A closer look
J.J. Abrams didn't just want to make you horribly motion sick; he wanted to reward your pausing finger. Buried deep within the chaotic camcorder footage of the alien attack are single-frame inserts of classic cinematic monsters like King Kong and the Rhedosaurus. More brilliantly, a seemingly innocuous wide shot of the ocean perfectly foreshadows the entire invasion by capturing a tiny pixelated object crashing from space.






