Cloverfield Tonight!

[Liquid Blue]

I'm finding the people that didn't like the ending grew up on Disney movies.

what does that have to do with anything?

[Squeezer]

it was called Cloverfield because that was the addresse of the company when they made it -- or something like that. Not a big deal LB, don't know why you whited it

Cloverfield in terms of the movie, is the government designated name for the "event."

The origin of where they got the title comes from the street that Bad Robot, JJ Abrams' production company, originally resided.

I think it's somewhere in SoCal.

[PaulOakenfold]

what does that have to do with anything?

subtle and downtempo are not bad points of a movie

[phata$$]

It's broken $41 million already. It supposedly took less than $30 million to make so yeah. J.J. Abrams is a genius.

Not to mention that the Star Trek spoiler gave all the Trekkies in the audience an orgasm.

[Liquid Blue]

subtle and downtempo are not bad points of a movie

That doesn't excuse Cloverfield's bad ending. The entire movie was build-up and tension, and it was released (if you want you can say resolved) in quite an anti-climatic way. The movie was going good and then fell on it's face.

[Squeezer]

That doesn't excuse Cloverfield's bad ending. The entire movie was build-up and tension, and it was released (if you want you can say resolved) in quite an anti-climatic way. The movie was going good and then fell on it's face.

I don't understand what you expected. If you paid attention during the first minute of the movie, you could pretty much figure out how it was going to end.

[Nickname]

I've got to agree, I saw the ending coming. I didn't see some of the who lives vs who dies but I did see what would happen to the monster.

[Liquid Blue]

I don't understand what you expected. If you paid attention during the first minute of the movie, you could pretty much figure out how it was going to end.

I didn't expect what I got. My main gripe is

They just hide under a bridge and die? What kind of shit is that? Not only that but I sat through those credits for a shitty audio clip?

I didn't want the movie to be resolved with the monster dying and an eagle draping the american flag over it's carcass or something, I was actually glad the monster was winning. It just seems cheap in my opinion to kill all the characters at the end and fade to black.

[Zerzera]

The monster stands for terrorism and the scenes are copied right from 9/11 footage. LOL


And nickname, Marlene is a boozing chick that's obviously bored with life. Of course she'd go with her friend.

[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.

[Liquid Blue]

Strange I thought she was indian

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.