Corrected entry: The size of the creature keeps changing. When we see it from the roof of the Time Warner Center, it is almost as tall as the skyscrapers around it. When it steps over Grand Central Station, it is barely taller than the station. When it attacks the helicopter, it's huge again but (SPOILER) when it kills Hud, it is much smaller. This can't be explained by saying it's not in the same position every time, because it is always on four legs. The only time it's on two legs is when it reaches up to attack the helicopter and before that it was walking on four legs and when it was, it was huge.
Brad
2nd May 2008
Cloverfield (2008)
Correction: Have you ever seen how a cat can curl into a ball or "cat loaf" then stretch out to twice the length? Or how a bear walking on all fours looks smaller then stands up on it's two back legs and looks huge? Probably a similar principal here.
5th Apr 2008
Cloverfield (2008)
Corrected entry: The shape of the creature's head keeps changing. When we first see its face, it has a large jaw and a human shaped head. When we see it at the end, its jaw is smaller, it has smaller teeth, its eyes have moved to the side of its head, and its head is more round.
Correction: If the creature is an alien. We have no idea of its specific biology, so even if the head does seem to change shape, there is every possibility that this could be a normal physical attribute to this kind of creature. a great many terrestrial creatures change their physical shape over the course of their lives. there is no reason an alien entity wouldn't be able to do the same thing in a much shorter period of time.
15th Apr 2008
Cloverfield (2008)
Corrected entry: In addition to the creature's head changing shape, it changes size as well. When we see it from the roof of the Time Warner Center, it is half the size of the skyscrapers surrounding it. But when Rob, Beth, and Hud are running away from it, it is just barely taller than the house next to them. When it attacks the helicopter, it is huge again, but when it (SPOILER) kills Hud, it is much smaller.
Correction: The creature isn't in the same position every time -- sometimes it's on its hind legs, sometimes it's stooped on all fours -- which makes it difficult to gauge. But its size is consistent throughout the film.
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Correction: Actually, it's not in the same positions each time. The articulation of its limbs allows it to stand quite tall or to skulk at a much lower level, as needed (see special features on DVD). The creature was, of course, computer designed and controlled, and it was automatically kept 'in scale' with the CGI city around it. Any perceived variances are caused by the limits of our 2D viewing of what should be a 3D scene. Our view is 'flat', so that all depth is lost, and distances between objects difficult to judge, and thus, our perception of scale can be distorted.
johnrosa