destruction of the Statue of Liberty and other buildings. Anyway, I thoroughly enjoyed the film.
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My cloverfield monster theories:

The Cloverfield Monster is a creature that attacked New York and other important cities in the world. But, what is this thing? I decided to give a cientific name to the cloverfield monster
Name: Aquadiabolus Altissimus
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Class: Neosarcopterygii
Subclass: Aquadiabolus
Species (1): Aquadiabolus Altissimus

Cloverfield is the product of the Abyssmal Gigantism. He's just a really big lunged fish, maybe an anfibian. He woked up after his "Eternal Dream" because of a japanese company named Tagruato. Angry, the monster climbed up to the surface and started to destroy the cities.
Cloverfield Monster anatomy:
http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/629/cloverfieldanatomyua6.png

Next one: The parasites

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Clover does not look like that, he looks like this:

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Though this is not his full body.

About his origin, Nemo Ramjet thinks Clover is an evolved acanthodian. Read the journal entry here.
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I read Nemo's journal about it too. I think he has an amazing mind; his theory about Clover, Snaiad, and All Tomorrows are all amazing on so many levels.
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It's an interesting creature. What gets me most is that it is enormous and yet it is apparently well developed for land travel. Is it millions of years old? Perhaps it was a prehistoric amphibian that went into a deep hibernation to survive the asteroid?

Also, those pictures are of the same creature. One is just darker than the other. And how do you know it is a he?
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Well, for now, lets just refer to it as an 'it'. The thing that bothers me is that it is apparently a deep benthic life form yet it suffered in no way when transitioning thru the extreme changes in pressure. Certainly like a deep-sea squid it would die after arriving on the surface.
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Maybe it was an enormous anphibian from the cretaceous period but it just went to the abyss of the sea to hibernate during the extintion, like Parasky said.
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I doubt it; but it still doesn't make a difference if it were a Cretaceous amphibian, it still wouldn't explain how it survived the pressure changes between the deep sea and surface world.
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Maybe it's body is counter-pressurized? As it resurfaces, it releases the counter pressure.
We should all aspire to die surrounded by our dearest friends. Just like Julius Caesar.

"The Lord Universe said: 'The same fate I have given to all things from stones to stars, that one day they shall become naught but memories aloft upon the winds of time. From dust all was born, and to dust all shall return.' He then looked upon His greatest creation, life, and pitied them, for unlike stars and stones they would soon learn of this fate and despair in the futility of their own existence. And so the Lord Universe decided to give life two gifts to save them from this despair. The first of these gifts was the soul, that life might more readily accept their fate, and the second was fear, that they might in time learn to avoid it altogether." - Excerpt from a Chanagwan creation myth, Legends and Folklore of the Planet Ghar, collected and published by Yieju Bai'an, explorer from the Celestial Commonwealth of Qonming

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Parasky's theory has sense. Also, I think that they weren't that big during the period they lived in land (Cretaceous, maybe older). But their predecesors grew because of the Abyssmal Gigantism


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I haven't seen this movie, due to my rampant wimpism. I've seen some pics of the moster and parasites though, and they seem very interesting.
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Well, for now, lets just refer to it as an 'it'.
I believe the technical term is "Mr. Grumpypants." At least, that's the name the Internet Masses gave it.

As far as the movie is concerned, I liked it up until we discover Mr. Grumpypants' helicopter vaulting skills. It was all downhill from there, in my opinion.

As for the monster itself, it was wonderfully bizarre, but perhaps too bizarre. Ramjet did a decent job trying to juryrig the creature into earth's evolutionary history, but I think he was fighting a battle that was lost before it started. The thing just doesn't make much sense biologically. Of course, it did inspire me to make my own mega-monster as soon as I got home. Mine, though, was a massive alien bio-factory, genetically engineered by an intelligent species of alien to be organic "terraforming" facilities.
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