Cloverfield Tonight!

[HeavenSent]

so your shitty cam quality too dark, underexposed, compressed jpeg that may, but most likely not, ruin their movie going experience?

This is exactly why it shouldn't matter. Unless you saw the movie you wouldn't know what the hell that was. You're the one that gave it away and said it was the monster in the movie. And like you say, (in so many words) the picture sucks. I agree it does.

Why don't you quit being a cry-baby and take your own advice and get a life. Try reality for a change, it's a shocker after hiding in your own with LSD. .i..

[Zerzera]

so your shitty cam quality picture of the monster is suppose to do what, ruin it for people? what is your FUCKING point, you piece of shit? is it to be a complete douche-nozzle?

do you think you're going to make people mad because of this too dark, underexposed, compressed jpeg that may, but most likely not, ruin their movie going experience?

Seriously dude, stop trolling, get the fuck out, and get a life.

ps, God is Dead

Nothing new http://forums.trenchwars.org/showthread.php?t=32818

[DoTheFandango]

insert heavensent being an ass here

so your shitty cam quality picture of the monster is suppose to do what, ruin it for people? what is your FUCKING point, you piece of shit? is it to be a complete douche-nozzle?

do you think you're going to make people mad because of this too dark, underexposed, compressed jpeg that may, but most likely not, ruin their movie going experience?

Seriously dude, stop trolling, get the fuck out, and get a life.

ps, God is Dead

[Squeezer]

I didn't even get any idea or thought of 9/11 until after I saw the movie and came on the internet the next day. I saw people complaining how it has mad 9/11 references and allusions and how they used the footage and blah blah blah.

Fuck it was in New York City ok? The monster didn't tear down the two towers, it tore off the statue of liberty's head. Shit I hate that type of bs- how many action movies have used New York as a backdrop since 9/11? Not alot and no wonder, because people will jump to 9/11 conclusions 7 years after the incident happened.

What about the convenience store scene? Or the fact that people funneled onto the Brooklyn Birdge, on foot, to escape? At one point, I believe a woman even says, "it's not another attack is it?" There's imagery from that day strewn throughout the flick.

Just like Godzilla was Japan's reaction to the atom bombs, JJ and company definitely tried to do the same with this flick. I'm not offended, and I think it's fairly silly to feel insulted by this; the movie's a work of fiction. They captured the frantic nature perfectly. Receiving grim phone calls, calling out for people you know, desperately trying to escape the city...I felt they all hearkened in some way to 9/11.

I liked it. The movie just felt right, and honestly I can't see myself making any improvements, or shooting anything differently. They did a great job...Although I would rather have this be a standalone work.

I saw it 3 times, so yeah.

[HeavenSent]

[Pearl Jam]

cloverfield truthers unite!!!!!!!!!!!!

[HeavenSent]

Well you gotta admit that 9/11 attacks were on symbols of America. The statue of liberty is a symbol of freedom. :fear:

[Liquid Blue]

I didn't even get any idea or thought of 9/11 until after I saw the movie and came on the internet the next day. I saw people complaining how it has mad 9/11 references and allusions and how they used the footage and blah blah blah.

Fuck it was in New York City ok? The monster didn't tear down the two towers, it tore off the statue of liberty's head. Shit I hate that type of bs- how many action movies have used New York as a backdrop since 9/11? Not alot and no wonder, because people will jump to 9/11 conclusions 7 years after the incident happened.

[Squeezer]

Spoiler stuff.

More spoiler stuff:

I think Rob and Beth's reaction after Hud died was very fitting. Rob already knew they were going to bomb ALL of Manhattan shortly after six. They weren't going to escape on foot, so Rob decided, just like he did earlier when they ducked into the subway, that getting underneath something is better than being out in the open when the big bombs come.

The monster and military were warring right outside and could be heard the whole time. Why would they run out into that frenzy? It would only further risk themselves. They would have to escape from a giant monster having bombs dropped on it in an open field, as well as, being nuked without cover. Instead, they do the logical thing by delivering their last testaments and hoping someone finds them. A little reminiscent of 9/11, no? :fear:

[Galleleo]

With all that I have seen JJ Abrams do, I don't think that a sequel he makes from this would be as bad as the blair witch project sequel.

