Re: Cloverfield Monster Finally Revealed!

RogerM wrote:
> "Steven L." wrote:
>> It's strongly implied by the opening, in which it is stated that the
>> videotape was retrieved from an area that was "formerly known as
Central
>> Park."  It would take a pretty big conventional bomb to obliterate all
>> of Central Park.
>>
> 
> It didn't obliterate the video camera. Or even wipe it with EMP. That
> could either be bad writing, or a mistaken assumption on our part.

That's definitely bad writing.  It's strongly implied by the opening 
that whatever bombs they used finally got the monster--though with vast 
collateral damage, enough to obliterate Central Park.  Yet the videotape 
survived.  Go figure.

BTW, Abrams made a similar mistake in "Lost".  There's supposed to be 
this mysterious station, called "Swan Station," set up to monitor these 
baffling "electromagnetic anomalies."  Those anomalies periodically 
create huge magnetic fields that can toss around metal objects, etc. 
And yet in the station they are using MAGNETIC TAPE drives to record the 
telemetry data, and FLOPPY DISKS to boot the computer, all of which are 
right out in the open.

Riddle me this:  What do the credits for "Cloverfield" have in common 
with the credits for "Lost"?

Answer:  Neither production employed technical advisers to review the 
scripts for technical accuracy.


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Steven L.
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