[twodten]

cody2198 wrote:

slinkydge wrote: If we think the super8 was shot in 79, Josh would have been 16, if 1963 is his birthday. If he shot it had he blocked it out of his mind for all these years? where had he been keeping hte film, surly not in his mothers hat all this time? maybe he didn't even realise what was on the film until he recently saw it OR perhaps, he saw the film for the first time recently thought that is the scariest thing I ever saw and wrote that on the film to send to whoever he has been communicationg with over the PDP-11. which brings me back to this question - why is he using a PDP-11 simulator now???? WHY!!!! Becasue it would be very hard for the government to track him and using such outdated equipment. Think about the programming language, although not very difficult but who knows it today?

First, the guy's using a PDP-11 Simulator, not the real thing, it's like using an NES emulator on your computer to play old nintendo games.

Second, so long as the guy was sending stuff over the internet, he could still be tracked down by the government, and the programming languages used on old PDP-11's would never come into it. Mainly because it's a simulator, which means it's using modern programming languages to mimic the old system, and also because the programming languages used to create your operating system or the programs you use have nothing to do with the information you put out on the internet. That information is sent out using standardized that any computer can understand and send out following the internet protocols. The information might be encrypted to be harder for people to steal, but encryption has nothing to do with programming languages.

[slinkydge]

cody2198 wrote:

slinkydge wrote: If we think the super8 was shot in 79, Josh would have been 16, if 1963 is his birthday. If he shot it had he blocked it out of his mind for all these years? where had he been keeping hte film, surly not in his mothers hat all this time? maybe he didn't even realise what was on the film until he recently saw it OR perhaps, he saw the film for the first time recently thought that is the scariest thing I ever saw and wrote that on the film to send to whoever he has been communicationg with over the PDP-11. which brings me back to this question - why is he using a PDP-11 simulator now???? WHY!!!! Becasue it would be very hard for the government to track him and using such outdated equipment. Think about the programming language, although not very difficult but who knows it today?

That's my point, in his HLM blog he doesn't sound like he know's much about computers - how would he know to use or set up the PDP-11 simulater?

[cody2198]

Also has anyone notice in the background of several of the photos on the cork board the invatation to something, on the part that we can see says the 16th 2010 the afternoon and the third line looks like "any Reprieve". Reprieve from what?
Nevermind got a closer look and it is the invatation to the funeral for josh minker's mother.

[cody2198]

slinkydge wrote:

If we think the super8 was shot in 79, Josh would have been 16, if 1963 is his birthday. If he shot it had he blocked it out of his mind for all these years? where had he been keeping hte film, surly not in his mothers hat all this time? maybe he didn't even realise what was on the film until he recently saw it OR perhaps, he saw the film for the first time recently thought that is the scariest thing I ever saw and wrote that on the film to send to whoever he has been communicationg with over the PDP-11. which brings me back to this question - why is he using a PDP-11 simulator now???? WHY!!!!

Becasue it would be very hard for the government to track him and using such outdated equipment. Think about the programming language, although not very difficult but who knows it today?

[slinkydge]

If we think the super8 was shot in 79, Josh would have been 16, if 1963 is his birthday.

If he shot it had he blocked it out of his mind for all these years? where had he been keeping hte film, surly not in his mothers hat all this time? maybe he didn't even realise what was on the film until he recently saw it OR perhaps, he saw the film for the first time recently thought that is the scariest thing I ever saw and wrote that on the film to send to whoever he has been communicationg with over the PDP-11.

which brings me back to this question - why is he using a PDP-11 simulator now???? WHY!!!!

[jiblington]

josh minker could easily die in the film, what if the film is set a year after it comes out, i mean im pretty sure with the exception of star wars most sci fi films are set in the future, lol

[vapor]

I think the assumption is that the film is set in the seventies. So if Josh Minker is a character in the movie and he is now blogging, then he has obviously survived. I think there is sufficient clues to say we will get a 70s or 80s setting for the movie, but one can never be sure.

[ladywyntir]

tytyvirgo wrote:

Euchre wrote: I also wonder where one gets the impression that this would indicate a character is going to survive the film storyline? We learned all about the folks in Cloverfield, and all ended up dead with only one possible exception. Well if that casting for "Josh" IS Josh Minker, then he couldn't possibly die in the film since he's updating a blog in 2010

The cast of Cloverfield updated My Space pages all the way up to the day of "the party". It was only after the movie first showed that they stopped - so it's very possible that he could die. He just hasn't died yet.

Real time vs. movie time. We're not in the movie yet, so anything goes.

[tytyvirgo]

Euchre wrote:

I also wonder where one gets the impression that this would indicate a character is going to survive the film storyline? We learned all about the folks in Cloverfield, and all ended up dead with only one possible exception.

Well if that casting for "Josh" IS Josh Minker, then he couldn't possibly die in the film since he's updating a blog in 2010

[FilmEdge]

I get it too, but apparently two real writers are attached to LITTLE DARLINGS, so are they in on the hoax too?

Granted IMDB can be full of it, but even the Hollywood Reporter had an article about Paramount casting 15 year old girls back in April... over a month before the 'news' broke about open casting for SUPER 8:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/film/news/e3i3d82e5b0896238025a30777dc6867a7e?pn=2

If it's all an ARG hoax, that's pretty elaborate to get THR to do JJ's bidding a month before casting even begins.

I won't underestimate JJ's penchant for such things, but so far I'm not convinced Paramount is using a previous title in their library to shill for SUPER 8 pre-production as the "new CHEESE". With that precedent in place, why use a recognizable name at all? Just invent the next 'meaningless' fake name and go with it.

[girlfrendonfire]

Thank you for saying that, you get it.

[tromatic]

Little Darlings is the new "Cheese"

[VanGoghX]

Euchre wrote:

Of course Josh is such a unique name it couldn't possibly be in two films... I also wonder where one gets the impression that this would indicate a character is going to survive the film storyline? We learned all about the folks in Cloverfield, and all ended up dead with only one possible exception.

The monster?

[Euchre]

Of course Josh is such a unique name it couldn't possibly be in two films...

I also wonder where one gets the impression that this would indicate a character is going to survive the film storyline? We learned all about the folks in Cloverfield, and all ended up dead with only one possible exception.

[girlfrendonfire]

This is JJ Abrams we're talking about, just keep that in mind. Plus, it was just an interesting idea I thought about.