Re: CLOVERFIELD (spoilers)

"Steven L." <sdlitvin@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Ken from Chicago wrote:
>> "Thanatos" <atropos@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> In article <R_udncFFn-lz5QDanZ2dnUVZ_vGinZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>>> "Rick" <videojockey1a@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>
>>>> "Derek Janssen" <ejanss1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>> Rick wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> "Lord Jubjub" <lordjubjub@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>>>> The first few glimpses of the creature was Lovecraftian.  But as 
>>>>>>> more of
>>>>>>> the monster was revealed in form and movement, it became more like
>>>>>>> Godzilla than Cthluhlu
>>>>>> So where did the Cloverfield creature come from?
>>>>>> And I hate it when directors leave it up to the audience to come up

>>>>>> with
>>>>>> the ending for their movies or TV shows
>>>>> I see!...So, Slusho is really giving us a warning to save the
>>>>> earth!--"Take your atom bomb tests to another island", is that it?
>>>>>
>>>>> Derek Janssen (you'd think they could've slipped in a couple singing

>>>>> twins
>>>>> on YouTube footage)
>>>>> ejanss1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>> JJ has said that CLover was a creature from the depths of the Ocean 
>>>> which is
>>>> why it's hide was near invulnerable.
>>> Not sure why something from the bottom of the ocean would have skin
that
>>> can repel bunk-buster bombs and munitions that can penetrate tank
armor.
>>
>> Do you know how much PRESSURE exists on the bottom of the ocean?
>
> Yes.
> But resistance to steady pressure doesn't necessarily protect you from
the 
> shock of explosions.  Even a deep-diving submarine can have its steel 
> plates ruptured by depth charges or torpedoes that explode close to it.
>
> And do *YOU* know what happens when a creature that evolved to thrive 
> under high pressure comes to the surface?  It can literally explode--the

> internal pressure will cause it to start vomiting up its own guts.
>
> That's why it's very difficult for scientists to bring those deep sea
fish 
> up to the surface for study.  They have to keep the fish in a tank under

> high pressure, or else it will die.
>
> Incidentally:  I wonder if Abrams got this idea from the NBC TV series 
> "Surface" a couple of years ago, about giant deep sea creatures that
start 
> coming to the surface?
>
>
> -- 
> Steven L.
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Unless said creature has very uberthick armor to protect it from pressure.

Obviously very rare else we would have been overran by such creatures.
Hmm, 
.... CLOVERFIELD 2: CLOVERPLANET.

-- Ken from Chicago