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The Great State of Texas

Noog like. Some very interesting scenes and shooting from the perspective of normal people was excellent.

Still proves that this stuff wouldn't happen in Texas. The moment someone stated the monster tastes like chicken it would be all over, followed shortly by the world's largest barbeque...

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It did roxxor my boxxors. I dug it extremely, and may go see it in the theater again.

What kind of artillery are you packing down in Texas again?

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The Great State of Texas

Saw it at Alamo drafthouse. While after two tequilas and two wines even a chick flick is survivable, this one was intense. I'd go into more but don't want to spoil.

Texas wise we have all kinds of artillery. To balance out New York, we've been issued 120's to mount on our SUV's

-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
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Avoiding the spoilage, I too dug like crazy. I realized that my heartrate was up a bit at one point, which I can only remember having happened once before, and that was during Grindhouse

Aren't there fewer places to hide over in The Big T as well? Loads of firing range on anything taller than the SUVs!

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The Great State of Texas

Exactly Boss. Outside of the hill country you have hundreds of miles of flatland. Don't need to shoot, just roll the artillery shells forward.

And of course anything that survives that, is welcome to come drink a swimming pool sized margarita and have some chips and queso.

Spoiler
Spoiler:
The image of our heroes crossing the building is just freaky to me. I'm cared of edges of messed with me a little. Excellent use of making the characters smaller than the monster-seeing a foot, that sort of thing.

Loved the image of the monster being bombed.
Now here's the question-were those nukes or were those fuel air bombs at the end?

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In terms of scale, which did you prefer seeing on the big
screen: I Am Legend, or Cloverfield?

edit: worst written sentence ever.

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Cloverfield x100, not just because I Am the Last Omegaman on Earth was so not-great ...

Spoiler:
Yeah, was a real "ah crap" moment seeing the chick's building slanted against the other, and knowing they were going to go for it anyway. And pretty sure those were fire bombs or something at the end, nuke seems overly drastic (and wouldn't it have vaporized our heroes in the first blast in a wash of white light, not with multiple fiery blasts?)

Who all is waiting for a sequel? Perhaps filmed more traditionally? The army must have beaten it to have recovered the film and archived it away with its own serial code and such. I'm guessing the monster wasn't killed by those fire bombs, but confronted and somehow killed at another site ...


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The Great State of Texas

It did note something like site US356 or something. One might infer there were other incident sites...

(visualizes hundreds of Russian tanks heading towards St. Petersberg to deal with their own houseguest).

-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
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I was blown away by it TBH. Im usually go against massive hype machines too so i wasnt expecting that much, but i liked it much more than just the fact it shattered my expectations.

Spoiler:
The only thing i think they could have cut was the camera guy getting offed at the end. It didnt sit right with me that the creature got that close and had the ultra cheesy staredown. I kinda liked the idea of never really getting an extreme close up, if the best shot we saw was in that bombing run i would have been happier.


Best quote ever though, "I cant express how freaked out i would be if a flaming homeless guy came at us right now"

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The Great State of Texas

sigged

-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
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Haha, Dammit Hud!!

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Agree with your spoiler FPS, that was one of several scenes that seemed to be in there ...
Spoiler:
... just to showcase the monster and little else. Like the helicoptor 'evac' that flew alongside the critter, instead of directly away? And directly into a bombing run? Only explanation is so the film can show us the monster and it getting bombed.

Dammit people, making me want to see it again

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Spoiler:
Seriously though if i was in that chopper i would have brained that f*cking pilot before gravity got the chance. Evac means GTFO not hang on i think i can make out what the tattoo of the soldier in that things mouth says so lets get closer please.

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usernamesareannoying wrote:what was the monster? i want to be spoiled

None other than ...

GOZER THE TRAVELLER!

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The Great State of Texas

GOZER the DESTRUCTOR

Or maybe the spirit of Jim Henson gone berserk...

-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
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usernamesareannoying wrote:what was the monster? i want to be spoiled

SLUSHO!

@ JF -- That too. Wasn't The Traveller the marshmallow man, and Gozer the chick? Sad I can't remember because I watched GB on TV this very weekend ... Now that's a movie

((BUT note that I'm not necessarily 100% wrong with the Traveller thing, given how it works in GBusters and how Abrams didn't give us jack for background on the monster in CField))

((Hopefully that doesn't spoil it for anybody ))

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Both. Gozer had a nice long string. Gozer the Destructor, Goser the Traveller, Gozer the Vacuum Repairman blah blag, Goser the traveller has come. Lots of good lines.

-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
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I was really hoping for cthulu but i wasn't holding my breath.

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Spoiler:
No way it was a nuke, or else I think there wouldn't be enough left of their tape to watch (not being that close to ground zero, anyway).

Did anyone stay to the end of the credits? They played a weird little sound bite that according to internet rumor was "it's alive" looped backwards.


I loved it. I was so glad they never ran into some scientist who told them what it was and I'm so glad there was no secret pill to save the day, etc. It was perfect for what it was.

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Spoiler:
Oh, the only bit of info i wish we had was maybe what happened exactly to the bite victims. I kinda saw something like that coming but i wanna know what was up w/ that.

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@ Yak
Spoiler:
Crap, totally missed the sound bite, only stayed for about half the credits. And I am with you, the film is all we get and all we need. Any gaps I'm happy to fill in myself or leave be. Part of me wants to call Abrams lazy for not writing more background in, but really I can't say that's fair or matters.


@ FPS
Spoiler:
They 'splode? Looks like a nasty nasty enzyme, though I wonder if you're thinking like I was before the chick popped, that they were going to infect humans and then either mutate them or have freaky babies pop out.


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However cliche, yea thats kinda where my head was at.

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The Great State of Texas

Spoiler:
the bite kind of makes Ebola look like a head cold.

So help me out. Those little bugs-were those supposed to be babies or something else-they looked like mini monsters to me.


The scene of the rats running was uber cool.
New word for the day. If you see a naked man running, or rats all a scurying, you best be a running too.

-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
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Spoiler:
The only prior tidbit they had about the minis were that they were falling off the main mamajamma and laying some pwn on the soldiers. Your guess as to what exactly they were are as good as anybodies. I would say subspecies as the look was a bit different from the biggun.

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I really really enjoyed it as well. The limited Point of View really works for me; the only thing that really harshed my buzz was the 7.1 sound system on the camcorder.

Check the IMDB FAQ about the movie for a teensy bit more info about the monster; it's interesting.

Also, I really hope there is no sequel, or novelization, or anything; it'll just cheapen it.

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Iorek wrote:Also, I really hope there is no sequel, or novelization, or anything; it'll just cheapen it.


Seconded.

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third
edit: Iorek-IMBD whats that?

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-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
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jfrazell- imdb.com. Your first stop for movie information since 1990. Which is as old as the dinosaurs in internet years.

FearPeteySodes wrote:
Spoiler:
The only prior tidbit they had about the minis were that they were falling off the main mamajamma and laying some pwn on the soldiers. Your guess as to what exactly they were are as good as anybodies. I would say subspecies as the look was a bit different from the biggun.


Spoiler:
Word on the web is that they're actually parasites. Like huge killer lice.

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