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[cleolinda]

Am I the only one who could be completely content with only one scoop of raisins in my Raisin Bran? Seriously, I keep having to shake them to the bottom of the box.

The most magnificent sentence I have seen in a nonfiction book in quite some time (The Victorian Underworld, Donald Thomas, page 151): "Time stood still, so that it seemed to be always summer in pornotopia."

The More You Know (page 160): "Swinburne, condemned in drawing-room and deanery for the subject-matter of Poems and Ballads, created a court for Queen Victoria populated by such grotesques as the Duchess of Fuckingstone, Miss Sarah Butterbottom, the Marchioness of Mausprick and Miss Polly Poke. In another sphere, Dr. J. L. Milton had endeavoured to instil chastity in the middle-class young by his Pathology and Treatment of Spermatorrhoea, which had gone through twelve editions by 1887. The principle of this gothic ailment was that every orgasm drains away spinal fluid, dooming the victim to a life of imbecility and an early grave. When Milton first published this helpful information, it was saluted by Harlequin: Prince Cherrytop and the Good Fairy Fairfuck (1879), a burlesque pantomime whose authors included George Augustus Sala."

Groundhog predicts more winter weather.

Study: It Rains Less on Weekends. Tell me they didn't spend money on that.

Who am I rooting for tomorrow? "Oh... the Super Bowl's tomorrow?" Puppy Bowl IV, that's who I'm rooting for. Call me when a hi-res version of the Prince Caspian and Wanted trailers go online.

In case you missed the Cloverfield monster commercial during Lost the other night, here's the relevant footage. Note: They managed to create a monster that basically looks different from every angle you photograph it--from above it looks like a cave troll; from below, like a praying mantis; from the front, kind of like one of those... you know, the strider things in The Dark Crystal? Except the strider things were actually nice and friendly. Even though they still freaked my shit out a little bit. So even when you're seeing it here, you're... not.

(I'll give you this much: No matter how many captures I see of the thing, it still wigs me out every single time. That's got to be a success on some level.)

Also: In the chaos of the movie I had missed what Hud was actually screaming half the time. In this clip, it can be roughly transcribed as, "ROOOOOB! ROOOOOB! HEY! Oh! God! dude! HEY ROOOOOB! [Rob indicates that they should run towards the monster.] WHAAAT? WHAAAAAT?" And now you know why I called the monster Darwin.

(By the way: I was also able to pull a fairly clear image of a parasite jumping on Marlena from... actually, let me stop there before the MPAA breaks down my door.)

ETA: IN HI-RES OH GOD I WILL NEVER SLEEP AGAIN.

(Oh, I put up some Cloverfield icons at m15m, btw. Guess that Yahoo clip answers the question of whether it's too soon to use the monster in icons or not.)

Comments

[rebel-waltz.livejournal.com]

i wish i could watch Puppy Bowl :(

[callmesyd.livejournal.com]

It rains less on weekends? Really? Maybe because there are... two days to a weekend, as opposed to... five days to a week? Maybe? Possibly? (Or God just likes to party. I can go with either.)

I want a Darwin plushie. He can sit with my Cthulhu plushie. (Her name is Roz.)

[spectralbovine.livejournal.com]

It rains less on weekends? Really? Maybe because there are... two days to a weekend, as opposed to... five days to a week? Maybe? Possibly?
Right? I'm...trying to see the scientific rationale for this study, given that WEATHER DOESN'T KNOW WHAT DAY IT IS.

[life-on-queen.livejournal.com]

Darwin needs to be more effective. Then the movie would have been shorter.

Bad Darwin. Also - why must the only character I like be the one who explodes? WHY ABRAMS, WHY?

[viorica8957.livejournal.com]

Swinburne was insane, man. While he was living with one of his friends, the poor guy had to keep yelling at him for sliding (naked? I don't remember if that part was apocryphal or not.) down the banister with his boyfriend. He was on the verge of drinking himself to death when another friend took him in, and basically held him under house arrest for the rest of his life. And then Oscar Wilde called him a poseur. Wank on Victorians, wank on.

[snapdragon76.livejournal.com]

Me, I like an even distribution of my raisins. Not too many, not too few. I have to shake the box in order to do it.

[coconut-zebra.livejournal.com]

Anyone who's seen Cloverfield - I really want to see it, but if it's just those guys screaming "OH MY GAAAAWWD!" the whole time, I'd rather just satisfy myself with the clips. What do you recommend, should I see it or not?

[spectralbovine.livejournal.com]

I recommend it! It's more than a bunch of "OH MY GAAAWD!" though there's surely plenty of that. I think it delivers on what it promises: a layman's-eye-view of what it's like during a giant monster attack.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I really liked it, actually. There is a fair amount of screaming, but the guy holding the camera is pretty funny. "What IS that?" "Something terrible!" "What was THAT?" "Something else! Also terrible!" Also, the scenes that make the movie worth watching aren't going to be released as clips, so... there's that. It's a little less than an hour and a half, so if you go to a matinee and save a little money, it's not a huge investment as it is.

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

I'm glad to finally get a clear look at the monster. The only problem with your icons is that as someone who hasn't seen the movie, I can't make out the monster from the background. Of course I'm not really the audience for the icons, so it probably doesn't matter anyway.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Hee--I was actually trying to vague it up a little bit so that you wouldn't necessarily spoil someone who hadn't seen it. Or at least, that's what I'm telling myself, instead of "There were no clear pictures, dammit."

[chocotaku.livejournal.com]

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

NOT COOL! NOT COOL! AHHHHHHHHHH!

(Seriously, if someone ever decided they really hated me, they'd go sneak into my room and put that gigantic screencap as my desktop wallpaper while I was gone.)

[la-petite-singe.livejournal.com]

I'll give you this much: No matter how many captures I see of the thing, it still wigs me out every single time.

