SPOILER: Cloverfield

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"It drops zillions of little spider/bug like monsters, similar to the bugs in Starship Troopers but smaller, about the size of a largish dog. They run around and bite people. Apparently getting bitten is bad, though the film is very unclear about it, it *appears* that you then turn into a monster or one pops out of you. Only get to see it through a sheet in a hospital.

Sadly the movie is based around some chump trying to find his ex girlfriend who dumped him. For such a well produced movie that was a pretty sad plot. It also leaves a LOT of questions unanswered, such as where it comes from, exactly what being bitten by the little bug things does, and whether the monster is beaten in the end.

Terrific plot twist at the end: they nuke the monster!!! Actually you don't see it, and my brother says they actually MOABed it. Which is crap because why would you drop another conventional weapon on it. He says the apparent explosion is nothing like what he would expect a nuke to be like, but he wasn't in Hiroshima so don't listen to him. I said there's CLEARLY two blast fronts which would be consistent with the initial blast from a nuke, followed by the firefront. My brother is so gay. Anyway interesting point: the planes that fly over in the end to drop the NUKE (not MOAB) didn't look like any sort of plane I know of - *possibly* B1s but they had veeery wide sweeping back wings. Perhaps they were meant to be the secretive "Aurora" aircraft? Looked a lot like the Auroras from the game C&C generals, which would make both JJ Abrams and me total nerds.