Some poster at another forum found out some interesting information.
[quote=evaguy at GameFAQs]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_18
Decided to check out the date on a whim and found some interesting references. Notably:
512 - Anastasius Balkin Zeno is brutally murdered after predicting the Apocalypse will occur on this date in 2008.
1916 - A 611 gram chondrite type meteorite struck a house near the village of Baxter in Stone County, Missouri.
1939 - Louis Armstrong first LP recording of "Jeepers Creepers" (after one movie and one radio version).
1964 - Plans are revealed for the World Trade Center in New York City.
1994 - The Cando event, a possible bolide impact in Cando, Spain. Witnesses claim to have seen a fireball in the sky lasting for almost one minute.
2000 - The strange Tagish Lake meteorite impacted the Earth.
2007 - The strongest storm in the UK for 17 years kills 14 people, Germany sees the worst storm since 1999 with 13 deaths. Hurricane Kyrill, caused at least 44 deaths across 20 countries in Western Europe. Other losses include the Container Ship MSC Napoli destroyed by the storm of the coast of Devon, England.
The Cando event is itself related to a similar incident, albeit on a far larger scale, that is described here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_Event
For those too lazy to click a link, the last one describes an incident in Russia in 1908 involving an asteroid impacting the earth, causing an explosion comparable to about 20 tons of TNT, which would be 1000 times greater than the atomic bomb at Hiroshima. More important though, is this line:
The Tunguska event is the largest impact event in recent history. An explosion of this magnitude had the potential to devastate large metropolitan areas should it occur over a large city.
I'm starting to think this is going to be an alien invasion type thing. Pure and utter speculation of course, but we never do see what causes that massive explosion shown in the trailer.
There's also that whole reference to an apocalypse prophecy to consider.
- The pictures on the 1-18-08 site rotate if you leave them alone for a while. I don't have the slightest idea what this means, but it is pretty creepy in a way.
- Found a few possible new sites:
[url]www.35minutes.com[/url] - Number is taken from the time interval given on the two pictures.
[url]www.1201am.com[/url] - Time stamp from the drinking picture. Could be completely unrelated to Cloverfield though, as a whois lookup referenced Earthlink.
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I think the movie will be more an apocalypse style movie. Considering the budget is only $30 million or $65 million, you can't do too much in special effects. So either there will be a monster who will always remain behind the camera, or there will be no monsters at all.