Word to that. I mean, some movie-monsters are just huge, pissed-off versions of animals we already know, like lizards or whatever. But that? Is just weird and fucked up. Well done, Jaybrams.

It looks kinda cute from that angle

[serizawa3000.livejournal.com]

Apparently the word is that Darwin's not full-grown, so... um.

I still say he looks like something out of Ray Harryhausen... only bigger and meaner.

A friend of mine who saw the film and liked it said that she kinda wished it was going to be Cthulhu.

But I would think that if it were Cthulhu, then instead of just people running around and panicking, they'd also be pretty much insane... maybe, just maybe Darwin was making the film's characters act a little crazy as well as stupid? So possibly Darwin *is* a little Lovecraftian in certain aspects. Cthulhu is not the only Great Old One out there, after all...

Re: It looks kinda cute from that angle

[chocotaku.livejournal.com]

He just wants his mommy! And Slusho! Clovie wants Slusho.

[wendyzski.livejournal.com]

OK - I clicked over to the hi-res still. And it's on a site that has ads.

Directly under the monster, just about centered on his jaw, it says
Find Love This Valentine's Day
Join Singles For Free

I damned near peed myself laughing!~

[chocotaku.livejournal.com]

CLOVIE WANTS KISSES!

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

And when it roars it looks like a FRUIT BAT!

[stokerbramwell.livejournal.com]

A DEADLY FRUIT BAT

[eyemage.livejournal.com]

you know i wouldnt mind a dark crystal m15m treatment...not at all.

I agree that until the toy comes out of darwin we wont know for reals what it looks like.


you did know there is a toy coming out...

right?

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but I don't have $99 to drop on it. Maybe now that Paramount's releasing hi-res clips, though, they'll let us see a prototype of the figure.

[pygmymetal.livejournal.com]

(I'll give you this much: No matter how many captures I see of the thing, it still wigs me out every single time. That's got to be a success on some level.)

It's the best scary monster since the Alien jumped outta John Hurt, IMHO. The look on kidlet's face was priceless. ;D

[serenenuit.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen the movie as I'm kind of afraid of the jittery camera aspect of the film. Heck, if something moves on the IMAX screen too quickly, my stomach starts roiling.

The monster is quite ugly and I'd run my feet off trying to get away from it, but from that angle all I can think is, "It has a tongue like a sock puppet".

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Hee! I thought the tongue looked a bit off myself.

[sarapada.livejournal.com]

The most magnificent sentence I have seen in a nonfiction book in quite some time (The Victorian Underworld, Donald Thomas, page 151): "Time stood still, so that it seemed to be always summer in pornotopia."

I think any sentence that includes the word "pornotopia" has my vote for best sentence ever.

[green-queen.livejournal.com]

I like Darwin, a very satisfying movie monster. I love the...front leg...things. Also being unaffected by the handheld, I was pretty much sitting there the whole time just going 'AWESOME!' a lot.

[stokerbramwell.livejournal.com]

I want a toy of it. Badly.

Does that make me a terrible person? Please say yes.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Nah. Just a very poor person, because the one I heard about is going to be $99.

*tear*

[apples-juice.livejournal.com]

I want to watch the Puppy Bowl! Stupid work gonna make me watch the Super Bowl instead. *sniffles, will try to steal tv in the break room during lunch to watch as much of it as possible*

[trailer-spot.livejournal.com]

I suspect you're referring to the 30sec TV spots. 'Wanted' is available in hi-def: 480p (http://playlist.yahoo.com/makeplaylist.dll?sid=57146621&sdm=web&pt=rd) 720p (http://playlist.yahoo.com/makeplaylist.dll?sid=57146624&sdm=web&pt=rd).
And from Narnia I can offer a 'regular' quicktime version (http://http.vitalstreamcdn.com/bvimflash_vitalstream_com/PrinceCaspian/TV/Superbowl/PC_DINE3301H_High.mov) that's not bad.

By glancing over this entry I get the impression you already have the Yahoo Cloverfield clip downloaded, but just in case: 480p (http://playlist.yahoo.com/makeplaylist.dll?sid=57148206&sdm=web&pt=rd) 720p (http://playlist.yahoo.com/makeplaylist.dll?sid=57148210&sdm=web&pt=rd), and if size really matters, 1080p (http://playlist.yahoo.com/makeplaylist.dll?sid=57148215&sdm=web&pt=rd).

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[thunderphoenix.livejournal.com]

The way Darwin's (I like calling it "The Cloverfield Critter" cause I like alliteration) front legs are set up, his head sorta looks like it's sticking out of his crotch.

[angelene.livejournal.com]

Guess that Yahoo clip answers the question of whether it's too soon to use the monster in icons or not

And the answer would be...? I mean, I'm not watching it, I'm not even reading your entry, lest I be spoilered. The movie has uh not even been out one full month, has been just released in my country (meaning it's probably available in major cities in my country, not so much through the rest) as well as most of Europe and it's not even out yet in a bunch of (other) 'oversea' countries (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1060277/releaseinfo). All this'd make the answer pretty apparent to me, but, then again, I... uh... haven't seen the clip? *is, admittedly, a lil' worried* :)

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Eeek! Sorry, I'd forgotten about that. The Yahoo clip basically shows a very clear image of the monster leaning down and roaring full-face towards the camera, and the same clip was shown on American TV in a key time slot as a commercial. So what I was saying was, "Well, apparently Paramount's saying it's open season on showing people the monster." Which is great on, you know, American TV, but I was forgetting (as people so often do, sadly) that America is not the internet. *hangs head*

(Definitely don't read the entry, and don't look at any of the other comments here--someone posted a giant "Y HELLO THAR" macro of the screenshot of the monster's face.)