Monday night, jonesing for cake

[cleolinda]

I forgot to mention the other day--that interest in scrapbooking stayed with me shamefully and then sturmclan, who actually designs digital scrapbooking elements, got hold of me (hee). I'm broke, so I'm only interested in what I can make--digitally--with what I have (Photoshop 6.0, a folder full of random backgrounds, tons of pop culture media images). But

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[wendyzski]

The BEST "new" online thing ...sometime over the weekend, on Hud's MySpace page, his height is now listed as 2'6"! *snort*

[cleolinda]

Oh, that's horrible. (Hee!) Who did that? I mean... obviously "Hud" isn't around anymore to do it himself.

[wendyzski]

Also, parts of my theory are holding up, but people claim to have seen her abdomen expand (I thought she was lower down because she was struggling) and that is what blew out. I'm not sure I can make it through another theatre showing (I didn't get sick but I did get a woozy seasick kind of headache), but if this is the case I don't have a theory for that.

The body that is wheeled past them as they go into HQ clearly has most of the middle missing - I originally linked that to what happened to Hud (got his middle scooped out?) but given other comments (and the MySpace height thing) maybe this is actually a link to Marlena's fate, and I can't figure out HOW that could happen. I still don't buy the Alienesque tummy-buster because if something got out, Mr BadAss Army Dude would have been shouting orders and shooting instead of taking Our Heroes into the hallway to give them the evac info.

Anyone?

[cleolinda]

Well, I can confirm that she started swelling/expanding below the shoulders--you can actually watch it happen in one of the trailers. I really do think she exploded on her own, though, no chestbursters. Because, like you said, they would have reacted differently, and--shit, if they were going to go there with it, wouldn't they let us hear some chestburster shrieking and show some silhouettes gunning it down? I mean, that would have been creepy as hell, particularly since we'd never actually see it. No, I got the feeling she just popped like a balloon.

[sigma7]

Concurred. Though every time I think about it I think about your simile -- her chest opening like a book -- and that's just brilliant.

Oh, I do so want the Cloverfield overture sans babbling brook background. I'm sure it's a matter of time before someone extracts a workable version from a bootleg another source, but yeah, it's brilliant. Giacchino's work with The Incredibles really sparkled, too.

[cleolinda]

iTunes! Can't they at least just put it on iTunes and get an official version out into the file-sharing mix?

[sigma7]

Some frenetic Googling suggests that Giacchino wants it released "very soon," and iTunes would be the logical method. MOAR FAST PLZ. (Or "is it can be roar teim nao plz?")

[cleolinda]

YAY!

[cleolinda]

Did you see the link in the first paragraph to an earlier entry? At the bottom of that, there's a link to a NEW sketch of the monster. And... seriously, do any of these drawings have anything in common?

[sigma7]

Since I have the artistic skills of a sheltered mollusk, I can't be overly critical, but yeah, this sketch is by far my fav'rit.

And in happy-morning-what-stock-market-crash news, YAY for Ratatouille (Firefox spell check suggests "Facilitatory" and "Illegitimate" -- hey!) (nom nom) noms. It has the distinction of being the easiest winner to pick (Sicko a close second).

[nekoyaksa]

I re-watched bits of the movie before it was pulled from youtube, and in the mall scene as the soldiers are wheeling the stomach-burst dead guy past you hear "we've got another bite here" being said calmly.

Shortly after, Marlena's definitely expanding in the gut region:

[nekoyaksa]

Grr. Internet's being wonky - the rest of my comment was that I also agree that blood/guts was the only thing coming out of her. It does *not* look like a 'stomach burster' alien situation.

[padparadscha]

No, when they wheel the the John Hurt wannabe away they comment "Yeah, we've got another bite here" very clearly--and for me, it was just another nail in the coffin for what I knew was coming. It was part of my discussion on how very much toast we all knew she was the moment she got bitten.

I still like your explanation, though. I think it could still work.

[sea_of_tethys]

Could you haemmorhage into your abdominal cavity enough to make it explode?

[wendyzski]

Not enough to cause the kind of explosive expansion seen there. (I got a press kit off E-Bay and have gone thru the sequence frame by frame).

It was a good theory, and parts of it may still hold up, but I'm at a loss for a complete explanation

[spectralbovine]

HA HA HA HA HA.