1-18-08 now titled “Monstrous”?
I’m totally obsessed with ALL THINGS JJ Abrams. I’m the biggest LOST freak there is. So I’m very carefully and thoroughly following all of this 1-18-08 hoopla. You should be to! In case you don’t know what I’m talking about, check out my 3 other posts below. Now – on to possible spoilers??
After much, much discussion, it seems the mystery (and title) of JJ Abrams’ top-secret monster movie may have been solved. A very interesting (and plausible) theory has popped up on the internet.
Okay, so the apparent title is MONSTROUS. Some kid took a picture of a poster at a comic book store, which depicts a headless Statue of Liberty, with the title MONSTROUS spread out across the top and the release date 1-18-08 on the bottom.
Click here for those pictures, decide for yourself!
THEORY–
If you look at the trailer you can see the number 3 being referenced to everywhere. The 63 degrees on the news channel, The 12:36, the 2004 ACE, numbers that are all dividable by 3.
Last, but not least, you hear the thundering monster sound three times, each sound accompanied by a different event.
Romans 1:18 “For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness”
So what in biblical mythology has connections to the slew of references in the trailer? The three great monsters.
In Jewish belief, Behemoth is the primal unconquerable monster of the land, as Leviathan is the primal monster of the waters of the sea and Ziz the primordial monster of the sky.
1) The first monster roar is accompanied by an earthquake (Behemoth)
2) The second monster roar is accompanied by a huge fireball (Leviathan, for it can breathe fire)
3) The third monster roar is accompanied by the flying Statue of Liberty head (Ziz).
Not convinced?
The guy who says “maybe we can get a better view from the roof” has the Slusho logo on his shirt. Slusho is a classic J.J. Abrams icon, and it has appeared in both Alias and Lost, which are his shows.
Slusho.jp has, by now, been confirmed as a part of the viral marketing campaign revolving around 1-18-08. Japan. Strangely enough, the character Rob, who is present in the trailer, was gonna fly to Japan a day after that party and the monster events.
Let’s have a look around on that site. Not all pages are accessible. But there is an odd feature about the pages that are available. The main page background is on land, the Downloads page background is on air, and the History page background is on sea.
Furthermore, the six buttons on the main page cause popups of various animals, namely a Horse, a Whale and a Bird. Behemoth, Leviathan, Ziz.
IN CASE YOU’VE MISSED ALL THE HYPE, HERE ARE THE LAST 3 POSTS ON 1-18-08!
Post #1: Here
Post #2: Here
Post #3: Here
Want more? I’ve got TONS more after the jump… FACTS: [Slusho Zoom!]
(Based on JJ Abrams’s letter to AICN and all other info gleaned from reliable sources)
- 1-18-08, for sure. The four pictures on the site.
- Giant Monster involved.
- Handheld aesthetic.
- Slusho.jp. Tied to the flick, implications are nebulous at best.
- Characters: Rob (in the trailer), Noriko Yoshida, Ganu Yoshida, and Ryouta Yoshida – all three mentioned on the Slusho site.
- The movie begins with a ‘clean-up crew’ (or salvage crew, I don’t really remember) that finds a camera and the rest of the film is the playback. The camera is found at Coney Island.
- The sound the creature makes is a BIG clue (from a reliable source, apparently).
- The line “I saw it, it’s a live, it’s huge!” is the biggest clue in the trailer.
- Half of the 30 million dollar budget is being set aside for special effects.
- J.J. will unveil something – likely the title – at the Paramount Comic-Con panel. This is according to Slashfilm. I don’t know their rep, but I assume he’ll at least be at the panel.
NOT Involved: [Slusho ZOOM.]
- August 1st – no longer involved.
- Godzilla, Voltron….all well-known properties and trademarks are not involved.
- Ethan Haas, Albert Pike, etc.
May or may not be involved:
- May be titled Monstrous (see poster at the top, clearer image at the bottom).
- Is there a woman’s voice saying something in the teaser? Is it just the monster’s roar made to sound as eerie as possible?
- Cloverfieldtheparasite = I HP Lovecraft Released It?
- Rampage (nooooo!) – this is a video game that is tonally f-cked compared to this teaser.
- Demon-face in the girl’s hair in the picture on 1-18-08? It certainly appears so…
- He does not say ‘It’s a Lion!’ he says ‘It’s Alive-and…!’*
- Also, The site was registered to Albert Pike and a Henry Kelvin. There was a phone number for one of them – I believe, for Kelvin. The number, when called, provides Landing Instructions for Santa Monica Airport (a recorded message that loops). Santa Monica Airport was formerly known as Cloverfield – the working title for the movie. Coincidence?
- Related or tied into Lost and its sundry threads of self-mythology?
- The Bloop? Lovecraft said that R’lyeh is located at 47°9′S, 123°43′W in the southern Pacific Ocean, with the bloop also being targeted somewhere in that range” Apparently, the noise sounds like bubbles. Are they Ominous bubbles?
PLOT details?: Rob is headed to Japan to work at the Slusho factory, knows something about what’s about to happen in NYC, and isn’t out of town in time to escape. Evidenced by his apparent lack of sheer surprise, as well as the map screencapped on page 62 of this Beast also known as a Thread. This is all pure speculation.
IMDB B.S.: Good Rob projects Bad Rob onto the monster and…something…? This idea is based on a ridiculous numbers game and, well, is bogus – at best.
Vague Idea #77: An end-of-the-world tale that encompasses elements of various religions and ideas. Includes Cthulhu and Revelations, and Grandmother Turtle shaking us off like a bad case of the fleas.
**New(est) Theory:** The Behemoth (monster of the land), Leviathan (monster of the deep), and Ziz (monster of the sky). So, it’s like Godzilla + the POTC Kraken + Q: the Winged Serpent. With Biblical underpinnings. It is supported by a wealth of evidence from the Slusho site and the teaser – making this the most well-supported claim thus far.
