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And there is an official HD trailer now guys..
http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/11808/

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There is some sorta wierd noise/word being spoken before everything goes nuts and starts shaking. Anyone have the technology to figure it out?
Sounds like Linear, like lin ear, to me.

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It sounds like the "monster" on the island on "Lost". My rational side really doubts that J.J. Abrams would make a big budget movie that was a "Lost" tie-in, but my fan boy side wants it to be true. Otherwise it looks like a Godzilla remake.

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ok, what seems like a bad link to a cheesy lawn toss site is NOT a bad link.

Click on the calander, and go to 1-18-08 and there are 2 birthdays. when you click on them to see what they are, one is Cloverfeild and the others is Pandoras Box.

Pandoras box gives you 2 new you tube style clips

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JJ talked to Harry Knowles that the Ethan stuff has nothing to do with this movie: http://www.aintitcool.com/node/33261

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We Know that THIS is the real deal:

http://www.theweeklydonut.org/index.php/2007/07/06/ethan-haas-ate-honey-dips/

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It looks like the videos are down... I just get the little broken Quicktime thingy. Their servers are swpped most likely.

One of the things we've been talking about over at The Four Guys Podcast, http://www.fourguys.net, is the possibility of it being something darker, Cthulu perhaps. We should have that show up in the next few days

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This is INDEED filming under the name "Slusho". But it really has nothing to do with the movie, just a JJ injoke...

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i found another website for this movie...http://slusho.jp i suggest you read the history , it goes on about some ocean search that found some drink ingredient that made people large?

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Ethan Haas is the name of a character from the sitcom "The Class." One of the "Class" actors, Lizzy Caplan, is in this new J.J. Abrams project. Don't know if there's a link, but thought I would put it out there.

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If that's not supposed to be a Godzilla scream that we hear a few times, then someone has been doing really lazy sound design, as it's simply too close to the original Godzilla scream for me to hear anything else.

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Hear me out…it's Cthulhu.

Visit Slusho.com and click the 4th link from the left, takes you to the feedback email address Satoshi@slusho.jp. So, a quick search on this Satoshi person reveals this Wiki info:

Satoshi Tajiri is a Japanese electronic game designer and the creator of Pocket Monsters, better known as Pokémon.

The creator of Pokemon! Tell me this is not happening. :)

Ok, you probably think I'm crazy now, but I'm reading more about the Pokemon creator, and guess what, he worked at Nintendo, on Pokemon, for 6 years. 6!

“Slusho! You can't drink just SIX."

Now, read the history page on slusho.com. There's reference to “many towns and villages on Honshu". Well, you guessed it, Satoshi was born in Machida which is located on Honshu!

Apparently there's a Digimon (not so much different than Pokemon) character whose design is based on Cthulhu and named after Dagon. The character's English name is “Dragomon."

Most Digimon of all levels reside in the Digital World (sometimes called “DigiWorld" for short), a parallel universe created from data inside the Earth's electronic communication networks. However, Digimon are sometimes capable of traveling to Earth - or as it is called in DigiWorld, the Real World. Courtesy of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ultimate_Digimon_(Part_1)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ultimate_Digimon_(Part_1)#Dragomon - this is the pokemon character designed after Cthulhu, his type is Sea Animal and his level is ultimate (perfect).

I read on a blog that the monster was a sea monster?

Oh, one more Pokemon coincidence, the kids on slusho.com (boy & girl = the two Pokemon kids) are under water. The Pokemon monster Dragomon is a sea animal.

Dragomon is a Sea Animal Digimon. His Japanese name is Dagomon as he was named after Dagon of Lovecraft literature known as the Cthulhu Mythos, and appearance is based on Cthulhu of the mythos.

Dragomon is a “Wicked God" referred to as “The Sinful Priest of the Ocean Floor". He is thought to be born from a computer virus that infected the computers of ships and such, disrupting direction and course. When he takes a life, he holds the juzu (prayer beads) on his neck and seemingly mourns.

It's stretch, but lots of coincidences here. If this is not the case, I challenge someone to find that many clues from Slusho.com. :)

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Check it out. They are on Broadway St in New York. The explosion takes
place at City Hall Park in lower Manhattan.
On the roof when the guy is talking about “tremors” you can see the Empire State and Chrysler buildings. So they are between those 2 places.
Using a skill I learned for land nav in the army, I’ve come up with
this:
The building they are on is between Canal and Walker St. They exit the building on Broadway facing the North West but look South West at the smoke of City Hall Park.
The Beast is coming from the South West, which is from the bay where the Statue of Liberty is.
It took out Liberty Island on the way in from the sea.

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I think this has some biblical ties...sort of an 'end of days' / apocalypse flick. Abrams has been known to make biblical/religious references in his other work (Lost specifically). Some other blogs go into more detail, but there are a lot of parallels with verses out of the book of Revelations that seem to fit - and the verse numbers correspond to the date and the time stamps on the photos on 1-18-08.com. I'm just throwing that out there. If anyone can make a cool apocalypse movie, it'd be JJ Abrams.

And as far as the Ethan Haas stuff is concerned, that is a marketing project for the video game Alpha Omega, coming out in August.

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I just did a lot of nerding on the net and have found that Cthulhu is in fact a god-beast of ancient myths and is basically a bigger version of Godzilla... with the Kraken for a head. so as the dude said "I saw it, it's alive, it's HUGE". Also the creature is defined as having been ultimately submerged in some 'City of the Sea' (think Atlantis) until it is time to rise and fuck up humanity. Sounds like something that wouldn't have a problem tossing the Statue of Liberty's head across a Borough or two.

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To post # 14-this is Rev. 1-18-"I am the Living One; I was dead, and behold I am alive for ever and ever! And I hold the keys of death and Hades.

To post # 15-Cthulhu is a creation of H.P. Lovecraft, who is imprisoned at R'lyeh (Cthulhu, not Lovecraft). R'lyeh is located in the South Pacific (47°9′S, 126°43′W, to be exact), and, when the starts are right (correct positions when he was imprisoned), will rise from the depths and release him. (a side note-there is a quotation "That is not dead which can eternal lie.
And with strange aeons even death may die" which Lovecraft wrote, which ties in with Revelations 1-18).
As for the slusho site (and people becoming whales and such), there is "The Shadow over Innsmouth" (Lovecraft) in which the folks of Innsmouth had been worshippers of Dagon (and, at one time in the past, had interbred with them). At a certain time in their lives, they would return to the sea to undergo a metamorphosis (the actual metamorphosis would start to occur while they were still on land-it would take some time), and would dwell under the waters.
If Abrams is doing a Cthulhu movie, the whole fire ball thing doesn't fit in all that much (unless I mininterpreted the coming attraction). But there are "gods" Lovecraft wrote about that do "dwell among the stars" that would fit in.

And, fortunately or unfortunately, I have my grandfather to thank for making me a Lovecraft fiend at the tender age of 12-I'm now 36.

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I have no ties to the websites below-just posting them for your consideration.

http://cthulhufiles.com/
online "encyclopedia of all things Lovecraft"

http://www.cthulhulives.org/toc.html
Great website.

http://www.neilgaiman.com/exclusive/shortstories/chulthhustory/
Great short story by Neil Gaiman

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RE: # 13

Great job on your land nav skills to figure out the monster came through Liberty Island
Using the eye-balls I got from my mom and dad, I determined the same thing by the fact that the monster threw the statue of liberty's head down the street...

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