That isn't the monster. It's supposed to be a satellite. It relates to the story behind the viral marketing for the movie in some vague manner, it has been confirmed by Abrams to be a satellite. This is another knock against the movie, all the viral marketing stuff was ultimatelty just to produce hype, because none of it factors into the "plot" whatsoever, theres really no point in it at all.
JJ Abrams, that *ssh*le, confirmed its an undersea creature that has been sleeping for thousands of years. Besides the really good visual effects, and the interesting premise, this movie fails on all accounts.
"I bet it could fly and live in space if there was a second movie."
LMAO. The intense unrealistic nature of the monster ruined the submersion into the movie for me. Even for science fiction, it was laughable and ridiculously outlandish in terms of breaking the laws of physics/nature/biology. Even Godzilla (King of all Monsters, right?) gets hurt and takes some sort of damage, this thing would have survived the planet exploding.
I enjoy this a fair amount. It's clever in that slightly "I had some time but not a whole lot of time but still enough to make my Back to the Future 2 and YTMND dreams come true" kind of way.
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