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Also when the camera turns to see the head crashing down, it's really bad CGI, plus the dark car on the left in near-field doesn't look like a US plate; too many characters. I stopped the Teaser at 1:35.
Lastly, there's some interesting reading on the fridge as he walks past, don't know if anyone's disected that yet?
Oh yeah you could make that movie. It would be a fucking awesome movie too.
The problem is Hollywood will never accept a screenplay in which humanity is enslaved by hideous monsters and raped for all time, and I'm being literal here. If you're going to make that movie, it's going to be really fucked up.
I assume Hollywood is ok with two kinds of Lovecraft adaptations.
A faithful one would be something like At the Mountains of Madness.
The other one involves Arnold Schwarzenegger uttering something like:
"Ia Ia - Cthulhu fhtagn this" and running in the opposite direction of a shoggoth with a stomach full of explosives in slow motion.
tldr
'The Frogurt is cursed!'
It kinda works though. Old One cults using man's own tools against them, it's in keeping with the tone of the Mythos. What could be be more innocuous than a Icee? That is, until you start growing fins and gills and hear the whispers of dark gods.
Yeah we'll see, there isn't really enough information to say anything really persuasive one way or the other at this point.
I could totally see that being a Simon Pegg and Nick Frostt comedy. I would support that movie.
That site is actually kinda creepy, is the tv displaying something or does my monitor suck (it does suck, I can't make out shit)?
EDIT: nvm probably just a reflection.
But that's the thing - it's what they're doing. Everyone has their theory about this flick, and I'm going to put down that this movie is what happens when the cultists win. We get to watch the aftermath.
What would have happened if Wilbur Whately hadn't been killed at Miskatonic? The Dunwich Horror would have gone loose and eventually hit civilization. Boom, destruction. Sure, Lovecraft wrote about small groups doing things, but they were generally "successful".
This movie is going to be the "oops".
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I think anyone who draws lovecraft from this has entirely too active an imagination. You've got an explosion and a weird noise to go on with, plus some bloggy bullshit that nabs random words from a variety of IPs. There are no dots to join at this stage. Some of you are waaaaay too into this thing.
Hooraydiation wrote: And I don't care how distraught you are. It's just impolite to shoot yourself when someone has their dick inside you.
Yes, thank you.
Wikipedia says:
"A Paramount spokesperson said that the studio was unfamiliar with the URL of the Ethan Haas Was Right website." but their source is dubious.
I didn't say it was Mythos, but that's the kind of shit they're playing with at all the damn viral sites.
And if you don't know what I'm talking about, well, you haven't been paying attention.
And I saw that Paramount was pulling those Van videos.
You win.
Hmm.
Also, At the end of the trailer, on the back end of the traffic sign on the right of the Statue of Liberty's head, reads "Dead Dead". Dunno if thats of note or not.
People who did a hostname lookup or whatever of the EthanHaaswasright.com domain said it was owned by Paramount Pictures. I'm thinking Abrams may just be trying to throw people off.
As far as that myspace blog goes, thats obviously fan made. I imagine its just someone who will update the blog with whatever info is released on August 1st.
Hooraydiation wrote: And I don't care how distraught you are. It's just impolite to shoot yourself when someone has their dick inside you.
By the way Cat, if you wanna mod the debate and discourse forum, maybe you should try reading the thread and then telling people where they're wrong or being unreasonable. I mean, hey call me crazy. But if you wanna just jump into a thread where people are getting nuts over an arg and piss on them because you think they're crazy or might be having fun with this shit, hey that's cool too. Knock yourself out.
I'm not modding in here, I'm participating, chiefly by pointing out that some of you are trending a little too EntropyKid-ways and looking pretty silly as a result. You don't have to like it, but you can damn well live with my opinion. Typing in allcaps and calling people retards for not going along with your pet theory are not smooth moves. Note that this isn't directed even chiefly at you, more of a general trend. A lame one.
That's some crazy shit.
There's no way that 1-18-08 is the only site, though. http://www.slusho.jp/ is pretty obviously tied into the movie: one of the kids is wearing one of their shirts in the trailer. So that's BS right off the bat.
Lovecraft is at least semi-plausible. (Not even remotely likely, but plausible.) At least the "omg its voltron" inanity has died off.
Even if the source is accurate, that could still mean that the spokesperson was a) playing along (i.e. lying) to build up mystique around the online tie-ins, or more likely b) completely clueless about the Haas stuff. Likewise with the JJ Abrams email to AICN. Although, at this point, I wouldn't be surprised if Ethan Haas was an ARG for some other, unrelated project that we don't know about yet.
Again: Voltron. People are crawling up all kinds of their own orifices trying to find a new spin on this thing that we know next to nothing about.
"Only site of ours that people have even found". At the time Abrams emailed Knowles, the Slusho link was just starting to circulate.
Hooraydiation wrote: And I don't care how distraught you are. It's just impolite to shoot yourself when someone has their dick inside you.
For one giant fucking explosions and the almost stereotypical destruction of the statue of liberty is hardly lovecraft style. Two if it was they would at least try to cash in on the lovecraft aspect even a little. Third does giant evil alien parasite that is also in soft drinks really strike you as a lovecraft story?
Besides some totally random words on websites that may not even be related to this there is nothing at all to go by let a long enough evidence to stand up and start shouting that cthulhu is coming.
I never asked for this!
Paramount was taking ethanhaas videos and the 1-18-08 trailer off the web the same day.
Both the movie and ethanhaas have apocalyptic imagery. ethanhaas also has some vaguely Lovecratian shit going on. (Note I'm not saying any of this shit is Mythos. It's just the sort of thing people have riffing of for years. Example: Hellboy.)
http://www.slusho.jp/history.html <-- A shirt for this "product" can also be seen on one of the characters in the trailer. That little history story has creepy Lovcraft-esque shit going on.
But now Abrams is saying ethanhaas has nothing to do with the movie?
So Paramount has a vested interest in TWO products that have apocalyptic and lovecraftian shit going on? At the same time?
What the sam crap?
I think it's just them playing with the ideas. Riffing on the concepts. Nerds been doing that shit for decades.
I never asked for this!
Not exact, obviously. I mean
Maybe I'm oblivious or something but I just don't see the relation.
I never asked for this!
That's pretty bad.
It's not the strongest link, but if Paramount did pull the ethanhaas videos and this slushio thing is part of that it could easily point to a Cthulhu story.
http://www.slusho.jp/index.html What's the deal with the 6 at the bottom of the page followed by random japanese characters? It's the only number on all of the pages that isn't a crazy Asian character, and you could say the mystery number at http://www.1-18-08.com/ looks a lot like a 6. This might mean nothing.
I never asked for this!
And creeping evil, bad dreams, obsession and family tragedy. And giant sea creatures telling people what to do.
Very, very Lovecraft man. The guy had a style and a worldview, and people have been playing with it for years, and as far as I'm concerned this is more of that.
[Registrant] Satoshi Kagashima
I sent Satoshi the following email. Lets see if I get a response.
sk7087@gmail.com
date Jul 9, 2007 11:35 PM
subject Slusho!
mailed-by gmail.com
Satoshi-san,
Love you're site! When and where can I buy Slusho! I'm going to need at least six.
Thanks