He crushed the dreams of the Island Def Jam Music Group's marketing department by saying, "Uh, no. I just listened to it while I wrote the thing." Still, maybe the songs worked their way into his subconscious. Here's a list of top five things Fall Out Boy may have given to Cloverfield, and as you'd expect it's chock full of emo spoilers.

• "The Take Over, The Breaks Over":

  Baby, seasons change but people don't. And I'll always be waiting in the back room. I'm boring but overcompensate with Headlines and flash, flash, flash photography.

  Clearly this is all about the monster, who has apparently been around for years, waiting underwater in a deep slumber. When he arises, it's all flash, flash, flash... and shakycam photography.
• "Hum Hallelujah":

  We mix up your guts Your insides x-rayed And one day we'll get nostalgic for disaster

  J.J. Abrams and crew were nostalgic for a disaster when this thing was born from Godzilla toys. Plus, the monster clearly does some gut-mixing, and Marlena really could have done with an x-ray.
• "Thnks Fr Th Mmrs"

  Thanks for the memories Even though they weren't so great He tastes like you only sweeter

  Hey, even a monster can wax poetic about the folks he's eating. Plus the only real memories he's going to have from this whole ordeal are a rude awakening, lots of people screaming, and bombs bursting on his back. Not so great.
• "The Carpal Tunnel Of Love":

  Stomp out this disaster town You'll put your eyes to the sun and say, "I know you're only blinding to keep back What the clouds are hiding."

  Come on, anyone knows this is clearly a reference to the Tagruato Corporation's lost satellite that falls into the ocean near Coney Island in the film's final scene. Duh.
• "Bang The Doldrums":

  Best friends Ex-friends till the end Better off as lovers And not other way around Racing through the city

  OMG! It's like Rob and Lilly's anthem. So touching, so emotional, so vapid. Clearly this is the kind of song Abercrombie & Fitch models want to be hearing on their iPods while giant monsters chase them through urban catacombs.
• "I've Got All This Ringing In My Ears and None On My Fingers"

  And I'm so sorry But not really Tell the boys where to find my body New York eyes

  The monster laments about the destruction he's caused, although not really. Don't be fooled by those crocodile tears. He really just want you to point him towards the next city he can smash up, which according to the song seems to be Chicago. So, watch out Windy City. The music has spoken.

Always work and never play!
Don't demand a cent of pay!
What I'm wound to do I do do,
Isn't that the nicest way?

A popular character who influenced later robots like Robby from 1955's Forbidden Planet, and even Data from Star Trek: The Next Generation, Tik-Tok eventually became a kind of counter-cultural symbol. Scifi author and satirist John Sladek wrote a novel in the early 1980s called Tik-Tok which is a kind of twisted slave narrative/Native Son homage, depicting Tik-Tok's early life working on plantations, and his rise to power after he figures out how to murder people and cover up his crimes.

In the early 1990s, a comic book called The Oz Squad deals with what happens when Tik-Tok's morality clock winds down and the robot gets violent and horny.

Tik-Tok was a true steampunk robot, invented during the age of steam. When he appeared in Disney's Return to Oz in 1985, his appearance was quite true to what he looked like originally back in 1907 — only now, he's become retro-hip.

Tik-Tok's later violent episodes are pastiched in a recent retro-futurist Web comic, Boilerplate, about a mechanical soldier demoed at the World's Fair in 1893.

Our inner tween loved the sci-fi touches in this darker, more violent Oz. Every holiday season The Wizard of Oz comes on television, and ding, dong the witch is dead and all that jazz. Sure it's charming to some degree, but by the fifteenth time you've seen the thing, you're ready to seek solace in something new. Which is where Tin Man comes in. You've got holographic projections, people getting shot left and right, an evil queen who can suck the life out of you, and an entire town full of robots where no humans are allowed.

But our inner adult had some quibbles. First of all, it's called Tin Man, but the Tin Man isn't central to the story. In fact the title will lead some people to think that this is a miniseries version of The Tin Woodman of Oz, which was the 12th book in the Oz series. Second, the main character D.G. simply accepts the fact that she's in an entirely new world right away, yet wanders through the rest of the story with a slack-jawed, wide-eyed face. By the time night three rolls around, you'll find yourself wondering if she might be missing a few marbles.

The new miniseries revolves around D.G. (Zooey Deshcanel), a restless young motorcycle-riding waitress living with her parents in Kansas. She begins having strange dreams and visions of a woman who is trying to tell her something. This enigmatically leads her parents to remark "it's time." Strange men in long black leather coats called "Longcoats" (hooray for clever names) show up via a tornado and attack the family. Mom and "Popsicle" (as D.G. calls her dad) take D.G. to the roof and toss her off into the cyclone. After a couple of seconds they hop off too. That's how D.G. gets to the OZ, where munchkins are resistance fighters.

Other changes: the Wicked Witch-esque villain has flying monkeys tattooed on her neck, which come to life and do her bidding. The titular Tin Man is a cop who's been imprisoned in a steampunk suit of armor, where he's been forced to watch a projected holographic time-loop of the day his family was taken away from him. Richard Dreyfuss plays The Mystic Man, a sideshow psychic who can see visions of the future when he takes "the vapors." When he performs his act, he appears as a giant green glowing head. Toto is now "Tutor," a man who can turn into a dog and was responsible for D.G.'s education when she was a child. And D.

It would be really fun to see someone turn The Wizard of Oz completely on its ear and set it fully in a science fiction realm without any magic at all. Of course, stories like Farscape and even Buck Rogers use that as a basic premise, but we want to see the Oz story used as a template for a sci fi reimagining. With this new Tin Man series coming out, and cool things like the Oz manga that came out last year, it'll probably only be a matter of time before someone gives it a whirl.