Dimensional Traveler wrote:
> Steven L. wrote:
>> Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
>>> In article <13rcce7fpk4er99@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>>> Steven L. <sdlitvin@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>> You've seen most of the Cloverfield monster in the movie, but now
>>>> Hasbro has finally revealed its full figure of the creature. The
>>>> limited collector's edition features 70 points of articulation and
>>>> incredible life-like detail, authentic sound, is 14" tall, includes
>>>> 10 parasites, two interchangeable heads and a Statue of Liberty
>>>> head accessory. Here's a photo of the Hasbro Cloverfield monster
model:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.comingsoon.net/nextraimages/clovermonster1.jpg
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Steven L.
>>> BTW, why are we all calling the little critters parasites?
>> Because that's what they looked like: Giant lice, and they fell off
>> the hide of the monster.
>>
>> They did NOT look like larvae.
>>
>> In the movie, I was expecting either a military guy or a scientist to
>> order the military to cease fire--every time they bomb the monster, it
>> shakes loose more of the parasites. That would give the script a
>> reasonable excuse as to why the military can't just blast the monster
>> with bunker buster bombs--it would just scatter the parasites.
>>
>> I guess Abrams didn't think of that.
>
> Abrams doesn't think of a lot of things. But to be fair in this case
since
> the story is being told from the POV of the squishies its unlikely they
> would be in place to hear any of that kind of stuff.
Yes, they were. At the makeshift hospital, just after Marlena exploded,
the soldier told them that they were going to take one more crack at
killing the thing with conventional explosives before they resorted to
tactical nukes. Instead, he could have told them:
"We've stopped firing ordinary bombs, because it just scatters them
lousy parasites even more--so they've decided to use tactical nukes.
The heat and radiation should kill the parasites too. The last chopper
leaves at oh six hundred."
I guess Abrams didn't think of writing it that way.
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Steven L.
Email: sdlitvin@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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