Refried Screens

For months, people have been speculating about Cloverfield.  Even though the movie doesn’t tell us what the name means or really what the monster looks like, we kinda sorta have a sense of it…I think.  I guess like the movie Alien, we’ll have to wait until the toy comes out to see the monster in all of its glory.

Seeing the Cloverfield monster is one thing, but knowing how it arrived on Earth is quite another. Little did viewers know that the origin actually occurred on the corner of the screen at the end of the movie.

Thanks to the Internet, someone has mapped it out, thus saving money needed for motion sickness pills to brave another screening:

But that’s not enough for most, so you’ll find out the Cloverfield monster’s TRUE origin right here:

That’s right, although J.J. Abrams said:

“I want a monster movie, I’ve wanted one for so long. I was in Japan with my son and all he wanted to do is go to toy stores. And we saw all these Godzilla toys, and I thought, we need our own monster, and not King Kong, King Kong’s adorable. I wanted something that was just insane and intense.”

He couldn’t come up with one, so he did the next best thing.

He ripped off the Japanese.

In particular, Sin from Final Fantasy X: big sea monster with little killer monsters.  Or this dude from, you guessed it, Final Fantasy:

I know you’d think that one day, we’d get an original American monster, but why bother when there are so many great ones in Japanese video games?

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