Is CLOVERFIELD on his way to stomp the 3rd Street Promenade?

This appears to be a viral video for Cloverfield 2, featuring the monster paying a visit to the 3rd Street Promenade in Santa Monica. (Even if you don't know the Promenade by name, you've seen it a thousand times on TV. Jay Leno does a lot of tiresome "man on the street" stuff there, for instance, and Buffy and Dawn used to shop there.) We get just a glimpse of a monster invading the Promenade, then the clip ends with a shaky view of the sign for Cloverfield Blvd.

People are arguing about whether the clip is legit. If it's not real, it's a pretty good fake. The switch to LA would seem to be pretty natural for a franchise about a monster that destroys major American cities, and setting the monster attack in the daytime would help set it apart from the first film's night time chaos. But I can see drawbacks to a daytime LA setting. Special effects almost always look worse (and less scary) in the sunshine, when you can't hide anything in the shadows. And LA really isn't an ideal town for giant monster movies; the skyline is just too flat. Seriously, Cloverfield could take out the downtown skyscrapers in about six minutes. Then where does he go?




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