[phata$$]

In regards to the origin:
The director basically confirmed that the thing that fell in the the water at the end of the movie was deliberate. Apparently, the Tagruato Corp. (which is also parters with Slusho!), a Japanese drilling company, reported that a rouge piece from a satellite created by the Japanese government fell into the Atlantic Ocean. The monster either appeared due to Tagruato's drilling on the ocean floor or the satellite that fell into the ocean.

In regards to a sequel:
The director expressed interest in a sequel. It will probably be about the same Cloverfield incident but will be shown through the lens of another cameraman. He deliberately added a scene where Hud looks at another guy holding a camera specifically for the inclusion of a sequel. That doesn't seem that bad if they made a sequel that way.

In regards to a new monster theory:
My friends and I have been discussing the fact that there might have been more than one huge-uber monster. The proportions seemed odd when Hud looked directly at it and the view of the monster from the helicopter. Also, when they bombed it, they could have simply just taken down one monster, while the other jumped out at Beth and Rob. Plus, I remember seeing the monster always obstructed by a building or bad perspective. I don't know, just something to think about. I need to see it again.

[Pearl Jam]

Ok, so I don't get motion sick...and I got pretty nautious during some of the more violent shakey-cam momemts. No fun.

People seem to be ripping this apart and analyzing everything. Where did the monster come from? Is it alien? Undersea monster? Somebody who put a bunch of pop rocks in a pepsi bottle, shook it up and drank it? Honestly, it seems brutally simplistic to me: there is nothing to analyze. It is a monster that attacks New York while a bunch of people are getting boozed at a party. It's totally from the average joe's perspective and nothing else. A sequel to this would be about as awesome as the Blair Witch Project's sequel (read: the polar opposite of awesome). You can't make sequels to these movies. You can't. You shouldn't.

That aside, for a mindless monster movie with little to no story (because seriously, how can you develop a well-rounded story that covers every single plot hole when it's some dorkus roaming around with a video camera?), I enjoyed the shit out of it.

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When the monster dominates HUD at the end, I think it's ridiculous that his body lands next to the camera. That was just for dramatic effect...based on previous dialogue and what I saw, Broseph should've been eaten.

I agree with LB on the ending...they certainly do submit to death pretty quickly. The whole "survive at any cost" aspect of the normal human psyche is pretty much ignored 90% of the time in movies. If I'm going to die in a situation like that, I'm going to die running for the nearest shelter that I think has even the slightest chance of saving me.

Edit: As for the Coney Island bullshit...I can barely tell if something splashes or not after watching it on youtube 15 times. Welcome to viral marketing part 2. That along with the backwards sound clip at the end..."it's still alive!" OOOO! SEQUEL? NO SEQUEL? WHAT DOES JAPAN HAVE TO DO WITH IT? GODZIRRA?!?!

Edit 2: Seriously, if there's a sequel, it's going to be ass-terrible.

[Dameon Angell]

That was a pretty badass movie and that's all I gotta say without the white on. Highlight below....

I gotta agree, Love the character "HUD" who was your "heads up display" for the majority of the movie.

At the very end, when Rob and Beth were in the bubble cars, you can see out into the ocean there's this missile looking object going into the water near the Oil Tanker that got taken out at the beginning of the movie. Intergalactic weapon? Government plant? Superman-like creature? But J.J. said that it's been there for however many years, though. What could the object have to do with it?

One thing that nobody touched on in this thread was the obvious Japanese theme going on. Rob was moving to Japan, you can see the Japanese flags in his party of course, and when the party was walking down the street HUD was approached by a Japanese man who was very freaked out, of course, going off in Japanese about his family.

I give it my two thumbs up.

The Japanese release is ramping up and to go along with the ad campaign there's a manga being written regarding the Cloverfield events and how this Japanese schoolboy is involved.

Chapter 1: http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008...field-man.html

Here's the IMDB FaQ with Spoilers and such: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1060277/faq#.2.1.41

And another thing I found: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/vine/s...d.php?t=606067

This is some real angry nerd spouting off about what Cloverfield is about and connects the movie to all the "virals" going around about it.

[Liquid Blue]

Strange I thought she was indian

[Nickname]

weak willed? My kind of woman! HIYO!


LB -- the following is just for you.

Cloverfield is reverse normal movies. The black chick (lilly, Hot) lives and everybody else dies! Down with white people!



P.S. this monster was tottaly racist. I'm sueing.