1-18-08 was an untitled and top-secret movie project by executive producer J.J Abrams (TV's "The Love Boat"). Little was actually known about the film, but it was believed to be a science fiction movie of some sort. The film was released on January 18, 2008, hence the code name.
This film begins with a character introducing sequence that lasts about half an hour. Somebody gives a camera to a mentally handicapped person thus saving thousands of dollars in film production. I hope you brought your girlfriend, because you could spend this entire scene making out and not miss a thing.
So after finding out Rob had sex with Beth, and Rob is like the main dude, the building has a power failure. Then they play everything you see in the trailers twice with some fillers in between.
Rob heads down through a subway, and then this one lady starts making a big deal about knowing who Superman is. Then they are attacked by the monster's giant fleas and the giant fleas are like making a weird noise like "agalagalagalagala". After which too much stupidity clustered together in one brain causes the lady's head to asplode.
So Beth has some rebar lodged in her chest, a bunch of people die, everybody ends up in central park and then the monster confesses his love for Rob and Beth and they all live happily ever after.
Then the air force bomb their asses to kingdom come. Oh yeah, did I mention, they never show the entire monster? Just it's face?
J.J. Abrams put keeping the identity of the monster at the top of his to-do list. Fortunately, someone was able to steal Abrams's computer and pry the highly guarded information from the hard drive. Unfortunately, more than 6 billion bloggers claimed to have stolen the images. Here are some of the speculated ideas:
- Some speculated the monster was an enraged Hillary destroying New York after losing her run for the Presidency.
- Many pro-chicken monster speculators also predicted the monster would be killed by the starving black population of New York!
- Giant Yu-Gi-Oh!
- Maybe Ving Rhames?
Okay, so somehow the camera withstood the bomb (God knows how) and there are new characters, but the story is set in Tokyo, Japan, because SOMEHOW Rob withstood the bomb too (yeah, like that ever made sense). So far this is the only plot speculation:
- Jackie Chan is in it. Apparently he saves the Japs from the monster.
- The Cloverfield monster is in it.
- The parasites are in it.
- The Cloverfield monster takes a new form.
- The parasites also take a new form.
- The Japanese Prime Minister then blames George Bush for warming the globe and creating this monster thus creating a dispute which results in World War 4. Did I forget to mention the fight against the Cloverfield monster counts as a World War?
Instead of hundreds of extras for the movie they just hired one smiling Chinese man and re-shot him in different spots.

Note: Beth had sex with Rob because Rob is like the main dude.