Yep slusho is in the movie in the gas station window and the kelvin gas station name is in a lot of jj Abrams stuff. There is even a mention of kelvin ridge in the force awakens.

Some comments on 10 Cloverfield…

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I think Howard primarily kidnapped her to replace his daughter that his ex moved away with. I don’t think he had any sex slave plans in store for her. One telling moment is when they are playing the word game and Howard keeps saying Michelle is a girl, a princess, etc, and he couldn’t figure out ‘woman’. Also when he freaks out at the table because she is ‘flirting’ with Emmett, more like a Dad would do, but I guess that instance could be interpreted as possessive lover type stuff. As for what went wrong with the first ‘daughter replacement’ we’ll never know, he could have killed her but she also could have killed herself, though that vat of acid makes me think he was mentally ready to kill someone at some point.

There’s a theory out there that that girl in the pic was really his daughter, Emmett just lied to Michelle about knowing her through school, and that Emmett locked Howard’s daughter in the vent system and killed her, but there seems to be a lot of holes in that, even if it would have been an interesting twist, mainly because the movie never spells out that that’s the true story (probably because it’s not actually the true story.)

I love movies like this that are ‘less is more’, from the small rumble in her apartment at the beginning, the first sound from above ground that she thinks is a car, but I assumed was an alien craft, then there was the actual car arrival with the woman that misdirected you to think it was a nuke/chemical attack, also misdirecting you off the first overhead sound.

I can’t think of another time a character shaved his beard & ate an ice cream cone and it freaked me out.

This movie was definitely an exercise in economic storytelling, I’ll re-watch this over Avengers Age of Ultron any day.

Counter Factual Spoiler:

What if…….she got out, everything is okay and then she finds a (old?) newspaper, with the cloverfield Monster attack in NY as the headline. Fade to black.

This would have been risky, instead of a CG final, a slow burn, but would have been perfect. And would fit into the cloverfield universe.

The woman outside’s disfigurement is a result of the alien crop dusting, no?

Yep. But before that is revealed, my mind was to think of other explanations for how that happened to her when it was actually safe outside.

Raiders of the Lost Ark is a perfect film.

Kind of interesting that Jay and Frank repeatedly say the word “Trump” during their review of 10 Cloverfield Lane, and people thought Sean was the one who pushed agendas. Hmmmmm….

Really cool theory about 10 Cloverfield Lane (massive spoilers) that interestingly addresses a few of Jay’s “character motivation complaints.”

Also, Frank just might be all over this thing:

https://www.reddit.com/r/10cloverfieldlane/comments/49yx1w/spoilers_theory_everything_you_know_is_wrong/

It’s also worth mentioning there’s a lot of background information on the characters that exists on viral websites used in an ARG (for example, it talks about the nature of Howard’s job doing satellite work in the Navy)

I don’t think there is really enough evidence to support this, but the theory may have partially sprung from the fact that in the original script the Emmett character had some dark secrets and clashed with Howard.

http://thefilmstage.com/features/how-the-cellar-became-10-cloverfield-lane-breaking-down-the-original-script-vs-the-final-film/

But the name kelvin is in lost, alias, Star Wars, super 8 and lots of Abrams stuff

It is in a lot of stuff, but that gas station in particular is from Super 8.

Well Sean, thanks for mentioning Angie Tribeca; as a big fan of the naked gun films, I checked it out, and I quite liked it. Since it’s a constant barrage of jokes, it goes from retarded to brilliant, and the brilliant stuff is totally worth it.

I agree with the gas station but for some reason the Slusho references don’t bother me.

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Cloverfield / 10 Cloverfield Lane

Sean may be right about the monster coming from the ocean. I read the thing that splashes into the water at the end is most likely a satellite that woke the monster up. They do happen to mention Goodman’s character working with satellites as well. Really fascinating mystery stuff…NOT!

Glad to hear there is at least one other person out there who still digs this kind of humour!

If they were down there for a year the womans body that Michelle gets the car keys off of would have been vastly more decomposed. Once again Frank makes ignorant statements that he whole heartedly believes and just COULDN’T be wrong about. Frank would vote for Trump if he were blessed enough to be a god damn American patriot, I’m fucking sure of it.

Does Frank really have his sharpness knocked up to the max? What an idiot.

His opinions on picture quality are completely invalid.

Please keep the spoilers at the end Sean!

I wondered if she was an actor put up to it by Howard.

keep in mind that some of these movies aren’t released outside US and Canada at the time the podcast comes out.

Good luck finding a fresh angle.

I guess they could be the same universe. It is, after all, another monster movie.

Fair enough Sean

Quiet you. We all remember your high refresh rate Beauty Day fiasco; of course you take to defending Franks flaws.

Sean does have one, it’s the ‘Marquis de Mindfuck’.